Random thoughts thread

That’s a tough one. And one I’ve thought about a lot for some odd reason. But I’m no political expert.

I’d try to lead it to being a libertarian republic. Libertarian meaning things generally aren’t counted as crimes unless they harm someone. And other than that government leaves you alone. But republic meaning it has fixed laws in place.

I don’t know. I think the one thing I’d really do if I could is bring back states power to a high degree. States making their own laws without federal override.

So we could have competition of power or competition of governance styles. One state could go a widely different path than others and people would get to see if it worked out better and move there, or leave it if not.

And also I want to segregate the population by IQ and by moral character. So we could have 4 districts. High moral low IQ. Low moral high IQ. High in both. Low in both.

Because good people shouldn’t have to suffer by being put into a population full of crooks or idiots. It’s inhumane.

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Well… I don’t know abut the districts, but I definitely understand the sentiment…

With some of the other things, maybe I can see what I can accomplish with the Light of the Arcturians and Mages and my 2 copies of The Declaration lol

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Come on have them make idiot districts. I’m kidding. Probably will never happen. Unless the ETs come down. Not really.

Truth or dare?

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Wait… Me?

Truth I guess…

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If you woke up one day with full demigod superpowers like teleportation and telekinesis what would you do? Become a superhero? Start a war with a Superpower nation? End human trafficking? Become a mercenary for very expensive hire? Just hide?

What would you do? How would you live your life after that point?

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Probably just keep on living… I’ve toyed around with telekinesis----I’m very weak with it, though lol

It takes a lot of concentration just to make a very balanced pinwheel move smoothly lol.

I dunno… to me, the Taoist Immortal path is the ultimate. Nothing else deals as comprehensively with what a human being is. So, whatever else shows up----whether I can see Gods or Demons, whether I can teleport or blast people with telekinesis—it will all be ashes and dust if the light of the soul fades.

It’s one of those weird things that nobody else seems to have any insight into lol —but it’s an undeniable reality to me. So nothing will change my ultimate pursuit. But lots of fun can be had between now and that ultimate end—and superpowers can create a lot of interesting events lol

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So no Spiderman or Batman antics? Alright. Just keep going to work. Grocery shopping. Etc. Unexpected but interesting. The light of the soul thing I vibe with though not of the same belief background. It fits with my view well anyways. And I’ve always thought highly of the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu.

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I’ve experienced great insight coming to me through it. But it’s like it has to unlock itself for you. Just my take on it. And I’ve felt the first few pages did unlock themselves for me and I saw so much wisdom in it. But not any further for me so far. The rest still feels encrypted.

But others can take the path of “figuring it out”. I think that’s different. Just logic-ing it and thinking you understand it. I see it as a truly spiritual book. Like a supernatural book.

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I don’t know about spiderman antics lol

But the years of study and practice, working with limited sensations to make sense of the alchemical manuals---- I’ve definitely resonated with a scene from The Dark Knight Rises.

lol

feeling the years of failing to understand and failing to do the right thing… but, now I know the path. I just need to complete it

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It’s a meditation/alchemy manual.

But it is a few generations removed from the prolific neidan books that showed up later.

It deals with the same things—internal energies, structures, and transformations. But it uses older terms and metaphors.

Liu Yiming said it best — all taoist texts discuss energetic changes in the body.

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Soooo… Truth or Dare? Who’s next? lol

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I’ll go for truth again. I don’t want to get up. Lol. It’s late.

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If you could pick any point in history to live, when would it be and where would it be?

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I want to say the future. But that’s not history. Jesus’s time comes to mind because I could ask him so many questions he’d probably prohibit me from following him. I’d have to learn the language though. Right now actually comes to mind as what I’d choose too because I don’t want to go backwards in technology even though it looks like we’re right about to enter a dystopia.

Prehistory is tempting. To see Atlantis or whatever was way back even before that. But final answer is Jesus’s time.

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Cool :+1:

There’s supposedly someone who’s walking around who was alive when Jesus was…

No idea if it’s true or not lol. He had some anecdotes from the medieval time period.

One thing that gave him more credibility to me was how he described memories—the stronger the emotion, the stronger the memory.

So one of his strongest emotions (millenia later) was of Jesus. He may have forgotten a few wives, but no way he’d forget Jesus lol

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I watched a low budget but not bad movie like that on Netflix. Some guy at a dinner party admits that he’s a caveman from thousands of years ago and can’t remember most of his life.

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Some say John the Apostle is still alive. I doubt it. But it is more or less “lore” that some believe. Because of some obscure thing Jesus said that could be taken to mean John wouldn’t die until the return of Jesus, but he didn’t really say that. They think he hinted at it.

So there’s rumors still of people saying they’ve met him out in a cave or wherever.

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There are all kinds of rumors, who knows if any are true?

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I tend to doubt anything like that. But who knows. It would be funny if there were some old saint in a cave somewhere who keeps praying us out of nuclear armageddon or apocalypse until one day when they just quit praying and everything goes bad.

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