Leo Gura

You guys would love the band: Devil's Ear Noise

This is a trap. The problem with this overly simplistic take is that you cannot stop thinking. Life will force you to think, and if you don't train how to think properly you will end up thinking improperly and fall into self-deception. Improper thinking is the default. No one is born a great thinker. If you follow that guy's advice you will end up an enlightened anti-vax, Jews-run-the-world, election-was-stolen, Trump voter. Also what this guy misses is that thinking is an art that can connect you to the beauty and intelligence of God. Thinking can be a spiritual activity in itself and it generates valid and useful insight. I agree that reading philosophy books is largely a waste of time. Real philosophy is done in your mind.

That doesn't work so well because most good songs take 30 seconds just to build up to the good part. So it's important to sample the middle.

For Love.

Liberalism ain't going anywhere. It's just obscured by noisy fools.

Be very careful here. What you consider "cutting all fantasies" could itself be the fantasy. Don't overlook that negativity and doomerism is a kind of fantasy. Just because dating is difficult does not mean you shouldn't do it, can't be successful at it, or that it's not worthwhile. The most difficult aspects of life can also be the most rewarding. Building a business is also hell. So what? Do it anyway. That's life. Don't expect everything to be easy. People who have it easy with dating will have it hard in other areas. No one has an easy life. I am not good-looking, I am super introverted, so dating was very challenging for me. And yet I still had some success and it was very worthwhile. Really facing reality means going out there and dating. Not telling yourself why you'll fail.

We have a dedicated Russia/Ukraine thread. Please move any Ukraine discussion there. This thread is about US Trumpist threat.

I respect Mearsheimer but that doesn't mean I agree with him. He makes some good points but you should not adopt his view wholesale. It's just one facet to consider.

White hair is kinda cool and unique. Embrace it. Be glad you got hair at all.

They are good to hear a few times, but not endlessly like on that channel. They have become a broken record.

Yes, I did. Their perspective is good to hear. But you should not be listening only to them for your news on Ukraine, Gaza, etc. That channel became a massive echochamber since I shared it. They always tow the same one-sided line with no fresh or alternative perspective. It's the same 3 fucking guys who are all closedminded to other ways of looking at. Vlad Vexler is much more reasonable. But again, no one guy or channel should be your sole source. Listen to guys who are pro and anti to get a mix of views.

If you are doing a formal retreat, they will take care of the food for you.

@integral Haha! That's surprisingly good. Metaphysical lyrics are tops!

You gotta be joking. That's what this whole war is about.

I don't mean forcing it on them. I mean Russians wising up and open their minds to Western liberalism as good for them.

Don't marry unless you find the truly right girl. However long that takes.

Of course

That is the mystery!

The alternative is simple: Western liberalism. It exists for good reason. Because it works. This whole problem could have been avoided if Putin just stopped thinking he's too cool for school. Putin is resisting the inevitable: Liberalism will come to Russia sooner or later. Russia will not invent some unique superior system. That is foolishness.

No behavior in a Playboy centerfold.

No one is threatening Russia's survival. Putin is just paranoid of his own corrupt system collapsing.

This sounds nice in theory, but in practice what you're saying is, let Putin turn Ukraine into a corrupt repressive mafia puppet state more backwards than Russia for the next 50 years. Don't forget why Americans have so much power. It's because the American system is superior to all the other systems that have been tried aside from Scandinavia. And Putin ain't Scandinavia. Don't hate on America so much that you overlook the obvious superiority of the American system relative to its alternatives.

Lynch no. It's hard to articulate what makes a good film. Certainly none of the Hollywood superhero shlock or endless franchise slop. It has to be an original concept executed tastefully. Denis Villeneuve is one of the best directors right now. Red Letter Media has good taste in film. They are great at calling out all the crap films.

I want to feed you a cockroach omelet. To expand your horizons

This is what you're jerking off to: But it does beg the question: what makes a shape "good"?