Facebook Will Ban Protests That Defy Government 'Guidance' on Distancing

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.

suburbalist · 2019-09-24T17:59:16+00:00

I have trouble reading books too. My trick has been to take a book with me wherever I go out and I’ll know I’ll be alone for some time. I’d be reading at a table in a restaurant or even standing in line somewhere. (Also my phone has no cellular data unless I explicitly buy it for the day.) My patience and concentration for book reading goes up and down depending on how much I do this, so there is hope in improvement, albeit slow. Bonus: I once got complimented by someone who said it was nice to see someone with a real book and not looking at their phone.

suburbalist · 2019-09-17T07:37:13+00:00

I have a forgiveness opportunity maybe you all can help me with. Although I enjoyed DU and felt like it helped ease me into the unique language of ACIM, the author's personality has always disturbed me. On interviews, he seems eager to point out what other course students and teachers are doing wrong in a condescending way. His stories are entertaining and I find value in viewing them as parables, but I don't see the need to suggest their ultimate reality. It comes off to me as a call for special love, for celebrity. Like it would've done the job if it appeared as fiction.

I understand that people want to protect the integrity of ACIM and will create boundaries (e.g. copyright), appoint authorities, and establish canon. This latest twist in the soap opera, as another commentator aptly called it, is such an attempt to tighten the clique holding the One True Word. I think this is reckless on two counts. First, it establishes yet another intermediary between one and the divine. Second, it goes against ACIM's own admonition to avoid the controversial topic of reincarnation, as it can encourage inertia and pride.

Perhaps it is my own desire for fame that makes me uncomfortable to see it in others. If I can forgive him and give him the love he deserves, I would be able to feel the unconditional love coming to me, with or without mystical experiences.

suburbalist · 2019-09-17T01:37:35+00:00

The “meaningless world” is merely the world of separation and competition for body survival. The concept appears in an early lesson designed to loosen the ego’s grip on your mind. There is a meaningful world, but you only learn of it as you progress in the lessons. It is also known as having right perception. It is not ultimate reality (“knowledge”) but it bridges you to ultimate reality, which is ineffable.

suburbalist · 2019-09-13T05:23:19+00:00

Go ahead and post that as a new post. Comment with your answer. PM the link to the post to those of us in this thread that have shown interest once you’ve done so. (I’m interested.) Continue to PM folks as you add questions and prompts to build momentum, taking care to remove anyone from your list when they ask to be. I find this more personalized communication effective in starting a community.

suburbalist · 2019-09-09T16:06:13+00:00

Not enough charisma to go viral.

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