Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[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, 2024 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, 2024 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, 2024 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, 2024 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. 

[lostingenosmaze]

I had the opposite shower thought: If Christ came down from Heaven, it would be the Christians that would first put him up at the stake for being too radical and far-off from their dogmatic worldview, claiming he's the Antichrist. I prefer this cinematic irony 

[LoneWonderer]

Thank you for sharing that peace index in the latest post very interesting to see. I live in New Zealand which is in the top 5 most peaceful countries and life here's great! 

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, lostingenosmaze said:

If Christ came down from Heaven, it would be the Christians that would first put him up at the stake for being too radical and far-off from their dogmatic worldview, claiming he's the Antichrist.

That works too. But I wanted to point out the connection between Trump and the Antichrist, given it's election season.

Edited October 18, 2024 by Leo Gura

[Jehovah increases]

3 hours ago, lostingenosmaze said:

I had the opposite shower thought: If Christ came down from Heaven, it would be the Christians that would first put him up at the stake for being too radical and far-off from their dogmatic worldview, claiming he's the Antichrist. I prefer this cinematic irony 

[Keryo Koffa]

3 hours ago, lostingenosmaze said:

I had the opposite shower thought: If Christ came down from Heaven, it would be the Christians that would first put him up at the stake for being too radical and far-off from their dogmatic worldview, claiming he's the Antichrist. I prefer this cinematic irony 

Why this dichotomy, I'm sure they'd do both simultaneously 😁

[JosephKnecht]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

That works too. But I wanted to point out the connection between Trump and the Antichrist, given it's election season.

Based on how much you talk about Trump, we must conclude you are secretly in love with him.  

If God were to create a mirror in which human selfishness can be reflected, could he create a better mirror than Trump? 

[Leo Gura]

5 minutes ago, JosephKnecht said:

Based on how much you talk about Trump

Trump is so dangerous that I don't talk about him enough.

You guys don't understand how corrupt he and the people around him are. It's way worse than you think and his reelection would be disastrous.

Edited October 18, 2024 by Leo Gura

[Davino]

Regarding the peaceful index I would like to remark something. It's interesting to correlate peace with ambition.

For example, my country is next to Portugal and I can attest the Portuguese people have a very peaceful approach to life. Although, this fact seems to go in detriment of their economical ambitions and goes with a flaire of complacency.

I'm also curious to contrast the global peace index with the corruption index and find out interesting correlations.