Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 11

People have been asking me to make more appearances on other shows. So I made this 2.5-hr podcast with academics on the DemystifySci podcast/channel.

We discussed survival, truth, love, evil, morality, and more.

Check it out:

The following video inspired me to write about the difference between good and evil.

The guy with the glasses in the video is trying to use post-modern relativism to argue that the Jedi are evil. Haha! He has no idea what Good is! Which shows you how dangerous post-modern thinking can be. Isn't it amazing that you can use post-modernism to convince yourself that Palpatine, Dark Vader, and Darth Maul were the good guys while Luke, Yoda, and Obi-Wan were the bad guys? LOL! Lucas made the bad guys in his story so cartoonishly evil that one of them is painted like a fucking devil, yet post-modernists find a way to make the Jedi the evil ones.

The people who write Star Wars made some serious mistakes in how they write and depict Jedi — because they don't understand what Good is. For example, in Episode 1 The Phantom Menace, George Lucas depicted Qui-Gon Jinn as using a Jedi mind-trick to trick Watto the junk dealer into accepting credits that were useless to him. He also used the Force to manipulate dice to win a bet. This is not Jedi-like behavior. For Jedi to be good, they cannot lie, they cannot deceive, they cannot manipulate, they cannot trick others. That's the Dark Side! The entire point of being a Jedi is to be aligned with Truth, because Truth is Good. But George Lucas and Disney Star Wars writers don't understand that. So they create corrupt depictions of Jedi. Being a Jedi is not about using light-sabers or cool force powers. Being a Jedi is about being constantly aligned with Truth. That's why being a Jedi is so hard and rare and requires so much discipline and training.

Why are the Sith or Night Sisters evil? Because they lie! Because they are not truthful. If the Jedi are also depicted to lie, then they are no better than the Sith. The one thing a Jedi should never do is lie or bend the truth. Jedi mind-tricks are a big mistake. Jedi should not use mind-tricks. Mind-tricks are a Dark Side power.

From decades of existential contemplation, I have such a deep understanding of Good that I can be a consultant on how to write proper Jedi. You cannot write a Jedi unless you have direct consciousness of Truth/God/Good. Disney could hire me to tell them how to write perfectly Good Jedi. Not because I am Good per se, but because I understand what Good is.

See? Disney writers cannot even write Jedi properly because they are too corrupt, too evil. An evil person cannot write a good person. A Disney writer does not understand that Good is Truth. Which is one of the reasons why Disney has turned Star Wars into shit. Disney doesn't give a fuck about truth. Which is why Disney is corrupt and evil. Well, there go my chances of being hired by Disney. Disney's Star Wars writers are godless post-modernists now, which is why they can't write proper Jedi. Jedi is not a post-modern notion, which leaves Disney writers flummoxed.

Actualized.org teaches you how to become a real Jedi, beyond the fairy-tales. I can't promise you force lightning, but I can promise you God.

Note: Why are Jedi supposed to be celibate? To not allow survival to distract them from their commitment to Truth. Jedi are servants of Truth.

Note: By the way, Lucas got the midichlorians exactly right. Spiritual ability is largely genetic. That is oddly realistic.

Note: For Jedi to be good, they cannot be indoctrinating children. They have to facilitate children in a truth-seeking journey without forcing truth upon them. If a child doesn't want to seek truth the Jedi should not force him into it. Being a Jedi cannot be following norms or a guilt trip, it has to be consciously chosen. If the Jedi facilitate genuine truth-seeking in children, that makes them good. This is what distinguishes Jedi from a cult.

Good and bad are not the same thing.

Being good is harder than being bad. That's why good and bad are not just relative and equal opposites. Survival is harder as a good person because you are limited in what you allow yourself to do. The good person denies himself many avenues that the bad does not. The good person does not allow himself to lie, cheat, steal, rape, manipulate, exploit, abuse, harm, hurt, kill, dominate, enslave. The bad person can say and do anything, which makes survival much easier. It is much easier to survive by leeching energy from others than not. The bad person can cheat, the good cannot. The bad person can be incoherent, the good cannot.

Good is not about behavior or following rules or norms. Good is about coherence. Bad is about incoherence. The good person cannot abuse others because he would be incoherent because he does not want to be abused himself. The bad person can abuse others because he doesn't care about being incoherent in abusing others while he hates to be abused himself.

Good is coherence.

Coherence is not a social construction or a cultural invention. Whether your mind is coherent or incoherent is an existential matter. Which is why true spirituality transcends cultural norms. Being a good person is not a cultural norm. It is about your mind's relationship to Truth. Which is why the first thing a bad mind does is deny the existence of Truth. If Truth doesn't exist, the bad mind doesn't need to worry about being incoherent.

The denial of Truth and the denial of God turn out to be the same thing. Those who deny Truth and those who deny God both become bad. Because God = Truth.

This is a technical explanation of ultimately why post-modernism is evil. Post-modernists are so lost in social construction that they forgot that Truth is real. Post-modernism is the social construction that Truth does not exist. Which is false.

Being good is difficult for a finite being because it requires alignment with Truth/God/Infinity. Good is the measure of how much the finite aligns with Infinity. Perfect alignment with Infinity is to be God — which is Good itself.

What does it mean to be Good? To act how God would act. How would God act? How would a perfectly selfless Mind act? God is the ultimate benchmark for what a mind can be. God is a Perfect Mind.

This website and the forum have now been successfully migrated to a new server. As a result the whole site loads much faster and more consistently now than before.

Apologies for the last few days of downtime. But we are on solid footing now. Actualized.org should be much more enjoyable to use from now on. Sorry for the last few months of site slowness. The old hosting service had really degraded slowly over time to unacceptable levels, boiling us alive like a frog in water. I was too slow to migrate because I wanted to avoid site downtime, which always comes with migration. But my hesitation ended up worse than the disease. Lesson learned: in the future, don't delay, migrate today!

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