Leo Gura

Of course that larger point stands. Systemically the whole approach to bombing Gaza is a failure. 1) Israel has mandatory service for the whole population. They have a lot of youngsters who are there short-term. Also not nearly as well fundeded or experienced. 2) Zionism and religious fundamentalism is infecting half the Israeli population. This religious ethnic passion creates much bias and devilry. 3) The leadership is right-wing fundamentalist and believes they are "children of light", which of course leads to evil. I doubt they have enough elite special forces to deal with 30,000 Hamas, or even 5% of that number. That's beyond what special forces do.

Very different.

Don't forget to factor in population density. Gaza has a unique density problem. It would be a lot easier if Gaza was the size of a country rather than a city.

Interesting feedback.

What is it you expect? What kind of happiness was sex supposed to provide you other than to mollify your horniness?

Vaped Malt lasts much longer than 5-MeO-DMT. About twice as long. One strong hit is enough for a decent trip.

I wasn't comparing the scale of the US drone strikes with this Irsaeli war. Mostly just comparing the individual cases of the dead babies. In Afghanistan before the US pulled out they accidentally bombed a whole Afghan family house and killed like a dozen family members for no good reason. That kind of stuff happens in war. I agree that the scale of civilian deaths in Gaza is bad. But also the US has a much more professional military. Of course the civilian deaths are needlessly excessive here. But what if the only way to kill Bin Laden was to bomb his house which would also kill his young children? Would you pull the trigger?

The US has bombed many a house. You don't want to make that argument. Only because he was such a VIP. They wanted him alive. And in that process they killed several of his family members. Are you okay with killiing his children to kill Bin Laden?

It flew out the window as soon as Howard blamed the government for his failure to operate his own phone. And also, the guy does not understand the basics of how to multiply two dimes together.

And the absolute stuff can also be wrong. As I said, I am not talking trivial things here.

I am working to let go of it. But I also try to be humorous.

It's enough to hear him talking about how the technical glitches in his operation of his phone or Jamie's playing of a video are a conspiracy by the government to shut him up. When evaluating people like this, what you look at is their grasp of epistemology and self-deception mechanics, not the content of their beliefs.

Sounds like a classic conspiracy nutcase.

A beheaded baby is not genocide, it is a war crime or collateral damage. Genocide is not any specific low level attrocity, it is a high level intention. Don't forget that if you bomb the house of a Hamas leader and his family is inside with him, like the Bin Laden house, you could end up with some blown up babies. That's how a war on terrorism works. Terrorist houses are targetted imprecisely. I'm not saying that was necessarily the case here, but just because you see a blown up baby you cannot assume it wasn't connected to Hamas. It could have been. You have to be careful and accurate in how you frame these things because its easy to get outraged over dead babies. But all war has collateral damage and this needs to be kept in mind to maintain intellectual honesty.

A whole week of Buddhist meat for crocodiles

Discovery Channel has Shark Week. Actualized.org can have Crocodile Week.

The terrain of Consciousness is a lot more interesting and tricky than they make it out to be.

Crocodile pizza. Can't believe no one caught that Actualized easter egg yet

I don't remember if it would work in an e-liquid. Vaping without e-liquid is possible but gross.

What I mean is, you can be so-called enlightened and still hold bad or deluded views. So clearly enlightenment is not the full picture to this work. And I don't mean this in a trivial way, like an enlightened guy forgets where he put his keys. I mean existentially significant gaps in the mind. Which is why ego-loss is not my top priority. You guys keep being puzzled why I don't have the same priorities as every other spiritual rodent.

Generally speaking salt form doesn't vaporize well, it tends to burn. You can try it but it won't be pleasant. Adding oil or water is not gonna help. You'd need to do a freebase conversion which I'm not experienced in.

Where is inside your mind.

I don't agree with his scale of consciousness. His political ideas are quite bad. He thinks climate change is fake. He thinks Ben Shaprio is great. The Christian flavors in his work are limiting. I can't remember what else. I haven't read his stuff in a while. But at the same time, he has some awesome insights too. So it's worth studying.

I was speaking more broadly, not him specifically. In case you haven't noticed, I got an axe to grind against Buddhists. They are not lying, but they still live in a sort of enlightened spiritual human fantasy. A lot of fantasy still takes place even after all the enlightenment. MIND is always making shit up. That's how reality is created. People are creating their own realities and living in them. Enlightened people are not above this. This is why I proritize understanding. Without understanding you will not understand how MIND is doing this. MIND is a tricky fucking beast and enlightenment is not the end it. Imagine being fully enlightened and thinking Ben Shapiro is great. That's the reality of enlightenment.

Sure, you can do that for a while. Notice, David Hawkins did A LOT of thinking after all his so called enlightements. Don't let these guys bullshit you. They all think, and many of them think poorly. Any Buddhist who tells you he doesn't think, you can just laugh at him.