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[LoseYourvelf]

The insects have noted your genocidal intentions

[RightHand]

12 minutes ago, LoseYourvelf said:

The insects have noted your genocidal intentions

As long as we are committed to survival, we will all be genocidal demons!

 

[Staples]

1 hour ago, AerisVahnEphelia said:

Your next insight is that you're dreaming of a 'top'.

It's the hardest one to decipher.

You might think a beggar has it bad against a king. But that's just a matter of preference on your delusion.

Holy. Shit. 🤯

Now I have licence to sit around and be a beggar all day, like I have always dreamed. Being a king is just my bias!

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No, he really is one of the best human rights lawyers in the world.

[Leo Gura]

1 minute ago, Staples said:

No, he really is one of the best human rights lawyers in the world.

Tis hard to get a man to understand a thing when his job depends on him not understanding it.

[RightHand]

8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Tis hard to get a man to understand a thing when his job depends on him not understanding it.

Nondual lawyer is the new black 

[Staples]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Tis hard to get a man to understand a thing when his job depends on him not understanding it.

Being construct-aware made me better at my job 🤔

Wouldn't the best human rights work eventually be done by someone who understands human rights are a social construct?

[LoseYourvelf]

Just now, RightHand said:

Nondual lawyer is the new black 

Who is this guy and what did he do with my lawyer

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Staples said:

Being construct-aware made me better at my job 🤔

Wouldn't the best human rights work eventually be done by someone who understands human rights are a social construct?

The whole legal world hinges on the participants believing that laws are objective.

Edited October 16 by Leo Gura

[Clarence]

7 hours ago, RightHand said:

I don't consider a spider's rights when I have to kill it

Killing a spider simply because it bothers me is probably more devilish than any of my human schemes, yet I don't give it a second thought.

Lol just earlier today I was looking at the spiders above my bed and thinking they were beautiful and grounding creatures with their eight legs. But creating quite a lot of mess with all their webs right above my bed 

I wouldn't kill a spider still, but I'm evil in many other ways. I'm sometimes astounded by the sneaky ways in which I'm committing devilry without even realizing it.

11 hours ago, Staples said:

I recently got the chance to chat to a very famous human rights lawyer, and attend some talks of his in person. I was considering making a documentary with him, but that fell apart. I was a bit stunned by his epistemics.

The idea than human rights were a construct was completely unacceptable to him. Post-modernism was out of the question. Mind you this man has put a stop to many evil organisations and has helped more humans escape exploitation than I ever will, but he firmly held human rights as a universal given. As inalienable. As fundamentally real.

Thanks for sharing. I'm mind-blown by the story.

Still, my mind really can't make sense of… people. How can we be so biased, evil and wrong?

I feel that having one's life depend on lies is not a good excuse to keep believing those lies. It makes me angry not to be on a more evolved planet. How to accept people's stupidity when it is all around and there's nothing one can do to change it…

[Clarence]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The whole legal world hinges on the participants believing that laws are objective.

But it would make no difference to admit that laws are arbitrary, even in their world. They can still fight for a form of justice, even after acknowledging that no law is inherently objective.

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, Clarence said:

They can still fight for a form of justice, even after acknowledging that no law is inherently objective.

But they don't know that.

[Clarence]

8 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

But they don't know that.

Someone tell them 

[Yimpa]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/comparing-criminal-indictments

It is fascinating how Obama is the only Black president on this chart and most years as president on this chart with all 0s.

Edited October 16 by Yimpa

[OBEler]

On 8.10.2024 at 2:51 AM, Leo Gura said:

I have so many good products that I wanna share that I even thought about turning that into its own product like the Book List. I found dozens of awesome useful products over the last 10 years that make life better.

Great idea! Turning that into an video where you introduce every tool would be even better.

People who are more practical would love that 

[enchanted]

https://actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-070

 

Latest quote 070 is profound, and very fun contemplating that one. Thanks Leo!

[Ash55]

Commenting on North K: https://www.actualized.org/insights/north-vs-south-korea
Since i was born in Syria i noticed how Foolish socialism is and how Syrian government doesn't allow business to thrive only government controlled one, which led to a major stagnation and decline of the Syrian economy while Syrian business (not in syria and non government) are earning tons of money in different countries all around the glob now, i somehow understood intuitively how that doesn't work just from observing government and society

Edited October 17 by Ash55

[Leo Gura]

6 minutes ago, enchanted said:

Daniel Schmachtenberger says "development" is merely trading one hardship for another and isn't really development at all. For example, Living in a concrete jungle in a box made of drywall addicted to our phones is one form of hardship. While living off the land/farming without electricity and plumbing is another. 

This is a ridiculous argument.

You are not gonna live a peaceful farmer's life. You will be raided, raped, and enslaved by a horde of barbarians.

Just take a look at what happened to the peaceful Palestinian olive farmers. Raped by Zionists.

Edited October 17 by Leo Gura

[enchanted]

 

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

This is a ridiculous argument.

@Leo Gura yes I suppose technological progress can't be resisted. 

Edited October 17 by enchanted

[Arthogaan]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

This is a ridiculous argument.

You are not gonna live a peaceful farmer's life. You will be raided, raped, and enslaved by a horde of barbarians.

Just take a look at what happened to the peaceful Palestinian olive farmers. Raped by Zionists.

So a typical multipolar trap as Daniel calls it.

Do you think there has to be some kind of global controlling institute that would be a pre-requisite for humans to leave peacefully with nature? Or it has to be bottom up, slowly increasing consciousness through next hundreds of years? How do we become global yellow stage society or at least green?

I know its not possible any next 100 years with most of the world being all over the spiral but how to you envision it happening in the next 1000 years, just rough guesses of the mechanism?

[Kid A]

«America has done a lot of evil shit. But fighting Communism was a net good. This is the most correct thing that conservatives did in the 20th century.»
 

Maybe I misunderstand, but I disagree here. It’s pure luck that the world didn’t end as a consequence of this.