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Which is what Alex did. He pinned it down to making firm statements, then he showed over the course of the video how it is being inconsistent while many times asking it to explain its reasoning. The problem is just its reasoning is so simplistic and shortsighted and lacking in any overarching principle or framework.

No, they are simplistic and vacuous and consequentially systematically inconsistent as proven by Alex in this video and in a similar one like it. This is what I mean by that most people operate at level 10-11 Abstract-Formal. They are impressed by very localized analytic statements without tying them to a larger systematic context. It also equivocates unknowingly (e.g. in this conversation, the meaning of "direct"), another symptom of being vacuous.

No, for burning churches and stabbing his mate in the back 20 times "in self-defence", but also probably for talking semi-favorably about Anders Behring Breivik (except the killing kids part). Although this also happened recenty: leader of far-right party (which is actually the biggest party in the polls currently; so much for "left-wing Scandinavia") got harassed on the street by an angry pro-Palestinian mob (link). Interestingly, the lawyer who was interviewed about that incident was also interviewed back when Varg escaped from jail and hijacked a family's car by gunpoint in 1998. Varg was sentenced in 1994, and not long after, the Christian Democratic Party became one of the biggest parties; they nearly doubled their seats in the Stortinget (Parliament) between 1993 and 1997. He would probably mostly be harassed by those people, but also later by more proper leftists after his Breivik statements (2011 and onwards). You could definitely explain all of that with conformism, and it definitely is a thing here (The Law of Jante). However, it's not a very specific explanation. Hardanger, Geiranger, Jotunheimen. For any of those places, you would probably drop by Bergen anyway. I'm biased as a Bergen native, but Bergen is arguably the Norwergian city for tourists. It has the best overall history (Hanseatic League), WW2 history, the Seven Mountains.

But if you saw it on film, would you believe it?

I didn't think it was possible to view yourself from above your own head either one time. But reality surprises you.

Protect your skin, people

I remember one summer afternoon, I was about to go for a walk around the neighborhood and I wanted to take my straw hat which I bought on Jamaica because I wanted the 360 sun protection, but I felt like it would look weird (I've only ever used it on vacation abroad). Then my brother said "why the fuck do you care?". So I wore my hat

But Leo can turn into a lizard

Firstly, that's wrong. Secondly, it's a bit like saying it's strange why a famous bodybuilder has never been seen heading an activism campaign for My Little Pony. It's a highly unlikely combination. People who can levitate, like famous bodybuilders, are around 1 in 100 million. They have limited interests, and most of them probably don't even care to think about science (or My Little Pony), let alone having the idea to contribute to a research project or go through the practical aspects of doing that. Additionally, people with serious psychic abilities tend to not have strong ulterior egoic motives (like fame, recognition, status, money) that could drive such a decision. Add on top of that the general problem with funding and publishing due to the stigma around such matters, it's very understandable that you would think it hasn't been done before (which again, it has by the way). And of course, we live in a post-truth society where "everything is fake and AI-generated". So if you saw a video of a person levitating or read some study about it in some no-name journal, would you even believe it?

It would truly be insane to lock up a person sitting in profound stillness.

I think he just wanted to escape Norway which is a place he would probably get harassed on the street regularly and also live in an "European" country (and his wife which he met before he went to France is French). He was the front page of national news when he went to jail.

Clarity of thought and language most fundamentally boils down to making distinctions. Tearing down distinctions while still being clear is a luxury and has to generally be preceded by a long accounting of other distinctions. Constantly putting equation signs between words and moving quickly from one concept to the next is not that. Here is a distinction: reality "is". That is the Absolute. Anything else is relative. While what is meant by "reality is" can be unclear and easily misunderstood, it can be elaborated on with more distinctions. So making distinctions is the basis of making something clear, and elaborating with more distinctions is the process of making something more clear. On that, this is a good example of the power of making distinctions and elaborating on those distinctions. Notice how rich the examples are of each distinction, notice how illustrative it is, how it leads the person from confusion to clarity:

The way you use language and concepts lacks clarity. "You just fear insanity". Why do you "fear" clarity?

