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Steven Allen9 said:Whose ancestors are we even talking about?
Look, there are 3.5 million Boers with nowhere else to go... this is their land. They cut ties with their motherland 350 years ago. They have just as much right to South Africa as anyone else. The world is finally seeing exactly what the Afrikaners warned about back since the end of the Spanish-American War.
Ever since apartheid was scrapped, the quality of the healthcare system, the bureaucracy, and basic infrastructure has tanked by over 70%.
Black citizens were promised free education—kind of like how veterans' kids get perks in the States—regardless of whether they actually have any foundational knowledge. And when white students pushed back, black mobs tore up the 200-year-old parks and groves surrounding the university in Stellenbosch.
I don't want to start listing examples; there are plenty. But the native white population isn't going anywhere, at least the majority of them. A Bible and a shotgun will be requirements for survival.
The fault of the apartheid regime lies in failing to foster a black middle class that could have smoothed over those fractured relations, specifically between the Boers and the Bantu tribes. The advantage black people hold, which they exploit heavily, is an absolutely massive birth rate. Black kids are everywhere. Add to that the fact they were treated like dogs in Soweto, and I don't need to explain how they feel toward the whites who had everything. It’s a blessed life, provided you aren't worried about your safety.
You can see the fallout from apartheid everywhere. Take Johannesburg—it's a massive metropolis with zero organized public transit; it never even existed. You basically have to stick to your neighborhood from dawn until dusk.
Everything changes, including etiquette. New rules get cooked up just so they can be broken later on.
Benjamin Miller10 said:I'm currently in the market for my first car 😁 ...so I've been looking into various auto insurance options. I heard the American Chamber of Commerce might have the best rates... I keep seeing their commercials on TV with that 0800 number, so I was wondering if anyone here actually has experience with them. Are they any good? Has anyone tried calling that number?
If you have a solid recommendation for a different insurance provider, please feel free to share. Since this is my first time navigating all of this, I don't really have much to go on...
Thanks a lot....
If I remember correctly, they were running a deal last year where you got a free one-year membership to HKA if you picked their policy. You should probably double-check that.
placidharbor7 said:So, if that's the case, what role does consciousness actually play?
Think of consciousness as the shared interface used to communicate with the main processor.
It’s really more about having the humility to just let go and surrender to the flow of life. In those massive corporate networks, everything is already programmed.
Yeah, shout out to all the snowflakes, Richard Moore53, and the rest of the clowns. Life is movement—it’s a constant process. People who lack the guts to deal with that just fall by the wayside. Having balls means tackling problems (most of which we manufacture ourselves anyway), and honestly, problems aren't some personal attack on your soul like most people think. They're just new processes that add a little dynamics to life. Look, if you actually know what your goals are, you can actually enjoy this whole process and find some meaning. People focused on a goal structure move forward; their quality of life shifts. But those obsessed with the problems? They just spin in circles or sink deeper. Based on the principle of unity, every single problem carries its own solution inside it. You just need to calm down and feel enough to admit the truth to yourself, no matter how much it sucks. Don't lie to yourself, don't run from who you are, and stop waiting for someone else to live your life for you. Take responsibility for your own existence, and you automatically gain power... the power to live a decent life and help others by simply setting the example. It's way easier to just chug tequila, pop a handful of pills, or go cutting veins and all that other garbage than it is to make your own life bearable, let alone actually good.
rapidgull3 said:How does someone deal with suicidal thoughts being on their mind every single day?
Go find some professional psychology help right now. Seriously. At the same time, grab a notebook and start mapping out your life and your actual goals. Right now, it looks like your only goal is figuring out how to check out early. It’s like you’ve got a glitch in your operating system—you need a total reprogramming, but you have to hunt down the bug, the Trojan, or whatever virus is causing the crash first. Get busy with something. Stop wasting your days just spiraling over ways to end it all. Life is meant to be lived.
Dana Morales64 said:This has been an issue for as long as I can remember—I’ve always been a social creature, someone who thrives in a crowd. When I'm out with people, everything feels effortless; time flies, there's no boredom, and life just seems manageable. But the second I walk through my front door, I’m lost. I’ll step into my room, and within two minutes, the restlessness kicks in. If the house is quiet, it’s even worse—this wave of paranoia and anxiety just hits me out of nowhere. If I go a few days without seeing anyone, things start getting weird; I feel like I'm losing my grip, I get hit with this intense fear when I'm out walking, sweating, constantly looking over my shoulder, terrified that I’m eventually going to end up completely alone. Then, I hang out with friends and suddenly everything is fine again. It’s like I have these social batteries that drain incredibly fast—if I don't "recharge" by being around people every couple of days, I hit some kind of internal social crisis. It’s possible I’m more attached to certain people than I let on, even though I’m never clingy or overbearing in a group setting. As far as actual life decisions go, though, I’m fine—I can handle pressure and I usually know exactly what the right move is.
