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Keep in mind what looks good can change. Men now aspire for a body in the gym that was once not possible. Look at what was considered handsome and fashionable 100 years ago.

Russia did a partial mobilization which was massive, 300,000 men were called up. And in addition they have a huge pool of volunteers, Chechens, ethnic minorities signing up, paid soldiers to choose from. Ukraine does not have a fraction of the size of Russia's contract/volunteer pipeline. Ukraine is desperate for manpower because it is substantially smaller. Obviously no one knows the ratio for certain, we can triangulate some. Ukraine and Russia are promoting exaggerations. Looking at Russian tactics, Ukraine's defense positions it modestly favors Ukraine but of course you can have a better kill ratio and still be losing a long term war of attrition.

Go backpacking in Asia. It's cheap.

I don't really have a solution. I think the USA will basically have to decline in power like it is now, and the USA will hopefully kick out all the Israel lobby and spending, I think the only lasting peace that will come is Israel having a much weaker military and being forced to come to the table to negotiate and probably be a huge humiliation by giving land reparations. Either that or there will be forever wars until there is a really big one which decides who will own the land further and Israel will go down in history as a state built on genocide.

I come from neither of those camps though. I don't advocate for complete destruction of current Israel, obviously that would cause an even bigger humanitarian crisis. It's kind of understandable why so many arab people have a hardline stance on Israel though, why would you bargain or strike a deal with thieves especially when it just happened to your grandparents. It's like someone steals your grandparents land a bombs the F out of you and now you are expected to negotiate and give up land to your invaders? You're basically letting them get away with it. This is a common talking point Israel throws up though about how "everyone ignores when they do it but when we do it we get called out!" but it's not true. Every colonial country is having their reckoning with this. It's just that Israel's crimes are still very fresh hence why you hear more about it. I would support even more land and resources being given back to the Native Americans but they have almost entirely been genocide'd out, this is what israel wishes they could do with the Palestinians who had their land stolen.

I watched a YouTube video on this. I’ll save you the 20 minutes. Write 100 essays, have AI grade it and give pointers on how to improve. 250 words minimum each then increase to 500+, 2-3 a week. In 6 months you will be much more articulate. This is why the humanities are important. Start writing, it will fix this..

Your own limiting belief. Be open to being wrong.

Leo I basically have found a reasonably sustainable way to build up to where I’d like to be with my travel videos. I work online so I can do digital nomad stuff. Realistically I’d like to make more niche travel content and go to weird places and chase some really interesting stories but I do have to work and do have to be in places with decent internet 5 days a week. So I figure leaning a bit into more popular destinations where I can work from and finding unique and beautiful things, even if they have been explored there’s always stuff going on and interesting stories to lean into. For example I’m going to Thailand next month which has a lot of tourists but there’s also some drama about the place being overrun by tourists so I figure I can do some research and do a documentary on how over tourism is displacing locals and try to find a unique way of showing g the place taking into account the challenges it faces. The whole “paradise lost” thing is really hard to do unless you have a lot of cash to go off the beaten path or are willing to sacrifice your safety like going to dangerous places but there’s creative ways I think to do materialistic stuff and build up to more passion based projects

I’m making travel videos, I’m trying to include useful information and of course make it cinematically beautiful, tell authentic stories but also mix some trends here and there. I figure yoI have to adapt some to what’s popular but it’s also ok to add your own spin some to be different and how you want.

@Leo Gura I read your post on all the ways content creation can lead to living dishonesty. I make videos as well. I make travel videos on YouTube and I’m around 50 away from my first 1000 subs. I used to put great pressure and importance on my videos having to do well and in a subtle sense doubting my spirit if they do not. I’ve done a lot of reflecting and have let go of a lot of these beliefs and expectations, whether or not my channel ever blows up doesn’t define my worth and it definitely doesn’t come before god, but after. I still though do have an authentic desire to create my videos and will continue to do so, with my other responsibilities I have time for about 2 shorts a week clipped from a 1 a month YouTube video. I jsut am not sure I can produce more than that. I did at one point and got 25,000 follower on TikTok this way but it really sort of sucks the passion from it. I realized being authentic and actually making content that I enjoy and is really authentic to me is more important that constantly turning out videos to keep up with the algorithm output and trends. I have a few questions though. What would you say is a good mindset to go about creating videos on YouTube where you can be authentic and passionate and make the content that you want to make, mature and deep content but also still give considerations to the practicalities of the algorithm, some time frames like one video a month, not totally ignoring trends and clicks which are sometimes needed to jsut even get eyes on your work, etc. it’s basically the balance of practical truth with heartfelt truth. How do you balance these two and grow sustainably and authentically? If you wrote a blog post on this I would read it, the last one on traps is pure gold for anyone who wants to make videos for social media.

