Leo Gura

@Nivsch Green New Deal Research it.

No, I'm just aware he's mentally ill.

Low quality thread.

You gotta be careful because some of them are so screwed in the head he will rape your daughter and slit her throat while you a preparing him dinner. Some people are just deeply fucked up to the point where you will not reform them. Being nice doesn't always work. You guys who follow me will largely be okay. But there a millions who listen to Joe Rogan without thinking carefully about epistemic issues and they can get brainwashed. Alex Jones is basically a cult leader. He is dangerous.

That's precisely the kind of attitude that a devil will exploit to his advantage. You have to appreciate that a devil doesn't play fair. That's what makes him a devil. If you give him the benefit of the doubt, he will exploit it. Which is why once some proves himself to be a pathological liar, narcissist, or con artist you should never take him seriously again. The way a con artist works is precisely by conning you and then repenting and exploiting your soft heart to con you a second and third time. Trump behave exactly in this matter. Which is why nothing that comes out of his mouth can ever be given the benefit of the doubt. Given his past history, everything that comes out of his mouth should be considered a lie unless proven otherwise. That is how you properly deal with a con artist. You don't trust him ever again.

I say this half-jokingly, but also half-truthfully: How green is you poo?

Strange loops here are to be expected. All explanations are partial, limited, and ultimately self-contradictory.

No, he does it because he's not conscious enough. "Forgive them father, or they know not what they do."

Just because you have a mentally ill friend doesn't mean you platform him to your viewers. It's irresponsible to platform such a person to millions of viewers as though it's all just in good fun. It's like yeah, I'm good friends with Hitler, so let me give him my platform.

Oh God. Why does Joe allow this shit? He's way too soft on Alex Jones insanity.

What we really need long-term is a new transformative technology that will either: 1) remove carbon from the atmosphere, and/or, 2) block sunlight from reaching the Earth in the first place. I envision a sort of giant thin film set up in space which simply blocks sunlight from reaching the planet like sun glasses. With such a technology we would not only eliminate global warming forever but we could actively regulate the temperate on the planet to maximize consciousness. But something like this needs to be funded by big government research. It's quite obvious that advanced civilizations learn to regulate the climate on their planet. As a species it's like we're living in the age before air conditioning. Imagine being able to selectively regulate the sunlight in desert regions like the Sahara or the Gobi, making it lush and livable! We could even install a UV filter so people don't get sunburned.

If you are prone to depression then contemplation could be problematic in the sense that you will get lost inside your own mind. You have to careful here to balance between theory & practice. For a depressed person going to the gym might be more effective to change one's mood than contemplating on the couch about one's mood. But it the long run you should build yourself up to the point where you can contemplate things without it driving you deeper into depression. As you become more developed and conscious it will be easier for you to let go of being stuck in your own mind. Kriya yoga & meditation helps a lot with this. If all you do is sit and think (without any yoga or meditation practice) you will end up getting lost in your own mind. And this will create various kinds of dysfunction. So watch out! The mind can be a very dangerous thing. Then again, being mindless can be even more dangerous.

He should look in the mirror then.

JP is actually a smart guy with some good insight into psychology and human nature. But his politics suck. There are two very distinct sides to JP: his academic side and his political side. The problem is he mixes them so it's like he prepares you a fine gourmet meal, but with a turd on top.

Oh there will be major backlash if Bernie get elected. The corporatists will start flinging shit like never before. See, we've never seen the corporate elite truly get their feet held to the fire the way Bernie would do. Big industries like oil and gas, coal, pharma, health insurance, Wall Street, banking, etc. will be in an uproar and will invest billions in ads to manipulate their way back into power. Billions will pour into the Fox News propaganda machine. It will be get real nasty. They will do everything possible to take Bernie down. Because this hits them right at the heart of their survival agenda: money! The health insurance industry will fight to the bitter end like a cornered animal because if Bernie get his way, they're dead overnight. They have nothing to lose. They will go down swinging.

Horror vs comedy is a duality

You're missing the deeper mindfuck here: there are no such things are rocks because a rock does not know it is a rock. You project that "rock" onto the world in the same way you project your own ego. A rock doesn't really have an age because who is to say what counts as rock vs not-rock? Only your mind. The true age of the rock is identical to that of your body because they are indistinguishable. Both are Eternal until you project time onto the sitution.

Distinction = difference = form = duality So you are asking, What is difference? If reality is made out of differences, then what is a difference made out of? Notice you get a paradox here because if you say, Difference is made out of nothing. That nothing is still a difference. This question cannot be answered at the level of langauge. An awakening is required. You must somehow jump out of the domain of language altogether because all that language is are differences, so you can't use language to understand difference itself. Creating more differences is not the same thing as groking what difference is.

@peanutspathtotruth It simply doesn't matter if it dissolves. Just get it in your ass and your ass will do the rest.

Most people are not interested in being aware of it because you'd be undermining their very way of life! Self-deception is a VAST topic with many sub-topics. It's the bulk of how humans fool themselves into believing they are human. The trick is that this stuff cannot simply be taught or explained, it requires deep self-reflection, contemplation, and consciousness work -- which virtually nobody is willing to do. And even if you do it, you'll still get tripped up in self-deception. Self-deception does not joke around. It's seriously deceptive.

Self-deception 101

Survival Rocks don't survive so well. For an object to be really good at survival it needs to be extremely complex. The body does a lot more fancy stuff than a rock. A rock cannot tell itself that it is real. The body can. In this respect it is both smarter and dumber than a rock

Bernie is more left than Warren obviously. I prefer to elect the highest leader possible and let the chips fall where they may. The system will deal with it. Gradualism has been tried with Obama and it failed. Another 8 years of someone like Obama is going to make things even worse. The system needs some serious change of the status quo. Bernie is not a Green version of Trump. Trump is a moronic lying narcissist. Bernie is an intelligent, honest, compassionate leader. A Green version of Trump would be 20 year old Green Peace activist with bipolar disorder who wants to jail people for eating fish and force children to eat soy, who faces a criminal case for sabotaging factory farms.

Lol He didn't *just* answer a question. He answered the question with the tone and attitude of a man with sand in his vagina. His mind framed the answer in such a way as to dismiss the myriad ways we could immediately act to alleviate the climate crisis. To say that it's such a complex problem that we don't know what to do is absurd. We can start by banning oil companies from paying politicians to lie about climate change. These oil companies have known about climate change (internally) for 50 years! Carbon Tax! There's your answer. But JP is lost in philosophical right-wing distractions. To maintain his anti-SJW position he has to make it seem like climate activism is somehow foolish when it is actually the most obvious thing. What's foolish is criticizing people who care about the environment.

Bernie has already shifted the Overton window to the left. Thanks to Bernie the democratic party is much more progressive. Free Healthcare is now supported by many democrats. The most important thing is not policy per se but the changing in collective worldview. The most important thing is not to free the slaves but to get people to realize that slavery is not right. Once people realize that slavery is not right, the freeing of the slaves will be inevitable. Moscow Mitch can certainly win in the short term, but not in the long term because he is clearly on the wrong side of history. Because consciousness is always evolving to higher levels. Moscow Mitch can dig his heels in all he wants, but he will eventually lose that battle. Such obvious self-bias will not be sustainable. He is already the most hated politician in Washington.