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Not when you have a runny nose and watery eyes. What's the point of doing something when you can't focus?

Exactly the same as you described. I had experienced it a lot in childhood. With age, it decreases. This shows that it's completely biological (just like music or orgasm, some idiot may say orgasm is spiritual just because it feels so good....) You experience something (let's say you realise mu or nothingness...then it can be called as spiritual). This "Sound of silence" you talked about in your thread ....has no spiritual significance. It's only biological. This is what I am emphasizing here. It's due to brain chemistry. Lemme be very clear : by spiritual, I mean the so-called paranormal phenomena. Orgasm isn't paranormal. In the same way, "sound of silence" isn't paranormal. I just wanted to know your opinions whether you agree or not. Likewise, we can also say "light of darkness". Becoz we see some kind of light in darkness too. But It's not a spiritual phenomenon. Some spiritual teachers teach about "sound of silence", which is misleading. It's not a spiritual phenomenon. Beware of such teachers. They are scientifically as well as philosophically bankrupt. I am talking about a YouTuber Sandeep Maheshwari (28 million subscribers). He teaches such concepts.

There isn't much available on the Internet related to this. It is a rarely used concept. Becz maybe it's stupid. A big youtuber (I wish I could send you his video....he speaks in another language) is fooling himself. I had experienced it in childhood. Now it's possible but very hard. I strongly believe it's biological. I mean , due to chemicals in our brain....we hear a subtle sound in silence. Which some people misinterpret and give it a spiritual significance.

Already doing that. It was a temporary boredom.

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Bro I am talking only about the "sound of silence" concept. There is a faint sound we experience in silence. Which is called sound of silence. Not talking about just "silence". @Davino @Breakingthewall Some people (a YouTuber who considers himself a philosopher) say it's something spiritual. I think it has no spiritual significance. The sound we experience in silence is just biological. And not spiritual. I want @Leo Gura to answer what he thinks.

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Yes, it is. I remember when I was a small kid, just starting to visit shops. I couldn't even talk to shopkeepers to buy something. I would hesitate and feel nervous, often pre-planning conversations. Now it's nothing for me. It's ridiculous. I don't have experience with girls, so I am not confident. But I will be so in the future.

Some people say it's rape to have sex with animals because they can't consent. While others may argue that they don't have any stress/trauma, they don't recognise rape, so it's not a rape. I wanna know what you think. It's perspectival.

I agree with everything you've written. It's basic common sense, people are unnecessarily debating.

