Leo Gura

Ugly is relative. Beauty is Absolute.

Look in the mirror

YOU! You decide everything. I shouldn't have to tell you you're ugly. You should notice it yourself. If I told you, you wouldn't believe me anyway

The conclusion is: Do you want to be ugly? If not, maybe change those parts of yourself.

A core part of being epistemically responsible is being responsible about handling your survival. If you have painted yourself into a corner survival-wise, then you have not been epistemically responsible. Being homeless is not just irresponsible, it is epistemically irresponsible too, because homeless people will not develop good epistemology.

I wouldn't say that. That's too extreme of a position. The bottom line is that you still have to survive somehow. You can work for an evil corporation and still be epistemically responsible on your own, inside your own mind. You just happen to be stuck in the meantime in an evil corporation. Eventually you will leave when you get the opportunity. But you can't be perfect immediately. It takes years of work to improve your situation. I wouldn't waste time being this perfectionistic.

Because psychedelics shatter all paradigms. Every mind is stuck in some paradigm.

@Joseph Maynor Time to get disgusted with yourself, bro.

Keep trying to change it. Apply more consciousness to the issue. Apply consciousness to this. Keep observing the ugliness of it until your mind rewires. It can take years.

It depends on how you want to define your terms. I don't think moralistically at all, because that implies some objective right and wrong. Ugly is an aesthetic.

It is best left undefined and open. You know when you see ugly. Yes, but also deeper. No. Not in a moralistic sense. But of course immoral behavior is ugly. Selfish and ignorant behavior is ugly. Ungodly behavior.

It is not my job to do introductions. I am not a podcast host.

I think that problem is solved by properly teaching epistemology all throughout school. By the time kids graduate highschool they should have the epistemic knowhow of everything Actualized.org teaches. This should be a baseline for everyone in society. Not as a belief system, but actual epistemic work, questioning reality. We expect everyone to know math, yet not epistemology? This is silly.

Yes, it costs money to avoid toxic chemicals these days. Making poison has been big business for the last 100 years.

I was gonna make a joke saying kangaroos, but then read your post. Lol

I think they still struggle with self-deception and bias, unless they are crazy Woke. Bugs me too.

@musicandmath111

I will not shower for a month and roll around in glitter.

I will make sure to rub myself with a skunk before I go. I hope you like some funk with your meal.

It's not just about selling though. It's about appeal. Taylor Swift music is appealing. Even if it ain't your style. Dub-step is not appealing except to a few freaks. Which is why it will never out-sell Swift.

It's okay. The important thing is that you did the work.

The notion that conservatives are not obsessed with sex is laughable. Conservatives are sex freaks, despite their fake piety. That loving conservative is watching donkey porn in his closet.

Listening, in my view, is understanding verbal communication. Contrary to what hippies may believe, the rain is not communicating with you. But it is profound to be mindful of the rain.

@Davino What you're describing is what I would call awareness or mindfulness -- which is of course fundamental. I don't call listening to the rain, listening. But good for you for doing the work.

The cope that lovers of dub-step tell themselves when they go to sleep at night