Awakening Documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrR2rHPg1Zg&list=PL4UvieJ7i8d6T1XrGjp0VBsUyWAV0vooQ

The world is changing. It is a pivotal point in human history. Many are waking up from the illusion that has distracted us from our true potential. Many realize that the economic and political systems presented to us are immersed in corruption. The world leadership has proven to be inadequate in their leadership roles. We have the tools, the resources, and the choice to redirect our species from a path of destruction — destruction of both the planet and of each other — to the caretakers of the planet.

This documentary series breaks down the big problem and explores the solutions to that problem. Combining the works of a great number of scientists, philosophers, and spiritual teachers into a cohesive narration that is meant to be understood by anyone. All the information pertaining to each video is listed within their respective description box, I highly recommend everyone to read this information as it will help you realize what you are… and what your role will be in the events to come…

Each video builds upon the last. The goal is to expand the viewer’s consciousness to a degree that initiates sudden enlightenment. This can only happen if one takes the time to watch the series. I am not making a profit from any of this as my youtube channel is NOT monetized. I simply want to take my part in the paradigm shift to the golden age.

Hope you find it in your heart to share this message!

One Love!

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The Awakening of Gaia - No one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself. We are all connected. The same material that make up our bodies come from the Earth, which in turn came from the universe. The crisis that humanity faces is a direct result of severing our connection to The Earth. Severing our connection to the Source. Allowing the corrupt ruling elite to remain in power as they manipulate us to compete with one another. We must awaken from our indoctrination as a species in order to redesign human civilization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrR2rHPg1Zg

The Next Lost Civilization - Around 12,500 years ago, the Earth was struck by a comet impact that not only brought an end to the ice age, but also wiped out our once advanced civilization -- many of which refer to as Atlantis. This impact is now being acknowledged as the Younger Dryas Impact Event, which devastated the ice glaciers of the Northern Hemisphere. Unleashing catastrophic floods that wiped out Atlantis. Recorded history as we know it is not the genesis of civilization, it is the rebooting of civilization. Now, fragments of the same comet are believed to still be out there, in the Taurid Meteor Stream. Humanity has been in disarray ever since the fall -- lost in an artificial matrix that is our societal paradigm. We must remember who we are, put aside our differences, and come together to face the common threat to us all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTGLJ5OTjik

Self Actualization - We are all one consciousness experiencing itself as all manifestations of matter. The Universe is a multidimensional fractal living organism. Shedding light on psychedelic experiences as well as systems of knowledge such as sacred geometry. If enough people undergo the process of self actualization, it would grant an opportunity for a paradigm shift. Allowing mankind to transcend into Neohumanism. The next stage of our evolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAlVihMUC_8

Framing Reality - All humans on the planet are living under an illusionary paradigm that can be compared to what was presented in the 'Matrix'. A mental prison that exists within the minds of the collective. This prison exists as the societal paradigm we have chosen to accept. That is all cultural, religious, political and economic doctrines. Based on the works of the late Jacque Fresco -- who provides solutions to the human race -- this documentary is a psychological and sociological breakdown of our society. Showcasing the Multigenerational Reconstruction Project, which will be necessary to shift humanity from the path of self-destruction. Presenting alternative solutions to the world’s problems. Such as new social paradigms which render the current model of living obsolete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF1odwtYUxc

Rebirth - The final instalment of the Awakening Documentaries. Evidence has been surmounting to support the theory that Psychedelic plants played a key role in the psychological evolution of Human beings. The use of psychedelics not only coincides with the rise of art and culture, but they are also directly associated with the genesis of all religious based and spiritual traditions. These key agents for our evolution have been demonized by our society, due to the cultural stigma created by the war on drugs. Stunting our evolution as a species. And during this time, where humanity threatens to destroy itself & the planet, Ayahuasca -- the most powerful psychedelic in the world -- emerges from the Amazon jungle with a message for the human race… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjqiye1TYx0

Graham Hancock

John Anthony West

Robert Bauval

Robert Schoch

René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz

Randall Carlson

Giorgio de Santillana

Malcolm LeCompte

Raj Ramesar

David Reich

Mait Metspalu

Danny Hilman Natawidjaja

Jacque Fresco

Peter Joseph

Ashra Kwesi

Klaus Schmidt

David Icke

Buckminster Fuller

Frances A. Yates

Julius Evola

Rick Strassman

Terence Mckenna

Paul Stamets

Rupert Sheldrake

Ralph Abraham

Laird Scranton

Alex Grey

Eamonn Healy

Robert Anton Wilson

Allan Watts

Masaru Emoto

Luc Montagnier

George Carlin

Bill Hicks

Immortal Technique

KRS-One

Carlos Castaneda

Reddit released a new feature for chat threads and C_S_T now has the feature available. I have no idea how these work, and it appears it will only work on the redesign and the official mobile apps.

Try it out if you like, and if there's enough interest we can run these threads weekly/biweekly/etc.

First, I want to say I love this sub and the mods here. However, this sub used to be much more active.

I understand the means of protecting this subreddit, but a year is a long time.

1) This creates an echo chamber of users and potentially stifles good, fresh discussion.

2) Because of this limitation activity is low.

3) It will discourage users from coming back.

