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People on this forum should really question their own presupposition that the Democratic party is by definition more 'enlightened' than the Republican party. That Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are more enlightened than Donald Trump. If they were more enlightened wouldn't they get better results? Make America a better country? Is that really going on?

People here seem to think God is a communist, and any person that makes more than the average wage is evil and against God.

He succeeds Joe Biden and Greta Thunberg, I think that says enough about the credibility of that award.

When you live in illusion it is without worth, because nothing has any solid substance and everything is ever fleeting. It's like you are living under water and trying to grab water to study it and measure its worth, it won't have any. When you live in Truth you recognize that everything has worth, worthiness is inherent to this reality you are experiencing. This love we are all seeking is worthiness; is value; is God.

When the people become retarded enough they will, unconsciously, create the environment for an authoritarian government to emerge. That's what you are seeing right now in America. The left is doing everything it can to destabilize its cultural and political values. And if they succeed, the country will be stripped of its identity and chaos will ensue. An authoritarian government always emerges out of chaos. The nazi regime is a good example, but the same goes for the current regime in China.

Any person with an ounce of self-respect should refuse such a task. Cleaning toilets is way more honorable than this

Of course it's a scam, most personal development guru's are just as miserable as their disciples. They don't teach the truth, or even any valuable life skills. They teach you to think how they think, including their own subjective delusions. A brainwashing course.

@r0ckyreed I know what you say comes from a good place, but that also, does not make it true. Hitler thought thought that the Aryans were of a higher consciousness and value than the Jews. So in his mind, exterminating the Jews was his subjective expression of love and his highest act of service he could provide for the good of Germany. Of course, I'm not in favor of Hitler. But by your philosophy, Hitler could have justified himself for his actions to be righteous. The problem with your thesis is that the level of consciousness is not an objective measure, it's totally subjective. Who knows if the Jews or the Nazi's had a higher consciousness? And tell a person who works full time at McDonald's, with no degree, little possibilities, to just 'raise his vibration'. And as a result of that he will just 'attract the bees'. Is this a likely outcome when applying your philosophy for people who work at McDonald's? And yes, of course, everyone wants to be in bliss all the time. But is your philosophy a gueranteed way of getting to this bliss? How many people in the world have achieved this state in their lives? You have to have some method to get people into that state if you want to 'build a conscious society'.

@DocWatts The problem with virtue ethics is that your personal subjective ethics will not be the same as mine, thus there will be a clash. So there will be clusters of people with the same subjective ethics that will try to devalue and deconstruct the value of the other groups. At its core it means there is no objective value, It's majority rule. The problem of this is that one group can come in and claim that the lives of other people are worthless based on their own subjective value, and destroy the other group. Like in Nazi Germany and China for example.

But you don't know what brings about the most "bliss" in other people. Maybe you can know which actions to take to bring about the best feeling in yourself, but why would your pursuit of this bliss be good to others and the community? How is this any different from a dystopian society where everyone is being given drugs to make them feel good so that society can be controlled and make sure everyone is in 'bliss'? You can argue that this is a noble position from the people who enforce it.

Selfishness

Like others have said; it can be quite dangerous to make an idol of any one teacher because everyone's perspective is limited. And you can't be a 100% positive that everything Leo says is true. He could either be deceiving us, or he could be deceiving himself, which in turns could be deceiving us. What other people here have pointed out; a teaching like that you are God can be very dangerous for people who accept such a statement on blind faith. And a lot of people will accept such a statement because it is highly appealing to the ego. So crosscheck sources with other sources, teachers with other teachers. Think things through, does it really makes sense what this person is saying? What are the consequences to myself and to others if I accept this doctrine? And does this doctrine stroke with reality?

Don't put the blame of the drug addict on the drug. Not saying that this forum is like a drug. But the responsibility of how a resource like a forum is used is up to the individual. It can be helpful to inform people more about the possible dangers of social media usage. Which I think is still a new development and there's little scienitific research on the issue. But it will come eventually. But for now. It's good to stay mindful while using social media. And be aware if you are using it, or abusing it.

I agree about being careful about demonization and blaming. But on the other hand, always approaching everything from a relativist meta-perspective can also be used as an egoic self deception. The ego can use these meta perspectives to not put its own skin in the game to keep itself save, and prolong its delusion.

You could argue the same thing for the Holocaust, as a necessary cultural step in the evolution of society. That does not mean we should stand by and say it will pass eventually. Because if everyone adopted that mentality it won't pass, it wins and stays.

Worrying about it is not going to help at all. You can only help yourself by facing yourself, and do what you have to do. In stead of wallowing in guilt about what you haven't done what you should have done. It's not too late to make amends

Post-modernist feminist indoctrination from a young age through media and schooling(from elementary school up to university). It created a culture where men cannot be themselves anymore without being attacked for 'toxic-masculinity'. Subjective feelings have taken over precedence over objective truth. Telling the truth will get you fired, cancelled or attacked verbally or physically by a mob.

No, not at all. Leo is interested in existential truth, love, philosophy and self-actualization. And religion is inherently linked with all those concepts. Especially Christianity, because it has such a huge influence in the structure of the development of the western world. Even if you are an secular growing up in the west, you will be exposed and formed by a lot of Christian influences. Leo has done a video on Islam (which was not very in depth). And Leo is heavily influenced by Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Neo Advaita - which are religions and/or schools of thought.

A life with meaning. I’d rather live on the streets but have meaning in my life than being filthy rich but nihilistic. It’s not even close.

That’s like asking how many calories a person should consume for optimal performance. It depends on a lot of factors. For instance the kind of work you are doing; heavy intellectual work is different from heavy physical work, is different from routine office work, is different from work where you have to deal with people etc. Really this is something you have to learn to listen to your intuition. You don’t want to make your worm too easy for you, nor do you want to burn yourself out.

I like Rupert Spira’s metaphor that spirituality is about cleaning the lens of your consciousness, so you can see clearly and accurately, without bias and petty desires. No monkey mind, circular thinking or neuroses. Just being aware of what is and doing things in harmony with what is. Which means that your decision making can be pure and not be tainted by your ego.

There’s something really funny and ironic about a company that is all about being social, interconnected and community, but is really all about screwing all people over for profit. And the head of the company (zuck) is probably socially stunted. Anyway, i hope Facebook dies off soon. I don’t see any added value to the world of that platform in 2021. It’s like Facebook has become the myspace of today - irrelevant. But the market decides so we shall see

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_abortion Not all Christians are anti-abortion and not all Christians are stage blue.

People who are born in corrupted Africa with no food. Where rape, malnutrition, murder, theft is the norm. These people probably suffer more than people that are born with a disability in a rich western country. The thing is that i don’t know how to even judge the quality of someone else’s life. There are also a lot of people who are born in a wealthy family without any disabilities. But they get caught up in drugs at a young age and eventually die from an overdose after a miserable descent into hell.

I think your paranoia in this case is a bigger problem to your health than having to sit down in class. If you have a healthy diet, and you live an active lifestyle already there’s nothing to worry about. Just make sure you have a good sitting posture and don’t slouch. Focus your excess energy on the content of lectures.