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Leo doesn't believe in faith either. He believes in finding out. But Leo has also pointed out that academia has blind faith in rationality and that he's post rational. So I'm not sure where he stands on rationality.

@Leo Guraon your blog post you posted "God is Reason" -Hegel. Does this mean rationality is the highest thing in the universe and is superior to irrationality? Because sometimes you talk about being post rational and that rationality is just a human value that academia blindly follows. So which is it?

Few people can articulate human nature better than Shakespeare.

As someone who grew up Christian I had an insight that really blew my mind. Comparing Christians, Muslims, Buddhism, Judaism - Christians are arguably the most deluded and corrupt. Here's why: Islam: Mohammad was only a prophet and not God. (Dumb but not as dumb as Jesus) Buddha: I am God and so can you (pretty accurate) Judaism: even fewer prophets and special people Christians: worship the bronze age guy or else. Also the Trinity is so important but it's a monotheistic religion and if you don't understand it you are evil and dumb. Like wtf?

Yep, that's even worse

The life of a coal miner is insane

@TheBG yes you are talking about when the student becomes the master. Or, when the student is ready the teacher disappears. Leo is better to conform to than most things in society but eventually you have to let go of his hand. Good point that you bring up.

Wow. Holy shit. This is definitely a regression

El-Sayed, Mike Rogers debate

@Leo Gura awesome posts about Christianity in the blog! The same goes for Mohammad and the Buddha right? They are just inventions in the minds of the followers? Also something that Christians love to say is that Jesus fulfilled a prophecy. So many of the stories about what Jesus did are there because of that.

I agree. The science shows that most people are ambiverts very close to the 50/50 level of introversion to extravertion

You got that right. Talarico is another good one to watch in November

Who decides what health is? Are we talking health or spiritual bypassing? Can one be healthy without being spiritual?

I agree. Or as Aurelius put it: the obstacle becomes the way. The spiritual bypassing done at one stage becomes the stepping stone to the next higher stage.

Ok, I'll think on this some more, thanks for the dialogue and the perspective

The trick is to leverage that desire to read Harry Potter into better books.

In a culture where men wear dresses, women would indeed find it attractive (Scotland for example). Even if some of what you say is true I have a problem with the labelling. Just like the labelling of male and feminine objects in the romance languages is problematic. And also that English doesn't have a gender neutral from of "he him his" like some languages do. Just like a table is neither masculine or feminine, neither is confidence.

Controversial take but I consider it sexist to say that if a woman is confident she is acting masculine. And similarly when we call a man feminine when we say he is caring. If we want more confident and caring people in society than we can't brand confidence as a male thing and caring as a female thing. This will discourage women and men from being confident/caring and thus harm them and society in the process.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-do-people-believe-in-god The blog has been awesome lately. Especially with the lectures on sociology. Also it's so nice hearing Leo bash religion once in a while in his signature way.

This could be easily explained like this: a stage blue person is mindlessly conforming to their stage green culture and when they "revert" to Christianity , it's really their true Blue self coming out.

@gengarLeo has a good point, so a person could be mindlessly conforming to their stage green culture, yet the person is in the level of stage blue conformity. And when they they "revert" to Christianity it's their true Blue self coming through.

Did God created Evil?

Yeah but you're a thing/organism right?

Their love of power. Power has many benefits. Their love of knowledge. Knowledge is power after all. Another one is male disobedience. There are a lot benefits of breaking the rules. Women of course love this in men and they benefit from the greed and risk-taking that their counterparts do. So do the offspring.

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