Leo Gura

Yeah, but that's true of "real currency" too. It's mostly just digits in some bank account and not used for anything. That does not make it a scam. Its purpose is to store value. What is the world's gold being used for? It's just sitting in a bank vault somewhere. That's not a bug, that's a feature.

If you really care to know, take psychedelic and you'll understand within 30 minutes what you may not understand in 10 years of thinking. Words cannot show you consciousness.

Einstein was offered to be the first Prime Minister of Israel. He declined.

He is hard to pin down. I think his cognition itself might be Yellow. But in practice his public policies were more Orange/Green. I think he's a very nuanced and systemic thinker. But he may not be that great at playing politics and twisting nipples to get things passed. These are different skill sets. The smartest and wisest people are not necessarily good politicians. I would be a horrible politician.

Were you taking psychedelics around that time? Because tinnitus is a common side-effect of psychedelics.

If you see obviously toxic or sexist stuff being spouted in a thread on this sub-forum, point it out and Mods and I will work to lock it down or clean it up. I will be more sensitive and politically correct as well. But it has to actually be toxic, not merely a difference of opinion. Men and women will always have a difference of perspective here because of competing agendas. Mostly what I want to see stop is the blaming of the opposite sex for one's own frustrations and inadequacies. If you're blaming the opposite sex that's your clue that you're fooling yourself.

The fundamental problem is that these Bitcoiners are mostly all libertarians who do not understand the importance and need for regulation. They believe that regulation is some kind of evil, but in fact you want strict regulation of your financial markets otherwise you get crazy instability and devilry. Any kind of libertarian system will breed serious devilry that will have to be dealt with somehow. But libertarians will just stick their head in the sand about this.

In practice they couldn't because if they took away all the equipment that would be like admitting total defeat without even putting up a fight. The optics of it would have been really bad and they would have been blamed for abandoning the Afghan government. It was just a shitty situation to be in either way. There was no good political solution.

@Flyboy You don't understand what you're talking about and I am done tryng to persuade you.

Pickup certainly involves plenty of theory. That theory is important. But that theory also comes with a toxic culture. The two are intermingled in a tricky way that is not easy to dis aggregate.

@RMQualtrough Ask yourself how you actually learned of the existence of UV. What you'll discover is that you either saw it or heard it. So that's literally what UV is: pictures and sounds.

Curt is about as good an interviewer as I will ever get. There is no point in me talking to enlightened people. We would agree too much. There would be no value. And I have zero interest in nondual hairsplitting.

Because if you didn't, you'd probably still be sleep together.

UV and everything else exists as perceptions. Just not the perceptions you imagine. UV and atoms are perceptions within your visual field. UV and atoms are a 2nd order visual perception. Then your mind imagines the rest.

I think they were just overrun by the Taliban. Those helicopters are expensive as hell. It should be cheaper to transport them back home than build new ones. But you also have to consider how the business of this works. Defense contractors are happy if the military abandons those vehicles because it just means more orders next year. The incentives are perverse. They like it when expensive equipment is lost.

As sure as you can know such things. You can look up the mercury amounts in typical old-school vaccines on government websites. It's about as much mercury as contained in 1 pound of salmon. Covid vaccines do not contain heavy metals at all.

Of course Berkeley was basically correct. To be is to be perceived. Although still, he was not conscious of Infinity. Or at least he didn't talk about it.

I could get good a doing public dialogues, but that would require lots of practice which I would rather invest in writing my book or shooting my videos. Public dialogues to persuade others via powerful rhetoric is a whole career path onto itself. And not one I'm that interested in. I have no desire to turn into a Vaush-like debate lord. My content is not suited for that.

I am anti-vaxx if the vaccine contains heavy metals. Then again, a can of tuna contains as much mercury as one vaccine. The problem with most anti-vaxxers is that they would have no problem at all eating 10 cans of tuna, but bitch and cry about a vaccine that does not even contain heavy metals.

Who said there was 1 path to Truth? There are infinite paths to Truth.

You make a duality between Truth and some VR dream. Truth IS the dream. They are identical. If they are not, you are stuck in duality. I see Truth right now and at all times. Since it is all there is. But there are still various degrees of seeing it. Am I at the highest level of consciousness right now as I could be? No. But neither are you. You are dreaming right now. If you weren't, there would be no universe. This is simply false. You assume a duality between psychedelic states and non-psychedelic states. No such duality exists. This duality is purely your bias. All states are Absolute Truth. You do not properly understand how psychedelics work. If I was to use your logic, I could likewise say that anything that you take away from meditation or self-inquiry is relegated to concept and thus isn't it. This is a foolish way of thinking.

Dysfunction is always a lack of holism and harmony. Function and health requires exquisite dynamic balance. Which is otherwise known as intelligence.

Because we do self improvement here, and one of the biggest things guys want to improve is their sex life. The fastest way to convince a guy to improve himself is to promise him more sex. Because guys think with their dicks.

Because many young men these days struggle with attracting women. A big part of it is simply lack of socialization. People on the internet are overwhelmingly introverted and socially dysfunctional. And the majority of the YT audience is young males.

Yes But also many commonalities.