The core of it, though, is purely social—this constant, nagging fear that I’ll end up isolated, even if there isn't a logical reason to feel that way since I have plenty of friends and a solid support system.
Has anyone else dealt with this kind of cycle, and if so, how did you manage it?
Well, you drifted over to the forum, because if there aren't any real people around, virtual ones will do the trick, right?🙂 Man, your mind is really running circles around you. There are plenty of different kinds of dependencies, and this is one of them. None of the folks on these forums can actually help you until you turn inward and start digging—and I mean digging deep. You shouldn't be afraid of yourself. At the end of the day, you're either your own best friend or your own worst enemy.
Roger Smith5 said:WE HAVE THE POWER TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD!
Let us begin this transformation immediately—perhaps by planting a single fruit tree or a small garden plant.
- Offer kind words to those you encounter.
- Share your vision for a better world with a neighbor.
- Let go of the fears that prevent us from reaching out to one another and fighting for what is right.
- Commit to both fasting and prayer.
- Exercise caution and do not place your trust blindly in everyone, especially politicians; true change can only occur once we first address our own hearts.
- When you suffer, or when you fast and pray, do not broadcast your struggles to the world; instead, meet life with a smile, knowing that God the Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- The most vital principle of all is LOVE... love is the ultimate healer, requiring us to cherish others while setting aside our own egos.
Honestly, this fear is the ultimate roadblock to actually living. It traps people in these rigid patterns and habits where they aren't even truly alive—they just exist. They never stop to ask "why?" or take a second to figure out what they actually need. Because of that, they drift away from love entirely, mostly because you can't really show up for anyone else if you haven't figured out how to love yourself first.
casualmoose82 said:A "New America" is actually doable. It just takes changing how we think, which is basically the most powerful tool God the Father gave us. Thought is pure energy, I guess. If we could just focus on three things:
1. An America without wars—just people living in peace and actually loving one another;
2. A country without deserts, where everything is lush with food and clean water;
3. An America without poverty or hunger, where every community lives in abundance;
If we just hold onto those three thoughts and send them out to the Universe every morning when we wake up and every night before bed—and if more people actually did it—we’d eventually see this "New America" become a reality.
Look, this 'new earth' thing—or whatever you want to call it—isn't just possible. It's already here. We just have to remember it. But man, that's hard when you're constantly distracted by what brand of cigarettes you're smoking, what designer label you're wearing, or trying to keep up with whatever trendy hipster vibe is currently blowing up on Fifth Avenue or hitting the local diners. There's no deep, complicated philosophy required. Things get ridiculously simple once you decide to live with spirit while still being stuck in this world. Just be present. Be grateful for being alive, for your health, for feeling a connection to a houseplant or just hanging out in nature. Feel that Saturday morning joy when you hit the farmer's market, soaking in all the colors and picking out fresh ingredients to cook a meal for the people you love. It's those tiny, simple things. That's what life is actually about—respecting everything.
Edward Flores4 said:So, here’s the logic for you...
A "leap into the abyss" is essentially the end of life—which means it's also the end of what you're calling "logic," since that term becomes completely arbitrary at that point. Once you get "in there," where all dualities cease to exist, life itself stops too. In a state of pure uniformity, nothing actually exists; nothing changes, and there’s no such thing as courage or order. When everything is just one singular nothingness, nothing can be distinguished from anything else, so really, there isn't even anyone left to experience it. If everyone were identical, nobody would truly "be." Existence is really just the magic of duality—and the only way to escape that duality is through death. It’s funny how so many people crave transcending duality without actually realizing what that implies... it’s almost like they’re in a rush to die.
Funny enough 😁
Turning inward isn't about running away from life or taking action; if anything, it's about waking up to vitality, correcting our course, and shifting how we perceive reality. It’s about living more fully to quiet that constant hunger most people have for purpose, meaning, and the riches of life. Happiness is loving and being loved, and true peace comes from genuinely serving others. So, loving and serving are verbs; they're about doing what is right, and an individual can only know that through their own internal experience. Maybe that's what the hippies mean by mastering your own energy—being and acting in the material world while remaining spiritually aware at the same time.
