Leo Gura

There are many different ways that could look. Be careful assuming it only looks one way. But it would entail a lot of time in solitude and deep contemplation & meditation. However you choose to do that.

That's the paradox of it. When God gives a portion of its will and autonomy to something finite, that finite thing behaves in foolish ways. It's like asking, if Albert Einstein was so smart how come his kids weren't as smart as him?

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Talk about recontextualization. I thought this thread was about Gandalf from LOTR

That's easy to explain. Selflessness created the organism. Which is then run by selfishness. This is the difference between God's designs and the ego's designs. A rocket ship could be perfectly designed by a genius. But then you put a selfish fool in charge of piloting it and it will turn into an ugly disaster. Where ego is found, ugliness soon follows.

Be careful with such utopian delusions about Leo.

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It's pretty foolish to develop your own game engine. Just use Unity. You can also hire Unity programmers at the Unity forum. A good Unity programmer will expect $60k-$100k/yr.

Once you learn pickup, social circle is like fishing with dynamite. You can just dial back the pace and go slower and softer in those social situation so as not to burn it to the ground. But if you see a girl you like you should be able to turn up the charm and get her hooked rather fast. Just be less aggressive than you would be in a club. It should never take long to get attraction. Of course not all girls will get attracted to you. You need to quickly see when attraction isn't happening and cut it off. Developing a good eye of signs of attraction and hook-point is key. The biggest sign is when the girl can't stop locking eyes with you. Eye contact is like 50% of game. Another key sign is if she is willing to follow you physically around the room when you tell her to move with you. Another sign is if she's comfortable with you touching her body.

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Well, it sure sounds like you were perfectly ripe and primed for psychdelics and you are extra sensitive to them. This is rare but not too unusual. It's a great gift. Remember, do not assume that psychedelics affect everyone the same. Not true at all. They affect you in unique ways. As for the HPPD, what you describe sounds okay and perhaps even desirable. Those are common for advanced meditators. So I wouldn't worry about it. Try to enjoy a more fluid visual field. Good work. Sounds like you will benefit a lot from psychedelic exploration. But lower your doses, since you are extra sensitive. Psychedelics will revolutionize your life if you use them wisely and consistently. Since you are extra sensitive be careful not to go overboard. Tripping for 12-24 hours is not really normal and could become dangerous. For me, LSD peak lasts 3-4 hours and back to baseline by 6-8 hours. Yes, your trip was unusual, but only in potency and duration. The rest of the stuff is typical LSD. All those visual changes you describe occur simply because all physical objects are imaginary, as I keep telling you. If you take enough LSD your hands could morph into claws or flippers -- or whatever you want to imagine. If you take enough salvia you can turn into a beer bottle. But I don't recommend that because it will traumatize you.

Look at all the major scientists that people like Curt and Lex Fridman interview. They are clueless about metaphysics. I could name dozens of names. Read Sean Carroll's book, The Big Picture. It's pure nonsense metaphysically and epistemically. Even someone like Donald Hoffman (a sort of idealist and meditator) horribly misunderstands what consciousness is. They don't understand much outside their narrow technical field. Yet the public considers these academics as intellectual geniuses. They aren't. They are horribly dense and conformist in their understanding of reality. All of these academic types are hopelessly lost in concept-land and they will never break free.

Remember though that imagination IS reality. So if you imagine it hard enough it is as real as real gets. Like when you are dreaming it feels totally real, until you wake up. It's not complicated. It works just like in a dream.

If I was a chair, I wouldn't mind being a lady's bicycle seat. But hey, I'm biased

For something that specific you'd want to attend and network at industry events, trade shows, conventions, etc.

They def make the mistake of confusing the map for the territory. The problem is that this mistake is so obvious and embarrassing to admit that it will never be admitted by a serious intellectual. If you try corner him on it, he will deny that he ever confuses the map for the territory, even though routinely he does -- which you can verify by asking him some basic metaphysical questions about the substance of reality. He will give you the map as the substance. For example, if you ask a quantum field theorist What is the substance of reality? He will say something like: Quantum field equations. This is literally what Sean Carroll says in his book. Max Tegmark makes this mistake flagrantly as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark Pretty much all materialists do this. Since it never occurs to them that the substance must be consciousness.

Of course if you corner them they will start to fess up and try to save themselves. The point is that they don't understand what they are talking about. The don't have a coherent metaphysics. But they basically picture reality as a giant computer crunching numbers behind the scenes. Which is laughable. Ask them this: Are quarks made out of mathematics or is mathematics made out of quarks? Are brains made out of mathematics or is mathematics made out of brains?

By that logic then mathematics is no better than any other language. Which scientists and mathematicians would want to deny. The problem is that they don't accept that mathematics is merely language. There are plenty of scientists and academic types who literally believe reality can be reduced down to 1s and 0s or an equation. If it cannot be quantified it isn't even considered real. Which is as dumb as saying that if you cannot call a thing a duck, it cannot be real. Here's an example of the kind of stupidity rife within science:

We'll be recording a Part 2 next week.

Focus on something productive.

Honestly I don't know what he's spending his money on other than a house. Nor do I give a fuck what he spends his money on as long as it doesn't corrupt the government.

Real Social Dynamics, Owen/Tyler See Owen Cook's YT channel. Research was RSD was. He had to rebrand themselves. You can find old archives of their pickup videos. Find Owen's old videos. They are no longer on YT.

@charlie cho I am talking about reaching hook-point, where she is clearly attracted to the guy and is willing to date him. Little pursuit is needed after hook-point is reached. Then you just slowly reel her in. She will come willingly. You don't need to chase her.

You make some good points. I agree that Green has a lot of depth to its embodiment. In my way of thinking I distinguish between mild Green and deep Green. You are talking about deep Green. I just don't expect deep Green from a gamer streamer. I also don't know if its fair to place that much burden on people. Expecting Hasan to drop his streaming career and run off to build a commune is not necessarily what is right for him. If he did that he would stop having the big audience that he has and it would probably be a net loss for spreading Green politics, shallow as streaming may be. It's not like I'm running off to start a commune either. "Benefiting the community" is a very relative, subjective, and personal thing. My benefit is via my YT videos. I extend the same to Hasan.

Ahh yes... observing one's family as animals