One of the deepest things that motivates me is high level big picture understanding and at this point i've spent so much time studying various kinds of models of how life works how mankind works how society works how consciousness works and all of this that i have a lot of different maps and models and i've shared many of those with you like spiral dynamics for example but sometimes it just gets a little bit too complicated and you kind of get lost in the in the weeds in the minutia of it in all the details and sometimes what we need is we kind of zoom out and just have a nutshell encapsulation of what we're trying to understand and in this case i was really trying to crack this nut of what is mankind about as a whole what's really going on with mankind how do we explain what mankind is doing what society is doing what most of human life is about and so i sat down one day on my living room floor just thinking about this and then suddenly it just popped into my mind as if out of nowhere a little epiphany and it was very profound and very illuminating and very explanatory and what struck me about this insight was that it was so simple just like so simple but its explanatory power is enormous and so i want to share that insight with you here but before i do um let me just uh issue a little disclaimer here i'm going to use some vulgar language and i might go into a bit of a rant and uh don't get distracted by this because what's being said here is not just a rant it's not just me venting and being vulgar something very profound and powerful is being said here and actually you're gonna have to listen to it several times to fully understand the profundity of this very simple insight and the simple insight is that mankind is basically full of shit..... that's what's really going on everywhere and this pretty much explains everything but we need to elaborate we need to expand upon this because it's too simple for you to be able to use it so what i mean is religion is full of shit..... churches are full of shit..... holy books are full of shit..... christians are full of shit..... muslims are full of shit..... jews are full of shit..... hindus are full of shit..... buddhists are full of shit..... mormons are full of shit..... people who pray are full of shit..... preachers and priests are full of shit..... theologians are full of shit..... moralists are full of shit..... creationists are full of shit..... darwinists are full of shit..... academics are full of shit..... phds are full of shit..... scientists are full of shit..... professors are full of shit..... public intellectuals are full of shit..... rationalists are full of shit..... skeptics are full of shit..... debunkers are full of shit..... atheists are full of shit..... materialists are full of shit..... reductionists are full of shit..... positivists are full of shit..... agnostics are full of shit..... nihilists are full of shit..... cynics are full of shit..... misanthropes are full of shit..... reason is full of shit..... logic is full of shit..... evidence is full of shit..... debates are full of shit..... proofs are full of shit..... statistics are full of shit..... researchers are full of shit..... physicists are full of shit..... teachers are full of shit..... historians are full of shit..... philosophers are full of shit..... psychologists are full of shit..... psychiatrists and therapists are full of shit..... mathematicians are full of shit..... logicians are full of shit..... scientific theories are full of shit..... research studies are full of shit..... neuroscience is full of shit..... economists are full of shit..... textbooks are full of shit..... schools are full of shit..... universities are full of shit..... the ivy league is full of shit..... iq tests and sat tests and other assessments are full of shit..... books are full of shit..... conspiracy theorists are full of shit..... flat earthers are full of shit..... cults are full of shit..... government is full of shit..... dictators are full of shit..... presidents are full of shit..... bureaucrats are full of shit..... politicians are full of shit..... political parties are full of shit..... extremists are full of shit..... moderates are full of shit..... the establishment is full of shit..... the military is full of shit..... law enforcement is full of shit..... intelligence agencies are full of shit..... socialists are full of shit..... patriots are full of shit..... nationalists are full of shit..... anarchists are full of shit..... libertarians are full of shit..... conservatives are full of shit..... liberals are full of shit..... capitalists are full of shit..... communists are full of shit..... free speech defenders are full of shit..... revolutionaries are full of shit..... terrorists are full of shit..... anti-terrorists are full of shit..... pundits are full of shit..... think tanks are full of shit..... lobbyist groups are full of shit..... journalists are full of shit..... news anchors are full of shit..... talk show hosts are full of shit..... the legal system is full of shit..... courtrooms are full of shit..... judges are full of shit..... lawyers are full of shit..... plaintiffs are full of shit..... defendants are full of shit..... the constitution is full of shit..... the war on drugs is full of shit..... corporations are full of shit..... business people are full of shit..... executives and ceos are full of shit..... entrepreneurs are full of shit..... venture capitalists are full of shit..... millionaires are full of shit..... billionaires are full of shit..... the entire economy is filled with shit..... sales and marketing and advertising is full of shit..... salespeople are full of shit..... hr people are full of shit..... receptionists are full of shit..... phone operators are full of shit..... billboards are full of shit..... commercials are full of shit..... contracts are full of shit..... pricing is full of shit..... credit card offers are full of shit..... stock brokers are full of shit..... wall street is full of shit..... bankers are full of shit..... landlords are full of shit..... philanthropists are full of shit..... email is full of shit..... coupons are full of shit..... newsletters are full of shit..... press releases are full of shit..... terms of service are full of shit..... disclaimers are full of shit..... doctors are full of shit..... hospitals are full of shit..... insurance companies are full of shit..... media is full of shit..... tv is full of shit..... radio is full of shit..... entertainment is full of shit..... celebrities are full of shit..... actors are full of shit..... musicians are full of shit..... rock stars are full of shit..... comedians are full of shit..... the internet is full of shit..... twitter is full of shit..... facebook is full of shit..... instagram is full of shit..... youtube is full of shit..... youtube comments are full of shit..... online forums are full of shit..... bloggers are full of shit..... amazon reviews are full of shit..... magazines are full of shit..... pop culture is full of shit..... fashion is full of shit..... sports teams are full of shit..... sports fans are full of shit..... athletes are full of shit..... weight lifters are full of shit..... language is full of shit..... small talk is full of shit..... public speakers are full of shit..... ted talks are full of shit..... leaders are full of shit..... followers are full of shit..... bosses are full of shit..... employees are full of shit..... restaurants are full of shit..... food is full of shit..... water is full of shit..... food packaging is full of shit..... young people are full of shit..... old people are full of shit..... modern people are full of shit..... ancient people are full of shit..... first world countries are full of shit..... third world countries are full of shit..... men are full of shit..... women are full of shit..... dating is full of shit..... pickup is full of shit..... relationships are full of shit..... marriage is full of shit..... monogamous people