Leo Gura

Everything revolves around God, which is you.

This is good.

That's why I call him the Orange Devil. Can't we all just agree to call him that?

Yes, of course. There are definitely some downsides and negatives. Progress is never 100% upside.

Yup

Or... You can act with integrity and accept the consequences.

Watch out for Big Porn. Oh God, Einsenhower's warnings about the Porn-Industrial Complex are coming true.

@Hardkill If you have to lie to your voters to get yourself elected to do the opposite of what you promised them, it's hard to imagine a greater evil/corruption.

Imagine an army of 1000 Jesuses wearing business suits all secretely working on Wall Street to save us from the evils of rampant capitalism.

@Treewatcher There is definitely an opportunity to build an online brand of helping people to think through problems and issues. Somthing like what the Healthy Gamer did, or even Destiny is in that ballpark. There do exist experts in cult deprogramming. There is also an opportunity to combine psychoptherapy with philosophy, or business consulting with philosophy.

The solution to this issue is easy: It is to realize that the ontological nature of reality is that it is consciousness, which is fluid and relative, not a collection of static material objects. The key mistake of rationalism is assuming that reality is made up out of crisp discreet parts and objects. It is not. There really is no such thing as a "child" or an "adult". These are convenient fictions that humans invented to help themselves navigate and survive. These things have no objective ontology at bottom.

@Hardkill Look man, it's all a function of what you let your mind focus on. If you wanna focus on the negative you can find endless shit to complain and cry about. But that way of seeing the world is a distortion and an illusion. You are letting your mind use you. Just a week ago you were doom and glooming us over Biden stepping down. Now Kamala is leading. Relax and trust the process a bit. Good stuff is always afoot.

Cars are WAY cleaner than the 80s. The smog clouds around LA are much less. Also, the ozone hole is doing better. We have made much progress.

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That's exactly right. But it is also a function of one's values. The sad reality is that almost no one values truth or genuine unbiased understanding of reality, therefore they are incapable of good thinking. You can't become good at that which you do not value.

I post my best resources in the book list or my blog. But really, Actualized.org is my answer to your question. And I will have many new advanced videos that explain all the traps of thinking and how to think correctly.

No. It involved lots of reading and studying too. And psychecelics. And life experience.

I've been praticing for 25 years and I am insanely intuitive. Without my intuiton I would be totally deluded like everyone else.

Crime rates are way down. Pollution and smog is way down. Technology is amazing and cheap. All the world's knowledge is available to you basically for free via AI. Cars are safer than ever. Racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are way down. Psychedelics are much more acceptable and accessible and better-understood. The 3rd world is doing MUCH better, like China, India, Africa, South America, even Russia. And don't forget the most important one: Actualized.org exists

This is something you could say of all coaching and counseling. It's overly reductive. The practical reality is that most people benefit a lot from outside guidance, expertise, and perspective. It is too easy to get stuck in one's own mind. Learning how to think well is insanely difficult and tricky, which is why even doctors and academics like Jordan Peterson are bad at it.

The biggest problem with it would be finding clients and staying profitable. Very few people would appreciate or want to pay for this service.

As I said, it is good for learning formal rigorous thinking/rationality. Learning rationality is useful. Learning rigor is useful for STEM type fields.

Why not Dirk Diggler while you're at it?

There are no lines in Mind. You would just have a good screening questionaire and then use your best judgment.

You are assuming that "physical" and "death" are not illusions. Maybe, rather than waiting to die, you just need to raise your consciousness to the point where you realize death is imaginary.