posted October 14, 2020 12:36 PM            

Definitely enjoying not being on there. There are two fairly universal spiritual teachings out there which are connected to each other. There is the deeper, metaphysical law that applies to all dimensions/levels that a number of religions and beliefs reference to, and which can be summed up in, "Like attracts, begets, resonates with, and likes Like". Then there is the corollary teaching, that the source/origin of something tends to have a continued influence/vibration in that pattern.

I.e. summed up in "good fruit cannot come from a twisted, sick tree", nor does "bad fruit come from a healthy, strong tree".

In other words, we have to look to Mark Zuckerberg and his energy/essence, and how that affects FB since he was so instrumental/involved in creating same.

This is the guy who back in school was caught saying things like to a friend when the friend expressed surprise that people were sharing personal information with him, "They 'trust me'." "Dumb F#cks." Probably likely said with a hint or more of duper's delight type smirk.

I do not good vibes from him whatsoever. Definitely very low on conscience, empathy, and attunement to Love on the consciousness spectrum.

Is it any wonder then that FB tends to foster/facilitate a kind of narcissism, as well as interpersonal strife? (Not to say that debate, disagreement, or even fighting is always limiting or wrong--sometimes it's helpful.)

posted October 16, 2020 06:18 PM            

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Originally posted by MoonMystic:
I completely deleted the big ones. Other than small grps I am disconnected. Have to say it is both good and bad. In the end my forum activity is about all there is to me.
I don't or didn't Instagram. I'm not even on Pinterest any longer. This is why I've haunted the LL forums. My brain still enjoys stimuli - not drama.

I'm at a place atp with the tr mercury in my 12th, of focusing on my lifetime lessons that I have learned. Going inward and being selective of where I gravitate.

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posted October 22, 2020 02:57 AM            

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Originally posted by Travelman:

How negative, or positive fbook (or anything for that matter) something is, is totally dependent on how you decide to use it...

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This is one of those yes and no's. Everything has it's own vibratory pattern, which is either slow vibratory, middle vibratory, or fast vibratory. The faster the vibration, the more positive and attuned to pure Love it becomes. Conversely, the more slow vibratory, the more entropy, chaotic, more negative, and/or lacking in attunement to Love something becomes.

Take Ouija board for example. Just a game yeah? Yes, and yet, MANY people have reported attracting rather slow vibratory type nonphysicals. The kind that like to mess with people. Former psychopaths and malignant narcissists when they were in the body (still are, and may be worse than when they were in the body).

Could a fast vibratory person, with positive intentions use it to communicate with a fast vibratory consciousness? Yes, probably technically. But what is the trend and pattern? What is the energy and vibration of Ouija? It's slow vibratory.

It's slow vibratory because it's a shallow game that touches on spirituality in a very shallow and limited manner, and so many people have used it in such a lacking in reverence, lacking in deeper understanding, kind of flippant way and non spiritually attuned way. Over time, it's built up it's own connected vibratory pattern, which we could call the "spirit of Ouija". A collective energy/vibratory field, and one that tends towards distortion, limitation, slow vibrations, and manifests this as often attracting ignorant or meddling, negative, deceptive, ill intentioned nonphysicals.

Likewise does Facebook have a slow vibratory pattern attached to same, because of it's origins and how MOST use it. Can you bypass that, yes, technically, but first you have to be conscious of that potential influence to begin with, and you have to consciously use it in a faster vibratory manner.

Some do, many do not. Its vibratory field does have an influence and subtle effect, whether one is conscious to this or not. Even if it's just peoples addictions to that dopamine hit of, "people are liking my comment" or the like. Sensitives will be more so aware of these deeper, more subtle patterns. Most others not so much.

Reality is more shades of gray than stark black and white.

There are some psychologically trained and astute people out there that have come to the conclusion that much of social media, rather than being a unifying medium and tool, is actually one that facilitates much of the polarization and divisiveness between people that we are seeing more and more of. Especially politically, and especially left vs right stuff. These sides can barely even have a civil conversation anymore, without it denigrating to personal insults, name calling, belittling. At least in America, people are more polarized than they ever have been, and pundits say that social media and the forces behind same, are a big part of that.

posted October 22, 2020 12:30 PM            

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Originally posted by Travelman:
How negative, or positive fbook (or anything for that matter) something is, is totally dependent on how you decide to use it...