Progressive melodic death black metal 😍

That's perfect, but you see that it's before you create the physical universe that you can really say those things and it becomes really clear what you mean. Conversely, when you start creating the physical universe and things in it, like people, and you start making statements about those things and those people, that is when people get lost and start conflating You with those things, which is not the essence of You. The Absolute is simply isness, and it's hard to see what isness really is until you strip away the surface appearances (the physical universe) and all that is left is pure unobscured isness. Likewise, to say "it's only You" only becomes clear when you strip away the physical universe. Then it becomes harder to conflate the You with the little ego self and its machinations.

😂 I actually used to watch a few of his videos like 10 years ego. And I used to debate him in the comment sections, trying to convince him of something about multiculturalism. Then at some point, I hit a crossroads where I felt I had to choose between pursuing more ethnonationalist Alt-Right content vs embracing my more deeply felt leftist inclinations ("I don't actually hate colored people or immigrants, I don't want to exclude them from my society, I'm for compassion, empathy, equality"), and I chose the leftist route. But he and people like Sargon of Akkad almost got me down that road. But no, I love churches, but also, the concept of church burnings scratches some deep anarchical itch in me 😆 Also, I think more and more about survivalism nowadays with these new geopolitical changes ("maybe the lunatics are right?").

Any organism's attempt at sustaining itself will involve gas and breaks. The Left just has a particular configuration of those. It would only be weird if there weren't such "contradictions".

Asking nature "why" is like asking a kid why it wants candy. Nature does what nature does.

That's very funny because he actually lived in the same neighborhood as my mom back when he lived in Norway

Uhm achtually, that's deathcore, not black metal☝️🤓 This is black metal: You know it's black metal when he is singing in my native tongue (Norwegian) from inside a Norwegian prison cell 😌 (correction: it was recorded from before he was in prison, but released while he was in prison. Some of his other albums were recorded in prison). Or this if you want something that wasn't produced on a potato:

I wish Leo never moved beyond calling it Absolute Infinity. Because then the people who mindlessly parrot his language would never think about putting a limit on infinity.

Dave's entire audience is a bunch of 14 year old New Atheist clones who just learned to string sentences together.

I finally let do ChatGPT do something useful for me and let it write all the code for a MATLAB script I need for an experimental paradigm I'm gonna run I have zero knowledge with MATLAB or really any coding in general so that saved me probably a lot of time (even though it's a simple script). AI is perfect for tasks where you only need something to work and you don't really care how, less for telling you things about how reality works and where the point is the "how". My god you're being influenced by the social matrix every moment you live in society. ChatGPT is just the social matrix fed through a meat grinder and re-assembled using essentially the same principle as the autocorrect on your phone, sometimes producing Frankensteinian contortions.

There is a difference between opening your mind and transcending the mind. The former is just another mind game. It can be a useful and interesting and beautiful mind game, but it can also be terrifying and difficult. If you get to that point, and if you value your existence on Earth, you will eventually fall back on virtues like balance, temperance and clarify of mind (relevance, integrity, health). That is what a biological organism is anyway.

I don't quite see the connection to what I said. Seeing "things" is not absolute, which is clearly what you "see" me elaborate on in that quote. You can of course be conceptually corrupt and use the word "Seeing" to refer to Consciousness which is absolute, but that's indeed the problem. You're being conceptually corrupt (but probably in a less severe way than simply refusing to distinguish between the relative and the absolute). Of course, again, we're always being conceptually corrupt when using words for something that cannot be worded, but we can at least try to keep it to a minimum. Or else, the reductio ad absurdum to that would be that everything is allowed and for example even the most vague resemblances could be used to refer to the absolute, like the word "cheese", because it's so delicious once you taste it. And before you know it, you would see people on the forum referring to "Cheese" and "Absolute Cheesiness" and people making threads asking whether the cheese in their fridge is actually the Absolute Cheese, and then people like @Razard86 would be like "no you don't understand: there is NO DIFFERENCE between eating the cheese in your fridge and tasting Absolute Cheese! It's only a distinction you're cheesing up in your own cheese! The deepest awakening you have yet to discover is that reality is CHEESE!"