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Right, what good are old concepts? Let's dump daoism already. Some solutions are pretty much eternal wisdom, since they touch close to the core. Marx' ideas are not outdated because we haven't even managed to get there yet. 'New' stuff regarding Marx as outdated and failed is just building on more of the problem, a partial defeat, and if those arguably less enlightened methods succeed, they will further mask the potential that was not realized with the old ways. I mean, just look how capitalism itself is glorified as time-tested, proven to work. It can take humankind another century before they arrive at something 1% better and then get drunk on their enlightened new world, while calling Marxists unreasonable extremist dinosaurs. (The good is the worst enemy of the better. - The more things suck, the clearer people can see.)

Then humankind is a failed experiment, too. Have you watched the video I posted? (You can speed it up if you like.)

Interestingly, that's total bullshit. Communism is communal self-government and self-determination, flat hierarchy, weak or non-existent central authority. Basically cutting out the influences that are too far detached from person-to-person to have empathy and a reliance on good relations. It might be difficult to see individual rights for some people when the rights are the same for everybody.

Saying that capitalism is good unless it corrupts is like saying firearms are good as long as they're not hurting anyone. All power always rests with the People. Often this power is wielded through deliberate passivity, i.e. lent to proxies. BTW, I just saw a video of a channel all about people's rights and freedoms and anti-establishment and that revolutionary stuff and then the guy does 'white-American' adventure tourism in Venezuela and talks about how dangerous it is and has the audacity to state the belief that the government is fostering crime as a tool to control the population. People are rarely principled, as their weak spots reveal. Never confuse social revolutionary and Murican revolutionary.

People can have a remarkable habit of only 'informing' themselves and 'listening around' along their preconceived views; what they want to hear anyway. I am also not moved by the words "objective facts" since that in itself means absolutely nothing. It can be pure belief and bullshit.

It's a weak point to use your alleged knowing-of-Russians. Without knowing all the details of that it's about as credible as saying I know exactly what bad stuff Trump is doing in the USA because I know some U.S. Americans. The same approach is taken by propaganda bloggers in Venezuela, going "I live here, I know for a fact the government is EEVIILLL!!!"

I think it was even worse. Yanukovych thought the Ukraine wasn't ready for a deal with the EU yet and wanted to postpone it. Then the coup happened under stated reason of being outraged at that and wanting better EU connections and then the new regime with Poroshenko postponed it, too, but somehow that was all fine and dandy.

Not sure whether this is for Rabbit Hole or General Discussion, but I need someone who understands these things. Maybe if you know someone you can direct them here. There's an Asian restaurant here that popped up a while before my favorite one nearby closed, so I started going there. They had some less common stuff on the menu, so I search the internet for it and stumbled upon another Asian restaurant that had the same descriptions for their menu types. Judging by nature of minimal modifications between the two, it really looks like the local one just ripped the texts off the other one and also mostly the menu structuring. The problem is that those descriptions also don't match what they offer. They have different sauces, but their veggie mix is pretty much the same for every menu they offer. After fully realizing this I went inside where no one could overhear and calmly inquired about why that is. And the woman who is waiting tables was absolutely evasive, in the way where she didn't even respond to what I said, but pretended like I had said something else; didn't find anything she could reply with, just pretended all was fine and dandy; very clumsy. Even if I consider the possibility that it's not malice or selfish convenience behind it, I found that quite rude and thinking: "Well, what do they expect to come from that?" I also heard some vague things from another business that they might be difficult to deal with, always thinking they're right and a bit self-aggrandizing and pretending to not understand the local language; hard to have good relations with. For one thing, I'm not getting the kind of vibe from that that would make me go there again. The food is OK, but still, I am sensitive to these things. But I am considering inquiring at the other restaurant about the matter, and maybe some other sources to figure out what's going on. I mean, it could very well be that the presence of that restaurant caused the other one I used to go to to have to close shop. They said they were not getting much business anymore. And generally I don't like the kind of personality traits that I am getting indications of. Personally I also noticed they tend to do their own thing first before serving customers, whether it be having a snack or wiping every table outside clean before adressing a customer who wants to pay. But I could assume there's also a whole world of inside dealings in the Asian restaurant business, with families, mafia, rivalry etc.., dunno. From what I see it could just as well just be someone trying to sleaze their way.

If they are in some way related, I didn't at all get the impression that they're on good terms, so if I point out the ripoff, I might set something in motion I know very little about. Their fear is obvious, but I don't know what it's based on. I'm trying to access some other sources first.

