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@Leo Gura I was going to come back and offer more objections, but after watching parts 2 and 3, I've changed my mind. The middle of Pt. 2 and the ending of Pt. 3 in specific were truly challenging moments and paradigm shifts for me. Now that I see the big picture of what you were trying to communicate with the series, I think what you're doing is pretty noble and makes a lot of sense. You've gotten me even more excited about the future possibilities science holds once it begins studying the non-physical. I will run a few of your contradictions past my science major buddy and see what he has to say, but overall I came out the other side of this "black hole" with a very different perspective than I had going in!

I encourage you to have one. A day to relax and chill with yourself. For this one day, nothing else matters but what makes you happy. Give this a shot: save up about $50 and set a day where you can be off from work and out of the house. Don't focus on the clock. Bring your phone (mainly for emergencies), and a book you like or know you will like. Also, bring a mask and hand sanitizer to stay safe during COVID-19, and avoid crowds! Go for a drive by yourself and listen to some of your favorite songs. Or one of your favorite audiobooks, or just drive in silence and relax. Drive with no destination in mind for about an hour. If you don't have a car, just walk for an hour and relax your mind. After walking or driving for a while, go to a restaurant and order yourself a nice meal or a snack. Read your book or watch/read something on your phone that you enjoy. You can even give a friend a call and chat with them about ideas, positive topics, reminisce on great memories, talk about plans for your future etc. If you're concerned about the virus, just get the food to go and eat it outside or pack your own lunch ahead of time and eat it in your car/at the park, etc. After you leave the restaurant, try making a few more stops at some relaxing locations. Go to the forest and take a hike. Afterwards, just continue driving or walking for a while. After doing this for a while, you should start to get a very relaxed feeling, a lighter, higher feeling. By this time, the sun should be setting. Watch the sunset and meditate. You don't have to do everything I mentioned in this exact order. These are just ideas. The important thing is, do what makes you happy for one day, whatever that is. You can even have your own little movie marathon at home while everyone's gone, if you want. Whatever you choose to do on your personal day, I can promise you that you'll feel so good by the end of it that you'll be able to handle any of the stresses you face with an improved outlook.

@Mafortu I used to love the movie ending the most (and don't get me wrong, the movie is great too), but as I've gotten older I've come to see that there's more beauty and meaning for me in the original ending. It just resonates more for me now.

@Thestarguitarist14 You're correct, narcissists don't have self-love. They crave admiration and validation from everyone else around them. Someone with true, healthy self love is content with themselves.

@Strangeloop It's possible to find a girlfriend who'll be happy to go on date with you at the local park. Beautiful scenery, good exercise, and no money required

@Schnaby Sounds like he's being childish (I don't like using that word negatively, but it applies here), and controlling. This is going beyond music taste, it's a matter of personal respect. I don't know how seriously you want to take this relationship in the future, but if he won't even let you play a song in the car without having a temper tantrum, how will he compromise when more serious issues come along? I'd seriously re-evaluate the relationship. You two need to talk.

@mandyjw So true. George Washington was right; (excerpt from his Farewell Address) "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

Neon Genesis Evangelion. The final episode was probably one of the most profound spiritual experiences I've ever had. I think about it almost every day.

Contemplation is always complex, that's the beauty of it. But as far as life itself being complicated, that depends on what kind of life you want to lead. If you choose to live in the forest with a small group of people and you all get along in harmony, then life becomes very simple indeed. But if you choose to be a lawyer in in the middle of Las Vegas, then yes, your life can become very complicated. But there's a huge trade off. If you choose to live in the forest, then most of your materialistic pleasures will be gone, but the trade off is a simpler, more natural lifestyle.

It was actually very similar to my own music tastes so I got a lot of quality recommendations from it. Plenty of the pop songs towards the end of the list were also some of my favorites and the ones I hadn't heard before were great too, although I think Leo should add some other recent spiritual pop songs from the past 5 years as well. All in all, great playlist!

Life is only unfair because we as a society collectively make it so. It's not inherently this way. Life is inherently beautiful. So instead of thinking "Life is unfair", you should say "Society is unfair".

You said it better than I could! One of my favorite seasons.

Do what's best for you at this very moment. In some moments, what's best for you could be to play video games or go somewhere fun. In other moments, what's best for you could be to meditate or have a deep conversation with a friend. You just need to get better at figuring out what's best for you. And it can be counter intuitive, because although something like reading or strong determination sitting may be more beneficial in theory than just going for a walk, going for that walk may actually be what you need more in this moment. Don't worry if you're off sometimes! All that matters is that you did the best thing you could think of doing for yourself at that moment. Good luck.

Leo has talked in the past about artificial values and obligations that, if you don't value or participate in, will make you viewed as a bit selfish by the rest of society. In the same token, people equate unusually high levels of self love with selfishness. What most don't realize is that selfishness is actually more selfless than selflessness. You're correct, you can't make anyone else happy unless you're happy first. You can't feed anyone else unless you're fed first. You can't be in a healthy relationship with another unless you're in a healthy relationship with yourself first.

