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  2. I’m guessing that plumbers know shit pretty well
  3. Does anyone else think better call Saul is better?
  4. Honestly, I feel stupid for being so pig headed - but I hate the name of it also 😭

  5. A Syrian story in progress

    integration journey replied to integration journey's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    This guy is young but his style is similar to someone who watches actualized
  6. Today
  7. What field?
  8. Pluribus is a terrible name for a show. Makes me not want to even try it.
  9. Moving back three posts: Transgenderism is a pivotal step in our biological and meta-cultural evolution, commencing with first recognition of non-heterosexual dimorphisms now meeting with the dematerialisation of the limits of what makes us human altogether. For those more interested in this latter work one branch I have is Michael Levin’s work on bioelectricity, morphogenesis, body plasticity, and aging as loss of morphostatic information, especially: The Bioelectric Code: An Ancient Computational Medium for Dynamic Control of Growth and Form (2018) Bioelectrical Controls of Morphogenesis: From Ancient Mechanisms of Cell Coordination to Biomedical Opportunities (2019) Life, Death, and Self: Fundamental Questions of Primitive Cognition Viewed Through the Lens of Body Plasticity and Synthetic Organisms (2021) Aging as a Loss of Morphostatic Information: A Developmental Bioelectricity Perspective (2024), which connects to anti-ageing to transforming the human form. Transgenders have provided us with a pivotal cultural and biological case study on the impacts of transiionng and how to reach stability to both ends, thereby making it more acceptable concerning future transformations as those abilities open up to us through scientific breakthroughs. I suggest you start thinking of transgenders as a social experiment as it likely in part has been, in part, for this purpose. Beneath the picture further below, now becoming a meme ?, reflect the biological difficulties we have been confronted with transitions. Overcoming them creates precedence for future mapping of alternate biological transformations. With all of this in mind, please remember to treat people transitioning or have transitioned with respect. While at the same time, people that are transitioning or are thinking about doing so need to remember to keep this larger context in mind, realising that the cultural picture here is changing rapidly over the next ten years and in doing so, becoming a meme is both a potential consequence and a necessary deterrent towards underestimating medical impacts on ones psychology. It is difficult to see that these intersecting negative impacts are what I would call "nested gross negligence" (and theres many examples of this throughout Western culture) that is to say that when you cut one hydra head off you find another and when you get another, you find another after others have grown back. Enough to say that becoming a meme, is also an act of love because as much as transgenderism is paving away, youre a fire-fighter running into a burning building for a child that isnt even there. Take a step back, reflect, wait ten years, we are going to see far more than mere transgenderism at the very least at the edge of those ten years. Youre no longer needed as a guinea pig (and i apologise thats what u unknowingly stepped into!, you sincerely deserve better but some parts of u should have known better). Keep your dignity and add to it now, dont expect to get upgrades to it after transitioning and for those that already have, catch the smoke before going into a burning building, that after the ashes have come and gone will be turned into a wall-mart of transitions one can choose from. Personally, the Axolotl is a pretty darn cool species, so I wouldnt mind having its actual biological look not judt its ability to grow back limbs, like its got this cool hair do that i think i even already kinda have. Axolotl by the way overlaps with Levin's work that I wont spoil insight on. And isnt my hydra analogy just the perfect coincidence when Axolotl is our little cool pioneer. These are only references tied to negative psychological / mood-related effects, pshchological health improvement counteractive measures are excluded has not surpassed experimental examination: European Medicines Agency (EMA). Measures to minimise risk of suicidal thoughts with finasteride and dutasteride medicines. 8 May 2025. Negative effect referenced: suicidal ideation with finasteride tablets. LUPRON DEPOT / leuprolide prescribing information (FDA/AbbVie). Negative effects referenced: new or worsened psychiatric symptoms, including emotional lability, crying, irritability, impatience, anger, aggression, depression, and in some labeling suicidal ideation. UCSF Transgender Care. Information on Estrogen Hormone Therapy. Negative effects referenced: estrogen injections causing mood swings and anxiety from high/fluctuating estrogen levels. UCSF Transgender Care. Overview of feminizing hormone therapy. Negative effects referenced: cyclic injectable estrogen levels potentially worsening existing mood symptoms. Cheung AS, Wynne K, Erasmus J, Murray S, Zajac JD. Position statement on the hormonal management of adult transgender and gender diverse individuals. Medical Journal of Australia / AUSPATH-linked guidance. Negative effect referenced: cyproterone acetate may lower mood or exacerbate depression. Morssinkhof MWL, van der Miesen AIR, van Trotsenburg MAA, et al. Changes in depression symptom profile with gender-affirming hormone use in transgender persons. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2024. Negative effect referenced: some depressive symptom worsening in a transfeminine subgroup/symptom profile analysis. Chang JJ, Safer JD, et al. Progestogen Experience Among Transgender Women and Gender-Diverse Individuals on Feminizing Hormone Therapy. Endocrine Practice. 2025. Negative effect referenced: mood fluctuation reported with progestogen use. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry case report. Manic and Psychotic Symptoms Following Subcutaneous Leuprolide in a Male Patient With No Prior Psychiatric History. 2010. Negative effects referenced: mania / psychotic symptoms after leuprolide in a case report; also notes package-insert listing of anxiety, depression, delusions. FDA/AbbVie Fensolvi / leuprolide acetate safety information. Negative effects referenced: worsening psychiatric symptoms, emotional lability, crying, irritability, impatience, anger, aggression. Best wishes to District Attorney Rob Hopkins (pictured above), I sincerely hope he recovers fully in his journey, aligning more with his communication responsibilities and respect for other personnel in the legal profession.
  10. Yeah because the whole framework in which pickup is built is toxic. There are important teachings behind it. But the why is fucked up. A lot of my pickup buddies care about lays per year. There is one guy I know who has fucked 800 girls, but never had a girlfriend. Thats what doesn't hold. Toxic stage orange and a bit of red. Why do you get into pickup? That is a question you should ask. For me it is this now. It helps you attract women, which in turn develops key skills that are helpful for you as a man. Also, you attract women to find a women that is aligned with your values, your lifestyle, and that you can grow with. This is way more beautiful then sleeping with endless women. I made the same mistake, letting go of a girl because my mind was inundated with these toxic pickup philosophies. Take the good stuff, leave the bad.
  11. Name just makes me think of Plumbus. I can't ever get it out of my head.
  12. I'm hyped for the show but it will probably be a toxic relationship if it's anything like the "LOTR The Rings Of Power". 😢😢😢
  13. Hi Leo, thank you for your series. I am about half way through this last episode. This series has helped me realized something very important about my psychology which is as follows: I'm in the pre-rational stage of development because I don't question deeply perspectives and just go with gut feeling. Also I just don't contemplate deeply anything I learn really. At the same time thanks to putting myself through world class education my entire life, in and outside of academic setting I have a good "gut feeling" when a perspective is correct and where it falls apart. Also I have a very solid epistemic foundation, but this is different from rationality put in practice. I believe I am advanced in my understanding in some ways and areas and completely not in others. Can such a thing be possible? Your series has made me realise I have to "stop, and think it through" with any content I consume and not just go with my gut feeling only. *It's funny because I can understand everything that was said in this series and in a way be operating from this level by default but have skipped the previous developmental stage which is rationality entirely! There is a big difference beetween understanding and knowing all these advanced concepts and ideas of Actualized.org and using your mind properly. They are two different things. As an example let's take Bryan Johnson. According to the latest science everything or most of what Bryan does is correct for longevity. I have spent years researching longevity and what Bryan does in his life is just what the experts say and in line with what I've spent years learning in this space. So before I would've just left it at that, ok, thank you sir you're doing a great job and helping lots of people. Now you got me thinking when looking at Bryan: What is science? Is science even real? Is taking a gene therapy safe? How do I know? Have I done the experiment? On and on and on...I mean yeah the gist of it is yes, he's probably doing the right stuff for the most part, but it's not a question of blindly believing Bryan or the science behind it, but of questioning the things he does independently for myself. Something along those lines anyways....