Are you trying self-parody? How much do you actually understand about it? First, the 1-Cent was supposed to end long ago, now it's again only-for-a-short-time ... again. That blog article is just some random source-less text that throws around the word "gold" and badmouths regular cryptocurrency while itself is using a pyramid marketing scheme (which is very much not a sign of confidence in a product/service but is driven by even more selfish incentive than original cryptos at their speculative bubble phase) and makes predictions about the value rise of the currency. And while it's always gold, gold, gold, they value the currency not in grams, but in dollars, which shows a profound deception in the claimed concept. So is the currency limited? How are decisions made about how to artificially control its value in relation to the gold-backing? He can only produce a certain amount of gold to back it with, and that's also when the gold is considered to actually be available for backing. As long as it sits in the mine, it's the rabbit in the magician's hat, or Schrödinger's Cat. Also, since there's only mention of exchangeability for dollars, and this is something that was obvious from the very beginning, there's a misconception about what gold backing and fiat currency really means and entails and a deception of how this is still the old problematic monetary systems. Buy KaratGold Coins and in 2020 tell him you'd now like to exchange them for the gold they are backed with and see what happens. He'll probably not do that, because the gold is his; he paid for it, and its purpose is to not actually be exchanged for the backing. So what value does it really have? Imagine everybody exchanged their coin for the gold it is backed with. Then Seiz would have all the coin and no gold, which will be distributed among many people who might decide to exchange it for dollars. What value would all the coin in Seiz's possession have then? You either share the fruit of the land socially or it's all still based on attaining material wealth through violent acquisition. That is actually what systems with material backing are based on. If it was supposed to be about currency stability, then how come it's 1 cent now and planned to be 500x that in two years? What's the guarantee that it's about to stay stable? Because he wll run it like that? That would basically make him just your typical central banker, giving him influence and control, which in the hands of someone without exceptional idealism is a bad idea and leads to the old problems again. So, this is my chance to help build yet another centralized profit pinata stranglehold? I mean, I know that without some selfishness it's hard to get through life, but with today's knowledge I would have been much more inclined to get involved with Bitcoin. The KaratGold thing I simply don't trust, and I have made enough bad experiences with initial investments. Once "get in early" is advertised on billboards, you're not really getting in early. Also, I am aware Seiz did the KaratBars thing before that, which is basically him making a killing by letting others work for him in promoting overpriced gold that's not officially accepted for trade, while dressing it in a pretend-altruistic mission for marketing purposes. KaratGold Coin is just that while jumping on the crypto bandwagon. It's double the 'shilling'. Also, the MLM and affiliate marketing turf is comedic. Everybody is trashing other competing systems in reviews to promote the own one, or trashing people who are trashing other systems to create pretend-credibility and non-bias, while promoting their own system, or warning of scams of MLM while promoting Affiliate etc.. It's all still part of the highly spiritually destructive system that harnesses selfishness in a centralized control manner. The very same system ailing humankind. Heck, even just monetizing my Youtube channel is a hard decision once I read up on everything and considering how GooTube keeps appalling with ever-more ridiculous insanity. P.S.: Seiz is such a successful businessman that his promo videos are utter garbage. (At least the Karatbars one I watched.) Also, he worked in another gold reselling business (KB Edelmetalle Group) very much like KaratBars before, and his employer (Mike Koschine) got under German fraud investigation and his business was forbidden by Swiss authorities and he moved it to Liechtenstein.

@silent thunder Seeing without deception can lead to eureka moments and a laugh not just in spirituality. The worldwide vastly dominant monetary system is actually the epitome of what is commonly despised to the point of being illegal except that 'top-level' system itself: a confidence trick and a pyramid scheme. In principle it IS illegal, but anyone who studied U.S. foreign policy a bit knows what in Germany we call "Illegal? Egal." (Illegal? Doesn't matter.) An immoral worldwide enslavement system 'runs the world'. And as much as I want to secure some basic needs for myself, the purpose for that is to nourish my self-respect, but making those compromises undermines it. And that's a common trick the system plays: It makes you grab for something and the only way to get a hold of it is via the means the system provides, which are stealing from you. You lose high frequency energy and get low frequency energy, and those with only superficial perception, probably learned as a means of pain avoidance, will lose the ability to see the difference. In fact, that smartass wannabe-wise-spiritual-teacher saying about how when you finally get something you realize you're not satisfied, that is only based on such structures, only because you usually have to sell your soul if you really want something. But that's not a law of nature. That's a result of fear-dominant society. The more you get without having to fight for it, the less you will want for. It's all just fear vs. love at the root. The deeper fear sinks in over time, the more someone will become an agent of it. Like when the power-hungry elite have such a lack of love that they suppressed the knowledge of what love feels like and are then trapped trying to replace the void with something inferior that never can, because when you do not know love anymore, everything you do breeds fear.

Oh boy.

You, too, are still somewhat stuck in the scarcity mindset though. Other side of the same coin. Capitalism grooms its controlled opposition.

