INNOCENT
who believes Russell ?
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russell is on the right side of history
By declaring him innocent, the comments defending him are doing the exact same thing as the ones who have declared him guilty. Why don't we just wait and see what comes out of this before we decide?
shareI don't know him or pay attention to him. I've never been a fan and I'm sick of seeing his face. Thank you AdBlock Plus for the block element feature!
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out though. Everyday someone new is being accused. I honestly don't know what to think but then I don't know these people personally.
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"..who believes Russell?"
I don't practice 'believing' - I have no beliefs, I don't believe anything or in anything. Why would anyone, what good would that do?
I have plenty of 'I am sure', lots of 'taking as a possibility until I find out more', 'maybes', 'probablys' (probablies?), I have knowledge, understanding, opinions, viewpoints. I have faith, trust, loyalty, honesty. Why would I need 'belief'/'believing'?
About Russell himself.. he's a very interesting phenomenon, almost an anomaly in the system.
He seems very honest while at the same time appearing slightly 'sneaky' somehow. There has always been something about him that rubs me the wrong way. He has said a lot of 'the right things', and seems to be telling the truth to the system that benefits from keeping that truth hidden. He labels himself a 'spiritual' individual, has admitted honestly having been a drug addict, sex addict and all kinds of crazy and wild things that lead to self-destructive behaviour.
Then he has talked about 'aligning' the destructive thoughts with 'spiritual' thoughts, and then they somehow become 'one'. He explained that this simply means 'destroying your own ego' or something like that, which doesn't sound quite right to me, but OK.
However, he has put enormous effort in growing his youtube channel, e-begging for likes and subscriptions, advertising on his channel and so on. Would a spiritual entity do these things?
He also always HAS to mention how many subscribers he has - it's hard for me to envision some enlightened Zen master doing this. He used to call his subscribers all kinds of fancy names, then he settled on 'awakening wonders' - it's almost funny, how in his last videos (after the accusations), he stopped mentioning the number of subscribers, but can't let go of his 'masterful trope' of 'awakening wonders' (as in he's already awakened, you are not) any more than Ryan George can stop saying 'Easy, barely an inconvenience'.
A lot of his stuff comes off as highly egotistical, and it's almost repulsive at times. He does interview a lot of people from all kinds of places, mindsets and so on, but he doesn't seem to have a coherent worldview. He seems to have advocated drug usage, as long as those drugs are 'psychedelics', although he mentions how he can't take drugs anymore for some reason.
I never quite liked his way of speaking, his voice, mannerisms, or childish humor for the most part, but sometimes he hits the nail in the head and makes me laugh by using humor to point out just how absurd some corporation's message or actions are, or how the government has made really odd decisions that have lead to catastrophies, etc.
I would like to like him, but something always rubs me the wrong way, and I don't quite know what it is. I have noticed his 'conspiracy knowledge' doesn't reach all that deep, it doesn't quite gel with what I know about the world and the Universe, and leans way too much towards believing all the 'official stories', except when he's specifically targeting one that seems shaky.
He doesn't seem to have any qualms about the normalization of standing armies, sending people not to just die in useless wars, but to murder each other. I bet he wouldn't mind respecting a murderer who has drone-striked children or sniped innocent people from a couple of kilometers away (or what the celebrated record was, disgusting!).
So from my point of view, he has many good and many very peculiar and bad points, his 'spirituality', such as it is, seems to stem more from the fact that he did lots of drugs back in the day and then lived in such a destructive turmoil, some kind of counterbalance had to happen eventually.
Whenever I compare what a 'spiritual master' would do, to what he's doing, he comes off more as a bit of a chameleon that right now wears a 'spiritual guise' or even 'dis-guise' on top of what is at the core just a 'political commentator' that does tell people the truth..
I have watched many of his videos, and it's remarkable how much he has changed inbetween them. In his older videos, he has very LOW energy, very quiet voice and he looks tired and worn-out, not to mention 'unsure'. He also speaks about very different matters in a very different way, as if trying to throw stuff into the wall and seeing what sticks.
If you watch an old video, where he speaks slower, with lower volume, less energy and so on, trying to explain something that sounds very strange and might not fully make sense, and then watch a newer video, that opens with him basically SHOUTING to the cameras with BIG HAND MOVEMENTS (he must be a Mac user) with high energy and enthusiasm, you have to wonder, did he change his medication or start drinking coffee or what..?
It's almost like a duality in personality.. one is 'mellow', 'meditative', everything you'd expect a 'spiritual guru' to be when it comes to self-expression, the other is just a 'wacky political commentator' that screams and yells with big hand movements, as if we can't hear him unless he puts some kind of crazy energy into his show.
One of these 'personalities' must be a bit 'fake', because they're almost like two completely different people.
To me, he's a bit like a vegan that still eats at MacDonald's, and sees nothing wrong with it. You can't be spiritual and then e-beg your audience for more and more subs, likes, etc. as if nothing is ever enough. Doesn't he have enough money by now? Why not preach something like 'I have enough money now, and money can't bring happiness, so subs, likes, etc. do not matter, only this core truth about life matters - instead of subbing, go walk in some beautiful forest'?