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Strongly disagree in this case. The way it's deliberately set up is to be more negative than positive, it has deliberately caused evil across this planet while also enabling others to do so, deliberately subverted democracy and done more to harm democratic movements around the world than to help them, and enabled bullying on a scale that is incredible, and caused a spike in suicides to those who took part in it, and not even getting off social media completely (sometimes not even dying) stopped the hatred that spilled over into real life. It's good and good potential is nowhere near it's harm.

posted October 22, 2020 01:36 PM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
Strongly disagree in this case. The way it's deliberately set up is to be more negative than positive, it has deliberately caused evil across this planet while also enabling others to do so, deliberately subverted democracy and done more to harm democratic movements around the world than to help them, and enabled bullying on a scale that is incredible, and caused a spike in suicides to those who took part in it, and not even getting off social media completely (sometimes not even dying) stopped the hatred that spilled over into real life. It's good and good potential is nowhere near it's harm.

And I'm not even including all the shady stuff FB and similar sites do that shouldn't be legal, but is and will be for the foreseeable future. But I should, because even though it's not immediately noticed, it does come to bite them later, and that they can't detect their social media's account being how they were gotten only makes it more insidious.

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Yep, and the above is not even mentioning FB's connection to the intelligence agencies like CIA and NSA and how it is very much part of their whole spy on all citizens programs.

However, the whole "Russia" is messing with our election stuff via FB and the like, is way, way overblown. Opinion pieces and propaganda on all sides has and always will abound. It's up to us to develop our critical thinking skills and become self realized, independent people.

It's funny how America always needs a boogeyman and enemy to fight, and if it's not one thing, then it's another. In many cases, they take a partial truth and blow it up to such an exaggerated proportion that it may as well be a tragicomedy skit than something believable or realistic to those with their eyes (and especially 3rd eye) open.

And Russia is not some sort of super evil country bent on world domination. They just want to be sovereign and independent from global forces/pressures and are tired of all the unjust US led sanctions etc put on them to make them cow tow to the above forces. And if they are trying to influence American politics towards the lessening of those pressures, who the bleep can blame them?

Seriously, when the biggest bully of the school yard is twisting your arm and taking your lunch money daily, you mean to tell me that you're not going to go around and try to find some way out of that? Doing so by writing is far, far better than the CIA literally going into other countries and assassinating democratically elected leaders, installing puppet leaders, outright bribing, and all the super f'upd shite we've been doing since the 50's to various nations around the world. Not to mention all the unjustified/unjust wars on and invasions of aggression in other nations.

It's funny, but years ago, liberals/Democrats/progressives would have been some of the first people to point this out. But now we live in this weird upside down world of such extreme polarization and kneejerk reactions. And Democrats like Hillary Clinton are the new Neocons who beat the war drums and demonize this or that country for it's misdeeds.

(I'm not right/republican/conservative btw. I don't buy into any of this contrived, WWE match, political party line bullshite. I say, we need to tear it ALL down).

posted October 22, 2020 01:49 PM            

I'm talking algorithms that deliberately set up people in "bubbles" which determines what news they get (even if it's some underage teenager in Greece writing fake news which FB then sends to those it detects as wanting to believe that) in addition to all sorts of urban legends that Snopes and PolitiFact would explain (with sources) why it's not true, but I constantly hear people talking about, and it affects how they vote (even when people don't buy into it, the constant repetition has an effect), BS the vast majority get through Facebook, Twitter, and the like (and plenty of individuals using it also pollute it with more lies and propaganda of their own making).

On top of the damage that does by itself, it also makes it almost impossible to have a reasonable discussion with people from another bubble because they're operating with completely different assumptions that they mistake for objective reality, and because they're mostly stuck in the bubble they're assigned for maximum revenues (and even the flame wars are engineered for more ad revenue) further divides us as a nation as we're deliberately being made scared and angry for more ad revenue with conflicting narratives that we assume everyone else is getting rather than what we as individuals are being singled out for (and the US isn't the only one suffering this effect, nor is it just US companies exploiting FB and the like for politics and other nefarious purposes). Put in a very simple metaphor, it's like they reinforce that the sky is green to one bubble, and red to another, and then try to get them both mad at the other bubble for believing what they do, and it all spreads over FB (what makes people angry is the most likely to be shared) which generates more ad revenue, in addition to other agendas. And that's the simplified version of what I mean.

Also, shame itself (along with self-righteous outrage) has become another commodity which to market from, and social media has deliberately set their algorithms to spread misery this way for profit as well.