Leo Gura

He's not smart about the Christianity part. Just because Roger Penrose is wrong doesn't mean Christians are right. The only thing that Christians are right about, pretty much, is that God exists. The rest is their human BS.

I don't have a sex trafficker shadow. I just recognize that sex trafficking is a crime and causes needless suffering. You make it sound like I'm out there hunting sex traffickers with a bow & arrow. Any decent person understands that what Andrew Tate was doing is deeply unethical and problematic, and should not be allowed in society.

Seems like AI will be dominated the by big corps from the start. So that's a bad example.

What I loved most about the 90s ans 00s was the rise of computers and the internet. The days before the internet was dominated by tech giants, there seemed like endless opportunity for the little guy. Many of those opportunities are gone now.

It is a medical fact that gay men get HIV way more. In the US 65% of all HIV cases are from gay men.

Good, but if your dose wasn't actuallt 3.5g because you had tolerance from the day before. So effectively this tolerance lowered your dose, which is probably why you had a good trip. So next time you trip keep your dose around 2g.

@Peo Yes, this can happen. Next time lower your dose to 2g. A) It takes experience to learn to control your trips. B) Sometimes a trip will go sour for no good reason. C) One bad trip means nothing. It's still possible to get all the good stuff you seek from mushrooms.

@Florian @Princess Arabia You two just have different perspectives. Avoid personal attacks.

Even more important than ending your biases is firstly just becoming aware of them. You can also end some of them after that.

There is nothing mature about letting a rapist off the hook.

He didn't mask it, he legit matured and developed a lot. He wasn't into spirituality back during his raping years. He was a heroin addict. Considering how bad he used to be, I'd say he made a good recovery. Assuming he stopped the raping.

That's a good point. I always assumed it would be more traumatizing if rape was from a stranger, but I'm not a girl so I don't know.

It is in fact legally recognized that drugging and raping is much worse. Danny Masterson was just convicted of that and he was given a harsher sentence due to the fact he drugged girls. The rapes of Danny Masterson seem way worse than what Russell Brand did. Which is why I brought up this idea of degrees.

@Princess Arabia So for you all rape is identical? Consider the case of degrees of murder. You might say: But if you ask the murder victim what difference does it make to him which degree of murder it was? It's all the same. And yet, we still distinguish degrees of murder. For example, I think rape with a weapon should count as a higher degree of rape. And you could make a distinction between sober vs intoxicated rape. Violent vs non-violent rape. And so on.

Just ask any woman, would you rather be raped by your husband or by a stranger in a dark alley, and you will see the clear difference.

Definitely. It's not nearly as bad. Couples can make each others upset or cry and even be forceful. I'm not justifying it. I'm just saying reasonable minds can see degrees of rape like degrees of murder.

You're not going to end them.

No! Consciousness is always in some state. The only question is how deeply it comprehends itself. Low states cannot comprehend themselves. So when you sit in meditation you don't actually comprehend what God is, even though you can even feel like you have some sense of God. That sense is 1% of what it could be. 1) That's not what these people are doing. 2) Higher consciousness can be so high that you will not be able to function as a human. That is the whole point. You must recognize that your very human life is an obstacle to you being consciousness. If you want to be a human you will not be highly conscious by definition. So everything these nondual people are talking is just consciousness within a narrow band which is compatible with human life, morality, and sanity. So they can keep selling you satsangs, books, and meditation techniques. If you become conscious enough you will start to lose your sanity. That's proper consciousness. For me the point is understanding of reality/myself. Yes. Comprehending reality requires seeing through various illusions. I don't know how to answer that. It's a values question. It's up to you to decide what you want out of life. It's possible for you to dip your toe in the pool and judge for yourself how deep you wish to go. You don't have to dive into the deepest part of the pool head-first. In fact, that's not really even possible without a big over-dose. My top priority has been simply being as conscious as I could be. So that's what a pursued and it naturally led me into some crazy realms. I agree with you there. But that's a mild form of consciousness. You're not going to be able to live life at the levels of consciousness which I am talking about if you were in them 24/7. A human cannot be in them 24/7. Don't even start with this nonsense.

Obviously it wasn't reported. Which is quite common. This is a continuation of the #MeToo movement. Rape is still legally possible inside a relationship. Although of course I think there should be degrees of rape. Rape in a relationship is very different than raping a stranger in a dark alley at knife-point. But legally it's even possible to rape your own wife. Which, BTW, Trump is accused of. But there are 5 allegations of sexual assult now. Hard to fake all that.

My concern is higher things. If you are interested in lower things, that is okay. But don't expect me to join you.

Your self-deception is not merely at the level of words or concepts, it's at the level of conscious experience.

The reason I know that none of these enlightened people is seriously conscious is simply because if you were seriously conscious you would not be able to walk straight. Just the fact that a spiritual person can walk down the street tells me he's in a very low state of consciousness. The consciousness I am talking about is so profound that you would be plastered on the floor crying for God to save you and give you your human sanity back. Do not be fooled by any of these enlightened people. Enlightenment is an elaborate illusion dreamed but by God. And no enlightened person is aware of that. Either you will have enough intelligence to understand this or you won't. I have been as clear and direct with you as I can be.

Consciousness is creating a total illusion, hallucinating Buddhism, meditation, enlightenment, what you guys refer to as "truth", and so on. The illusion is infinite. But you are not conscious of this yet. To truly Awaken, the entire illusion of human spiritual attainment must be deconstructed, which requires insane levels of intelligence. Without that intelligence the illusion will simply outsmart you and fool you into thinking that you're reached the end. See, when you reach your elightenment and tell yourself, "That's it. There can't possibly be anything else. No higher consciousness, that's impossible." That just becomes another illusion which you are not conscious enough to break out of. You will try to deny all this, and I will just keep telling you that there is more consciousness that you're missing. When you say that you have reached "truth" and that all there is left is to explore endless forms. No. That's not what I'm telling you. I'm not talking about the exploration of exotic endless forms. I am saying you fundamentally lack the consciousness necessary to understand reality and God. You literally are not fully aware of what God is. God is NOT whatever you call Truth. God is also not Nothing. God is also not some exotic form. And the bottom line is that you are not deeply conscious of God. And that is the only point. Everything else is games, distractions, and illusions.

The rape allegation against Brand appears credible. The woman has a report from a clinic from the night of. So it's most likely true. And honestly, it seems to fit his character and pattern of behavior.

You'd need to take massive amounts of chemical.