Edward Flores4 said:Exactly 👍
You can live... or you don't have to!
You could turn inward and let everything fade away. Both options work. Life and death—if they even carry any weight at all—are essentially equal in their (un)importance. 😉
Leaping into the abyss is like falling straight up into total silence and peace; it brings this weird clarity and the death of all that messy logic. This state of being isn't about mindless obedience or playing nice with human stupidity or bowing down to worldly nonsense. It gives us this fearless, gutsy kind of
action driven by the material world through an understanding of perfect order.
jademarlin26 said:Without dancing to the rhythm of shifting opposites, there is no momentum, no movement, and ultimately, no life.
I'm right there with you,
jademarlin26. We can either jump into the fray and play those games of duality, or we can just pull all that energy back inward. Honestly? Both ways work.
Morgan Hernandez5 said:George Washington nailed it.👍
Yeah, that emptiness you're talking about happens because people lack
soul, and honestly, I'm not interested in people like that. Should we even
waste "time" looking back, or should we just climb to the top of the pyramid?
Why keep going back to those types, or to people moving in the
opposite direction (erosion)? Most people are stuck down here, tied to materialism, while spirituality
belongs to the sky, and consciousness belongs to the =) universe.
You need both the mind and the soul. Balance is best. 😉
Why did you link the mind to "grinding"? 🤷
Isn't there supposed to be a free flow of thought and spirit? Energy?
Thoughts and emotions can work together so well,
completing each other and doing miracles! the turning point!
What even is love?
How do you even define love? The second you try to pin it down with a definition, it gets boxed in. It stops being the free, wild thing it's meant to be.
Morgan Hernandez5 said:👍
I think the mind matters too, maybe just as much as the soul.
but I get why you framed it that way. materialism has been running the show for forever
because of institutions and science.
from atoms—just closed-off things in space and time—all the way to humans
built out of egos, tied only to super-egos... whatever. everything is just fractured, no real connections, and the result is =) a crisis of meaning, right?
we've had enough of pure logic and the mind, maybe now it's time for other ways of perceiving,
emotions, intuition... is that what you were getting at? we gotta bring things back into balance.
Is consciousness spiritual intelligence? Are we really trying to define
consciousness😬
Logic is vital, obviously, but when we push our intellect too hard trying to prove everything, we drift away from who we actually are—that core of pure kindness and fearless love. Logic asks: "Why bother with spirituality? Why do we need any of this when the world looks like a chaotic, rushed, violent mess where you just have to adapt and survive, and only the strongest make it?" The answer is simple: because that's the only thing worth doing—moving toward the spirit, existing in the material world while staying aware of the spiritual side. As your awareness grows, your mind shifts too. At a certain stage of development, which everyone eventually recognizes, consciousness becomes self-correcting. You don't go back to those "old mistakes" or "weaknesses." Every human being craves finding their own rhythm, being healthy, and aligning with their life's true purpose. Everyone is born with that potential, reflected in what we call the soul—which is really just the body's energy giving us the capacity to truly live. The problem is that so many people give up parts of their soul (their actual potential). That creates the emptiness most people feel today (George Washington started a thread about this on the forum). We really just need to look within our own hearts.
Morgan Hernandez5 said:The whole feedback thing is basically the link between non-living and
living systems. Kind of crazy that since life showed up on this planet, the sun's temp has jumped about 25%, while the temp in the
country hasn't really budged. That heat spike triggers the whole
cycle—volcanoes, bacteria, erosion, algae, then back to
volcanoes—which helps regulate both the temp and the CO2!
Life basically builds its own habitat and
reshapes the environment it's trying to adapt to.
Yeah, Morgan Hernandez5, the Earth is a living thing and part of something way bigger. In all that interconnectedness, I think human consciousness plays a huge role if we actually align ourselves with the universal Spirit. That’s really the whole point of evolution (of consciousness, anyway). What we're seeing on a massive scale right now is just the erosion of that awareness—a total lack of respect for nature (and I don't just mean looking at pretty pictures of greenery in National Geographic). You can't wrap your brain around the magnificent intelligence that sustains life, but you can definitely feel it. We need to get back to being human—to honesty and integrity toward ourselves and everyone else. That's the core of spirituality. It isn't some exclusive club for certain people; it's an open call to everyone, regardless of their education, gender, race, or faith.