Leo Gura

Best way I have found to transcend desires is to deeply satisfy them. Yes, you can of course abstain from cravings and desires. But that rarely extinguishes them. They tend to come back.

Sounds nice in theory but it just isn't true. You hunger will not go away from doing the work, but when your belly is filled. Sure, you will feel better about yourself if you stop procrastinating and start taking action towards solving your desire. But that doesn't satisfy the desire itself. At least not in the basic cases of hunger, sex, etc. Maybe in some very high level cases that could work. But a desire for sex will not be satisfied by anything other than sex. Or simply by letting the desire go entirely. But it will come back! You can't let go of sex so easily.

@Opo I don't think Vaush is saying to lie to people. He was talking about presenting a strong rhetorical case more than a focus on facts or data. Which is how you persuade people. The entire reason right-wing media is so persuasive is because they focus on culture war emotional issues. It has nothing to do with truth, facts, data, or policy. The average rube does not care about anything but emotional appeals.

If you desire a lobster and you desire to catch and cook the lobster but you never get to eat the lobster methinks you will not be pleased, since the whole function of that desire was to fill your belly with lobster. Desire is there to get you to meet your survival needs.

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -- Nietzsche

I don't take it at all. A hell realm is not for no reason. It's there for the reason that God/YOU wanted to experience it. It's part of Love. A hell realm is just a bad dream. God dreams infinite dreams, so what is a hell realm to him? Just like a bit of daydreaming to you. Does it bother you when you get a stray daydream? No. It's just a natural function of your mind. You never ask, "But why was I cursed with that evil daydream?" God isn't so invested in the suffering as you are.

No. People would simply never accept it so why bother trying to convince them? If you showed people levitation, half of them would think you're a fraud/cult leader, half would think you're Satan and want to kill you, and half would start to worship you like blind monkeys.

I'll grant you height. That's part of looks. The rest is BS. How about this. We guys will ask you ladies to post your bra dimensions in your profile, and we will consider that to be not looks but a personality trait That basically falls under LOOKS. You are looking at that in the pics. But it only matters if the guy is already attractive looking to begin with, otherwise jay jay goes dry.

The big oversight that people like this make is confusing truth with persuasion. Truth has little to do with persuasion, and what these YT debaters are doing is playing persuasion games. Debate is not a valid method of accessing truth. Just because something sounds persuasive or reasonable does not make it true.

@Twega No one has a patent on mushrooms. You can buy weed from a dozen different sources or grow it yourself. Mushrooms will be the same.

You are very imaginative.

Oh, that's very easy to answer. If someone posted a video of actual, genuine levitation on YT, your mind would simply never believe it to be real. You would call it a hoax. Your mind will not accept that which runs counter to its deepest metaphysics. You can't get 100 scientists to observe it in real time because no serious scientist would believe it enough to even buy a plane ticket to see it for himself. And even if they did, you would just dismiss those scientists are deluded kooks -- not real scientists, because only a kook would buy a plane ticket to see levitation -- obviously. So how can you prove something which you know isn't real? You see? You have shut your eyes and complain that you cannot see and yet you ask us to help you. No one can help you in this case until your realize you are actively shutting your eyes on purpose.

The moment of awakening is the explanation. Verbal explanations will not work here. EVERYTHING is EVERYTHING. There's nothing to explain. You are imagining all those incarnations NOW. Ultimately there is nothing but NOW. You are fantasizing about all sorts of future scenarios, but the entire future is imaginary. Stick to the NOW. As soon as your mind wanders into hypothetical spiritual musings you're lost in endless monkey mind. That's on you. But if you want to understand EVERYTHING, it would be a good way to do it, rather than this pointless mental masturbation you're currently doing here. But if you find tripping nightmarish then maybe you're not ready to know EVERYTHING. See, you ask to know EVERYTHING, but then you recoil in horror and run away. So God himself cannot please you.

@Phyllis Wagner Like I already told you: the better the model the bigger the problem. You're not getting it.

@Bacher You should take into account that your spiritual healers are not awake. They are doing spiritual cosplay. So watch out, lest they harm you with bad advice.

Meh... Devils will try but they won't succeed in the long term. People will grow their own mushrooms. All we need is to decriminalize them. Nevada allows growing 2 weed plants for personal use. So you are never beholden to the greedy, over-priced weed companies (of which there are many).

The Founding Fathers would be proud if they knew we were trying to have serious discussions about government over Twitch while playing Fall Guys. And then we act surprised why our government is so fucked.

Is bullshit not part of Oneness? Or do you suppose there is this orb of Oneness, and then a heaping pile of bullshit sitting right outside of it? - - - - - - Every model is like a finite 2D cross-sectional slice through an infinite-dimensional watermelon. It captures some aspect of the watermelon, but it's far shy of depicting the watermelon as a whole. Hitler's view of the world is also partially valid, just like any scientific model. The problem is when people mistake that partiality for being something more than the limited thing that it is.

It's all imaginary. There is no black magic in my dream, maybe there is in yours. But your dream is just a dream within my dream. And my dream is just a dream within your dream. And all of it adds up to nothing.

Take a look at how numbers work. Numbers are infinitely finite. Each number is finite yet there are infinitely many of them, and you can sub-divide each finite number an infinite number of times more, and each of those you can also sub-divide infinite more times, ad infinitum. Infinity is a highly paradoxical thing. Contradiction is not a bug, it's a feature. If thinking about infinity breaks your mind, that's not a mistake, that's the nature of infinity! Infinity creates a lot of paradox and breaks all finite systems, which is why scientists tend to avoid it and sweep it under the rug. When a physicist encounters an infinity in his calculations/equations he considers it a mistake and looks for a way to hide it. But of course the only mistake is him thinking it was a mistake and trying to hide it.

Moral of the story: don't piss off your hot witch girlfriend.

You are using infinite consciousness to imagine all that. It can be infinitely infinite or infinitely finite. No limits. However it wants it can be. If it wants to be black screen it can. But maybe it doesn't want to. Just because something can happen doesn't mean it must.

Ugh.... How insufferable. I'd rather watching two dogs chase their own tails for 3 hrs.

The problem goes way deeper than that. The problem is in how your mind defines "evidence" and "proof". These are not simple notions, these notions are relative to one's metaphysical and epistemic paradigm. The problem is that a materialistic paradigm does not have a robust and subtle enough notion of "evidence" and "proof" to accomodate paranormal phenomena, therefore it is blind to them and says they can't exist. Color can't exist for one who super-glued his eyelids shut.

Precisely because there is no thing that would stop it. Stopping a thing requires another thing. But if there are no things, then there are no obstacles either. No. Nothing is doing that. There would also be nothing to stop nothing from creating something. All things are just imaginations of consciousness. You're still stuck in materialism. You are not appreciating the relativity of things. Stop assuming that things exist as objective facts. They don't. They only exist if your consciousness holds them. Even the notion of a "thing" or an object is merely something you dreamed up. If you stop dreaming of objects there will be no objects. Reality is not made out of objects nor is reality as a whole an object itself.