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Can someone use ai to make a Leo Gura version of this? It would look funny haha

i live in nyc

yeah the channel also has a video on xinjiang, definitely propaganda vibes

Fuck no, I'm mainland chinese and i fully support taiwan, may they never get invaded by china

@Leo Gura Should I join the military?

I did some inner work conversing with chat gpt and this is what i synergized to ask for advise on here in this forum: "I’m 21 years old and recently went through what feels like a deep psychological and possibly spiritual awakening. I’m posting here because I feel like I need to relearn life from the ground up, and I’m looking for guidance from people who’ve walked a similar path. Growing up, my father was emotionally absent and psychologically abusive, shaped by extreme poverty and trauma from Mao-era China. My mother was emotionally unstable(she has a condition where some months she would become a completely unfunctional person and do nothing but be on her bed scrolling on her phone doing absolutely nothing, and then other months where she would become extremely hyper) and passed down a nihilistic worldview. As a child, I withdrew into technology, the internet, and intellectual content. I was praised as “the smart kid who’ll be fine,” but emotionally I felt unsafe, unseen, and disconnected. In adolescence, I became deeply interested in spirituality, non-duality, and philosophy. I also had drug experiences, including ego-death-like states, before ever having a stable sense of self. Over time I became increasingly isolated, introspective, and self-reliant. I lived mostly in my head, detached from real life, relationships, and society. Recently, things started to shift through real experiences rather than thinking: a solo trip to Japan, a serious fitness journey, and my first real experience with a girl. These showed me that life can be beautiful, that effort matters, and that presence creates real change. After relapsing on weed, everything I had been suppressing surfaced. I realized how lonely I really was and how much I’d been hiding behind introspection and avoidance. I entered a state where I couldn’t stop thinking about my life, my past, and my identity. For days, I did almost nothing but reflect on my story, trauma, and patterns. This survival mode of agency made me think about everything i've avoided because of the stress recently from societal pressures. and it made me realize that i have to become better. it made me realize that talking to my family is healthy and i need to do it(i didn't forgive them at first, i did the act of talking forgiveness first. so i did it out of self preservation). Talking deeply with my parents triggered something profound. I saw how similar my father and I are despite different life paths(i realized the extreme self hatred i held was because i was hurting my mom and i was dissapointed in my dad. not being aligned with my true values and shifting blame on to them. also it came from rejection from the real world. i knew that my mom did her best and gave me good values but as a kid i also always deep down knew show much she hurt me) . It felt like seeing myself in another lifetime — intelligence, spiritual intuition, but distorted by trauma and disconnection from being human. I realized that hating him was also hating parts of myself. Reconnecting with him felt like reclaiming a lost part of me. This experience felt archetypal and deeply meaningful. At the same time, I noticed that I’ve spent years isolated, thinking deeply alone, while lacking real-world experience: no job, no driver’s license, weak social grounding, difficulty completing simple daily tasks, and limited participation in society. I feel like someone who grew up intellectually but not practically or socially. Lately, my state of consciousness has felt radically different. There’s clarity, compassion, relief, and a strong desire to live better and more honestly. I feel less afraid of people and rejection. At the same time, I notice ego dynamics: resistance, inflation, fear of losing this clarity, fear of society pulling me back into numbness, and fear of becoming arrogant or delusional. I’m unsure how to interpret what happened. So I want to ask: • How do you relearn life after years of isolation, trauma, and living mostly in your head? • How do you relearn socialization, human connection, and participating in the world naturally again? • How do you relearn completing simple daily tasks and responsibilities after spending days in intense self-reflection? • How do you integrate deep insights without getting stuck in thinking loops or ego identification? • Was this a genuine spiritual awakening or connection to God, or a psychological breakthrough, or both? • If it was a real awakening, how do you nourish it without ego inflation or bypassing real life? • How do you protect clarity and compassion in a society that feels numbing, bureaucratic, and ego-driven? • How do you work with the ego when it both resists this clarity and tries to claim it as an identity? I’m not looking for validation or reassurance. I’m genuinely trying to understand how to integrate this experience and relearn how to live — grounded, human, and awake — without losing touch with reality. Any perspectives or experiences would be appreciated."

How should I use Ai correctly? I find it useful as a tool to organize and structure my thoughts, but at the same time I think I've abused it too much to the point where my writing skills have dipped significantly, as well as other academic skills.

thank you Leo

thank you

i love that quote, thank you i dont know those but i know trent the traveler

i dont know those but i know trent the traveler

I don't know how you're supposed to succeed in this new confusing ai world

my whole life i've been taught that i'm good at the stem side of things. So when the process from high school to college happened i thought about what i was taught about what i was good at and what i loved deeply at the time, still love, was video games. Now that i've been focused on fitness for so long and put less of my mind into coding, i felt pressure. I felt like i'm way too far behind. someone the same age as me who was way further in his learning is this field told me he's depressed and stressed from the job market. Right now my dream is to live a spontaneous, nomadic, adventurer who figured out some way of way to make money to fund his traveling at first, some way to make time to foster his creativity, and finally travel and make travel vlogs. I want them to be focused on the traveling, the culture, the people, the environment, the history, the politics, and at the same time have real talks and use cinematography. Either that or van life, train hopping, urbex, etc.