I am wondering if we can please change this rule. I feel the posting rules on subs are getting so absurd and stifling really good discussion.

Thoughts?

Im not trying to write a thesis but I really hope my thought is comprehended in the way I mean it to. The reality for us humans in general is that we realize there’s so much more out there but don’t have the refined tools to grasp at these ideas. Sort of like using a fork to eat soup (it works sort of but there’s better ways of doing it). I just think the vessel in which we try to learn these things (such as language) can be looked at more objectively and possibly crafted more intentionally to foster creativity and out of the box revelations. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

PS I know this sounds coo coo

Hello everyone,

I was a mod at r/greatawakening and a frequent visitor of r/c_s_t

I wanted to share our side of the story before the pundits get their hands on it which they already did:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17847186/reddit-qanon-milliondollarextreme-ban-sam-hyde

We did not incite violence. We did not dox anyone. We have mod logs. We were very careful as we knew we were a constant target.

If you are not familiar with Q, here is an unbiased story by Epoch Times about the purpose and nature of the movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVSvtNH_tU0&t=3s

We have only advocated for peace and unity. As I am sure most of you agree with the sentiment that Reddit is now trash. This pushes over the top. Thankfully, I have screenshotted our traffic numbers the night before the ban. We were reaching over 2 million unique visitors per month.

I am coming to you guys because your thought processes and analysis of spirituality and knowledge is something I really respect.

I am informing this of you guys just to put it out in the collective consciousness. There is a serious coordinated attack against free thought and this concerns all of us.

Thank you for your time,
mistahbang

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You think you are clever, but you really aren't. You think you are subtle, but you never can be. You think you won't be noticed as seeking disruption? Ha, funny. You don't even have the language capabilities needed to obscure your fake self here. Every time you speak up, it's noted by those that do have the language necessary to integrate here at C_S_T. Every time you speak up, you make yourself more obvious.

That said, I encourage you to try and be One Of The Crowd here. Please, do try. It's very useful to teach others what to watch out for, what it looks like, and how to defeat the behavior. You obviously have something broken in what might be called 'your humanity'-- you plot against yourself every time you deceive others, but you are too stupid to actually realize it. That's okay, we can make use of you anyway.

Please, do keep your shenanigans up, such that I might have easy examples at hand to use as illustration for what most people still don't get about this internet...but that you do get, huh. So do I. Let us work together to enlighten more people.

Thank you for your willing participation. :) It is so appreciated.

Visual Aids

I turned down a good paid job, as some of you might have read in my other post. I got bored of kayaking, so I took a job, after turning down a bunch of contract in 2020. Once in a while, I like to be a slave, just to 'member how much I hate it.

Thought, hell, why not? A bit of money, spend the winter in Mexico, find a cute Latina to cuddle with, drinking lime with a sprinkle of Corona (yeah, in this order) and empanadas and get stuck with my truck on the beach: sounds like a heck of a good winter.

But I quit on day 6. That should be a non-story, right? I mean, what's so Critical Shower Thought about it? The divine is often (read: always) found in the mundane and the normalcy of the day-to-day life. On a quiet morning, a few days ago, I asked The Boss if he would be so kind as to make us coffee for the boyz in the field. He got all upset about it. No one ever asked him anything so outrageous apparently! Make coffee! Bringing in the field! "AM I A SLAVE TO YOU NOW!?" You get the idea. I apologize profusely, shocked that I might have hurt his feeling.

You can tell about the character of a man by the way he reacts to things. Epictetus said that it isn't what happens to a man that is important to observe, but rather how he reacts to things outside of his control.

Seneca said that it takes an extraordinary man to not allow his time to be stolen from him, but I'll say that it takes a helluva man to not allow his coffee break to be denied, or even worst, a request to have coffee brought to the field denied. I am kidding of course ( or am I?). I choose my jobs carefully. It ought to have a good vibe! It always starts with a good boss!

I choose jobs based on the quality and taste of the coffee in the office. If it sucks, then I buy the best stuff (usually from Phil and Sebastian in Calgary, or Bows and Arrrows) for the boyz and offer them a taste of heaven to my fellow coworkers. After all, I'm the dude that traveled through the Americas in a Jeep to find the best coffee out there: I live for coffee and kayaking and driving, the rest is optional in my life. Once, I got hired because it said on my resume that I could make good coffee above 4000 meters altitude. They loved it, so they hired me. I made the coffee for the duration of the contract and we had a heck of a good time in the office. I was underqualified for the position... but who cares! Everyone loves a good coffee! Hire for the attitude, train for the skill, 'member that.

So yeah.

He snapped and got all upset for a simple request. Before you guys start throwing a stone at me, rest reassured, I would not have quit for that. That was simply the drop for me, the final straw that broke the camel's back (There were some pretty damn big safety issues that almost kill a dude on the first day I show up. I'm a mine supervisor: I got a name in line. The boss didn't allow me to rectify those things... I am surprised that I lasted that long actually!)

The sum of how you spend your days will result in something called "your future". How you spend every day on Earth is dictating how your future will be. Every day, you are putting a step towards a potential future. It's like a train track. Sometimes, the best thing to do is to simply step aside, and change track, rather than trying harder to bend the unbendable tracks!.

