Leo Gura

Their actions are worse only because Palestinians are too uncivilized to have serious technology. Imagine what would happen if Hamas had nukes. Israel has nukes. There is your purest example of moral difference. This difference is real and you are trying to weasel your way around it with every post. And I keep trying to point it out to you. But you keep refusing to see it. Just to have nukes and not use them requires both technological AND moral development. There are some crazy far right Israelis who want to use nukes on Gaza. And they are morally equivalent to Hamas. But Israel as a society is developed enough to have checks against that. But Palestine does not. However bad Netanyahu is, he's is not barbaric enough to nuke Gaza. The same cannot be said of Hamas. Nothing I said here means you can't hold Israel accountable for war crimes or put sanctions on them. You could. But it just won't happen for larger political reasons. I am not saying what should happen, I am predicting what will happen. You can see if my predictions are correct over the years. The aim of my political views is to predict social reality as accurately as possible, as opposed to having my wishes and ideals fulfilled. That's the difference between me and typical leftists. I actually care what is real.

Yes, that's culture. Every culture has a myth about its own origins and greatness.

Because that's how a reality is created. If you didn't imagine others strongly enough, they wouldn't exist and you would be alone. To have others you must keep imagining them with the strength of a brick wall. If you ever stop dreaming, the universe will disappear. So you must keep dreaming like your life depends on it. The dream is so strong it is beyond your conscious control. To you I feel as real as a brick wall.

It's never been about genetics. It's about cultural identity. What does it mean to be American? Obviously it's not genetic. Being a Jew is a culture. That culture wants to be on its mythologized homeland.

No. Your state right now.

Solipsism means there's only your POV. Stop saying there's anyone else but you -- if you're talking about solipsism. Stop imagining them, stop assuming them, stop theorizing about them. Go into your toilet and notice, the only one who exists in your toilet is you. That's it. Nothing else. Everyone else is a fiction. When you are sitting there on your toilet, no other humans being has ever existed but you. You've never even seen another human being. That's how serious solipsism is.

Whether they are or aren't, they certainly believe they are. Don't underestimate how deep their collective trauma & paranoia goes. Every time some Arab terrorist speaks of wiping Israel off the map, they literally perceive that as Hitler 2.0 and react accordingly. That's how their entire military intelligence operates. The reason Israel is killing so many civilians is because they believe they are fighting to stop Hitler 2.0, so from their POV the civilian deaths appear reasonable. They truly believe all this conflict is just anti-semitism and that they did nothing to cause it. The Hitler/Holocaust analogy is very convenient for Zionists because is makes them feel like violence is being done to them for no reason other than their race.

You are speaking junk. Creating the next thing is more temporal than what I said.

@zurew Consciousness is not just about appearance, it's about comprehension. Comprehension of what Reality is.

You can dream whatever dream. But what happens when all your dreams stop?

I'm not talking about a concept. I'm talking about your entire field of experience. Your entire life. That is what I mean by Mind.

The chemical is not important. That's just an example. Dude, there is way more to this work than realizing any one thing. Just because you can take a chemical and realize something doesn't mean you are anywhere at Ralston's level. This is like saying there's nothing special about Shaquille O'Neil because one time you got on a ladder and dunked a basketball.

Consider that reality is just your point of view.

No. I'm tell you that you're the only thing that exists. The genius of solipsism is that there only needs to be one being. You.

The proof is that it's only in your mind right now. Your mind IS the universe. If your mind dies, that's the universe.

Yup. I'm not here to argue. I'm here to suggest ideas for you to explore on your own if you are curious. All genetic freaks say that sort of thing.

1) He's a genetic freak. He's not merely doing it through contemplation. He's doing it through a higher state of consciousness. Contemplation is easy if you're high on DMT all the time. 2) There is much he still hasn't become conscious of (according to my view of things).

@zurew If you are merely part of some God then you just haven't fully realized that you are God. This is simply a function of how conscious you are. The higher your consciousness the more you see that everything is your personal dream. The less conscious you are the more it feels like your dream is an object outside yourself. If you became more conscious you would clearly see that you are imagining me. But until such time, it will feel to you like I exist as an object beyond your mind. Reality is an infinite illusion. Consciousness allows you to see through that illusion.

It still is too advanced. I am just trying to open some minds here. Don't take my arguments too seriously. In the end I want you to discover whatever is true for you. Consider that I may be wrong. Do not try to reach for my words, reach for whatever is actually true for you. I do not want anyone to believe in solipsism. But you should at least be able to represent it properly in your own mind, so you are not strawmanning it. My goal in this thread was to steelman solipsism and clarify what it means IF it is true.

Look, bro. This issue is so serious that it is beyond argument. There is not argument for Absolute Truth. It's just what is. If you are serious you have to stop arguing. Arguments are for fools. Argument is self-deception. God does not argue for it own existence since that would be moronic. You are trying to subordinate Truth to thought, which is just impossible. Because Christianity is just horseshit. You have to get serious. Christianity is not serious enough to even warrant a response. You just leave the Christians at the kids table and let the adults talk.

Non-solipsism is falsifiable. The falsification of it is called God-Realization. I know all this seems so unfair. But Truth is not kind. It just is only one way and no other.

No. You are not tracking how profound God is. God is so profound that it is beyond all epistemology. In the end there is no such thing as epistemology. There is only Truth.

If you define it that broadly then yes, basically all war/violence and even policing is terrorism. Does Israel do some terrorism? Yes. The real difference is that Israel is a democratic state with some semblance of rule of law and some checks and balances. Moreso than Hamas. As a state Israel does not do suicide bombings of buses in Palestine. Israel also has rules for avoiding civilian casualties even though those rules are sometimes broken. But if you actually read the history of how they do targetted assassinations, they have canceled many hits of important Hamas terrorists simply because too many civilians were around. They may cancel a hit 5 days in a row just to ensure that no children are present. This is a historical fact. And it has exceptions. We usually call it terrorism when there is deliberate targetting of civilians. And Israel has even done that. But mostly they avoid it. For example, Israel will never hijack an international airplane full of Arabs and threaten to blow them up. That is pure terrorism. Hamas will do that to Jews. This issue requires extreme nuance, not sloppy false equivalence. Israel does evil, but it is a more civilized evil. And that difference matters. All groups do evil. It's a matter of degree and barbarity. I am fully aware of Israel's evils. But there is still a difference. The bottom line is that if you were to choose for your children to be born in Gaza or Israel, you would choose Israel because it is more civilized. In the end, that's what wins. It's not about fancy moral philosophy, it's about survival. Civilizations wins even as it does evil, because it is a lesser evil.

The entire point is that if solipsism is true, it is an Absolute, which means you cannot assume any other possibility. You are trying to do this thing where you keep your options open and explore multiple ways reality could have been. But the entire point of God-Realization is that all of that is false. There is only one way reality can be. All other contigencies are self-deception. This sounds unfair, but that's how Truth must be. You cannot use scientific reasoning to understand the Absolute Truth. Solipsism is unfalsifiable. You can take that an error or you can take it as Absolute Truth.