Leo Gura

1) Paypal was a fine idea from the start and it was rapidly successful. 2) There were many factors to Paypal's success beyond Musk. 3) Twitter is not some new start-up. It's a fully established and mature service. You can't just expect to change its core and keep everyone around. You could easily lose 50% of your community.

That's a reasonable strategy. No amount of meditation will get you to the highest psychedelic states. That's just the reality of the situation. Make of it what you will.

Yeah, advertisers don't like it when people are calling each other Jews and N*ggers. Go cry me a river. You dismissively call it "Karens" when in practice some very sick bullying happens every day on Twitter. You just don't see it.

In those cases you're talking about authoritarian countries which don't have free speech. Yeah, of course, Russia, India, China, etc will crack down on free speech. But in the US and Western Europe no one cares what you say as long as you're not bullying others. Bullying others is not a freedom you should expect to have. Because no one wants to be part of such a community except for Nazis.

Ultimately it's defined by common decency and whatever advertisers are willing to tolerate. You can't dictate such things from one man. If it works that way what you'll see is less free speech than before Musk took over. All the right-wing platforms have worse free speech standards than all the mainstream "liberal" platforms. Because right-wingers never cared about free speech, they only care about it for themselves. Whereas mainstream platforms actually enforce policy fairly evenly across the board. It's just that more right-wingers violate it because most of the racists, homophobes, sexists, transphobes, etc are right-wing.

I don't see any amount of money making Twitter profitable given how much money Musk paid for it. You can't squeeze $44 billion out of Twitter. But in the act of trying to do so, you may likely kill it. The whole point of buying Twitter was that it was not supposed to be about the money. Now it's a mad scramble just to break even.

Brazil has performed terribly the last few times. I have given up hope. Their defense is really bad against strong European teams.

Best not to taint a scientific model with idle speculation, otherwise people will reject it.

It's a game designed to hide the vacuousness and lack of originality of their ideas. Academia is a very serious circle jerk.

Nobody was silencing you on Twitter unless you were being an asshole. Bigwigs don't care about what you say on Twitter. But don't expect them to spend billions of dollars buying ads from you if you refuse to police hate speech. Everyone told Musk before he bought Twitter that not having moderation would not work. Now he's learning that the hard way. If moderation wasn't necessary then I wouldn't be on this forum every day policing people. As if I don't have better things to do with my time. And we don't even have advertisers here, I just do it to have a healthy forum. And our Mods too. Musk's idea of free speech is so childish it wouldn't even work in kindergarten. Pulling ads IS free speech. If Musk wants to play hardball, welcome to war. But then don't cry when people take their ball and go home. No serious person wants to be at war over Twitter. They'll just leave.

The corporate goons who stage it

Of course

You can buy old versions on eBay.

The problem here is speculation. Speculation is NOT direct consciousness of Truth. You cannot ask another person about solipsism because that would be begging the question.

So there's gonna be a whole culture war over this.

This topic will be a shitshow for months to come. Either Musk will get things right or he will piss off a lot of people. Personally I think he's being a jackass, but I admire his boldness on this. It will either sink or swim.

It's far more complicated than that. Bottom line is, there are hundreds of different kinds of Awakenings, and at various degrees. Having experiences many of them, I can easily tell those who haven't. Your classical Buddhist style of awakening is very, very low. Don't take it personally. Just keep your mind open to more.

For now I am going to lock this thread because I don't like the effect this arguing has on my psyche. I am not here to prove anything to anyone. I will just show up as I am in the future and you guys will either like it or not. And in the meantime I don't want a bunch of drama, demonization, and debate swirreling around me. This transition has been very emotionally draining on me. I basically had to face my own death and deepest fears. For now, continue doing your spirituality as you see fit and keep the debating and attacks to a minimum. Thank you. I am sorry for riling you guys up. I am trying to communicate things as authentically as possible, as they arise for me. And this is totally new territory so I have to invent the path as I walk it. So thanks for your patience and empathy. I don't like to set all sorts of impossible expectations for myself because it becomes counter-productive to my inner work. So relax and let's just see how things unfold.

No, it is not channeling nor talking to aliens. It's gonna take me a lot of work to figure out how to teach this.

Workin on it. You guys treat this so flippantly.

How about you guys chill and just trust me on this? I will show you Alien Awakening that will absolutely blow your mind. When I finally post it on Youtube, people's jaws will drop. My Awakening will contradict 5000 years of spiritual teaching. And it won't just be words, you will visually see me morph into an Alien Intelligence. And if I don't, then you can call out my bullshit. Until then, sit tight. There are an Infinite number of different types of Awakenings and an Infinite number of different types of Absolute Love. Everything I am talking about is Absolute. Nothing conceptual.

Not sure yet. It's brand new stuff for me. Just hang in there for now. Keep doing your work as usual.

Of course. Nothing else like this exists. I will literally teach you actual alien metaphysics. You think I'm joking. I'm not. The problem is you guys think I'm delusional. Well, consider seriously the possibly that I'm not. When have I ever underlivered with my content? Why would I start now? Before you guys start to attack, maybe consider what I taught you: radical openmindness.

You're mostly safe from wacky states of consciousness. But you are not physically safe. Although plenty of people suffer from states like schizophrenia. But alien consciousness is way more radical than schizophrenia or any other human mental disorder. Try to imagine what it would feel like if one day you woke up and you were an infinitely conscious God-like alien floating in the middle of a vacuum. That's what I'm pointing to.