Leo Gura

Many private doctors in the US are booked for weeks or months at a time. Even with private plans you still often have to wait. The better the doctor the longer you usually have to wait. So the idea of immediate care is a myth. Especially for serious conditions. But also, having to wait 2 weeks is a small price to pay when the alternative might be that you get no coverage at all or you go into medical bankruptcy due to medical bills. Most conditions can wait a few weeks. Emergency rooms are available for urgent stuff. I'm not sure this is a good thing. Of course a private doctor makes lots of money off prescribing opioids gratuitously. Of course the whole point of any universal social service is that it will not be as good as the best private services. But that's a reasonable sacrifice for the greater good of allowing everyone in the country to get the service. Yeah, if you have an elite private plan, a public plan will be a downgrade for you because 330 million people cannot all have an elite service -- by definition. What you must realize though is that your personal survival is not the only issue here. Yes, in a society you have to make a personal sacrifices so that others can have some benefit too. Yes, if you're super rich higher taxes are bad for you personally. But living in a society requires thinking about bigger issues than just your personal gain. Fundamentally, you have to share your resources in a society. That's what society is. This is what conservatives and libertarians don't understand here. What's required is a paradigm shift where you're not merely thinking about what is maximally beneficial to you and your family, but what is good for society as a whole. Just because it's good for you and your family to have a giant monopoly which earns you billions of dollars doesn't mean it's good for society. In a sense, you are leeching off society but calling it your own labor. What needs to be acknowledged is how much a well-functioning society enables your success. Human success does not happen outside of a society. If you were born in the wrong society you would be a slave. Don't forget that. Your elite healthcare plan is not some entitlement you deserve. It's a function of how society is structured, of which you were a lucky beneficially. You could have easily wound up on the losing end of the structure. Imagine if you had to wait 3 years to go to a doctor because you couldn't afford it. Well, that happens to people every day.

It's best not to think of Infinity is such simplistic science-fictiony ways. Infinity is much more radical than any science fiction logic you can come up with.

Just do the investigation and be open to whatever may come. You don't know how it will go or what the rules are. You'll figure it out by doing it, not by asking me for answers. At first it will all just be intellectual understanding. But as you dig deeper you will have reizations which are beyond thoughts or ideas.

No it isn't. Value is relative and Truth is beyond value. I have never made normative claims with this work. You do it because you want to, not because it's higher value or because you should.

@PlayOnWords You understand, right, that if you pick the wrong mushroom you will kill yourself? Just keep that in mind.

Be careful just off-loading the problem onto some magical AI or robots. AI and robots are not going to magically solve our problems. They will create as many new problems are they solve. If robots ever get good enough to replace teachers, humans will be in trouble. At that point, what is the point of educating humans? Just replace humans with robots.

Lots of problems with this model. How would a new political candidate ever get noticed? Voting would be reduced to a perfunctory process which few people would get engaged in. It would be hard to build a consensus for anything new progressive policy proposal. It's important that we have national debates and conversations about which direction the country should go in. At least election cycles allow for that. Clear cut election cycles make people more engaged I think. Otherwise everything will get muddled and luke-warm. It will be hard to even know who's in office. It would be better to just make voting day a national holiday.

Criterii

All relationships end. Most a lot sooner than you imagine. The reason you relate with people is mostly out of selfishness and to fulfill your survival needs. You ain't doing anything intelligent or sophisticated with your relationships. It's very basic survival stuff. The equivalent of pumping gas in your car.

In practice this isn't good enough. There are many online universities already. But most of them are crap. Education involves a lot more than reading books or watching videos. There is a social engagement aspect to it which you cannot replicate online. And just the fact of showing up to a physical classroom is important for motivation. You can't just sit behind a computer for 12 years watching videos and clicking buttons. This kind of education will produce an army of incel trolls. Actualized.org works because it's supplemental. It already assumes you've go a solid base of education to build on top of. And even so, this work would be 10x more powerful in person. But I'm not about to run a physical university for thousands of people, so videos are good enough for the stuff I teach. But even so, most people who watch me are not serious students. They just watch videos randomly and get little results. You can't compare watching videos to a serious in-classroom education. Although of course the content of my videos is more powerful than any university curriculum. The videos are good for me because they allow me to reach a lot more people than I otherwise could. But the downside is my videos will only work on those people who are serious, self-motivated, and self-disciplined. Also the stuff I teach wouldn't be acceptable in any institutional setting, so online is good for that. Online is a great learning platform, but only for those who are already serious about learning. I could not be where I am today without the great in-classroom education I got as a teen.

Before we deal with the problem of evolving education to the next level we first have to deal with the more basic problem of providing everyone with education. Actually, herding billions of children into classrooms is necessary. At least at this point in our evolution. It's got some downsides, but don't forget the massive upsides. It's easy to criticize education. But how would you make it better? And remember, your solution must scale to billions of children. So some fantasy of having children running around in the grass doing whatever they want is not gonna fly. You'd need to design a system which scales to billions of students, is better than the current one, works within realistic budget constraints, and is politically acceptable to most parents. That is a very difficult design problem. Which is why we have the current system we have.

