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It's a very cool LP and it can pay very well. You can definitely learn 3D visual arts a lot on your own. Don't use free YT videos, you must buy higher quality courses. Don't wait for school. Get started making stuff immediately. I taught myself a lot of 3D modeling when I was a teen. And the tools and learning resources available today are 100x better. Yes, it's very technical and takes a lot of effort and struggle to learn. But once you've have the basic skills it's quite fun and rewarding. Don't compare your early work with the work of professionals. It take a lot of training to make pro-level stuff.
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Yes
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This is a dangerous and false idea. The substance is irrelevant.
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Plot twist: AI will do all the fun creative jobs while you end up doing grueling soulless labor for a giant soulless corporation.
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The problem is that kids only have so much time to learn. So it's about prioritizing the most important domains. Ideally law would be taught, but in practice it's not a high priority domain. I would rather have kids learn about psychology, personal development, epistemology, health, geography, government, relationships, business, marketing, dating.
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Leo Gura replied to Daniel Balan's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
You have to be extremely careful with this or you will turn into a deluded fool like Whatifalthist. You have to be very careful about using history to reinforce your own biases and ideology. When you read history it's not so clear why certain things unfolded as they did. Epistemic humility is crucial. A libertarian will distort history as he reads it, and then corrupt you with his twisted understanding. -
Suffering by itself is not enough to improve a system. You must also have the resources and infrastructure to make the improvements. Underdeveloped places are mired in profound corruption which has no quick solution. It's like a drug addict -- he suffers a lot but doesn't have the resources to help himself. Suffering is just his way of life. There's not even an option. The more dysfunctional a system is, the harder it is to fix. And some systems are so dysfunctional they cannot be fixed.
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The deluded fantasies of an egomaniac. Abundance for him, wage slavery and capitalist dystopia for everyone else.
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Leo Gura replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
She's not insane, just disgruntled and radicalized. I don't see a problem with what I said. It's not a joke. Bullying creates violent people. This is obvious. I have considered it more than you know. -
Deep tripping will unleash energies within you which you never even knew you had. All self-restraint and common sense will fly out the window. You won't be able to confine yourself to your bed or a room. You can get dangerous ideas and then act on them without your normal sober caution and better judgment. For example, you might get the idea to stab yourself in the eye with a pencil, just because.
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Leo Gura replied to Carl-Richard's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Just as long as he applies that logic to his own family. Gotta watch those double standards. -
Leo Gura replied to Aaron p's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Impossible things are cool and important, but still not the same as Awakening proper. Awakening is self-validating, obvious to itself. The most obvious thing about it is that you will say to yourself, "OMG! I'm Awake!" There won't be any doubt about that. It will be shockingly clear and obvious. However, keep in mind that this clarity and obviousness does not mean that an Awakening has to be crazy radical or intense. It can still be mild. There are mild awakenings and very extreme intense awakenings. And both are obvious, clear, and self-validating. You could still be confused about an awakening you had. But generally speaking it will be obvious enough to you that you won't need to ask us. Yes, there is such a distinction. A small awakening would be very clear but your visual field won't change much. You'd be awake but everything would look pretty much like normal. Nothing otherworldly would be going on. It would feel like your visual field became crystal clear. A very intense awakening would not only be very clear but so radical that your visual field should start to do impossible things and you would have such profound insight into the nature of consciousness that it would terrify you. It would be so intense that it would be deeply uncomfortable and you would experience it as physical reality melting before your eyes. It would feel like drowning in Infinity. Infinity would beat you over the head mercilessly, to the point of a traumatic experience. You might feel like you've lost your mind and gone insane. The key aspect of Awakening is clarity. It's like the clarity of your perception got cranked up by 1000x. This pure clarity is distinct from seeing weird mystical shit. You can see weird mystical shit without this clarity, or with it. And when this clarity reaches a high enough degree it starts to warp your visual field and spawn weird mystical shit too. Awakening feels sorta like having all the air sucked out of the room. It's like you're seeing through reality and reality feels hollow. You can look at a coffee table and its just feels like nothing/infinity. -
Leo Gura replied to Daniel Balan's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Again, it's wrong to call it socialism. It's a softer form of capitalism. Sure, that works. Why would any system work 100%? -
Leo Gura replied to Daniel Balan's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I'm not even sure. I don't know enough about the business culture of Scandinavia. -
Leo Gura replied to UnlovingGod's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You can't know everything you are capable of creating. But you can mostly distinguish between things which are within your control and which are not. Creating money is within your control. Contacting aliens is mostly not. Of course there's a lot of things you don't know and won't ever know about reality and even yourself. What you know is a tiny fraction of what could be known. -
Leo Gura replied to Daniel Balan's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
1) Scandinavia is not socialist. It is capitalist. 2) Well-regulated capitalism seems to be the best system at this time. 3) I don't see trust of government as a big issue. If we invest resources into making government function well then it will be trusted. Clearly creating a well-functioning government is possible. It just requires eliminating corruption and hiring/electing high quality people with integrity and good character. This can be done in America and Europe. It's just that people aren't serious about doing it. -
Leo Gura replied to UnlovingGod's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You can't know that without trial and error. It's like asking, How do you know how far you can run? You try running and see how far you get. Your ability to run is within the ego's control but at some point that will break down and your body will just fail and you can run no more. But it's obvious that it is not within the ego's ability to turn into a pig. That's why we call that "genetics". Genetics is the stuff about your dream that your ego cannot change. -
Leo Gura replied to UnlovingGod's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
The real limit is not the brain but the dream that is your entire life. The brain is just an aspect of that dream. You are limited because you are committed to dreaming a particular dream. If that commitment was broken then you would either die or go insane. And you are not in control of this dream. You are dreaming that you are a human and not a pig. And so it is. If you could dream that you are a pig, you would be a pig. But you don't know how to do that because it is beyond the ego's power. You as ego didn't choose. You are just a puppet of reality. -
No.
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Nothing like this was said. This is your own construction.
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Leo Gura replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
She literally said so in her manifesto. Maybe if you take her complaints seriously there will be less shootings. If you're gonna bully people with "locker room" insults, don't be surprised when they go on a shooting spree. The one thing all these school shooters have in common is that they were bullied and insulted. -
It's hard to imagine a political party more insane, cancerous, and embarassing than today's conservatives.
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The difference is that your nose will not be happy.
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Leo Gura replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Landing doesn't even apply here. It's just your twisted view of women. Hearing guys like you is probably why she shot up that school. -
Leo Gura replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Dude, reflect on the cringe you say.
