Leo Gura

Yes, but it also matters how it is done. There are healthy and unhealthy ways to go Blue.

Yes! And THAT is a consequence of differences in perspective.

That's actually a very popular tactic of fundamentalist Christians. They specifically prey on troubled and wounded people at around stage Red because they are ripe for Christian indoctrination. The devil preys on the weak by offering them cookies. The devil never presents himself as some evil monster. He lures you in with nuggets of truth and wisdom which he then twists to twist your mind. The devil's whole MO is to make truth and falsehood so conflated as to be indistinguishable. The devil never peddles pure falsehood as that would be artless and far less effective than lacing truth with poison.

Yes, he's certainly biased and aggressive, but he also makes some sharp points. His video on systemic racism is excellent, beyond just merely trolling conservatives.

Guys, just to remind you, keep in mind that our objective here is not to get stuck in political content but to do Conscious Politics, which means going meta and observing how your own mind plays out its biases with political content and how it gets attached to its own positions and all the defense mechanisms it uses to justify them. The real game here is to not get stuck at the level of content and opinions, but to realize that it's all games your mind is playing in order to feel superior. In the big picture, it doesn't matter who kills whom. What matters is how your mind thinks about such things and how aware it is of its own biases and attachments. When you start taking sides and getting defensive, that's when you've lost the game. There's really no right or wrong in such cases, it's all a matter of difference in perspectives and being able to hold multiple perspectives at once.

@ardacigin Good stuff. We'll be talking about this stuff in a lot more depth soon.

Not that I know of, but I'm bad about checking my emails.

It can still be valuable to build a business and be successful as part of your larger life purpose. Business is a great way to escape wage slavery and help the world at the same time. You just have to go about it in a conscious way. Basically 90%+ of all ways of making a living = some kind of business. So you can't really escape business. It's more a question of what kind of business you do.

Asexual relationships??? AKA, friendship.

Lol The greatest mathematicians were mystics and religious people.

That should be Biden's only campaign ad.

Beauty is an absolute, but the ego's job is to filter Infinity down to a limited, manageable, survivable level. Ego does this through biasing reality to suit its own needs and wants. When the ego finds the master piece work of art beautiful, it is seeing through the clouds of its own selfishness to the absolute Beauty which permeates all of Creation. But the ego is so biased and limited in its vision that it falsely attributes this beauty to that one work of art. It doesn't realize that the wall on which the art hangs is just as beautiful and wondrous as the work of art itself. Ego always sees partial truths, partial beauties, partial goodnesses. So it's not that the ego is wrong, per se, it's just always limited and partial. It's like if I showed you a master piece work of art but your mind only focused on the face and missed the other 95% of the painting. You'd say, "That's a beautiful face! OMG!" Which is true. But you're still missing the other 95% of the beauty because your mind isn't open enough. In this way the ego is never technically wrong. It's just highly partial and missing a lot of stuff.

@OBEler It varies person to person. I've never had difficulty breathing on 5-MeO-DMT or any other psychedelic regardless of intensity. But you might.

@Lyubov Anecdotally, my USPS has been delivering packages speedily with no problems. Shopping with UPS doesn't really help this problem. USPS needs your biz.

Well, that's why we have a court system. That's for the court to adjudicate all those details. There seems to be plenty of video so we'll see how it all plays out in court. Both sides will get to present their evidence. Once you start shooting people, the others may feel little option but to bum-rush the shooter. Of course it is possible the mob was being aggressive. I dunno. These situations tend to be messy.

@Arcangelo When you are carrying a rifle against unarmed people, shooting in the air or ground will be more than enough to spook them off.

Beauty is an Absolute. Free of the ego's biases, all of God's creation is seen to be Perfectly Beautiful. Any serious Buddhist knows this.

I see a trigger-happy jackass teen playing macho vigilante near a serious protest, and naturally hell breaks loose. This is why in a sane society one should not be allowed to open-carry assault rifles near large crowds of people. The entire notion of these militia groups is absurd. State must have a monopoly on carrying firearms in the city streets and law enforcement. Citizens cannot be allowed to do law enforcement. Especially angsty 17 year olds with a political agenda. Law enforcement is hard enough as it is for trained professionals.

Don't they have those spikes they can lay out on the road to blow out his tires? Seems nuts to put your car in front like that.

@Javfly33 Of course

Source??? This is a misunderstanding of Buddhism.

@davebryand You took too much too fast. Next time go slower with your doses. And try plugging rather than vaping it. You will be much more comfortable in it. Yes, there are many levels and even kinds of of ego-death. Even what you got there is still only the beginning, really. The ego-death on salvia is even more intense and freaky than that of 5-MeO-DMT as you will lose all memory of having been human. You won't even know that you are inside your house or who your wife is, as your memory gets nulled out. And ego-death itself isn't the end either. Beyond ego-death there are many degrees of God-realization.

If you can manage to read 1 book per week, you will become invincible.

Pat Buchanan

The projection of Trumpists is amazing to behold: