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  1. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    By following the fundamental principles of epistemoloy and philosophy that I laid out for you. Grounding yourself in direct experience. Keen attention to bias. Consciousness work. Caring deeply about truth. Avoiding any ideology or group-think. Studying all the self-deception mechanisms. Contemplation. Construct-awareness. Paradigm-awareness. Relativity. Radical openmindedness. Reading many diverse sources and perspectives. High quality sources, not ideological junk. Meditation.
    You know all this. Now do it.

  2. Are men or women the prize?
    Are men or women the prize?
    Catching 100 fish or 1 fish takes the same bait.
    I've never had lots of women attracted to me. This is a fantasy for most men. This only works for exceptionally attractive men. You ladies assume that the average man is like the top 1% of men. That is a fantasy. That's not how dating is for average or below average men. You grossly overestimate how much attention the average man gets from women. It's 100x less than you think because you're looking at some hot player dating coach. That kind of guy is 1 in 100.
    I've never cared about having lots of women attracted to me. Just one. But getting that just one requires the same effort as getting 100.

  3. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    The stuff I teach is not metaphysical beliefs. It's insights about the structures and operations of Mind, which is highly relevant to any process of understanding reality truthfully.
    Actualized.org is focused on structure not content. Adopting beliefs is already a bad structure for scientific inquiry.
    For example, materialism is bad content, bad epistemology, bad ontology.
    There is no scientific reason to believe in an external mind-indepedent reality. This is as silly as believing in unicorns.

  4. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Well, it's everything I've ever talked about. So it's a lot of stuff to summarize.
    It's the doing of Pure Philosophy It's thousands of hours of contemplation and deep existential questioning It's understanding the 9 Stages Of Ego Development and working through each stage It's developing profound Construct-Awareness It's taking psychedelics It's observing your own ego in action and the egos of others It's study and research, reading and watching videos It's educating yourself about the world, cultures, geography, politics, science, various forms of spirituality It's developing a life purpose It's getting crystal clear about your values and principles It's the study of self-deception It's the study of epistemology and its many traps It's deconstructing everything It's understanding your own corruption and selfishness It's studying your own emotions and developing mindfulness over them and understanding how and why they work It's recognizing immaturity within yourself and working towards mature ways of being It's studying and contemplating the common traps everyone falls into

  5. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Yup. That happened for me last year. I still have yet to release videos about it. I'm giving you guys some previews via the blog.

  6. What can stop bottomless capitalism?
    What can stop bottomless capitalism?
    The only way out is through.
    You can make use of capitalism to build yourself a decent life. That's what everyone has to do. You shouldn't expect government to just give you a good life. Turn yourself into a massive value provider. You can make good money in this system if you are hardworking and highly creative.

  7. Don't tell me that this insane approach actually works on girls
    Don't tell me that this insane approach actually works on girls
    That's why you're not getting results.
    Your method is terrible. Like throwing shit at the wall and hoping some piece sticks.
    You have to build an emotional connection with the girl to give her a reason to want to hang out or even respond to your calls.
    You are missing the whole art of game. You don't know how to flirt and how to establish a human connection. This is why girls don't sleep with you.

