New Episode: An Intro to Serious Philosophy

[Thought Art]

 

[Danioover9000]

@Thought Art

45 minutes ago, Thought Art said:

 

   So soon?! And when I'm in bed already...

[Thought Art]

@Danioover9000 So soon, yet so late

[Rigel]

@Leo Gura Your use of profanity was exquisite in this one?

[EternalForest]

Decent intro video but far too long. It could have been 2 hours easily. I think Leo should re-edit and reupload.

[thepixelmonk]

Just now, EternalForest said:

Decent intro video but far too long. It could have been 2 hours easily. I think Leo should re-edit and reupload.

No.

[Thought Art]

3 hours ago, EternalForest said:

Decent intro video but far too long. It could have been 2 hours easily. I think Leo should re-edit and reupload.

Bit long for those who know him

[Leo Gura]

6 hours ago, Rigel said:

@Leo Gura Your use of profanity was exquisite in this one?

Use of profanity there was intentional and strategic.

My not using profanity is primarily on this forum when interacting with you guys. The videos will still contain some strategic profanity.

[Hello from Russia]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The videos will still contain some strategic profanity.

 Can you explain the rationale behind it?

[Leo Gura]

30 minutes ago, Hello from Russia said:

 Can you explain the rationale behind it?

I will use whatever style best communicates an idea to the audience. Communication is not merely logical, it is also emotional and even aesthetic. Hence, humor, wit, profanity, hyperbole, drama, vocal tone, poetry, imagery, shocking examples, and even shaming and bullying are all fair game. If I could slap you guys, I sometimes would.

Edited November 1, 2022 by Leo Gura

[Rigel]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Use of profanity there was intentional and strategic.

@Leo Gura

I had guessed so. It was very effective! 

[Dorje Chang]

Great video, Leo!  I hope you have the desire to one day write a book expounding your philosophy. I mean, you already went above and beyond with your content and have done enough, but academic and popular culture is such that a book would carry more weight in the terms of getting your ideas seriously considered and leaving something for the future.  

Philosophy always struck me as a strange field. Who would try to learn physics by going back to Newton's original writings and studying them outside the context of all the developments since then? 

Now, some feedback. Remember in the 5-Meo-MALT video when you said that there's a collective responsibility to safeguard the reputation of psychedelics? When you say that you've achieved omniscience, the end of philosophy, and so on, you're going against that. What's the point of undermining your message with extravagant claims for which you have no evidence? It just gives ammunition for people to dismiss your teachings on the basis that it's all a hallucination from psychedelics and that you're being iconoclastic for egoic purposes. The more outlandish the claims, the more this becomes the "rational" Bayesian update from their perspective. 

I imagine your response: you're being authentic and saying what is true. Shut up and do the work to verify. However, the above remains valid even if you're completely right about everything. This is about how the message is received. 

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Dorje Chang

[mmKay]

7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Use of profanity there was intentional and strategic.

My not using profanity is primarily on this forum when interacting with you guys. The videos will still contain some strategic profanity.

Leo " Strategic Profanity " Gura. 

I'd buy some Strategic Profanity wristbands ?

[Gesundheit2]

I find it ironic and funny that Jed McKenna's book was Leo's intro to spirituality, while for me it was almost like the outro 

We are very different, yet very similar.

[Hello from Russia]

Jed mckennna is a great fucker

[r0ckyreed]

14 hours ago, Gesundheit2 said:

I find it ironic and funny that Jed McKenna's book was Leo's intro to spirituality, while for me it was almost like the outro 

We are very different, yet very similar.

I read Peter Ralston, Jed McKenna, and Eckhart Tolle in that order.

[Thought Art]

Tademarking pure philosophy made me laugh 

Edited November 2, 2022 by Thought Art

[EternalForest]

On 10/31/2022 at 2:09 PM, thepixelmonk said:

No.

I mean to start with, you could easily cut the first 18 minutes. The road trip story would have been the perfect way to start the video.

Edited November 2, 2022 by EternalForest

[Panteranegra]

I wonder who would like to share their notes about this video? 

[CARDOZZO]

Underrated one. Amazing!