Leo Gura

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  1. That's correct. There is a backlash against Big Pharma and the mainstream healthcare system because it does gaslight people and get many things wrong, and it is very corrupted by capitalism. But people over-compensate for that and misuse skepticism and cynicism and fall into fantasies. RFK Jr and his ilk are the prime example of this backlash and overreaction, which falls into falsehood and foolishness.
  2. That's exactly what I aim to do. But I actually invent a new wheel in the end. I studied all that in university. I took a formal logic class where I did a lot of annoying proofs. It doesn't help with our work, almost at all. It's a great way to get lost in concepts and maps. You can study academic philosophy forever and get nowhere in your understanding of what's important.
  3. Boldly go where no man has gone before. I am not interested in re-treading where a stampede of men has been.
  4. Drinking distilled water is a no-no. You can hurt yourself pretty badly that way.
  5. Einstein said: "Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our two thousand years of suffering and deserve all that will come to us." He clearly saw the problems of right-wing nationalist Zionism. Because it shares the same problems as right-wing German nationalism. The problems of right-wing stage Blue nationalism are obvious in every nation and part of the world where they are tried, regardless of the content of beliefs or the ethnic or religious group in power. Because it's a structural problem. The fatal flaw of the right-wing Israeli nationalists is that they believe that they are immune to these structural problems just because they are Jews, and Jews are somehow special. But a right-wing Jew is not more special than a right-wing German or American or Hindu.
  6. Of course. But plugging it would be better. 4-AcO-DMT can be crazy powerful and very existential.
  7. The really profound question arises once you realize that morality is relative. But then you'll still be left with the question of how relative morality relates to higher consciousness and truth. Even though morality is relative, higher consciousness and truth still has a pretty big impact on one's personal moral conduct in the world. And then that also has collective political ramifications. So the question for you guys to contemplate is: How does Truth and Consciousness connect to relative morality? And it is all as purely relative as you think? If so, then how come Truth and Consciousness tends to compel people to improve their behavior?
  8. Yeah, that's right. I wasn't happy with that but the personal examples were harder for me to talk about calmly.
  9. Yes, I finally realized this. A much more tactful and diplomatic approach is required to actually get people to change their minds. It's like reserve psychology, the more you corner them like a rat, the less effective it is. Because you're dealing with an ego. This is why non-violent communication is critical. I am making changes to my communication in order for it to be more effective at actually creating change in people, rather than just me proving myself right. This is why diplomats are so care in how they speak. They can't just blurt stuff out or it causes defensiveness and chaos.
  10. I don't think they're the same. Utilitarianism is more about maximizing benefit for a large group of people, which can lead to stuff like killing a few of them for a larger benefit for the whole. My scheme says nothing like that.
  11. Yes, Genius because any human or any creature is a Genius work of bio-engineering. Hitler is still Genius regardless of what he did. Just from a metaphysical POV. You have to get out of this trap of looking at things from the POV of human concerns. Yes, Hitler did bad stuff in the human domain, but that is irrelevant at the existential domain. In the same way that a lion who eats your kid is still a beautiful lion underneath that. You have to look at the world is a less personal way, less about what it means for your survival.
  12. It occurs to me now that different brains may have different kinds of receptor sites which scientists don't even know how to measure. So assuming that every brain fits that heatmap is a dangerously simplistic assumption. And those receptor sites could wire up to neurons in very different ways. There's no guarantee that the same receptor site in two different brains produces the same effect. What could be more important than the receptor site is the neuronal wiring behind it all. So the science of all this is super sketchy and ultimately probably wrong.
  13. I have not researched them. But distilled water is bad for you if you don't put minerals back into it, so be careful.
  14. Yes, that's doable, but frankly my work at this point is at a level where most human ideas are a waste of my time. My focus is deep into my own direct experience and insight into things. I have spent decades reading stuff and that way just pales in comparison to what I do now.
  15. I mean everything that exists. There only exists one thing. This stuff you are experiencing right now. You are MIND. I don't limit mind to thinking or concepts. Mystical states are themselves mind. I have used my mind to grasp Infinity so deeply that I cannot even begin to explain it to ya'll. Of course my grasping it was far beyond thinking about it or having ideas. Nothing about that heatmap is about positive or negative. I cannot remember, it was too long ago that I made it. Perhaps I made a mistake or perhaps you are reading it wrong.
  16. I want and did.
  17. Intuition and insight is not a logical process, at all. It's mystical. So I am saying impossible. 1) I have read various philosophy articles. 2) I try to stay away from that kind of stuff because it corrupts the mind. I do no want to think in the categories of Western philosophy. If I thought using their ways of thinking I would limit my cleverness.
  18. There is some truth in every perspective. The problem is when people take it too far.
  19. The whole framing of the question is wrong because if you were to realize what all the world is, you would see that it's pure Genius. It's not God's fault, it's God's Genius.
  20. But @Razard86's defintion is pretty close to mine.
  21. It's just impossible to say. It can't be done like that. Society has to negotiate all those rules through an infinitely messy quasi-democratic corrupt process. That's basically what the last 5000 years of civilization have been. But my defintion can be applied at the local level by each actor if they desire. And it will have to be applied incrementally, bit by bit, not as any kind of leap to perfection. And everyone will have their own ideas of where they want to draw lines for themselves, based on their capacities, life situation, and level of development. Very importantly my definition is not normative, so you can't use it to shame someone into doing anything.
  22. Yeah, they basically turned Gaza into an unlivable hell for the next few decades. Sad.
  23. 50% is pretty aweful. I wasn't aware the number was so high. Gaza basically has no hope for any kind of prosperity or success now. It will be decades of miserable filthy poverty, which will breed thousands of terrorists.
  24. Wally's just playing an extemely long trap game. Biding his time to sntach one of those kids. I'm onto you, Wally.