@Hardkill Dude, focus on your life purpose.
Don't get distracted by human noise.
This is life lesson #1.
Go create something beautiful.

The devil cannot stand the light and the love, so he doubles down on devilish domination.
Fundamentally a dense ego cannot stand pure love. A dense ego is too wounded, hurt, bitter, angry, vengeful, arrogant, ignorant, combative, closedminded, insecure, greedy, lustful, etc.
The devil would rather rule in Hell than bow to Love.

All these people are an embarassment to mankind. Every one of them.
Don't let them gaslight you with their bullshit. They chase fame, success, and money, not truth.
History will record all these people as buffoons.

People everywhere are racist.
Racism is not some localized phenomnon. This has existed everywhere since your ancestors were chimps, a million years of racism. The notion that racism is gone is laughable.

@Inliytened1 You fundamentally misunderstand Trump's character, his intentions, and his administration. It's all a con. It's not about helping anyone but his ego.
You have chosen corruption thinking it will help you. Not intelligent. It's like you missed the whole point of our work here. Now the Devil will collect his due.
If your child gets poisoned by some toxic yogurt thanks to deregulation then you will understand why I say the things I say. Right now you still feel like the corruption will not touch you. You feel like you can make a pact with the Devil and win. That's very short-sighted.
I wish you would wake up from your political slumber. But at this point it will only happen through some deep personal suffering in your life that reveals your short-sightedness and selfishness.

That's certainly the case. However, they contradict themselves with BS because they are just rationalizing their selfishness. Whatever your views of ownership are they can't just be self-serving because that will lead to mental contradiction.

As predicted by Spiral Dynamics.
People vote based on their stage of development, not their race, gender, party, religion, or whatever else.
Many latinos are stage Blue. Many immigrants are stage Blue. Many of them would vote for a fascist.

They were real, AS fictions of your mind.
Then you awoke to realize that their true nature was fictions of your mind. They are still real, AS FICTIONS OF YOUR MIND!
There is no such thing as "unreal". What you mean by "unreal" is that you misunderstood the nature of a real phenomenon. For example, when you are walking in the desert and see a mirage of a lake off in the distance, the mirage is real, but it is not a lake that you will be able to drink out of, therefore when you reach the "lake" you call it "unreal". But it isn't really unreal, it's just not what you thought it was. So you were fooled.
An illusion is still absolutely real. It just isn't what you thought it was. A hologram is still real. A rainbow is still real. A mirage is still real. Virtual reality is still real. A hallucination is still real. A dream is still real. A lie is still real.
All form will cease to appear as form if you stop dreaming. So if you define "real" as a form which stays around permanently, independent of your mind, no such form exists whatsoever. In this sense you could say that nothing is real. However, this kind of talk comes from a lack of awareness of what "real" means. "real" does not mean permanent. You are confusing reality with time.
Just because the moon ceases to exist when you turn your head away from it doesn't mean it isn't real when you are looking at it.

Ownership is a construct, yet still, within that construct which everyone accepts, theft happens.

This is a catch-all thread for any comments or discussions you guys wanna have about any entries from Leo's Blog.

And they still don't.
It's madness of crowds based on vibes. That's how demagoguery works. It preys are on political fools who never really cared about governance. To these people politics is a football game.

Build your life a bit each day, every day until you die.
That's the only reasonable strategy. Everything else is a distraction.

Please stop bolding your entire posts.
As a baseline, you need a deep existential relationship with life. You have to regard all of life with the gravity it deserves, not as something comfortable that you feel entitled to. You have to frame your whole attitude in a deeper context. Rats and birds are shivering to death right now outdoors somewhere. That's life! Not this artificial stuff that humans have invented. Life is serious business and must be treated with much respect.
You can't feel entitled to anything, not to happiness, not to health, not to freedom, not to comfort, not to freedom from pain.
This is the right starting point. Humans are spoiled and corrupt. This corruption makes you weak, pathetic, and miserable.
You should treat life more like you are a rat out in the middle of winter. A rat has no rights and is entitled to nothing. A rat has to work every minute to stay alive. That's real life.
You shouldn't be focusing on such artificial and spoiled concepts like fairness. You should be focused on what work you need to do to grow yourself.

@Kairos The point of Awakening is to understand what reality is.
I'm made it quite clear that Awakening doesn't solve material conditions.
Suffering is part of life. Rather than trying to escape it, embrace it. Life is meant to be challenging. That's what grows you.

