JosephKnecht

I don't like this victim mentality. To become a victim you must admit ignorance. For if you were not ignorant you won't fall for a manipulator. To become a victim you must surrender your power. For if you never surrendered your power, how can the other manipulate you. It is ignorant to look at someone like Merlin Manson and expect that he would treat you like other "normal" guy. Merlin Manson wears his personality on his sleeves. If you are too blind to see it, you need to fix your eyes.

Clever guy. Understands lots of psychological tricks that make him a good salesman. The highest thing he is selling is his soul, then his name(brand), but he is unaware of these things yet.

If there are words in it, I will be disappointed.

An idea for a new video... Leo stares at the camera for 1 hour and communicates without words. Let's make it happen.

RIght-wing is all about conservation. Left-wing is all about liberation. If you become completely liberated, you become completely disinterested in conservation. Since all conservation relies on self-deceptions, once you are liberated you can see through all deceptions. To Leo, all right-wingers seem like charlatans that can't see through their own self-deception. However, the universe must conserve itself, so it must create a balance between the right and left. It must create people that will conserve that which is already created. Thus, Jordan Peterson. All systems must evolve eventually, but the systems that evolve the longest are the ones that are able to stabilize(conserve) while they evolve.

The family is great. But oftentimes the family is the major roadblock to discovering your true nature. Once your turn 18, it's time to become an adult and go your own way. (Metaphysically speaking) The "family" can't support you forever. It will support you as long as you need support.

Learn to like it. You can learn to like it by breaking it down into smaller pieces. Or you can visualize the reward of achieving the final result. Who would you be if you did it, and who would you be if you didn't do it. Then decide which one of those two people would you rather be.

@Valwyndir Nice post. I enjoyed it. His biggest flaw is that he still has an Image, and others try to photoshop their face onto His.

Society is a brittle construction. It hangs on thin threads on implied social constructs and socialized morality. Once few threads break, the flood washes everything away.

This is good advice. You need to channel your addition into real life. Imagine life to be a video game and you must win life to get to the end.

Kids these days. They feel so entitled to everything. If you haven't learned from the 500 videos he already has, the next 5 million videos won't help you. Do the work.

Trans-Formations - Joseph Knecht I might be biased on this one.

He is in both. All at once.

He is partially right. In a capitalistic system, you must have some capital to make a dent in the system. If he wants to mow lawns, he needs to own expensive equipment (lawnmower as capital) since he can't mow lawns with his scissors or bare hands.

God is that which can not be understood.

Inflation happens because politicians/bankers inflate the money supply. Fiat money has value as long as people trust their politicians/bankers. But unless you are blind, you can see how shaky the current political system is. A weak political system always leads to weak currency because both are predicated on trust. Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Yugoslavia Once the economy opens up again, and people are allowed to spend their stimulus money, stock gains, etc, you will see a much higher inflation rate. You can't manipulate the supply of Bitcoin. The supply of bitcoin is predictable 100% and cannot be manipulated. You can only manipulate the price, not the supply. 1 BTC = 1 BTC. Another feature is to be a store of value, and Bitcoin fulfills this function much better than any fiat currency.

Think broader of what Bitcoin is. While you hold $1 million dollars, and the government prints $3 trillion dollars in one year, it makes your $1 million dollars worth less (or worthless). Fiat money is an open system, and politicians/bankers can expand the money supply as they wish. Bitcoin is a closed system, and no actor in the system can manipulate the supply. In every game-theoretical system, scarcity wins.

A similar thing happened to me on two occasions after waking from sleep. I was laying in bed, fully awake and conscious but although I could see, hear, I had no control over my body. I was trying to move my body, my legs, arms but nothing was happening. As if my awareness was just aware of the body but had no motor control of the body. It felt like a complete body paralysis but only lasted maybe 10 - 20 seconds. After that, I was able to regain control of the body. I still can't make sense of the experience.

Imagine that everyone is you. Imagine that in the next life, you will actually be reborn into their body and will have everything that you currently envy about them. Imagine that the other person is YOU. Would you still envy them? Why would you envy yourself? The best way is not to imagine all this, but to realize it as actually Real. Use your Imagination until it becomes a Realization.

Sounds like you need to be a little physic to became physic. If you cant discover your own psychic abilities, who can discover them for you?

I agree. I think he interpreted his mystical experiences from a Judeo-Christan context. There are many interviews of JP where he is on the brink of tears, almost touching the Transcendent, but always trying to capture it with words. Maybe here is a good example of that...

If you watch his lectures, you will notice that he takes too much pride in his understanding of reality. The pride of a deep understanding of reality keeps you bound to the understanding. Also, he was/is too concerned with his image of a public intellectual and was surrendering too much power to the great psychologist of the past (Jung, Freud) and he wants to be perceived as their best student. When he was a professor at Harvard, he basically replaced Timothy Leary and if I had to bet, I would say that there is a 90% probability that JP has achieved some mystical states with or without psychedelics. Why he doesn't speak about them is beyond me...

What about the non-binaries? It would have been better if he said Nothing.

Death is the dissolvement of the self into the Self.

Humans are driven by 3 primary motives in life. 1) Survival motive - This means that the primary concern of your life is the material survival of the physical body. People in third world countries live their lives with daily worries about putting food on their table, rent, paying bills for living expenses, etc. Living life means just trying to survive. 2) Surrogate motive - This happens in first world countries where survival is guaranteed. The social system has provided so much abundance already, that you will be able to survive regardless of your skills. In first world countries, people create a surrogate motive for themselves, such as climbing the corporate ladder, becoming the best basketball player, etc. The surrogate motive is subjective and its importance is self-prescribed. 3) Impossible motive - You can create a goal for yourself to attain the unattainable. You can only do this once you have exhausted motive 1) and 2). For example, you can become motivated to transcend yourself through psychodelics, but this motive is never satiated because once you get there, there is nobody that is transcended. This motive is so hard to achieve that is almost impossible, and if by some luck you attain it, it won't be your motive since there won't be a you anymore. That makes it impossible. Going beyond survival means trying to satiate motive 2) and 3).