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You know, In a way Break Up and Break Down are actually contextual opposites. When I break up a pizza I am cutting it into slices. And when I break down a pizza I am digesting it into its fundamentals. Interesting.

@jimwell Why say “foundationed” when in English you might say “founded in”. “Foundationed” is also, in a way implying a past tense in my opinion. So you aren’t really getting away from anything. A country is founded on principles. A mission can be founded on or in values. When you started the mission you did so because of values. That is kind of past tense isn’t it? How is that wrong to say? Rooted, to an English speaker does not imply something botanical inherently. Rests on does not imply lightness. Those are particular interpretations you have yourself. The word Remove, actually has remained essentially the same in its Latin and French move and is consistent. All of those negating words you listed also have meaning and context that is important to English. I don’t get why you would want to limit them. You simply don’t want to actually speak full and real, fluent and flexible English? You may do whatever you want, and I think it’s interesting you are doing this. I’m not saying not to do it. But, as a native speaker I don’t see issues with the things you do.

@jimwell hmm, Well, as a native English speaker I could use Break Up and Break down in similar ways when taking about breaking something into smaller pieces. But they would be different contextually. I break up a pizza by cutting it and sharing it with others. I break down a pizza by digesting it. A break up between two people is a very different phrase than a break down between two people. As an English speaker I see no problem with these phrases because I understand them. It’s not actually inherently or absolutely logical that break down or break up would be opposites of each other. Both have the root word being break, and like you said it’s a phrase not a directional use of the word up or down. Up and down are clear opposites but they are not phrases. I don’t see an issue with these words because we know what they mean. They have many different contexts they can be used in and everyone native in English basically knows how it use it, though largely implicitly. Don’t you think it’s a bit odd to come to a new language and assume you have a better grasp than native speakers? Conformity isn’t bad in an of itself. I think what Leo is teaching is consciousness which, if you are to live consciously you need to deconstruct how you have aspects of conformist cognition. Languages are inherently conformity because that’s what separates one language from another. A language is a construct and a conformity of symbols, sounds, meaning, context, syntax, etc. It comes odd ti me you want to create your own… dialect of English and are annoyed with the constraints that would put on you. Isn’t it arbitrary what you are doing? Isn’t it also question begging you as a none native have a better grasp than natives?

I do not experience this. After a salad or soup with veggies I feel great. Clearly, people eat lots of veggies without this happening. People are not stupid. You know, a lot of this is personal and difficult because people are somewhat individual. Also, the food you eat I think can have seasonal considerations too. Bryan Johnson, an individual and also the most measured person in the world only eats fruits and veggies plus supplements and doesn’t report these issues as an example.

@Leo Gura You cray

@Yimpa God conforms to no one

Bro, you are the one staying up late, playing games and drinking caffiene. I am not sure that is insomnia but just you neglecting your sleep in favor of fun.

I take back what I said. Pickup and cold approach is fine. I am personally going to avoid clubs and night life mostly though.

@bazera not dating. Clubs and pick up.

I turned 30 a couple days ago. I honestly, I don’t think pick up is for me. I can’t stand clubs, I find large crowds overwhelming and I don’t like loud music. It’s just not my vibe. I wish it was. But, it’s not. I know I have room to grow in this area. But, clubs? That just makes no sense to me. Honestly, I think fear of this kind of environment has been a thing my whole life. I was inspired by Leo and Owen. But, it doesn’t feel authentic to me and I’m an old guy now. I still use ideas I learned from them. But, cold approach is something I really don’t like. I can’t do it. I have more luck meeting girls at events and stuff when there is openness of people for meeting. I am in a weird spot in my life. Sex is in my life. I have sex with people I meet. But, it’s not pickup like Owen Cook teaches really. i honestly just want a girlfriend 🤷‍♂️.

A lot of the best jokes actually reveal truths we are too scared, sad, ashamed of, guilty of etc to admit to ourselves. Humour can be a great way of expressing truths that are very funny. Jokes can reveal truths we couldn’t have seen otherwise. People like Louis CK, and Theo Von, George Carlin, Dave Chapelle make their jokes expressing truths. Comedy is actually a really powerful art I think.

That was the easiest Where’s Waldo ever. Didn’t need the whole 4 hours. 🤪

@Zeroguy Why are you wasting our time with this? “Hi guys, I wanna be a saint or sage… but I won’t put any thought or effort into this myself”. Okay good luck man.

No, I was talking about the random post on pirating.

@Leo Gura I took your wine example as an example and thought experiment. The history or original creation of a thing is sort of irrelevant when it comes to people enjoying it or not. At the same time, alcohol in general is a conformist thing. The episode was good I thought. Still, it’s like refining out ideas from previous videos. Not exactly new. I also, I don’t fully grasp where you are guiding us too. I found myself asking… what’s the point of this? I do like how I see more clearly how my thoughts, actions and survival are sort of this “reflection” of culture…. One of my favourite songs “Reflektor” for some reason has me contemplating the fractal nature of human thought and creativity and how much of it is just reflections. The idea of creating new thoughts, sovereign cognition and aspects of consciousness is interesting. You mentioned you are leading me to God realization. Which, actually leads me to a question because I’ve had psychedelic experiences on 5meodmt recently that left me entirely alone in this perfect singularity which I resisted very strongly. The realization of no time, birth, death etc actually really scared me and has me questioning continuing with this work for now. I’ve been in this state before but this last time I really resisted it. Weird paradox territory. I think my grasping ego distorted the trip. I feel this video dove tails with so many previous episodes. I think for me. Right now this episode has me contemplating my of cognition. I don’t think I’m ready for deep original thinking at this point in my life but I appreciate having access to this information. I think if anything being able to see and make high quality distinctions of the types of conformity I do play Into is healthy. Leo, I am wonder if you think that we should return to whether or not we live cognize consciously as a first principle and not whether what we do is conformist. We are fractal being and we can’t escape Conformity entirely and I don’t think that’s the goal of your teaching. I think, for many of us it’s to be more conscious of the social matrix, group think and conformity. A few of us will from this work go on to create great original works I’m sure I think beyond just not being conformist is to learn the skill of meta cognition, instropection, philosophy, and to be construct aware, and aware of group think dynamics and social matrix. Then, with this the goal is to develop a mature, stable, Actualized and functional mind to live a good life. I am not really interested in the Alien consciousness stuff but open to hearing about it.

@Nemra We share the threads. 🧵

@Nemra Can you guys not derail this thread over your random comment?

When I first saw it I was confused what holiday it was. Thanks for the new video Leo.

@lostmedstudent no sourcing

Thought this was a cool find!

@Nemra I experience something like tolerance

When a spiritual teacher wants to make money and pays for a marketing course.

Be mindful of that sneaky paradox…

@Zeroguy You’re living in concepts. Focus on living in Life.

No, I doubted it. Then looked into it. Then I found and share the clip. Now I’m a believer @Leo Gura 😞