Leo Gura

Sure, although those countries might also have less resources to mount an effective response. Americans are uniquely individualistic, arrogant, and stubborn. It's like herding cats.

I must admit, I get a bit of satisfaction from seeing girls suffer from this because it gives a taste of what it's like for guys.

Welcome to what life is like for guys You have a high sex drive. Congrats! Sounds like you're a keeper You're gonna have to find some healthy balance. I would start by limiting it to once per day. Girls with high sex drive are awesome!

Integrate the two. These are foolish dichotomies and false either/or choices.

Which events? If you mean some of the deplatforming events on college campuses, like what happened to Bret in his classroom, yes, I think that is excessive and problematic. Stage Green can get excessively SJW-ey. But this is an exception and shouldn't cause too much alarm. Bret thinks it will cause a societal collapse, which is silly. That is just fearmongering. Bret wants progressive reforms, but he's unwilling to pay the cost in terms of social and cultural upheaval that will be necessary to bring it about.

It's been pretty obvious for a few months now that America is not going to be able to suppress the virus like China. We are gonna have to face it head-on because the leadership isn't capable of anything else at this point and the people are too ignorant for effective coordination. This is the price of arrogance and ignorance.

But how do you know it's true? A detailed and mindblowing explantion is less than worthless if you can't validate it. For example, does Ra exist? You'd have to go talk to him to find out.

I watched the entire interview last week. Overall he's a reasonable guy. More reasonable than JP. I actually agree with most of his analysis of the George Floyd case. But of course he's not properly understanding the "cultural marxist" phenomena on college campuses. He sees it as a dangerous force that will destroy democracy. This is the same mistake JP makes. He's conflating stage Green with Maoism. He doesn't understand that stage Green has many healthy versions which are more evolved than the status quo. Of course Green has its excesses, but he's overly focused on that because he personally suffered from it. That's understandable, but it is skewing his perspective of where society is headed. Stage Green is not the end of democracy, it will lead to better democracy. He's failing to distinguish between health and unhealthy version of Green. Overall, Bret's a decent guy. He simply doesn't have a high enough perspective on things. He's still stuck in materialism, which is why he can't fully understand stuff like critical theory and its post-modernist roots. This is clear when he says that scientifically, male and female are some biological objective fact. This is obviously false if you have a deep understanding of epistemology and metaphysics. But he doesn't have that understanding because he's operating on materialism and realism. He doesn't understand how "male" and "female" could be categories projected by his own mind. He takes this the metaphysics for granted, as most STEM people do. And Joe Rogan does not have enough intellectual chops to challenge him on these points. Which is part of the problem when Joe interviews serious people on serious topics. He's not able to properly challenge their points. He mostly just ends up agreeing with whatever they say, and by extension so does his audience. Virtually nobody in Joe's audience will be able to deeply question Weinstein's view post-modernism. Post-modernism is really challenging to understand.

Yes, he does it in good faith. He's a true believer in his own ideology. He simply has a different worldview than you. If it seems that he's acting in bad faith, it's because you don't appreciate the difference in worldview because you are looking at the situation from your own worldview. You're missing the relativity of all worldviews. Your worldview is not "true", it's a projection of your own mind and its survival concerns. Same as Tucker. If you really want to grow, drop your worldview and try to look at the world from Tucker's POV until you understand its appeal.

This is your error. You need a way to satisfy yourself sexually because you cannot always have the stars aligned with another person, even if you are in a relationship or married. Many times they will simply be physically unavailable. You need to realize that there is no difference whatsoever between having sex with another person and having sex with yourself. A sexual fantasy is as real as "real" physical sex. In fact, your sex will become much more potent and satisfying once you embrace the imaginary, purely mental aspects of sex. Don't buy into the societal norms and judgments which gives a negative connotation of fantasy or imaginary sex. Even if you have sex with someone physically, that desire will still probably not get satisfied or go away. It will only be a temporary satisfaction which will turn into a new craving in a few days. So it's not that much different than masturbation. A true sage has sex using the mind. Rather than suppressing your need desires, embrace them and allow yourself to have the love you crave. You will overcome craving more effectively through love than through denial. Own your sexuality.

Yes, that is a good start. Get very simple and direct with it. Try this next time you sit down for 25 mins: Take your finger and try to point to yourself. Notice carefully what the finger it pointing at. Try to clarify what that thing is. Notice, the finger never points at a brain. What is seeing the finger? As you do this, try to minimize thinking. Don't think about it, look at it. Clearly, thoughts come and go, so they cannot be essential to what you are. What is essentially you?

