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Freebase works rectally too. It's actually a bit more potent. But I'm talking about 5-MeO-DMT, not N,N-DMT.

Nothing is wrong. Yeah, certain big ideas require investors. It all depends on what you're trying to create. Yes, many things cannot be done alone. Then again, certain things cannot be done well as a team. By big business I mean large corporations that deal with millions of customers. There are certain scales of biz which require very different approaches. $0 to $1mil $1mil to $5mil $5mil to $20mil $100mil+ Those are very different beasts. To take your biz from $3mil to $20mil will require radically changing how you do business.

Problem is, nothing he says publicly can be trusted or taken at face value.

@DrewNows Good work. That's a start.

@Synchronicity I'd be more interested to know how this works in practice. Like how does it work to experience multiple lives at once? What does that feel like? Even on high doses of psychedelics I don't get that. I experience infinity but always as my own one life.

I didn't start any large corporation, nor did I ever use investors to start my businesses. You just gotta be creative. You can run a small biz and do well. Of course you'll be working long hours to make your small biz thrive. Then you'll understand why long hours are common. There exist many opportunities for small businesses. There are many market niches which are too small to sustain large corporations so they can't compete with you. Business is just like the animal kingdom. The biggest animals are not the only game in town. In fact, most animals are small ones. You can be a highly successful small animal. But you gotta be more creative, clever, and strategic than the big guys.

I would bring earplugs, so other people screaming and hurling don't distract you.

They are playing with each other as it is. Even if a lion wakes up, he still gotta eat. And he ain't gonna eat tofu. A lion eating a rabbit is his way of playing the game.

The mistake is assuming Buddhism is somehow original. Buddhism just mirrors reality. Hegel doesn't need to know about Buddhism, he just need to be conscious of reality. He was a Christian and he deeply understood Christianity. Not as it's practiced today, but in the old school idealist mystical sense. The irony is that a lot of old philosophers and scientists were more right about metaphysics than scientists are today precisely because they were Christians, and Christianity is grounded in the deepest truth there is. It just happens to also be very corrupt. So the real question is, How did Hegel manage to escape the corruption of Christianity? Hegel may not have been a meditator in the Buddhist sense, but he was obviously a deep contemplator and closely studied his direct experience. Which is the equivalent of meditation. He also deeply studied Heraclitus. When Heraclitus was asked, How did you become enlightened? He replied, "I studied myself."

And the other 20% we could cover with: Mu

I would actually say just the opposite: All of your current dysfunctions in life are the result of past events. It's not so simple as correlating some one horrid childhood event to your current problem. It's much more complex. All problems are the result of whatever the "self" you identify as. This "self" was constructed as a reaction to survival challenges in the past. The "self" is nothing more than a survival mechanism. So of course it's highly conditioned by upbringing, childhood, teenage years, and early adulthood. Whatever stuff happened to you between the ages of 0 to 30 has shaped your personality almost totally to the point where you cannot even know what your self would be without it. Of course your are not just shaped by bad events but good events too. Of course none of this means you can't change. It's a bad idea to listen to academic psychologists when it comes to understanding the dynamics of the self. Broad surveys and studies are not gonna cut it here. This requires existential level insight through direct work on oneself. Ask yourself where your "self" came from? You'll see it was from the past. In fact, your entire mind came from the past. Every word you use came from your past. 99% of the ideas in your mind came from your past. You hardly invented anything new. You are like a snowball rolling down hill collecting more snow and dirt. But the strange looping twist here is, the past is just a figment of your mind! There never was a past or a self or a world! You made it all up. You sneaky devil, you. Survival has everything to do with your problems. Without survival there is no problem at all.

Survival

Consider that this may not even be desirable. You want to spoil the game for everyone? You are like that guy who wants to fast-forward the movie so everyone only sees last 5 minutes. Let consciousness play itself out.

@Aakash Well, "hot" is a relative and subjective distinction. It basically is whatever we say it is. If you feel courageous you can post your pic on: https://hotornot.com And they will rate you from 0-10. But it would really be better for your self-esteem not to submit yourself to such mob evaluation of your self-worth. In the end you gotta love your genetics however they happen to be. Can't change that (yet). You must play with the hand life has dealt you. If it's of any consolation, all the "hot" people will eventually become not. So this is a bullet you'll have to bite at one point or another in life. You can't really avoid it. It's just a matter of time. It's a good idea not to base your self-esteem or happiness on your physical appearance. Or else you'll be in for a world of hurt. The great news is, you are not a physical being at all.

