How Openmindedness Works
By Leo Gura - April 27, 2020 | 19 Comments
Exercises to open your mind
Jim Feiling says: “as right as i am” id rather be happy and safe
Joel says: I am going to be open minded about the possibility that Donald Trump is actually a brilliant intellectual who will successfully lead us out of the pandemic. And now I am going to be open minded about the possibility that I am not terribly smart.
Nandhini says: I consider myself a total newbie in spirituality, only read a few books from Leo’s book list and did not watch all video’s yet, but the 5 to 10 most recent video’s make more sense to me than the earlier ones…
Did he change something in the way he teaches or did I happen to pick the right books? Love your work, Leo!
got lost by being surrounded by adults pushing her accidentally He ask her to hold his hand to not separate He rejects her easy help to win small animal for girlfriend wins on first try Says keep it to celebrate her cheering for boyfriend She said he is cool girl He got drink for her to enjoy not worry about costs or how much Only he saw missing animal after they separate to protect date walks her home
Girl magnet He attracted all girls but Hanabi and Yui A old woman called him Cool
Takao recalled her first kiss apologised for ruining her dream said he wants to do her ideal kiss during their holiday date theme park pulled to a wall or not perfect.
Single girl seeks popular man only wanted to kiss a popular male idol with cool looking eyes before the most popular cool looking boy in he class took her first kiss.After he always tried to tease her again she took offence and danced in front of him before falling(for him?)in front of him he laughed blushed at her reaction
he was the first to kiss her lips knew she saved it for her male idol he knew her first kiss is important to her because he heard her say be kissed by one male idol
pulled to a wall look at his cool looking eyes.Jealous of her male idol he distract her from thinking of her ideal first kiss with him by
why she said a male idol taking her first kiss before saying she will plan to meet him closed eyes dreaming of feeling his lips on hers called her a typical girl to hide how jealous he is of her being excited to kiss a idol
her important first kiss can never be shared with a boy anymore he gave her his first kiss because he was serious about her at their start
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Adorably precocious child Takao is mature for being trusted to be alone with his 12 year old girlfriend in Japan.He laughed at her plan to kiss a popular male idol. loves a hard working bright cheerful cute precious childish 12 year old girl Ayase
arigatou for having black hair indigo eyes short spiky hair one cool yet hot voiceAs
a hardworking boyfriend you gave her a necklace to claim her as your girlfriend and never let her go out of your life love her forever claim her virginity all of your sperm!through her vagina in the eggs in her stomach make her pregnant U never
let other men touch her vagina with their penises You don’t want sperm duel ever!
Wants to Be Chased by his girlfriend only Patient Childhood Love Interest to Ayase
Prince Charming Wannabe to her Peerless Love Interest to her Rejection Affection
Cocoa is Self-Proclaimed Love Interest Unlucky Childhood Friend
Rumiko Takahashi should ask for more traditional RANMA anime again of ALL the
MANGA STORIES POSSIBLE BETWEEN 2020 and 2099
Sven says: When you say Anti Vaxxers are closed minded people, aren t you yourself closing your mind to the possibility that there could be some truth to their stance on the issue? Or do you mean to say that simply adopting a rigid belief on vaccination, on either side of the argument without looking too much into it, is an act of closed mindedness?
Maxiwrong says: I consider myself absolutely disgusted at life, I would’ve thought it was the food, I thought wrong, it’s the terrifying shit things from people that make me sick, that brain medicine and its treatment is utterly disgusting, I’m always sick in the stomach, psychiatrists couldn’t care less that this disgusts me, people are mean, they think the cruelty and sacrifices are good and that it’s good to do that, I’m not going to see this shit in orange-tinted glasses, I’m going to see this as a fucking waste of time, me having to be careful? No, I’m good according to Leo, that means I can be mean to people and disgusted at them because I have empathy and helping people out, that’s not a moral flaw, it’s nice to do that as long as most people like it, and to be open-minded to new, terrifying ideas, bring it on, there’s so much terror in the world that it’s not painful anymore, why should it be? Be disgusting all you want, I don’t recall being a single hint of evil.
Maxiwrong says: What I’m open-minded to is even more open-minded than anything taught, I open my mind to the endless possibilities of a smartphone, and that my beliefs are true and everything else is false, I’m just an ordinary man, I’m not avant-garde, and the possibility of the truth is that my beliefs are true and everything else is false, the reason history was at war with believers is precisely because people challenged existing beliefs, therefore I’m open to the fact that extreme openmindedness might get you hanged, history proves this and it proves the wisdom of traditionalism. What I already thought is the truth, truth’s what I think, it’s to me only the beliefs of Kierkegaard’s aesthetic life, lepidopterology, botany, light in the darkness, my morals, and triskaidekaphobia, and that’s it, everything else is evil, causes trouble.
Maxiwrong says: I’m also a traditionalist, it turns out my convictions have always been what’s pessimistic in various branches, light in the darkness, and lepidopterology, that’s all I have conviction in when it should just be Kierkegaardian, lepidopterology, traditionalism, light in the darkness, and botany, just five beliefs and no morals, to turn those into convictions, pretender as I may be it’s Leo’s definition of looking into beliefs and picking which beliefs you think are the right ones, having exactly these five beliefs and open to accepting avant-garde ideas and knowing reality’s not limited to just your rational, possible ideas is extremely openminded to the point that you think founders of what you believe in or even your invention of a new belief might be telling the truth, when Leo’s closed to the non-fact that beliefs can’t possibly be true, that respect for tradition’s not accurate, he’s not open to that, nor open to old ideas and old beliefs, and not open to homeostasis, what if the avant-garde are wrong? Open up to that possibility!
Maxiwrong says: Reality has amazing possibilities, even to impossible extremes, but to not set a limit on what yourself can do is living in fantasy, you can do what you want with no limit, but if nothing is impossible how come I can’t force someone to squeeze a bottle by touching their hands to bother to squeeze it? These confident people think you automatically have no inabilities and no disabilities, but what about being so radically openminded as to think your inabilities exist, that you can’t do some things, more so than what people think you can’t do, in which case, you can, but if you’re closed to the delusion that success equals being completely without an inability, you’re fooling yourself, why do you think there are people with disabilities, that’s dis and ability meaning not ability, I’m open to the view that you have inabilities like everyone else, when Leo closes his mind to possibility only, and no, it’s not beautiful, it’s not perfect, believing that it’s infinitely possible will put you on harsh meds for the rest of your life, as radical openmindedness can include the possibility that doctors can do that and make you wring their necks, and the possibility that you’re on their drugs and there’s nothing you can do about it, the evil a doctor can do is beyond your limited view of evil, but evil can if not extremely evil, go to such an extreme as to smash all your hopes, dreams and beliefs to pieces and turn you into a pessimist, I’m open to the fact real life can do that.