Leo Gura

John Mearsheimer has some of the best views on this whole war that I've seen:

But that's a double-edged sword! The US deep state is also so biased in their support for Israel that I cannot trust them either on this issue. Would the US really publicly debunk Israeli propaganda? I doubt it. I think anyone who tried to do that would be fired or reprimanded. The pro-Israel lobby in the US is very powerful and very biased. The pro-Israel lobby in the US almost pressured the Bush administration to start a war with Iran back in the 9/11 era. Watch this if you want to know more:

P.S. I do try to care about you guys. It's just that I am limited in that because there's thousands of you and it can be quite draining, and my knowledge of your lives is very limited.

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But that's how good propaganda would look. The problem is that in the end you're just trusting Israel. But Israel is not an honest actor in all this, Israel has a huge survival bias here. Obviously Israel is more trustworthy than Hamas, but that's a very low bar. That doesn't mean you can trust their military spokespeople. I have not seen a single Israel official honestly admit that their decades-long policy toward Palestinians was a causal factor in these Hamas terrorist attacks. And if they are unwilling to be honest about that, then they are not to be trusted. They can't just blame everything on Hamas without acknowledging any responsibility for this whole conflict. This terrorist attack -- barbaric and shameful as it was -- was just one incident is a much larger 70-year conflict, and to pretend otherwise is intellectually dishonest.

The only way out is through. You can make use of capitalism to build yourself a decent life. That's what everyone has to do. You shouldn't expect government to just give you a good life. Turn yourself into a massive value provider. You can make good money in this system if you are hardworking and highly creative.

Yes, it's not really suitable for human life.

The problem is that Israel behaves in such a biased way overall that it's impossible to know if these presentations are true, or they are just war propaganda. There would need to be some 3rd party corroboration of this before we can believe it.

It's not me being an asshole, it's just the limited nature of this medium. I'm just telling you guys to be beware of parasocial relationships. Look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

No way

I suspect that as Israel starts to incur heavy losses in the ground invasion they will pull back out and redouble their bombing.

Yes, psychedelics are dangerous. That's a feature, not a bug. Pilots have strict rules even against consumption of alcohol and even how many hours they are allowed to work per week. If you have a job like piloting, you have to be extremely careful and allow plenty of time for integration. You can't just take psychedelics and then go fly a plane the next day. It can takes 3-4 days to fully come down from a trip.

That's a good trip, with many important lessons to contemplate. Your dose was a bit high. You will have a much better time with 1.5-2 grams. Try that next time. Don't worry, trips are not all the same. You will have much better trips in the future if you dose properly and as you get more comfortable with how trips work. Evil lasers? Sure, you could dream up such a backdrop to reality. The key is to notice that you're dreaming these things. And in some sense you have control over what you dream on psychedelics. You could dream evil stuff or you could dream angels and positive stuff. Notice that it's your mind that's taking you to that evil space. You gotta get better at managing your mind and letting go of evil images. Don't consume psychedelics with food. Take them on an empty stomach. They work better that way. Next time, I suggest that rather than thinking about evil lasers and such, you focus your intention of self-inquiry. What am I? What is consciousness? What is love? What is truth? What is God? These are the serious questions. Focus your attention on that. You can also focus your attention on the beauty of consciousness. Practice visualizing these positive things before you trip. Set a positive intention and drill it into your mind. What is it you want from a trip? Clarify this for yourself before you trip. Do you want to be healed from your depression? Then make that your intention. Don't give up after one bad trip. Just learn the lessons it showed you. One of the biggest lessons is to lower your dose and respect the power of CONSCIOUSNESS! Consciousness is no joke. It can skullfuck you real bad if you go overboard. So be humble. What bad trips do is they teach you the lesson of humility by beating you over the head. This is a very positive thing even though it doesn't feel good in the moment.

@Clarence You are me, but that doesn't mean you have access to my mind. Technically all you have of me is just some pixels on a screen and some ideas. None of you guys actually knows my inner workings, so be careful with all sorts of assumptions you make about me. Especially if you get the sense that I am talking to you personally. Remember, I don't know you. To me you're just some words on a screen. That's all I know of you. I don't have a personal relationship with you, as some of you like to imagine.

That is normal I think.

Good. Just be careful with your projections about me. Your notion of me is probably more of a fantasy than it is the real me. So stay mindful of that. You guys love to get into parasocial relationship with me without being aware of it. So that's a trap to watch out for. I suggest you don't make your trips about me.

I'm researching the issue.

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There are estimated to be 40,000 Hamas fighters. How do you plan to kill them? Even 4:1 would be a good ratio for Israel. Tanks are not going to be effective. All of Gaza will be littered with mines. It's going to be worse than Iraq.

Christians live in Saudi Arabia and Iran too. That doesn't count for much. It's not like Iran is so genocidal that they don't allow some minority groups to co-exist.

It can if you keep consciousness low and you manage it well. There are different kinds of consciousness. Some of it is aligned with human life and some is not. It's hard to know how much your mind will be able to handle and how fast.

This whole situation is like the most infuriating impossible puzzle. The more you study it, no matter which side you take, no matter how reasonable you are, no matter how nuanced you are, there is no solution.

So then get ready for a decade of war that will cost 10,000+ Israeli lives and 100,000+ Palestinians. That's what this invasion will realistically result in. In the end, all that will happen is everyone will tire of war. But only after a decade of it. And we will be back to where we started. Jihadists will still hate Israel. Perhaps more than ever.

I don't buy that. A few of the most developed Syrians might want that, but most of the people there do not value secularism, they want an Islamic state. Even in America, something like 30% of the population want a Christian theocracy. Because their minds are not developed enough to appreciate secular government.

That's not what Consciousness is about. You want a nice life, but Consciousness doesn't care about that. Consciousness will strip you of all your human fantasies, stories, desires, and ideas. The deeper you go, the less human you will become.