Leo Gura

What motivates a racist? Stupidity. Haha

An experienced chiropractor. You'll need a program of weekly visits over a period of months. It's not a guaranteed cure, but it's got a chance to work. Depending on your specifics. Look for local Chiros with good reviews. Visit them and ask for a treatment program. Ask if they have been able to correct this issue in other patients and how long it took. Compare multiple Chiros for better results.

Depends on how deeply you want to know God and how you define "losing one's mind". If a hardcore materialist rationalist experienced God he would consider that losing one's mind. From his limited paradigm it is that. Obviously it is not that from God's POV. Any radical enough state change will start to feel like you are losing your self/mind/reality. But this can happen in healthy or unhealthy ways. It is important to avoid the unhealthy ways, which are harmful to human life. You can trip in ways that injure you and ways that don't.

@Starlight321 What is the difference between someone who gets married for confromist reasons and someone who gets married for other reasons? Case study: Elton John, a gay man, married a woman.

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You are assuming experiences are private. "Private" is a fiction. There is no privacy, only Truth. The only way to know is to become infinitely conscious. Actually do it. It IS the mind. Infinite Mind. Thus nothing else. If it was an interpretation you would be correct. But it is not an interpretation. I am talking about actual Absolute Consciousness. You are overlooking that possibility. Open your mind to the existence of an actual Absolute. Not a theory or a guess. And not an experience! I am not talking about theories, nor am I even talking about powerful experiences, I am talking about Truth. Truth does not exist for you as a real thing yet. You think Truth is a concept. All I'm saying is TRUTH exists. And you don't yet fathom this possibility. You think I am talking about cool experiences or ideas. Ideas can always be wrong. That is correct. Which is why we do not care about ideas. We are seeking Truth instead. Consider: an experience of Infinity actually IS Infinity. So the mere experience of it proves its absolute reality. If you are experiencing Infinity you can't be wrong about it. In the same way that if you are seeing red that means red exists. You can't be wrong about red existing since you see it. This is a common oversight, but skepticism cannot apply to direct experience. That is a misuse of skepticism. If your ass feels cold it is absolutely true your ass feels cold. And this is not a trivial matter.

The YouTube recommendations algorithm keeps getting worse and worse, suggesting shallow crap. We need to crowd-source this problem. Let's begin keeping a list of the best, unknown YouTube channels. I'm always looking for high-quality channels related to philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, history, documentaries, geography, travel, etc. I'm looking for serious channels with mature people who talk about mature subjects. Not drama, not culture wars, not clickbait, not entertainment. Channels with interesting, high-quality content. Channels that are educational and add to our understanding of the world. These channels usually have fewer subscribers, less popular. If you know of such channels, if you find new channels of this kind, please share them here. When you share the link, please write a few words about what the channel is about and why it's worth watching. I will share the best of these suggestions on my blog as well. Thank you. Examples of the kind of channels I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDissenterRL/videos https://www.youtube.com/@WHATISPOLITICS69/videos https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos https://www.youtube.com/@thestoa/videos https://www.youtube.com/@IntegralNaked/videos https://www.youtube.com/@LetsTalkReligion/videos

The worst thing Trump has done is open the field to epistemic perverts and celebrities. This is normal now. Podcaster presidents. The stupidity of it is mindboggling.

You guys need to contemplate deeper: What actually is conformity? Because you don't have a deep grasp of it. You are just throwing things at the wall. When does a thing actually become conformity? Figure out this distinction! Don't ask, contemplate.

It's not so simple. Your judgment of her as intellectually dishonest could be your self-deception. And who is 100% intellectually honest? That's a lot to ask of anyone.

I'm making this thread to collect every important video or source of information I find about understanding Israel's deceptive behavior. I've found dozens upon dozens of important videos, too many to fit on the blog. So I'm going to keep adding them here. Feel free to add your own. This is not a thread about debating the Israel-Gaza war. I want to build up a playlist of quality videos for people who want a deep understanding of Israel's deceptive behavior -- the underbelly, if you will. This playlist does not focus on understanding Hamas or Arab terrorism or the latest news about the Gaza conflict (since we already have a thread for that). Warning, this list will be pretty negative as it focuses on uncovering deception, propaganda, bias, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and deconstructing illusions. I see a lot of deception and bias about Israel in mainstream western media which I want to dispel. That's what this playlist is about. This is part of my study of self-deception and self-bias. Sorry if this doesn't seem fair, but this is what I needed to study to unravel the deceptions. This is part of my own sense-making journey. Feel free to discuss any of the videos or share your own. Be mindful not to share low quality, hateful, or misleading/untruthful material. The point here is not be deliberately negative but to gain a deeper understanding of the Israel situation. I will delete any low quality material posted here.

This is terrible.

Technically it is correct, but it is only convincing retrospectively, once you have become conscious of God. The problem is you don't know if your logic corresponds to actual reality. But it turns out it does.

Take the useful insights from Teal and leave the rest. It's that simple. Why people make it so difficult?

The point is to become more conscious of your mechanicalness.

Verifiable to whom? That's so subjective.

Well that I can't speak to.

Dude, the same would be said about me.

Mormons are a cult. My girlfriend was in that too.

That's just my breakfast

This is like the Zen cat story. Zen itself is super conformist. These rituals are fake spirituality. Everything about Japan is mindless confromity. And I like Japan, but holy hell are they conformist.

What you love is what you've been conditioned to love. As if Mormons don't love their fake religion and Nazis don't love their racism. Of course you love it. Otherwise it would be too obvious. You love all your evil ways.

Should be easy to explain it to him. Of course he will treat it as just a school of philosophy, not as absolute reality. It will be similar to talking to Curt.