  8. Soonhei (Member of this community) killed himself to experience Conscious Death. :-(
    Soonhei (Member of this community) killed himself to experience Conscious Death. :-(
    @SoonHei
    I understand your grief and emotional turmoil, and you just wish things had unfolded differently so SoonHei would still be alive. I totally get that.
    However, it is important to be factually and historically accurate about "long-established religions". The amount of death, torture, hatred, pedophilia, suicide, etc caused by classical religions is orders of magnitude beyond any new age spirituality. Classical religion is not "safe" in that way, it only seems safe because it is so baked into the social fabric of society. Many people kill themselves every year from holding Christian and Islamic beliefs about homosexuality being a sin. Or from other kinds of guilt. Or they kill others out of religious hatred. Again, this is because any large scale spiritual teaching will be corrupted and misused by self-deceived ego-minds.
    The things I teach are tools for leading a good, moral life -- without dogmatic moralization. But a good moral life cannot be guaranteed by following any set of mechanical rules. Genuine goodness and morality requires consciousness, wisdom, intelligence, responsibility, and balance. I teach all of these things more than any religion. Classical religion teaches mechanical rules, which is not sufficient to eliminate suffering, evil, corruption, misunderstanding, or suicide. Misunderstanding within classical religion is very high. All classical religions also have esoteric and mystical cores which teach radical truths about God, Love, Heaven, Death, and Awakening. Because Truth is radical by its nature.
    So my point is this: be careful not to conclude that new age spirituality is the root issue here. The root issue is the tricky nature of how the mind works. The mind is extremely self-deceptive by its nature, and then it will use whatever system of ideas/beliefs to behave however it wants. Those ideas/beliefs can be atheist, theist, Christian, Islamic, New Age, Buddhist, nondual, rationalist, nihilist, capitalist, socialist, nationalist, liberal, conservative, or whatever.
    I know this logic doesn't take your pain away. But thinking that "the grass is greener on the other side" can add to your pain.

  9. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    This is a fantasy.
    Without employment humans will devolve into drug addicted animals, not enlightened sages.
    Do not assume that billionaires will give you any of their money.
    If you are not employed you have no way of making money. Do not assume that you are unemployed but you magically have money.

  10. If you want to defeat Israel, promise Jews there’ll never be another Holocaust.
    If you want to defeat Israel, promise Jews there’ll never be another Holocaust.
    The key thing to understand is that it's not about fairness or morality, it's about power.
    If you think the world works based on morality the world will never make sense to you and you will fail at predicting the future.

  11. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Working harder and smarter is their best bet. Even if socialism wins, it will be a cold day in Hell before it puts money in your pocket.
    Wealth is actually created for average people when they run small businesses, like hotdog stands, village shops, small farms, bazaar shops, cafes, bike repair shops, candy stores, etc. Marxism confiscates and kills these small businesses.

  12. How is Warren Buffett still alive eating junk food daily?
    How is Warren Buffett still alive eating junk food daily?
    I have wondered this myself.
    Some people just have lucky genetics. Like Trump.
    If I ate the shit they eat I would be dead by now.
    There may actually be a correlation between one's level of consciousness and how sensitive your body/brain is to toxins. Notice that a high performance sports car requires superior fuel to travel the same mileage. High performance machines tend to be more sensitive and fragile, requiring higher precision in their operation.
    There are some people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day their whole lives and never get cancer. But are these highly conscious people? Would you really want to trade places with them even if they live to 100? Trump will probably live more years than I do, but I don't regret that one bit.

  13. Humanity Has Failed
    Humanity Has Failed
    Morality without reality ends in evil. Which is 20th century Marxist Cuba, Russia, China, North Korea, etc.

  14. Humanity Has Failed
    Humanity Has Failed
    ISIS < Hamas < Taliban < North Korea < Iran < Russia/China < Israel < USA < Scandinavia
    There are many degrees.

  15. I can’t unsee the survival mode in everything
    I can’t unsee the survival mode in everything
    Survival takes place within Being. So if you stop long enough to look underneath all the survival what you see is the underlying Being, which is Consciousness for its own sake.
    Spirituality is about seeing the Being underneath all the unconscious survival.
    Emptiness just means free of survival.

  16. Absolute Truth question
    Absolute Truth question
    It is Absolute Truth but in that moment you aren't aware of it as such.
    Your money chest analogy applies well here.
    Yes, Being = Perception - Ego
    But notice, what is ego? Ego isn't really anything substantial. So perception is very close to Being. The only difference is a bit of extra awareness.
    With a bit of awareness perception becomes Being.

