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True, but wouldn't this attitude excuse every destructive behaviour in general? Where to draw the line, for whats really necessary for survival, personal survival and my ideas of survival. Isn't everything evil, just a survival strategy? WHERE IS THE LINE?!

@The Renaissance Man I’ve done the life purpose course. No real value bringing idea arose out of that. Just became more clear on my passions and values. But many interest don’t relate to the physical world that easily. For example my interest in psychedelic therapy via psylocibin, ketamine or 5-Meo can really only be done through a proper psychological bachelors degree. Which I stopped after 2 years, because it was so darn boring and out of my interest zone. Of course you can bootstrap a therapy program by yourself and with the internet. But that takes years of practice, learning, volunteering, self experimenting ect. Which doesn’t pay my bills. This is usually how my ideas came to a stop. Also because I cant focus on a single project for long just on my self.

Hey guys, since I'm actively searching for new jobs, and actively following Leo's blog posts. And it seems to be that being good at business, generating money, being good at sales ect. is somewhat directly correlated with the exploitation of ignorant people. Ergo the more ignorant someone is, the easier it is to sell him something. And even if I would not work as a sales person directly, chances are high that being a well paid employee of a company means that the company leaches of the ignorance of their costumers somewhere else. Am I right? To make it even more a abstract: Truth ≠ Money However I want to make money, and don't want to sacrifice truth all together. Of course I don't want to make millions and don't want to become the next Jesus. So there is certainly some leeway in that equation for me. So, do you guys, know of any jobs, that are simultaneously truthful, well-paid and personal developing? My thought was to work in solar sales, because it is well-paying, at least not directly bad to the environment (maybe even good) and certainly needs more development on my side. Curious what you think.

The gaslighting is insane. 1. Bullshit 2. Bullshit 3. Bullshit To think that cramping pigs and cows into holding cells just centimetres larger than their bodies for their entire life, only to get slaughtered without proper anesthesia, and comparing that to accidently eating microbes, which by the way live casually on your skin is nothing short of brain dead. And yes, 95% of all meat is generated with immense amounts of cruelty and shameless exploitation. Don't get me started on other aspects of animal cruelty like raping the cows and pigs to constantly produce off-spring, which they never get to see. Most normal standards for farm animals here in Germany (a so called developed country) are not above the concentration camps of german occupied Poland. Go on and justify that with your logic. Your nonsense needs to stop. I hope you will witness animal cruelty first-hands. It will send ice through your numbed out brain cells.

Of course. It defeats your whole point. You said its impossible to not kill animals. And if you mean with animals mammalian animals, birds and fish, I say it entirely possible to avoid killing even one animal in an entire lifetime. Its just that your worldview and personal agenda sees killing animals as some kind of necessity. Finding some sneaky arguments, why its ok to do so. Bull-shit.

Hey guys, I've been through a truck load of crises' in the past 14 months. Truck load is the keyword here, since I got rolled over by a construction truck on an island road in Thailand. And after having to lay in hospital beds for a good 6 months (around 30 full anaesthetic surgeries) I developed a deep mental and physical addiction to all those hospital narcotics. Mainly fentanyl and good ol' morphine. Which administered intravenously melts away all your physical and psychological trauma like a beam of Gods love. Only for 20 minutes though, then your suffering continues. Anyhow, my intention with this post is to share some insights and advice on how to tackle addiction. Since I'm on a really good path to free myself from the opioids. Just some minor medication left till I'm completely addiction free. Alright here are my main learnings: 1. Be honest about that the drugs are not the problem. In fact they are the solution to some underlying problem Of course they are a severely health compromising solution, but they are a solution nonetheless. So whats the actual problems that needs to be faced, in order to render the drugs useless? In my case, it was physical pain and later nihilism and depression. Funnily enough morphine was used as an anti-depressant around the WW2 era. So having that cleared out I managed to tackle the depression problems with better medical solution than just taking more opioids. Additionally my physical pain lessened with all the surgeries, helping me with that problem as well. 2. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. Its social connection and or following a meaningful activity. Have you ever wondered why addicts are usually alone and or unemployed? And have you also wondered why people, with a clear life purpose and are integrated in a supportive social structure never seem really to like drugs? Exactly. To those people the side effects of drugs make them seem like a stupid idea. But not to those people, who are devoid of meaning and alone. Being alone and purposeless is the number one driving factor for drug-use motivation. Im sure you notice this dynamic in yourself right? When do you usually pick up your phone? When are you prone to numb yourself with whatever medium or substance that suits you the most? Maybe its food, social media, porn.. This dynamics gives you a little taste in how any medium of addiction is really a solution to loneliness or nihilism. In honouring this dynamic, you already acknowledged the deeper problem of your addiction. In my case, I noticed that working physically with others around a garden, with animals or homestead project fixed my compulsory thought pattern around drug-use. Of course the withdrawal symptoms are still there, but they are way less, compared to my time living in an apartment being alone most of the time. Nature seems to play a component here as well. Big game changer. 3. Cold turkey does not work. - If 1. and 2. aren't resolved, you can never leave yourself without the drug. Focus on those first and then you can wean off slowly. The slower the better. In my case, I took me about 8 months to come from a high IV-opioid dose to a low-moderate opioid dose. Every attempt to short cut this process lead to even stronger backlashes into the addiction. Cold turkeying will only make it worse. You can't really win anything with that strategy. Alright thats it. feel free to message me if you struggle with some kind of serious addiction. Maybe there is something I can help you with there.

