Leo Gura

Alien Resurrection is trash. There only exist 2 Alien films. 1 and 2. Everything else is non-cannon.

Lots and lots of broke men are out there sleeping with women. Money should not be an excuse not to sleep around.

There are many degrees of democracy and the standard we set for ourselves is a low degree. It is convenient to regard democracy as a simple binary so that we can just say we have a democracy and not work towards a high degree of it. America has performative democracy. This is perfect for the ruling class because it makes the masses feel like they live in a democracy but in practice it is an oligarchy.

When it comes to spiritual abilities, it is never the case that everyone can learn them.

There is a huge difference between true and false beliefs. A false belief is: the Earth is flat. A true belief is: the Earth is round.

Liberal Zionism is still just as problematic because it masks the ugly reality of ethnic cleansing in a veil of politeness and niceness. Something like 80% of Israelis support this ethnic cleansing project in practice, which is why it continues. "Just the aspiration to have the own land" = 70 years of ethnic cleansing. Liberals in Israel are like liberals in America who supported the Iraq War and war on terror. A liberal Zionist is in a sense less honest than a right-wing Zionist because the right-wing Zionist knows and accepts that ethnic cleansing is what this project involves while the liberal Zionist lies to himself about it. For far too long liberal Zionists have given cover for the crimes of the hardcore Zionists who carry out the dirty business. Sorry, but it's time to stop kidding each other about what Zionism really involves.

It has great production value and sets. The plot is juvenile and sorta ruins the Alien lore. But it is still entertaining to watch. Just don't expect it to be as great or as serious as the original Alien films. It's like high-budget Alien fan fiction. I am enjoying it.

This is not a good position. You need dating and relationship experience before you get married and have kids. Dating is responsible. But if you want to delay it for a few years, that's fine. 29 is still very young. You can still date at 35 and older. But I recommend you don't delay too long because the more you delay that harder it gets. Dating is really a young man's game. If you're going to delay a few years to make some serious money, that is okay. But then make sure you actually do that, rather than making this some never-ending excuse. It's easy to keep inventing excuses for not dating because dating is scary and challenging. Use your time efficiently and wisely -- that's the point.

Depends on what you want out of life. There's no reason why you couldn't raise your consciousness and also be successful in business. There are many healthy forms of business. Don't forget that there are ways of making millions of dollars while also doing good for the world. You could sit down, write a book, and make a million dollars and this does not contradict being highly conscious.

It is not fake but that doesn't mean you will be able to do it. It depends on genetics.

Power is survival. Humans are always after more survival. Of course there are many new ideas. We need more people thinking new ideas. The problem is that most people are so politically dogmatic and conformist that they don't allow new ideas to enter their mind. It is worthwhile to invent better, newer forms of government, but these ideas need to be grounded and realistic to our current development level. Humans are very predictable, but society is evolving all the time. It just looks slow from an individual's POV.

I call it ethnic cleansing. Which is what they explicitly say they do. Their own leaders say it. This is a matter of historical record, not opinion. Palestinians were and continue to be cleansed off that land. There's just no serious doubt that that's what Israeli settlement policy has always been. The settlers themselves admit it.

Nope. Just reality.

You live in paradise relative to how things used to be.

@MightyMind Building civilization, by definition, requires power. The allocation of power, by definition, is called politics and government. Organizing people is politics and government. You're not inventing anything new in this domain. Humans have been working this domain for 10,000 years and what we have today is the best we've been able to come up.

@MightyMind Requires the naivete of a child. Government is never one organization.

That's literally what government is. What you want already happened. And we are living the result.

"The fact that there have already been 50,000 deaths in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations. For everything that happened on October 7th, for every person October 7th, 50 Palestinians should die. I’m talking about this as a message to future generations. There’s nothing to be done. They need a Nakba every now and then to feel the price. There’s no choice in this disturbed neighbor. There’s no choice." — Aharon Haliva, Israel’s Chief of Military Intelligence

@Nivsch Of course. So what?

It's quite different because for various important differences: American empire needs Israel as a foothold in the Middle East. Terrorism scrambles everyone's mind Jews have a majority within Israel and they have very strong cultural and ethnic identity Holocaust scrambled everyone's minds The existence of the entire state of Israel requires this. It's the foundation for the state itself. This whole issue is entrenched in biblical religious ideology which is not going away. Fundamentalist Christians and Jews are not going to change their minds in the name of secular equality. To them this is an issue of heaven and hell.

No need for a but there. Satan believes his view is the good and right thing.

There are protests, but the Zionist nature of the Israeli state will not be changed by such protests. The vast majority of Israelis are proud brainwashed Zionists and approve of the government's actions. This is not a case of Israel being hijacked by a small extremist faction. Zionism is the very basis of the Israeli state, so they cannot stop doing it or their society would unravel. It's not just a problem of government, it's a fundamentally sick ethnocentric culture. The government is an outgrowth of a wrong culture.

Because technology makes survival easier. The easier survival gets the more kind mankind can afford to be to each other. No, we are talking about all society ever. There are no exceptions to the ignorance, selfishness, and corruption of humans. China is insanely corrupt, just in their own collectivist ways.

If you want to discuss the Venus Project, please start a new thread.