Leo Gura

@Rafael Thundercat Empathy for criminals is not against the rules here. In fact, it is an aspect of genuine spiritual development. This is not to be strawmanned as condoning abuse or criminality. Sexual desire is not a conscious choice. No one chose to be born a pedophile. You can definitely empathize with the tragedy of that shituation.

@bazera I understand your frustration. I don't even like being on Instagram. But I have to test out new formats because long-form YouTube is not sustainable at this point. The game is very different from when I started in 2013. I need to experiment to see how to structure my content for the future.

@Rafael Thundercat Stop making inflammatory posts every time. You are stirring up shit and causing conflict in every post of yours.

That attitude will get you banned. We are not going to tolerate these personal moralistic wars of yours. This has gone too far.

@AION Stop it. She is a good moderator. Do not talk to women and Mods with such disrespect. I am going to start banning for flagrant sexism, so watch yourselves. This is not a place where you get to trash women.

Yes, very bad brain fog and even loss of brain functions like memory and thinking.

Dude. Seriously? Their life is on the line with each encounter and they are dealing with zombies. I'd like to see how non-personally you'd take it when a zombie bites you.

That's not a fallacy, that's empirical fact. That's exactly how it works. You are the one engaging in fallacy. If you could not use the dream to awaken, then all spiritual teachings and techniques would not work. All manual techniques are using the dream to awaken. You are just biased against a particular class of chemicals. You are a chemical bigot.

That is compatible with my analogy. Even a good fuel can have pollutants. And there are certainly dirty fuels and even stuff like mechanical damage to the engine.

Please find examples of fake spirituality. I am especially interested in New Age examples. But cult examples are also acceptable. This is spirituality that is very conformist, performative, fantastical, conceptual, ungrounded, word salad, grifty, magical, corrupt, occult. Cringe spiritual BS, basically. I want to see how bad it gets. How deep does self-deception and fantasy go? How deep does the New Age go?

You have not invented any remotely viable alternative. All you are doing is complaining but not providing workable solutions. You have to actually invent something better.

Mystery is very outdated. You shouldn't even be learning that.

Profit maxxing.

Shituation — a shitty situation.

Equality.

Do not speak to her that way. She has a different perspective than you but she is quite reasonable and openminded. Don't make women feel unwelcome here.

There are so many social events and spots at Uni. Start going. Uni is as easy as socializing gets. It is much harder without Uni.

@ZenSwift You are doing good work. Happy to see it. Keep it up.

My pleasure.

Bread, circuses, and psychedelics.

Plan C

I want to be open to changing my mind. If I am wrong, point it out. I do change my mind about many things. And if I am too harsh I try to be softer in the future.

My point was simply that video games are not a good medium for depth. That doesn't make video games any less artistic or great. Games are just a poor medium for enriching your mind. In the same way that Playboy is a poor medium for enriching your mind. Imagine if Playboy tried to make itself high-brow literature. That would be silly. I feel like Jonathan Blow is doing that with video games and I don't find it effective. Obviously that's just my opinion. You don't have to agree with me. But hey, you are welcome to run the experiment. Play one of Blow's games, watch one of my videos, and compare which one enriches your mind more. This isn't exactly a matter of faith. @Natasha Tori Maru I am unusually blunt and this turns people off because they aren't used to such a thing.

Guys, argue your points without personal attacks or insults. Just because someone has a different view on an issue doesn't make them sick or evil. We need to get beyond such kinds of dialogue.

Keep it civil, without personal attacks. If you argue your views rationally and respectfully, then there is no problem. When you communicate from a pissy place, you undermine your own points.