Leo Gura

That's basically most people in the country. Most people are struggling to cope with traumatic experiences and barely surviving. So they are ripe for intellectual exploitation. That's what fundamentalist religions and cults pray on. They specifically prey on people who are struggling with basic survival because such people are desperate enough to believe anything, to whom intellectual integrity is a luxury they can't afford. There is no substitute for education. You can't take an uneducated person and after a few conversations have them behave like an educated person. Quality education takes a decade. Which, BTW, is exactly why right-wingers, fascists, and fundamentalists attack and undermine the education system.

Sure, but you'd be dead.

Sam Harris:

God has infinite power and is infinitely good. But that's only possible because God is infinitely selfless. Corruption is simply selfishness.

Stop thinking inside the box. You can make documentaries do whatever you want them to do. There are no limits.

Me

Reminder: spreading of Red Pill ideology on this forum is not allowed. You can discuss Red Pill as a social phenomenon, but we will not be seriously discussing the merits of this toxic ideology. Just because an ideology has a few nuggets of truth does not mean we take it seriously here. We hold ourselves to a higher standard.

What most people forget is how uneducated most people are. People do not even know a basic thing such as, What is democracy? or What is fascism?

A circle is just a straight line where every end is its beginning

I see this has turned into a joke thread.

Oh. My. God. People are so fucking dumb.

Flithy rich

@abundance Dude, you can't copy & paste an entire new article here. That is copyright violation and they will go after us for that. Just link it.

The thing with Sam is, he loves to blow smoke up his own rationalist ass. That's like his life purpose

All I know is there is a family of small birds nesting in there.

It's funny. I bet you could become a millionaire just by creating a series of books, videos, podcasts, and workshops about how hard millionaires have it in society today. Millionaires would eat that shit up like pigs at the trough and ask for seconds.

Of course It was just an example of the bubble of self-importance rich folk live in. It's like complaining about how hard it is to own and manage 3 mansions. It's clever though how she found a niche in catering to millionaires like her who have difficulty handling their wealth. Just the fact that such a niche exists -- meaning that there are thousands of such millionaires who would be interested in her book -- is a condemnation of the sorry state of the late-stage capitalist system we have. Taxes, taxes, taxes.

Zen no-mind does NOT mean no thinking. This is a common newbie misunderstanding.

There is the Infinite Self. The only problem is mistaking this Self as being finite. You are the Infinite Self indentified as a finite self.

A classic normie reaction to a nondual/mystical experience. That's how most ignorant teens react to a dose of psychedelics. It feels like death or madness so they try to forget it as quickly as possible and never peak behind that curtain again. It takes a mature mind to appreciate such an excursion beyond material reality.

Cool it with the personal attacks.

Perhaps so, but she is still more conscious than the typical poor person. A poor person has to work for decades just to reach her level and fall into her mental traps.

@Yog And if you fail to break through with it, you can use it as a sex toy

Understanding reality on salvia:

Of course. Entire books and workshops have been developed on this subject.