Natasha Tori Maru

Jason Shurka who runs unifydtv.com Sells LED cubes, panels and spheres that heal you. Slowly funneled a big story into his grift: It's long. But it's a narrative slowly created as a launchpad for the grifting. "Ray" Works for a secret organisation who does covert spiritual work all over the world with powers of levitation, mind alteration, travel through oceans, astral projection and out of body work to manipulate the outcome of events. Special highlights: antivax conspiracy, global cabal, shadow government, COVID hoax, adrenachrome harvesting of clone children, underground tunnels linking continents, underground bases under Antarctica with invisible walls that disintegrate you and more! He's probably interviewing himself.

@Magnanimous first year? I went hard - book club, Buddhist society, character creator & world builders guild, chess club, drawing and painting club, science students society, mathematics & statistics society, physics society. I think that's it. University of Melbourne. I dropped out of a lot of them, but first year I just went crazy exploring the new world. Chess club, drawing and painting and character creator/world building guild were the best. Met some good mates there. True earnest weirdos totally authentic to themselves 😁 The transition for me was hard. I have to realise I was only being invited or speaking regularly to my high school mates due to shared obligations. Beyond that I had nothing in common with them. It took a year for those friendships to dissolve. But that time I had made 2 mates at uni and they opened up a huge social circle. I was always quiet and shy. Always introverted. But I have a Machiavellian side that comes out to play. I would lean more towards being an ambivert in retrospect. Despite the quietness, I was always able to have deep conversations with anyone. And I have a natural ability to understand alternate perspectives (in fact I have trouble not seeing things from multiple perspectives). I think this is why I was able to connect and make new friends. Real friends. But to do this I had to push past my natural inclination to sit and draw at home, read or do creative stuff. It was lucky the friends I did make really pushed me! Like we talking rock up 7am it's pancakes time! Or 11pm mariakart marathon. Very spontaneous but good for my development. Did you have close friends at high school? None of mine were close, or came close to understanding who I was. Uni guys got it though! It was only me, 1 chick and 8 guys in our circle.

My personal wish? Snap my fingers for a day. Both sexes get the opposite version body for a day. Women would realise just how irrationally overriding mens carnal desires can be. Men would understand how much fear, concern for safety, and vulnerability women experience. None of these basic instincts justify any sort of poor behaviour. But it might be eye opening !

I recall so many clubs and societies at uni - have you joined any? My high school mates where not friends, I discovered. Quite painfully. Merely aquantances born of the convenience of shared circumstance. The high school > University transition can be difficult. It's one of the biggest, if not the biggest, change you have faced so far. My first long term boyfriend I met at a social club at uni 😁

@Hyperion was I arguing - or trying to understand someone's worldview?

If you cannot argue a case without resorting to a statement about that person's character - you will struggle to convincingly argue a case. You are simply going to lose the person. It ends up being about assuaging some feeling. There are a few exceptions, I will grant that - when credibility is relevant. In leadership and ethics someone's integrity can be assessed etc But the type of character judgements I am seeing here are not it. If you make a character judgement and it is indeed relevant, it cannot be done in the disappointing manner it is here. People on both sides are expressing disgust. No need.

Guys, please. Address the argument. Do not make character judgements!

The fuck. I cannot see it!

That is not my argument.

Explaining is a form of appeasement. In this case, this is what elaboration from Leo serves. Capitulation is different. There is no capitulation from Leo unless there is some sound reasoning and truth involved.

Leo does appease his audience and followers. He has 60k + posts ON THE FORUM ALONE. That is a lot of explaining, couching and elaboration. Whenever something isn't clear, Leo elaborates. I probably look like I am white-knighting here, but shit me, it's just facts 🫪🫪🫪

@Leo Gura you never have to justify or qualify a values based discernment in my opinion. Ever. It's really cool that you do, though! It's just people. They do not have the requisite openness to approach anything in good faith, and they cannot help but push their judgement and unconscious bias onto everything around them. I don't know how you deal with it. But I don't have to tell you ! Bias is your domain ☺️ The bluntness is all good for me at least, I prefer it. Probably conditioning from working construction.

@Leo Gura I think due to your status as a teacher, followers get mixed up when it comes to values driven judgements. The above statement, if received from the context of 'teacher' (or leader), appears as a values driven statement dressed up as a universal judgement. Just my observation - either it is users unable to discern when you make a personal values post vs universal truth, or an inability to separate art from artist. IE the work, from the Leo. But this is why we have a forum and access to you - so we can harass you for further understanding! The trouble arises, and where users err, is coming at your posts with loaded judgements or without open questioning in good faith.

You cannot debunk something you don't even understand. Half this discussion is users not understanding what they are arguing against.

I suppose I use a lot of healthy fat. I require a surfectant. 2 years is nothing!