Leo Gura

When a moth flies into your earhole, you will have complete enlightenment.

To be at Leo's level you gotta clean your ear-holes.

Is your suffering real? Why isn't God skipping it?

How can such a vague question have a precise answer? It all depends. Why are you even thinking about the years? It is irrelevant. Just do the work that excites you and stop looking at the clock. You are already great just by working on minor things that will make you great, like reading a book. If you are reading the right book, you are being great, today! You guys seriously need to start enjoying your work. There is no magic destination that will make you happy. The happiness is in the journey. Work slower and savor your work. Stop fantasizing about future greatness. Just be great today!

@integral Post more puzzles for us. Without the answers.

No. Because the thesis of the series is that rationalism is a self-deception. If you wish to steelman it, that's a good homework assignment for you. I plan to eventually make an episode that teaches rationality. You could consider that the steelman. But that will be a while.

1) Enjoy the work itself. 2) Enjoy working towards a larger vision. You don't need to be at the goal to enjoy moving towards it. Being at the goal doesn't in itself produce enjoyment. Just because you have mastered a skill doesn't mean you are living in pleasure. Having a skill is no different than having a Ferrari. It doesn't make you happy just owning it. The joy comes from doing it, from the journey, not the destination. Example: If your goal is to become a doctor, you can enjoy reading a book which moves you towards that goal today. You don't have to wait until you are a doctor to start feeling good.

It is not scary because the self who is scared will be nullified upon death. It is scary because you imagine yourself surviving and then living through new horrible lives.

As I said, when you actually look inside with the camera, you're in for a rude awakening. You don't even know what your ears look like inside. They are weird.

1) There is no bad from God's POV. So no reason to skip anything. 2) Obviously you see many people suffering in the world. So clearly God is not skipping the "bad" stuff out of squeamishness. Why didn't God skip the Holocaust or Gaza? Why didn't God skip the suffering in your own life? Obviously God finds some value in it.

@Vibes Life is like a video game. It doesn't need to be real to enjoy it. It's okay to get lost in the dream a bit because there's nothing outside of dreaming. Relax and enjoy the dream.

I wouldn't take it too literally. Infinity is all things, but it doesn't necessarily unfold in a simplistic linear series of lifetimes. The broader point here was to communicate how limited your mind is by only thinking within your personal lifetime of experience. You need to be thinking much more broadly, as if you were going to be all people. It's sort of like John Rawls' Original Position thought experiment.

Stings? Why? Obviously if it advances mankind's Awakening it also advances your Awakening. These are not mutually exclusive. Plus, what good is it for you to Awaken but then live amongst a bunch of cavemen? Obviously you want to live among others who understand you. So this goal is not just good for mankind at large, it is good for you. Do you want to be Awakened and living among a bunch of materialist Nazis? So obviously we need a larger goal of advancing the entire culture.

@Dayo The problem with telling someone something is a problem, is that they can always just say, "But it's not a problem for me!" Maybe. But it's a problem for billions of not-yous.

Consider: When Taylor Swfit was learning the guitar, she practiced till her fingers bled. That's what success and mastery requires. That's why it is rare and valuable. Because most people aren't driven enough to follow through with it. Everything big is much harder than it seems. Successful people work insanely hard, long, and consistently. Lazyness is incompatible with greatness.

@Dayo You are overlooking the issue of Jesus worship. Christianity is fundamentally about worshiping a man. Consider how that is problematic.

I'm making this thread to collect every important video or source of information I find about understanding Israel's deceptive behavior. I've found dozens upon dozens of important videos, too many to fit on the blog. So I'm going to keep adding them here. Feel free to add your own. This is not a thread about debating the Israel-Gaza war. I want to build up a playlist of quality videos for people who want a deep understanding of Israel's deceptive behavior -- the underbelly, if you will. This playlist does not focus on understanding Hamas or Arab terrorism or the latest news about the Gaza conflict (since we already have a thread for that). Warning, this list will be pretty negative as it focuses on uncovering deception, propaganda, bias, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and deconstructing illusions. I see a lot of deception and bias about Israel in mainstream western media which I want to dispel. That's what this playlist is about. This is part of my study of self-deception and self-bias. Sorry if this doesn't seem fair, but this is what I needed to study to unravel the deceptions. This is part of my own sense-making journey. Feel free to discuss any of the videos or share your own. Be mindful not to share low quality, hateful, or misleading/untruthful material. The point here is not be deliberately negative but to gain a deeper understanding of the Israel situation. I will delete any low quality material posted here.

Medical Medium

I saw the queen sac as the first move to try. However I didn't see black's bishop covering the rook's checkmate for a long time. It's so obvious in hindsight.

Great example of confromity.

That's hard for me to answer because I don't work in organizations like that. I am not the right guy to pioneer that. That's something one of you should take on as a life purpose. Consider that the test of everything you learned here.

Yes. 2 years ago during my long break from the channel I had to give up my life purpose and all the meaning I created. Of course meaning isn't bulletproof. You can lose it. But you can also create new, higher orders of meaning, and you can drop meaning altogether and ground yourself in the Being of God. Really, you want both. If you work on creating ambitious projects that align with your top values, you will hardly ever run out of meaning.

Yes, I am still passionate about those practical topics and I will have new videos on that in the coming months.