Leo Gura

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  1. Sure, but you can skip all the culture and just play online against an AI or human player. Consuming chess culture is completely optional.
  2. That's just the culture, not the game itself. Why should one asshole ruin an entire game?
  3. A technical deconstruction is necessary to advance science's understanding of itself. Science is like Darth Vader. We are not trying to kill him, we are trying to redeem his lost soul, because science is not going away. Science needs a rational doorway to God. I want to create that doorway.
  4. The exhausting clarity is good and necessary even for the intuitive because otherwise your understanding will be too murky. The value of the series is not to vaguely intuit that rationalism is wrong, but to clearly, techncially see why it is wrong. A New Ager can intuit the main point of the series but the New Ager will not have the sharpness and depth of understanding that comes with knowing all the details of the series. This technical clarity is also important to be able to argue and push back on rationalists once they start spitting their logic at you.
  5. There is another very cool queen sca in this game with black's knight to G4, followed by a knight's smothered mate. If only white didn't have a knight at D3. In that case white would lose his queen and the game. White's king is dangerously smothered by his own pieces. Not a smart position for white.
  6. User @outlandish suggested we start a 5-meo mega-thread, as people seem to have lots of general questions about it. You can still create your own individual threads about 5-meo, and trip reports shouldn't be posted in this thread, but otherwise, consider this the place for general 5-meo discussion. Here's a link to Erowid's 5-MeO-DMT Vault, which has a lot of basic information. Note: Do not ask questions here about how to source psychedelics. That is against our Forum Guidelines, so it will be deleted.
  7. Bro, that's why you gotta play Chess 960. It's chess minus all conformity. Give it a try.
  8. Even contemporary philosophy papers are deliberately written to be more arcane than they need to be.
  9. We need a Heideggerian paragraph on the metaphysics of jerking off a mule.
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  11. The whole damn thing.
  12. Always start by saccing your queen. Counter-intuitive moves
  13. It probably only compiles cuck porn.
  14. It's much deeper than status. The entire game of Chess.
  15. No! There is nothing to love about this. This is extremely dangerous and dumb. Stop taking high doses. You will badly injure yourselves.
  16. Paying a university to learn philosophy is literally a scam. The only reason it is done is out of conformity and ignorance.
  17. No! No! No! That is silly nonsense which is not necessary. Stop being a monkey and sit and contemplate.
  18. That's not conformity, that's an addiction.
  19. Let's make a list of epistemic scoundrels.
  20. Academia is a self-licking ice cream cone. If you wanna learn philosophy just read Wikipedia pages. Saves you all the tedious BS.
  21. Problem is that Bilzarian will attract literal Nazis and racists around him. They are his crowd. We need to tackle Zionism from a progressive Green angle, not a macho Blue angle.
  22. You better not eat anything.