Leo Gura

It's a great idea which I will fully endorse if Musk is the first to go. Let's see how much he loves it on Mars.

Humans ain't gonna live on any other planets for a very long time. It's pointless to even discuss. I know the technology angle. But frankly mankind has way too much tech already. We have more important matters to handle than massive rockets to nowhere good.

Not quite the same thing. Musk's quest has a pretty unique purpose in his psyche. And also important is that it's a totally absurd and unnecessary plan. Mankind is not going to live on Mars. Musks needs that to be true to feel important. It's like if I said mankind will live in volcanos. This is not like being a surgeon. Human bodies are not going to function on Mars. People will go there and come back crippled or not at all.

As I keep saying, you guys misunderstand billionaires. It's not about the money. It's about the ego trip, the power, the control, the feeling of grand self-importance. Musk is on an epic ego power trip. Just like Trump. Unions threaten to take away his power and control. The thing Musk hates the most is having to share power with others. Abso-fucking-lutely. Although if you really understood what an ego trip is, it's not as shallow as digits in a bank account. Ego trip is all about the feeling. When Musk wants mankind to fly to Mars, that's an ego-trip. He wants it because it makes him feel like his life matters. Like he's the most important guy on Earth.

Wilber is wrong. The Integral community is wrong. They misapply SD. Trump is not post-truth, he's just a liar. Liars and frauds have exists since forever. Wilber improperly applies SD because he has is own anti-Green bias from being rejected by academia. This bias warps his view of the America political situation.

If that is true, the problem then is that if he couldn't do, no one basically stands a chance.

We know his rationalization. But it is BS. The real reason he went anti-woke is because he realized wokeness wants to limit his power and control with unions. Unions are what turned Musk right. His kid is happy and doing fine. Musk just doesn't accept who they became and now uses it as an excuse to be corrupt.

He's immature. Yeah, but I think that's a you problem of expecting him to be more than he is. He's a founder. Founders never have been responsible for all of a company success. Founders assemble a great team and direct it towards a great vision. Musk is good at that. No more, no less. He's not some sort of e-Jesus. It's actually important for founders to be rough around the edges. That provides innovation which managers cannot do. I'm rough around the edges. And that's what makes Actualized so appealing. If I was a corporate guy in suit or even a Buddhist, Actualized would be lame and not worth following. If you want innovation you need a mind that's pretty odd and unhinged. Unfortunately this very bad for politics.

@gengar You're talking about the problem of capitalism at large, which is unfair to blame on Musk or his evil. Musk is just an actor within a capitalist system that needs to grow and develop technology for its survival. Be very careful about demonizing people for capitalism as a whole.

I am not even that anti-Musk. People here have hated on him long before I said anything. I have tried to be fair to Musk from the beginning. If anything, I was too fair to him. People here even critcized me for defending him. And I am still fair to him. It is only in the domain of politics that I have any gripes with him because his political ideas and actions are truly cringe and corrupt. There's just no way around that. There is no steelmanning of Musk's anti-woke crusade. It is fallacious and harmful to democracy.

Glad you're contemplating.

@aracid Could you describe in more detail what this sinister state felt like, looked like, and why it felt so negative? Was there negative visual imagery? Negative feelings?

Haha! Been there.

I don't want to speculate about people who aren't even alive. It's too prone to self-deception.

I know you're joking, but I just want to clarify that's not what my blog post is saying. There is value in Buddhism.

You are EVERYTHING.

How so we know Jesus wasn't into anal sex?

You live in some backward part of the world with low people in general. What you describe is not normal.

Where does Jesus say that anal sex is bad?

Just like life.

I believe what some people say but I question it a lot and look for ways to test it or cross-reference it against other things. The beliefs are temporary placeholders. You always have some kind of picture of how the world really is. I hold many speculations and intuitions about things, which are used to advance sense-making.

Yes, it's imporant to realize that Christians take such things literally. They aren't joking around even if it seems that way to us.

When I say not-knowing, I mean the Ralston sense. Which is the proper sense. I don't mean false knowing or fantasy. For example, I clearly know that I don't know the historical Jesus. I don't even know if he existed. I don't know if he was maybe Satan incarnate sent to ensnare mankind's minds. That's how deep that not-knowing goes. And my claim is that if you are honest with yourself, you have this exact same level of not-knowing underneath all the noise and bluster. Christians refuse to acknowledge this simple level of not-knowing because it would destroy their whole worldview. Which is why they need faith.

Non-partisan is an identity like abstitence is a sex positon.

Not really, because you actually know something about Tolle and Leo. Like actual facts. About Jesus you have highly distorted stories. Also, notice that you don't worship or revere Tolle or Leo. You don't give them some special epic status. You treat them as other humans -- which is appropriate. If Jesus was an asshole, you wouldn't know it. If I am an asshole, you know it. That's an important difference.