Leo Gura

Leaving the body is completely unnecessary. The body is Infinity/God.

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Here's a fun way of learning Spiral Dynamics: try to play-act the role of any given stage, like a good actor. And really feel that stage's worldview. Example: How would stage Blue see gay people? Imagine it! Adopt the Blue perspective on homosexuality as if it was your own. So.... "Homosexuality is against God's will as written in the Bible. It is deviant behavior which will condemn a soul to hell unless it repents and asks for forgiveness. Therefore to legalize gay marriage is for our society to sanction sin and evil. If God sees too many of us descend into sin and the rest of us cave in to this depravity and debauchery without speaking out for righteousness, then our whole society will be forsaken by God. Therefore it is everyone's duty to call out sinfulness whenever it is seen and to fight against it. So we must either help these sinners get on the righteous path to God, or if they refuse, we must cast them out of our society so they don't corrupt our children and rip apart the fabric of our righteous society. Just because a few men on the Supreme Court think gay marriage is Constitutional does not matter because ultimately it's still a sin. The US Constitution is secondary to the will of God. A sin which is 'Constitutional' is still a sin and we should not support it because being righteous is more important than following some human-made law which changes with the wind. For these reasons we should obviously also not allow gay people to adopt kids, teach kids in schools, or kiss in public." You see the idea. Now give it a shot. The exercise only works if you really are able to look at the world through another set of eyes besides your own. So, I invite you guys to try it out. Post your results here. You can do this for a range of topics, not just homosexuality. And you can do it from all the Spiral stages: Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Yellow, Turquoise Here are some topics to jog your mind: Homosexuality Transgender people Gender is a social construct Trump Obama Global warming Abortion Gun control Capitalism Socialism Racism Sex education War Pickup Cancel culture God New Age teachings Relativism Post-modernism Jordan Peterson Sam Harris Atheism And many more If you decide to give it a shot, be creative with your post and tell us which color and which topic you are writing about. If you're doing this, the key here is to steel-man rather than strawman whichever stage you select. Make the stage seem rational, plausible, truthful, and good -- because each stages sees itself that way. And most importantly, as you type out your reply, notice how it feels to speak and think from within that particular worldview. Feel how your mind is forced to shift from your native way of seeing the world. Notice the relativity of all worldviews.

@Ineedanswers I consider 40 hrs/wk to be the ideal to aim for. Rather than working harder, work smarter. JP works a lot, but he still has no clue of the fundamentals of how mind works. You have to be careful not to get caught up in the weeds. The weeds are endless. You can work endlessly and get nowhere if you aren't really wise about it. How come I work way less than JP yet understand mind and reality way better? Because I work smarter. - - - - - No one on their deathbed ever said: "Oh God! I wish I worked longer hours." Never forget that in the end your work means nothing. People who work long hours are willfully ignorant of this simple existential fact.

It's not wrong per se. It's just limited.

I would not conflate developing oneself with such silly stage Orange metrics. It's not about how many hours, it's much more about what you're doing and how deeply you're doing it. Patrick has not even begun truly developing himself, he's just chasing stage Orange ideas of success. He has turned business and capitalism into his religion.

Gawk at it

Lol

It's hard to say because I didn't really keep clear track of it. My work and my personal life bleed together a lot. A lot of the work I do isn't like official work, but technically it is integral to my work. I used to work a lot more than I do today. But also, I prefer to work smart rather than hard. So I end up generating way more results than normal for the hours I work. Most people work hard but dumb, so they end up with little to show for it. Working smart is way more important than working hard. Most of the work you do you shouldn't even be doing.

Unconsciousness is also effortless

Owning a house is great, if you can afford it. But consider whether you want to settle down in one area or you want to move around to gain more life experience. Houses also tend to come with quite a few yearly expenses, taxes, fees, and maintenance costs.

@impulse9 Funnily enough, most programming is not serious intellectual work. I can code for 10 hours. It's way easier than contemplating for 3 hours. After you get good at coding, it's like riding a bike. It doesn't take that much thinking. But still, you burn out and it's very unhealthy working like that.

That's not something most people can pull off. Which is why we have 8 hour work days. I can't work that long consistently. Especially not any kind of serious intellectual or creative work. Maybe if you're just sitting around waiting for customers that might be workable.

Game over, game on, what's the difference?

Of course fucking of course

It's all been politicized and turned into ideology. I don't mind a late-term ban if it would appease the right-wing and settle this issue once and for all. But it won't. They are too dogmatic for such a reasonable compromise.

Guys have more responsibility in this area.

Ahahahaha...

@museumoftrees If you want to specialize in quick pulls, just show up to the venue at 1 hour before closing time. But you are scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

It's worse than conspiracies, it's downright a right-wing fraud organization that invents fake news. They are not an honest actor and nothing they report should be taken as true.

@somegirl Don't worry about it. You're fine. Just meet more guys. Volume.

It would be better if you developed a good feel for when a girl is really into you and her logistical situation is good. Obviously you don't want to invest all night into a girl with impossible logistics, so screen for logistics early. It's usually very obvious if you can pull a girl within 30-60 mins. This is pretty rare. You only spend all night with one girl is it's really on and logistics seem reasonable. In practice you test this by bouncing her around to various locations. If she's unwilling to bounce around or follow your lead, there's no way you're pulling her home. If she's not attracted within 30 mins you move on to another girl. Attraction happens within 5-10 mins. That is not the issue. The issue is that attraction is only 1/3rd the battle. Most girls will need a lot of connection after attraction before they're willing to sleep with you. Those 3 hours are for building that connection and for pumping up her state to the point where she wants to have sex. And also to handle her friends. Generally, yes. But don't let that limit you. Sometimes you open and it instantly hooks so hard that you just know she's ready to be pulled right away. Def capitalize on that. It's rare but it does happen and you need to act immediately when the opportunity arises. These kind of insta-pulls will be much more common towards the end of the night when everyone is partied out.

Obviously it's the parents who would be making the ultimate decision, not some government checklist of disabilities.

Cool it guys. No personal sniping.

Warning: don't give psychedelics to friends and family who are not ready for it. Especially 5-MeO-DMT. They will not handle it like you. What is beautiful to you will freak them the fuck out.