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So now we know what all the money you save on Audible memberships goes towards 😏

Tough position to be in for sure. Welp, in any case it's nice to see you talking to different kinds of people. Congratulations on getting the ball rolling. I'm not surprised either per se, it's more of a performative surprise, like expecting your child to be more mature but knowing deep down they can't and won't. In theory scientists would be more rigorous, but then practice deviates; which itself is a cute little Q.E.D. for irrationality of science.

I see, an unfortunate lack of preparation and reactionary attitude on their part. Maybe next time you could be more insistent on the topics you're going to discuss, considering yours is also the larger channel? e.g. make it even more explicit in that disclaimer you wrote, which at least the hosts should be required to thoroughly read even if it's not shown to the viewers. Though there's a delicate balance to strike as to not appear to be dodging questions.

Dios mío, staying awake on such a flight must be torture. I'd just pop a benzo or something to teleport through time.

I've only skimmed the two talks so far, but going by video/chapter titles alone it's puzzling why so much time is dedicated to discussions of morality and the like. Who cares about that, especially on a science podcast? P.S.: I don't know who set the topic, maybe it's an angle Leo took to deconstruct those matters preemptively. Not jumping to conclusions, just an initial reaction.

Not a good look indeed. Reminds me of the excessive DNR and other issues on the Terminator 2 UHD Blu-ray. If a professional studio with oversight by James Cameron himself can't get it right, who can blame a small YT channel for having poor taste.

I don't wanna pay shipping so if you order anything from that place in the near future lmk and I'll chip in to get a sample

The cult leader robe doesn't help the case . Perhaps it's on purpose to make things more challenging or filter out fools who judge by appearance alone.

Looks promising, on paper. But with several asterisks. At 10-20mg IV, as administered in the study, something like 4-HO-MET would be nearly indistinguishable from a DMT breakthrough, especially to the commoners used as subjects. Same could follow here. Though this one is somewhat unique; it's not only a 5HT2A agonist, but also a serotonin releaser. Nothing extraordinary, as a similar effect could be achieved through candyflipping MDMA with LSD or similar; just uncommon to see this in a single substance. Worth a trial for how cheap 100mg is. The fluoro substitution is a bit of a double-edged sword, on the one hand it tends to increase potency by a lot, but if the synthesis residuals aren't dealt with properly it can create some very nasty impurities. Vendor just posted the NMR though confirming the purity, plus I have an idea who's behind this "MindPort Lab" they say manufactured it. Personally I'm more excited for 5-AcO-DMT and 5-EtO-DMT that might come later this year.

Rather it's incomplete without also having consciousness of God. Incompleteness is a form of corruption, which makes all lessons corrupt by themselves.

The consequences come crashing down hard on them in Revenge of the Sith and well beyond it. Provided they understand it's not about the princess as a person or some authority, but about the role the figure of a princess plays in the governance and well-being of her planet's population, what undermining that particular planet means for the state of affairs across the galaxy in the current context, and so on.

95% of your own audience doesn't understand half of it even with 1000+ hours of clearly laid out and structured teachings containing a mountain of nuanced examples. What hope does a fictional movie franchise have?

But the common folk do evil stuff to benefit themselves, without a care for the greater good; at best they delude themselves into thinking they care. Nor are they conscious that whatever they do will be directed towards the greater good regardless of intention (and they shouldn't know that as it would be the easiest thing to abuse). They're already in a very tricky situation, stuck on a shithole planet without money while protecting an important political figure. There could be better ways to solve the problem, but not within the runtime of a typical movie. Maybe a montage or some such would take care of this, but it's both more technically involved and harder to grasp for the common folk that are the majority of intended audience. Watto didn't even seem that poor, he had a whole shop and at least 2 slaves. Plus considering his level of development a dice gamble is something he himself proposed and would honor to maintain his reputation. Why fight some guys just doing a routine patrol job that probably have families to go back to, risking hurting them or yourself and attract unnecessary attention? Even a smoke cloud will cause some ruckus. It's like that story you told about cutting queues to Vegas nightclubs, you bribe the bouncer instead of fighting him or using a smoke grenade to sneak inside. Yes, their order as a whole was very problematic and they ultimately got dragged into the war as pawns of the devil, but that was more of a structural and long-standing issue with their code and other dogma, not specific actions they took in those instances. By the time of Phantom Menace the order has already probably been corrupt for centuries.

@Leo Gura I don't see how perfectly Good Jedi could be written without making for a boring story or them getting quickly destroyed by the Sith. This standard of integrity is unrealistic within the established cosmology of SW, as well as our world. Without additional nuance this reads as though a proper Jedi would be a doormat following deontological ethics that allows whatever to take its course. But a Jedi wouldn't stand by and watch as the Nazis genocide the Jews. You said as much in the Balance video and elsewhere. Is there a difference between defeating Hitler through physical force and mind-tricking him into surrender? Perhaps. Luke himself in ROTJ pulled the mind-trick at least twice, and in the end he defeated evil through faith in goodness and selflessness. Obi-Wan also used the trick to convince a death stick dealer that he no longer wanted to sell drugs. Sure, he infringed on the dealer's sovereignty of mind and robbed him of a potential personal realization of his corruption and thus a beginning of redemption. But realistically, given the survival conditions on low levels of Coruscant and the dude's entire life story & worldview, could something like that even be expected? Obviously not. Taking all that into account, Obi-Wan does an evil thing in service of a greater good from a utilitarian perspective. Which is how the universe as a whole operates. Couldn't a good person hurt others while realizing and accepting that they may and likely will get hurt in return? That would be coherent/consistent. Trying to achieve perfect integrity in the relative domain is itself not integrous, by definition. Squaring a circle only works on the absolute. Knowing this to be a metaphysical limitation of its own creation, God forgives all evil. Striving to be good and truthful is paramount to be sure, but in practice it's more appropriate to frame in terms of a mathematical limit to infinity that gets infinitely close, yet never quite reaches. Consciousness of God is then the dissolution of the asymptote unifying the diverging curves into a perfect continuity. After all, even Stage Red phrases like "might makes right" have their origin in God. God is right because it is the highest might, and vice versa.