Leo Gura

@Jennjenn That's why conservatives undermine and demonize academia. They have to because otherwise their entire worldview would be debunked by science and history. There is a good reason why the majority of Trumpists are not college educated. An educated person would see right through Trump's horseshit. Trump is only great at fooling the uneducated. Which is also why conservatives want to dismantle the public education system.

Hedges Pinker is a neoliberal as far as I know. Hedges is a socialist.

Really good stuff:

Nationalists cannot accept the idea that their country was/is extremely corrupt and devilish, because the whole nationalist worldview assumes my country is the good guy no matter what. Thus nationalists are in a constant battle of denial. Which is why they make it their life's mission to attack SJWs.

I did one better. I became you Teleportation assumes you and I are apart.

He's still subtly demonizing them. He's still not seeing the full scope of the relativity of worldviews, including his own. I see his approach is solid Green. It's good, but still limited.

I guess that depends on how you define revolution. I think a soft revolution is more realistic. A sort of collective awakening to the limits of capitalism. But a hard revolution should not be something anyone of us wants, as it will devolve into devilry.

Where in the universe does it say that a taco must bounce in order to be the same as a basketball? Can you see that YOU are the only one imposing that criterion? All criteria for difference or similarity are relative and arbitrary! There is no difference between bouncing and not-bouncing. Get it? It's not a language game, it's the foundation of your mind's BIOS. If you realize what I am telling you, your mind will collapse into emptiness. You won't be able to tell the difference between up and down, good and bad, past and future, life and death, love and hate, etc.

That's some grade-A racism

Of course. Nuanced thinking is required. Hedges makes some great critiques of the system, but his worldview is also biased and not the highest. His understanding of spirituality is lacking. And he's has no understanding of development psychology (SD, etc.) There's not a single person in political commentary who you can take as having all the answers. Which is why our politics is so filled with problems. Virtually no one has found the real answers. We have to pioneer the answers.

@TDW1995 It's more radical than you think. "Sensation" itself is a false notion. Colors, sounds, feeling, etc. are not really sensation. "Sensation" is a notion created by the ego-mind in order for it to believe the human self is real. The notion of "sensation" comes pre-baked with the notion that there is a self who is having sensations. See video: What Is Perception? Not only are all senses equal, everything in the universe is equal to everything else! A taco is the same as a basketball. Any difference you think exists between them is purely your bias and imagination. Realize this: There is no difference between anything.

His talk of revolution is very problematic.

Nobody ever believes he is racists. If racists understood they are racist, then racism wouldn't exist. The whole trick to racism is that it's denied in plain sight with a straight face.

It's pure, 100% mystery. Throw away all concepts and ideas and just bask in the mystery of the present moment.

@Kiko Dude, you need to isolate her and nail her to the wall. Stop making excuses.

Look here. There's talk and fantasy, and then there's how people actually behave. Trust their actions more than their cheap words. - - - - - - "All men were created equal..." "Black guy is 3/5 of a person..."

Lol Yeah, DMT will certainly clear all this up

Of course. The ego-mind is desperately trying to survive. Because it will die. It's all bullshit! There is no left or right. And no brain. Now you got it. Direct experience of the present moment is NOT a belief or story. Ground yourself in raw direct experience. Not concepts.

The brain is a hallucination. You're not getting how radical this is. Reality has no ground. Anything which you think is grounding the present moment is false. Nothing is grounding anything. The ego-mid is playing tricks in order to maintain a sense of "reality". You must cut through all the false grounds it constructs. Including brain, Earth, universe, atoms, birth, your childhood memories, etc. It's all pure fiction! Nothing you think is real!

I'd recommend drinking a glass of Slippery Elm twice a day for at least a month. Research Slippery Elm. And keep trying other stuff.

A woman is not like a guy. She has to be turned on and seduced into horniness. You gotta stimulate her emotions, build an emotional connection, and then escalate physically. You build an emotional connection by sharing parts of your personal life story and being vulnerable with her. You should be looking in her eyes non-stop. This builds massive intimacy and trust. Make your touching playful to start. Treat her like your little sister. Be playful and put her in a playful mood. Rather than doing a serious kiss, you can try something like making her laugh and then doing an eskimo kiss. If she is willing to hold deep eye contact with you, and she's willing to let you stroke her hair, she's willing to kiss you. If she rejects a kiss, you just act cool, like nothing bad or weird happened, and you try again in 10 minutes after you make her laugh. Always escalate physical during emotional upswings. When she is laughing or smiling or happy. Give her hugs. And start putting your hands on her hips. If she's letting you hold her hips, she willing to fuck you. Sometimes girls are cold. You gotta warm them up.

Yeah, it's called INTROVERSION. Nevertheless, if you wanna get laid, start going out.

Lol Since when?? Religion has always been about POWER and us vs them thinking.

Can you? Most of them are. Slave owners used Christianity to justify their moral right to own slaves. You can use Christianity justify any evil.

Not according to the scientists who keep hallucinating matter.