Leo Gura

This is a pretty good comedy/mystery:

@The Crocodile You had me at the crocodile. AI sure writes better dialogue than George Lucas

That is not what is happening. His big fat ego got him in trouble. That's what is happening. Losing Tesla sales in the EU would be a huge problem for him.

@Shodburrito I'm done reasoning with your density. Consider me spiritual Satan who will haunt you in your dreams just for fun.

Extroverts literally have shallower minds. That's why they enjoy socializing. That's why the deepest philosophers and scientists are introverted. If you had Isaac Newton's or Tesla's mind you would not care about socializing. As I said in the post, if you're an extrovert my lifestyle does not apply to you. And that's fine. But there are many introverts who are confused about needing to socialize when it isn't right for them.

That's not a judgment. That is generally the case. Which is why teenagers socialize like crazy and old people do not. Because a teenager doesn't understand anything deeper. A typical teenager has the mind of a rat. To a rat going to a party to get drunk is the point of life. This has everything to do with why monks become monks.

Don't even.

That's his public game. He says that on Joe Rogan. But to his hardcore fans he's their anti-vax crusader. It's like when Trump or Musk dog-whistle to the Nazi base of their party while denying that they know anything about it. All hardcore RFK fans know his entire purpose for existence is to champion their anti-vax cause because they fundamentally believe vaccines cause autism.

That's literally the yogi's/monk's position. I'm shocked that you're shocked by this. If you won't wanna be a monk, then don't. It's that simple. Some of us like being monks and we don't need your guilt-tripping. I literally had 2 people today tell it was their favorite post of mine. Then you tell me the opposite. You people are impossible to please. Anything I say pisses someone off. Maybe that's why I like being a monk.

I told you it's one perspective. The shallowness of socializing is a serious issue to consider. You were given a perspective to consider. With much nuance and qualifications. A perspective which is rarely discussed as people go about wasting years in mindless socialization.

It's not limited to any one book. RFK has a long history of saying pure delusional, false nonsense. And then he lies and acts like he didn't say it when it's all on record. He says batshit falsehoods to his die hard fanbase, then when pressed on it publicly he weasels around and denies it. Then he goes back to saying batshit things to his fanbase. Publicly he says he's for vaccines, but his whole fanbase knows he's anti-vax. It's gross. He cannot even be consistent on being anti-vax. He is whatever he needs people to think he is to get power.

Therein is the problem. Just because he's personally nice to you doesn't mean he doesn't spread harmful nonsense publicly. You are like Jeffery Epstein's pool cleaner. Yeah, he's nice to you because he has no reason not to be. You're just a pawn in his game.

This mischaracterizes the issue. Chronic disease is mostly a function of the irresponsible ways in which people eat and maintain their personal health. It is not the job of the healthcare system to feed you properly. The healthcare system is the way it is because people do not care about their health, abuse their bodies, and only turn to healthcare when their body fails them. The healthcare system is designed to treat decades of self-abuse, which requires drugs. RFK will do nothing to solve this matter. Yes, toxins are a problem and they could be improved. The Biden admin was making some progress on that. For example, Red Dye was recently banned. Could RFK help eliminate some toxins? Sure. But he could also kill 3 million people in the next pandemic. You gotta do that calculus.

I am not interested in countering your view. If you want to understand RFK, you are free to study his long history of false, deceptive, and irresponsible statements, abuses, and corruptions.

@Myagooshki You miss the point. The point has nothing to do with veganism.

Of course he has a point. And Hitler was a vegan.

In the midst of all this Trump nonsense it is easy to forget that there are good Dems fighting the good fight every day. We must be careful not to get mired in cynicism.

That's right, independent thinking is no guarantee of proper sense-making or truth. It's just the bare minimum to even stand a chance. Independent thinking easily turns into corruption or distortion. 1) In your case you can clearly see through a bit of self-reflection that your worldview is strongly colored by hurtful traumatic events. This kind of emotionality creates bias and distorts sense-making. So a simple answer to your question is to not ever make an worldview based on hurt, bitterness, or suffering, since such a worldview will be distorted and dysfunctional. Basically, don't construct worldviews based on negative emotional states. So in this case, proper independent thinking should have led you to see that your worldview was constructed from a place of trauma, which is not a sound way for constructing a worldview. Imagine if I constructed the entire Actualized.org worldview based on my mother abusing me as a child. Would that be an accurate worldview? Clearly not. I would first need to heal that trauma before I could construct a proper worldview. 2) There cannot be any formula for avoiding self-deception. The only solution is live consciousness and active intelligence. This intelligence must be active at all times and self-reflecting. It cannot be a one-and-done thing. You must keep being intelligent as long as you live. 3) Practically, in your case, therapy would be a good way to gain more clarity over your worldview. Psychedelics as well of course. 4) If you have deep Awakenings or realization of Infinity/Love/God, then you will realize that self/other is an imaginary duality which must collapse. From this understanding you can know that your bitterness and hatred of mankind cannot be truthful, because mankind is just an aspect of God/Infinity/Love/Self. The truth is that the same people who killed your dog are metaphysically identical to your dog and yourself, since there is no difference between self and other at the highest level of reality. So in order to heal yourself from this tragedy would require connecting with that disowned, shadow aspect of yourself. The thing you hate the most -- the people who killed your dog -- is the thing that you will ultimately need to realize as identical to yourself. That would be the conclusion which results in the healing. But that is a tall order. I'm not tell you to necessarily just do it right now. You probably need much more time to pass before you are ready to face such radical integration. I'm sorry, this is difficult to tell you, but the following applies here: https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-090 The entire challenge of spirituality is to integrate that. To integrate that basically requires complete Awakening beyond what a human mind can imagine. It would be an Awakening so deep that you would basically die and return from the grave. In that moment of death, death itself would heal you. (I am not talking about suicide.) When the self dies, God's love cleanses your psyche of corruption by melting you into pure Infinity. An ocean of love where your dog, yourself, and your enemy are One. This Oneness is Absolute Truth. From this Truth all sense-making must derive, otherwise it will be corrupt.

@Jayson G Sorry, that is reserved for the course.

Actually, I changed my mind. The Dems did important work questioning RFK.

I share every source of mine in the book list and blog. My approach is not to look for meta big picture thinkers but to assemble that meta view myself, but consuming hundreds of quality, narrow, specialized sources like historians, spiritual gurs, scientists, philosophers, etc. If you read 200 books, you will have a very good foundation.

Okay. Why did I think it only happened days ago? Anyway, you might want to consider therapy, to talk things out.

Well, but it's good to air out all this nonsense. It needed to be purged. The demons had be let loose for all to see. The corrupt has to play itself out now and we will rebuild later.

@Daniel Balan How long ago did you lose your dog?

@freddyteisen The more perspectives you consume the less likely you are to get trapped in any one of them. I've consumed so many perspectives it's like a chess grandmaster who knows all the opening moves. Which makes it impossible to fool me with some common trick.