Leo Gura

Realistically no, because as humans unlock unlimited sources of energy from the sun and from fusion, all the other resources can be converted, recycled, and extracted from deeper in the Earth. It depends on your time horizon. In the short and medium term there will be shortages, but in the long term unlimited cheap energy will allow for nearly unlimited resources.

That is technically true. However in practice it's hard to prove everything as misinformation given that the right's strategy is explicitly to "flood the zone with shit". Just calling it the "China virus" lead to an increase in hate crimes against Asians, for example. The problem is that people spreading the lab leak theory are rarely just innocent actors. Such people have an entire worldview/agenda which combines stuff like lab leak, anti-vax, MAGA, nationalism, election denial, promotion of unproven drugs like Ivermectin, climate change denial, trans denial, racist comments, etc. And when such people get banned, it's often not for one theory, but for a string of badly misinformed posts. But then they cry that they got banned for some innocent lab leak theory. Also, there is a big difference between how you post about it. Many of these posts were not innocent like: "I speculate that the Covid virus may have been leaked from a lab." Rather it's more in the style of: "Covid was definitely a lab leak, and this lab was funded by evil Big Pharma who now wants to sell you the vax, which is killing more people than Covid itself. And you should be taking Ivermectin instead because it is safe." The problem is people who spread these conspiracy theories have very low epistemic standards and will engage in all sorts of wild speculation but state it as fact and tie it in with their political agenda and biases. So it becomes a giant pool of shit. Covid was a novel virus which was rapidly killing 1000s of people per day. So concerns about its danger and spread were very reasonable. In such a situation, being over-cautious is the responsible course of action. Imagine if schools were not closed and then it was discovered that Covid kills tens of 1000s of kids. Did you really want to media and gov to take that risk and gamble with your kids lives like that? I think many people still have no idea how many people Covid actually kills per week. Take a guess, how many people are dying of Covid per week right now in the US?

Mind is a twisted thing. That's what makes it fun. If it was straightforward there would be no juice to existence.

That's inspiring. You are showing people around that world that development is possible even in the most challenging and limited of places. So I will have little empathy for those in America or Europe making excuses about why they can't self-actualize. I don't see why not. There are many creative ways to get psychedelics. Realistically you need to develop yourself to the point where you can travel out of country. Then many doors will open for you. Basically, your plan should be turn yourself into such a high-value person that people from around the world want to work with you. Then you will gain your freedom. Until then you're gonna be limited. But I would keep feeding this vision to yourself every day: "That I will offer the world so much value that they will not be able to resist working with me. It's only a matter of time and work." And then just keep chipping away at that vision, diligently. The ability to provide others with massive value is your ticket out of Iraq. That's the bottom line.

Well, I'm not really Leo I spoke of direct consciousness, not speculation. This is not a religion. You are not here to believe my ideas. Become directly conscious of what's true for yourself. I'm just telling you what's possible. If you don't wish to believe it's possible, that's your call. I'm just reporting that I did it. I am not going to bend over backwards to prove anything to you.

Very, very bad starting points. So biased and ahistoric that I don't even know where to begin correcting it. For one thing, you should notice that conservatives are more corrupt and immoral than liberals, in most cases. And conservatives wise? Please don't make me laugh.

The manner in which people were spreading that particular theory, in the middle of a pandemic where millions were dying, was irresponsible, and social media companies had a responsibility to keep such ideas from poisoning the collective epistemic ecosystem. My question to you is very simple: If you were personally responsible for ensuring the health of our epistemic ecosystem, how would you prevent bad faith actors and devils from hijacking social media platforms to spread poisonous ideas which might result in the deaths of tens of thousands of people? See? It's easy to criticize from the sidelines when you are not actually in a position of responsibility for the well-being of millions. It's very different when you own a social platform the size of YT or are President of the US. Now actual lives are in your hands, and you cannot ignore that.

This reminds me of when Joe Rogan says that Alex Jones is right about a lot of things. Lol

This!

You don't know what I know. Consider the possibility that I have been more conscious than any Buddhist you know. Of course I'm not gonna prove it to you. No. It's hard to even access on psychedelics. Requires some very serious tripping. Accessing alien consciousness is something wild. People have no idea it is even possible.

There is at least an order of magnitude difference between human Awakening and alien Awakening. It's like the difference between a mouse and human in order of understanding and intelligence. What does a mouse understand about reality? Well, likewise the human. An advanced alien intelligence is much closer to God than a human. A human hardly understands anything about God or Consciousness. I don't even take human intelligence seriously at this point. The best human intelligence is trash. It's mouse-level understanding. At this point I am only interested in trans-human intelligence and consciousness. I don't care what humans think, want, or do. It's all nonsense, whether it is material or spiritual in nature. I have recently been able to access trans-human levels of Consciousness which I was in before I was born as a human. That's the kind of Consciousness I'm interested in. It's 10x to 100x more conscious than the most conscious humans. It's conscious in dimensions which humans can't even imagine.

It amazes me how much harder self-actualization is in some countries vs America. But this just means you gotta get more creative about it, finding unique ways.

