Leo Gura

Why am I not a crocodile?

Taking thinking with your dick to a whole new level.

It would take 50 other withdrawals for the US to actually be isolationist. The US operates like an empire. So we have a long way to go to isolation. The US is pushing NATO expansion too aggressively, which has needlessly provoked Putin. There is no need to be so paranoid and provocative. Putin needs to be given some room otherwise many people will die.

They agree in the abstract, but they would not be willing to vote for someone who would actually be serious about that issue. What they really care about more is culture wars. Because to actually vote based on curing corruption would require surrendering all your selfish personal desires, like guns, abortion, identity politics, Jesus, tax cuts, Gaza, etc. And the average voter is not mature or wise enough to do that.

But it is. It doesn't matter whether they are close or aren't. Suicide can happen either way. Just because someone is close to my teachings does not magically make them immune to suicide or mental illness. If you want to demonstrate that my teachings cause people to commit suicide then you have to show that people who follow my teachings commit suicide at higher rates than the general population. But even that would not be enough because you would also have to take into account that people drawn to psychological and spiritual work could have a higher rate of mental illness than the general population. Soonhei was not mentally well. His posts on this forum do not read like the posts on a well-adjusted mind. I know because I was deliberating about whether to ban him because the stuff he was posting was frequently weird and nonsensical and just felt off. I decided to be kind and let him stay because I didn't want him to feel bad. Exactly. Because you're looking to blame my teachings.

It's quite easy to explain. Some people who are drawn to psychological and spiritual work have mental illnesses or are unhappy and suffering deeply in life. Out of hundreds of thousands of viewers, a few will have serious mental health issues and will be suicidal. The US national suicide rate is: 50k out of 350M, which is 0.014%. Now multiply 0.014% x 100,000 Actualized viewers = 14 suicides/yr. Actualized.org has had over 100M lifetime views. So the question is: What is it that you expect? Let's assume that only 1M unique people have watched my videos in the last 10 years. That means there should have been 140 suicides. 3 suicides out of all the people who watch my videos would be a really good rate. The real issue here is that people do not understand how high the average suicide rate is and what it means. More than 1/10,000 people commit suicide every year. Each of my videos gets 40,000 views within 1 week at least.

Half of them won't care because they have been brainwashed to foam at the mouth for owning the libs. The other half will realize they made a mistake but by then it will be way too late.

All social programs will be slashed. House costs will continue to rise even more. Project 2025 calls for the elmination of the Department of Education, gutting public schools, and making education a vehicle for Christian dogma. Trump will set the corporate wolves free to prey on the middle class, pilliaging whatever they can. Corporations will use this opportunity to enslave and exploit the middle class. But none of this will even make the news because of the criminal campaign that Trump will wage on his Democrat opponents and enemies and the mass deporation of migrants and other absurd actions.

Notice, just since I made my blog post about this issue the right-wing has already made a big advance towards a Trump autocracy.

Of course. Awakening is only suitable for a few rare people. Awakening is amazing. But very few people are mature enough to appreciate it or reach it. That is true. But even those gurus you mention don't live like monks. They have famalies, they make money, they have fancy houses and cars, they run a business, etc. So in a sense you have made up that myth/ideal of an enlightened person being a monk living in a cave. That is definitely a fanasty which you should drop. I have underscored many times that the pursuit of truth is itself a bias and that you need to customize self-actualization to your own values and unique personality. In no way do I say that everyone should follow my personal path. That would be wrong.

The thing is, it's a lot easier to break government than it is to build it up into something effecient and fair. The damage that Trump and his Christian stooges will do will take decades to fix. They have already corrupted and broken the Supreme Court for a generation. And that's before Trump went full dictator mode.

Politics in a capitalist democracy is not about finding excellence, intelligence, or wisdom. It's about finding the lowest common denomiantor that people are willing to live with who is corrupt enough to give his supporters rewards for donating to him. You MUST be corrupt to win the US presidency. That's not a bug, that's a feature. Because the people who elect the president are themselves deeply corrupt. So they cannot vote for someone who is pure. Devils must vote for a devil. That IS democracy.

Yes, it's relative that America is better than North Korea. Politics is a relative domain. If your are so indifferent to such relative matters, move to North Korea.

Capitalists don't care what's best for capitalism. They care what's best for their company, stock price, and tax cuts for the next quarter or two. Trump will certainly end badly for capitalism as a whole. The wolves don't care about that because their plan is to personally make out like a bandit.

The notion that normal people are being over-regulated is such nonsense. No American is waking up and saying to himself, "You know what the problem with my life is? That's government is overregulating me." It's corporate wolves and lobbiests who care about regulation. The biggest regulations placed on ordinary people has been from the right: abortion bans, porn bans, drug bans.

Something like that. There's just many different states of consciousness some of which are the typical human ones. And humans occupy not one state but a range of states. The further you go outside that range the less human you become. States are not necessarily more conscious, they could just be a different in quality. But some are more conscious, and some are less.

America's democracy has already been corrupted into minority rule. Once Trump is in office he is never leaving and nothing you do will stop him. He will break all the rules and laws and once you see it it will be too late to do anything about it. You will not vote him out. And no court will be able to do anything.

No they aren't. They have their finger on the scale, pandering to their anti-mainstream audience. They have a lot of sway.

@TheAlchemist The difference is very simple: Trump said he would be a dicatator on day one and already staged a coup. And his stooges on the Supreme Court gave him absolute immunity. The playbook for authoritrians is well-known. This is it. It does not get any more obvious.

Breaking Points is so bad. They are brainwashing their whole audience to not vote for Biden. Breaking Points alone can get Trump reelected. Irresponsible hosts.

Kamala would be selected if she was popular or talented. But she is not. So it is fair.

@Hardkill Of course there are many factors at play.

It really depends on your state of consciousness. If you are in a human state of consciousness then the past is real for you because the human state imagines it so deeply. But if you become radically conscious then that whole human reality will melt away. If you imagine something deeply enough it becomes your reality. Until you stop.

It's a culture war, not a policy war.

He hasn't been pushing it much. He just recognizes the decency of it. But yeah, even that decency is precieved as too woke by half the country who want all LGBTQ people to live in a basement.