Leo Gura

It's not less hostile, but it's a matter of principle. Is someone punches you, you punch back on principle. Not because it will make things less hostile but because you need to show that you will not allow yourself to be bullied. Who in the West will want to fuck with Putin after this war in Ukraine? Now when he negotiates he's taken more seriously. Yes, it's not a good situation because it's an arms race. So both sides are stuck in a losing situation. NATO feels more justified in expanding now, which makes Putin feel more justified in being aggressive. This is a classic arms race.

NATO doesn't want to destroy Russia, NATO wants to corner Russia and force Russia into a US-lead Western world order that serves the US first at the expense of Russia. The US sets the rules of the Western world order which are of course most favorable to the US. Obviously this is not in Russia's interest. Within the Western world order Putin's government would be overthrown because it doesn't serve US interests.

1) I agree that the West is more developed than Russia/Soviet block. However, from a purely pragmatic POV it doesn't matter because just because the animal you've backed into a corner is rabid does not make the animal any less dangerous to you. It does little good to respond with, "Yeah, we backed this dumb rabid animal into a corner, but we are so much more evolved than this animal. No one wants to be friends with this animal anyway." Okay, fine. You are morally superior. But now war. Yes, Russia is much weaker. Which is exactly why it is more easily threatened and needs to take its security much more seriously than the West. 2) NATO and the West played a big part in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the pillaging of Russia. This is a bit like beating a handicapped kid and stealing his money. Some day the kid will fight back. 3) You are sorta dismissing the point about NATO expansion. Russia's point is that if NATO expansion had stopped there would be no war with Ukraine. Now, you can dispute that. You could say that Putin would have invaded his neighbors anyway. Maybe that's true. But also consider... maybe it's not true. How do you know? In recent negotiations between Biden and Putin before the war, Putin's demands were pretty clear and simple: Stop eastward NATO expansion, stop moving missiles to Russia's boarder, legally promise that Ukraine will not join NATO. This is what he wanted. He was effectively laughed out of the room. So what would you do if you were Putin?

Give it some time and you feel forget about. Awakening strips life of all meaning. Because all meaning is a fabrication and a function of survival. Yes, life feels empty without meaning because it is empty.

I can easily tell from your talking and your own trip reports your level of consciousness and understanding of spiritual truths, or lack thereof. So I don't need your life story. It's not so simple. They were not just in the moment utterances. Profound truths were communicated to you which went over your head because you are more interested in critique and nitpicking than understanding how consciousness works. You're not a malicious troll. You just don't understand the depth to which consciousness goes.

Vaush underplays the fact that in a nuclear arms race (which NATO vs Russia is) strengthening defense is an escalatory move. One side cannot just keep raising their defenses and then acting surprised when the other side counters by raising their offenses. It would be foolish in this scenario for the defense-raising side to cry, "But we were just being defensive! We weren't hurting anyone. But you guys are the bad guys because you started going offensive!" Defense and offense are entangled. If the West has overwhelming defensive capabilities and keeps raising them every year, Russia will be forced into an offensive posture, and start looking to create a defensive buffer zone. Yes, NATO is primarily defensive. However, what is not acknowledged is that raising defense in such an overwhelming way is legitimately threatening and perpetuates an arms race. "But Russia has nothing to fear!" is not a serious position. If Russia was not proactive the US and NATO would certainly stage a coup and depose their government. This much is obvious. The US is not going to stop until it has a pro-US government in Russia.

Make up your own mind. But what you should notice is that the narrative of Western media is so one-sided that it's not surprising that Mearsheimer's perspective gets dismissed or rationalized away. It doesn't fit the pre-existing narrative that is hammered in the news every day. There is of course also little desire for the West to take any responsibility for the images coming out of Ukraine, so it's understandable why Mearsheimer's perspective would be quickly dismissed. But again, make up your own mind. There is no one to tell you who is right. The fundamental blindspot that I see in the West is that no one wants to acknowledge that NATO could be seen as a legitimate threat by anyone. The Western narrative is: anyone who sees NATO as a serious threat is crazy, psychopathic, or evil. Anyone who feels threatened by NATO is a bad faith actor. Well... that kind of view is exactly what could start a war. If Mearsheimer is just wrong, how come he was able to predict that Russia would go to war over Ukraine over 5 years ago? That's a pretty impressive prediction. Was he just lucky? Overall, the West was very surprised that Russia invaded Ukraine. Is that because Putin is a madman, or is that because the West failed to understand the geo-political situation? It's not like Russia has not been warning about this and raising concerns about it for over a decade. The record is clear on that. Russia's warnings were just never taken seriously by the West. The situation reminds of this scenario: guys at the corporate office have a culture of groping women's asses. They grope ass every week. The couple of women who work there keep telling them to stop, it's hurtful, but the guys think it's all just fun and games and that no one is getting hurt. So they keep groping ass for 10 years. Then some woman finally get fed up and tells them, "If you touch my ass one more time I'm going to fight back." But they laugh it off. Then one day they grab her ass and shes stabs one of the guys in the dick with a letter opener. All the guys are shocked, surprised, and horrified. "OMG! How could this woman be such an insane psychopath! What's the big deal? All we were doing was just grabbing some ass. That isn't hurting anyone. Ass is great for grabbin'. That's what ass if for. Anyhow boys... let's get back to groping that ass. Let's grope some titties too. I hear a few boys in accounting want join in. What's the big deal? Every man has the right to freely choose to be part of our ass-grabbin club. Let's throw them a welcome party. And in the future if any woman complains about us, we'll have our boys in accounting cut her salary in half. That'll make her think twice."

