Leo Gura

Don't attack each other over this.

@John Paul Chicken and beef contain like 10x-100x less heavy metals than seafood. You can google for a list of mercury content by fish/meat. Here's a list: Salmon 0.02 PPM Sardine 0.01 PPM Shark 0.98 PPM Squid 0.02 PPM Sword fish 1.00 PPM Trout 0.07 PPM Tuna 0.35 PPM Shrimp 0.01 PPM Chicken 0.001-0.004 PPM Beef 0.003 PPM Pork 0.002 PPM

So the pandemic was worthwhile after all

@thenondualtankie If you realized you are God there would be no one left to communicate with but yourself.

Because they spend much of their lives socializing. When you are socializing you can be totally dumb and not think a single independent thought. Which is why I avoided socialization for 25 years.

Apologies if it offended you. I was doing a very honest stream of consciousness in that video. I might take that video down to avoid further offense.

Being normie doesn't maximize anything. It's just an easy path toward mediocre levels of happiness.

We are ALWAYS in direct contact with reality. You are reality.

Visualizing proper inner game, and then going out consistently, approaching, and analyzing all your sets at the end of the night to iron out every sticking point and learn every micro lesson. It will take a year or more of constant game to start to dial in your inner game. You have to be ruthless about identifying and squashing every micro sticking point. Also observe how you are sabotaging yourself. Mostly it just sounds like you're not approaching enough nor sticking in set long enough. You gotta force yourself to do like 20 approach per night, and go out at least 3 nights a week for a year. You are not going to cure approach anxiety via some magic bullet. The cure is approaching. Do 5000 approaches.

If by kids you mean adults, okay, he is having his fun.

Well, of course there is no objective standard. This is all highly relative and subjective. Which is why it's hard to get a consensus on it. When it comes to an unknown virus what you must remember is that this is a potentially very dangerous situation, therefore caution is reasonable. You have no idea what kind of deadly variant could emerge if we just let Covid run wild without any checks. So governments and scientists erring on the side of caution is reasonable. Especially early on back in 2020 when none of us knew how Covid might unfold and we had no vaccines. It's easy to do Monday morning quarterbacking 2 years later. At this point what I see is that lockdowns are impractical in the US simply because people will not strictly adhere to them. So lockdowns in the US have failed and I don't think they will ever work here. But for some nations where lockdowns are more strictly adhered to, they might be worthwhile. I don't know exactly. There is no simple answer. I would not do any more lockdowns in the US because it will just piss people off without producing much benefit I think. I would only do lockdowns if there was a much more deadly variant or if hospitals were at capacity. Mask mandates I have no problem with because it's a minor inconvenience. The cost/reward on masks is very favorable. Vaccines also have a very favorable risk/reward ratio.

What is the correct way to slice a cake?

I don't think he needs your best wishes. Remember, when a girl freely chooses to sleep with you, it's cause she likes you and thinks you're cool.

All those things are less age-sensitive than clubbing. Only in your imagination. He was a genuinely cool dude and good friend.

That's the evolutionary process in action. It's like a volcano: pressure builds up, then it erupts, then it settles down, forming new crust.

@Hardkill 34 is the new 24 I met an Actualized fan at the club who was pulling 21 year olds and rocking life. He was 50. We had a blast hanging out and having fun. Youth is much about your attitude and lifestyle. Most girls who I meet at the club think I'm under 30. When you're cool, people think you're younger and/or they don't care about your age.

You are young as fuck. Just don't waste any more time.

I would reframe the way you look at social evolution and development such that you see EVERY event as progression. Even the bad regressive-looking stuff is still just a part of the overarching evolution. Society evolves by going 2 steps forward, 1 step back. The mistake many progressives make is that they foolishly want progress to always just be 5 steps forward. But a homeostatic system just cannot work that way. If you are foolishly expecting 5 steps forward every election cycle, you're setting yourself up for a lifetime of disappointment and frustration. You need the patience of a saint when it comes to people evolving.

Russia and China got a lot more Red & Blue. And also, remember, there is much development room within each stage. For example, it might take 50-100 years for development to go from early Blue to late Blue, or to just enter Orange vs mature Orange. There is also a difference between a country's cutting edge vs it's center of gravity vs it's tail. The cutting edge of Russia or China might be high Orange, but that's still a tiny portion of the overall population. It will need another 50-100 years to trickle down to the masses and solidify within all the social systems. These notions are highly relative. You're the one defining "1st world country" and "democracy". It means whatever you want it to mean in your mind.

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." The suffering and misery is there, but it's masked over with addictions, distractions, and rationalizations.

But this is a circular definition which begs the question, since you are defining democracy by using the US as the touchstone, thus taking the touchstone for granted as a stable given.

That's the function of all conflict, not just war. There's not much difference between war vs a fight with your parents vs snow buckling into an avalanche. It's a dissipation of pent up unstable energy. The energy is released to reach a new equilibrium point.

Like wrestling an alligator.

Yes, because their worldview is too closedminded to seriously consider that gender categories are relative constructions of the mind and culture. Admitting that degree of mental construction is very threatening. What next? Science is a construction? Atoms are a construction? God is a construction? Race is a construction? My country is a construction? My history is a construction? My self is a construction?

Arguments have been made that America was not really a democracy until the Civil Rights movement. But "democracy" is a relative notion with many degrees to it. It's not a simple binary. Democracy has many degrees of quality -- which is what matters. The notion of "a true 1st world democracy" is highly relative and constructed. What does that even mean? People will have all sorts of subjective ideas about that question.