  14. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Joseph Maynor replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I watched it. I'll watch the first 2 again. I see reason as more of a middle ground between sense experience and intuition. This is Spinoza's epistemology. Reason can correct for but not necessarily replace sense experience, and intuition can correct for but not necessarily replace reason.

  15. THE Milkiest of Cash Cow Grabs.

    lostingenosmaze replied to integral's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

  16. @Ramasta9 I think I am pointing to - where is the evidence? These are all hearsay accounts as far as I see it. How do we know it is not a giant echo chamber with nothing tangible behind it all? I notice patterns also - this does not always mean something is real. Our minds fill in gaps - our minds actually make stuff up to fill in these gaps. And without real, direct evidence to substantiate these claims other than 'vibes' - what do we actually have?
  17. Area52 recently dropped an episode with David Ike. I skipped it.
  18. I actually generally think it has few blindspots outside of consciousness work. At least the professors i speak to are decently aware of the limitations of their work

  19. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Leo Gura replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    If you watched Part 1 you would know.

  20. 5-MeO-DMT for longevity - Bryan Johnson

    Asayake replied to cistanche_enjoyer's topic in Psychedelics

    It’s easy to hate on Bryan Johnson just cause he wants to live forever and does everything in the name of longevity. People claiming what he’s doing is meaningless. But why choose hate and belittling his mission? Ask yourself if what you’re doing with your own life is more meaningful, it seems like you’re putting him down to feel better about your own life. Truth is Bryan Johnson is rich, healthy and pursuing a topic that he’s passionate about. If that’s meaningless then 99% of humans on earth are just meaningless lumps of cells. To me this isn’t insightful but just nihilism in disguise.

  21. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Joseph Maynor replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Here's an honest question I have. Who is a rationalist?
  22. As in thousands and thousands, if not millions of people realizing these same things, many whistleblowers, scientists, doctors, experts in all types of fields, its not just a few people saying this now. I've literally seen hundreds of videos from different people speaking out about such things and they mostly seem genuine and not just making something up. There is a noticeable pattern in what they say and can over-time connect the dots. I don't really have the energy to dive back into finding every little thing to present it here, i feel like I have shared enough around the forums for you and others to take that dive yourselves if you want, but what I can say that in time more will come to the light. I wont always be here, but others will come and go, eventually you can recognize the signal and pattern and trace it back to where it stems, but its a process. Not for the faint hearted.
  23. Nice. Melbourne restaurant.
  24. Can you show me?
  25. I don't want to soil the spirituality sub-forum with Trump.
  26. I definitely agree. None of us know what a stage turquoise society would look like or how it would interact with a post scarcity society.
  27. @Leo Gura @Carl-Richard hly chit STAHP Dead. Sides. GONE Couldn't get into Pluribus, personally.
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