Leo Gura

That is my plan for the bottom 10% of you on this forum. The rest of you will join me on Sex Island

This sounds like a pipe-dream to me. It's a big difference. Assassinating him will create chaos and a power-vacuum. And it will piss off many Russian people who honestly like Putin. Because when you assassinate a president people take that personally. And they want revenge.

Because men can compete through direct physical power. Women must compete using soft power and social games because they would lose in a direct physical conflict. When you are physically weaker you must employ more implicit and indirect methods. This is why women will give you their number and lie to you about wanting to see you again. It's too risky for a woman to create a direct physical confrontation.

Yes, I think this move will backfire on him. I expected him to be smarter, especially in light of how the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan went. I don't understand how he thinks that annexing Ukraine to go better than Iraq.

1) Stalin was not assassinated. If Putin dies naturally, I do expect a better leader to emerge. 2) Putin is nowhere as bad as Stalin. So things could easily be worse.

The people of Russia will not get a say. It is not a democracy. It will be a power-grab where the most corrupt and ruthless wins. The problem with Russia goes much deeper than Putin. The whole country is rotted with corruption, from the politicians to the judges, all the way down to the traffic cops on the streets. Killing Putin will not change that.

It's probably a combination of the two. NATO is definitely a legit concern for Putin. There is no denying that. Putin has wanted to weaken and dismantle NATO for a long time. On this point Putin is rather reasonable. But also Putin seems to believe that Ukrainians are actually Russians, and not a legit sovereign people. On this point Putin is rather delusional. Clearly the Ukrainians consider themselves independent and they will not just agree to become Russians. This is just silly. This would be like telling Canadians that they are really Americans and then invading Canada.

1) Russia has been heavily westernizing since 1991. There are no bread lines in Russia any more. Well, maybe there will be after all the sanctions. 2) In the midst of a power vacuum and political chaos, no nice-guy leader will arise. It will be the most corrupt and ruthless monster. Probably one of Putin's oligarch friends.

If you are too lazy to check whether a claim like this is true, then you shouldn't be posting it. If you want to make such claims, provide reliable and unbiased evidence & sources.

A very dangerous and irresponsible move. You think if killing Putin was that easy the CIA wouldn't have done it already? You also have to consider who is going to replace him. If you think Putin is bad wait till you see the replacement who takes over after his assassination. That guy will be a monster.

Most of the people who you hate and disagree with are not psychopaths, they just have a different worldview and survival agenda than you.

We discussed it plenty.

Because, survival.

He was banned years ago. He is unsufferabley dense and egotistical.

Someone here please promise me that you will screenshot that entire RationalWiki page and read it in full at my funeral. This will make my life complete.

I suspected as much.

The best part of the article: Rationality eating its own tail

I may engage with serious critics in the future. But I have to see that they are serious and really want to understand the work. Not just looking to stir outrage like Adeptus likes to do. He can't help himself. He's just ignorant about spirituality. If someone like Curt Jaimungal wants to question me for 5 hours specifically about the dangers of my work, I am happy to answer.

I get thousands of emails that I don't have time to read. I assume they emailed me. But if the New York Times was writing an article about me and emailed me, I would not read it.

1) Of course these types of articles will come out. I fully expect it. This one wasn't even so bad. In the future there will be much worse articles that accuse me of everything from pedophilia to racism to Nazism and more. An eager critic can cherrypick things I have said to make me look like a monster. And of course they will jump on the opportunity to do that simply out of ignorance. 2) I have no interest in explaining myself to someone like Adeptus. Locking the thread also makes it look like we are a cult shutting down all criticism. The issue with these kinds of accusations is that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. You can't win. It's a classic political smear. The accusation is enough to do the damage and then you waste your time on top of that trying to defend against it, which just makes you seem more guilty in the eyes of clueless on-lookers. I am happy to let my work speak for itself. Anyone who watches my videos seriously will understand. And those who just cherrypick a few sharp comments from my 35,000+ forum responses will never understand. I don't even consider my forum responses to be part of my canon of work. These are just casual, off-hand comments. The work itself is in the videos.

So I read the article. The issue is that my teachings were simply never designed or intented for people with mental health issues or suicidal tendencies. I discourage such people from listening to my deepest work. My work has never encouraged suicide, just the opposite. No mentally healthy person listening to my work would get the idea that I am suggesting you commit suicide. AT ALL. To suggest otherwise is simply dishonest. The thrust of my work has always been about prodding people into living with passion. But this is completely ignored by naysayers and critics. I don't sell a suicide course, I sell a life purpose course. I don't talk about suicide almost ever. Also, what the author does not understand or acknowledge is that all spiritual work is psychologically dangerous and easily misinterpreted by the ego-mind. This doesn't make it a cult, it's just how serious spiritual work is. But normies do not appreciate this. They expect spirituality to be sweet and non-threatening. Yes, psychedelics are dangerous when misused. I have warned of this many times. Yes, my teachings are definitely all about undermining your sense of reality. If you don't like that or can't handle that, then don't listen to them. If you listen to me long enough your whole sense of reality will be destroyed. This is a feature, not a bug. You have to decide for yourself whether you can handle that. I cannot decide this for you. A YT channel and an online forum does not constitute a cult. Nothing is "out of control" here. There is no risk of this place losing control and becoming a cult. I would never allow that and on one else has the Admin rights necessary to pull that off. If you think that I have built a cult here, you're really insulting my ability to build a cult. If I wanted to build a cult it would be bigger than Osho's. And if I was teaching people who to commit suicide, I would have 100s of suicides to my name.

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A private forum is not a country. Very big difference there. Even though I can dictate this forum, I cannot dictate your whole life, but a country can. Hence democracy is much more fundamental to a country than to this forum.

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