No, but it is a rather shallow strategy for happiness. Is shooting up heroin bad? Nope. But don't be surprised if you end up unsatisfied with that lifestyle. On a practical level sleeping with lots of women is just unsustainable for many reasons. In the end you'll find it takes up way too much time and energy which could be put to better use. Consider, if you were truly happy, you'd have little need to sleep around with many women. Or really, any women at all. You'd be a fool not to build a quality relationship with the 8. Indeed. If you were wise you'd see that happiness is all that matters and therefore fucking as many hot women as possible would cease to interest you. But as of now you're still to unconscious, immature, and needy to realize this. Your attachment is to your dick. So you're very much attached here. If you really wanted to be detached you'd give up sex altogether and never think of it again. This would be the wise move. But of course you're too unconscious to pull it off. It's not a matter of morality. It's just foolish, immature, and self-defeating. You are thinking with your dick. Which is not way of the sage. By all means, think with your dick as much as you want. But don't expect that to go well. The less you think with your dick, the better your life will go, the happier you'll be. It's counter-intuitive not to think with your dick.

That's because "hot" is literally defined by that which is in the top 5%. So it's not that most women are not hot. It's that what's hot is the top 5% of whatever is. If women were donkeys, you'd still be like, "These donkeys suck. I want a better donkey." That's survival. Always looking for the most you can get for the least amount of effort.

Of course corporations are a source of government corruption and rig the laws to serve their survival. But the problem is far deeper than that. Complex technology and massive scales of life (human society in the 100s of millions) requires massive infrastructure and collective forms of organization. We cannot just go back to living in little tribes in some hippie eco-village. The whole challenge here is that individual humans are not the end-all-be-all of life. Life has surpassed humans to include corporations, organizations, religions, social movements, cultures, governments, nations, and beyond. Massive complexity and bureaucracy is necessary to sustain things like nuclear weapons, gasoline cars, airports, highways, currency, the internet, GPS satellites, regulation of pollution & deforestation, regulation of endangered species, modern medicine, modern food, modern electronics, etc. None of that could exist without corporations or giant bureaucracies. You cannot build a modern home by yourself, or even with a small group of your friends. Modern housing construction requires sophisticated supply chains, regulation, infrastructure, factories, shipping containers, airports, railroad, power plants, mining, logging, and a thousand other things. Starbucks does better than a family owned coffee shop precisely because it solves complex organizational problems like supply chain issues, warehousing, etc. and it delivers a very reliable, high-quality product which people love. You must always take into account the problem of scale. Scale! Scale! Scale! is what people underestimate. It's very easy to run a small coffee shop that serves 100 customers. It's a whole nother design challenge to serve good coffee consistently to 1 billion customers. What worked at the scale of 100 does not work at the scale of 1 billion. It's a whole new creature. And we live in a world were business is done in the billions, not in the thousands. If business is not done in the billions, say goodbye to your car, your TV, your house, your phone, your computer, your internet, your video games, your fave TV shows, your GPS, your vacations, your books, etc.

@Moreira You are not going to fix the milking problem by becoming a milker yourself. The way to solve that problem is reducing the incentives to milk. Passive income is not needed to escape wage slavery. Passive income is what causes wage slavery. In the future everyone will have to generate creative value or not get paid. Income should be tied to how much creative value you can generate. Being a landlord is not adding significant creative value to society. You're just basically taking advantage of the fact that you have more money than others to earn even more money. Which is like standing on someone's shoulders while kicking them in the teeth. Everyone has creativity. Don't give me that excuse. It is your job in life to actualize your creativity rather than becoming a parasite.

@krockerman It's more radical than that. Everything is a hallucination. Both them and you.

Concept and imagination is made out of being. 1st order reality is being, 2nd order is concept. 2nd order is made out of 1st order, like how a Lego castle is made out of bricks. You are confusing those two orders.

@Peo Yes, but also contemplate What is Love? in your trip.

If income from real eatate that you didn't live in was taxed highly, people would be much less incentivized to invest in it. Investing only works if there is a good ROI. So eating into that ROI will work nicely. Same with capital gains tax and passive income tax.

All of them It's not the chemical that matters but how you use it.

I mean that which cannot be spoken.

There are some things government would not be good for, and I think housing might be one of them. There is enormous range in quality of housing and it all depends on location, build quality, management, and even the type of people who live in it. I don't see how the government could realistically level the real eatate market. The market is too big and too wide. Prime land is super expensive. You can't just make it cheap or seize it from people who already own it. I think a better solution for this is UBI plus high taxes on real estate which is not lived in by the owner. There needs to be serious taxation and regulation of real eatate speculation to cut down on over-priced real estate. But NY and California will always be expensive places to live. I think housing development is best handled by private local companies because it is such a geographically specific thing.