are full of shit..... polyamorous people are full of shit..... polygamous people are full of shit..... family is full of shit..... friendships are full of shit..... social gatherings are full of shit..... parties are full of shit..... nightclubs are full of shit..... weddings are full of shit..... funerals are full of shit..... family and high school reunions are full of shit..... graduation ceremonies are full of shit..... ceremonies of all kinds and any kinds are full of shit..... national anthems are full of shit..... holidays are full of shit..... support groups are full of shit..... fraternities are full of shit..... sororities are full of shit..... country clubs are especially full of shit..... and golfers are full of shit..... awards trophies and medals are full of shit..... tradition and customs are full of shit..... charities are full of shit..... nonprofit organizations are full of shit..... apologies are full of shit..... conversations are full of shit..... the poor is full of shit..... the rich is full of shit..... the middle class is full of shit..... successful people are full of shit..... losers are full of shit..... mothers are full of shit..... fathers are full of shit..... sisters and brothers are full of shit..... children are full of shit..... teenagers are full of shit..... adults are full of shit..... aunts and uncles are full of shit..... grandparents are full of shit..... seniors are full of shit..... city people are full of shit..... country people are full of shit..... white people are full of shit..... black people are full of shit..... brown people are full of shit..... asian people are full of shit..... bad people are full of shit..... good people are full of shit..... criminals are full of shit..... law-abiding people are full of shit..... people who say they love you are full of shit..... critics are full of shit..... victims are full of shit..... judgmental people are full of shit..... angry people are full of shit..... violent people are full of shit..... depressed people are full of shit..... suicidal people are full of shit..... fearful people are full of shit..... arrogant people are full of shit..... outraged and offended people are full of shit..... introverts are full of shit..... extroverts are full of shit..... honest people are full of shit..... optimists are full of shit..... pessimists are full of shit..... new age people are full of shit..... communes are full of shit..... meditators are full of shit..... yogi's are full of shit..... gurus are full of shit..... neo advice are full of shit..... life coaches are full of shit..... the entire self-help industry is full of shit..... artists are full of shit..... hippies are full of shit..... people who dress their dogs are especially full of shit..... straight people are full of shit..... gay people are full of shit..... trans people are full of shit..... thoughts are full of shit..... emotions are full of shit..... every identity every culture and every subculture is full of shit..... and every institution that has ever existed is full of shit..... and all of human history is full of shit..... and you are full of shit..... and of course i am full of shit..... and of course anyone who insists that they are not full of shit..... is especially full of shit..... now that's some insight that's a profound insight is to see this to understand this and to understand how this game of shit..... is played this is a very sophisticated game we're saying something very precise here we're not just bad mouthing people in general we're saying something very precise and the trouble with this game is the way that it's played is like this everyone sees the shit..... of everyone else except the shit..... that they themselves spin and then they make exceptions and excuses for their own shit..... and it goes something like this leo okay i agree with you you said a lot of stuff that i agree with i agree with some of the things you said about religion or some of the things you said about business people or about the insurance industry or about stock brokers but leo this thing here my thing the thing that i like that thing that's not full of shit..... and what i want to tell you is that thing right there is especially full of shit..... you see this is how the shit..... game is played everyone denies their own shit..... in the same way that it's hard to smell your own farts and then we all act surprised when we look around the world and we see all this chaos and all this shit..... floating around out there well why do you think it's there where do you think it came from it came from people just like you denying that they're full of shit..... this is not just a mindless rant this is a deep explanation of all of human existence all of society all of culture all of business all of religion all of spirituality all of science all of language everything everything that mankind mankind has created is filled with shit..... have you noticed this i mean like you gotta notice it you gotta see it and it's easy to see it in certain circumstances like you probably know that wall street's full of shit..... you probably know the doctors are full of shit..... and the lawyers are full of shit..... and this sort of stuff but but do you see like the ubiquity of this do you see the larger dynamic so this should make you start to think of like well why would this be the case why would there be so much shit..... and why would it be so omnipresent and that's because mankind is the bullshitting animal that's our forte that's what we're the best at out of all the species we're the ones who figured out how to shit..... each other and upon this all of human society is built the human mind itself is a shit..... machine and that's because the ego is full of shit..... fundamentally existentially and anything that the ego comes into contact with gets corrupted and turned into shit..... and if you notice corruption is not just something that happens within politics corruption is omnipresent there is not a single domain of human endeavor which is not tainted with corruption and shit..... and that's fundamentally what corruption is this is it's egos shit..... in whatever domain and in fact the more important the domain the greater the amount of shit..... you will find in that domain this is like a general principle of how humans operate now why would that be the case well maybe there's a correlation and a deep connection between importance and shit..... and in fact there is because what does importance mean really importance isn't some absolute standard a thing or a domain is important only to the extent that it serves your survival that's really what the word importance means that means it's important to your living if it doesn't affect your life it ain't important by definition see and of course that means that importance is a relative notion because what's important to you might not be what's important to me because what helps me live my life might actually hurt you living yours and vice versa so the reason we shit..... so much is because fundamentally what we're all concerned about is our own survival and we will shit..... our way through any situation which is fundamental and integral to our survival the more impact it has on my survival the more likely i am to shit..... about it precisely because if i don't i have too much to lose see this is the ego's game this is all that the ego cares about is survival survival in all the different ways that survival happens that doesn't just mean having a shelter and having food and water it means everything it means sex it means reproduction it means status it means celebrity it means fame it means money it means all of that all of that is just a function of your survival that's why you pursue any of that stuff that's why that stuff has any importance to you if it does every human institution is a house of cards glued together with shit..... and if you were to stop bullshitting this house of cards would collapse and that would tangibly affect your survival now it's