Leo Gura

Sure! Why not? After all, he is just your own Mind.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reportedly-getting-luxury-qatari-jet-gift-sparks-fury-2070672

Is there anyone Netanyahu isn't manipulating? Haha

The human mind needs consistency to feel sane. This is not an a priori argument but an empirical one. We know from clinical psychology how dyfunctional people get when their sense of reality is inconsistent. What is Mind? What is it ontologically? It is void. A void in which distinctions arise. Just because the human mind is filled with ideas does not at all change the fact that your mind is a void. A bucket is still a bucket even if you fill it with stuff. How is it not true creation? Human minds create new things all the time.

@Letho Banned. Do not think that I am going to entertain your absurd gaslighting.

I didn't mean you. Just in general.

You just need to push your comfort zone and gain more experience socializing. Go to social events regularly. Try to befriend an extroverted girlfriend and then follow her to social events. As far as gaining more confidence in yourself, if you are overweight I recommend getting serious about eating healthier and exercise. Spend the next 6 months getting into shape. Then you will feel more secure and happy with yourself and you will also attract better men. You need to break out of the victim attitude. Getting into shape and gaining social experience are both things within your control. It just takes emotional labor to do but it will be a great development journey for you that will pay dividends for decades to come. So roll up your sleeves and get to work. This is the solution. You can either sit around in misery or you can start to take action and start feeling better.

I had to say it, otherwise you guys would be freaking out that I lost my mind, that I have anger problems, etc. I know how you guys think.

@Thought Art It won't bake you a chicken, if that's what you were hoping for.

Do it a few hundred times and you will get to enjoy it.

And the reason it works this way is SURVIVAL. All ideology and all politics is just an unconscious servant of SURVIVAL. Which is why I speak of survival and not historical materialism. See, when you understand the underlying force of SURVIVAL, you can predict how even the most noble egalitarian ideologies will turn into evil. So the notion of survival has more predictive power than historical materialism or Marxism.

No ego, no problems.

I find LSD more difficult than 5-MeO. 5-MeO is clean. LSD is wonky and weird and if it goes sideways it's a 5hrs tunnel of misery. 5-MeO is simple and quick.

The answer varies depending on the time period. In our lifetime it will be capitalism. In 500 years maybe socialism will work. Getting the timing right is critical. It does no good to implement a system 200 years too early.

It's a bad theory. It failed to predict history. Marx said that capitalism would not make the middle class prosperous and would not generate abundance. He was wrong. Capitalism succeeded beyond Marx's wildest dreams and society advanced from industrial factory economy to a services economy. Meanwhile every attempt at socialism failed to be sustainable and to generate as much prosperity as capitalism.

Don't trust. Think. Thinking solves all problems. Except the ones that can't be solved by thinking.

In order to implement Marx you're going to need a devilish Lenin-like character to ram it through. And that's where the real problems arise. Marxist don't appreciate this point enough because they are Utopians. Bakunin foresaw this problem 150 years ago. Bakunin predicted that the implemention of socialism/Marxism would turn into great evil. Read some Bakunin while you're at it.

Is there an age limit for thinking?

But Marxism was turned into an ideology regardless of what Marx wanted, and it is Marxism that I criticize, not Marx. I am less interested in Das Kapital or Marx and more interested in what today's self-labeled Marxists propose, such as Richard Wolff or Hassan Piker and other leftists like the DSA. Because it is they who will be implementing the policies, not the long dead Marx.

I think it's a Firefox update that broke it. My Firefox used to work before I updated.

Yeah, the quote splitting stopped working for me also a few days ago. I have no idea why. None of the site code has changed.

It should not be surprising. Marxism and socialism are bad and unworkable ideologies. However, the notion that material conditions are central to human survival and social organization is of course profoundly true. What Marxists call "material conditions" is already accounted for in my deeper and broader concept of SURVIVAL. When a Marxist says "material conditions" he really means SURVIVAL. Which of course is fundamental to our work. However, SURVIVAL goes far beyond material things. So my concept of SURVIVAL includes and transcends materialism. Which is of course necessary because Marxists are atheists and we are God. By the way, even though the author of that channel pushes socialists ideas, his videos are still very good in many respects, but his socialism is still wrong in the ultimate analysis. Remember: just because I share a video with you does not mean I endorse all the ideas within it, nor the author's worldview at large. I share lots of various perspectives and most of them have some problematic parts that I disagree with. It is very rare that I find a speaker who I perfectly agree with. Hell, I even disagree with my past self. So be careful not to assume that I fully endorse the stuff I share. I usually add extra commentary to stuff I share to point out the limitations I see in it. But just because it is limited doesn't mean I won't share it. I share lots of limited stuff because finding perfect stuff to share is too high a bar. I did not evolve on this topic. Two things can be true: 1) Material conditions are fundamental to politics. 2) Marxism is an unworkable and fallacious ideology. There are many facets to Marxism. Some of them are valid and some of them are not. Consider science as an example. I criticize science a lot, but obviously there are many parts of science that I agree with. Likewise with Marxism. There are things I might agree with Hitler on. That doesn't mean I am Nazi.

Because God loves EVERYTHING. The existence of evil just makes God's Love even deeper. If evil didn't exist God's Love would be less than infinite.

I don't know what that means.

Understanding women is harder than understanding the fabric of reality