Gesundheit2

Only if he could relax his third eye a little bit.

Damn! I never knew it could be this joyful just to stare at him, and pause to grasp the light in his eyes.

I haven't seen Leo in a while. He seems so full of love. His face is so radiant.

Peter Pan Syndrome; aka stage Green.

Jed McKenna makes the exact same argument, except that he applies it to spiritual teachers. He criticizes the effectiveness of the teachings and the capabilities of the teachers. He says that virtually no teachers, organizations, or institutions have been able to achieve a good number of enlightenment cases. All that they provide is teachings and promises, but rarely anyone gets enlightened, if any at all. That kinda makes Adya's argument stale. But I still side with him against psychedelics. Because with the classic path, you aren't likely fool yourself that you got enlightened. With psychedelics, however, delusions seem a lot more prevalent.

Well, then stop looking in your direct experience, and start looking in your imagination.

If you have a question, that means you don't know the answer. If you look for wisdom, fill in the blanks.

@gettoefl lol ok.

Doesn't matter to me, chump. I have no stakes in this game. Just explaining things from my pov.

How does development look like from a conservative pov?

Development, by definition, means non-conservatism. If you want to be conservative, then you're not into self-development, and therefore you're in the wrong place.

@Endangered-EGO Control/free will is an illusion, and an illusion is an appearance without a substance. What isn't that?

Hypergamy. He prefers the money lol.

All humans are slaves to each other one way or another. That's what society is in a nutshell. No matter who you are or where you are at in the hierarchy, you are a slave. Even if you are the president, you're still a slave, perhaps even more than an employee. There's also psychological slavery, which is a lot more sneaky, but also a lot more prevalent. The only way to end all this nonsense is to live alone away from society.

http://survivethecrisis.com This guy is full of shit.

Siddhis are real, but humans can't perform them. They happen to humans, done by higher beings. Ego has a fair amount of apparent control over certain things. You can choose to reply to me or not. Up to you. Determinism does not invalidate control.

Why not?! lol

lol

Leo Gura grossly overestimates himself. Rarely did I have meaningful discussions with him, and rarely does he show any nuance, if at all. Always thinking he's omniscient, while missing out on a lot. Always obsessed with big picture thinking as if that guarantees proper knowledge. It's just his lazy way of bypassing research. He thinks he's open-minded, but has quite a few dogmas; namely: Idealism, PUA dogmas, and Spiral Dynamics. He talks about epistemology, but always falls in fallacies. He's not as much as he thinks or claims he is; just mediocre. Even I am more epistemologically correct than him, and I'm a poor thinker. I know people who are way more intelligent than me, Leo is not one of them.

Couldn't achieve the target. But been learning some other things. Continuing with the same goal for the next week.

You're trying to comprehend a thought about right now.

Hippies don't understand; Taliban cannot be defeated. These guys don't have a problem sending off thousands of their soldiers just to wound one enemy soldier. They're a zombie organization. You can't defeat zombies. Islam has terrorism as one of its cores. Lesser Jihad is that core. You can activate it whenever you want to. It's a game of power, maintained by ideology. It's not really a distortion of Islam. Rather, it's an intended misdirection of Islam that serves certain political agendas. Taliban is a political tool for certain bigger players. When Al-Qaeda was in Syria, the soldiers themselves were naive. People talked to them, the poor guys thought they were in Palestine fighting against Israel and America. When in fact they were fighting against Al-Assad and the Syrian people. It's the Taliban leadership who are the biggest devils, well next to the American government. Taliban is basically solely a military group. They don't have a people to support them, except a few radicals from the likes. They have camps where they drag children out of their homes and force them into these camps and brainwash them to believe that martyrdom is the ultimate prize in life. And then, when they're ripe, they send them off to their deaths. Civilians naturally gravitate away from them because they're toxic and unbearable. A normal human being knows that radicalism/extremism is just not right. And normal human beings are 99% of the earth. How many radicals are out there, all together? They're less than 1% of Islam. And a lot less than that of humanity. I don't have the time or the capacity/desire to make research about Taliban and how it came into being, nor do I want to engage in stupid arguments with hippies. I just know from direct experience that they're one of the worst things in the world. A total toxic waste to anyone near them. And you can't eliminate them through war. You can only eliminate them by cutting them off from their suppliers. Without weapons or bombs, they can't exist. The development argument (Spiral Dynamics) is the stupidest one I've ever encountered. I can't even begin to argue against it because it's so silly and because forum people including Leo are so ideological about it.

Interesting.