Nilsi

Actually, I think there is a Freudian twist to this whole story. I would love to be part of a cult. Then I would be interviewed for some new-agey Netflix documentary, sifting in my rocking chair on my porch, reminiscing about the good old days and the moment I finally realized "My God - I'm in a cult!"

Very constructive. This is how we built a great community ladies and gentleman.

Its just disappointing that instead of using this as an opportunity to improve the forum, Leo is doubling down on what makes this place shitty in the first place. Kind of a pussy move. Also, what is it with the formatting? This UI drives me nuts sometimes.

It is a lot more like "I refuse to sell pizza in my cafe. Everyone going to the pizza place next door will be banned from this cafe. Besides - didn't you hear about that pizza place running a pedophile ring?"

This is analogous to us meeting in the cafe and deciding we want to go eat a Pizza afterward. You are the wacky people lol

It's a cult for not allowing people to talk outside this place and for monitoring private messages. This is just unnecessary surveillance. I'm not some free speech absolutist, but this is completely unwarranted in my opinion.

In my mind it's more like the cult is shaming people for wanting to talk with each other outside the cult.

If you can't beat em, join em.

There would be no splintering without this big brother bullshit. The only cult dynamics I see is people getting shamed for talking with each other outside the confines of this forum. I'm trying to hear you, but it's just not getting through, I'm sorry.

It was a silly argument, yes. My assessment is based in the reality of having been on that discord though, while you are just drawing conclusions based on some worst case scenario, which again, I cant relate to at all.

Based on the conversations that actually took place there. Im not saying there is no overlap, but thats a silly statement. More often than not these heuristics are based on some underlying unconscious emotions and motivations, that can be totally disconnected from any actual realities. I know you mean well and Im unneccessarily being an asshole about it. I have some skin in the game, so my judgement might also be distorted. I just cant really relate to the reaction to this discord situation.

Your worries were unwarranted. Catastrophizing based on some availability heuristic is not exactly wisdom.

That's just a personal predisposition (high neuroticism?). I don't understand your logic. The discord was never meant to replace the forum. Meanwhile you people are participating on the other bald guys forum, which is clearly in direct competition with this one.

Base rate fallacy. People don't tend to organize themselves into doomsday cults all that often

Gives me flashbacks of me and my classmates sneaking out at night during a school trip to Rome and the teacher giving us a lecture along the lines of: "Your parents could sue me if something were to happen to you... Do you even know how reckless your behavior was?" Meanwhile we were having the night of our lives.

What stops any group of people from doing something stupid? You have a vivid imagination. Meanwhile, we were talking about astrology, music and drunk driving.

Youre a cutie.

Also, what is it with you people and Rupert Spira? I can respect his work for making spirituality accessible to ordinary folk, but I fail to see any "depth" beyond that. This is like watching an elementary school teacher and getting hyped by the way he has with kids.

There is no problem. You are the one asking for answers. I give you an answer and you get mad at me. This forum in a nutshell.

That's a fair point, but it's not obvious to me that a "serious presentation" is an effective teaching strategy. I'd take the madness of an Osho or Ralston everyday of the week over elderly Eckhart or sleepy Spira.

lol Im so triggered, I'm shaking. You are the one bringing believes into this. I will confess, that my use of irony is sometimes a bit subtle, but that you have to deal with. If you can't grasp that this is infinity, you just have more "work" to do. No reason to get salty about it.

Actually, you are mistaking your fantasies for reality

If I were experiencing your thoughts right now, I couldn't experience mine. Hence we take it one at a time.

You are directly experiencing the actual infinity right now. What are you missing? Some kind of lightshow?

Thats all good. So, it is either a choice (short term advantage + long term detriment OR long term advantage + short term detriment) OR there is actually some kind of transcendent diet that optimizes across lifespan (which is probably what we should be looking for). These long term detrimental genes have only survived, because these humans had their offspring before the point at which they became a liability. I guess all roads lead to eugenics. CRISPR will allow us to clean up these "bad genes" and remove the downside from the "advantage now" diet (not to mention, that we can genetically optimize our food to our unique genetic makeup). How long before this will be available? I dont know.