When you move your awareness from one thing to another. For example : from thoughts about lunch, to the feeling of your right hand, to the sound of traffic outside.

You perceive a change, right? Your whole perceived universe changes. Which would be science-fictionally amazing is it wasn't so common.

And if you hold your awareness on a thing for a while because you're really into it. A movie or a girl or a videogame. You obsessively focus on that for a while. You noticed how that affects you, your consciousness and such.

So those are common awareness-related phenomena that we can talk about. And meditation-related too. Huge and shockingly scifi if they weren't so common.

This is overlap between the perspectives of people who meditate and people who don't. And we can agree that these phenomena are a big deal.

How do you feel about that?

Here's how it should have gone:

• People start to believe the Qanon BS, and likely was spread as a primer to shift the blame away from the "right wing" figures in the network.
• Epstein's compromat on Bill Clinton leaks mysteriously.
• Clinton gets jailed, then he either would have been forced to admit not only his actual crimes, but everything Epstein did, or gets mysteriously suicided in his cell.
• Epstein leaves the "left", becomes a hard right conservative.

What likely happened is that the friendship between Trump and Epstein have broken down at one point, and then...

For most of us it's only right, natural and sane to conform and submit.

Jonah, I know you were smoking The Weeds out behind the the pottery barn again with those fire lovers.
My friend with 8 million Eyes told me so!

Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) is really just the story of a sentient race of genocidal fanatically religious sexbots that want to make babies with their human johns.

Thinking about how on poly market of setting up bets on nuclear war, or nuclear exchange. If you think it won't happen you bet no, but if you yes and win then most likely the venue will get destroyed and you won't get your payout or money you get will be worthless... Guess that adds another layer of betting. Assuming guarantee money would be worthless it would effectively mean losing.

Despite the inherent parley, seems like the person setting up the bet wanted to get the money of the people that bet on nuclear war happening

He's 64

Recently I was introduced to the Indian caste system. No thanks. That is a designation you cannot escape as you are born into such a label for life. A label/status influencing every aspect of your life, from start to finish and beyond.

Sounds like slavery.

But you can elevate your class in the western world. Where class is measured largely by liquidity or wealth more generally.

I've lived in a society organized by class my entire life. And have come to learn there are many paths out of poverty (the so-called "lower class") available to almost everyone.

Class systems are far from perfect. But if given a choice over being born into an upper caste family in India, or a lower class family in the western world, I'd go with Chicago over New Delhi any day.

Hear me out:

We can all probably all agree that oftentimes, it already looks like something straight out of a fever dream, right? And our subconscious being as efficient as it is- doesn’t care to determine the minutiae of things like… the number of fingers a person has, or whether or not their limbs behave appropriately according to locked-down physics.

So maybe it’s that we find it so off-putting because we recognize it, but not from where, and this is bad because unfamiliar familiarity triggers discomfort.