I actually went down the rabbit hole with this guy yesterday. To be honest I do think part of his gimmick is that he sees how much attention he gets for basically doing this “looksmaxxing” meme stuff. He really leaned into it and just from a marketing / click perspective it sets his videos up so they are kinda funny to watch and go viral due to how ridiculous and outrageous they can get. Apart from that he he’s now grifting a looks course and stuff so he’s able to grift insecure people this way, also it seems a lot of his followers send donations to him to talk to him on his stream. I have no clue why anyone would pay $5 to send this guy a message. The new generation is really so lonely. Apart from all that I don’t think he really cares about red pill or politics. He has 100% leaned into the looks thing and I think wants to run with that gimmick hard. If the trend on that moves on, which it will, he will probably then pivot to being more political or whatever else is popular with young men and incels who spend money on stake us.

Did you have to pay out of pocket for these repairs or was plumbing by insurance? My parents live in Vegas and many of the insurance companies they spoke to refused to cover burst pipes.

Gotta be real careful with Owen. He has some genuinely good videos in some topics but his teachings are unsustainable and aren’t relatable if you aren’t trying to climb the social ladder in Miami or Vegas. His teachings are so corrupt it’s genuinely hard to cherry-pick the good stuff at this point. I think if you are trying to play the maxing game it can kinda work and if you live in a place where money is seen as virtue you may see that’s something that’s necessary for you to see success. Idk it’s just such a different world for me at this point with how much I’ve awakened and integrated that I can’t say I’ve transcended all this but also he has almost nothing to teach me. I need teachings on how to love more and keep a marriage alive and family healthy. these game teachers offer nothing to me at this point except maybe I can learn from their marketing a bit.

European Jews are genetically closer to modern Europeans than to native middle eastern people. The craziest part is that the native Jews from the Middle East that were in Palestine, an established minority of Jews that has been there for ages and surrounding countries’ Jews, the ones who could truthfully say they and their ancestors have lived in the Middle East for centuries, when they went to Israel they experienced racism for being dark (actually form the Middle East). Zionism was actually just as alien to them as it was to the Muslims. European Jews haven’t been in the Middle East since the Roman empire, they are Europeans today.

No, because Taiwan is indisputably part of China. Read up the history. But I do not support any war and any reunification should happen 100% through diplomacy. I may not even support reunification and perhaps a diplomatic relationship where Taiwan is able to remain autonomous Your country stole a bunch of land and then pretends to be the victim and the defender. Imagine someone breaks into your house and then when you attack them to get out they shoot back saying it’s their home and they live there and are acting in self defense, doesn’t make much sense does it? You might say you won some wars so it’s like some realpolitik, legitimizes your country because historically war has shaped many countries… but it’s not the same cause this only happened like 77 years ago and clearly it’s not been resolved and is not an excuse for you guys magically having a land deed on the place especially considering you guys call yourselves a democracy. The only way Israel can logically make sense is if the state and people of Israel acknowledge they are a colonial stolen land country and refuse to move because that would simply be too disruptive, which I would in a sense agree with that. Then there come be a two state solution (which you guys should never have been promised 55% of the land originally, why would a tiny minority of people get to displace all the natives and get 55% of their land? Just cause the British and USA say so? )But you guys have to lie and lie and make up the most ridiculously twisted arguments to justify your violence and existence.

A fair point. It’s why I think above all we need to honor our authenticity and truth. If the truth is we need to work on our current situation and acknowledge our challenges then we are living in alignment. I have a much broader definition for alignment and purpose. It’s acting truthfully and authentically in the moment with what we know, clear of lies and the least amount of resistance. That’s non action , Wu Wei. for example if the truth is you need to get yourself to a safer country and that’s what’s true for you then any action aligned with getting yourself to a better country is truth.

