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The shrimps. They taste better.

You're a living testimony of the american paradox of only studying american history, but not knowing american history. Your country is the one that intervenes the most in the world. The United States has stifled the economy and politics of many countries and has been doing so for over a hundred years. I don't think Putin is an angel, but there is a good reason for China and Russia to protect themselves from the USA's influence. Just because there is communist propaganda, don't fall into the trap of assuming that there isn't capitalist propaganda. Educate yourself more deeply, especially in matters your country doesn't like divulging. Here is a small summary of the kind of things I'm talking about:

Clean trips usually mean less body load, nausea, mental confusion, and etc.

That`s exactly what happened. The amount of pressure that was put on Ukraine in 2013, so it would join the EU, at the expense of the Ukrainian people, since it would severely provoke Russia, the general disregard of Ukraine for the 30% of the Russian-speaking population, that populate the eastern and southeastern portion of Ukraine and the last straw of Ukraine joining NATO is exactly what I would call a threat by the west. Let's remember that NATO was created with the promise of not expanding, and 13 more countries joined it after it was created. If Russia created a military allegiance with Cuba, with the goal of "protecting it from the US", you would explode Havana into a billion pieces before I could smoke a full Cohiba. The West provoked this war in every possible way. They left Putin no other option.

You discovered that you created all this and now you're limiting yourself to feeling bad for the rest of your life? Enjoy your creation the best you can. You're not limited. If you see the meaninglessness about everything, see the meaninglessness in wishing for meaning. Being awake is just seeing through a dream. Being happy requires knowing how to dream consciously.

I had absolutely the inverse experience. I was partying and pissing my life away because of depression and after many LSD trips, I had a really spiritual one. My spiritual work started from there. The best 250ug of my life. And one of the worst ones at the same time.

I kinda lived like this throughout my whole life. I'm seeking to be a "Strategic Motherfucker" from now on. And in this definition intuition plays a big role in it. Since I spent my life developing intuition, what I need is more discipline and analytical thinking. Combining these should take me to next level.

@Leo Gura It is really tough to communicate deep thoughts with people stuck in lower levels of consciousness. Many people misunderstand or misinterpret your words. Be kind to and thank yourself in your path. You take a burden that many wouldn't handle and would have quit a long time ago. Be kind to yourself and don't close your heart to people.

If you care about treating and vaccinating people, knowing if it was a lab leak or not would greatly increase the speed of the development of those measures.

I expect nothing. I'm just stating the fact that they didn't deliver the evidence of a market origin openly. Showing to the world that Trump was wrong would heavily tip international opinion in China's favor. If there wasn't a lab leak, giving the evidence that there wasn't one as quickly as possible would be great for China. The way that they alienate themselves in those moments just worsens the public opinion of them.

China has been dodgy with the data of the source of Covid. A leak was necessary so they could release more information. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/chinese-data-covid-19-early-days-gives-clues-origins-report-2023-03-21/

I think flexibility is necessary for this matter. Taking no bullshit doesn't necessarily mean confrontation. You can simply get the fuck out of the situation or even forgive the person, so you don't hold grudges or feel revengeful, which in itself, is a type of bullshit. Life is more nuanced than "confront every piece of crap you find your way", especially because the world is full of shit.

Suffering is wishing your arm wasn't cut off. Writhing on the floor because your arm was cut off is pain. Suffering is the rejection of circumstances, a common, but not a necessary reaction to pain.

I think you're confusing pain with suffering. You can feel pain without suffering.

You're biased. There are plenty of people that do care about those things, people just don't have the power to solve these issues by themselves. There's also a hidden assumption that once you create the perfect race, they would bother creating the perfect world for the inferiors, or even for themselves. Competency in administrative matters has nothing to do with high moral standards or benevolence. You're just theorizing about the possibility of this said society and assuming you understand people's priorities, even underestimating more than 99% of the population. Just because you like fascism or eugenics, doesn't mean that it is good for people.

The utility of money is not in the object per se but in the ability to represent value. The whole point of having money backed up by gold or silver is that you can't quickly increase the money supply, keeping the currency more stable. With fluctuations in the production of goods, sound money represents better the economic state of the world and allows for more efficient resource allocation. Money is an information system, and the problem begins when you can disturb it by altering its supply as you wish. It is the most intense form of wealth transfer ever devised. We are comparatively way poorer than the average human being in the past, simply because of the financial system we live in.