His values seem to align a bit too perfectly with the greed of modern capitalism, that it's sometimes hard to take him seriously, when he preaches the stuff about corporate greed and rich people making billions out of 'ordinary people''s misery.
Him calling people 'ordinary' also bugs me - who is he to tell who is 'ordinary' and who isn't? Aren't we all 'extraordinary', considering we're multidimensional cosmic beings created by the greatest force in all existence?
I mean, how can he call people 'wonders' while at the same time, labeling them 'ordinary'? Why 'ORDINARY' of all things?
I realize language sometimes makes us say things we don't exactly mean, because there are established lingo and sometimes a frustrating lack of proper terminology and words, but something just always rubs me the wrong way about him and how he talks about people.
To me, he seems to be a relatively 'young soul' (so to say), that simply went through a lot of drugs that opened his chakras and mind to experiences that are meant to happen and open up much later in one's spiritual life. If your spirituality comes from drugs forcefully expanding your mind, instead your actual old age and due diligence when it comes to understanding reality and doing your spiritual training without such things, trusting the Creator to open and expand your mind when you are ready, one could say there's something a little off.
It's like a prodigy kid can understand things his peers can't, but then he goes to lecture adults about things his child-mind isn't quite ready to grasp or understand implications and larger concepts of, and then people praising the prodigy for telling the truth. Sure, he may be prodigy among kids, but he's not going to outsmart some quantum physicist that has studied and practiced his field for 25 years and has a vast knowledge and experience about it.
That's the kind of feeling I get from him - I commend him on being vegan/vegetarian, but I scold him for wearing skin jacket in one of his videos. It's neither congruent, nor ethical, and a spiritual being doesn't do unethical things.
Drug users are like joggers who take shortcuts and then think they're just as good as the 'second best', who only lost because they didn't.
As far as the allegations and accusations, it's VERY easy to allege or accuse. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience.
This means, any allegation or accusation should absolutely be BACKED UP by very good evidence, something solid and valuable in a courtroom situation. Otherwise it's just flabbing your lips or fingers, and means nothing.
There are so many fishy things about all of this. If he did do the R-thing back decades ago, why wasn't he arrested, judged and convicted right then and there? Why didn't these women go to the police RIGHT AWAY? Why did they wait for decades for the 'right moment'? This is extremely fishy.
Why isn't he arrested by the police, taken to be judged by his peers and proven guilty and then taken to jail? Isn't THIS what's supposed to happen to a (even an alleged) criminal, not some 'demonetization'? Trial by media, but the justice system won't touch him? These are SERIOUS allegations, shouldn't every serious allegation be investigated thoroughly and go through the justice system? Why won't police do anything, but governments send letters to corporations so he loses the ability to make money?
Very, very fishy.
I mean, he was a drug addict, and drug addicts and alcoholics are known for 'blackouts', or 'being blackout drunk'. This means, he can't even himself fully KNOW whether he did or didn't do a specific thing 20 years ago or so. This means, something like this is at least possible.
He also admits to having been a 'sex addict', and promiscuous back then, so this combined with drug addiction and possible 'blackouts' does point to possibilities.
As a counterpoint, someone that's in 'blackout drunk' state, can't probably even walk straight or think coherently. This means, they would be extremely easy to avoid or 'counter'.
Then there's the whole 'every study says women are stronger'. How can a weak man force a stronger woman to do anything against their will? Who says the women didn't R-word him? Gender = social construct!
As I mentioned earlier, this entity is very peculiar and absolutely 'anomalous', from the perspective of the system, but also from the perspective of people.
Still, it's not a crime to be an 'anomaly'.
The MOST fishy thing, though, is that all kinds of convicts, criminals, ex-criminals and such still operate in these platforms, completely monetized. I won't point my finger on who, but just to mention someone I can't bring myself to respect except as a created cosmic spark akin to us all, a lost soul who is drowning herself in money and fame and vulgarity, after even admitting to drugging men so she can rob them... no problem for these platforms to keep that entity monetized.
As long as you go with the flow the system has set up for you, spout the right lines and lie in a very specific way, and help the governments and corporatiosn corrupt innocent people in a specific way, you will be monetized.
You can do things to people against and without their consent and rob them, and keep being monetized.
You CAN'T tell the truth about corporations, power structures, things that affect people's lives, or you will be demonetized for something you ALLEGEDLY did 20 years ago!
I mean, if these entities were at least honest and say you are demonetized for speaking the truth about Pfizer, but they won't do that, which already proves something in my opinion.
Of course if they DID do that, all hell would break loose, as then everyone would KNOW we live under an oligarchy of powerful families that worship moloch and throws everyone under the bus that gets in their way, with NO justice or fairness for anyone, if they get out of 'line'..
Then we'd truly and officially live under an oppressive regime - right now we only do that in practical reality, while pretending we live in some kind of 'democracy' where everyone is 'free'.. it's a sad facade, but as long as masses are idiots and corporations and governments are staffed with evil people, we won't be free.