Leo Gura

Yes. It's extra bad for people who are high-ambition and highly creative.

Yes. Religion is religion. Its problems are universal, with various local flavors.

Because Islam prohibits such imagery and iconography. That's actually a very intelligent aspect of Islam. It's there to prevent idol worship, which Christians have fallen into.

It's a narrow issue, and a particularly tricky one for many people. Thinking properly about terrorism is difficult for people. It takes serious attention to self-bias. Terrorism rots people's minds like Covid did.

Her Twitter profile says: "Christ is king".

No. Your struggle needs to be intelligent. Your struggle needs to avoid all the common traps that keep people lost in the swamp. But it is not a lottery. It all hinges on the quality of your effort. If you take the proper actions then you will sprout wings.

But that means those ideas, that imagery, was seared into your mind from a very early age. So it makes a lot of sense. The earliest layers of your mind are soaked in Christian imagery, even if you hate it. Those early layers are very difficult to remove. You are deeply biased towards them. You are like a salmon returning to your spawning grounds.

If you like them enough, and you're conscious enough, you will.

Because reality is your dream. If you like chocolate cake you will see chocolate cake.

The creation of distinctions has a logic to it. So logic is baked into Creation/Mind. Even if all distinctions collapse into Unity, that too is according to logic. It is logical that all distinctions are imagined by Mind. Absolute Unity is a logical state. It is logic reified. If all distinctions are imaginary then logically Unity is the ultimate truth. And so it is. Logic is transcendental, it transcends language, symbol, and thought. Logic is ontology. Logic is the structure of Being. Which is why mathematics and rationality can accomplish scientific work.

Netanyahu is such a Frank Underwood character. One for one.

The answer is, both. That's what religion is and why religon is stupid.

On the other hand, America cannot keep running away from itself. America had to look itself in the mirror and see the monster that it is. The time has come to lance the boil, as Steve Bannon would say.

It's a question of depth, clarity, and directness. Many people teach about consciousness/God, but very few comprehend God. It's much easier to teach the lower stages of it. That's mostly what you find. I teach it extremely directly. Which is very off-putting to most people.

Your mind is conceiving things. Everything is a matter of your perspective. Whether you regard two things as equal or not is just a function of how you look at it. The physical boundaries between objects are mental constructions. An object IS a mental construction. The entire field of Mind is nothing. And anything that arises within it is suspended in and identical to the nothingness.

@Nemra I said nothing about suffering.

No. That would be a kind of mind virus. There are people with legit genetic issues, and then there are people who are just confused with weird ideology and group-think and poorly defined sense of self.

There is no difference between anything!

@Someone here No. We have clear answers. You guys don't want to grasp them. Nothing never stopped being nothing. It is still nothing. You're not grasping that there is no difference between something and nothing. It's an imaginary difference.

Just? Logic IS reality. Oh why not? is exactly what causes God to exist. Why not Infinity? And so it is. You are treating all this far too flippantly. This is the logic of existence! Things don't get any more serious than this. This is not just words. Words point to realities.

Harris and Destiny are the opposite of epistemic scoundrels. They take epistemology seriously. Just because they are wrong on the Palestine issue does not make them scoundrels. No one will be right on every political issue. Agreement with your political positions is not the measure of scoundrelness. Be care. Do not use this concept to smear everyone who has other points of view than your own. We must allow healthy room for diversity of perspective. Harris and Destiny are good allies for liberal progressive democracy. Don't throw them away.

Trans is most likely an issue of genetic neuro-divergence. Seems to be the best explanation of it. Similar to how some people are gay. For a genetically normal person deciding if you're male of female is so easy it's a non-issue. Like breathing air. There's no confusion or struggle. Just like there's no struggle about who to have sex with.

The difference is that China is not a failed state, it is massively successful, even in ways the US is not. China has a sustainable hybrid system.

It's Blue-Orange. Not much to say about that.

Yes, that's a major factor. But also, China is more collectivist, which means they actually believe government is good and they are willing to self-sacrifice for the betterment of society. This is a deeply correct principle, unlike America's absurdly self-defeating libertarianism. Libertarianism and fundamentalism has ruined America. You cannot have a great society where everyone only acts out of private selfishness. That Americans do not understand this in principle is shameful and stupid. And it's why China will overtake America as the world's superpower.