Leo Gura

These are legally debatable points. These are mostly policy choices. President gets to make policy decisions. Of course such decisions can cause lots of harm, but that's all part of the job. Don't be so defeatist. Dems have a decent chance of winning back the Senate in 2020. Most voters are not blind Trumpists. Many voters will be upset at Republican Senators in swing states next year. Could be enough to flip the Senate. Another blue wave is likely. Impeachment rallies the progressive base.

Your analysis lacks nuance. Both parties are not at all the same and are not equally corrupt. Also, most politicians care about a lot more than getting reelected. They work hard to create the best government they know how to create. It's easy to make simplistic and naive critiques without having lifted a finger to actually create a good government. You may have escaped the trap of being a Republican, but you've now fallen into another. It takes a lot of careful study and contemplation to start to understand how government and politics work. Careful acting like a know-it-all in this domain. You have years of learning ahead of you. There is a lot more to creating good government than picking one of two sides, or picking no side.

Anaximander, Heraclitus, Plotinus Hegel was a bit later, but had an excellent grasp of it.

Subject/object is a duality. The ultimate nature of reality cannot be understood via that distinction, or any other distinction. See my video: What Is Perception? "Experience" is already a dualistic, biased notion. Strictly speaking experience does not occur because there is no experiencer. There is no reality or world outside of one's imagination. You imagined your birth and you imagine your death.

Causing people suffering is not sufficent grounds for impeachment. It does not matter that the Senate will not remove him. Their votes are good enough to publically shame them. Successful impeachment does not require removal. Tarnishing the entire right-wing brand is good enough. Senators may lose their seats by voting in Trump's favor. The more Republicans debase themselves to defend Trump the better for future progress. They are making fools of themselves.

@Bno We could and should, but the way law works is you need a very clear case to win your case. The Ukraine scandal is clear cut, unlike those other cases. When you try a criminal you need an airtight case. It is okay to get Al Capone on tax evasion when you don't have a smoking gun for murder. Law enforcement is a pragmatic thing. Dems have to be careful not to overreach. Ukriane is crystal clear to anyone with a bit of intellectual integrity. So it's a great thing to impeach him on.

@Scholar I get your point, but to play devil's advocate, what happens when you tell the child sweet lies and treat him as a child? You would have us debase truth to suit ignorant devils? Well, then you get religion.

It doesn't matter what the polls say, impeachment is about enforcement of law. If Trump was not impeached he would have total immunity, which is absurd. All anti-impeachment arguments on political grounds are non-sense. The politics are irrelevant. Clear criminal behavior must be enforced, not when politically convenient or if it moves polls, but always. Law and order. Moving polls is not what impeachment is about.

A wave function is itself a thought. Thought cannot describe thought. Symbolic understanding can only go so far because it is always 2nd order phenomenon. All language and explanation is dualistic. Symbolic understanding can never explain itself and it is always incomplete, a la Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. The only complete thing is Absolute Infinity, which is reality itself, not a map of it.

@thetrut11 You're in over your head on this topic. The key mistake you're making is assuming that by cranking up suffering you can make a thing more real or true. But all this does is make the illusion stronger. No matter how much pain or suffering you are stir up, it does not make it real. By your silly logic, you could show clips of the bloodiest horror movies to argue that movies are real. But just because a movie shows horror doesn't make it any more real. Your selfishness is getting in the way of seeing Infinite Love. Yes, those clips you linked are absolutely Infinite Love. Your ego is just making you judge them because you lack consciousness, because you have not done any serious spiritual work.

In the eyes of God you can do no wrong. In the eyes of humans is a whole nother matter. You will be judged relentlessly by those who have a stake in the game.

There are many different ways it can feel: Like nothing, like becoming the entire universe, like love, like death, like God, awe, horror, like waking up from a dream, like heaven, etc.

Learning that delicate balance requires lots and lots of failure. So just go find more girls to flirt with.

