Leo Gura

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  1. I am aware of his bigotry in general. Still, it is not conscious to dance on someone's grave, even if he was a bigot.
  2. It's okay for now. I don't want to silence people until things get out of hand. This is a fresh news story so people will speculate.
  3. Scandinavian-style social democrats. West-North EU, basically.
  4. Not in any serious way. A serious answer to that question would require a lot of prep of material. But, in general, they suffer from the same problem all ideologies suffer from: a lack of grounding, with foolish, fantastical ideas that fail to work in the complexities of real life. If you just read the history of fascism and communism as it was enacted you will see all the problems and points of failure.
  5. I've been seeing a lot of talk in western media and on this forum about how insane, crazy, or evil Putin is. Well, such talk should immediately make you suspicious of your own worldview. This video offers a much better perspective of Russia's and Putin's perspective than anything I have seen coming from Western media. What I see consistently is that people in the West fail to consider Russia's security interests at all in this situation. They just dismiss that as a cover for Putin's personal lust for power or Putin's delusional view of history. Don't take this as a justification for Putin's war, but as a way of understanding the situation better. If you cannot understand the survival agenda of your adversary then you will not be able to correctly predict his actions and negotiate with him. That's the point. This is not about morality, it's about being understanding. You can't have peace with someone you fail to understand. This is also not about blaming the US or the West, or creating some kind of moral false equivalencies. It's about understanding how to prevent conflict.
  6. What I see is a gaggle of monkeys throwing shit at the wall and calling it truth-seeking.
  7. Stop with this animalness. You make everyone on the left look bad.
  8. All three are delusional ideologies that are beyond redemption. You can find plenty of books on the disasters of each. I have a few in my book list and will add more in the future.
  9. There's too much to know where to start. An entire decade of everything MAGA has ever said and done, is it.
  10. Most bad ideas are just group-think and conformity, so of course it is a predictable script. No actual intelligence was applied to get the idea in the first place -- it was unconscious and mechanically obtained. Real intelligence (good ideas) requires infinite requisite variety and live consciousness, not parroting others. Bad ideas come from mechanicalness. Good ideas come from live consciousness. Mechanicalness is easily predictable, live consciousness is unpredictable because it is truly mentally free and genuinely creative/novel. In short, there's nothing novel about being a Nazi, it's just an unconscious script.
  11. No. This is lame. Yes. Of course! Literally infinite novelty. God itself never reaches its own end because it is actually endless. Eternity is not in opposition to Infinity. They are identical. Eternity is not a static state, Eternity is moving, evolving, growing, creating endless forms. Your whole life is a creative flow of Eternity.
  12. 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?
  13. As the forum grows, we want to preserve the cream of the crop. This will be especially useful for attracting newbies. This thread is intended to be a place to link to the best, most helpful topics of this sub-forum. Meaning, any topics which are found in the "Meditation, Consciousness, Enlightenment, Spirituality" sub-forum which you think are particularly juicy, link them here. I will then periodically update this post with links to the best topics. Please don't link to topics from the Self-Actualization sub-forum, or other sub-forums, here. By "best" we mean: topics which are popular, or highly up-voted, or which contain lots of useful resources. Please be selective with your suggestions. We want the cream of the crop here. Best Of: The 5-MeO-DMT Mega Thread Meditation Techniques Mega Thread Music To Inspire Enlightenment, Meditation, & Personal Development Enlightenment One-liners Sharing Our Favorite Enlightenment Videos 5-meo-dmt | Trip Report #3: On Being God Enlightenment Jokes Here A Challenge To Everything You Think You Know MDMA and Spirituality 4 Grams Psilocybin Trip Report: That Was Intense Secrets Of Concentration - Part 1 Enlightenment Quotes Paradoxical Quotes
  14. I will not waste a minute of my life considering conspiracies for this incident.
  15. Yes, which is why it bounced. In slow-mo clips you can clearly see he was wearing a plate and the bullet bounced off its top edge. The bullet was not aimed at his neck but his upper chest. It bounced up into his neck, which is why the entrance wound was so large and bloodly. The bullet was tumbling sideways from bouncing off the plate. You can see the plate under his thin t-shirt. No. Bullets do not cause a shockwave when traveling. That is Hollywood fiction. If a bullet flew right above your head not one hair on your head would move. There is zero shockwave from a flying bullet, only at the barrel. A bullet is not a rocket. It was a metal plate, not kevlar. It bounced off the very top edge of the plate which was angled up.
  16. People are curious and going to investigate such things. It doesn't make sense to suppress such speech. And if that post is getting off topic, that's still not reason to ban someone, just a mild correction is enough. He didn't mean anything bad with that post. - - - - - - The bullet had no exit wound because it wasn't a direct hit, the bullet bounced off Charlie's steel plate vest and entered his neck going upward into his brainstem. The bullet ended up in his skull. So no exit wound should be expected. Nothing suspcious about that. The bullet only entered his neck after bouncing off a steel plate under his t-shirt. Please don't invent conspiracy theories about this incident.
  17. Banned ages ago. He is stubborn with his ignorance like a mule.
  18. Empathy is a natural consequence of experiencing another's experience. Experience is Truth.