Leo Gura

You'd have to get them to realize that all they have are beliefs and projections, and that they in fact do not know what God is. Not-knowing needs to be created. Obviously not. Christians never cared about truth. So they cannot appreciate the value of pure truth over all the human social games.

The benefit is actually knowing God.

@koops You left out the horse! Spiritual Horseshoe Theory

Probably mental illness and wrong cocktail of drugs.

Jesus

http://sri-nisargadatta-maharaj.blogspot.com/2014/11/nisargadatta-maharaj-photo36.html

No. It means once you realize God then you are free to be any way you want. You don't need to try to act spiritual any more. Fake spiritual people try to act moral and righteous to overcompensate for not knowing God. Be ware of people who make a display of acting moral. Real spiritual people are down-to-earth and normal. Not some Pope in a hat with a moral stick up his ass. You want to smoke a cigarette while fucking a horse? Go ahead. God doesn't care.

I read them.

That would mean they are less intelligent than us.

@Elliott Sorry for his behavior. He has been disciplined.

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.