Tim R

People often think that moderation decisions like locking a thread or giving warning points is a personal matter, or that it's because the mod disagreed with your post on a personal level. That is 99% not the case. I always point out that moderation decisions or thread locking is not a personal thing, it has nothing to do with my opinion or with me agreeing/disagreeing. Almost half of all reported posts don't have a thread-lock or warning as a consequence simply because they don't violate the guidelines. But they get reported because of some personal disagreement between two or more members and they want the other member to get silenced or their thread locked. As Carl-Richard said, we moderate in terms of guidelines. Our function is to make sure that they are adhered to. That's it. People love to think that mods constantly abuse their power and silence users who disagre with them or Leo, which quite frankly, is just bs. Heck, even I don't agree with everything Leo says and I'm mod, go figure. It has nothing to do with worshipping Leo and tyranically enforcing his world view. That's just typical deflection of resposibility. Yes, mods are falliable but hey, good thing there's a system that acts like a buffer for all the times when mods make a mistake, and that system is called; you need 20 warning points until you get kicked out, 20! So if someone has (almost) 20 warning points, I think it has very little to do with mods being falliable or power hungry tyrants, rather you just didn't adhere to the guidelines.

Yeah... But in his post 'Nahm being demoted' he (Leo) wrote: so I was hoping that he wouldn't actually ask Nahm to leave. Idk. After all, he didn't ban him, he just demoted him. And even if Leo asked him to leave - I find it a bit disappointing that Nahm and Leo would have this disagreement between each other without ever letting the forum members know about their dispute, and then one day Nahm suddenly just leaves without any prior announcement I was hoping for a compromiss

That seems kinda absolutist to me... At least he could explain his decision, no? I mean he knows there's a lot of people here who are sad to see him leave. Wouldn't be cool to just walk outta here without even saying good bye...

Stop creating unnecessary drama, nobody gives a hoot.

Very rarely, he told me he doesn't like locking threads at all, even if people in the thread would go completely apesh*t (he didn't say it like that tho?)

@Gregory1 He's not banned, just demoted from mod to member.

The basis of your argument is a circular assumption, namely that there is such a thing as the "source of thought" / "the thinker" which "does" the thinking. "Source of thought" and "thinker" are merely more thought. Watch out for implicit assumptions. If the foundation is skewed, the whole house will be crooked.

I just very recently understood a reply he gave me like 1,5 years ago? I appreciate it though. Probably still haven't understood it completely lol

just to be clear, I didn't send that video because of anything related to Nahm or Leo, I just thought it was funny to give Alex_R this video as an explanation for neo-advaita?

This is entirely irrelevant to this thread...

@Raptorsin7 Again: it's not that people criticise him. It's that they think they can now call him things and accuse him of being a fraud and yes, that's not what this thread is for and it's thus not constructive.

@Alex_R A-dvai-ta (Sanskrit) means not-two-ness. It's basically a form of teaching nonduality where one constantly tries to point out the dualities of thought. May I introduce you to the legendary Neo-Advaita Bears?

I'll say it again; stop commenting like your talking about him behind his back. You're being rude and disrespectful. "He has to go" or "he's probably ripped off material from Abraham Hicks" or "he is clueless" are not valid or constructive criticisms.

@Happy Lizard I didn't know about that.

I'm not illegitimizing anyone's criticism of Nahm. But some posts give the impression that people think this thread is an opportunity to talk badly about Nahm behind his back, that's all I wanted to adress.

@Raptorsin7 Why, did you feel adressed? I think some people (mis)use this thread as an opportunity to express their disliking of Nahm in a not very respectful or considerate way.

Guys please stop shitting on Nahm like that, okay? You don't have to agree with everything he says or the way he says things but please stay respectful.

And who exactly is going to be kept out of this forum by 2 dollars???

Definitely. Most of our problems are completely made up?

Yes, it's the case. But only because something is true, that doesn't necessarily mean it's helpful - and in fact, this is a way in which truth can be corrupted I think and even be made untruthful in a sense. Because Truth is Love. It's like saying to a homeless person "you're attached to your physical survival, if you could let of of your need to survive, you'd have no problems". That would be so out of touch and so harmful, even though it may be "true".

Instead of leaving the forum entirely, can't we find a compromiss? @Nahm Earlier I said that it doesn't matter what kind of talk it is, neo advaita or "normal", neither will help people awaken because it's just talk. And as far as I can recall, you agreed. Would you agree to a compromiss? Your style of teaching is unique on this forum, no doubt, but it's just too far out for most people. And I'm not even talking about any neo advaita here, just plain advice often seems so abstract that it unfortunately leads to confusion. If you want to help, wouldn't it be better to meet the person where they're at? Which, I know, is not really possible on an online forum, but still.. @Leo Gura It may? I thought in the PMs you already have, no?

What the f... I'm sorry that I said earlier that sh*t is about to go down, I didn't think that it actually would. Can we now please love each other again?

Yup. "Neo advaita talk doesn't help you awaken".... Well same applies to every other kind of talk? I think that's just because we're used to "normal" talking and for some people, it seems affected - which in more, rather than less cases, I'd say is so.

shit's about to go down, boys