Leo Gura

Well, it's feasible until they run out of hospital space.

Yes, I felt I had to rush because there was too much to say and not enough time to say it. The Martin Ball interview as totally different because I was interviewing him. I wasn't trying to explain all of reality there. The challenge with the Curt interview is that its purpose was to explain all of reality. Which is basically impossible in that short amount of time. You cannot explain all the errors of materialism and rationalism within 5 hours. Especially when I am asked questions in an unstructured, random way.

I'd say it's even worse than that. Obviously the desire to escape suffering is a bias and it comes from ego. But even worse, the desire for Truth is also a bias and egoic! But the kicker is, there's nothing wrong with pursuing Truth or awakening for egoic purposes. Of course you must have a bias towards Truth in order to awaken. That's not a mistake. That's the only way the ego will get hooked into it. If you don't have a bias towards Truth you will basically never awaken. And there's nothing wrong with that! If you think awakening is better than non-awakening -- that too is a bias. God doesn't mind either way. God does not mind being asleep. Which explains how you got here as a human in the first place. If being asleep was bad or wrong then you would not have been born.

But not specifically for Covid, for parasites. Controlled tests would have to be done specifically on Covid. And you have to consider the side-effects. You can't fear-monger about vaccine side-effects while ignoring the Ivermectin side-effects. All drugs have side-effects. So it's a question of which side-effects are worse. Taking anti-parasitic drugs for months and years just to prevent a Covid outbreak is probably horrible for your health -- way worse than a vaccine. Anti-parasitics can have serious side-effects. I recently took an anti-parasitic called Albendazol for 6 days. It was horrible. I could barely function for those 6 days. You get non-stop diarrhea shooting out your ass like a fire hose. And it's bad for your liver.

No, that would not work. You cannot progressivize Afghanistan, that is a fool's errand which we tried for 20 years and it failed. I mean progressive on domestic issues. I don't see how a progressive could have ended Afghanistan any better than Biden other than to plan it better so there is not a mad scramble at the last minute. It just required better planning to get everyone out ahead of the deadline in an orderly manner.

@Gregory1 I agree with most of your feedback. The biggest problem is that we jumped around so much that to newbies they will totally be lost and it will not make sense. It's hard to give simple answers to some of his deep questions because it requires a lot of laying the foundation. If he asks me something like, "Does free will exist?" that answer requires so much preamble. Just saying Yes or No isn't gonna cut it. And then as I try to lay down the preamble, the original question easily gets lost. I am definitely drawing lessons from this interview to improve in the future about how I articulate things. I could certainly have been more clear and concise.

@electroBeam You don't need to do physically dangerous doses to awaken.

Of course Of course, but what else can be done with a conceptual guy? Of course. We're playing games here. If he wasn't playing games he'd be awake and would not need to interview people about TOEs. His entire YouTuber career requires that he not be awake. So it's like talking to a wall

Dude, be fucking careful. You are being too cocky. We already had one guy here jump off. Don't be stupid. It is already clear from your loss of self-control and punching holes in the wall that you are in dangerous territory and you should not be trusted. Do not trip in a way where you cannot control your body from being destructive.

He's doing pretty good aside from the incompetent Afghanistan withdrawal. That didn't have to be such a messy clusterfuck with better planning. Thing is, Republicans would not allow a more progressive approach than Biden's. They barely allow Biden wiggle room as it is. So a more progrssive president would not get more done.

Think about this carefully. You can't have perfect symmetry without asymmetry. Your life is an asymmetry within God's overarching symmetry. Reality would not be symmetrical if it did not contain asymmetry.

I was more amazed than you.

What happened to all the dreams you've dreamt at night? Do they still exist? They are gone. So will this dream you call life. You can move on to other dreams or you can just rest as an infinitely conscious singularity if you get tired of dreaming.

Like I keep saying, reality is your imagination. You are imagining that's the pinnacle And so it is, until you imagine a higher pinnacle. Be careful. Lower your doses or one day you might jump off that balcony and kill yourself. This ain't a joke. You are overdoing it.

Depends on how fat your ass is

@bejapuskas Self-deception is always possible, psychedelics or not. The only solution there is to stay vigilant and don't get too cocky. Be skeptical in an unbiased way. It was traumatizing on the sheer physical level. My physical body could not contain that degree of infinite consciousness such that it felt like my nervous system was getting fried. Imagine what happens if you hook a lightbulb up to a bolt of lightning. The energetic release was so intense it left scars on my fingertips for over a year. The skin on my fingertips peeled and cracked. Infinite Love is the trauma, from the mind's perspective. It's too much for a material body to hold.

Of course. God loves your bias for sushi, which is why you love sushi but hate dog turd, and God will not force you to love dog turd. That's God's love for you. God's love is so great it allows you to hate. God will even allow you to murder someone you hate. Everything IS pure Nothingness. Your question assumes a difference between form and formlessness. That was his bais. There is of course no reason to end suffering other than that you don't like it.

I didn't feel he was triggered. His mind was just trying to be rigorous and so he played a lot of devil's advocate. Which is proper. If anything I would say he didn't challenge me enough because he was trying to be polite. But his inability to understand that nothing can exist outside infinity was pretty stubborn. Not much I can do about that. He sort of assumes that infinity is merely a mathematical notion and he can't stop imagining beyond infinity while not realizing all that is within Infinity. He also assumes Infinity can be reached with logic, which it can't. No amount of logic can get you there.

Yeah, you're dreaming. If you keep dreaming stuff will seem to exist.

Statistically anything will work on some percentage of people. But the question is, isn't there a better use of your time? Like educating people whose minds are not totally rotted. Political action and education is all about efficiency. Your resources are so limited that you must allocate them very strategically and wisely, otherwise it's like pissing into the ocean. 50% of people don't vote or follow politics at all! That's who you should be focused on reaching. It's much easier to educate and mobilize 10 normies than it is to reeducate a single MAGA conspiracy theorist.

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The problems are all in the design, the marketing, and the funding. You have to cut corners because of funding. Your funds are always limited relative to the scope of your vision for a game. You will have to cut out 80% of your vision just to ship the damn thing and not run out of funds. No Most games like that require so many man-years of work that even if one person worked on it 24/7 for 100 years, you'd would not finish 5% of the work. The best a lone-wolf developer can make is something small, simple, and indie -- like Stardew Valley.

There's not much to know other than specific games companies are working on, which obviously I don't know. I don't think tech is holding any games back these days. The problems are more in a lack of creativity, risk-aversion, lack of good management, and funding. You can basically make any game you want with Unreal or Unity. The devil is all in the details of the design and the crazy number of man-hours required to actualize it. It's not a technology problem, it's a design and marketing problem. The question is whether that design makes any sense, who would want to play it, and how to get funding to build it.

The infinity symbol is a nice touch