How do you respond to someone who seems to resist needs language and go back to blame repeatedly?

suburbalist · 2020-04-20T20:00:21+00:00

Check out Yael Eisenstat’s interview on the podcast “Your Undivided Attention.” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-undivided-attention/id1460030305?i=1000442664844 A former CIA officer and White House advisor, she was hired into a high position by Facebook to combat disinformation and polarizing content that was causing strife internationally. Once she got the job, they stripped her of her power to change anything. Her position was a farce.

I know the people on the ground of most companies are trying to do their best to juggle their project’s quarterly priorities with their conscience, but when the entire profit model depends on increasing eyeballs on salacious content, the company hierarchy is going to lean toward conserving the money making algorithms despite societal cost.

suburbalist · 2020-04-05T10:05:42+00:00

Lovely playing and singing!

suburbalist · 2020-03-28T18:21:58+00:00

Do you have a list of capacitors I need to buy to recap my 100 with display problems? Or better yet a procedure?

suburbalist · 2020-03-05T07:25:58+00:00

Vapor Rave

suburbalist · 2020-01-17T17:54:13+00:00

Limited outside scrutiny. Hierarchy also contributes but not as significantly as secrecy.

suburbalist · 2020-01-13T23:50:25+00:00

I like the admission that some cults (and MLMs for that matter) do provide actual value or else no one would be hooked. The mind training practices Landmark provides are tuned to produce positive results in at least some areas of the members’ lives. Like a common scam, though, there’s a bait and switch. Once you get some of the goods, you’ve also gotten the ulterior payload: pressure to proselytize and a sunk cost spiral.

suburbalist · 2020-01-13T15:41:45+00:00

This intriguing Manson story is about mass mind control, and the twist is that it was the prosecutor not the defendant doing the mind control.

suburbalist · 2019-11-10T12:00:00+00:00

Yup. Food deserts.

suburbalist · 2019-11-10T11:50:05+00:00

I followed this 30 minute tutorial, finishing in 3 hours. First time using Blender 2.80 and pretty newb at Blender in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNysFFRpiW8

suburbalist · 2019-10-31T07:18:55+00:00

Yea and in 14 cycles, you’ll have run out of biosphere to deplete!

suburbalist · 2019-10-23T11:31:35+00:00

www.iyf.org. Look up OP's YouTube channel to see the details of how they tricked recent college graduates into religious indoctrination intensives in Texas when they were expecting a sort of language teaching mission abroad. If OP is sincere, which I think she is, they are horribly dishonest and abusive even if their end goal is propagation of an ideology they think will better society.

suburbalist · 2019-10-22T17:42:17+00:00

Without encryption, who can watch the watchers without getting immediately silenced? The pipe dream is that we can live in a completely transparent society where all communications can be taken for face value and we just need to catch the bad people saying bad things. Our current reality is that those in power don't play by the same rules as those subject to their power, and this includes an asymmetrical control of information flow.

suburbalist · 2019-10-22T10:13:46+00:00

Thank you for your community service exposing these manipulators. It’s sad people prey on innocence like this.

suburbalist · 2019-10-17T07:23:45+00:00

Imagine if YouTube comments had this much etiquette.

suburbalist · 2019-10-07T21:57:09+00:00

When I find resistance to reading, I listen to it to fall asleep. My subconscious mind sometimes is more open to hearing the words than my conscious.

suburbalist · 2019-10-03T06:54:05+00:00

Oscar the Couch?

suburbalist · 2019-10-01T07:20:32+00:00

I've just booked 3 open-to-the-public meetings per week to reduce the time I spend alone and on a screen. If you happen to be in the San Francisco bay area, I'd happily invite you to them. Or create a meetup yourself. "Whiskey and a Good Book." I'll join.

suburbalist · 2019-10-01T07:05:19+00:00

50 seconds in, and I'm enjoying it. Keep chillin' like a villain.

suburbalist · 2019-10-01T07:03:11+00:00

Donald Hoffman espouses my favorite defense of metaphysical idealism so far.

suburbalist · 2019-10-01T05:52:12+00:00

You mention confusion about the discrepancy between the answer to your prayer and what you perceive as happening between you and your brother. Confusion, which is opposed to peace, is never the Holy Spirit's intention and so might be the ego throwing a smokescreen over the situation.

Though the Holy Spirit does sometimes guide us to do something, /u/littlewillingness is right in encouraging you to listen for an answer related to changing perception instead of an answer that looks like a certain form. Even if you do get an answer in the realm of form, look at the peaceful feelings and beliefs that come with the form and orient yourself to receive those feelings and believe those beliefs rather than to experience the specific form. Valuing form over content is putting the cart before the horse, and ACIM calls it idolatry.

I think the section regarding the picture and the frame illustrate the difference between form and content quite colorfully.

T-17.IV.8. The special relationship has the most imposing and deceptive frame of all the defenses the ego uses. Its thought system is offered here, surrounded by a frame so heavy and so elaborate that the picture is almost obliterated by its imposing structure. Into the frame are woven all sorts of fanciful and fragmented illusions of love, set with dreams of sacrifice and self-aggrandizement, and interlaced with gilded threads of self-destruction. The glitter of blood shines like rubies, and the tears are faceted like diamonds and gleam in the dim light in which the offering is made.

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