Leo Gura

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  2. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    4 minutes ago, Wilhelm44 said:

    @Leo Gura  @Harikrishnan

    Thank you Leo, I am going to do that toilet exercise.

    Just one last question: how come I seem to be communicating here with two different people who have both had a solipsistic awakening ?

    Because that's how a reality is created.

    If you didn't imagine others strongly enough, they wouldn't exist and you would be alone. To have others you must keep imagining them with the strength of a brick wall.

    If you ever stop dreaming, the universe will disappear. So you must keep dreaming like your life depends on it. The dream is so strong it is beyond your conscious control. To you I feel as real as a brick wall.

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    11 minutes ago, raiden said:

    The irony is we have so much genetic and historical proof that it’s the ethnic Judeans that are the ones getting bombs dropped on them by ethnic Europeans who call themselves the real natives 

    It's never been about genetics. It's about cultural identity.

    What does it mean to be American? Obviously it's not genetic.

    Being a Jew is a culture. That culture wants to be on its mythologized homeland.

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    11 minutes ago, Wilhelm44 said:

    @Leo Gura, lets say there is another person who also had solipsistic awakening like you, who's pov is the valid one then ?

    Solipsism means there's only your POV.

    Stop saying there's anyone else but you -- if you're talking about solipsism. Stop imagining them, stop assuming them, stop theorizing about them.

    Go into your toilet and notice, the only one who exists in your toilet is you. That's it. Nothing else. Everyone else is a fiction. When you are sitting there on your toilet, no other humans being has ever existed but you. You've never even seen another human being.

    That's how serious solipsism is.

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    1 hour ago, Basman said:

    The Jews aren't at serious risk of being ethnically cleansed in the modern world.

    Whether they are or aren't, they certainly believe they are.

    Don't underestimate how deep their collective trauma & paranoia goes.

    Every time some Arab terrorist speaks of wiping Israel off the map, they literally perceive that as Hitler 2.0 and react accordingly. That's how their entire military intelligence operates.

    The reason Israel is killing so many civilians is because they believe they are fighting to stop Hitler 2.0, so from their POV the civilian deaths appear reasonable. They truly believe all this conflict is just anti-semitism and that they did nothing to cause it.

    The Hitler/Holocaust analogy is very convenient for Zionists because is makes them feel like violence is being done to them for no reason other than their race.

  11. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    6 minutes ago, gengar said:

    1. Are you actually claiming the "muhh natural DMT release from the pineal gland" for Ralston? that he is literally high on DMT all the time?

    The chemical is not important. That's just an example.

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    2. It's not genetic freakery, since I have realised it from one spiritual experience (chemically induced), and many sober contemplations after. Like you said in the "original proofs of God" video , it's nothing special, but just sitting down and going through the logic of existence. I'm an egoic guy and unwise and immature most of the time. I'm not like ralston at all. yet I've still realised it.

    Dude, there is way more to this work than realizing any one thing.

    Just because you can take a chemical and realize something doesn't mean you are anywhere at Ralston's level.

    This is like saying there's nothing special about Shaquille O'Neil because one time you got on a ladder and dunked a basketball.

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    27 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

    @Leo Gura so you're just going to ignore all objections to your position and call that steelmaning yours?

    Yup.

    I'm not here to argue. I'm here to suggest ideas for you to explore on your own if you are curious.

    24 minutes ago, Greatnestwithin said:

    @Leo Gura he mentions how this is accessible to everyone regardless genetics.

    All genetic freaks say that sort of thing.

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    8 minutes ago, Greatnestwithin said:

    @Leo Gura I wonder how Peter Ralston became conscious of these stuff only through comtemplation? 

    1) He's a genetic freak. He's not merely doing it through contemplation. He's doing it through a higher state of consciousness. Contemplation is easy if you're high on DMT all the time.

    2) There is much he still hasn't become conscious of (according to my view of things).

  17. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    @zurew If you are merely part of some God then you just haven't fully realized that you are God.

    This is simply a function of how conscious you are.

    The higher your consciousness the more you see that everything is your personal dream. The less conscious you are the more it feels like your dream is an object outside yourself.

    If you became more conscious you would clearly see that you are imagining me. But until such time, it will feel to you like I exist as an object beyond your mind.