Just keep in mind that few people are solidly Green. Many people who lean Green in theory still have huge gaps in their development in practice. They are missing healthy aspects of Blue & Orange, and might have developed Blue and Orange shadows. So in this sense there can be value in learning from quality healthy Blue & Orange sources. This can help round out one's development. The danger is, if your Blue and Orange sources are impure or dysfunctional (which many of them are), you will tend to adopt their dysfunctions as your own. If you listen to JP enough you will likely adopt his dysfunctions, confusions, and shadow. He is not a pure source of wisdom. But you can learn from impure sources. You just have to extra careful. In fact the best way to learn from JP would be to study his impurity. But that is NOT how most people learn from JP. Studying impurity is an excellent learning technique. Too bad so few people know how to do it. Studying impurity requires being able to discern God from the devil. Which few people know how to do. If you were able to discern God from the devil, you probably wouldn't need to listen to JP.

What Actualized.org teaches you is that you shouldn't see anything as bad. Or more precisely, realize that "badness" is a projection of your mind. If you think a thing is bad, it becomes bad from your POV.

@Finland3286 This one's easy. You need to flirt with her in those 30 second periods every day. Make her laugh and smile. Try teasing her. Then you can ask for her number. The first girl I dated I met this way. Except I was the one coming and going while she worked at the reception desk. She actually started to flirt with me in those 30 second windows. After two weeks of flirting I asked for her number, she happily gave it, and we went on a restaurant date. Of course there's no guarantee she will be open to your flirting. Or she just might have a boyfriend or husband already. Check for the wedding ring first. Then just flirt with her assuming she doesn't have a bf.

Those aren't healthy fears. You got some toxic beliefs to drop. Women do not blackmail men for sleeping with them. LOL You are projecting your own twisted mind onto women. Of course if you sleep with a woman enough it will get serious and she will want some commitment from you. The mistake is trying to avoid that. Rather embrace it. Or then don't sleep with her more than a few times.

Nothing is ever wrong. But everything has consequences. All attachment will bring suffering. Everything that goes up must come down. But you can't really learn that lesson without living through it. So knock yourself out with romantic infatuation and see where it gets you. You'd have to be exceptionally wise and spiritually gifted to transcend such things without touching them.

You've already posted about this in your impeachment thread. Also mind your biases and ideology. This is not a forum for arguing about ideology. This is a forum about reflecting on and letting go of one's ideology. If you keep posting with an ideological tone, you will end up banned.

1) By having free universal care there will be far less need of emergency rooms. Right now emergency rooms are overworked because people can't afford basic preventative care. If your condition is not an emergency they can just tell you to see your doctor the next week. 2) Leaving is not enough, you'd have to renounce your US citizenship. If you want to renouce it, go ahead. But then you forego the benefits of being an American and in a sense you literally have betrayed your own country for money. Some will do that, but most won't because they are too attached to living and doing biz in the US. 3) Your same argument could be made for public schools. Yet schooling is the one thing that keeps humanity out of barbarism. Free college also includes vocational training programs. So if you want to get training to become a pumbler or whatever, that's covered. So free college is not just for nerds or intellectuals. No one is talking about making Harvard free. Only public universities would be free. Private ones would still cost a lot. But they would now have to compete on cost with good free public schools like UCLA, UC Berkeley, etc. The point is to establish a nice baseline standard for all citizens, so nobody gets totally fucked for life, the way it happens now.

Then get off your ass and create it. Government doesn't grow on trees.

You're not getting it. The how is that there is no how. I'm not saying it's impossible to know how. I'm saying it's possible to know exactly how, and that how is magic. You're not going to understand any of this without some reality-shattering awakenings. Psychedelics are your best chance to understand what is being said. You are not going to understand it in your current state of consciousness.

No it isn't.

@Koyaanisqatsi Congrats! And thanks for sharing your story.

All that's required is for people to go out and vote. There's a good chance Biden will crash by the time primary voting happens. Most people are not paying attention yet. Warren and Bernie both have good chances of beating Biden. This is exactly how democracy should work. Lots of good candidates to choose from.

All demarcation is duality. It is there only if you imagine it is. Ironically your awakening is incomplete so long as you are trying to escape experience. Sit back and enjoy the show. There's nowhere to go and no need to escape experience/form since it's no better or worse than non-form. Don't squander the gift of life. Once life is over, then you'll naturally be formless. So you will get the best of both worlds.

There is a rare condition which causes some people not feel pain. Such people end up dead before adulthood. Pain is there to keep you from doing stupid stuff which would ruin your body. If God didn't invent pain, you'd be long since dead.