Leo Gura

A hybrid approach works well: you have a handful of pre-scripted, well-memorized observational openers as backup, and from there you can invent new ones in real time. If I don't know what to say, I have some old memorized openers and observations as a safety net.

We have video footage released by the US Navy of real UFOs. These are not ghost stories. Real Navy pilots. Real Navy videos.

True. Especially people.

1984 is exactly what I had in mind. Such an over-referenced book.

You can be a charismatic naked madman on the street corner.

You don't need to have any objective value to be charismatic. You can be a charismatic homeless bum dressed in rags.

I don't necessarily say he was psychotic. I say he was bipolar.

He killed her lover. Raped her.

I am surprised you are still alive.

The issue is that his dislike will prevent him from ever truly understanding the thing he dislikes. Disliking a thing before understanding it, is backwards.

It gives me some of highest and most stable consciousness of God. Hours of stability and clarity. Almost no psychedelic is that stable for me. Finding a stable, deep psychedelic that is clear and lasts a long time is hard. Most psychedelics are pretty chaotic, wavy, weird, inconsistent.

Not really. We don't really care about your preferences. This issue is about understanding. Bias is a lack of understanding. A bias towards women means that women are not being understood accurately, for themselves. Regardless of your personal preferences, you should be interested in understanding women accurately, for themselves, not for you. This is not about whether you like strawberries, but about whether you even understand what a strawberry is. Eating and liking strawberries is different from understanding them.

@Alexop You are right that we cannot be 100% sure about an unobserved thing. But of course if 10,000 serious people say they witnessed a thing, we must take that claim seriously. That doesn't mean we believe it. It just means we start to consider that scenario seriously, and start looking for more evidence. The notion that all UFO talk is just a hoax or delusion really strains credulity. At some point, denying all the witnesses becomes more outlandish than just accepting that aliens could be flying around Earth. Do we know for sure that OJ Simpson killed his wife? No. But there is enough evidence there that I would be comfortable convicting him. Could I be wrong? Yes. But so could the skeptics. At the end of the day, we all have to place our bets. My bet is on aliens.

You don't need to think it, you will suffer enormously just from being alive.

Infinity.