Leo Gura

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  1. Finally an excellent example! More of this, less BS.
  2. Yes. Oblique thinking is a way of getting around the limitations of finite symbols and langauge. For example, to say something of God while knowing as you say it that that's not entirely what is being meant. You can use a symbol while mentally noting that that symbol is not really what you mean. It is a diliberate slipperiness to language. It is a way of grappling with high levels of abstraction without breaking the abstraction by making it explicit.
  3. It's hard to articulate. Typical thinking is direct and explicit because it deals with concrete things. Oblique thinking is a way of thinking that is deliberately not so explicit but nebulous because it is handling nebulous things which it does not want to define. Most scientific thinking stupidly tries to define everything, ending up over-defining things. Oblique thinking recognizes that problem and avoids being too explicit. It's more fuzzy and intuitive. For example, when you think about infinity, you want to be careful not to think about it too concretely as that ruins it. Typical thinking is like looking Medusa straight in the eyes and turning to stone. Oblique thinking is looking at Medusa without looking directly at her. Sure. Typical thinking is like driving on well-paved roads and highways. True thinking is like driving off-road. First you learn to drive on the highway, once you master that you can venture off-road. Most humans never go off-road. Deconstruction eventually ends in complete autonomy of mind, where you can think fully independently of what anyone else has thought. You can invent entirely new domains of thought. In order to do that you need to understand how all current ways of thinking are just arbitrary and nothing more than social convention. Your average scientist does not understand how science is a human construction. He thinks science is concretely real. So he cannot think beyond it. To think in new ways requires seeing that the old ways aren't reality but just human conventions. For example, your typical scientist thinks that you can't do science on God. But you can realize that you can, just in other ways. You have to unearth and see through all the assumptions that ground conventional human views of things.
  4. When a group is that large, you peel off your girl. Just focus on her and the others often won't notice. Eventually you acknowledge them a bit, but then focus on your girl. The hardest are actually 2-sets because she won't ever ditch her one friend. But she will easily ditch a large group.
  5. If your inner game is bad, then definitely that. Most important is whatever your bottleneck is.
  6. He looks too fat and lazy to catch a mosquito.
  7. I never open my windows. They get in anyway.
  8. Seriously, if you can invent a more efficient mosquito trap, that is worth tens of millions of dollars. Most mosquito traps are inefficient.
  9. That is not what I am suggesting. That will likely make you more unhinged. So please be careful. Schizophrenia usually requires anti-psychotics, which is the opposite of weed.
  10. I promise you psychedelic therapy will be the most effective. But it has to be done seriously.
  11. It's a difficult issue. Some conditions just can't be cured. Medication is probably the most reliable method, as long as there exists a medication for it. But medications have their own set of problems. It's all on a case-by-case basis. There is no generic solution. But for stuff like healing trauma, which requires deep introspection, psychedelics are amazing.
  12. I find his analysis too definitive, to the point where I have to avoid him.
  13. Yes, that's valid. But therapy doesn't really solve mental illness either.
  14. I have many plants. The source is plant water. I am not removing them.
  15. Your idea is leftist fantasy. Do you comprehend how hard it is to catch a mosquito unharmed? I can barely kill them at all, they are so sneaky.
  16. One psychedelic trip is worth 6 months in therapy.
  17. How about you invent a better solution and you sell it to us. I will give you a free ad on the blog.
  18. Be careful with him. He's way over-confident about everything.
  19. @YIDIRYIDIR Let's see you live with them.
  20. She won't hate you, just ignore you.