Leo Gura

No one Senator or Congressperson has much power individually. Their effect is mostly to shift the Overton window leftward. In this they do a good job. Why are you expecting miracles from lone congresspeople? If you want serious progressive reforms then we'd have to elect 100 of them. Whining that they are doing nothing just undercuts the few of them there are. People expect silly things from politicians and then end up disappointing themselves. That's just not how government works.

I don't want to buy a second SSL certificate just because google wants it.

I have no idea how many degrees it will increase, but yeah, something like 2.5 seems likely. CO2 capture and ultimately humans will have to invent tech to regulate the climate by controlling how much sunlight reaches the Earth. You can't really predict which tech will be discovered in 100 years. But you can expect some powerful tech.

That's untrue. Lots of good stuff has been done under Biden. You're not looking at the technicals of what was actually done, you're just following the pop-culture news. And you also have to compare it to the alternative, which is someone like Trump or Desantis in power. Relative to that, Biden is a saint.

If you need to learn something practical, sure.

It's just very common.

There will come a point in your development where you must put away the books like a child puts away his toys, and interface with God directly. Why go to a middleman when you can go to the source?

I did. But also I don't really have a choice. I cannot be anything other than what I am. God doesn't choose anything. God is Absolute Truth/Love, and all form is just a precipitate of that. You might say that God's only choice was to be Love. No other choices were needed once that top-level choice was made. God's unfoldment is completely tautological and automatic. It's like A = A. There's no room for it to be otherwise.

I heard of a guy who would wrap cocaine around his dick when he went to the airport, and when the drug dogs sniffed his crotch, he would pet the dog and the police would jerk the dog away. Not that I recommend something like that.

Of course such things happen. Many guys are creepy and don't know how to properly escalate. And some guys are just rapey. The more alpha/assertive a guy is, the more rapey he will tend to be. "Grab 'em by the pussy" Stage Red and hyper Orange guys will tend to be that way. Then again, that's what women are attracted to and reward.

Yeah, you could do that.

I should have just said, Everyone operates from Love, because everyone is God dreaming.

That's one of the wisest things you've said on here. Time to make some bold decisions.

I would say that you are dreaming, and only you can awaken to the fact that you are imagining everything and everyone beyond yourself. Consciousness is radically -- infinitely -- self-involved. As long as you keep dreaming of Buddhas, you cannot fully awaken to your own Absoluteness.

Yes. God is dreaming, then God is awake. But even when God is dreaming, it's still God. It just doesn't know itself as God because it's too busy thinking it's a human. Dreaming is the best analogy. You already have an experience of how this works every morning you wake up.

Yes, that's a good way to put it. Although technically it's about MORE CONSCIOUSNESS. There is such a thing as MORE consciousness than you currently have. Way more. You are describing classic nonduality, neo-advaita, or Buddhism, which is not God-Realization. Spirituality is badly corrupted by people who don't know what the highest consciousness is because they've never accessed it. The highest and purest spirituality is about becoming so conscious that you are fully conscious that your mind constructs all of reality around you and all sense of other. This is God-Realization. Once you reach God-Realization you've solved the entire riddle of existence. The common element is that you are God dreaming up everything and everyone, including all spiritual teachings and teachers.

There are states which are absolute and omniscient, from which all of reality is made perfectly conscious. In these states it's like the fog of war has been removed from all of reality. So yes, others states are less than that, less truthful. In lower states you don't actually see reality clearly, not at all. God can be in various degrees of dreaming and various degrees of wakefulness. And the wakeful degrees of consciousness are more truthful/accurate than the dreaming degrees, just like when you're drunk your perception of reality is less accurate. It's not just different. It's less truthful.

As I have said, if I had to agree with everything in a book in order to recommend it, I would have zero books to recommend. LOC is not the reason I recommend those books. I expect you to be able to read books critically, with independent judgment. Just because I share some resource does not mean everything in that resource is something you should adopt without critical thinking. I deliberately share many diverse and divergent perspectives as part of my approach to understanding reality. I've talked about this in past epistemology videos. Not all of these perspectives are going to align. There will be many contradictions. And your job is to hold all that in your mind at once without getting lost in ideology.

Your thinking on how progress happens is too black and white and simplistic. That's why you're getting hung up on this stuff. Progress isn't some battle you win or lose once. It's a neverending evolutionary process that started billions of years ago and will continue for billions more. See yourself as just in the middle of that and be at peace.

Lol I am a progressive. I'm just not also naive about how civilization works. The problem with most progressives is that they are blinded by self-bias. They are unable to go meta on their own perspective. And so they are constantly fighting a war they cannot win.

Not only do I disagree with it, I find it a joke. A Stage Yellow person isn't more valuable than Blue, just more developed and self-aware. Value is a very relative notion. The issue there is, what are your values? If you value development and self-awareness, then Yellow is more valuable, according to you.

In my experience quality flour products do not cause acne. So no. What you should be concerned about is powdered veggies and powdered protein like whey. And any products that contain them, like protein bars.

How so? State is all there is. There is no body to whom the state is happening, other than You/God. You/God ARE state. Why? You are always in some state and your state changes depending on the situation: asleep, exhausted, sick, drunk, horny, meditating, suffering, etc. It's a very simple, practical, and useful idea. Don't over think it. Changing your state is the key to waking up.

If you consume powdered food or protein, yeah, that will cause massive acne in my experience. Protein from organic whole meat does not. The best thing I did for my skin was to cook all my own food. Once you get your diet right no other routine should be necessary.

"Sexual assault" is a very loaded phrase. What exactly does this mean to you? Generally you should screen men for integrity.