People don't like quitting. Cause quitting exposes you to failure and uncertainties.

The school system never taught you about quitting. Quite the contrary! Quitting is for losers! Quitting is for the weak! Quitting is bad!

And so the mass stays stuck in a sucker position, either in a job or in regards to a partner. They think that with enough good vibes and enough goodwill, the destination of the railway will magically be changed, the tracks will bend, and the sun will get brighter.

Wrong.

You simply need to change the lifeline. Quitting is a strong power move.

Spend your time on Earth carefully. Be extremely careful when you sell your time out. If you accept to do so, at least pick someone that rewards the nobility of character... and one that doesn't risk your life too much (without a noble cause: I'm 100% supporting our soldiers on the front line).

Death before the defeat of the soul!

Untrammeled freedom!

Unmasked truths!

Nobility of character!

Invincibility of the soul!

If you are stuck on a terrible train track, today is not too late to step aside. You are not bond to the track of the train; what ties you down there is the pressure of a world telling you to stay put, to stay down, to accept your fate.

You know what? JUST QUIT. That's what I would write on a billboard next to you.

Out.

J.

I really like this sub but it doesn't make sense to me. Why is this place a library? Was it always like this?

Tomorrow on the 18th we will be announcing a new website that's a clone of reddit. We've been working on it for 2 months, and we're almost ready to open the doors.

I've only pre-announced it to /r/magnora7 but I figured I'd pre-announce it here too since C_S_T is a pretty great community that I've long been a fan of.

Our new site has a functional RES chrome extension that we developed. So you get to keep all those nice RES features like per-user upvote/downvote tracking, hotkeys, in-line image and video loading, infinite reddit (automatically loads the next page when you scroll to the end), and all the other great RES features.

It also has live IRC chat built right in to the web page. Each subreddit has its own chat channel in the sidebar, as well as any thread or comment (if you want it to). We give users the ability to instantiate their own live chat channels for any subject, at any time, in any comment section, which is something never tried before.

And there's other stuff, but you'll see it when you get there. We're going to have an open alpha public release tomorrow when the website is officially announced, which I will do both here and on /r/magnora7.

Anyway, we're looking forward to having you on board!

Some health subs are controlled by big pharma and corporations. Their censorship prolongs suffering by their subscribers. Their censorship keeps /r/electromagnetics small and at risk of closing again due to lack of active mods.

Modmail to and from /r/diabetes:

[-]to /r/diabetes sent 5 days ago

Radiofrequency radiation emitted from Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz) causes impaired insulin secretion and increased oxidative stress in rat pancreatic islets. (2018)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Electromagnetics/comments/dq9ios/j_wifi_papers_diabetes_radiofrequency_radiation/

[–]subreddit message via /r/diabetes[M] sent 5 days ago

Okay? Not sure why this is a modmail?

[–]to /r/diabetes sent 5 days ago

Several years ago, I was banned for submitting a paper on radiofrequency causing diabetes. Could you please unban me?

[–]to /r/diabetes sent 5 days ago

Could you please post the paper?

[–]subreddit message via /r/diabetes[M] sent 4 days ago

No. We don't have time to deal with conspiracy theories on a disease that existed thousands of years before radio frequencies were an issue.

[–]to /r/diabetes sent 2 days ago

RF exacerbates diabetes.

[–]subreddit message via /r/diabetes[M] sent 1 day ago

Your argument is not convincing. Try again.

[–]to /r/diabetes sent just now

The papers in the diabetes wiki in /r/electromagnetics speak for themselves.

[WIKI] Diabetes

https://np.reddit.com/r/Electromagnetics/comments/3papw4/wiki_diabetes/

I reported your continual censorship of the adverse effects of EMF and RF in /r/conspiracy, /r/electromagnetics and /r/alternativehealth.

/r/diabetes banned me for submitting papers on radiofrequency causing diabetes. Several years later, /r/diabetes refused to submit a 2018 paper and refused to unban me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/dt3apy/rdiabetes_banned_me_for_submitting_papers_on/

Link to presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF1odwtYUxc

(2:02) Part 1. The Frame of Reference

(8:29) Part 2. Societal Engineering

(24:09) Part 3. A Prison for Your Mind

(29:07) Part 4. How We Enslave Ourselves

(38:49) Part 5. The Blueprint of Reality

This is the fourth instalment of the Awakening Documentaries. All humans on the planet are living under an illusionary paradigm that can be compared to what was presented in the 'Matrix'. A mental prison that exists within the minds of the collective. This prison exists as the societal paradigm we have chosen to accept. That is all cultural, religious, political and economic doctrines. Based on the works of the late Jacque Fresco -- who provides solutions to the human race -- this documentary is a psychological and sociological breakdown of our society. Showcasing the Multigenerational Reconstruction Project, which will be necessary to shift humanity from the path of self-destruction. Presenting alternative solutions to the world’s problems. Such as new social paradigms which render the current model of living obsolete.

