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  2. Even if she has your exact views you should think twice before being with her
  3. This sounds more workable in my opinion. I would think of it as someone who might be honestly agnostic or perhaps doesn't think much of spiritual beliefs. From their, the interest would probably be in what she focuses on instead of spirituality. Does she like games? Nature? Just having fun? Relaxing? What does she like to learn about? What does she enjoy? I think the details matter. Maybe she's not interested in metaphysics, but has other strong interests that would be worth exploring together.
  4. There isn't a creator. God is a made up story/concept. No author or authority. It's almost impossible for humans to recognize that reality "just is", and there never needed to be a creator. It just was and is
  5. I am not that familiar with Sadhguru's teachings but if we weren't a fraud, what would he be teaching and accomplishing and where does he live up to that and where does he fall short? He's said some pretty wacky things like how he has gotten angry at his students for using their powers to heal people and he seems to like media attention. Seeking attention isn't always a bad thing but the motivations and means by which attention is sought is often impure. Attention is a source of power.
  6. @oOo Following the incident, I have opened diplomatic channels with Kevin. Contact was established at approximately 21:40. A formal offering was presented and accepted. The envoy has not yet issued a statement. Negotiations are ongoing. I have been advised not to demand evidence of anything. Flights remain grounded. I'm doing everything I can. As a gesture of good faith, the envoy has permitted the release of one photograph.
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  8. Point Out My Bias

    Topspin715 replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Part of being human is to have subjective perception and feelings about the external world. As long as you exist in a human body, it is impossible to completely eliminate that but you can rigorously work towards reducing bias, blindspots, and flaws in your thinking and communication. This is my personal opinion, but the strongest areas that I've seen within Leo's content are in the realms of meta philosophy, metaphysics, and some areas of epistemology. This is what I've found the most insightful and helpful, relative to my understanding prior to observing Leo's content and ideas. I'm personally strong in areas of social science, social philosophy, and working hard to understand politics so I see more bias and weakness there but that's relative to me. Those are areas where I'm constantly and vigorously challenging my beliefs, assumptions, mental models. The metaphilosophy content on here was truly ground breaking in my opinion. I'm interested in metaphysics and physics but have less personal space and use for it practically, and I'm deeply interested in epistemology but found things here that were helpful and insightful.
  9. Better and worse can only be evaluated within the context of some "objective" reference point or measurement which is almost always arbitrary or subjective. You first have to determine an objective function for evaluating what a good or bad life priority is. Once you've done that, you can rigorously studying it using different scientific tools and methods. While it could be a very useful exercise if done thoughtfully, there will always be limitations.
  10. I mean now that I think about it, this use is legit as well -- I am familiar with the usage of "sect" vs. "cult" outside of the specific academic bubble I was in. It seems like there was also a concurrent splitting off of sorts during the 20th century, where the word "sect" came to have primarily neutral connotations while the word "cult" was assigned sinister ones. It's a bit of everything I've hodge-podged and cooked in my mind over a lifetime of accumulated reading and thinking (but moreso casually these days, like an occasional hobby). I used to take academia very seriously as a student and I have academic parents, but among the many issues I had with academia, the lifestyle is not for me. The earlier parts of my interpretation are strongly influenced by the cult (?) classic, Joseph Tainter's "The Collapse of Complex Societies" (1988) which I did not read while I was in uni -- I read it after. The author is an archeologist and that was on the very fringes of what I studied -- very early human civilization and especially interpreting ancient findings from digs really was never what I did, but I knew a few people who went in this direction. His concept of "the big man" in simpler societies (before kings and despotic rulers) was a huge influence on how I started to think about how tribal societies would have worked structurally, and while I myself had already noticed that simpler societies (what SD people call lower on the SD spiral) did rely more on the charisma and often genorosity of specific individuals rather than hereditary power, I didn't have much in the way to help me understand the transition between tribal to chiefdoms, specifically WHY and HOW. Choosing to frame it through the lens of orthodoxy and splintering is probably a product of reading anything I could find at the time on the history of science, especially Thomas Kuhn's classic "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" as well as other academics who were strongly influenced by his work. Choosing to take one element, like the Classical and Ancient Studies use and understanding of the word "cult", and then tracking that specific pattern across large spans of time and many cultures is very much a "world history" type of approach. And yea... one way or another, it seems that the death of one god (whether it's the Death of God in CAPS :D) often necessitates the birth of another (whether it's atheism, agnosticism, or skepticism or something else).
  11. Just finish watching the last Avatar movie, the one where a tribe from Pandora figth against their own specie. The girl watching with me asked: Why the people of Fire can figth against their own? I said: Is not what happens in Israel? Those humans in Palestine are no different that the ones killing them.
  12. Within a certain limit. Where exactly that line is, is not obvious. I would have to take in full picture of her.
  13. Alaska has just elected the first Democratic governor since 1998!
  14. Generally speaking yes. Assuming you care about truth. Caring about truth is the virtue.
  15. Sadhguru is funny like Adyashanti which makes him sometimes a pleasure to watch or listen to.
  16. Built my own home security camera system, like Ring/Nest, but it runs on my own computers and costs nothing a month. IP cameras. Gonna build an object detection feature later.
  17. Truth is accessible to all. Osho didn't invent it.
  18. Yeah, I started off slow. At first I just had it doing things like going to a Jira ticket and downloading assets and verifying all the job materials and instructions. Then it sets up a job folder from my conventions so I can get started. Then last week I said fuck it, Claude, just do the whole thing. Came back perfect. Can't go back now. The latest Opus models know what you want without being annoying or stupid about it. A few months back you had to do a lot of set up to get that dialed in well. But it's now incredibly competent at adapting to you on its own. And it's proactive as hell: "Ok, that's done. I ran A, B, and C, since that's what we did last time. Want to do X next? If so, give me Y and say 'go'? Haha, love it! Also, for digital work, nothing competes with Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.2. Fable 5.2 is too expensive though, so Opus 5.5 is the best daily driver. Tip: use Opus 5.5 on High, not Max.
  19. https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_urges.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwxvUofenC4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp5bQ1ByYOE
  20. Bro treated 2 days like it was 2 years.
  21. Awesome 🔥😎
  22. @Joshe I tried to tell you. Let this officially set a new precedent in understanding just how sensitive relations are in the skies above. This happened mere moments after my post directly above, so in the last 2-3 hours. Check the date and times of the corresponding news releases. I have insider footage below. You were disrespectful Joshe, and now we are bearing the consequences in real time. This is not a drill, this is a diplomatic injury that needs to be resolved as soon as possible. Thank God we have Trump!
  23. Dude, you just got out of jail. You should not be criticizing Sadhguru.
  24. Yes. Going through the book now on Audible. Some of it is pretty good/profound.

  25. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I dont get it https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-799
  26. I listened to everything sadhguru said then I listened to everything osho said. Sadhguru is copying osho and hinduism while claiming to never have read them. When he clearly has. He also does and says many things to seem superior to you. Which i dont like. He also dosent follow his own advice and contradicts himself many times. It is dangerous for your mind to listen to guru so much they can take over your mind.

  27. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Just watched a bunch of AMV videos to farm strong emotions. Interesting that I am doing that. ... I have to say a sadness starts to kick in
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