  17. Absolute Truth question
    Absolute Truth question
    Awakening IS the moment you realize what Absolute Truth is.
    Then you can drop in state but you still know what Truth is.
    Yes, without Awakening you don't have a reference experience for what the word Absolute means. You are like a guy who hasn't experienced an orgasm. Awakening is the orgasm. You don't need to be in constant orgasm to know what orgasm is. But you do need to have at least one.

  18. Humanity Has Failed
    Humanity Has Failed
    It was an atrocity of ethnic cleansing.
    There is no doubt the Palestinians have legitimate moral outrage over the injustice of being ethnically cleansed from their land. However, that doesn't matter because POWER is what matters in politics, not morality. They do not have the power to get the justice they deserve.

  19. Leo, your view on hierarchical systems?
    Leo, your view on hierarchical systems?
    Wealth inequality is a huge problem. The issue is how to fix that issue systemically in an intelligent way rather than some stupid way like communism.
    I don't have a solution. I don't see anyone who has the solution. So until then we are stuck with the current system.

  20. I want to show people the limitations of science, but there is a problem
    I want to show people the limitations of science, but there is a problem
    That's a classic example from philosophy of mind / phenomenology. Unfortunately even when you give that example, people still ignore it. Materialism simply discounts all phenomena as "subjective" and therefore insignificant.
    A materialist scientist will simply not understand how seeing the color red has any importance to science. "Okay, so even if I miss the color red, so what? Doesn't change a thing."

  21. New Video: 8 Unique & Original Proofs Of God
    New Video: 8 Unique & Original Proofs Of God
    @Synchronicity Here is a dead simple logical proof of Oneness:
    Take the notion of Everything. Everything must be One. Why? Because any thing whatsoever must be included in Everything. If you can think of or imagine a thing which isn't part of Everything, that means you didn't have Everything, so just include that thing into Everything.
    So by absolute logic Everything must be One. There can only be one Everything. Everything must also be infinite since Everything can hold an infinite number of things. Since numbers are things, we can see that Everything must at least contain all the numbers, which means Everything is infinite. It is impossible to imagine anything that is not a "thing" since I define "thing" as anything whatsoever, including "non-things".
    So Everything is God.
    Classical logic.
    Doubt it all you like, but it is true.

  22. Leo, How Many God-Realized Women Have You Met?
    Leo, How Many God-Realized Women Have You Met?
    I have not met any, but I don't meet many people in general.
    Women generally do not care about truth. So it will be rare to find a woman who does.
    Women have a different way of doing spirituality. A feminine way. It is not centered on truth-seeking. But of course these are just generalizations and there will be exceptions. Most men don't take truth seriously either.
    Women can have lots of spiritual wisdom, but it will be of a softer feminine sort. Don't expect women to blast you in the face with hard truth. That is antithetical to femininity.
    The best advice I can give you on this topic is this: Stop needing women to be sources of truth. That is not a woman's function. You as the man should be the source of truth for women. And even then, you should not dump truth on women but rather bask in truth yourself without trying to impose it on them. Imposing truth on a woman will only make her hate you. Give women love, not truth. Keep the truth to yourself. This is the proper function of a man. Do not try to make women into men. This is a rookie mistake. And appreciate the different angle that women offer.

  23. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    The answer varies depending on the time period.
    In our lifetime it will be capitalism. In 500 years maybe socialism will work.
    Getting the timing right is critical. It does no good to implement a system 200 years too early.

  24. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    It's a bad theory. It failed to predict history.
    Marx said that capitalism would not make the middle class prosperous and would not generate abundance. He was wrong. Capitalism succeeded beyond Marx's wildest dreams and society advanced from industrial factory economy to a services economy. Meanwhile every attempt at socialism failed to be sustainable and to generate as much prosperity as capitalism.

  25. Leo, do you think that Democrats should support right-wing economic policies?
    Leo, do you think that Democrats should support right-wing economic policies?
    The definition of corruption is bending the truth to survive.