important you don't misunderstand what i'm saying here very easy to misinterpret what i'm saying here i am not saying that you should be cynical and nihilistic and disillusioned with life it might sound that way because you hear this and you say oh well leo so yeah so i mean i guess you're right i guess everyone is full of shit..... and so what am i going to do about it i guess i got nothing to do but just to be sitting around and being depressed about it for the rest of my life no that's not what's being said here all we're saying here is we're just making an accurate assessment of mankind's condition we're not trying to judge it we're not trying to say if it's good or bad we're just making an accurate observational statement mankind is full of shit..... and if you disagree with me or even if you want to tend to agree with me and just to believe me because this sounds appealing to you um actually what i would encourage you is i would encourage you to actually empirically validate this in your own experience don't just believe what i'm saying go out there and check check if what i'm saying is true is it true that courtrooms are full of shit..... go look is it true that celebrities are full of shit..... go look is it true that scientists are full of shit..... go look go go investigate you see this is this is an empirical inquiry this is not just a rant this is not just some philosophy that i came up with because it sounded interesting to me this is something that comes from carefully observing how people and how institutions work and it's important to see how and why this idea that mankind is full of shit..... how it's true in in all of its uh details and all the different domains where it applies because we don't want to just paint stuff with a broad brush we need to really sit down and double check and that's what i did when i came up with this list because i i sat down and i double checked and i asked myself is it true that advertising is full of shit..... yes okay then it belongs on this list is it true that doctors are full of shit..... absolutely then it belongs on this list and so that's something i encourage you to do with this list listen to it again and really think about what's being said here don't just nod your head and agree as if something minor was being some something very major is being said here right so appreciate what's being said also don't make the mistake of thinking that what i'm saying is that everyone is equally full of shit..... i did not say that there's a whole spectrum many degrees of bullshittery that mankind is capable of some folks are relatively decent on this scale and some folks are really terrible so again it would be a big mistake to say that well leo fine everyone is just full of shit..... the problem is that when you say everyone is just full of equally full of shit..... then you can't really do anything with that insight see it's too crude it's too simplistic too black and white what you need to do is you need to become a good student of appraising shit..... in others and of course in yourself we'll get to that in a minute but a good student of appraising shit..... and various degrees of shit..... because very rarely will you find a person who is completely free of shit..... but you still have to operate in this environment it does no good to just be depressed and sit at home and whine and complain how everyone is full of shit..... that does you no good what you need to do is you need to develop a very discriminating sort of radar for for shit..... and this will serve you very well in life if you're able to do this and that means recognizing that not everyone is equally full of shit..... some people are a lot more full of shit..... than others also don't make this mistake don't think that everything i've said somehow means that you cannot attain truth goodness or that development is hopeless and that the pursuit of truth and goodness is hopeless not at all in fact to pursue truth goodness and development you have to start here you have to start by honestly appraising the situation that you find yourself in and that mankind finds itself in and so that's what we're doing the number one skill that you need to be successful in human society is the ability to create tolerate and deny shit..... the people most full of shit..... don't know that they're full of shit..... and this is something that i call aggressive ignorance it's not just that people are ignorant they're aggressively ignorant they double down on their ignorance they're arrogant about their ignorance they flaunt their ignorance as if it's the ultimate highest truth this is a tool of the devil of course and the way that the devil preserves falsehood and selfishness and ignorance is by being bold about it the devil is not meek the devil will just come out there and deliver a bold-faced lie to you as if it were the highest truth without an ounce of regret or guilt or remorse or second thought or doubt and then the devil will defend that ignorant position with aggression with passion in fact the higher the ignorance usually the more the aggression the more the passion because it's a compensation mechanism you see in fact that's what aggressiveness is about it's about falsehood and it's about ignorance we as a species are collectively drowning in our own shit..... have you noticed this what does this mean this means that all of our so-called problems war and genocide and abuse and drug addiction and problems in the education systems problems in the political system problems with government problems with uh environment pollution and all what is all this where's all this coming from this is us collectively drowning in our own shit..... all of it is coming from shit..... fundamentally of course the details can vary as to how this shit..... gets manifested you know the shit..... gets manifested in the pharmaceutical industry in one way in the legal system in another way in politics in some other way in relationships in another way in family life in another way but you got to look past the individual differences and see the commonalities right because we're looking for big big picture patterns here about how the human mind works and how as a result society works the quality of your life is going to be inversely proportional to the degree to which you are full of shit..... which means that if you want to improve the quality of your life significantly then you need to start to take shit..... very seriously and of course hear what we're talking about is your own shit..... and so the more you let go of the more you uncover and surrender your own shit..... the higher quality your life will get that's a very general principle of human psychology and of happiness you might say this is a law of happiness and the reason that most people are so unhappy so sad so depressed and miserable and frustrated and all this is because their life is based on a big pile of shit..... it's not grounded in anything true and so they're spinning their wheels in this shit..... and are not able to get any kind of traction in their life and they're stuck and they're drowning in it and it's smelly but of course because everyone has become so good at denying their own shit..... that they don't even realize that this is their fundamental problem because they've become blind to their own shit..... they can't smell it they can't see it they think the problem is out there somewhere in the world so is there anyone who's not full of shit..... actually there is your cat your dog if you go outside and look at the birds the ants crawling on the ground the trees look at them they're not full of shit..... at all they go about living their life doing their thing without bullshitting so really it's mankind who is the bullshitting animal and also when you look at these animals other animals and plants and so forth you start to see that you know somehow they're surviving without being full of shit..... maybe i can take some lessons from them because at least we know you know if my cat can do it if