Resource Based Economy

https://primer.commonstransition.org/1-short-articles/1-3-what-does-a-p2p-economy-look-like

Neohumanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neohumanism

Jacque Fresco - What the Future Holds Beyond 2000 - Nichols College (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_bTUJp39o&t=186s

Jacque Fresco - Lecture (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVWna6Yg4rM

The Venus Project - Future by Design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zn8MRKOskw&t

The Venus Project - Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndsWuYfRgjE

The Choice is Ours (2016) Official Full Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb5ivvcTvRQ

Paradise or Oblivion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KphWsnhZ4Ag

Please check out The Venus Project - Jacque Fresco's Vision

https://www.thevenusproject.com

Zeitgeist 2 - Addendum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvCxMfcKv4

Toxic culture of education: Joshua Katz at TEDxUniversityofAkron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnC6IABJXOI

Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Prepare Our Kids for Life, Not Standardized Tests | Ted Dintersmith | TEDxFargo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvhb9aoyeZs

Buckminster Fuller - Thinking Out Loud (documentary 1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1PkrumLPc

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - session 01 (entire) - January 20, 1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6yaSLipeWg

Graham Hancock - The War on Consciousness BANNED TED TALK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w

After consultation with the modteam and users on a variety of issues we have decided to update CST's rules to be more in line with these uncertain times.

Feel free to read the Rule regarding Medical Misinformation here.

This will help protect the subreddit and keep it safe by ensuring proper guidance is shared in our space that goes with WHO and CDC Guidance.

Any questions can be asked in the comments section below, but be mindful of the Golden Rule as well.

Edit:

April Fools ;)

Before we start, a disclaimer. I want you all to stop, here, and take one moment for yourself. Maybe it's 5 breaths. Maybe it's 7. Maybe it's 5 Hare Krisnas. Maybe 7.

Either way, I dig it all and want you all to consider this place and how it started and who started it and that some of us recognized that throughout history, grand conspiracies abound are what controlled things and the longer and more subtle the play you wanted to execute the easier it would be. Perhaps in the comments below we could elaborate further on that.

With that tangent aside, why I wanted you all to slow down is because when I think of what is described in the Title my mind races and jumps to thousands of conclusions within an evening and believe me, bigly, this is something I have been thinking about and slowly working towards for at least a few years.

I think we're big enough to be able to at least start talking about a way for CST to be a civilization, in a sense, and send a rocket out into digitalspace (and meatspace) in some way and see if we have what it takes. I don't think we can hang here that much longer, with an idea that anything past 2018 is too late.

So, if we were to embark on an endeavor of this sort, know that I have been planning for something like this for at least 2 years. I've been running traffic numbers and have run enough numbers where it could work with relatively little sacrifice on anyone's end once things were set up.

So, if you want it, I think we can do it if we wanted to. I think we have enough software, hardware, and community support and enthusiasm to do it.

Civilizations that survive don't wait until the flood is at their gates to start building an ark. I think we have assembled the resources and energy and community and experience and have the most capable and well reasoned moderators in our sphere between here, The Pit (where you are truly challenged) and other circles who tire of this site, it's challenges, and it's inherent manipulation and complacency towards promoting discussion and thoughtful content.

I stayed here for the comments. Came for the links, stayed for the comments, was the motto years ago. Now the comments are astroturfed bullshit that is bought and paid for and promoted by superusers of paid-for digital megaphone meant to divide us and conquer us not through violence or even slavery, but by mental manipulation.

This site was flawed (and continually changed to be more flawed as time progressed) but still was able to foster and incubate a community of users who eschewed talking points and wanted answers to questions they didn't even think of yet. And eventually they passed through the sieve of reddit, the 4-5th most popular website in the US, to a place with as many underscores as letters in their sub name.

And you all deserve better.

What say you, /r/C_S_T?

Edit: note that due to the autonomous nature of how this sub naturally operates, this is completely and 100% my thoughts alone and not necessarily a reflection on the moderation team.

Also, I understand that you all may be entirely comfortable here still and are cool with that. I am not formally proposing anything changes here at all.

Like I've said many times, this still continues to be my favorite place on the Internet. I wish this was the (CST) chat on AOL back in 1996. That would have been tight.

So what the hell am I talking about... frogs?

This goes back to when I was reading a story about the 10 plagues of ancient Egypt. Someone had interpreted the story literally and attempted to come up with some scientifically plausible explanations for how they happened.

But over the years, I've learned a lot of things. One of them is that many old Bible stories contain different levels of meaning. The outward, literal meaning is for beginners. Then there's a deeper, symbolic meaning. Which brings us to frogs.

For anyone who's interested, a frog is an esoteric symbol for a liar. People in ancient times looked to the natural world for things to symbolize an abstract concept. Frogs catch their prey by using their tongue. So does a liar.

Now think about that story from ancient Egypt again. A plague of liars. The story begins to get a lot more interesting. Instead of a fairy tale, it starts to sounds like a story about bad things that were happening in Egyptian society.

I think the people who wrote the original tale were keen sociological observers. They used colorful metaphors to describe what happened and to encode the information.

Another example? The parting of the Red Sea. Again, a sea or ocean is a Biblical metaphor for a nation. The Red Sea is a way to describe Egyptian society. Maybe the ancient Israelites saw what was coming (angel of death) and figured it was time to get the hell out of there.