It’s a colonial state largely founded by WWII refugees and wealthy Jews, justified by grievances and abuse suffered from the holocaust and it’s really driven home by a biblical fairy tale about how it was promised to them by god. It’s layered in its justifications but the narrative isn’t so complex. It was founded on land that does hold historical importance to Jews but this land also has had natives living there prior to the modern Israeli which is a mix of Jews form other middle eastern countries but mostly European Jews. The natives there. Palestinas lived there for hundreds of years and genealogically have more in common with the original Jews there than the European Jews who were native to Europe for over 800 years that came in and took the land by force while it was in a stateless strange period of being a British colony. If the place had not been colonized and all the Jewish refugees either stayed in Europe post ww2 or went to the USA it probably would have modernized into a modern state called Palestine similar to Syria or Iraq.

Of course they did. They didn’t even exist before 1948, a British Zionsit brainchild that got out of hand.

“Justifiable wars” ??? What a load of shit. Some of you guys are so far from god and truth. You can justify defending yourself sure, but of course people who want to wage war will just lie and say they were defending themselves (IE: Trump with Iran “drones were coming to California”, Putin with Ukraine “we are defending from nazis”

You guys need to be careful not to brain rot yourselves. Chronically online discussions. Leo, even you are prone to this.

I have done a lot of contemplation work on this. Especially as someone who studies Taoism and Wu Wei. I’ve explored my definitions and beliefs on some key concepts, I’ll share them. Again, don’t take everything so literally. Success - financial and social recognition which allows for new opportunities. Abundance - recognizing this moment now is all there is and you are enough / valuable in it, you have all you need to make the next truthful choice with the least amount of resistance. Uniqueness - you are valuable and unique and there is no one else like you, unique qualities about you and you being you. Passion - Your true self’s highest and most joyful expressions of itself through your uniqueness. We need to balance innocence / wonder with wisdom. What does this mean? Well you have bills and need money to live. This is true. You also have authentic passion you love and want to do, the language of your soul. This is also true. As you live you find the passion doesn’t necessarily pay the bills at this time or the way you are going about life neglects one of these truths. The challenge to life is giving proper recognition to both. We weren’t born with an instruction manual to life. We have to make choices, make mistakes, that’s ok. I would say the thing that really robs me of my joy on this path towards finding sustainable expressions of my passions is expectations. You got to drop all self judgement and expectations that things have to go how you think they should go. All we can do is make the right choices in the moment and take a bit of time to think with clarity about what choices we may want to make. I think this is mostly spot on and I agree with it but I think it needs just a bit of adjustment in my opinion. “Right sequence” I don’t believe life flows on such terms. It just flows. You may see certain choices at one point in time in your past as a mistake but culminated years later in something good for you. The thing is we live in the unknown. I think such language still has an expectation that things go how you think they should go, according to your idea of perfection. I would be a bit careful with that. We can live in Wu Wei, live from spirit and live authentically and in a way we believe is honest and right for ourselves.

This just seems too outlandish. I don’t want to rule anything out in the Epstein files though.

You def gotta be careful with what information you take in. Reading about all the cruelty and disgusting behavior can skew your mind in unhelpful ways and disconnect you inside in ways you aren’t conscious of when you hear or see realities about the world your ego probably doesn’t want to accept at first. Kind of like those women who listen to nothing but true crime and walk through the world scared of everything. The truth is there are people on this earth making a lot of choices based in some of the most absurd and disgusting lies imaginable. Obviously the news and media blows it up some, you don’t need to throw out all trust with your neighbor and people around you, but the reality is there are some cruel people on this earth. I can’t say I entirely accept this always. Sometimes wanting to disturb myself about it seems like the familiar path for coping with these truths but keep in mind not much good comes about from a disturbed mind. I think everyone is navigating the news about our politicians as it unfolds. Some of us are shocked, some are laughing at memes about it, some of us are disgusted and disturbed. I think the one thing I at least say I want to take away form this and live more wisely is that we gotta be there for ourselves through it and realize it’s possible to be happy and at peace in a world of chaos.

A load of shit and it takes only a couple of searches and clear minded reasoning to see how false this assertion is. Stop watching YouTube videos from clickbait war influencers. Use your head and actually look for credible sources. It has def hit a million now KIA/wounded for Russia and probably Ukraine to a slightly lesser degree.

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. Really great book and the author is spiritually informed and awake.