Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Archie]

@Leo Gura How many rounds of detoxing have you done total and did you ever experiment with DMPS?

[UpperMaster]

 

Whats the answer to this? I would say because you can't memorize teachings and learn them.

Learning includes understanding the teaching + putting it in the context of your life.

You can't do that if you're beaten with a stick forced to just brute memorize. A lot of people who memorize Quran dont even know what it means they just memorize.

 

 

 

[RendHeaven]

@UpperMaster Check page 50-51 for some discussion on this post

[Leo Gura]

5 hours ago, Archie said:

@Leo Gura How many rounds of detoxing have you done total and did you ever experiment with DMPS?

25+ rounds.

Have not tried DMPS yet.

[r0ckyreed]

@Leo Gura In regards to your blog post on American Airlines, what do you think about the lawsuit against Capital One? 
 

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-capital-one-for-cheating-consumers-out-of-more-than-2-billion-in-interest-payments-on-savings-accounts/

 

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

@Leo Gura In regards to your blog post on American Airlines, what do you think about the lawsuit against Capital One? 
 

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-capital-one-for-cheating-consumers-out-of-more-than-2-billion-in-interest-payments-on-savings-accounts/

Yeah, there's a thousand examples like that in the corporate world.

Edited Friday at 11:11 PM by Leo Gura

[Davino]

By this point The Blog is my daily best media consumption. I just had the the insight 

[Ash55]

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When you die and go to reincarnate, God asks you, Easy mode or hardcore mode this time?

If you selected hardcore mode, You get Syria in 2010 before the civil war, North Korea, or saudi Arabia harem as female LOL

[TheAlchemist]

Check this out:

https://www.actualized.org/insights/why-africa-sucks-geographically

It's a fascinating video which highlights an important piece of the puzzle; a piece that is often forgotten or ignored. lots of accurate information too. Yet at the same time I think it's good to not take this as the whole story as some tend to do. The conditions of modern Africa can partly be explained through physical geography, yet there is another half to the story that is just as, if not even more important. That is of course the massive impacts of systemic colonization and oppression by the west.

Unfortunately many conservatives take this type of narrative and use it as a way to dismiss concerns about western dominator culture and colonialism. I'm sure Leo and most others here are aware of how there is more to the story, but someone who never studied history might take this kind of thing as the whole story. 

I heard that in the Peterson University there is an "alternative history" course about how western colonialism wasn't that bad really, and how there's not much to self-reflect on there.

But also, many left-wingers may be unbalanced in the other direction, not wanting to consider any environmentally determinist perspectives for fear of minimizing the impact of colonialism etc.

So, both perspectives are needed here to get the full picture I think.. I can't imagine a maximally holistic perspective on Africa that doesn't consider the wealth of critiques coming from postcolonial theory for example. Yet it's also not as holistic if it doesn't consider the real impacts of those geographic conditions.

 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by TheAlchemist

[Staples]

That Africia geography video has to be the only coherent content from Thomas Sowell I've ever seen.

Beware the rest of his conservative bullshit.

[r0ckyreed]

@Leo Gura Could you do a blog post on the scale you use to weigh your mushrooms? Anything you recommend for storage? I may possibly be getting them from a friend and I want to be prepared. I’m gonna probably do 1g lemon tek. I’m kinda excited! If you put the affiliate link of what you use, I’ll get it. Thanks!

Edited 10 hours ago by r0ckyreed

[Davino]

Every Ideology Splinters

It is interesting to note that the same religious tradition/ideology born from Abraham, the father of the faith, has lead to first Judaism, next to Christianity and finally to Islam. In the context of the Israel-Palestine war the granfather is at war with the grandson. The original chain has splintered to the point of friendly fire.

[Leo Gura]

43 minutes ago, Davino said:

and finally to Islam.

That's not where it ends.

Mormonism comes next.

[Raze]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

That's not where it ends.

Mormonism comes next.

That’s a splinter from Christianity. From there is Bahai.

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

That's not where it ends.

Mormonism comes next.

There's always the weird one in the family