Leo Gura

I get sick very rarely. But that's cause I don't go out much.

I think it's mostly confirmation bias and exaggerations. There are many storms in that area so plenty of early aviation struggled there. I doubt there is some supernatural force at work there.

Thanks everyone. I appreciate it.

But I can believe that if he is socializing all the time, eventually he gets all the colds out there and is immune to most of them now. That is plausible. I think that's his point.

A male witch is called a warlock. Rasputin comes to mind.

He means the common cold or flu. Could be true. But that is not his doing, he has good genetics for that sort of robustness. He speaks about it with real pride, like his mushroom supplements have made him invincible and like it will work for everyone. This part is self-deception. People have very different immune systems and it is largely out of your control. Covid killed plenty of perfectly healthy people just by bad luck.

Thanks! We have another thread on this topic here.

@Raze Example of conflicting demands?

You talkin to me? I don't regard anyone as my servant.

@Rafael Thundercat Empathy for criminals is not against the rules here. In fact, it is an aspect of genuine spiritual development. This is not to be strawmanned as condoning abuse or criminality. Sexual desire is not a conscious choice. No one chose to be born a pedophile. You can definitely empathize with the tragedy of that shituation.

@bazera I understand your frustration. I don't even like being on Instagram. But I have to test out new formats because long-form YouTube is not sustainable at this point. The game is very different from when I started in 2013. I need to experiment to see how to structure my content for the future.

@Rafael Thundercat Stop making inflammatory posts every time. You are stirring up shit and causing conflict in every post of yours.

That attitude will get you banned. We are not going to tolerate these personal moralistic wars of yours. This has gone too far.

@AION Stop it. She is a good moderator. Do not talk to women and Mods with such disrespect. I am going to start banning for flagrant sexism, so watch yourselves. This is not a place where you get to trash women.

Yes, very bad brain fog and even loss of brain functions like memory and thinking.

Dude. Seriously? Their life is on the line with each encounter and they are dealing with zombies. I'd like to see how non-personally you'd take it when a zombie bites you.

That's not a fallacy, that's empirical fact. That's exactly how it works. You are the one engaging in fallacy. If you could not use the dream to awaken, then all spiritual teachings and techniques would not work. All manual techniques are using the dream to awaken. You are just biased against a particular class of chemicals. You are a chemical bigot.

That is compatible with my analogy. Even a good fuel can have pollutants. And there are certainly dirty fuels and even stuff like mechanical damage to the engine.

Please find examples of fake spirituality. I am especially interested in New Age examples. But cult examples are also acceptable. This is spirituality that is very conformist, performative, fantastical, conceptual, ungrounded, word salad, grifty, magical, corrupt, occult. Cringe spiritual BS, basically. I want to see how bad it gets. How deep does self-deception and fantasy go? How deep does the New Age go?

I challenge you to invent a new concept or word related to our work here. Anything related to self-actualization, consciousness work, spirituality, politics, philosophy, psychology, mind, psychedelics. Example: Leftsplaining Example: Epistemic Scoundrel Rules: Come up with a catchy, memorable name for it. Define what your word means and what it does not mean. Give a few examples of how the word can be used. Explain why this new concept is meaningful, important, or useful. Be creative. I will feature any excellent submissions on my blog, with credit.

You have not invented any remotely viable alternative. All you are doing is complaining but not providing workable solutions. You have to actually invent something better.

Mystery is very outdated. You shouldn't even be learning that.

Profit maxxing.

Shituation — a shitty situation.

Equality.