Leo Gura

Yup. God is very odd.

I don't know if it's good business. It's a possible business.

@Santiago Ram Congrats!

I spent hours this week reading step by step about how Mossad assassinated top nuclear scientists. Poisoned, mail bombed, car bombed, shot in the face. Anyone who comes close to building a nuke in the Middle East will get a visit from Mossad assassins. That's how serious they take this matter. Netanyahu nearly launched an IDF invasion of Iran to take out their nuclear facilities.

Luxury is often impractical. Case in point. When you are installing glass toilets, that's when you know your life is hollow.

One object is not the issue. The issue is people who make their life about pursuit of luxury. This does not apply to you, so don't worry about it.

It's a big deal since Europe will fall behind in the AI race and become poor, which will lead to fascist movements. Europe needs to be technologically and economically competitive, not just stagnant wellfare states. Europe needs to compete with China's rapid development.

The only reason Iran hasn't made nukes is because Mossad assassinated all their nuclear scientists and sabotaged their reactors. Assassinating scientists is technically a war crime.

They ARE starving them and the world ain't doing much to stop it except some stern phone calls. What's actually stopping Smotrich is not the world, it's internal Israel civilization. Too many in Israeli government would disapprove of an actual genocide.

I agree that you are dreaming all that.

No! Israel would not. Israel can kill every Palestinian, easily. They do not.

You are fine since you are focused on higher things.

That is fine. That is not what I mean by luxury. Building up your nest is good. There are objects of convenience like an MP3 player, which is fine. Then there are objects of luxury, like some fancy diamond watch or a $3000 bottle of wine. I know a lady who installed glass toilets in her fancy house. Shit like that is what I mean.

ISIS < Hamas < Taliban < North Korea < Iran < Russia/China < Israel < USA < Scandinavia There are many degrees.

MEGA Make Europe Great Again

@Karmadhi According to this report 7,500 civilians were killed by the US military in the first 2 years of Iraq invasion. https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/how-many-iraqis-did-the-us-really-kill/# But Gaza is way more densely populated and the US has much higher level of military standards and professionalism. Also US was not interested in ethnic cleansing like Israel is, since they live there. But also, US was not really under existential threat. Israel is much more threatened in the Middle East than the US is.

Now I get to use your logic against you. Isn't the US more evil than Hamas? After all, the US invasion of Iraq lead to some 100k-500k deaths. If you just count raw death numbers, the US is more evil than Hamas. But see, this is bad analysis. Likewise, it is bad analysis when applied to Israel. You can't just look at raw death count. Moral development is more than that. Your analysis is too simplistic.

Yes, I know. But it's still different. No matter how much history you cite, how many examples, it's still different. Post Oct 7th Israel has lost all self-control. Similar to the US after 9/11. Israel was much more reasonable before Oct 7th. Yes, I am mostly focused on Pre Oct 7th Israel because Oct 7th was just a heinous attack which would enrage any civilized nation. You can't reasonably expect an attack like Oct 7th not to trigger a huge over-reaction. A major problem with Hamas is that they are not developed enough to even care about that. They did the attack anyway, knowing it would lead to their destruction. This is why they are so low in development. A developed political group would not undertake such an attack because it would backfire so badly on their own people. But since Hamas is suicidal, they don't care.

Europe's biggest problem is that they are not ambitious enough. They are lagging behind in entrepreneurship. Too much of that soft Green socialist welfare-state malaise.

@The Caretaker There is a problem at both extremes. Extreme poverty is a serious limiting factor. But so is extreme comfort, luxury, and complacency in 1st world democracies. Many people in the West are just too addicted to social media and porn to build a proper life. Building a proper life is hard work. Why do it when you can just sit around playing video games while your parents pay for everything?

I am informed of those things. But they are waging a war at this point. Yes, in a war stuff like gets blown up. And after Oct 7th Israel is doing revenge and ethnic cleansing. Yes, Israel does revenge attacks on civilian targets sometimes. They can't help themselves. Those are war crimes. War crimes are common in war.

That's the wrong question. The question you wanted to ask is how morally superior is North Korea to Hamas? That's an interesting question. They are both quite awful in different ways, but at least North Korea is sane enough to not nuke their neighbors because North Korea is not suicidal. Hamas is suicidal. Suicidality is quite the mark of low development. Especially for a political group. North Korea is awful, but actually their diplomatic dealings are rational. North Korea can be reasoned with. A suicidal actor is just impossible to deal with because you can't even count on them caring about their own lives. This is ultimately why groups like Hamas must be destroyed. You can't make deals with a suicidal actor. Israel is being asked to make such deals, which is a lot to expect of Israel. Any deal Israel makes, some Islamic lunatic will just blow it up. This creates an impossible situation.

@The Caretaker Most people have no idea what they want in life. They just bumble along like animals and follow the path of least resistance, doing only things that reality or society forces them into. Most people have a poor understanding of themselves. They don't reflect enough to know what they value, what makes them happy, or what suits them and what doesn't. It takes a lot of experience to know yourself that well. Lots of experimentation is required. I dabbled in a lot of stuff before I found my core niches. Also, most people are so constrained by the need for basic survival that they don't have the luxury to even think about their values or passions. They just work on whatever work is available today. Cultivating values and passions requires years of investment and development in yourself. Most people don't have that kind of freedom. They need food and money right now.

Consciousness does not imply that. That implication is a bad assumption from the materialist worldview. Consciousness is just an infinite field that exists by itself for itself. It does not exist for anyone. Consciousness is not happening to anyone. There is no creature or entity that "has" consciousness or "is" conscious. There is just Consciousness, period. Consciousness is not happening to you. Consciousness has no observer or witness. Consciousness is just Consciousness, like space is just space. Stop thinking of Consciousness is something a creature has and start thinking of it as a fluid that just exists, like an ocean. An ocean just exists. An ocean is not happening to some creature. A fish does not "have" an ocean. The ocean is not a biological process. The ocean is prior to the fish. Fish don't have consciousness. Consciousness has fish.

5-MeO-DMT or DMT should do the trick. These are the most direct and most powerful state-changers. No. That vibrational talk is mostly not deep enough. Those are relatively mild state changes relative to what I'm talking about. I'm saying that's not good enough. You need a more serious state change. Dropping a painful life story doesn't really change your state. It frees up your mind and removes emotional obstacles, which is great, but I don't call that a state change. No. That's not serious enough. You need a serious state change. My advice to you is to research Bufo or Ayahausca retreats. Invest in a retreat and you will likely have a breakthrough. It's actually quite simple, it just costs some money and effort to travel. In a sense you are over-complicating this with emotional work. Emotional work is great but it is not directly related to Awakening/God, which is why you aren't seeing progress on the God front. You need to upgrade to a more direct method.