How informed are you if you call crypto currency not fiat? Most seem to be. They're only backed by the trust in their usefulness and based on the effort that went into creating and maintaining the system. That's pretty much what we refer to as the fiat currency monetary scam / pyramid scheme. There's also a discussion of the aspect of centralized power that still exist, maybe by the creator, maybe by few holders of much of the currency. Also, currency has to be useful and accepted. It might sounds nice that KaratGold Coin is allegedly gold-backed, but if you turn one cent investment into ten cent investment and no one wants to actually use it (except for speculation), then it will fail, meaning your investment was for naught. Or you managed to exploit some poor suckers who are not good at playing that game. If your profits are someone else's losses, you are still in a spiritual trap, caught in a system of scarcity, competition, fear. Those root factors will shape everything that springs from them. You will simply exert energy for coming up with new and fancy, 'smarter' systems for dealing with that problem, not for transcending it. Of course cryptos are a step in a good direction. I just want to remind people to also look at the 'old-world' things that are growing on that soil, too. I would compare it to the hype around Elon Musk that easily makes people forget about how much he is buying into existing structures for his success, and how for example the electric cars business also has a dark side. (Elon Musk might very well be fueling US-imperialist war and its ensuing human suffering. And judging by some things I have seen from him, he has some shockingly naive blind spots. I expect better than a high school level powerpoint presentation. - But he himself doesn't even pretend to be the genius that people want to see him as. He said he got lucky with how he started in life.) The wicked don't rest, so to speak. If we grow too complacent with our latest wonder toy, it's gonna be corrupted before someone started working on the next step. So to pinpoint one dark side of cryptos: It is currency. Meaning, all those 'progressive visionaries' still only get very excited about money. And I have learned from observation and experience that the good can be the worst enemy of the better.

I watched the linked video now and the guy's body language makes me cringe all the time. He's definitely a salesman and not a thinker. Now, I don't have the energy to dig into all the details how that gold backing is supposed to work and whether one really needs any backing with a crypto currency, because arguably the backing is just to give it tangible value, not to secure it. In any case I would assume the currency is run to be mathematically based on the 900 million figure in some way, and it's kind of common sense awareness and shown by the past, too, that the estimated value of a gold mine is a wonderful tool for fraud. Someone who is in the position of owning a gold mine and then wants to sell would pull all strings to boost the estimates. And the only buyer not interested in that risk is either someone naive or someone who knows the value doesn't have to be authentic for what they intend to do with it. It is for the same reasons that gold papers (which this basically is related to) are much less safe than physical ownership of gold. Because the scam that is the conventional monetary system can also be applied to gold. Some years ago the German government wanted to withdraw all its gold from Fort Knox and the result was heavy stalling. Fort Knox is supposed to be a physical gold storage, that's its one job. Yet apparently they didn't actually have the German government's gold there, so they scammed them with the same fractional reserve crap as we know from conventional money. They probably take good money for the safeguarding service and then they make extra profit by using someone else's property. Funny thing is, for me something like this could be considered a lifesaver, too, and I, too, would want to get my car running and maintained, but for that it has to be trustworthy, not another upfront investment into something that smells fishy. I have made investments in things that looked much less suspicious and still learned some hard lessons. It is sad when I read Youtube comments on the video like "Finally I am in something from the beginning". LOL, no, this is crypto currency; it's not the beginning. It's just another bandwagon. I wish I had jumped on the Bitcoin thing in the very beginning, but that is me, now. Back then I still had other hopes. And one cannot see into the future. If I could, it would have been a safe thing, especially considering one could mine the coin, and quite easily back then. What I'm looking for is a sponsor for having my own place, because that would make my potential explode. But who wants to invest in human potential?

Well, you might actually be lucky in a way, pushed along by incentivizing pressures. Nothing worse than sitting between all chairs and no wind blowing, too few resources to really live, too many to die, and no hope left. As I explained, supporting a system with participation is one thing, and money flowing to one person can create a vacuum among others, but if money can be drawn from bad uses to good uses, maybe it can overall have a positive outcome. But that's very hard to judge. (Personally I feel kinda useless but could massively flourish in many ways beneficial to everybody if I had my own place so I am no longer subject to energies that keep me from moving towards that.) And there are already opportunists jumping on dynamics/ideas like that - like the one related to "effective altruism" where people who want to help make a better world are advised to go into career paths in investment banking, hedge funds and stock market - with the idea "It yields more money faster, which is better for good projects." It's a frickin' travesty, a classical theater of folly. That's exactly where I cringe and what I talked about in my previous post. It's so damn obvious what's wrong with that picture. (Naturally that endeavor emerged in the USA, as a profit-oriented business.) Even good-spirited, hope-instilling projects with a strong, trustworthy leadership I have witnessed gradually eroding over time because their grand vision required so much money. The Devil loves to provide 'opportunities' for those.