I highly, highly doubt that there is a logical route against suicide. If depressed people do one thing all the time, its thinking. Going through all the logical motions of the mind. Never coming to rest. Of course maybe there an obvious believe pattern that can be lifted through conversation therapy. But if one is already planning suicide, I doubt he has just overseen some obvious negative belief. Especially if the depression is already going on for a prolonged time. As is, somehow the case with the above mentioned friend. Just speaking from my experience of dealing with depression and suicidal ideation.

Of course you can avoid killing. Have you ever lived with a self-sustaining homestead? With ones own garden? Maybe some worms or flies are killed, nothing more.

If he is acutely on the verge of suicide, medications like benzodiazepines or even ketamines are a good acute solution. They bring their fair share of innate problems with them, but in a die or live situation, you have to win time. Also, you can't really talk someone out of suicide. Reasoning and logic are not solution to feeling inherently terrible with ones self. Go find a doctor asap.

Yes, my intention is not to know love via some online forum discussion. My intention is to know why the equation "Love = Truth" exists. And since an equation is intellectual I'm sure someone can derive it to me. I still don't see anyone attempt to explain.

Note, that with this line of reasoning, you can say, "truth is possible only with the grace of God", since truth = love. And I'm sure that truth, to varying degrees, is a feature of consciousness. For example the truth that "I am" is not subject to any grace from anything. I'm infinitely sure about that I am. No grace needed. You see why I question this stuff? No one of you guys, has a deep, authentic, in direct experience rooted explanation of Truth = Love.

Regarding @Leo Gura last post about analysing good structure and content in movies and video games. Its good that you study it deeply, but how many games and movies have you actually made Leo? When do you get yourself in the real world and do a grand tripple A movie or game about the nature of consciousness or whatever. We are waiting! On a side note: I watched "Taxi Driver" and "All silent on the western front" recently, which they just happen to become amongst my all time favourite movies ever. Have you guys watched "All silent on the western front"? Especially since we have war again in Europe. It leaves you utterly devastated. Real man cry on this one. Maybe the best anti-war movie ever.

Yes, I'm thinking of the powder. Currently I'm in Portugal where 5-meo, including every other psychedelic substance is descriminalized. I don't really have experiences with shrooms, but around 30-40 LSD trips, which always made me feel agitated afterwards. Thats why I prefer a short-lived 5-meo like experience. But I'm not in a rush.

Wow, glad to hear you came back from the deep, end and made it back. Thank you for sharing. I'm thinking about doing a 5-meo-DMT ceremony again. And ask God its possible to get my leg motorics back to work. But I have to wean off of the medications first. By the way, I also think that suffering can be a gift from God, but then I ask myself what is won with this gift, if it leads to suicide. I want to ask that as well.

Hey James, there was a time when I would have said pretty much the same. But listen to this, and tell me the same again. End of last year I got rolled over by a construction truck. I had almost 30 general anaesthetic surgeries, stayed in hospital beds for 6 months, and suffer from life long neuropathic pain and physical disfunction. Over the months of consecutive morphine/fentanyl use in hospital I developed dependency and addiction to said substances, which I only now (14 months later) slowly achieve to taper off. Depression and suicidal fantasies developed alongside as well. Full on suicide attempts included. Thats why I question this Truth = Love paradigm a lot. I'm not taking any word for granted solely, because Leo or some other said so. They say a lot of good and deep stuff, but I need to know for myself. And you really just say the same, but without any deep description or thought process in your statements. So please be welcome to lay out how you just stay out of suffering. Or how deeply you investigated these spiritual truth, if you have, that is.