Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Nilsi]

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@SwiftQuill Make sure you watch Part 2. It's crazy powerful. It solves the conflict between Modernism and PM.

You should make a video about the possibilities post-awakening. At some point, some people might actually want to start living, you know. It’d be interesting to explore the tension between continuing spiritual work and engaging fully with life.

[Rafael Thundercat]

1 hour ago, SwiftQuill said:

Wrong. 

Marxism and Postmodernism are distinct but intersect in woke religion. Marxism sees society as a struggle for power (class conflict), while postmodernism applies this to identity - gender (feminism), sexuality (LGBTQ+), and race (critical race theory). Instead of just class struggle, power is now viewed through identity oppression and narcissistic victimhood. You have to admit that at least a subset of Postmodernism adopts a Marxist structure, framing all human interactions as oppressor vs oppressed.

If you want to understand the roots of oppressor vs oppressed you need to go deep in the History of Slavery. Also in the History of Money and Debt. 

Get the Book Called Debt by David Graeber and study that.

Also the roots of Patriarchy in Roman Law, where by Law the LandLord had total Dominium over family and Slaves and could even kill a slave if  he wished. 

Not all Humam communities used the same Governance Rules. Humanity is Older than Marx and this Modern shit

 You need to go Deep. Just by your writing I can see, you need more Study. Deep History not reading Das Capital for Beggininers. 

 

[The Crocodile]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The only reason I praise Hegel is because Hegel understood Infinity. Zizek has no idea. Just because he calls himself a Hegelian don't mean a damn.

What do you think of Schopenhauer's quotes about Hegel?

Quote

Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan, who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense. This nonsense has been noisily proclaimed as immortal wisdom by mercenary followers and readily accepted as such by all fools, who thus joined into as perfect a chorus of admiration as had ever been heard before. The extensive field of spiritual influence with which Hegel was furnished by those in power has enabled him to achieve the intellectual corruption of a whole generation.

Quote

Hegel was a wind-bag and a charlatan.

Quote

Hegel's philosophy is absolute nonsense - 3/4 of it empty and 1/4 insane notions."

Quote

Hegel had no spirit at all.

Quote

Kant is the most important philosophical phenomenon to have appeared in philosophy for 2000 years.

There's also Schopenhauer's argument for reincarnation:

Quote

What sleep is for the individual, death is for the ‘will’. It would not endure to continue the same actions and sufferings throughout an eternity without true gain, if memory and individuality remained to it. It flings them off, and this is Lethe, and through this sleep of death it reappears fitted out with another intellect as a new being; a new day tempts to new shores. These constant new births, then, constitute the succession of the life-dreams of a will which in itself is indestructible, until instructed and improved by so much and such various successive knowledge in a constantly new form, it abolishes and abrogates itself…. It must not be neglected that even empirical grounds support a palingenesis of this kind. As a matter of fact, there does exist a connection between the birth of the newly appearing beings and the death of those that are worn out. It shows itself in the great fruitfulness of the human race which appears as a consequence of devastating diseases. When in the fourteenth century the Black Death had for the most part depopulated the Old World, a quite abnormal fruitfulness appeared among the human race, and twin-births were very frequent. The circumstance was also remarkable that none of the children born at this time obtained their full number of teeth; thus nature, exerting itself to the utmost, was niggardly in details. This is related by F. Schnurrer in his Chronik der Seuchen, 1825. Casper, also, in his Ueber die Wahrscheinliche Lebensdauer des Menschen, 1835, confirms the principle that the number of births in a given population has the most decided influence upon the length of life and mortality in it, as this always keeps pace with mortality; so that always and everywhere the deaths and the births increase and decrease in like proportion, which he places beyond doubt by an accumulation of evidence collected from many lands and their various provinces. And yet it is impossible that there can be physical, causal connection between my early death and the fruitfulness of a marriage with which I have nothing to do, or conversely. Thus here the metaphysical appears undeniable, and in a stupendous manner, as the immediate ground of explanation of the physical. Every new-born being comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift; but there is and can be nothing freely given. Its fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn-out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen; they are one being.

 

Edited 9 hours ago by The Crocodile

[Yimpa]

1 hour ago, SwiftQuill said:

Sorry for annoying you guys with my antiwoke stuff. I get irritated sometimes and can't help it. 

No worries.

Nice neck, btw 

[Rafael Thundercat]

For God Sake @Leo Gura  This post On Love is Painfully True. Reminder of some great moments of the style of Mirror Narcissism you point there. But the Mirror is a Orb. Love infinite Bubble 

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, The Crocodile said:

What do you think of Schopenhauer's quotes about Hegel?

I agree that Hegel was over-idolized in Western philosophy. But Hegel still had a grasp of God.

Kant is the worst and most over-rated philosopher of all time, IMO.

Edited 8 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

13 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

No worries.

Nice neck, btw 

If you don't thicken up your neck, you're in for a banning.

[Sincerity]

Wow. Your new blog post on Love is your most touching and profoundly clear explanation yet.

Thank you!

[Yimpa]

All is forgiven.

There's a bigger fish to fry, anyway...

 

Thank YOU for teaching us how to LOVE!!!

[integral]

42 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

Wow. Your new blog post on Love is your most touching and profoundly clear explanation yet.

Thank you!

It is but I don't understand it.

[UnbornTao]

56 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Kant is the worst and most over-rated philosopher of all time, IMO.

I wish I knew more about Kant's work to refute that.   Give me a decade to take a look at it.

Weren't his contributions a turning point for philosophy as a whole? The guy might have had an enlightenment experience.

Edited 8 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

I wish I knew more about Kant's work to refute that.   Give me a decade to take a look at it.

You can just ask AI for a quick summary of his worldview.

3 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Weren't his contributions a turning point for philosophy as a whole?

That's what they claim.

Quote

The guy might have had an enlightenment experience.

I don't see how. His view of reality is ridiculous and precludes direct access to the noumenal.

If you accept Kant's paradigm it is impossible to realize God.

Edited 8 hours ago by Leo Gura

[The Crocodile]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

If you don't thicken up your neck, you're in for a banning.

ok Joe Rogan.

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Kant is the worst and most over-rated philosopher of all time, IMO.

At the end of all this you're gonna end up as a Kant scholar.

[Leo Gura]

18 minutes ago, The Crocodile said:

At the end of all this you're gonna end up as a Kant scholar.

Ah, I see you found my personal Hell.

[Yimpa]

Don’t say you Kant, YOU CAN!

 

[NoN-RaTiOnAL]

Here's a metaphysical comedian for ya
 

 

[Leo Gura]

@NoN-RaTiOnAL Yeah, that's good. But you need actual jokes about the truth-seeking journey. Not just a lecture about how we're all one.

You can make really funny spiritual jokes.

[ExploringReality]

@Leo Gura

Why did the truth seeker bring a notebook to Leo Gura's seminar?

 

Because they thought they'd finally "write down the truth" — but ended up realizing it was just one big doodle of infinite paradoxes and mind-blowing questions!

 

 

 

[Nemra]

@Leo Gura, you should make a video titled "What Is a Good Joke?"

Edited 19 minutes ago by Nemra

[Leo Gura]

@Nemra I have a How To Be Funny. Still one of my best old videos.

Edited 28 minutes ago by Leo Gura