It forced me to cut through many fantasies and illusions.
This work doesn't really become real until you are forced to confront great pain, unfairness, and cruelty.
The brutality of life is what grounds the work and keeps it from becoming that sugary New Age spiritual fantasy.
Great pain is necessary to shatter your illusions about reality.

You have to keep in mind how marketing works:
1) Only 1/300 people will buy something. So the odds are very small, but with tens of millions of views it adds up.
2) Marketing makes you generally aware that a product even exists. This awareness is very subtle, but when you finally need the product you will know it exists to be bought.
3) Marketing makes you aware of a brand, so when you are in the store and deciding which version to buy, you buy the version you are familiar with.
4) Most of the time a marketed product will not fit your needs, but that 1/300 times you will eagerly buy it.
5) You might be outside the target demographic for certain product ads. For exmaple, product placements in Hollywood movies are designed to appeal to teenagers and young people who are very suseptible to such things. All the superhero movies are made for teens.
If I market some ass itch cream to you, you will ignore it. But in 5 years when your ass starts itching you will remember and buy it.

You should study enlightened masters more. The really enlightened ones say exactly that. This is actually one of the most essential features of enlightenment.
You are not deeply enlightened unless you realize that all meaning and value is a construct of the mind. "Evil" is an evaluation, and it is always a fantasy.
There can be no peace in you unless you realize that meaning and value are things your mind creates.
There can be no true love unless you are able to love the selfishness of others. What do you think Jesus taught you? Unconditional love. Which means, you cannot see evil any more.
Notice that as soon as you make a judgment or evaluation of any kind, you are automatically disconnected from Truth.

That's the core of Einstein's Relativity theory.
Location is not absolute, it's relative. You need to have two objects that you can compare in order to create a "location". Location is relativistic. Which then makes distance and length relativistic. And velocity relativistic. And time relativistic.

Yeah, Marx had some good critiques. But again, the real question is how you improve upon capitalism.
How do you know your system improves upon it rather than making it worse?
I can critique mankind for being demons all day long. But in the end, how do you stop them from being the demons we all know they are?

You need to do some compartmentalization. There needs to be two parts to your life: 1) work, survival, being human, social life, 2) existential truthseeking. You must master both parts, not merely one. When you are doing work, being human, socializing, surviving, remind yourself that that is not about truth. That's a kind of game you are playing, and you can enjoy playing it. But then there is time when you set aside the game and get to serious work on truthseeking.
As your truthseeking matures you will start to merge truth back into your human life and the gap between the two will lessen.
Yes, truthseeking is very intellectually stressful. No way around that since most human activity is built on lies and illusions.
There is much to intellectually understand about truth. Don't let yourself be gaslit about that.
You can perform well at school and work by compartmentalizing them as relative human activities. You don't need to know much about truth to play a video game. And school and work are like that. The reason you do school and work is to master survival and to get a basic foundation for human life. This is valuable to do regardless of whether it is truthful or not.
There is always a tradeoff between comfort and achievement. You just gotta get clear about which you value more and to what degree, and live your life accordingly. Ambitious people sacrifice comfort for achievement. The achievement can bring more joy than comfort. But some degree of comfort is also needed.
No doubt, being an asleep bullshitting lazy human is comfortable.

Everything! I don't discriminate.
Most of the stuff I contemplate is survival stuff. There is a lot of profound insight to be had there, and decades-worth of stuff to contemplate.
Contemplate whatever you're interested in.

What really matters is not what you call it but how deeply conscious are you of how your construct the dream you are in.

China is capitalist.
I see no interest from you in questioning your worldview, which antithetical to this work.
North Korea has had 70 years to develop. It failed. That is more than enough time to rebuild anything that was bombed.
You are not seriously looking at the facts. You want to maintain your narrative. You are not at all engaging with the serious internal problems of Marxist theory and its implementation in the real world.

Life is a very difficult thing to accept. Especially once you start to understand the extent of human corruption. Which is why most humans remain ignorant of it or subscribe to some kind of ideology or conspiracy theory. You don't want to understand how corrupt the world is and your role in it.

Yes, of course. Israel was an ethnic cleansing project from day 1. And it still is today. Nothing has changed. Once this point is understood, everything makes sense.
Begin was a terrorist. He organized terrorist attacks against the British to force them to pull out of Palestine, which succeeded.
Begin lead the most successful terrorism campaign in history, which led to the formation of the Israeli state.
People generally assume that terrorism doesn't work. And usually that's true. But Israel is history's greatest example of terrorism working, thanks to Begin and his friends. All of it this is a matter of historical record.