Leo Gura

The YouTube recommendations algorithm keeps getting worse and worse, suggesting shallow crap. We need to crowd-source this problem. Let's begin keeping a list of the best, unknown YouTube channels. I'm always looking for high-quality channels related to philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, history, documentaries, geography, travel, etc. I'm looking for serious channels with mature people who talk about mature subjects. Not drama, not culture wars, not clickbait, not entertainment. Channels with interesting, high-quality content. Channels that are educational and add to our understanding of the world. These channels usually have fewer subscribers, less popular. If you know of such channels, if you find new channels of this kind, please share them here. When you share the link, please write a few words about what the channel is about and why it's worth watching. I will share the best of these suggestions on my blog as well. Thank you. Examples of the kind of channels I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDissenterRL/videos https://www.youtube.com/@WHATISPOLITICS69/videos https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos https://www.youtube.com/@thestoa/videos https://www.youtube.com/@IntegralNaked/videos https://www.youtube.com/@LetsTalkReligion/videos

It's an expanded notion of solipsism. You first realize the absoluteness of your own mind. Then you consider a possibility beyond that. You're trying to grasp Infinity in one shot, and that's just not going to work. You have to experience/realize it in stages. You reach a crazy new level of consciousness and then later you say, "Well, what if I can imagine something even bigger?"

That's why it's affordable. You can't have everything without a fee. You want perfect weather? Pay 3x higher rent.

I don't see this as a problem. An easy unifiying message is to crack down on corruption and the rich. That is enough to transcend race/ethnicity/gender. The real battle is between the rich and the not-rich. Dem's messaging needs to be virulently anti-oligarchy and anarcho-capitalist dystopia.

1) I am always exploring no matter what I say. You should know this. 2) From your POV what I say doesn't really matter because you have to explore regardless to find your own answers. No matter what I say you still have to find your own truth. I say certain things from my POV but that doesn't mean it is true for you. It also doesn't mean that my view won't evolve in the future -- it usually evolves. Just in general, whenever humans say anything it is only true for them at that time, not forever. This is the case even if they don't realize it or say it. Everyone always speaks from their present view of reality and that view always evolves. Even an enlightened person's view evolves. So you should never take human words as absolutes. This is pretty obvious basic stuff that you should already know without me explicating it for you. My views evolve a lot. I would rather be evolved than consistently stuck.

I don't know about how medicine career works. You'd need to research opportunities. But otherwise yes.

Discuss: This guy says there's a UFO housed in Las Vegas!!

No. I hate big cities like NYC. I would not live in any big city, like a rat in a concrete box.

Of course having control over anyone is a fiction. You don't even have control over your dog. Existentially, no part of God can control any other part. That's why democracy is the best form of government -- because the sovereignty of everyone is respected (at least in theory). Government is not based on any deep truth, it is based on survival necessity and pragmatism. Government works as it works because that's what helps keep certain people alive and reproducing. "Legitimate government" just means legit relative to certain constructed principles and norms, like not violating its own laws. Illegitmate gov breaks it own laws, like a degenerate human does. Trump contradicts himself, as all degenerate lairs do.

I'm in Vegas because it is convenient and affordable. It has great roads, no traffic, no nasty winter weather, fun nightlife, not too large to be dirty and noisy. There are nicer places to live but they are expensive or inconvenient. I wanted to live in Austin but the traffic is a nightmare. California is crazy expensive. Vegas is a nice livable city. Tourists don't even know what Vegas is really like. I'm not on the Strip doing tourist stuff. I live just like you would in any normal city. The Strip is just a small part of Vegas. Outside the Strip Vegas is just a normal city. Vegas is a very practical place to live. You get all the convenience of a full sized city with none of price, dirt, and congestion. The only downside of Vegas is the hot summer and fewer local girls to date.

I recommend you first have the realization that God is solipsism, and then try to go beyond that and try to break out of solipsism if you can. This is not about having an answer. This is about going on an exploration. Getting God requires exploring it from various angles. You're not going to get it all in one hit. You'll need multiple hits anyways. So don't get hung up on having one final answer, rather you will have a variety of awakenings. Your attitude should be one of open-ended exploration. Try various things and see what happens. Explore solipsism, explore its opposite, and just see where you naturally end up. Don't try to force a single conclusion upon reality. You always want to be open to radical new consciousness -- whatever that might be.

I don't remember them all. Pharma GABA, Taruine, Uridine, Alpha GPC, and others.

I don't take active nootropics but I take supplements to improve brain health and recovery.

I have undertaken Leo's Geography Challenge, and I encourage ya'll to join me. Post your updates and share your favorite documentaries here.

We all know it's perfect, but just in case This should be a doozy. Let's hear it all. No guarantees of implementation. Be gentle with me. I might cry.

Please find examples of fake spirituality. I am especially interested in New Age examples. But cult examples are also acceptable. This is spirituality that is very conformist, performative, fantastical, conceptual, ungrounded, word salad, grifty, magical, corrupt, occult. Cringe spiritual BS, basically. I want to see how bad it gets. How deep does self-deception and fantasy go? How deep does the New Age go?

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Tell that to them. They are the ones who act so self-important. The truth is that progressives are too self-absorbed to admit that they do not matter. This would kill them inside.

It's fascinating how love can be used to whitewash corruption. The Devil loves to be loved by a lover of love.

Yes

The most important thing they need to do is to expand their worldview beyond their ideological echochamber. They need to be more realistic and understanding about why the majority of voters are not progressive. And they need to stop blaming centrists for everything. They need to admit that progressivism is a minority position.

I don't do it.

We have a Kirya yoga mega-thread that answers many newbie questions. Follow the books. I suggest focusing 100% on pranayama spinal breathing. All other techniques are tertiary and mostly unnecessary. You could reduce all Kriya yoga to just pranayama and maha-mudra. Which makes it so simple.