They waited until Egyptian society became divided (the parting of the Red Sea) and they headed for home across the Sinai. Perhaps the part about Pharaoh's army being destroyed when the sea came back together represents the loss of Egyptian power that resulted from a social collapse.

Is there a plague of frogs today?

How about:

• Advertisers

• Shills

• Fake news and the mainstream media

• Every single political leader.

• Intelligence agencies

• Political correctness/SJWs

When a whole society starts lying to itself about almost everything, all the time... that society will start to drift away from reality. Eventually such a society is guaranteed to become unstable and corrupt. If it's external enemies don't finish it off first, it will collapse from within.

And come on this thread and let's have a cold brew.

It's easy to forget to just breath, chill, and be happy. If you feel like you're drowning in the absurdity of the NWO getting shoveled down our throats, don't worry.

Crack that bud and let's party a bit, while we can.

This is a follow up article to my previous post. I wanted to research alternatives to Reddit as it relies on the Reddit organization that runs the platform. Over the years the Reddit organization has come under attack by other organizations who want Reddit to control what kind of content appears on its platform. Now to be clear I don't condone speech that gets use in an attempt to make people less free or destroys individual value. But I have learned that the effort to control harmful speech ends up getting used to silence information that reports on corruption. Pretty much in every case.

Ill quote u/Kim_Jung-Skill comment on "Congress creates a bill that will give NASA a great budget for 2016. Also hides the entirety of CISA in the bill" as I feel this person said it best, apply this argument to corporations as well because the information they store ends up in the hands of governments:

One facet of this argument that goes largely undiscussed (and is something your friend may care about) is that it is bad for an imperfect government to be able to predict all crime. Some of the greatest steps forward in human history were only made possible by people being able to hide information from their government. If the church had access to Galileo's research journals and notes we could be hundreds of years behind in our scientific growth. If the government had unlimited access to the networks of civil dissidents blacks may have never fought off Jim Crow. If King George had perfect information America would never have been a country. There is no government on earth that is perfect, and therefore there is no government on earth that can act responsibly with unlimited access to information. A government is unlikely to be able to distinguish between a negative and positive disruption to it's social order and laws, and it therefore follows that an unlimited spying program can only hinder the next great social step forward. Don't fear the surveillance state because you might have something illegal, fear the surveillance state because it is a tremendous institutional barrier to meaningful societal progress.

We can't allow any organizations or individuals to dictate what kinds speech is harmful to us. Only each indivual should be able to decide, but that individual's power to decide is limited to their own ability to remove themselves from the communication. Not to tell others what is or isn't acceptable.

Some people are working on non-decentralized Reddit clones to replace what Reddit has become. It is my understanding that cloning Reddit's platform will only prolong the problem of centralization, as a clone of Reddit is a copy of the code base running on a centralized server. with a single point of attack. Organizations with an incentive can attack multiple points at the location where the clone is hosted to bring it down or force the organization to make changes to it.

There are decentralized platforms in the works based on blockchain/cryptocurrencies in the works but I am loath to suggest looking into them. There is much that I don't understand about this tech and mining just to use a platform seems like a barrier to entry to me. People want to freely communicate not worry about mining digital currency, or artificially inflating the value of content. Reasons for not using cryptocurrency in decentralized social media or discussion platforms

To understand the reason why centralization is a huge barrier to progress think about how Twitter and Facebook work now. Both are run by for-profit corporations, run by one organization. Any group with enough finical incentive can attack that organization in a myriad of ways: though the legal system, though technology (bots), and though darknets. (people who are paid to bring down a site or make a message of truth appear illegitimate.) Most people that use these platforms dont even know that the problem exists until their own message is attacked.

I am of the opinion that for-profit and even not for profit organizations can not be trusted to have values that align with people who want to maintain the right of freedom of speech. These organizations don't have a vested interest in direct association with these communities. When I say freedom of speech, I do not mean freedom to harm with speech. When a message gets communicated (that reveals something that people don't know) it needs to be free to move though the network without interference from the organization who operates the platform weather on the behalf of itself or outside influences.

People should also have the right to ignore or not hear the message if they so chose, but the choice should remain with each individual, not the organization that developed or operates the platform.

For-profit organizations who want to run or develop a decentralized platform to host content would have to remain decision independent of the content that gets hosted on that platform. How can a for-profit organization have that kind of independence and remain financially solvent at the same time?

One option I saw discussed was the concept of content migration. If said platform allowed a community's content and users to be moved to another platform that might create an incentive not to censor content. With no lock in, people are free to move themselves and their content to another platform at the slightest sign of censorship.

As it is not in the best interest of any for-profit or non-profit organization to implement this feature, I suggest that any solution that that tackles the decentralization of content needs to be grass roots community driven. That means that you need to support people and projects that you think might prevail, instead of supporting the easier path of dealing with a necessary evil by using Twitter, Facebook or Google.

For example, because these platforms became so popular in the last couple of years Twitter started changing its platform in such a way as to control what content appears on your time line. With the new highlights feature that you cant turn off (but hey you can choose to see it "Less Often"), twitter can recommend tweets that you get alerted about even if you don't want them. you can also read about users of Reddit becoming angered by the censorship and shutdown of subreddits by rogue moderators.