my dog can do it then then maybe i can do it too maybe i can work towards it and that's what i'm telling you i'm not saying that you're doomed to be always full of shit..... forever that would be a very hopeless message actually i'm delivering a positive message here you're not doomed to be full of shit..... so long as you're honest about how much you shit..... and then you decide to actually work to overcome that then you can seriously improve your situation now i don't know if you'll ever be entirely free of shit..... but you can certainly make great progress and the more you do the better your life will become so you might wonder at this point well lee okay so but what do i do with this it seems very abstract and philosophical actually not at all really what we're saying here is that you need to become a lot more vigilant about your own shit..... sit down and investigate just how full of shit..... you are and how you point your finger at everyone else except yourself how you are in denial about your own bullshitting in all the different facets of your life you see you shit..... everywhere you shit..... in your family you shit..... in your relationships you shit..... about sex you shit..... about uh food you shit..... about your career you shit..... about um politics and government and gender identity and i mean you shit..... about everything so there's a lot there to uncover don't think that you're just gonna sit down and in five minutes you're gonna figure out all the shit..... that you've concocted your whole life these bullshitting habits are deeply ingrained in you you see from a very early age almost from the point where you were conscious as a toddler you started bullshitting and the reason you did is because it was important to your survival and those habits those bullshitting habits have become ingrained now inside your brain and in your mind such that now anytime some situation comes up at work or in your relationship or with your family or whatever you've just got a knee-jerk reaction shit..... response already cued up see so we gotta become conscious of those first then we gotta start to unwire them to change them and that can be tricky because again remember what we said from the beginning is that this affects your survival that's why you shit..... so of course you're not going to want to give up your bullshitting habits because certain of those habits for example pay your mortgage certain of those habits get you your girlfriend or your boyfriend and maintain that certain of your habits um maintain all of your friendships your bullshitting habits and so forth right so for a lot of people whose entire life is built on shit..... when we start to excavate some of this shit..... and let it go it's a real problem with letting it go because then you say to yourself well but leo i can't let this go if i let go of this my whole life will collapse or this giant important facet of my life will collect like my career will collapse i won't know how to feed myself and my my children and that's right it's a serious problem i'm not saying this is a light easy fix it could take you years for example to extricate yourself from the shit..... corner that you've painted yourself in with your career or with your family or with your wife and your husband or your children or whatever else see and you're gonna be in denial about it the more it aids your survival the more in denial you're gonna be it's not gonna seem like shit..... to you it's gonna seem like the truth it's gonna seem good it's gonna seem important it's gonna seem like reality it's gonna seem like a fact it's gonna seem like it couldn't be any other way like it can't be changed like leo i can't change this this part of my life what are you talking about that's where the work needs to happen so towards that end i have a little exercise for you several questions go ahead and write these down because you're going to be working with these over the next week and beyond that these are powerful questions that you're going to contemplate and journal about using some pen and paper first question is how am i full of shit..... and if you want you can break that one down to be more specific about the different categories of your life like how am i full of shit..... in my spirituality how am i full of shit..... when it comes to science how am i full of shit..... when it comes to politics how am i full of shit..... when it comes to family how am i full of shit..... when it comes to sexuality how am i full of shit..... when it comes to emotions how am i full of shit..... when it comes to health and nutrition and etc another powerful question is how am i a hypocrite hypocrisy is directly linked to bullshittery and make no mistake about it you are a hypocrite everyone is a hypocrite in fact anyone who denies that they're a hypocrite is being a hypocrite a third question for you is how do i make excuses for my shit..... because everyone who shit..... makes excuses for their shit..... so that to them their shit..... doesn't seem like shit..... another powerful question is whose shit..... do i complain about to distract from looking at my own shit..... this is fundamentally why people shit..... and moan complain judge criticize and demonize others this is why the reason is is because if they weren't busy doing that they would have to contend and become aware of their own shit..... which is difficult painful and unpleasant so instead what people do is they go find a youtube channel that shit..... and moans about their favorite enemy and then they watch that and that takes up all of their time so that they never have to self-reflect and the last question for you here is how am i in denial about my own shit..... those are powerful questions use those for the rest of your life don't just do this exercise once and by the way you know the first time you sit down and do this you might sit down for a whole hour and just come up with list after list page after page after page of shit..... and all of your excuses and even when you get done with doing all of that you still have only scratched the surface right because the deepest shit..... that you do in your life sits very deep it happens at a subconscious level at an automatic habitual level you don't even know that you do it yet it might take you five years to realize oh my god that thing leo was talking about five years ago oh it only now clicks for me five years later that that's what's going on in my relationship here and that's why my relationship sucks or that's why i can't attract women or that's why i uh keep getting into relationships with abusive men over and over again it's my shit..... but i didn't know it was shit..... until you know five years later after a lot of introspection keep keep applying these questions these are evergreen questions that will work for the rest of your life in many different domains so don't think of this is just a one-time exercise there cannot be health happiness decency or effective governance without truthfulness honesty and authenticity the majority of human history culture business and governance has been the manufacture packaging and distribution of shit..... and also very importantly the denial and suppression of anti-bullshit so what is anti-bullshit anti-bullshit you might call what we're doing here in this episode we're calling out the shit..... we're trying to shed light on the shit..... so that very process of course must be denied rejected suppressed and avoided all costs in order to maintain the shit..... status quo see and that's why you see a lot of people who leave comments under my various kinds of episodes you know the more advanced the episode the more controversial the insight the more shit..... there is around it the the deeper the inside is the closer it is to truth therefore of course the devil needs to keep more and more shit..... on top of that to mask the truth so of course then people get very defensive about various kinds of things that i say about enlightenment or god or about spirituality or