Leo Gura

Dugin is so deluded. A case-study in self-deception.

Orange

Yup Earth has enormous terraforming opportunities. I don't know why Musk is not focusing on that instead of Mars. We can turn Earth into a tropical paradise. We can build entire new continents.

All fine. Doesn't change what I said.

If you think you will master this work -- the human system and mind -- through anything less than decades of serious and difficult work, you are kidding yourself. Your enlightenments maybe be instantaneous or whatever, but that is just the tip of the iceberg that is this work. The suffering in this work is real and serious. This is the most difficult work that a human being could do. Which is why virtually nobody goes all the way. If you expect it to be quick, simple, or easy, I promise you will fail. To succeed in war, you must respect your enemy. And the enemy is you.

Rogan is of course king of these macho vibes. He literally judges people by the thickness of their necks. It's absurd. Clearly coming from his own insecurities about his height. If your idea of a man's worth is the thickness of his neck, you are a Trump voter. This much is obvious.

That's what happens when you worship those macho vibes. Classic fascist fuel. Anyone who's into macho vibes will be a Trump voter. They are predictable macho zombies. All these people get lost because they never developed an epistemic foundation. So they are easily blown off course by the forces of epistemic corruption -- algorithm capture, auduience capture, chasing fame and success, religion, etc. If you don't have an epistemic foundation, nothing grounds your mind. You are a hollow vessel for whatever mind virus de jour.

Imagine if Taylor Swift sang about truth-seeking the way she sings about her newest boyfriend.

This is not a serious solution to any of mankind problems. Life on Mars will be utterly miserable if not simply impossible. Musk's whole Mars project will be a spectacular failure and will not help mankind. But it sure is a nice fantasy to keep everyone working. The resources being poured into the Mars project would be much better applied to improving Earth. If you want a place to colonize and terraform, go colonize Antarctica or the Sahara. Both are far more pleasant than Mars. Mars is a disgusting barren wasteland.

It is not. Most people are nowhere capable of paying the price. Doing some 5-MeO is nice, but it is nowhere near the fullness of this work. Any fool can go to a 5-MeO retreat. What I'm talking about is a 10-20 year journey in consciousness work. Involving many awakenings but also a lot of contemplative work and embodiment work. That's where the real price is paid. There is almost no price for a single 5-MeO trip so anyone can do it. Deconstructing reality and the ego, and making full sense of God, is so much more than a few trips.

Pickup was always corrupt, even moreso when it was unknown. Pickup forums of 20 years ago were vile dens of scum and villainy. It's shameful that Owen cannot admit this to himself and his followers. He refuses to make pickup more conscious by teaching ethics, empathy, selflessness, respect for women, and how to avoid corruption. Pickup is stuck in toxic Orange.

It is true that spirituality increases suffering in the short and medium term because it requires confronting difficult existential and psychological matters. The ego will not go quietly. But everything valuable in life has a price. Do you really expect immorality and God to be for free? Without a price? Clearly there must be a high price otherwise everyone would have God. God is not chosen because no one wants to endure the price. Sometimes the price of spiritualiry gets so high you wonder whether you'd be more net happier if you never even started. Spirituality is a very long investment. And most people are poor investors, unable to stay in long. It's also not right for everyone, and might only become suitable for you later in life.

Oh God. I am afraid to know how he uses them to justify his MAGA worldview.

More subtle lyrics would be better. An epistemology lecture is not the right way for music. It's gotta be more mysterious and implicit. You could write a song about truth-seeking so that normies wouldn't even understand what it's about. Until they start their own inquiry. You also gotta include the emotional agony and beauty of the work. Like how people in songs whine about their romantic struggles.

All these pickup guys would be MeTooed if the general public knew what they do. Owen's old company was killed by MeToo and he will never let that go and admit he was wrong. Be blames Green, when it is in fact pickup that is corrupt. But Owen can not admit that to himself because he is too attached to it. Pickup IS corruption. Regardless of whether it works or whether girls accept it. Pickup will corrupt anyone who takes it seriously.

No doubt being in Musk's shoes isn't easy. But he is so clearly wrong and out of his depth in the area of politics. It's cringe. There is no issue with him doing his businesses. The criticism is all about his corruption of politics. Just because he is rich goes not give his any right to corrupt our government so shamelessly and recklessly, like a petulant child.

Unfortunately pickup has corrupted his mind. That's what happens when you turn pickup into a lifestyle and ideology. Most pickup guys will side with MAGA because pickup would be crusified by wokeness. So they make for natural enemies of Green. They are also easily swayed by the macho vibes of fascism. Owen is also a narcissist like Mask and Trump.

The issue is that his ideas of what is good for mankind are very different from yours. And you should not be so sure that your ideas are the correct ones. Good is relative. It is not at all clear what is good for mankind. That's the issue.

@zurew The problem is that nobody is conscious of what observation really is. Observation is Existence/Truth. The only reason anyone can know anything is because things are illuminated by virtue of being Truth or Existing. Observation is not some material process. It is Truth being True. The reason you can know God is the reason you can know anything. Because its True. If nothing was true, nothing would be known or observed. Knowing is Being.

Both are necessary.

@Girzo For something made so quickly, as a throwaway, it's great. Obviously it could be polished and made much deeper. It's a great proof of concept.

Not really