(12-04-2015, 07:30 PM)Guider Wrote: This isn't a bad idea. You know , we are all connected. I think that you have to remember, there's always someone going to be more alpha and more beta than you. So that puts you in the middle.

Now that you've got rid of that bs. Go out and achieve something you want or not. Just sit there and be happy. Life is like this subliminal store, you can just pick and choose experiences. Just an observation. Please, empower yourself.

(12-04-2015, 08:03 PM)yeah! Wrote:

(12-04-2015, 08:01 PM)yeah! Wrote: I think self love/self acceptance is actually internal, not because they are loved externally, thats why they are loved externally. When people feel you are like that they tend to be attracted to you (not necessarily sexually though) because they know they won't be judged, or at least judged less, therefore feeling like they can be themselves around you.

edit; I said more and could talk a lot more about this topic, but not right now.

(12-05-2015, 05:57 AM)Hercules Wrote: Hive minds are horrible and that's just a set up for a dystopian society. We are moving closer to that every day. Most species are not a hive mind so I don't know why you think a hive mind would be good for humanity. That would stunt souls growth for centuries and we'll end up like those little grey men.

(12-05-2015, 01:09 AM)yeah! Wrote: Have you read The Charisma Myth by Olivia Cabane Sarge? If it's not on topic with this post, it's on topic with your original one.

(12-06-2015, 02:10 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote:

(12-05-2015, 05:57 AM)Hercules Wrote: Hive minds are horrible and that's just a set up for a dystopian society. We are moving closer to that every day. Most species are not a hive mind so I don't know why you think a hive mind would be good for humanity. That would stunt souls growth for centuries and we'll end up like those little grey men.

Well there are a bunch of reasons. To start with, society is ALREADY socially-driven. This is just the way it is, and the more we resist that (by claiming we are individual little flowers) the more we create an ego-trip for ourselves, which is destructive and divisive.

Another reason I think this is a good idea is because, like you said, we are already heading in that kind of direction. Perhaps it is the next step in our species' evolution.

As for the grey men, I didn't know they existed. o.O

(12-05-2015, 01:09 AM)yeah! Wrote: Have you read The Charisma Myth by Olivia Cabane Sarge? If it's not on topic with this post, it's on topic with your original one.

I have the book but haven't read it fully (3 chapters in), why do you ask?

(12-04-2015, 07:12 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote: It seems very possible that we SHOULD be a hive mind (and that this is already the case) because so much of human existence is inescapably fused with social... stuff. I don't know how to name it but look here, on this very board. People looking to get better with women (social) looking to improve their lives for social reasons. It's all social. The more I've gone through AM, the more I've realized that the idea of "being your own man" is an impossible to achieve concept, because I rely on other people without fail. I can't have sex with hot girls by myself. I need the hot girls in order to do that. I can't be an "alpha" without "betas", etc. This kind of unity is seen throughout life, and the more I think of it, the more I realize that this is, most likely, what is f*cking our species up, as a whole. The whole "us vs. them" paradigm is no good, since you can't get them without us, we're both sides of the same coin. A "bad man" is the same as a "good man" biologically. Labels are all that changes things, and I truly am starting to believe it is the labels that are killing us.

MORE so now that we're trying to be more "tolerant" because we're pointing out MORE labels. It's crazy because the more we specify and analyze and make "different" through labels, the more alone (and afraid) we feel. Thus the only way out of it is to reverse the spiral and move towards unity.

(12-13-2015, 03:08 AM)LeonidasXVI Wrote: I visited a local park today. The beautiful green lake, kids running around, the warmth of the sun, everything was utterly heart whelming. But I also found myself surrounded by young boys and girls whose activity (taking selfies) I didn't approve of. I wished, at that moment, that they drop their act and be genuine. Why did I judge them not being genuine? Anyway, I ignored them. I felt a serene sense of oneness beside that lake, I felt so small and yet peaceful. My peace was soon disturbed by another group taking selfies, I overheard one of the girl say, "This is going to facebook." And I thought, "Foolish people! Don't they understand how superficial and approval seeking is this?" Soon they departed and my mind flashed back to the times when I took selfies, and it wasn't long ago. Actually, it was in the same park, 50 meters away from where I was sitting.

I did something myself what I resent in other people, I judged. And all the time I judged people for being judge full.

(12-13-2015, 03:08 AM)LeonidasXVI Wrote: The point is, our thoughts are like boomerangs. Others are a mirror of our own selves. The label we put on others are the very labels that define us. "He is a terrible man!" - No, he isn't a terrible man, he is a mirror who shows you a part of yourself that you find terrible.

(12-13-2015, 03:08 AM)LeonidasXVI Wrote: So yeah, labels are killing us. "Individuality" and "being your own man" is making us nothing but lonely. We label and tell ourselves that we are different. They are different. But at the end of the day, we are being exactly the same in our differences.

P.S. - The video in the 1st post isn't streaming for me, any alternatives?

(12-14-2015, 01:54 PM)Nox Wrote: What makes you think that humanitybisnt already in a hivemind situation? I haven't seen anything that shows that a seperate independent consciousness camt ultimately be under the control of a greater conscious that maintains that independence as an illusion for its own reason. Everything you do could have already been planned out, and is all designed to benefit a higher being.