Leo Gura

Because that's not easy to answer.

We need Tom Cruise, Pedro Pascal, The Rock, and Jack Black in there, fighting the cyclops

I've done serious fasting. It doesn't work for me. The notion that fasting just heals everything is false. There are many things fasting will not heal. You have to be much more careful with such simplistic assumptions. The notion that you can heal all your health problems is false. Eventually we will all drop dead.

It's mostly just because women are attracted to confidence, leadership, and strength. Men with those traits tend to be narcissistic. Narcissists also offer lots of emotional drama, which is like chick crack. A mature man is too boring for an immature woman. She needs the excitement of emotional drama.

There is a tradeoff between survival and Goodness. Most people only care about survival, so what they call "great men" are measured by survival, not Goodness. Being Good and being effective are very different things. Famous people are famous because they are ruthlessly effective at the cost of Good. You don't become famous for being simply Good.

It matters, but it is not a true measure of intelligence. But it does capture some aspects of intelligence. But there are many other things more important than IQ. So if your IQ is not great, you can still have many other great things going for you. Cutting-edge science does require relatively high IQ. But high IQ does not guarantee you will truly be intelligent.

If I see you referring to Actualized.org as a cult, you will be banned. I've had enough of entertaining such disrespect towards my work and this community. If you disagree with the core values of Actualized.org, it's very simple: leave. Don't forget that being here is a privilege. No one is forcing you to learn any of this.

What is God gonna do about it? Health problems are baked into the pie. No, but teaching is as rewarding as parenting, so I have enough reward.

Well, I don't know what may or may not give you your motivation back. That's so individual. I would just say to not give up and to keep trying. I have lost motivation and also regained it. Not exactly identically, but don't think that just because you lost it that you can't find a new one. Find what motivates you. You can have multiple life purposes across a lifetime. Also, I would advise against psychedelics in this case because they tend to be very disillusioning. You need to reenchant yourself with work.

There are levels to this. The more advanced you become, the less you can rely on work/career for happiness. It works at lower levels because you haven't become conscious enough of the illusion of acheivement. At the highest levels of consciousness, acheivement means nothing. Career is used to create lots of meaning. That works up to a point, but some day you will question the very notion of working for meaning. For most of you guys, LP and career is good. But perhaps after 20 years of that you will start to outgrow it, as happened to me. That blog post is for rather advanced and older people, not youngsters who are just starting their careers. If you are in your 20s, don't worry about working on your career.

Because when a twister is finally on top of you, it's too late for warnings. Most warnings never come to pass. But the few that do are devastating for those involved.

It's beyond my control.

I think that's too uncharitable. Some people could genuinely value respect.

My health is not that good, so I don't have the energy to be managing kids every day for 20 years. That's exhausting for me just to imagine.

For most people that's true.

I'm sure it is for most people. But I am not most people. I care about very different things than most people care about.

That is not something that interests me.

It would get sick after a while. Getting sex too easily is not a good thing. Sex is better when it's harder to get. I've seen guys who get laid a lot, up close. They are mostly miserable people who take it all for granted. I do not envy them and I would not trade my life for theirs.

Why not just glue a camera onto a sperm whale?

Much more openmindedness, deep epistemology, serious ontology, take philosophy seriously, remove hyper-specialization, remove departmental segregation, change the peer review process, change the PhD process, teach kids how to question and contemplate, teach meditation, teach yoga, teach mysticism, use psychedelics, change how funding works, ditch atheism materialism reductionism and pragmatism, much more emphasis on relativity and truth-seeking, etc. There are many practical reforms to be made.

Most people work hard because they have no other choice. Survival. I was not speaking about those people. I was speaking about the workaholics who are successful enough they don't need to work anymore but they can't stop because they've turned work into an avoidance mechanism.

He is not even that good-looking. He mates off his fame. Fame that he worked hard for. The irony is that Leonardo DiCaprio worked harder to get laid then all these Blackpill whiners. DiCaprio spends a lot of time going to nightclubs to get laid. Most people are too lazy to do that.

Luck is not a guarantee. When you don't win on luck, you gotta be willing to work, rather than complain all day about how unlucky you were.

That is fine for most people. But only you can feel whether its too much for you.

Do you understand that this here is the internet? What am I supposed to do? Ban everyone with a wrong idea? Psychotic is a very strong word. Foolish, immature, ignorant, self-decieved -- you should use these words first before calling people psychotic. Some people here do have mental illness. But that's normal for the psychological and spiritual field. Diagnosing people over the internet is not a great idea because you don't know them well enough.