Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[RickyFitts]

Just had a look at quote #101 myself, it's got me curious too - Leo says that I only exist because I imagined myself into existence, but don't I have to exist in the first place in order to be able to imagine? Doesn't existence precede imagination?

[gettoefl]

6 hours ago, Kokorec said:

about Actualized Quotes #101 @Leo Gura

What kind of a god cant stop eating like a pig and procrastinate his life away,me,?

When you say that i as ego takes it to be god, what's the better perspective to grasp the quote?

 

Thank you 

I would say that god became ego and then alas ego became god.

I will rule planet earth with an iron grip or if not that then just eat drink and fornicate myself into blissfulness.

Ego contrives to be god but does so in the material world instead of dropping into its true nature in the spiritual world.

I just want the best life ever and when I'm dead I'm dead, right?

We got god very wrong.

But god is fine with that since it gets to live the dream over and over as the pun goes.

The kingdom of god is within.

Yet hardly anyone explains the meaning of this.

One day awakening will occur since everything here is finite.

Edited December 27, 2024 by gettoefl

[gettoefl]

44 minutes ago, RickyFitts said:

Just had a look at quote #101 myself, it's got me curious too - Leo says that I only exist because I imagined myself into existence, but don't I have to exist in the first place in order to be able to imagine? Doesn't existence precede imagination?

I exist as I exist now as an ego because I as god imagined myself into a finite existence.

Edited December 27, 2024 by gettoefl

[Ulax]

I like when Leo posts a blog on a new topic, because then I can finally have an opinion on that topic 

[koops]

So @Leo Gura, you say Plotinus, Hegel, maybe Spinoza know what they were talking about when they talk about God.

But wasn't theirs just a theoretical perspective?

I mean, were they awake? Were they talking via direct experience or just theorizing/speculating?

Because thats what it seems to me (maye with the exception of Plotinus)

[Leo Gura]

8 minutes ago, koops said:

So @Leo Gura, you say Plotinus, Hegel, maybe Spinoza know what they were talking about when they talk about God.

But wasn't theirs just a theoretical perspective?

I mean, were they awake? Were they talking via direct experience or just theorizing/speculating?

Because thats what it seems to me (maye with the exception of Plotinus)

Of course Plotinus spoke from direct experience. He even says how many direct experiences he had.

Hegel clearly must have had direct experience given things he's written. Not sure about Spinoza. I guess he had some mild amount.

Edited December 27, 2024 by Leo Gura

[RickyFitts]

10 hours ago, gettoefl said:

I exist as I exist now as an ego because I as god imagined myself into a finite existence.

Did you exist in any sense before you imagined yourself into a finite existence?

I guess really my question is, what even is existence? What about awareness, can awareness be said to exist?

[Davino]

@Leo Gura Have you contemplated marketing as a subtle form of theft? You were in the industry so you should know better than me.

Marketing steals your time, attention and decision-freedom. It is a crime to the sovereignity of every self, as they try to manipulate you, take away your money and indoctrinate you with subconscious values for their best interests.

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Davino said:

Have you contemplated marketing as a subtle form of theft?

Generally I would say it is not theft. It is manipulation or even perhaps lying in the worst cases.

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Generally I would say it is not theft. It is manipulation or even perhaps lying in the worst cases.

Yes maybe you're right.

By that manipulation they may leach money from the pocket's costumer, which otherwise wouldn't happen. It's a subtle connection towards stealing material goods. Advertising corrupts more the mind than takes away things from it, which can be framed as stealing freedom but yeah I prefer the corruption framing.

[gettoefl]

18 hours ago, RickyFitts said:

Did you exist in any sense before you imagined yourself into a finite existence?

I guess really my question is, what even is existence? What about awareness, can awareness be said to exist?

I am all that is, am timeless and spaceless and perfect oneness and am all powerful and eternal and infinite. I stripped myself down to a human body and beamed myself onto a 3-d screen called existence or the universe if you please and placed a bunch of other parts there that are also different versions of me in order to delight in my own creativity while interacting with all my various selves. I also made myself forget what I am but I ensured there are clues so at some point I will remember at which point existence will end and reality will be as it always was, is and ever will be.

[Rafael Thundercat]

A good video on Neoplatonism and Plotinius and a source for the book " The Monad" 

 

[Davino]

Leo's Music Playlist - Part 2

Today is a great day. I can die at peace now

[LoneWonderer]

Thank you Leo for the new music playlist! 🙏

If any tech Savvy forum member can make it into a spotify playlist and share would be greatly appreciated as ads on YT suck.

[Rigel]

« This list alone is easily worth 1000$ »

No it’s not. The underground artists Leo put on there probably don’t even make that much off royalties for making the damn music lol.

The real 1000$ value is in doing what Leo did & making your own playlist. There’s more amazing music in the world than you would ever have time to listen to & everyone resonates with different stuff.

Thank you for sharing Leo, I do appreciate it a lot but it’s definitely not worth 1000$.

~
I am being petty here but I had to call you out😘

[lostingenosmaze]

1 minute ago, Rigel said:

« This list alone is easily worth 1000$ »

Mfs gonna read that and really think they're going to make $1000-contemplations looping that playlist 🙈

[LambdaDelta]

17 hours ago, LoneWonderer said:

Thank you Leo for the new music playlist! 🙏

If any tech Savvy forum member can make it into a spotify playlist and share would be greatly appreciated as ads on YT suck.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1TDRS2NdaEMWpCkklBA4Nu

Some may be wrong, it was automated, but overall good enough, rest can be adjusted manually. 

Nobody should be getting ads on YT when ReVanced exists, even on iOS there are some similar options.

[LoneWonderer]

@LambdaDelta

2 hours ago, LambdaDelta said:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1TDRS2NdaEMWpCkklBA4Nu

Some may be wrong, it was automated, but overall good enough, rest can be adjusted manually. 

Nobody should be getting ads on YT when ReVanced exists, even on iOS there are some similar options.

Hey, I had revanced, but I realized it's a form of theft after Leos post of theft so I went back to the normal free YT. Thank you so much!

[LambdaDelta]

49 minutes ago, LoneWonderer said:

@LambdaDelta

Hey, I had revanced, but I realized it's a form of theft after Leos post of theft so I went back to the normal free YT. Thank you so much!

A balanced approach would be to buy YT Premium, but still use Revanced, as Premium doesn't let you get rid of Shorts and a myriad of other awful crap they put into the app with the purpose of stealing your attention away 

[Davino]

6 hours ago, Rigel said:

« This list alone is easily worth 1000$ »

@Rigel My understanding is that Leo was communicating how much he values it. That's the subjective worth the playlist has in his mind and that appreciation was communicated through a shared value system which is money.