Leo Gura

I admit I was very provocative. Similar to my Libertarianism video. Yeah, it pisses some people off. I should soften up my approach in the future. I am still learning what upsets people because intellectual stuff doesn't upset me so it's hard for me to know ahead of time which ideas will offend people. You make a great point. But let's just see a bit more how this thread evolves. If it gets too distracting and toxic, we'll close it.

Of course there will never be any such clear lines. Our knowledge is highly limited and fallible. But the things you talk about are addressed with systems thinking, journalism, education, and academic research.

And in a sense that's not wrong. If you listen to the most radical leftists they tend to want some pretty radical socialistic stuff that probably will never work in practice, at least not for hundreds or thousands of years. Yes, both extremes of the political axis are slippery slopes that veer off into delusional ideas of society which will never scale to the mainstream. The center is a pragmatic compromise and tends to scale well. For example, some far leftists advocate the idea of totally open boarders or actually disbaning the police. This is a silly utopian idea that will never fly. Covid clearly shows the importance of national boarders. But there is still a difference. The ideals of communism are more conscious than the ideals of white supremacy or nationalism. There is no way that white supremacy will ever work in the future. But communism or socialism might. It's just a question of, To what degree? White supremacy is an evolutionary dead end. Socialism is not. At least not yet. There is much to study and learn from socialism even if we don't fully go socialist (which, BTW, I don't advocate doing in our lifetime). But there is little value to studying the merits of white supremacy or nationalism other than as an example of what not to do. At least not in developed countries like the USA or Europe. Maybe in the Middle East or Africa nationalism still has some merit, although even that is becoming hard to stomach. The illusion that your nation/culture is the best simply cannot survive in our globalized economy. How much easier life would be if people simply surrendered the notion that their culture/nation/race is the best. It's such an obviously childish and self-biased position.

Obstacles are a function of the ego's desire to survive in its limited form. See, if you surrendered yourself to Truth completely, there would be no obstacles. But also no guarantee of survival. So you're caught in an existential bind. On the one hand you want life to be effortless and truthful. On the other hand you want to survive, which is falsehood. These two things are in existential conflict. The core existential problem is this: survival is falsehood. So it must always fail because falsehood isn't true.

You got it backwards. They mate for life cause there's no one else around to fuck

Thanksgiving is just around the corner

Direct experience of yourself as God imagining yourself into existence. And even that is just the beginning.

Probably a bad idea. Be careful not to make some rash move. Once you are homeless, enlightenment will probably be the last thing on your mind as you struggle just to stay warm. Remember, after enlightenment, all your survival needs will still have to be met. Enlightenment WILL NOT solve your survival needs for you. Very dangerous and naive to assume so. Do you know what monks spend most of their day doing? Cleaning toilets and cooking food. Survival. They do that for 8 hours. Then they meditate for like 3 hours. That's typical monk life. They do not meditate 18 hours a day as you might imagine. That is not a luxury they have. Ideally you'd save up a nest egg of so much money that you could just take a year off work and meditate while living in a comfy cabin. This is far more realistic than being homeless.

You can soar like an eagle or peck around in the dirt with the turkeys Yes, eagles are lonely yet majestic creatures.

Ha! Nice try.

No, just an example. It's a great example when meditation teachers pretend like meditation can get you there. Salvia shows you, No you are fooling yourself. Nothing will humble you like a puff of salvia. That shit is insane. You won't understand what consciousness can do without it. Consciousness is so much more radical than any meditation teacher knows. Be careful. It will be the scarieat thing in your life. You will cry for mommy. You will beg God to give you your sanity back, and God won't.

Meh, he dismisses the power of the consciousness that is possible with something like 5-MeO or DMT or salvia. No way you will access that naturally through his meditation programs. Bliss and peace of mind is not the same thing as Infinite Consciousness and I gaurantee none of his students have accessed Infinite Consciousness. Of course they are not an ultimate solution. You will still have to do meditative work.

Corruption obviously is a real problem and I speak out against it. I have a whole video about corruption and I say that is the #1 problem in government. I think the problem here is that you hear me denounce "conspiracy theory" and you take that to mean: "no two people ever get together to plan something selfish", which is obviously not what I mean when I denounce conspiracy theories.

They are over-looking the stage Red aspects of Trump. Trump is not merely excess Orange. He's not as bad as Hitler, but he ain't no ordinary businessman either.

High quality porn with some artistry behind it. Figure it out. To me, nudity is art.

Yes, any far-right politics in America will functionally be white supremacist in its outcome -- which is what Green libs are reacting to. I totally get that.

I hesitated to start this thread. If it gets out of hand I'll locked it down. I thought it might be illuminating to see inside the minds of conspiracy theorists, but maybe it's a waste of time. I am open to both sides of the argument.

If you can't use porn responsibly, then don't use it. Is this not obvious? Must daddy Leo tie your hands behind your back? It's like you want me to agree with your no-fap stance, and I just don't care about micromanaging your dick. Other than to say that if you are gonna consume porn, consume good porn.

Oh God. I already regret starting this thread. Calling out for crazies on the internets is not a good idea.

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/alex-jones-white-house-staffer-may-have-poisoned-trumps-diet-coke-and-then

It's a very long and complicated story, full of illegal things that would shock most people. Some day I will tell it, but not now. It was cushy and toxic and difficult all at the same time. Yeah, that makes sense. People too easily confuse my advice of "radical openmindedness" as an invitation to believe all sorts of crazy shit. But conspiracy theorists are the opposite of openminded. Their mind is locked onto their pet theories like a dog chewing a bone. I have always had plans to make short videos, but somehow I haven't gotten around to it. I want to make a series of short videos for newbies. But ironically, making good short videos requires more time, work, and planning than making longer ones.

I just bought filters for my whole house.

A Zen story:

You guys are so obsessed with porn and fapping. More than me.