Leo Gura

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  1. There's more insights to be had. That's definitely an issue. If you're after practicality then it does max out. In general tripping is not too practical. Yes, destabilization happens. You can still understand more and deeper things. Whether that's worth the time and risk is of course a matter of personal taste. There are things I understood after 200 trips which I would have never understood if I stopped at 30 trips. Stopping at 30 trips to me feels like stopping math after 4th grade. 4th grade math is good enough for most people. But then there's those of us who appreciate college level math.
  2. I don't see what's so toxic about her. Strikes me as standard Orange. At least in that video. She's basically doing standard Tony Robbins style self-help advice.
  3. A few key things: 1) Talk less, experience more. Seek out more experience rather than bullshitting. Don't wait for experience to befall you, strategically plan to acquire it. 2) "Experience" also includes stuff like reading books, talking to experts, doing deep research, and contemplation. Most people talk about stuff not only without direct experience but even without basic research and reading and contemplation. For example, you can talk about war or read a book about war. The book will at least cure basic stupidity on the topic. 3) Practice more humility and not-knowing when talking about things. 4) Just practice recognizing when you don't have any experience on a topic. That alone is a game-changer vs what most people do. 5) You can talk for years and still never get the bullshit out of your system. It's not like there's a finite amount of bad opinions and arguments. Your mind can bullshit endlessly about any topic. But of course you can't always avoid saying stupid things. Stupid things will be said.
  4. A notion that can only be held by one who has not been physically abused.
  5. Men and women can both be abusive. I don't see what this video proves other than that this girl is mentally ill. Can girls get away with more bad behavior in public? Generally yes since they are less physically threatening.
  6. Am not responding to your Trump fears any more. And if you keep posting about it over and over again I will start deleting your posts. We have all given you plenty of space but now you are taking it too far.
  7. Yeah, but also a cop is dead. Not wise to drive folks into a rage.
  8. I am losing patience with your Trump hysteria. I expect better from you.
  9. @The Crocodile Stop posting videos of police asses.
  10. They could have been less aggressive. Being too aggressive pisses people off and drives them into a rage. From that rage comes very bad behavior.
  11. To be fair, he only reacted that way after they tasered him quite violently. Yes, he was resisting, but I didn't get the sense he was going to shoot at them until they pissed him off by tasering him so bad. From his POV it was self-defense. Of course he was wrong but I understand where he was coming from. I felt the tasing was excessive. If you taser a bear long enough he will claw at you. I also think the cops made a mistake by not asking him if he had any guns in the car. That could have saved them. Hard to say.
  12. I have watched like 50 hours of police arrest videos. 98% of the time the police are professional and kind to an extreme. Of course there are a few bad apples, but the videos speak for themselves. This thread and these videos are not about defending or attacking police. This is an apolitical topic. Actually, we are the ones killing police. I support rooting out corruption anywhere it is found, including inside the police. But otherwise I support giving the police better tools and support for doing their job. I will not engage in any kind of demonization of the police. The police are more surveiled than any other public servant, so I don't know what your gripe is. I suggest you don't politicize this issue. When I share videos in this thread it is not for political purposes.
  13. He runs some pretty big retreat centers in India which involves politics. So it's not so weird. Relative to a place as backwards as India I don't know how bad Modi is. You can't expect some Green lib running India.
  14. @Anton Rogachevski And thus your nonsense has been exposed.
  15. @Anton Rogachevski So then you agree that Israel is commiting a genocide? Since the Native Americans were genocided. Let's hear you say it. Since you are so fond of this analogy.
  16. Nice gaslighting. The difference is that we are not bombing and shooting the natives today.
  17. He's not a deep thinker or analyzer. He just goes with whatever fits his vibes. Remember, he's an entertainer, not an intellectual. So don't expect intellectual rigor in this work. Rogan is the living embodiment of that old cliche: You are the average of your top 5 friends. He is friends with too many right-wingers and conspiracy theorists, from MMA fighters to comedians. To maintain those friendships he has to buy into their biases.
  18. It's bias and cherrypicking. He sees and calls out the lies which suit his worldview and lifestyle. Yeah, I never understood this hatred the right wing has towards Trudeau. They demonize him like Hillary Clinton. It's strange. Jordan Peterson is the leader of it. Trudeau is as mild and inoffensive as it gets, yet the right-wing is malding over him. The right-wing are masters of concocting outrage and hatred out of thin air.
  19. It's gonna take a good 5-10 years to develop solid drone tech for warfare. This field is just getting started. What we see right now is amateur stuff. Drones are gonna revolutionize warfare as much as planes and tanks did.