Leo Gura

1) American troops were in Arabia with the blessing of the Saudi government. Bin Laden was such a religious lunatic that he didn't respect the Saudi government. 2) America helped Afghans resist the Soviets. This was to the Afghans favor. But again, Bin Laden was such a self-righteous religious lunatic that he wanted all the credit for defending the Middle East for himself. Bin Laden had ridiculous views that even most Saudis disagreed with. Bin Laden was outraged that the Saudi government chose US troops to repel Saddam's invasion of Kuwait instead of Bin Laden's rag-tag group of religious fanatics. It was really quite a stupid thing to upset over. Americans did the fighting for the Saudis and Bin Laden was pissed off over it. That's a silly reason to terrorize Americans for. Terrorizing Americans for supporting Israel and oppressing Palestinians at least makes sense.

I think Scorn wasted some amazing potential for a profound, satisfying, spiritual conclusion. Makes no sense why they didn't seize it.

That argument tends to not convince normies. It's hard to get normies to understand the legit origins of terrorism. Normies don't ever see terrorism as justified or empathizable. That requires a degree of openmindedness and radical empathy that is too much of a paradigm shift for normies. Once you realize that terrorism has legit origins, that's a huge mindfuck that most people do not want the emotional labor of dealing with. It is much easier and simpler to live in a reality where terrorism is always evil. So that's how most people live.

Well, there is truth to that. He has centrist sensibilities. But I don't see this as a bad thing. Centrists play an important role in the political conversation. Overall, I prefer listening to Destiny over say, Cenk -- even if Destiny is wrong on Palestine. There is an intelligence to centrism which leftists lack.

Yeah, it's needlessly confusing. It would have been better if there was a clearer conclusion. It would have been more satisfying. We should not have to speculate as to what the point of the journey was.

Because terrorism is not easy to make sense of. Palestinians legit have low levels of development which are difficult to empathize with and find a solution to.

I got that 20% before I ever did psychedelics. And if I didn't have that 20%, then psychedelics could have really deluded me. People who do psychedelics without manual epistemic inquiry are very likely to get themselves into epistemic delusion. So the manual work is essential. Psychedelics are more about figuring out metaphysics than good epistemology.

Or they are uninformed or clouded by collective bias. It is not so easy to defend the side that has Hamas.

I can't really think of cases like this. Once someone is a Trump fan, they become a lost cause. Destiny has many good and intelligent positions. Trump is not a complex issue. Israeli/Palestine is a more complex issue which requires a lot of careful study of history and bias. That's why I can forgive Destiny for not getting it right but I cannot forgive a Trump defender.

The difference is Destiny makes a good and effective ally. Many of his positions are great. He has a few issues he's bad on. So what? That is immaterial other than as moral outrage. Trump is a different matter because Trump supporters are not your allies and most of their positions are horrible. So judging people based on their support for Trump is good politics. People judging people based on their positions on Israel is less good politics because the Israel issue is much more complicated.

Please stop judging people based on a single position. This is not intelligent. Needing others to be as morality outraged as you, or to be aligned with you on every issue that you are passionate about, is childish. This is part of the childishness of the left. They have such a low tolerance for diversity of political views. Which is quite ironic.

15mg is kinda low. But 20-25mg is enough. Of course this will vary wildly for person to person. Yes, Infinity can be realized at lower doses. But it is not guaranteed. Some people won't realize Infinity even on 40mg. There's on predicting it. The higher your dose the more radical the realizations will be, but also the higher the risk and potential downsides. There may be certain insights that require 100mg, but the risks and downsides are not worth it. It's all about risk-reward ratios. At moderate doses the ratio is favorable and at higher doses, not. It means the trip veers into classic "bad trip" territory.

Relative vs absolute. There is nothing wrong with eating rat poison in the absolute sense. But IF you want health, it is wrong to eat rat poison. Rat poison is wrong relative to healthy human life.

Fanbases are not made of moderates.

I don't feel a need to control progressive messaging other than to tell them to stop demonzing centerists and establishment Dems because that ends up helping conservatives win. The big mistake progressives make is when they spread the idea that centrist Dems are the same or worse than conservatives. This is not true.