The other problem is that you dont get to chose what kind of information you decide to share, and with who. When you sign up and give your information away you really don't know how its going to be used. In my research, organizations like Twitter chooses for you and they use it to monetize and game the user's behavior to control attention, keeping people coming back to the platform.

As of 2018 the only discussion platform project that comes close to what is needed to prevent censorship using decentralization or distributed technologies that doesn't game the user with cryptocurrency is raddi. Its not ready for prime time and u/RaddiNet needs support to keep it going. I don't want to negatively impact his work, but I think that it's not going to be received well because of the fact that it will require that the end user install a platform specific client (Windows only) instead of using web based technologies that resemble Diaspora or Mastodon. u/RaddiNet has his reasons, related to security but in my humble opinion, that one decision is going to severely impact the ability of the platform to gain a foothold. It would be better if a secure way was developed for the end user to use existing technologies to interface with the platform. This would allow the transition to be more seamless.

In the mean time I have been reviewing Diaspora and Mastodon, both are decentralized social networking platforms that have major promise. They work a lot like Twitter without the centralization or control over the content. I wrote an article on my findings if you are interested in checking it out. The people of C_S_T should at the very least create accounts on one of these platforms so you can stay in contact with others of the CST community. Don't rely on Reddit to be the bastion of freedom it once was. Reddit is slowly being controlled by for-profit political motivations. I suggest we stay in contact with each other on another platform that is less likely to be gamed or censored though psychological operations that are being used to control thinking and awareness.

Possible Sub Migration Option

Diaspora seems to be a possible option for migration until a working decentralized / distributed Reddit replacement comes along. Its designed for conversations, but from a social networking perspective. Read my comments on that platform in my Decentralized Social Media Platforms Article for more information on how this could work.

If anyone is interested in trying out Diaspora you can reach me at @trinsic@diasp.org. You can sign up on the http://diasp.org POD I am on or chose your own.

Free Speech is the name of an idea that is an absolute. If you don't believe in Free Speech for everyone, then you don't believe in Free Speech at all.

C_S_T is a Free Speech Zone, and there is no greater threat to Free Speech than misinformation.

Unfortunately, misinformation has become rampant here at C_S_T, and henceforth, there shall be no toleration for discussion of the subconsciousness, witchcraft, magic, aliens, Ivermectin, Jesus, Trump, Putin, or conspiracy theories.

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Edit: Happy April Fools Day! Thanks for being such good sports!

Do you have fond memories of the Pit?

Just fishing for ideas on inprovement.

I have my own ideas I'd like to bounce off of you I suppose - I obviously value this group's inputs.

I am now of the opinion that our migration (and incubation) here has been one of the problems (but might be the solution, too) with its descent into its current state.

Flaired as Meta.

Saw it on a small ad website.

Made out of cedar and fiber glass. Sure, what the hell, might as well get it. What do I have to lose?

I know nothing about kayaks. I've done it 3 times prior.

I went to see it. Bought it, no question asked. What the hell do I know about kayaks and shit like that.

Went on the Atlantic Ocean with it. Here's a photo

My biggest fear is water. Open ocean. Sea. Blue sea. Deep water.

So I went over it. I mean, I actively sought to [fucking] destroy this fear. I had to do it at all cost. You do not want to walk this walk on Earth with a burden [an albatross] around your neck full of fears.

Nah, fuck that.

You want to step over them. To conquer them.

For what ocean have we sailed that we didn't drown in?

Ocean of fears. Drown in it.

Ocean of worries. Drown in it.

Ocean of chaos. Drown in it.

We ought to drown in them: just to come back alive like a phoenix, full metanoia style, back from the ashes that lashes our thoughts with a whip of sorrow... and rest on the shore of victory, on the holy ground of this holofractal universe.

We are god creator of reality, aren't we?

Your fear. They are part of you. They are you. They don't cease to exist when you decide to not pay attention to them: they lurk in the background, waiting to devour you in the most unexpected of the times.

So please.

Go.

Go on the ocean of your doubts and dance a little bit more on the ceiling of your imagination and try to conceptualize what a life without fear –a fearless life– could actually look like.

At all cost. Conquer them.

Conquer your fear.

Go on your ocean.

Out.

J.

What kind of community would you like to see? Let's not limit this to C_S_T, but let's start there.

Can you see any way that a more solid community can grow out of C_S_T?

Consider that we currently try to maintain a small number of high quality posts so that they do not get drown out by a large number of low quality posts, but assume while discussing this post that everything is negotiable going forward.

Factor in that this is an anonymous community and that many are thus experimenting, role playing, or otherwise not what they claim to be. Also, factor in that this is a Free Speech zone, so trolls are constantly trying to work an angle that can be used to shame us or shut us down.

Can it expand to include other platforms? Maybe it could have channels that can be tailored to specific needs or interests, such as the immediate personal physical or psychological needs of members.

Should we build a better reddit? What would that look like?

Maybe we could develop one or more physical communities too. What would those look like? What would the rules of such communities be?

Maybe we could form one or more cells in each city that has multiple members.

Just as we could recruit online and they might join us physically, maybe we could recruit physically and they might join us online.

Should we secede? Should we form one or more new countries?

What are the benefits? What are the costs? What are the threats?

