Leo Gura

That isn't the question. The point is that drugs are imaginary.

@AION It's simple: marriages work when you got no other options.

Beating a strong opponent requires unity. Divide and conquer.

But that's exactly what you're creating. When you trash the Blue Dog Dems, they don't change, instead you poison the progressive half of the party from voting. This is exaclty how the Palestine issue was misused by people like Krystal Ball and Finkelstein.

No need to insult him.

He was married a long time and he remarried soon after. So he's not as non-traditional as you may think.

Dude, Rogan is gonzo. He fell down the MAGA conspiracy rabbit hole. You're not gonna change his mind when all his friends are anti-establishment, anti-woke, right-wing influencers and UFC-bros. Covid broke his mind.

Nice!

My work is not formal enough to meet that academic paper calibre. I like to be more casual and loose. Writing papers requiring training in that style. There's no way anyone is academia would ever accept me after the things I've said. I will write a book at some point, which will feel more rigorous and formal. But my audience is you guys, not academics.

@DocWatts Bro, that's not gonna work. You're not gonna replace all those people with AOCs. When you demonize the Blue Dog Dems, you just end up weakening the Dems overall and then MAGA wins. This is one of the biggest misunderstandings of progressives. The country is not gonna join in your far-leftism. Even with MAGA. Leftists attacking Newsom is really foolish. He's one of the only Dems with enough strength to beat a Trump. Leftists just do not understand pragmatic compromise.

Okay. Found him on YT.

I've actually spent about a month now studying Christians on YouTube, listening to all their talks and notions of spirituality, looking for and noting every error in their views. And I don't mean the dumb Christians. I mean the smartest ones I can find. If you study them carefully you'll see how it corrupts their view of reality. No one is getting away with Christianity scot-free.

It is so ironic that Tai Lopez quotes the Amish but then goes around renting fake $100M mansions to impress his followers. Tai's whole internet lifestyle brand is the opposite of steady and solid success. It's gimmicks and cons.

Why not just place a brown paper bag over their head while you're at it? Problem solved!

Freaks don't know they're freaks.

@Thought Art You can delete some old attachments I guess.

It's hard to find someone for that. They would need to watch my whole series and who wants to do that?

Nothing changed. Maybe you maxed out your file limit? Hard for me to know since I can't see that.

Frankly, when I saw Ralston get divorced I realized that not even the most conscious guy in the world can make marriage work. That was hugely eye-opening for me. You have no idea what tree you're barking up.

I'm no fan of polyamory. I think it's mostly delusion. I'm just saying there are serious challenges to monogamy. Not that you can't do it.

He did that long ago in his previous books: Integral Psychology and Integral Spirituality. That's such a trivial difference. - - - - - Anyway, if I find a new juicy model I will cover it. But I don't know of any right now.

No. It's beyond your choice or will. You do not have this kind of control that you imagine. You can't choose a salvia state. You can't even imagine it or think it. It's completely beyond you. That's the crazyiness of psychedelics. There's no alternative to them. You can't huff and puff and fake your way there. It's very hard to get an answer to that question. I have not gotten it.

What does he say that's new?

Ambition is just a core personality trait. In that case it doesn't have any satisfaction or end. Ambition means you want the best, the biggest, the most significant, the perfect. You want to be the best in the world at something so its own sake. Like, you want to be best and biggest bank robber in the world. Of course ambition can also be fueled by various negative problems in the psyche like not receiving enough love, feeling fundamentally inadequate or unlovable, needing endless narcissistic supply, getting high on fame or power, megalomania, needing a sense of meaning to avoid facing the meaningless of life and your own death, childhood trauma, etc. Or, you could just be driven to do the most good in the world because you want to live the best life possible. And doing the most good requires having lots of power, wealth, and influence. If you really wanted to improve the world, you would earn billions and then use it to fund philanthropic projects.

Won't he be smeared as an evil globalist banker? Isn't Canada due for a stupid populist who drinks maple syrup and wears a hockey jersey?