Lol #1 rule with girls: never explicitly tell them about sex. If she's gonna fuck you, she needs to be able to maintain the appearance of being a lady. When you tell her explicitly about sex, you make her feel like a cheap whore, and she will never sleep with you after that. You must play subtle and coy. Instead of "You down to fuck?" make it, "Let's get a coffee." Make things sound as innocent as possible. Rather than telling her, "Let's go have sex" tell her, "Let's go watch cartoons". There is no problem if you wanna fuck. Just don't go telling girls about it. Dating is a game. You gotta flirt and tease your way into her pants. It's very counter-intuitive. One of the best things you can do is act like you are totally disinterested in sex. You can even tell her, "We are definitely not having sex tonight." Then have sex with her 10 minutes later. Get good at playing these mind games.

@Nak Khid Lol

@assx95 Dude, if a girl does not respond to your text within 24hrs, she is gone. She doesn't even know you exist. Move on. A girl who is attracted to you will respond to texts within minutes or hours at most. You cannot attract girls via text. If she's not responsive it's because you failed to build attraction in person and nothing can be done to overcome that. You must reach hook-point in person in order to get responsive texts. Try harder to reach hook-point. It's very noticable when you do. Usually happens within 5-10 mins. You will feel her get enthusiastic about you. She will look in your eyes and be very interested in what you have to say. She will be eager to follow your lead. Do not spend any time thinking about girls who haven't hooked. It will only bring you misery.

Everything didn't come from nothing. Everything is and has always been nothing.

Yes, I have worldly obligations. Mostly with my biz (Actualized.org) and you guys. Also a bit of family obligations, but not much. I am not a social person because I find it too shallow and I like my freedom. I don't need to talk much about these topics with people/family because I get it out via my videos. The videos are my outlet. To me social balance looks like living in a cabin in the woods with maybe a girlfriend. And interacting with students via teachings or writing. I don't care for having a social life in the conventional sense. Don't try to emulate this unless it feels natural to you. People have different social preferences. Mystics tend to have an abnormally high tolerance for solitude. Figure out what you want. What I want is irrelevant to you.

Of course selfish vs selfless is a duality. Ying and yang feeding each other. Good with a captial G is absolutely everything. If you have to self-actualize to be Good, your notion of Good is far too weak and conditional. You are Good even if you rape dogs. Selfishness is none other than Love made manifest.

That is a violation of the non-aggression principle and therefore impossible Everyone is expected to behave according to the libertarian's personal system of morals. This is not a problem since his personal system of morals just so happens to be objectively true and universal.

Of course there's always exceptions. I had a black libertarian friend. Black folks even vote for Trump. Go figure. Lol More generally, libertarianism arises along with Spiral stage Orange, which trumps even race. The Orange value set is fertile soil for a libertarian ideology to arise.

No only are days, weeks, months, and years relative, time itself is an invented notion. At one point in your life you had to invent the notion of "time". Before that, time did not exist for you. Of course as Einstein's relativity shows, even at the physical level, there is no such thing as time. In fact, physics cannot define what time is other than in terms of velocity, which is a circular definition (as all physics definitions are). Which is why time seems to fly when you're not thinking about it, and seems to crawl when you're wishing it would go faster. You are imagining time.

@Serotoninluv They tend to have simplistic and naive ideas of an ideal society, like everyone will live on his own private plot of land and trade with his neighbors peacefully. There's no appreciation of the complexity of human societies, cities, nations, businesses, courts, international trade, warfare, diplomacy, culture, education system, etc. There is no systems thinking. In the libertarian mind everyone is just an individual actor doing whatever he wants as long as it doesn't hurt others.

Stop thinking about survival. Awakening is transcendence of the domain of survival, wherein all problems and suffering lie. Your life sucks to the extent that it is about survival. No lasting happiness can be found in survival. Survival is constant suffering and dissatisfaction.