I feel scared of feeling too safe, I'm scared that safety will make me lose this fire in me.

thank you

I've been talking to my family a lot(like mom and dad) and it feels like we're all healing and talking to them makes me happy. But i should really learn to stay alone and lonely (mentally, not physically) again to get that focus on myself right?

How do I balance different aspects of myself to generate the success I so crave? I'm trying to rewire my brain and right now it's overthinking mode. How do I balance the man in me that knows that no one will save me except me, the woman in me that tries so love everybody, the child in me that wants to find the joys everyone else had that I missed out on, the god that appreciates reality and present moment, the parent in me that wants so badly to satisfy my inner child, the over thinker that ruminates on anything philosophically interesting or practically aplicable but struggles to start, the analytical person in me that could learn stem, the planner in me that uses ai to create plans, the social me that's socially attuned, the survival mode me where i just keep one mode of being and too stressed to change anything, the reading writing brain(i neglected deeply because of ai)?

thank you, i know that's my problem and i need to start enjoying myself to get better, but it's hard to, it's like a heartbreak with life itself, not with any people, knowing that it's the world that hurt me and now i have to relearn everything myself, growing up as a stubborn kid that never trusted any adult's advise because i was always nihilistic

if i was leo i would move to japan or western or northern europe

apparently the horrible person charlie kirk deserves more attention for dying than them

is anyone talking about this? this is insane to admit lmaooooo he prayed that the shooter isn't white? like wtf??????? so what? he's not white so you can have someone to blame? instead of running away from the truth of your own flaws? makes no sense at all, america is so cooked

Smoking on that kirk pack tonight🚬🚬🚬

I just watched “The Ditch” (夹边沟）by Wang Bing last night and I consider it a masterpiece already. Here’s some chat gpt paragraphs to introduce it: Wang Bing’s The Ditch (Jiabiangou) is a stark and haunting work of cinematic testimony that brings to light one of the most suppressed chapters of modern Chinese history: the Anti-Rightist Campaign of the late 1950s. Set in the Jiabiangou labor camp in the Gobi Desert, the film dramatizes the brutal experiences of intellectuals and perceived "rightists" condemned by Mao Zedong’s regime. These men—many of them teachers, writers, and bureaucrats—were forcibly re-educated through starvation, exposure, and death. The historical context of the film is crucial. Following the Hundred Flowers Campaign in 1956, where citizens were briefly encouraged to voice criticisms of the Party, Mao swiftly retaliated with the Anti-Rightist Movement, labelling hundreds of thousands as enemies of the state. Jiabiangou became one of many sites of unrecorded human catastrophe—out of 3,000 internees, fewer than half survived. For decades, this tragedy was buried under official silence. Wang Bing, already known for his documentary realism in works like Tie Xi Qu, took an immense risk in crafting The Ditch. Shot clandestinely in the remote deserts of western China, the film was made without state approval or funding—a radical act in itself. Its production defied China’s tightly controlled film industry, where all cinematic narratives must pass through state censors. Wang’s decision to eschew conventional dramatic arcs or emotional manipulation is both an artistic and political statement. The film's slow pace, stark visuals, and minimal dialogue reflect the dehumanization of camp life and resist the spectacle typical of state-approved historical epics. The Chinese Communist Party’s influence looms large not just in the story but in its very suppression: the film has never been screened officially in China. The CCP’s control over artistic expression means that films confronting historical trauma—especially those implicating the Party—are silenced. Wang Bing’s commitment to unflinching realism, to bearing witness without embellishment, places The Ditch in the lineage of moral cinema, akin to Lanzmann’s Shoah or Resnais’s Night and Fog. Why does The Ditch matter? Because it retrieves memory from enforced forgetting. It gives voice to the voiceless—not through heroism, but through the stark portrayal of endurance and decay. In an era where historical narratives are weaponized or erased, The Ditch serves as a radical act of remembrance. It is a cinematic gravestone carved for the disappeared, and a warning about what happens when ideology consumes humanity. it’s very obscure and hard to find, so I found the best version I could from the internet and put it in a google drive to share with more people. There’s some visual defects here and there but it’s 1080p. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1moHdg4qLUGts2yF7E8tNEKhkP3ZFHQIT there’s a mp4 file in there for the movie and a srt file for the subtitles.