No, it's not that simple. It's just one brute force method that tends to work well for clubbing. It does not necessarily address the root issue of your anxiety. But you gotta start somewhere. Sometimes problems auto-correct simply through exposure and practice. If you've been living in your mother's basement, going out to lots of clubs and socializing will auto-correct much of your social awkwardness, since most of it simply comes from inexperience. Practice builds competence and confidence.

Trump is well-capable of starting a pointless war. Especially if he gets desperate.

What are you smoking? He said it a bunch of times in his Krystal and Sagaar video. He calls Sagaar and Tucker Carlson a white nationalist fascist and he even basically calls Krystal Ball that. He's way out of line there. Sagaar is not a fascist or a white nationalist. And as much as I hate Tucker, he's not a fascist either. Just because someone isn't a raving progressive does not make them a fascist or a fascist sympathizer. Vaush is an intelligent guy but he's too blinded by his progressivism. I know his heart in the right place but he lacks important nuance and understanding of conservatives. Sagaar is a decent and reasonable conservative. The problem with demonizing someone like Sagaar is that if you can't make peace with Sagaar's brand of conservatism, you basically can't negotiate or respect any conservative at all. As progressives it's very important that we accommodate reasonable conservatives, otherwise they will become radicalized. Politics requires compromise. You can't exclude and demonize 40%-50% of the population. That's going to backfire on you. You cannot expect every conservative in the country to convert to liberalism. It ain't ever gonna happen. Conservatives need to have a say in the direction of the country because that's how democracy works. Compromising with someone like Sagaar on immigration is actually a good deal. It will pacify conservative fears and lessen their radicalization. Sagaar's immigration stance is not a racist one. Unchecked immigration should not be the progressive position. It will turn off 50% of the country. Vaush is far too uncharitable to Sagaar.

LOL It's not a coincidence. Tolle named himself after Meister Eckhart once he got enlightened. It would be like if I named myself Leonanda or Leojiji.

She gave him a prime time spot over ten years ago! Which is the only reason you know about him. It would be pointless because that is not my target audience. Her viewers would probably find me offensive and I have zero interest in appealing to them. No, he's got good teachings. But I do find them milquetoast. Just not my style.

They are both dangerous in their unique ways. No need to turn this into a contest. I would actually say Trump is worse simply because he's at a lower stage of the Spiral. But then again, Trump is also so incompetent that he's not as bad as he would otherwise be. Sure, Bolton might start a war with Iran. But he would not, for example, ask foreign nations to interfere with American elections or refuse to leave office if he lost an election. Bolton has more integrity than Trump, which is a crucial factor. Without integrity you have a monster on your hands.

Tolle has been popular for over a decade. WTF are you smoking?

We've talked about it in the past. The problem with these books is that for you it is all hearsay. Unless you can directly experience it, it isn't true for you. Be very careful simply accepting plausible spiritual narratives. Adopting a spiritual narrative is not going to grow your consciousness.

This topic has run its course.

Hehehe... how convenient "I don't like thinking about my own devilry." -- said the devil

That's well and good, but that doesn't automatically give you the subtly and sophistication of understanding necessary to construct a quality government or be an effective citizen. You can think all is love, but then get duped by some con-artist.

Yes, and he capitalized on that. The media reports on far more than Trump's latest tweet. The media report many serious things and points of devilry and corruption. The news media is forced to be shallow because the people are shallow and have the attention span of squirrels. The news media has to compete with entertainment, YT cat videos, music videos, the sensationalist ravings of Alex Jones, juicy conspiracy theories, tabloid gossip, clickbait websites, etc. That is our collective situation. Don't blame that on some elites. Of course. But that's still better than a crippled and demonized media. Corruption is decreasing, not increasing.

That's what life is. Anything is possible, but I wouldn't count on it. The videos are merely a launching point for your own deep inner work. You will no more become deeply awake from a video than you will become a surgeon from a video. Practice is mandatory.

No, it's beyond a perception. It's Absolute Consciousness. No. To be enlightened is to become EVERYTHING/Infinity. Don't confuse this with a belief or an idea. The point of Absolute Consciousness is that it is crystal clear and Absolute. There cannot be fooling at that level. Fooling is a relative feature of a finite mind.