LordFall

Have you watched Leo's videos on epistemology and truth? Why do you believe what Buddhism says? What process have you gone through to validate it? Be careful of conclusions that you come from purely on psychedelics, I had something similar and I hurt someone in the process and ended up in jail for a bit so I guarantee you that the pain was real and that the jail was real. I also know many friends that had psychosis and ended up in psych wards for a bit. Psychosis and grounding mechanisms are not talked enough on this forum, I think it's worth addressing @Leo Gura because I have so many discussions with people saying absolutely nonsense these past few days in a way that could lead to dangerous outcomes for themselves and others in their lives.

Seems cool, hadn't heard of it before. My favorite Star Wars game is Super Star Wars, on Super Nintendo. My dad got me hooked on emulators growing up so I played a bunch of classics. The one I most want to play now is Jedi Survivor, seems like a really cool polished modern action RPG. I will get back into gaming over the next few years and play some of the games I've missed. Like the Zelda games on Switch those look bomb.

I think it means that we are part of one universal mind and that other selves are just you in other bodies simultaneously experiencing reality. The mind is powerful and can conjure up all kinds of thoughts and ideas and visions. Being able to separate the random passing intuitions or visual hallucinations one gets while high on psychedelics or going through mystical experiences from the tangible wise insights that can be used to improve our shared physical reality is what seperates a wise awakened person from someone caught up in a solipsistic delusion/psychosis or going full blown schizophrenic.

What makes you say that? It's a dangerous train of thought and closer to delusional psychosis than enlightenment imo. I've definitely hurt people in various ways throughout my life and I'm sure you have as well. Touch some grass.

I agree with you somewhat and that perspective is helpful in ridding ourselves of judgement. Saying there is no stupidity though is robbing the world of meaning. There are plenty of obtuse people that are falling for simple cognitive bias and their lack of quest for wisdom and intelligence is hurting themselves and others. Our ability to identify those people and build frameworks to not be victims of their stupidity is very important to living a high quality life. The only way I can reason that stupidity is good is because is it gives me a strong competitive advantage, I don't think that it's good ultimately though.

I'm not too sure how that makes sense from your perspective but from my perspective what that means is that by solving my own egoic shortcomings then I'll be in a better position to help the world heal itself and unite. I think from other states of being I could easily start wars so I can see how other people do.

I think we've diagnosed the issue with this reply. Since this is your comfort zone of topics you probably default to talking to it and do it in a way that's more logical rather than fun and playful which is why the women you've gone on dates with end up offput and a bit scared. Being dominant on a date is a good thing. Women want to show up and have an automatic good time they don't really have to have to put too much effort into it. So it's your job as the man to lead the date to being a fun and pleasant experience that takes both of your minds off of the hardships of life. I like the do you believe in ghost one, it could be easily turned into past life conversations and a "I bet you were the bad guy in a past life" playful teasing. I'll try it out. Usually I just talk about meditation and how its improved my life and lowered my anxiety but it's more of a boring topic. Maybe you can put your hand on her hand and and say do you think we are the same person in different bodies? I'm sure if the date is going well that will escalate quickly to the bedroom. Alright challenge accepted I will get laid with the spiritual topic.

Well first of all I use AI daily and am working on an automated content system with monetization verticals in different industries so I'll hopefully be one of those elites myself soon enough, I recommend you join me in that quest. Even for the poorest people though there are big incentives in catering to them and giving them UBI. UBI goes back into the pockets of corporations anyway, you pay them your rent and buy their food and services. Having starving people with weapons like in the states would be a bad plan even for a psychopathic pedophile leader. Although they are trying, never underestimate stupidity lmao. Red scare 2.0 https://therealnews.com/johnson-says-pentagon-needs-more-money-for-fighting-communism-on-our-own-shores

Totally agree it's beautiful because we now have globalized access to world class intelligence and whatever wonders it brings. The moat of academia is pretty cringe, a bunch of indeed smart people that just regurgitate what they know but don't really build much usefulness. I'm pretty anti-academia I'm a high school dropout myself, I'm sure there is some utility still to the university system but I'm a pretty big believer that you can learn anything from books and Youtube these days. The new products and services that will come out in the next decade will be pretty insane. I feel like the last decade was pretty mid not much cool stuff came out. Just improvement on stuff that was already there the whole time. I'm a gamer and I quit playing video games because it was the same shit for a long time, I think League of Legends was the peak of that medium and nothing better has come out since then and it's been out since 2010.