What kind of a life saved if others are devalued? It will require a gradual curbing of empathy and awareness. Winning in Wild West capitalism makes everybody a loser. But that takes foresight and high discipline to see. I'm just tired of survival of the fittest. It is not healthy to succeed in an unhealthy environment, especially when deluding oneself about what it brings into the world. And personally it is very detrimental to my spirit, so I am caught between a rock and a hard place, because I see too much consequence of action to choose a selfish path. Opportunities for a karmically positive calling, if you will, are naturally rare in such an environment. I have been too optimistic about that, actually, and got painfully disappointed by the extent of phoniness, playing pretend, wearing masks. As Adyashanti said so well: There's no such thing as a better idea in that system. We tried that for thousands of years. (Much of what people do is merely working with what's there, being reactionary, which is easy, convenient, but people confuse it with being difficult because they invest effort into it. And that's contagious, oppressive.)

LOL, yeah right. There's a reason why pyramid marketing has a bad rep. It, and especially together with the crypto currency hype now, is a mass harnessing of the same greed-based profit euphoria you find on the stock market. Just that with the pyramid marketing the early adopter benefit isn't natural and based on good intentions, but a lure in order to gain more from others doing the same later. It's a sign of desperation/ruthlessness. One thing that can be trusted in our human society is that wherever massive money profit is anticipated, promised or aimed for, the worst of human character will be harnessed in a giant wave. One possible outcome could be that this world continues to manifest the fear that eventually kills the people that are wiser. Another could be that crypto currency will very soon be forcibly regulated. In any case, corrupting influences will grow from various sides, in a control frenzy, and the element of sincerely good intentions that existed in the beginning, as so often when an endeavor involves more and more money and power, will become irrelevant. I am observing this corrupting influence in all kinds of sectors, killing good spirit. The basic problem with hailing crypto currency as if it was something revolutionary is that socially it is not. It cannot transform society because it's just some new damn fiat money. And when there's a claim that it is backed by gold, well, history teaches us how trustworthy such a claim is, and what many complexities are involved in that and in any kind of 'promise'. The really interesting facts are always those not excitedly advertized. It sounds like just another of the many startup hypes. Naturally they all try to make their idea look amazing, then collect lots of money in one big push before people can start to realize that it's not working out well. There's also (currently) no limit on how many crypto currencies can be created, so that boosts the bubble even further. Classic inflation problem. Bitcoin had such value increases because it was the first. There was no competition and people like to flock to the established. Now there's a fancy new one all the time, so it's a booming market where many emerge and many fail, and all are like "We're crypto!!! Why aren't you on board yet?!"

It is so obvious, it had to be pointed out. I guess we're all still asleep, heh.

Said the successful author who is much-quoted these days. Ponder cause and effect and the means by which belief systems propagate. I think a more balanced approach might be wiser. If you can manage to do that. Also, one could posit that by having become such a well-known figure, Nietzsche did in fact have quite close relations to the tribe.

As for the car anecdote quoted, to the power-obsessed mind it will be a super power, looking through walls. To the more tempered mind it will just be intuition doing its thing. You didn't really look through the wall. You just knew the car could only have been black. Some people might even channel intuition with cynical remarks that sounds like stereotyping. And there may always be doubts about where the bits of information/insight actually came from that allowed such an accurate perception, but by not obsessing over those means, intuition can work. This is a bit related to Bruce Lee's approach of emotional content and becoming a vessel for fulfilling a way and not focusing so much on technique.

What I noticed is that around the time when the bubble became obvious, everywhere on the net people started advertising for it, surely totally not for selfish reasons having anything to do with wanting to sell high, hah. Sorry, but it's just too obvious from a psychology standpoint. Why didn't all these people go on such an ad ('info') campaign much earlier, one has to wonder. ;-) I call it buying into a system. Certain processes then run on autopilot, very predictable, since one becomes unfree. So much for 'revolutionary' technologies/systems freeing people.

Yes, on a higher level we entertain beliefs that create reality. We should come to an understanding which of the things we do are driven by fear and which by love, and then take a step aside from ourselves and decide what we can realistically do. Condemning the Devil makes him stronger, so to speak. Better to say: Well, maybe he doesn't exist. Or maybe he does. Not an immediate concern right now. If your find yourself acting from weakness and try to fight it... well, you are weak then, so guess what will happen, hah.

The mind is the supreme controller. When the heart is radiating, it is because the mind allows it to. This is not necessarily praise of the mind.

Systems and techniques are an access point for the mind into something beyond itself that is so simple that the mind couldn't fathom it directly. I'm not too versed in Daoism, but Miao Tong Dao might be close to that, Lao Tzu's illusive path of merely wishing/willing things to be with the mind, i.e. with a minimum of (admittedly useful) bullshit. (In the sense that all of the mind's perceptions are at the core bullshit.)