about metaphysics or about consciousness or about intelligence or about um emotions or any of this kind of stuff right because only one of two things is going to happen when you when you listen to someone telling you a deep profound truth about yourself and about life you'll either hear it and start to agree with it and start to say oh yeah this is a this is an important insight and it rings true or you're gonna deny it and when you deny it you're gonna have to deny it with aggressive ignorance see because why the aggressive ignorance because you have to convince yourself that the truth that was just spoken to you isn't really the truth so when you get aggressive about something that i say when you get triggered by get emotional about it you leave a little comment a little nasty snarky comment or something like this all that is is that's just you convincing yourself it's not about me it's not about convincing me convincing other people it's always about convincing you that's what you're always doing when you think you're convincing other people of your position what you're really doing is you're actually just convincing yourself the reason you want to convince other people of your position of your truth of your ideology of your religion of your scientific principles of evolution of of logic of reason of any of whatever is because the more people agree with you the more people you can persuade to agree with your shit..... the less you will feel like your shit..... is shit..... and the more you will feel like it's reality see this is fundamentally why all religious people be compassionate for the most part i mean not all religious people but but many religious people become very passionate about proselytizing their religion preaching it converting others becoming missionaries and this is one of the one of the highest ideals of many religions whether it's you know christian missionaries evangelicals catholics mormons um even certain buddhist traditions the hari krishnas various kinds of cults and so forth one of their highest ideals is to be a missionary and to proselytize the the gospel to somebody else why it's just a defense mechanism it's just projection you see it's a smoke screen against having to admit that what you've got is you've got a big steaming pile of shit..... of course this is true in politics very obviously as well the reason people get so animated about politics and want to convince others want to debate others and win debates decimate people in debates eviscerate people in debates so so and so eviscerates this person such and such a liberal eviscerates that conservative this conservative is that liberal all this what is all this that you see going on on youtube and in the media this is all just people creating some smoke screens for their own shit..... they're really always just trying to convince themselves because you know what when you've got the real solid truth you have no need to preach it to anyone it's a very sort of stable solid thing that actually makes you detached and dispassionate in a sense in a good way the only solution to this shit..... problem is personal direct experience independent contemplation lots of diverse research looking and exploring looking at and exploring many diverse perspectives and personal investigation into all of the most important aspects of reality and of life if something is important to you whether it's in your career or with your family or about your health and nutrition or about sexuality or about metaphysics and philosophy and spirituality and religion if something is truly important to you then you owe it to yourself to do a deep personal investigation to contemplate about this subject as independently as possible free from the influences of other people and of various kinds of group think and social dynamics if politics is important to you then you're going to study history you're going to study human psychology and not just buy into some ideology that somebody is spewing in some video see because it's only through personal independent investigation that you will be able to weed through the shit..... if you are too lazy to do personal investigation then what you will end up with is shit..... shit..... is the default condition you have to work really hard and you're going to have to be very discriminating and careful in your study of life to be able to come out of this thing um not uh you know chest deep and shit..... because there's so much of it and it's been fed to you from the very beginning starting with your family but then in school and college and at your job and everywhere else so what's the point of calling everything shit..... um the point is simply to get you to really understand the importance of personal investigation of independent questioning you see most people they don't really question anything they just take stuff for granted they just take the distinctions and categories that their teachers give them for granted or that their politicians or their political leaders give them or that the news gives them right you just sort of buy into the narrative whatever the narrative tends to be the prevailing narrative of your culture you just buy into it you don't question it and in fact of course what many of these schools of thought try to teach you is not to question religion teaches you not to question but of course not just religion politics culture language and even science and rationality really they don't encourage you to question there's a a false fake front that scientifically-minded people and rationally-minded people like to put up as though they are the ones who have assumed the positions of the ones who are independent thinkers and who question everything for themselves this is almost never the case it's complete shit..... it's just an additional layer of meta shit..... the scientifically minded people and rationally-minded people the skeptically minded people are the ones who are the most full of shit..... sometimes even more so than the religious people see so the reason we're talking about this in such great length and detail with such emphasis is because i really want you to understand the importance of personal investigation personal questioning and that's what actualized.org is fundamentally about this is not an ideology here we are laying down principles for self-experimentation and personal investigation of reality with the expectation that if we personally investigate things this will be highly worthwhile because it'll allow us to sort through a lot of shit..... and really what other option do you have when you find yourself in this uh situation that we're in this house of cards cemented with shit..... then your only option is either to buy into it and just to go along with it or to start to question because it's only through questioning that you sort the wheat from the chaff so to speak only through exploring lots and lots and lots of diverse perspectives will you be able to successfully navigate this maze which is why i always emphasize exploring and integrating many diverse perspectives and not getting stuck on anyone because that's how shit..... gets made alright that's it for me i'm outta here please remember to click that like button if you like the video and come check out actualize.org that's my website on there you will find various kinds of exclusive resources i've been posting a lot of good material on my blog lately various kinds of exclusive videos documentaries and miscellaneous insights that i can't really share via the videos uh come check out the actualized forum where you can talk with people about this stuff like-minded people check out the life purpose course check out my book list the book list gives you a lot of great book ideas that you won't find almost anywhere else for starting to sort the wheat from the chaff and stay with me as we explore more diverse perspectives going forward i really want to warn you not to get stuck on anyone perspective sometimes people think that well but surely leo yoga that must be the ultimate