Nilsi

These guys are fucking nuts. Absolutely mindbending performance.

Nothing wrong with getting a little cocky, when youre that far ahead of virtually anyone else. Its a bit ironic in this case though, because his music taste is godawful

Asking and contemplating deep questions about Life.

When a warm summer breeze is gently tingling your skin, is it still just images passing by? When you're out with your friends and you're fooling around, teasing each other and talking about the good old times, is it still just images passing by? When you look your partner in the eyes, as you gently kiss their soft lips, is it still just images passing by? Going through live as a detached observer, without ever truly living and experiencing yourself as part of something bigger would be very sad... certainly a trap you can fall into, as you're pursuing spirituality...

Although @AtheisticNonduality @thisintegrated @Oeaohoo may no longer be with us in body, their legacy and courage will live on forever.

I'm just talking nonsense right now. I've pushed this further than it should've been pushed and tried to backwards rationalize.

I don't think it's necessarily useful for too many people to hold the same worldview. I don't know what developmental psychology adds to Leo's life, other than distortion and bias, but maybe I'm wrong. Sometimes I overextend the whole postmodern paradigm a bit and sometimes I just say dumb things. I'm open to this being one of those times.

Why are you so touchy, all of a sudden? I'm not advocating we build our society on postmodernism. All I'm trying to do, is keep you from being locked into some petty paradigm.

There is nothing real you can point to, to justify this claim. But, of course, something has to be constructed, before it can be deconstructed. This is like saying women are better than men -- but for a woman to be happy, she still needs a man to fuck her. Reminds me of this good ol Hegel meme:

I was referring to the "I love doing opiates, but Im totally not gonna get addicted to them" part as sketchy.

Why do you assume, I assume that?

Maybe you shouldn't be so judgemental... "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism and semiotics are all powerful paradigms to investigate the nature of language (language being a major way, by which we draw distinctions). Also, Peter Ralston talks at length about reality being made up of distinctions in his books - very powerful stuff!

Sounds sketchy. I would stick to psychedelics, if I were you.

What makes it "correct?" And why don't you like Lex Fridman?

Leo's blog post about postmodernism, where he pretended, that developmental psychology is somehow above postmodernism.

I'm a bit shocked, how perfect reality is. It's so agreeable all of a sudden. When you take a transparent and cooperative stance toward reality, you can talk it all out with God, so to speak - and you will find absolute peace and tranquility. I hope, I don't sound like too much of a stoner - but sometimes you just gotta be a little corny, to speak the truth.

I don't want you to change. Accept who you are, that's great. But also accept the limits of your worldview. And for the love of God, don't pretend that it's anything more than your perspective. As long as that's the case, I'm perfectly happy.

Whatever you may choose, I advice you to not choose it based on whether it will be easy and comfortable.

Sounds like a great place to start from! Things will become more complex as you start putting this into practice - but you won't know that before you start anyways, so just put one foot in front of the other.

The greatest gift you can give to society is actualizing your potential, so invest that money into yourself - if you truly care to do good. If that means therapy, because you're too depressed and disillusioned with life to think of something productive to do, so be it.

You could share a flat, or live in a van, if that's your thing. There will always be tradeoffs. I'm sure surviving as a student in a city like New York is not easy, so if you're mainly looking for comfort and enjoyment, that might not be a good fit.

Makes it a lot easier. Also, there just aren't many great places to meet girls in small cities.

The population of Bloomington is 80.000... How on earth are you going to work on your dating life there? Can't you study in a big city? I bet there are lots of authentic Buddhist places in Cali, New York etc., if that's your big thing. Also, don't bank on meeting highly developed people (in academia) - this is a wet dream, in my experience.

I have no issue with any of this. I'm just trying to parse what's true from what's not.