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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.

Thanks! Right-o, artificial constraint is an awesome technique

The new server specs are actually quite modest compared to what I assumed is required to smoothly run a website like this. Guess efficient code and other optimizations make a significant difference. People really do get complacent with their code as hardware advances since it's reasoned that it'll eat all the overhead anyway. I love watching breakdowns of how creative developers of the past had to get to make an entire game with its assets fit & run on an NES or some other shitbox, or land a mission on the moon for that matter. That's art.

You got a point there, if someone could be convinced that their view is false, that automatically proves its falsity, even if the argument was mere sophistry; these are divine properties of Authority and Truth. But it's a double-edged and counter-intuitive sword. The precise issue is most people couldn't find their own ass with both hands and a map. Truth is right here, right now, but telling this to someone who's not directly conscious of it does more harm than good; it's best they believe for the time being that it's something found 'out there'.

Since you're in/from NZ, that reminds me how I invented, or at least popularized using a VPN to NZ for WEB-DLs of new movie releases. Before 2021 they'd mostly be sourced from AUS to leverage the timezone difference, and there aren't that many providers with servers in NZ, but after I beat every major group by at least 1.5hrs on Eva 3.0+1.0 people quickly transitioned to this method. The intelligence of evil

In the rare event I cannot find an audiobook I create an Audible free trial account and rip it straight from there, the 1 credit they give can be recycled at least 3 times. Whether I had 1k or 400k in my bank account had no influence on this behavior, only the rate of content consumption changed over the years. Paying isn't even an issue most times, I often pay for stuff that I then rip all the same, 'cause money is just the surface layer. What matters more is infrastructure, convenience, preservation, and accessibility. In their naivety people don't consider that Leo could kick the bucket tomorrow, soon after which the Vimeo hosting charge will bounce, and there goes their access to the LP course, or any other online product sold by anyone. Probably very few here have taken the responsibility of backing up even simply the free public Actualized.org videos in an audio format with a quick yt-dlp script running as a cron job. One might say that it's still theft, just wrapped in reasonable-sounding justifications, and they'd be correct. Devilry can be conscious, but realistically it's damn near impossible to pull off without devolving into monstrous corruption, and even then you remain corrupt regardless.

Then please consider helping a fellow devil out by populating this thread with examples of your devilry

Liechtenstein, the kingdom of light

A+ for content, C for formatting But in seriousness, a fantastic summation with an encouraging conclusion. These blessings ain't free, they carry a serious responsibility and heavy duty to the machinery of Consciousness. God can strip them away or grant insane additional powers at a moment's notice, depending on how you behave. And yet the joy lies in voluntarily executing the tasks given to you no matter the cost; the highest point of spiritual mastery is walking through hell with a smile as you realize you're the one who wrote the entire codebase. Reminded me of this old post of mine (watch the movie btw, I'm sure you'll love it)

It's incredible how the post about women and sex generated almost 1.5 pages of discussion and counting, given that it's sandwiched between Quotes #391–392 that are far more significant, as it not only explains the sex stuff but infinitely more, and yet not a word on those in this thread so far. Perhaps the issue is precisely that they're too all-encompassing, so there's nothing to discuss/argue about. Ironically in pointing this out I'm still the exact same as everyone else, trapped in my own selfishness; the only reason I'm able to handwave away the topic of relationships is due to being asexual, whereas to others it's an actual serious matter. Delightful to see such a divergence of perspectives, especially considering we're all One thing.