or zen that must be the ultimate or spiral dynamics that must be the ultimate they get a good perspective you know some of these perspectives of course are much better than others not all perspectives are equal and the perspectives that i tend to present tend to be the highest quality ones but even then it's still only one perspective and you want to be careful because if you're just gonna buy in full bore into zen or into yoga or into spiral dynamics i'm warning you you're going to make mistakes you're going to get caught up in shit..... because that's what a perspective in a sense is right a perspective is coming from some kind of like origin point that's what it means to be a perspective is to look at something from one point and not another point which is fundamentally partial incomplete and not absolute it's relative relative to that point of view and of course it's tainted by ego because usually the point of view you're looking at is someone's ego either an individual legal ego or a collective ego which has a hidden agenda it has survival needs that it's trying to satisfy so this perspective is is built from the very beginning to satisfy the very basic survival needs of this point that the perspective is coming from see so the way that we ensure that we don't delude ourselves in this work is by continually opening ourselves up to new and diverse perspectives and the with the idea being that by looking at hundreds of perspectives and cross-referencing all of them we get rid of the blind spots because every perspective has some value to it but usually not total value usually it's just it's going to give you a lopsided view of life so you want to look from that perspective but you want to you want to take the good stuff leave the bad stuff and then do the same with a bunch of other perspectives and then what you get is you get a sort of a meta perspective and this is how we ensure that we don't delude ourselves in this work people sometimes ask me like leo well how do you know psychedelics are true how do you know that meditation is true how do you know your enlightenment insights are true because i cross-reference literally hundreds of perspectives hundreds of sources from other people that that i respect and that are credible uh but then also with my own direct experiences and it's through this massive cross-referencing project that then we can develop um some semblance of um of truthfulness and even then it's not guaranteed that you won't make mistakes right you always have to be vigilant against your own shit..... against your own biases against your own self-deception mechanisms um but um you know this is my overarching like meta strategy for how i run actualize that organ for how i gather all of my insights and knowledge and how how i make sure that i don't delude myself i take this very seriously some people they watch my content and they see me mouthing off or ranting about this topic or that topic and they think oh well leo's just one of these people who just buys into something just buys into spirituality just buys into enlightenment just buys into non-dollar it just buys into cycle no no no no you don't understand what goes on behind the scenes how much i i doubt everything double triple quadruple doubt everything cross-reference everything check every angle you know come back years later and just rethink about am i wrong about this am i wrong about that what could i be missing there you know that's what the process looks like behind the scenes you don't really see it so much happening in the material that i teach because here i'm just presenting you know uh insights uh in a limited amount of time there's no real purpose for me to start to doubt myself here on camera but you better believe that i doubt everything i'm the greatest doubter there is there's nobody who doubts more than me believe that or not and that's how you got to approach life too right you got to be so skeptical that you understand that no one perspective is going to solve this epistemic bind that we're in including skepticism itself so you can be skeptical at times but then other times you have to say wait a minute i've been skeptical for the last two years why don't i stop being skeptical for for the next year and why don't i do the opposite and see where i get and then i'll compare my perspectives i'll look at how how much progress i got when i was skeptical how much i got when i wasn't skeptical right because even skepticism is still one perspective it's one method it's one lens through which to look at the world and so is rationality so is science which is why you can't take them too seriously you can't take any one perspective too seriously but to do this to succeed in in this endeavor you have to be extremely flexible extremely open-minded and very good at dealing with contradictions apparent paradoxes and simply confusion and not knowing what this means is you have a bunch of different perspectives a bunch of different lenses and models and maps and and and explanations and they won't all fit together perfectly but that actually shows you the complexity of this thing that we're exploring called life called the universe right it's a complicated thing it's not easy to explain there's no one simple explanation for everything and what i gave you here this lens of of shit..... that i gave you the lens of looking at everything as though it was shit..... that's just one lens right so again don't get attached to it don't get hooked on it don't now go around for the rest of your life saying that everything is shit..... it's one perspective and next time i'll give you some more perspective and maybe it'll be uh the opposite perspective of this and you got to be able to to deal with that to reconcile that in your mind right like people sometimes criticize me for giving contradictory advice or giving contradictory information that's just because what we're covering is recovering a very very wide territory from a very big picture level perspective which very few people actually do attempt to do therefore they can get away with very consistent explanations you see it's very easy to come with a consistent explanation of something when you're covering a little subdomain that's this small not when you're explaining all of reality as a whole in all the different domains of reality how they all interconnect if you want to explain all that is you're going to have very messy explanations and not only that but you're going to have different explanations entirely different maps it's sort of like you can have one map of the united states which will be a topographical map it'll show you various like elevation in the terrain another map is not going to have that information it's going to be a map of let's say the different uh water water levels in the in the earth that's going to be another kind of map and then a third kind of map might show you where the power grids are across the us and then a fourth map will show you where the like um where the trees and forests are and that will be giving you additional layer of information you got all these layers and you got to be able to like sift through these maps and use different maps for different purposes right so if you're going to dig a well you need the water map and if you're going to like go uh uh hiking through a forest you need a forest map and so forth and so that's kind of what we're doing it's a little bit messy but that's just the nature of the beast don't fall for simplistic explanations but then again sometimes we can distill something down to just a little nugget like mankind is full of shit..... and that's powerful it's so simple it's powerful so memorable you can remember that for the rest of your life you can use that that can help you in business that can help you in relationships that can help you with your own emotions and understanding your own victim mentality and how that's full of shit..... and so on you see but again just don't get hooked on it stick around and we'll explore more perspectives to come you