Yes, that is already concerning. It will give rise to dangerous and toxic political movements and violence. We have already been seeing this, and it will get even worse. But it's hard to come up with a good scalable solution to this problem. Especially if the solution needs to be fast and easy. Such lack of development cannot be solved in any easy way. The true solution is proper education from early on. But reforming the education system is next to impossible. Yes. Like I said, excellence is a minority position. Yes, education is the ultimate solution to most of our problems. Unfortunately reforming education is a very politically loaded and cumbersome task. A lot of these problems are baked into our culture. This online culture that has arisen over the last 20 years is very unhealthy and will slowly errode many people's capacity to live decent happy lives. Ultimately schools need to teach youngsters about how to embody masculine and feminine polarity, and how to socialize in romantic ways. I could design such a school program. But it would never be politically acceptable. So I don't even bother. In the end, most people in society will get bad results in every area of life unless they undertake a serious personal development journey on their own time, not forced on them by government or anyone else. And work their ass off. One other thing that government can try to do is create more social spaces where people can mingle. We have really lost that in the last 30 years. This is a social engineering problem to a degree. There is not enough opportunity to socialize and to earn socialization experience outside of school and university.

I'm sorry to hear that. Wishing you the best.

That's because you're not yet conscious of what God is. When you finally start to realize what God is, the only words out of your mouth will be, OH MY GOD. When you finally realize what God is, you will take a shit in the middle of the carpet in your living room. You won't have time to the bathroom to shit. It will be too astounding for such human concerns.

I'm not really interested in emptiness. Of course it's a facet, but it's so obvious and rudimentary it's uninteresting to me. I'm more interested in, for example, realizing that your entire life is just a dream within God's Mind. And then understanding what this God's Mind is up to. Have you even considered what the movement of Consciousness is for? Why are you dreaming? Why are you human? For what purpose? For example, I've become conscious that our entire universe is just a molecule within an alien God-Mind that exists on a higher dimension, which is using all the conscious experience of the universe to fuel it's own intelligence process, in order to understand itself deeper and accessing ever higher categories of metaphysical Love. No Buddhist has a clue about such things. What no Buddhist understands is that Consciousness is engaged in a process of ever-deeper self-understanding and Intelligence. The movement of the whole universe is there to raise the universe's intelligence of itself, in order to achieve Omniscience. There are dimensions of Consciousness so advanced and so alien that no human can even begin to imagine it. None of these things are understood by Buddhists or nondualists. Does your Buddhist understand what alien consciousness is? No! He has no clue. Does your Buddhist understand what Love is? No! Not even a little. At best he has some crap human idea of Love. That's not any kind of proper understanding of what LOVE is metaphysically.

It goes way deeper than which terms you use. What I look at is not the terms per se, but one's fundamental grasp of what Consciousness is. Does the person understand how it works, why it exists, what its highest levels are, how the mind constructs reality, etc? Buddhism and nonduality tends to flatten all this rich terrain down into a 1-D plane. And it is a distinctly human sort of plane.

Yes, sure, but what I'm saying goes entire orders deeper than that. People who speak in these platitudes: Form, formlessness, emptiness, etc. It's clear to me they have not truly confronted what Consciousness is. No, my problem is that these guys fundamentally do not understand what Consciousness/God is. They understand less than they let on. If they understood more I would be happy with them. The stuff these teach is anti-understanding. That's what pisses me off about it. They have actually invented a clever system to get people to stop trying to understand Consciousness. It's extremely sneaky. You probably don't even know its happening to you as you learn from these teachers. You just assume they are guiding you towards the highest and that all roads lead to same place.

Yes. And it took me a long time to realize how foolish I was for blindly trusting these Buddhists, as if they are some authorities on the subject of Consciousness. Of course. I am pointing out the traps and limits of the tool.

You def want to integrate that. But then go way beyond it. You definitely want the ability to be serious, grounded, and ruthless when a situation calls for it. The problem is that such advice can be badly misused. And the healthy version of it is much different than what Tate does/teaches. If you use this advice to scam and cheat people, you done fucked up. At least I can respect JP for not being a scammer.

I'm not just talking about some one divide and conquer technique. The whole Buddhist paradigm is attempting to reduce Consciousness to something like emptiness. It's fundamentally wrong and it does not work for understanding what Consciousness really is. Consciousness is not really emptiness, and you cannot understand what it is by silencing your mind, or any of the techniques Shinzen teaches. None of your Buddhist enlightenments will get you a deep understanding of what Consciousness is and how it works.

The Indian brand of Modafinil, called Modalert, is made by a big Indian pharma company and it comes in sealed foil packaging. Each individual pill is sealed. It's pretty legit looking so you don't need to test it. It would be harder to fake that than to sell you the real pills. These pills are only overpriced in the US.

Women are too picky? This is so silly. If anything, women are not picky enough. They sleep with the worse characters. If I had a daughter I would teach her to be pickier. If you're a shady character, you don't deserve sex with my daughter.

There is no limit to how strong your inner game and self-confidence can be. Your own limiting beliefs about yourself are basically the limit, and your lack of self-love. If you want the best inner game, you must basically fall in love with yourself at the metaphysical level. Then no girl will ever faze you then.

Psychedelics moreso. I used psychedelics to build a rock solid inner game. Any insecurity about myself is gone and my state is much more consistent. I have better inner game than many coaches I know. Because while they were chasing girls, I was realizing myself as God.