Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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What is there to be said of the fine-tuning argument? Is it true?
It isn’t strong enough. Reality isn’t just fine-tuned, it is perfectly tuned. Every molecule in the universe is precisely where God wants it to be. The universe is Perfect at the level of physics. Not only is the universe fine-tuned by God, there is only one way Reality could be, the way it is. Reality is absolutely-tuned. There is zero margin for error at the Being-level. Reality could not work unless it was Perfect at the level of Being. Notice, there is not a single bug in the execution of the universe. Every molecule is precisely where it needs to be. This isn’t an opinion, this is how Truth is.
Not only do you need God to fine-tune the universe for there to be a functional universe, God has to imagine it perfectly every millisecond. God can never allow a single molecule to go astray, and it never does.
“But Leo! What about all the evil?!”
Driving your car off a cliff is not a bug, it’s a feature. Reality is a sandbox game. A sandbox game allows you to do evil because it is there for your exploration. Mind is an Infinite Sandbox. Mind conjuring up horror is not a bug. The Sandbox is filled with horrors and nightmares beyond your wildest imagination, so watch your step. Life is meaningful precisely because you can get so hurt. This gives the game stakes. God wants life to have stakes so it's more juicy. God is a madman who wants to play a video game with life & death stakes, so here you are.
Anyways, Everything God creates is fine-tuned to Perfection, scientists are just too blind to see it. Anything science says isn't Perfection, is Perfection when seen from the highest level of Intelligence. Low intelligence cannot see God's Perfection because it cannot see God.
Aggressive ignorance:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdJ7QzgxEPK
"It is so pleasing to God"
"It is literally an offense to God"
Ahahahahaha!
What can be said to such people?
This is who you must share a country with.
This is so true.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd-CdaKhLhs
But it goes deeper than entertainment or even problem-solving. At the highest levels, thinking becomes its own form of spirituality. You can use thinking to access and appreciate advanced parts of God which nobody else even knows exist. Thinking isn't just thinking, thinking can be communion. Thinking is the Mind's appreciation of Itself, if you do it right. Of course most people's thinking is just bullshit. It has to be done correctly.
You can think so deeply that you can experience God in new ways. Buddhists will definitely not teach you that.
And of course, you can parlay that level of thinking to create amazing new things.
This is true, according to my direct experience.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeeCam5R-Gz
Understanding Will is a very advanced aspect of Awakening. I have not heard it explained properly by almost anyone.
People do not understand that God's Will is the world itself. God's Will manifests as physical objects. Physical objects are Will.
A pitchfork in your butt is God's Will. But who wants to hear that?
I explain Will in my video: Does Free Will Exist?
As I've said, whenever you hear a Christian call anything "demonic", "Satanic", or "luciferian", you can be sure he's bullshitting.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DefK_mXSzLs
I guess Joe Rogan and Peter Ralston are going to Hell.
The entire challenge of epistemology is that the mind has no way of knowing right from wrong because it bases that distinction on its own internal criteria which it never knew was right in the first place. Right and wrong here aren’t moral but epistemic. Fundamentally, the mind gets lost in its own circularity. Whatever criteria you have for distinguishing right from wrong, or true from false, has never itself been proven right or true. The criteria your mind is using to know right from wrong are themselves wrong and the mind isn’t able to see it because at some point the mind needs to assume that some criteria is true and get on with its sense-making work. But the truth of that criteria is never established, it is assumed. The mind cannot work without taking some things for granted, which ends up being the source of the mind's corruption and self-deception. It is similar to confirmation bias, but much much deeper. I am saying that the idea that, "Science is objective", is a profound confirmation bias. But this problem is not limited to science.
When a scientist looks at the world, he looks at it through scientific criteria which he takes for granted as true, not realizing that his criteria was never proven but assumed, and since it was assumed, it could be wrong. But he blithely uses the criteria to do sense-making without ever digging deeper into his own mind to reconsider the rightness of the criteria. Every worldview works this way and suffers from this circularity problem. A paradigm is blind to its own criteria, as the eye does not see itself. Science or Christianity or Islam or Marxism or Zionism is used to see, therefore it does not see itself. The key question is: How do you know that your criteria for knowing right from wrong, true from false, is not itself wrong and false? Because the Mind is alone, it has no external frame of reference to anchor itself with. For example, in science, the scientist just assumes that everything must be scientific in order to be taken seriously. But what if that’s wrong? How would the scientist know? This is the question-begging Catch-22. The point is he doesn’t know but he thinks he knows. He doesn’t even see the circularity problem.
For any paradigm, when you ask the paradigm, “Are you right? Are you true?”, the paradigm looks at itself and uses itself to judge itself as right and true. You ask any paradigm, "Are you true?", the paradigm looks at itself and cockily responds, "Yes, I am true." But it says this even if it isn't true. That's the problem. The paradigm is using its own criteria to judge its own criteria. That’s the circularity, that’s the question-begging, that’s the fatal blind-spot, that’s the epistemic blunder. The criteria was never grounded in anything, because no ground exists. If a paradigm is wrong or false, then when it looks at itself to check itself for wrongness, it will appear to itself not as wrong but as right, precisely because it is wrong! Do you see that? That’s the entire trick. This is the crux of self-bias. Every worldview fails to see its own circularity, which the fatal flaw in every worldview. The point of epistemology is not to find the one true worldview, or to defend your favorite worldview, but to see that all worldviews suffer from blindness to their own circularity, and to escape this dynamic by getting the mind to catch itself being circular. The essence of a paradigm is really a set of assumed and unquestioned criteria. The point of epistemology is for the mind to become so flexible and so self-aware that it is able to objectively view and evaluate its own criteria, recognize them as limited, and transcend them.
This is the heart of philosophy; solving this problem. If you solve this problem you will unlock a new level of Mind, another order of Intelligence.
The balls it takes to be this flagrantly corrupt:
His church made $80 million per year in the 1990s.
Question: Is it real spirituality for me to ask you to donate $1000 to me in exchange for favor with God?
Another question: What do you imagine it's like inside of his mind?