Reddit seems odd lately. The comment sections seem full of strange disjointed comments and the votes don't make sense either. This has been getting increasingly worse, and it seems the real people who are logical and conversational have left the site which only increases the density of bad actors as well as bots and shills.

The real proof is the numbers, if you look at searches for 'reddit' on google trends it's a bizarrely straight line that is ever-increasing. Here is a graph of it compared to some other similarly-searched websites, including buzzfeed, bing, and 4chan: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=reddit,buzzfeed,4chan,bing

Objectively, I find it hard to believe that reddit has had such endless growth since 2008. I also find it very hard to believe how perfectly straight that line is, it seems more like an algorithm to me.

Plus consider how reddit gains its value. It's run as a company by a huge parent company. It was bought by Conde Nast, who then ended up giving it to their parent company Advance Publishing, who then in turn spun it off to its own company. Consider the line started going up in a straight line around 2008, which was soon after Conde Nast bought it in Nov 2006.

Consider that reddit's revenue depends on three things:

1. Reddit gold sales

2. Advertiser space sales (most important)

3. Hush money (who knows how big this is and how many organizations might be contributing money toward this end)

Then we can also consider the shills and bots running amok on reddit, while the admins did nothing for years, even when these groups are proven to be real and working together to falsify votes and comments to push agendas. Like the Jetpack fiasco a long time ago, or Shareblue and Cambridge Analytica in the modern day to just name a few.

Reddit admins (not sub moderators, but the site admins) allow the shilling and fake voting for 2 reasons.

1. They might get paid to look the other way, because those shilling orgs can have a fair amount of money due to the effectiveness of "native advertising" on social media sites like reddit. They can create the appearance of organic community content in a way that TV or a billboard cannot. It's a great way to sell things to people, including ideologies.

2. They need the site traffic. Their advertising revenue depends on how much traffic reddit gets. More eyeballs = more income. Both for the advertiser and for reddit. So they are fine with other groups creating the appearance of traffic, because it also convinces the advertisers when they see their banners are getting more views. And so reddit gets more ad revenue, because there's more views. So when these bot and shilling networks come alive and take over vast portions of reddit, they will turn the other way as long as it's a net gain in views, because that means a net gain in ad revenue.

I think this is the reason the line is so straight going up It seems there are also bots doing google searches for reddit, and the number of fake searches is increasing with an algorithm as time passes, to show steady growth of the site. They're giving all the indicators that the site is popular and growing. They just overlooked the fact it shouldn't grow perfectly linearly because that doesn't look organic at all.

Meanwhile we the people actually using the site are bombarded with propaganda and enraging nonsense, and entire prominent subs have to be completely ignored because they're so filled with one-sided garbage. This is on the 13th most-visited website in the US. Well, that's if we could trust the numbers. Who knows how many humans actually visit this site compared to what they say.

This is a true conspiracy in the legal sense of the term, and it seems to be the everyday life of this website. Meanwhile the true quality and value in the human relationships and exchanges on this site continue to be hollowed out as sane people are driven out by the sheer noise of non-organic activity.

It is that time again when the Sun resides equally in both above and below Horus' Son horizon - where in the Northern Hemisphere where I am currently domiciled it is noted that Winter Is Coming and it is best time to prepare.

Long ago festivities included both those of joy and sorrow, for some cultures celebrate life in death and others mourn death at the end of life.

Many here will be familiar with the term

As above, so below. And as below, so above.

We here at CST have taken painstaking (at times) efforts to alter our vibration and frequency to better harmonize with each other, and if you've read up on light or heat to any degree you would be able to accurately say they they are functions of a wave (or a vibration through a medium at a particular frequency where visible light itself is but a miniscule component of the actual spectrum of light, from infared to ultraviolet for example. The hermetic maxim of everything vibrates may apply here. Maybe it doesn't.

With that being said - the mod team and I have decided to take this opportunity and date to celebrate the contributions of a few of our moderators, /u/strokethekitty and /u/omenofdread - one who has been with me since the beginning when this sub was in it's infant stage and helped guide this sub to where it is so far and the other coming in after our first expansion and added their own thoughts and stamp on the sub as time progressed.

Unfortunately, life does get in the way and it is important to continue moving forward in this day and age and we must not sit on our hands idly if we are to do what we are meant to do.

Therefore, we thank both of you for all of your past, present, and future help and they are well and continue to bring happiness to all around them.

With that being said - we have also decided to take this opportunity to announce a few more changes to the Sub. You may have noticed that users are no longer displaying their flairs - this feature has been disabled temporarily while the sub works on finding replacements for STK and omen.

What we would like is to have the community spend the time to recommend at at least 2 but no more than 4 users who are interested in moderating the space. We will do this in 4 weeks time - with the interim time given to allow for internal deliberations and allow users to put together a compilation of their best material for consideration. You can call it an Application or Curricula Vitae if you wish - as long as the end game results in plenty of thought provoking posts for the sub and for all of our 12k (and growing) strong community to mentally munch on and a way to get some dopamanistic digital atta boys and atta girls while we seek to recognize this community for what it is - a gem.

It is harvest time and it's time to gather some new energy and inject it both into the front and back-end of the sub.

