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Regarding Leo’s IQ test. While that goes deeper than math tests, I would say true intelligence is beyond survival. The highest intelligence isn’t about how well you can survive, it’s about understanding God. A moronic person could pass the rope and chair test but they wouldn’t realize God; therefore, they miss the highest intelligence. You can handle a wild beast and still be deluded. I would say my IQ test would be to lock you in a dark room by yourself until you can answer the question: What Is Truth? Each time you give some dogma or Buddhist, spiritual nonsense, I would give you a shock to the nuts. The door won’t open until you answer and experience directly What Is Truth?

Taylor Swift Fate of Ophelia Choreography.

I told my grandpa that him setting up an American Flag for July 4th was conformity. But he told me it wasn’t because he genuinely likes putting out his flag on July 4th and other national holidays. The same is with Christmas. What do you say to that? I told my neighbor that lawn maintenance and green fertilizer is conformity. But he told me it isn’t because “I like the way my lawn looks.” It is hard to tell what is genuine conformity or not because people could always have a nonconformist justification of their behavior. A person going to a football game will never admit it’s because of conformity but because they love watching Mahomes and Kelce. Art is conformity in the sense of copying nature and other artists. A true artist is nonconformity and adds their original idea and interpretation.

People pay for construction not deconstruction. People pay for illusion and not disillusion. Entertainment, academia, health, sports, teaching, etc. is monetized because of illusion. Maya in action. Clever girl.

New Year’s Resolutions. You should be setting goals regardless of what day it is. Of course, there is a non-conformist way to go about setting a New Year’s Resolution. But it’s all hyped up conformity with people going to the gym and then quitting. Shows you it was conformity in the first place, not a true goal or “resolution.” If it was a genuine goal, you wouldn’t quit 3 weeks in.

@Leo Gura How would you define death? If a living organism becomes a mere object, I would define that as death. What makes us different from rocks is that we are consciousness, whereas a rock is mere object with no subjectivity. The rock is made out of consciousness but is not conscious itself. Death is the consciousness of “others” no longer being localized/fixated at the body. What more evidence do we need that Charlie Kirk is dead? We got camera footage, a coffin with his body, statements from doctors and his wife. Of course, this is all in my memory/imagination now. I could spend the rest of my life on a wild goose chase trying to look for Charlie alive, but I will only find him decomposing 6ft under.

@Leo Gura I don’t get your quote #339 about science being slop for believing in death. Science doesn’t “prove” things but rather uses repeatable, observable methods to demonstrate something. A scientist doesn’t have to prove death to anyone. They just need to use the proper measures for investigating death. (Of course, you’ve deconstructed that scientists in practice don’t behave in the manner illustrated by the definition of science.) The history of science has changed its definition of death. A scientific definition of death is the cessation of all biological functioning required for life. Ex. Brain death, circulation, heart failure, etc. I would say death isn’t a belief. We experience small forms of death throughout our lives. Ex. Loss of job, partner, and eventually our life. Consciousness is eternal, but Charlie Kirk getting shot is a permanent reality where we will live the rest of our existence without him in it. That is death, and yes it’s imaginary but so is a kick to the balls.

@Leo Gura I think he’s saying that it contradicts with the external world being imaginary. If the color red exists outside of my consciousness, then that would be an example of an external world. But at the same time awakening is outside of most people’s consciousness but yet it exists. Color is a content within consciousness, so its subject to change. Hope this makes sense because science would say color is byproduct photons interacting with the brain. If there was damage to occipital lobe or retina, you won’t be able to see color. So does color exist but I have no access to it or have I created a universe without color? That’s the contradiction.

Interesting point. If you are colorblind, then God would be imagining a reality without color. Does color still exist if you cannot experience it? You would only have your idea of what it would be based off your limits of consciousness.

Ah, very nice insight. It reminds me of a book I read from your booklist where a disciple realizes that Self cannot die and is not the body, prana, or mind because those are all changing. Pure Consciousness is Unchanging which is another way of saying it cannot die, as it is that which witnesses and imagines everything in existence. Consciousness couldn’t be changing because then it couldn’t witness change because it would be changing with everything else. I realized on a trip that death and birth, dreaming and waking is something Consciousness is constructing. That which is constructed will never be “infinite enough” to overtake the Infinite. There is nothing outside of Infinity to kill it and Infinity would have nowhere to go since it is already all that is. Brilliant Quote!

@Wilhelm44 No. Read his recent blog post on the topic. @Leo Gura On your quote about consciousness does not age and the color red exists forever: how do you explain that some people cannot see colors or may become blind? I can’t help but anticipate a materialist to come up with objections like this. Our senses change over time and Consciousness doesn’t “age” but I would argue that it can mature since it is capable of growth and change.

Leo already has a video on this topic that you should watch and APPLY.

That’s actually a very helpful distinction. Something can start off as non-conformity or authentic desire and be turned into conformity. Joining a group can be done for non-conformist ways, but being part of the group in most cases requires a degree of conformity. If you don’t conform to group, you are kicked out. Some people’s authentic desire may be in almost perfect alignment with the group, but this seems rare. Even a gardening club would require a degree of conformity. But also, some things can start off from conformity and turn into nonconformity such as spirituality because your parents forced you and then you finding your own authentic passion within spirituality independent of others.

He may like it, but he still has to act like a conformist zombie to be in the military. Just because you love your conformity doesn’t make it not.

Add Kriya Yoga and Kundalini to the conformity list. It’s definitely conformist and so is the whole chakra system. Awakening isn’t chakras and Kriya Yoga. The only reason why you do Kriya Yoga is because you heard from others that it would produce awakening most likely. However, there are non-conformist ways of doing Yoga, but it seems mostly conformist. Edit: Following the Eight Fold Path in Buddhism is also conformity.