Leo Gura

Personally I would not make such a promise, but most people blindly follow their culture like sheep.

Nothing less will work. So long as you are attached to needing to survive, you are enslaved to falsehood and all your actions will be corrupted by devilry. This is what is really means to sell your soul to the devil. Your birth was the selling of your soul. Now you are in a struggle to get your soul back. You sold your soul the day you said, "I am a human." How does a devil scrub himself of himself?

Ahem... https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-you-must-think-about-failure

Big difference from the human POV when you are lost in moralistic fantasies.

@Meetjoeblack Dude, chill with your immature cuck talk here. You have confused this place with a Red Pill sub-reddit.

Every microsecond since the Big Bang has been deciding the future of mankind.

A deeply religious man who spent his whole life studying the Bible hears a knock on his door. He asks, "Who is it?" "It's God. Open up. I have come to show you the way." "Oh wow! This is amazing! But please come back next week, I'm really busy right now reading about you in this Bible."

Of course! How else could it be? This is the fundamental nature of knowledge/science. You're damned if you do but you're even more damned if you don't. Hold ideas loosely, is the key.

Because the alternative is often worse. Commitment just means you're not a selfish child who runs away at the first sign of trouble or something better on the horizon. It's not different than commitment to a business plan or showing up on time to a meeting. It's hard to create anything worthwhile in life without a commitment. Try executing any major project without a serious commitment. See how far you get. You couldn't even keep a hamster without a commitment.

Why do you want to make stuff up? Why not just sit in awareness?

A really good example of the Blue vs Green worldviews: Notice how both Blue and Green are incapable of understanding each other's worldviews. Each one just sees the other as insane.

You can make any stance you like. Just be aware you made it up.

In practice that's hard to pull off. Public corporations are so competitive that even the CEO could get fired any day if he fails to perform up to expectations. Of course there are always exceptions but most large corporations do not tolerate nepotism these days. Competition is just too fierce to allow such things to fly. Of course there are other problems with hierarchies and domination which have nothing to do with simple nepotism. There is more sophisticated devilry at work within large corporations. The devilry gets extremely sophisticated in order to sneak under the radar.

@Parththakkar12 Such things don't even warrant an response or a defense. The reason your examples seem popular is because men's rights groups and conservative groups have waged a PR war against feminism by purposefully strawmanning and demonized it. This is all part of their denial and collective ego backlash against integrating what feminism brings to the table. Demonization of feminism, progressivism, and socialism is very popular on YT and in right-wing circles. It's a cottage industry. People make entire careers of it -- such as Jordan Peterson. But really his positions are so ignorant that they do not even warrant serious intellectual engagement. It it an insult to a true intellectual to have to defend against such right-wing ignorance.

I just don't take such positions seriously. I don't know any serious person who believes or advocates "men are trash" or some such. That's not what feminism is about. A quality feminist understands the value and importance of masculinity and men. You can find all kinds of nonsense on the internet. That doesn't mean it represents what feminism is about. There are fringe people in every social movement who spout crazy nonsense. To cherrypick those fringe ideas and make them representative of the entire movement is intellectually dishonest and shows a lack of nuance and lack of understanding how movements work. By your logic we can demonize all of science as long as I can find a few articles written by some fringe scientists about how black people are genetically inferior to white people. But it would be absurd to use such fringe examples as representative of science as a whole.

1) The story it tells 2) How it shows up in your consciousness, its being If you had a thought in a foreign language which you did not understand the sounds would register in your consciousness (that's the actuality or being of a thought) but it would have no meaning/content/story. 速い茶色のキツネが怠zyな犬を飛び越えた That sentence has being for you but no meaning (unless you know Japanese). Notice that being is what's primary while meaning is secondary. You can have being without meaning but you cannot have meaning without being.

That's exactly right. Ask yourself why academics are not the most developed people on Earth if they have so much knowledge? You can know every scientific detail of how golf works, but that doesn't make you a good golfer. In fact, there is an inverse correlation at some point.

No reading on retreat! The point of a retreat is to break your attachment to symbolic reality.

Fair enough I did not

Just let it go. Men and women do not have the same responsibilities. When men start carrying babies in their bellies, maybe then you can make a case that wome should be drafted too. Almost no one is saying that. That is your sloppy misunderstanding and strawmanning of feminism. It's your circle jerk because you have not bothered to study any serious feminist literature. You are stuck in an echo-chamber of Red Pill like ideology. The more you listen to that garbage the more you will feel right.

There is a complex interplay between the two. Plenty of people at the top do deserve to be there because they are exceptionally skilled, talented, experienced, and hard working. But there are many exceptions such as Trump. In a modern corporation you will not rise to the top unless you are exceptionally good at your job. But even so, that doesn't justify the exploitation of those below you.

Of course Iran is less developed on the Spiral than the US and Iran has a collective ego and does behave in devilish ways. But even so, while Trump threatens Iranian cultural sites Iran is conscious enough to explicitly say they will not target US civilians. So far Iran has the moral high ground.

Life/death is a duality. Truth is truth. Daring is irrelevant. Our job is to face the truth whatever it may be.

@Jin Kyu Park Your dose is far too low.

If you ever die in your dreams you should notice that you still exist as nothingness afterwards. That should be your clue that you cannot actually die.