There is a kind of obnoxious arrogance and self-righteousness among many leftists. Cenk, Hasan, Destiny, Kyle, Vaush, etc. It sells to their most hardcore base. It's like throwing red meat to the leftist base. The more subdued and mature voices don't gain mass popularity. Sane, moderate voices don't get millions of views.

You have to confront the depressing reality that many creatures are trapped inside low forms of consciousness, like ants, with no salvation other than death. An ant cannot meditate his way out of his limited condition. Neither can a human. A difficult reality I had to integrate is that there exist states of consciousness I can never embody no matter how hard I work at it. Effort is not enough. It can be accessed via any psychedelic. 5-MeO, mushrooms, salvia, DMT, datura can all do the trick. Dreams too. I don't think the parasite was really a parasite but a symbiote, and that it didn't lead to the player's failure. I think that cocoon formed at the end by merging with the symbiote will hatch into the enlightened/ascendant squid-thing. It just takes time. I read a theory that the final level of Scorn is meant to represent the womb and the doorway was the vaginal opening, and by merging with the symbiote the player becomes a fertilized egg embedded into the womb. Without merging with the symbiote the player would have left the womb unfertilized which would be a failed birth. In this case the Scorn ending is a positive one. Leads to God/Love. Don't look at it as merely mental understanding, it is existential understanding of reality's true nature. How can you exist and yet ignore understanding your own existence? That can't be the right way to live.

@Daniel Balan Lenin was extremly pig-headed and combative, which was the clear red flag with him. His obnoxious, angry, and dogmatic attitude even towards his fellow socialist intellectual commrades revealed his true character. Lenin was a nasty, power-hungry, Machiavellian character. Nothing good can come from a character like that even if all his criticisms of capitalism were theoretically sound. At the end of the day you just have to be a good judge of human character. It should be obvious that guys like Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Trump have rotten, devilish character, which overrides any ideology or theory.

1) Yes. That's why I'm very careful not to start any kind of social movement. 2) Trump and MAGA have done enormous epistemic damage. More than someone of my small scale ever could, no matter how evil I desired to be. I just don't have anywhere near that kind of wide appeal or reach. Even if I wanted to be as evil as I could, my niche-ness would limit my influence. I'm not a mainstream kind of guy and I couldn't fake having mainstream appeal. Yes, I expect that kind of distortion. It's obvious to you. But to most people it is not obvious and it is appealing. Deeply intelligent evil will never spread far and wide because most people need a foolish form of evil to suit their intellectual level. Foolishness is exactly what spreads far and wide and gains mass popularity.

The mystical aspects of Whatifalthist's worldview are the least problematic parts. The problematic parts are his butchery and distortion of history and his right-wing, pro-Trump, quasi-racist and sexist political conclusions.

People seem to be getting into Kriya Yoga after my video, and lots of questions are coming up, so I thought it would be best to accumulate them all in one place. Post all your Kriya Yoga questions and tips here. Over time this should become a valuable resource for people. Similar to our monstrously large 5-MeO-DMT Mega-Thread. Feel free to share your advice, tricks, and progress reports. If we have a lot people doing Kriya, it would be cool to see how many people start experiencing gains and mystical experiences, and how quickly. It would be awesome if we had like 100 people post a progress report after 3, 6, and 12 months of practice. In the name of pseudo-science

I have undertaken Leo's Geography Challenge, and I encourage ya'll to join me. Post your updates and share your favorite documentaries here.

First principles is always ideal. The only problem is that it is hard and takes a long time. Study is used as a shortcut and gives your mind grist for the contemplation mill. Epistemology is such a pivotal, foundational topic that you can't really outsource it to anyone else. There are no good books on epistemology. And even if there were, you still need to dervive it for yourself for it to be powerful. Some areas are worth outsourcing to experts and some are too foundational for that. The problem with study is that it limits your mind to think along those lines. It creates conformity. Ideally you want your contemplation to be original and independent of mainstream thinking.

There are strengths and weaknesses to the feminine and the masculine. Pretty basic truth. The downside of flowing with life is that it easily becomes passivity and door-mat-ism.