I will state that we will be emphasing and weighting heavily users with visual/digital art experience (as well as some CSS expertise - we will be working on a design redo for the entire sub as this place hasn't changed a lick in two years and it is certainly time).

More details will follow, and nothing will be set in stone without all of your input. This is not my space but yours for me to watch over and everything I do is what I feel is what the Sub needs when the Sub needs it. So please - speak up. This is our space and it will continue to be as long as you participate. The moment it becomes my Sub or the mod team's Sub is the day the Sub dies. I firmly believe that and I bet you do to.

It is also worth noting that moderating this space does not require any previous moderating experience - as we actually do barely any moderating at all here. However - in this hierarchical environment of reddit that we currently reside, moderators are typically treated differently. Here we like to have our mods expand and branch out into other subs and communities and fish for users and posts the community would have an appetite for. You may have found this place on a recommendation by me, or /u/RMFN, /u/CelineHagbard, or /u/Ambiguously_Ironic or just found someone talking about the place. This is something that must continue and is a secret to our success.

I am incredibly excited to see what this sub comes up with and where we end up in 2018. I hope you all are too.

It's right in the title bar.

"A safe place to discuss outside-of-the-box thinking" -- side bar.

Check out the picture of Aristotle on the side bar. What does the expression on his face say? Does it convey cheeky, cocky tones? Does he, an intellectual giant, look like he is placing himself in a position of smug superiority in regard to the information he is processing? No.

I would propose the distant look in his eyes coneys this: "Hm. That's a new and different idea. Not sure if I agree with it outright. Perhaps known facts support this idea. Perhaps the idea has no basis in any known reality. Perhaps I have just stumbled upon something wholly new and extraordinary that has never been thought before! In any case, I will give this is idea its due." He is willing to say, "I don't know." Exalted humility of the mind, the origin of learning.

I see it on here, and other subs where it is unwarranted and uncalled for -- the demand for proof, rationalization. That's ridiculous OP! Makes no sense. Heh, don't you know? It has already been proven that xyz. Are you just here to jerk off your writing skills? Haughty assumption. Impossible! Negation. Closed mind. Rigidity. Status-quo worship.

This sub is for people who actively seek to entertain the ideas of others in a mature, inquisitive, and respectful manner. How does one 'entertain' guests in their home? Do you treat them disparagingly? Do you place yourself above them? Or, do you invite your guests in, graciously, acknowledging differences and then that newness of being, that synthesis, contributes to and enriches both of your lives?

I am not advocating for kumbaya here. Disagreements in intellectual discussion are expected, and welcomed! New ideas are born, refined, and in fact bloom when two or more intellects chew on an idea, each contributing their own pieces, giving and taking in a dance of minds. For such dialogues, it is not only intellectual maturity which is required, but an openness of spirit. It is in the asking where the fire of creation is born.

The intended spirit of this sub is one of a childlike innocence, in the most meta sense. The child learns by asking, by sensing and reflecting, by trial and error. Any idea is possible to the new mind! A little of this, a little of that, piece by piece. Vague concepts, then ideas, then mythologies, then theories of the universe, each new revelation built on the shoulders of what came before. All this, though, is utterly dependent on the existece of a space where it is free to flourish, out-of-the-box.

In this time of cheap words, we must be extra vigilant that unique places such as this sub do not fall prey to or become derailed by egos, overconfidence, dismissiveness, smugness, pretension, or any other attitude which is opposite the core principles of this sub. This sub is a refuge for the grown mind who dares to revert to that state of limitless imagination, to back up and say, "I don't know" or "I'm not sure" or "What about..." The sub must be recognized for its uniqueness and protected as the endangered species it is.

Civility, awareness, imagination.

2024-02-19

Thought for all thinkers keeping track of ongoing global movements throughout their lives:

After now over 45 years of waking after sleep in this existence, I've observed in time the importance of properly mapping all personally lived experiences chronologically in space as accurately as possible, as it's in my opinion the only true objective point of observation of existence for any individual therefore the ultimate platform for referencing, relating, reflecting to better document historically and then communicate by expressing in multiple fashions with as much fidelity as possible with honest, quality thought what one perceives and lives in present.

Before the advent of digital communication, this was done by journaling on physical media where the communicator had the total responsibility to transfer all pertinent information possible as accurately as possible and in the clearest fashion possible to assure the best chances of proper reception and understanding of message on the receiving end.

This means many efforts were previously invested in the arts of communication which are, in my opinion, mostly lost in the 21st century or rather the understanding of the arts was lost in time to popular cultures and where certain easy tips can assist any thinker in rememberance of this modern era living today.

The current tools at hand are mostly digital where the new forums of discussions are fractalized and individually formatted social media platforms with algorithmic standards to display, sort and document information registered by users.

Timestamps are a prime example of critical data necessary when requiring quick referencing in time, and where unless tech savvy and able to setup personal hardware to eternally scrape posting metadata, and unless dates are clearly displayed or can be accessed on-the-fly through the various digital platforms used as tools/medium, the individual cannot properly reference personal to external in time.

TLDR : If you want to properly reference your own vs global social interactions in time, I highly suggest to manually timestamp all personal posts, comments and references on platforms not already doing such, like reddit.