Sure, there's time for entertainment and there's time for education, and there's nothing wrong with doing either one with proper balance. But what I'm suggesting is that education can be entertainment and entertainment can be educating and vice versa. There can be a fusion. @aurum Would you put a 30 minute time limit in place for watching documentaries or educational materials? If not, why put one in place for a life-changing series like Neon Genesis Evangelion, which I honestly gained more wisdom and spiritual experiences from than 95% of books I've read? (fiction or non-fiction) @Epiphany_Inspired These shows only become that if you want them to be. It sounds like you've been misusing TV. I'd suggest that you face your fear and watch an episode of TV a day to realize it won't make you some brainwashed zombie...

To the contrary! You can learn just as much from fiction as you can from non-fiction, if you read mindfully. The lessons and insights gained from great works of literature are priceless.

@Leo Gura I'll hold my peace until the next episode, and ponder what you said in the meantime. Thanks for responding.

@Carl-Richard You're right, true scientists are pretty rare. @commie I genuinely don't know what you're getting at. @Leo Gura I watched your video twice before writing what I wrote. Validity isn't some relative notion. Truth is truth, and it can verified one point at a time. Why does all of science need to be dragged into it? And if one individual fact does call the rest of science into question, it's the responsibility of the scientist to account for that and correct for that. A true scientist, as you call them, would definitely do that. We also don't need 100% certainty in the current scientific method we use. Because I agree with you, absolute certainty in any given method isn't possible. But again, we need some working method to continue to do science. And I know you used the priest example, and I agree if corruption is found it should be extinguished, but I'm not aware of any concrete examples of corruption within science that you pointed out. I'm interested in hearing about them, either here or in the next video(s).

@commie Elaborate what you mean by abstractions as opposed to measurements. And It's only long gone if you want it to be. You can still test the the validity of the Laws of Physics in 2020, nothing's stopping you. Rest assured, those days of science aren't long gone for me! @Leo Gura That's kind of an extreme example but all I can say is, everything's a risk. When I walk on the sidewalk I risk getting run over by a drunk driver, doesn't mean I'm going to stop walking. In the same way, although science needs to better itself, it's not worth dismissing everything we've learned so far. For now, that's all we got. We need to use that to find something better. Otherwise we just sit in the house all day afraid of getting run over. So I'm going to still go out and walk, with the risk of getting run over, but with the possible reward of finding something better.

I watched all of Pt. 1 of the Science series. Here are my comments and objections: Science is constantly getting better, and we may never reach the end or have one perfect specific method. That's the point of science, to have a more and more accurate understanding of the world. It's not this static thing. It's the best truth we have so far. Just because it's not written in the universe, doesn't mean we're not doing the best we can do. Sure, there were inaccuracies in the past, there are inaccuracies now, and there will be in the future. But this is the best we can do, constantly strive to be the best version of science we can be. However, we can only work with what's measureable. We cannot account for things any given person cannot verify for themselves. This is why intangible feelings and experiences such as Love or personal or spiritual experiences aren't useful in serious scientific study. A fact is something observable by anyone. A personal experience is not. Science is actually the opposite of ego and religion, Science is willing to fix its mistakes, while religion isn't. New science books are constantly being published, but religion's holy books are unchangeable, And no, you cannot do science without first understanding it. It's not about who you are or where you come from, it’s about pure discovery. That's the beauty of science. It’s actually completely free of ego. Science can only comment on the physical world, what is and how it works, but that doesn't mean that there can't be logic put into other domains. There is very sound logic in filmmaking as you mentioned, but it is separate from science’s domain. It’s the domain of storytelling, cinematography and artistry. Science is also not just a system to manipulate reality, it is the only system we know of to consistently measure and manipulate reality as constantly and deeply as it does. Show me some other non-scientific system that can consistently make sense of and manipulate reality (with deep understanding) in the way that science does, and prove me wrong. A valid method of science is able to be verified by anybody. An idea starts as a theory then matures into a scientific law. This is to avoid dogma; testing and retesting and retesting by multiple individuals is vital. And everything is revisable as we find better information. That first person on earth you speak of would just find what works, and that's all science is, what works, so yes they would be doing their own form of science. The people that believe the shaman are not scientists but the shaman who did the experiment is. However, you don't have to be a scientist to study science. Science doesn't have to make a religion out of it. You have to separate science from religion, however you can use truths and methods found from religious cultures to be integrated into and advance science. It's not harmful to look through a telescope, but the full long term effects of psychedelics are not yet fully known. We must dismiss any method that is not objective. An experience you have on a drug is not objective, because what I see on the drug is not the same thing you see on the drug. And even if it was, there is no way to objectively prove it. History is not relative, either. Either something happened or it didn't. The narrative you spin about it is another story. All in all, while you made some good points and your intentions of making science better are good, the bettering of science is in fact science's entire goal, and I hope I've made that point in this post. Thanks for reading, and good luck with the rest of the series!

Much more civilized and substantive than the Presidential Debate, that's for sure.

I agree with the others. Basically a full embodiment of orange, but he's a very healthy version of it.

What would you consider the most important video you've ever made?

@Nahm After this little exercise I'm going to be done with it, or only use it here and there. Being transfixed by fortune tellers and other similar things should be avoided, something I learned from The Twilight Zone "Nick of Time"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_of_Time_(The_Twilight_Zone)

I think I'll ask Philosopher AI Leo's "64 Most Fascinating Questions A Human Can Ask" and share it with the forum. The results could be interesting at the very least!