    Reality is an infinite illusion. Consciousness allows you to see through that illusion.

  18. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    7 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

    @Leo Gura

    You removed your video on solipsism (it has been since reuploaded). I personally have no issue with fear on the topic.

    Are you considering this one of your teachings?

    I am just trying to understand your intent with driving into this topic. 

    It seems you are trying to school others here, and this doesn't marry up to your previous stance that it was 'too advanced'.

    It still is too advanced.

    I am just trying to open some minds here.

    Don't take my arguments too seriously. In the end I want you to discover whatever is true for you. Consider that I may be wrong. Do not try to reach for my words, reach for whatever is actually true for you.

    I do not want anyone to believe in solipsism. But you should at least be able to represent it properly in your own mind, so you are not strawmanning it.

    My goal in this thread was to steelman solipsism and clarify what it means IF it is true.

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    Sure the response that there is only one possible world is a response where you can rule out all other scenarios - But whats the argument that there is only one possible world?

    Look, bro. This issue is so serious that it is beyond argument.

    There is not argument for Absolute Truth. It's just what is.

    If you are serious you have to stop arguing. Arguments are for fools. Argument is self-deception. God does not argue for it own existence since that would be moronic.

    You are trying to subordinate Truth to thought, which is just impossible.

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    Why do you think that God-realization is impossible under the thought experiment where Christianity is true?

    Because Christianity is just horseshit.

    You have to get serious.

    Christianity is not serious enough to even warrant a response. You just leave the Christians at the kids table and let the adults talk.

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    13 minutes ago, zurew said:

    You are not tracking , we are not talking about what would a solipsistic view entail - we are investigating how adept your epistemology is (

    No. You are not tracking how profound God is.

    God is so profound that it is beyond all epistemology.

    In the end there is no such thing as epistemology. There is only Truth.

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    51 minutes ago, gengar said:

    "Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims."

    If you define it that broadly then yes, basically all war/violence and even policing is terrorism.

    Does Israel do some terrorism? Yes.

    The real difference is that Israel is a democratic state with some semblance of rule of law and some checks and balances. Moreso than Hamas. As a state Israel does not do suicide bombings of buses in Palestine. Israel also has rules for avoiding civilian casualties even though those rules are sometimes broken. But if you actually read the history of how they do targetted assassinations, they have canceled many hits of important Hamas terrorists simply because too many civilians were around. They may cancel a hit 5 days in a row just to ensure that no children are present. This is a historical fact. And it has exceptions.

    We usually call it terrorism when there is deliberate targetting of civilians. And Israel has even done that. But mostly they avoid it.

    For example, Israel will never hijack an international airplane full of Arabs and threaten to blow them up. That is pure terrorism. Hamas will do that to Jews.

    This issue requires extreme nuance, not sloppy false equivalence.

    Israel does evil, but it is a more civilized evil. And that difference matters. All groups do evil. It's a matter of degree and barbarity.

    I am fully aware of Israel's evils. But there is still a difference.

    The bottom line is that if you were to choose for your children to be born in Gaza or Israel, you would choose Israel because it is more civilized. In the end, that's what wins. It's not about fancy moral philosophy, it's about survival. Civilizations wins even as it does evil, because it is a lesser evil.

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    8 minutes ago, zurew said:

    Under the assumption where non-solipsism is true

    The entire point is that if solipsism is true, it is an Absolute, which means you cannot assume any other possibility.

    You are trying to do this thing where you keep your options open and explore multiple ways reality could have been. But the entire point of God-Realization is that all of that is false. There is only one way reality can be. All other contigencies are self-deception. This sounds unfair, but that's how Truth must be.

    You cannot use scientific reasoning to understand the Absolute Truth.

    Solipsism is unfalsifiable. You can take that an error or you can take it as Absolute Truth.

  24. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    7 minutes ago, gengar said:

    A few years back you made the argument for solipsism from a moral point of view. I believe it went something like this:

    "God is so selfless it doesn't create any other, but bears all the torrents of consciousness itself"

    Yes, that is a profound way to look at it.

    It helps resolve the classic problem of evil which no Christian can answer.

    Then again, if God is all beings in a non-solipsistic way, that logic can still apply. In the end all the evil only ever happens to God itself, so who is hurt?