This has turned into yet another solipsism mental masturbation thread, so shutting it down. You guys are not going to get it with your questions. So just stop.

They seem delusional to you because you fundamentally don't understand how spirituality works. So you lack a larger context for some of the radical things I have said. That which your mind cannot fathom, that which is beyond your direct experience, you call "delusional" because that's the only way your mind knows how to make sense of reality. You also are not taking into account the raw nature of my awakening reports. Things are reported as they occurred for me without polishing them up for critics and the spiritually clueless. There is a difference between a formal teaching vs a report of profound awakenings happening as I go through the process and describe the process as it feels and occurs for me while in the midst of it. It's the difference between talking about WW2 as a historian in a university vs being in the front lines of WW2 with bombs falling on your head. You have taken some of my most radical awakenings and experiments in consciousness -- which you have no intellectual understanding of -- and made a mockery of them. I have watched your criticisms of my work, and it is based on some basic misunderstandings of how spirituality works. Anyways, the sum total body of my work speaks for itself. I feel no need to justify or defend it. Not really. The behavior on this forum is not out of line for how online forums work, or for how the internet as a whole works. We do a lot of moderation to stop toxic behavior here. You have to learn to make your own decisions in life. I am not the CEO of your life, you are. And until you start taking responsibility for being the CEO of your life you will continue to suffer not just at my hands but the hands of many other humans who you give your authority away to. The thing is, you don't want to take this responsibility. You want someone like me to tell you what to do in life. So you can just paint by numbers. Well... that's not how a good life is created. I would tell you to go walk off a cliff -- just so you stop following my words blindly -- but I'm afraid you might take me seriously.

That doesn't mean what you think it means.

No

Lol

Just because someone has a different survival agenda than you does not make them a psychopath. You guys are starting to disappoint me with your flagrant self-bias. This reminds me of a rube who goes to China and calls them psychopaths for eating dogs.

Nothing will awaken you like synthetic 5-MeO-DMT. Watch out for that naturalistic fallacy.

That really sucks man. Seems a bit similar to people who get tinnitus. Yeah, listening to 10hrs of music per day is way too much. My mind would get numb from that much music. I wear ear plugs a lot just to get deep silence even there is no significant noise around me. You shouldn't listen to more than a few hours of music per day. And even then, you need to take days off from music or it loses itself specialness.

Well, I have struggled with chronic fatigue a lot. Yeah, it definitely will hold back your game, but not just your game, your whole life. If I didn't have chronic fatigue I would get laid WAY more. I would also earn millions more. Tough shit. Life requires energy.

Morality contradicts itself, as any finite system must.

@RMQualtrough This issue is too complex for there to a one-size-fits-all solution. For some people it can really help, and for other people it ruins their lives. And Actualized.org teachings are no different. For some people it really helps and for other people it doesn't. You have to decide what works for you. And if something is not working for you, stop consuming it.

Funny enough cyanide is found in plants.

Like I said, it is not a sustainable solution to chronic fatigue.

I don't use it at all.

Pretty close. Well, you are imagining that right now. The way to resolve this matter is you become absolutely conscious and you see what remains. This issue cannot be answered from the finite human consciousness that most people are stuck in. You can become absolutely conscious that NOW is the only thing which is True. NOW is an absolute. Past and future are imaginary and relative.

Talk therapy requires training and licensing. If anything I would criticize psychiatrists more because mostly what they do is over-prescribe shitty medication which is just a form of bypassing. Some things medication can help with. A lot of medications also don't work for mental illness, they just mask / suppress the symptoms and come with bad side effects and even become addictive. The bottom line is that mental illness is complicated and there's not going to be a magic pill cure for it in most cases. Because teachers are poorly paid. Yes, of course. I agree that's good. Well, awakening is a distinctive attainment. But of course that should not be turned into some sort of trophy, and nor will it solve basic psychological problems people have. That's actually not the definition of a cult. Go read the books on my book list about what really defines a cult. Or watch my video: Cult Psychology - Part 1 where I give an exhaustive definition. A YT channel centered around one person's videos is not a cult. You can do all that and still not be anywhere near awake. Teaching people to "just love" can easily becomes a false spiritual act they take on. For love to work it has to be an outgrowth of higher consciousness. You cannot just act your way into love.

The impulse to improve things is just part of the larger Perfection. Of course improve what you can. Passivity is not a solution.

Unless you are tricking yourself