Leo Gura

We know his rationalization. But it is BS. The real reason he went anti-woke is because he realized wokeness wants to limit his power and control with unions. Unions are what turned Musk right. His kid is happy and doing fine. Musk just doesn't accept who they became and now uses it as an excuse to be corrupt.

He's immature. Yeah, but I think that's a you problem of expecting him to be more than he is. He's a founder. Founders never have been responsible for all of a company success. Founders assemble a great team and direct it towards a great vision. Musk is good at that. No more, no less. He's not some sort of e-Jesus. It's actually important for founders to be rough around the edges. That provides innovation which managers cannot do. I'm rough around the edges. And that's what makes Actualized so appealing. If I was a corporate guy in suit or even a Buddhist, Actualized would be lame and not worth following. If you want innovation you need a mind that's pretty odd and unhinged. Unfortunately this very bad for politics.

@gengar You're talking about the problem of capitalism at large, which is unfair to blame on Musk or his evil. Musk is just an actor within a capitalist system that needs to grow and develop technology for its survival. Be very careful about demonizing people for capitalism as a whole.

I am not even that anti-Musk. People here have hated on him long before I said anything. I have tried to be fair to Musk from the beginning. If anything, I was too fair to him. People here even critcized me for defending him. And I am still fair to him. It is only in the domain of politics that I have any gripes with him because his political ideas and actions are truly cringe and corrupt. There's just no way around that. There is no steelmanning of Musk's anti-woke crusade. It is fallacious and harmful to democracy.

Glad you're contemplating.

@aracid Could you describe in more detail what this sinister state felt like, looked like, and why it felt so negative? Was there negative visual imagery? Negative feelings?

Haha! Been there.

I don't want to speculate about people who aren't even alive. It's too prone to self-deception.

I know you're joking, but I just want to clarify that's not what my blog post is saying. There is value in Buddhism.

You are EVERYTHING.

How so we know Jesus wasn't into anal sex?

You live in some backward part of the world with low people in general. What you describe is not normal.

Where does Jesus say that anal sex is bad?

Just like life.

I believe what some people say but I question it a lot and look for ways to test it or cross-reference it against other things. The beliefs are temporary placeholders. You always have some kind of picture of how the world really is. I hold many speculations and intuitions about things, which are used to advance sense-making.

Yes, it's imporant to realize that Christians take such things literally. They aren't joking around even if it seems that way to us.

When I say not-knowing, I mean the Ralston sense. Which is the proper sense. I don't mean false knowing or fantasy. For example, I clearly know that I don't know the historical Jesus. I don't even know if he existed. I don't know if he was maybe Satan incarnate sent to ensnare mankind's minds. That's how deep that not-knowing goes. And my claim is that if you are honest with yourself, you have this exact same level of not-knowing underneath all the noise and bluster. Christians refuse to acknowledge this simple level of not-knowing because it would destroy their whole worldview. Which is why they need faith.

Non-partisan is an identity like abstitence is a sex positon.

Not really, because you actually know something about Tolle and Leo. Like actual facts. About Jesus you have highly distorted stories. Also, notice that you don't worship or revere Tolle or Leo. You don't give them some special epic status. You treat them as other humans -- which is appropriate. If Jesus was an asshole, you wouldn't know it. If I am an asshole, you know it. That's an important difference.

I don't need to be in your mind to understand that Jesus is a construct. But I am not here to change your mind. You do spirituality your way.

I don't deny that any states exist. You can have a mystical experience of Jesus. And of thousands of other humans. That doesn't mean what you may think it means. It doesn't mean it's the historical Jesus. It's your construction. Which is fine, as long as you're aware of that.

I will continue to do it because your life is not at stake here, but mine is. I reserve the right to edit anything I say at any time. The demonizations don't come from you, but from outsiders who are bad faith actors with harmful intentions.

I edited my own words. I do that sometimes to stop people from demonizing me.

Depends on what you mean by believe. Of course. But I know what a belief is. I take feedback all the time.

If he had the wisdom to stick to his business, we wouldn't be talking about him. But he is corrupting the entire government. So it is our right and duty to call him dangerous. Musk wants to take democracy away from us. This makes him an enemy of the people. No amount of business success can excuse such a grevious sin. If Musk is gonna play dirty and undermine democracy, he should be worried about a lot more than just about critical words. He has no idea what tree he's barked up.