Leo Gura

What is the puzzle here? This is a simple checkmate proceedure. Keep checking white until he is dead. Avoid the queen's diagonal.

Eckhart Tolle nearly killed himself. So that's an odd example you chose. A certain percentage of people become rich through dumb luck, good fortune, and just being at the right place at the right time. Tolle is an example of that. If Oprah had not platformed him, he would be a nobody. Osho's success had a lot to do with the special timing of his rise. It was a cultural moment. Yes, there are easier ways of making money. It isn't always hard work. Some situations involve little work but massive profits. But it's hard to ensure this situation happens to you in particular without a lot of work. You have to hustle and manipulate reality to create those opportunties for yourself. Think of hard work as you rigging the game of life in your favor, otherwise the odds are too much against you. Imagine you had to slave away 10 hours a day for 10 years just to rig one slot machine in your favor, but then you won the jackpot. That's what hard work is often about.

No it can't because if the diameter is too small the difference in gravity at the astronaut's feet vs head will make them dizzy and sick. Very large diameter is required to make this thing feel more than just a merry-go-round. Imagine living on a merry-go-round for a month. You would go insane. The gravity needs to feel very consistent and even. That the challenge with these designs. Earth's gravity feels so even because Earth has such a huge diameter.

By that logic I am a figment of your imagination, so what are you concerned about? Why are you letting my imaginary dentist disturb your mind?

How is this anything new? This design has been around for 80 years. In order for this spinning design to work it must have an enormous diameter. It doesn't work at small diameters. The problem is it will be too expensive to build. Once they realize the cost is crazy, they will scrap the project.

Just small practical baby steps, done consistently each day. You need to build up micro-momentum and macro-momentum. You do this by consistently executing and taking action. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Starting small is key, so you don't overwhelm yourself. Set small practical goals for yourself and then just execute without thinking. Get out into the world more, do more physical activities like socializing face to face. Force yourself to go to bars, clubs, social settings every week, consistently. Don't try to do everything at once. That won't work. You need to break it up into small, concrete steps you can take each day and week. For example, a concrete step is to go out to a bar/club at least 2 nights a week. It doesn't matter where. It doesn't matter if you talk to a girl or not. Just at least build the habit of physically leaving your house and entering a bar and staying there for at least 2 hours. There is no reason you can't do that. After you succeed at that, then your next goal will be to talk to 5 girls per night. And so on. Hard to answer this. I integrate insights why driving around in my car and contemplating for hours. I don't worry about thought loops or ego identification at all. I just contemplate and things work themselves out in the long run. Your focus needs to be on truth, not you. Your contemplation is for having insight into truth and reality, not just stories you tell yourself. I did not read anything in your post that shows an Awakening has happened. You had some personal insights into your own life. That is not Awakening. That's just insight into your personal life. Awakening is not about your human life story. 1) You need to begin a serious project of mastering basic survival: job/career, dating, socializing, fitness, diet, etc. These are all practical skills you can learn and they require no deep philosophical insight. You can buy online courses and books that teach you all those skills. Then just execute. But you can't do all those areas at once, that is too overwhelming, so you need to decide on some priorities. 2) Don't dwell on the dysfunction of society. That is irrelevant. Society has always been dysfunctional. Just focus on your life purpose, doing beautiful work, developing yourself, dating, fitness, self-education, training skills, business, spiritual practice like Kriya yoga, etc. Stop thinking about anything that isn't constructive to the betterment of your life. if it is not helping you achieve a goal, stop thinking it. Only think of things that help you achieve positive goals. 3) There is no point in worry about the ego. Just do spiritual practices like Kriya yoga, self-inquiry, meditation, and psychedelics. This will handle the ego in the long-term. At your age worrying about the ego is pretty silly. Focus on mastering basic survival and keep a spiritual practice going in the background.

Truth is more complex than your notion of it as peace, love, and rainbows. Truth is also a fist through your door.

This place is just the organic sum of all the cats who roam here. Many of ya'll have your weird, quirky points of view. That's what diversity entails.

Watching cartoons can produce genuine awakening. That's not the issue. The issue is whether it is efficient, and you can know the answer to that question by just looking at the people in those programs. Do any of them look or sound Awake to you?

I didn't like it. The combat is too fast paced, with no blocking, and all the RPG elements and loot has been stripped down. I literally used the same weapon and armor for most of the game because there is nothing better than starting gear. There are no meaningful stat upgrades. I was really disappointed. It felt like a cheap version of Dark Souls. The world and enemies are cool though. Just the combat is not nearly as good as Dark Souls. It would have been so much better if it followed the Dark Souls recipe. I feel Bloodborne is overrated. I know some people love it. But that is for its world.

It doesn't matter. Whatever you feel like. You can try hundreds of openers. The best openers are the ones that are most natural to you. I posted a list of openers on my blog a year back. Look it over for ideas.

Imagine that's not what I wanted.

When you are good that can work. When you suck then you need a lot more chances to screw up.

That's the human condition. Any community will have that.

You expect a group of humans with diverse perspectives to not argue? Surely you're kidding. You guys want this place to not be a cult, but when you actually get that, you complain. I do not control anyone here. This place is hearding cats.