If you guys wanna talk about suicide and teachings, the standard scientific view of being a conglomerate of mass and energy in a completely dumb universe almost made me kill myself, and in the process, I did great harm to my family and relationships. That's spread out far and wide, without any love or care. It took me years of epistemology and psychedelics to finally break through my limited physicalist view. And that's the mainstream view. When I did that, I came across Actualized.org and Leo never sounded far out or incompassionate, it is just that most people are simply so far from the most basic spiritual realizations and those beyond that, that you sound arrogant when you say that they have no idea what they're talking about. I tell you that they don't. I have had trips that had me disgusted with myself. I couldn't stop crying and seeing how foolish and nearsighted I was all my life. And I'm just beginning my work. I still have plenty of experiences ahead of me. It is challenging work that puts everything you take as truth as an illusion. That's the point of it. It requires looking to the bottom of the precipice of life and leaning forward as hard as you can without falling. Only this will bring you light. As a good Brazilian, I shall share a free translation of mine of a piece of the incredible book "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands" (Grande Sertão Veredas, in the original title), by Guimarães Rosa. That's a poetic description of the truth-seeking work that many people took in life and how difficult it is to do it. Hope you guys enjoy it: The flow of life wraps everything up, Life is like that: it heats up and cools down, it tightens and then loosens, it calms down and then relaxes. What it wants from us is courage. What God wants is to see us learning to be capable of being too happy, in the midst of joy, and even more joyful in the midst of sadness! Life invents! We begin things, not knowing why, and from then on loses the power to continue because life is everyone's collective effort, by everyone, stirred and tempered. The most important and beautiful thing in the world is this: that people are not always the same, they are not yet finished, but that they are always changing. They tune or go out of tune. Greater truth. Living is very dangerous; no it isn't. I don't even know how to explain these things. One feeling is that of the one that let himself feel, but another is of the feeler.*" *(The way that Portuguese verbs conjugate make this last sentence very hard to explain, but it portrays passive observation of feelings versus active search for an emotion/sensation)

You don't. You live your life the best you can and inspire by example. If you're able to handle your crisis well, people notice and naturally ask for advice. That's how you get them, by sharing how you dealt with pain when they're asking for medicine. Until then, handle your own business, because the same people we call stupid have to handle our own stupidity from time to time.

Saying that someone suicided specifically because of spiritual work is a bold claim. When I was suicidal, I wanted to kill myself because of nihilism, but when I got older and integrated some matters more properly, I saw the amount of trauma and other matters that were involved in that ideation, that were condensed behind a "Nothing matters, etc.". The reason for that person's suicide is the reason that took him to start spiritual work. The spiritual work was not responsible for it, this work is challenging but it is healing. It doesn't make you want to die, it gives you the tool for you to finally live. That being said, to anyone reading this, if you're depressed or have PTSD, be aware that psychedelics are extremely dangerous to people with those conditions and should not be taken by them.

The best system for this, in my opinion is the world of darkness series. Vampire and Werewolf in specific is a very deep existential game. I would love to play it again some day. Let's arrange a table hahahahahaha

Use Notion, if you can easily port your notes into it.

I think the political environments are very relevant to this. I live in Brazil. Bolsonaro openly defended without any proof the use of Ivermectin and Chloroquine as a drug to treat Covid, which was obviously stupid in the eyes of anyone with more than two neurons. If those drugs were actually effective, this would be discovered in less than three months and the crisis wouldn't extend for so long. I don't subscribe to any far-right anti-vax conspiracy, but the origin of the virus was something that always bothered me. Something very simple that would have given a lot of credibility for China is the answer to the question of who was the first patient(s), therefore clarifying the origin of the virus, or at least getting close to it. That was crucial evidence for developing vaccines and treatments, and I don't think that China wouldn't know who these people are. When I looked up the covid origin, the two main lines of thinking were the bat-eating contagion stuff and the lab leak theory. Given that Wuhan's Virology Institute has the highest risk rating and its sanitary standards were criticized by some European Researchers, I leaned towards the possibility of lab, although I claim that no one can be certain about this. Given the conflict of interest between WHO and the Chinese government, we probably will never have enough direct evidence of the source of the virus. Maybe some genetic analysis or something in those lines can prove that the virus is lab originated, but I doubt that any agencies or governments have definite proof about this. Everyone who says that have proof is especulating here.

Understanding deeply the intellectual level rapidly accelerates the actualization process. I've had deep non-dual experiences without no spiritual knowledge, just from psychedelics and scientific/western philosophical knowledge. It was that that led me to spirituality and actualization. I live in a developing country and this knowledge has given me significant opportunities and an overall higher level of happiness than people around me.

It depends on your value system, bro. That's what everyone is saying here. Do you think that people are not respectable unless they show you they are worthy of respect? Or do you think everyone should be respected and by actions they lose their "respectability"? Do you think everyone should always be respected? Or never respected? That's basically the only four possible stances. You could also defend a position where men and women are treated differently under this frame, but why do you seek outside insight into this question? I don't see many people changing their behavior towards one another through outside criticism.