Focusing entirely on military history to determine your pride is a massive bottleneck. The true American experiment isn't about the Pentagon; it's about the platform. When you ask what culture we have worth protecting, you're ignoring the global operating system. The culture of individual agency, rapid innovation, and open-source collaboration that powers the modern world is uniquely American. The actual future of humanity from AI to private aerospace and biotechnology—is being funded and built here in the present, not in past history books. Asking 'what is my role' is incredibly passive. The system is a decentralized playground. It gives you the infrastructure and freedom to build whatever you want. Your role isn't to sit back, watch the news, and grade the country's performance; your role is to utilize the platform to build something of value. As long as you're not in a medical emergency without insurance it's a pretty big blessing to be American. Overall we might win though as Canadians sorry . Although our job market is quite tough at the moment, our unemployment is higher than in America.

Well my simple argument against this is that there is no economic incentive to do that, it would actually be unprofitable vs building robots and letting the poor people and middle class people do whatever they want. There are actually a lot of incentives in keeping a middle class alive, it stimulates spending and it gives you a lot of social status in comparison. Just 10 rich dudes in a room is not a pleasant room it's just ego battles and competition. 10 rich dudes and 50 middle class dude and 50 middle class women is much better for everyone involved. In what ways do you disagree? I'll have this debate anyday I'm a massive fan of Bryan Johnson and how he's publicizing his health journey. A lot of other rich people are doing the same thind behind closed doors and not letting the rest of us benefit from their journey. His girlfriend Kate Tolo recently got diagnosed with Endometriosis and I sent her IG to a woman in my creatives chat that also has it to inspires her and give her hope that someone else richer than us is working to cure it so it's looking better than before!

Think of being mysterious more as a teasing move not literally being a mystery. I have a buddy where we went on a double date with these two older women and he refused to reveal his age when asked multiple times. I like to make them guess the first time and then say it, it lets the girl do some cold reading on you and then gives her satisfaction when you actually tell her the answer. If you refuse to say your age it starts to look uncalibrated or genuinely maliciously mysterious like you are refusing to reveal relevent information because it makes you look bad. First dates are about do you enjoy spending time with this person on a surface level just getting drinks/food/a walk for a couple hours before you invest more time into them. OKAY WHAT ARE YOUR DEEPEST BELIEFS ABOUT REALITY, LETS DISCUSS is not so much chill fun conversation unless you're really smooth about it.

Maybe if she's nice to my other women. Do you really believe that free will and the self are an illusion or are you using it as a common talking points in spiritual debates? I personally disagree and think our main experience of reality is free will, I don't mind debating the topic if you have a particular interest in it. I agree that it's dumb to derive your sense of self from your country since you don't control it and it's on you to make the best of the cards you're dealt. I think it's an interesting topic in that America is currently facing a crisis of identity and the left winger are always quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater. As a Canadian I see both sides, my country is doing better in terms of human rights and universal healthcare and I'm proud and benefiting directly from that national ideology at work; I see a lot of americans that aren't wealthy suffering from the class elitisism that america is struggling with.

Which lawsuit in particularly are you following? I'm well aware of them, some of them are valid and some of them are getting thrown out or getting counter sued. I think the Midjourney suit vs Disney, Warner Bros, and Universal is most interesting because they are arguing my exact point that it was done in a fairuse way. They also just filed a countermotion arguing that the studios are themselves scraping data and training their own proprietary models on third-party works and if they can prove it it'll be a landmark case that will settle most other smaller cases. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/midjourney-wants-hollywood-studios-to-reveal-the-details-of-their-ai-usage/

Why? The United States is a phenomenal country both in its history and current power to affect mankind for the better. I say this as a Canadian. Narcissism is wanting unearned praise, America deserves plenty of praise. It is the bastion of innovation. @Yimpa Cool perspective, it's important to be proud of who you are. Trans women are awesome.