Oh you are in a different country. That's why. See Indian girls, so many fake cases....

https://kome.ai/tools/youtube-transcript-generator I can't post screenshots because I am a newbie. It has a clean and smooth interface. It's just a website which generates transcripts from URL. It doesn't seem to be a proper AI. Maybe it has AI on kome.ai site.

@LoseYourvelf it all seems so mysterious that I become desperate. I don't know what's going on. There are so many sweet people on this planet who I don't want to lose . I don't want to die because I want to live with sweet people forever. Maybe one day I will get disillusioned. It'll be hard. Sometimes I think why the fuck I am sharing anything with others if there is no other. Becz I sometimes have slight realisation or intuition that solipsism is true. Reality makes me emotional and desperate. @Leo Gura help me. I can't transfer my feelings to you. I can't only throw words. I don't have words.

When I listened to Leo's deleted solipsism video, I was motivated to live more to have a direct experience of solipsism. @Javfly33 @LoseYourvelf

I did this with Kome AI (website). It was very good. I just had to paste URL and it was very convenient to use.

Goggins is a bit over-compensating. IT'S not necessary. Actually the body needs rest to fight the infection. What's the use for pushing if you can't be fully immersed in your work? We should rest. But if something is really important, there's no excuse. We can push our limits.

we are not David Goggins...

@Lyubov I can relate to this despite the fact that I had never been in any relationship. But I was infatuated by a female too much. And when I and she moved to different places, I was in mild shock/grief for about one year...I mean... Waves of sadness came from time to time in that period. But time healed everything. (For big traumas, time may not be able to heal completely...) For breakup is not as big of a trauma as losing a loved one or getting raped... I am telling you....when you'll meet other sweet girls... you'll definitely realise that she wasn't the only one. You won't give a damn about your ex. I am telling you this from my personal experience. Becz even I was attracted to many other things/people after that. And time teaches you everything. Life creates problems but also teaches you how to overcome them and grows you...

I am from India so I am the right person to tell you. First of all there is much less fear of mass shootings as compared to USA. Rishikesh is good and safe. It's in the state of Uttarakhand. India is the most populous country in the world (1420 million) (Second is China). It's not as clean as developed countries. You may face lots of traffic and noise on roads. But when you go to a big store/mall or a restaurant or a clinic or anything like that... they are peaceful and well decorated. There are many luxurious buildings here as well as poor ones. There's so much diversity here. There isn't any major riot or war going on here except few places which you can Google. Don't care about world war 3. There are embassies for that. India is not involved in world affairs too much. I mean it's sort of neutral. It maintains decent relationships with all countries. Israel as well as Palestine. Russia as well as Ukraine. It may be unsafe for girls, if they don't have bouncers with them.

Religion is full of shit.

And what about the risk of fake rape cases if you sleep with 100 girls? Why don't you talk about that? Being falsely accused in a rape case is as horrible as getting raped.

What's Arabia? Which country do you belong to?

Jamaican princess. Who gave you the dollars? Also, not all pillows are suitable for mbtion.

Omg I am surprised...you think using our hand is better? The way I do feels like real sex. It's not complicated at all. I just have to shape the pillow or blanket according to my needs. @Xonas Pitfall I divide the pillow into two parts (mountains) and put my 🍆 into the valley. I am so surprised why many people haven't discovered better ways yet. Edit : I may not be able to reply because I am restricted for 24 hours after every 20 posts. I am a newbie.