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@Leo Gura I am trying to follow your helicopter analogy. I was agreeing and resonating with it until you said that the helicopter is analogous to thinking and when you said that meditation is more fundamental to it. This makes sense, but thinking or shall I say questioning is essential for understanding reality. Without questioning, there is no curiosity and no awakening. In a way, I see questioning as the only rocket essential for awakening. You can meditate and do psychedelics, but if you have no desire to understand reality (ex: questioning/contemplation), then you will never reach the moon. The rocket was built out of contemplation/thinking/questioning, not out of sitting still and counting your breaths. The issue is science thinks too limited because that’s what science is. In a way, you contradict yourself because your entire post was you using a helicopter to explain the limits of helicopters. You were using thinking to explain the limits of thinking. But it’s even more nuanced than that because you value the deepest understanding possible, which cannot negate the importance of high quality thinking. There is no totality of understanding if you don’t have high quality thinking down. What am I missing?

If women liked betas and liked lean muscular guys, then why don’t dating apps work for me? One insight I had is that I am geographically in the wrong place. I literally went to DC and Philadelphia and my number of likes and matches 4x. Maybe geography is a confounding variable in these studies? Maybe women have different preferences relative to geography and culture?

Do you think that it could be the case that Trump and Musk want us to think they have broken up as part of an elaborate scheme? Maybe this is just a ruse to keep up distracted.

@Leo Gura Very good blog post on understanding. That was my main motivation since watching your free will and consciousness videos back in 2017. Still engaging in daily contemplation to get better insight than the day before. 🙏

Thanks. I appreciate it. I’m gonna start doing that.

What wallets do you all use to hold bitcoin? Which do you recommend? Do you guys recommend electrum? Electrum is free. I don’t want to have to pay $80-$300 for a wallet if I don’t have to.

Cool. I was considering getting the ledger nano S+.

Thanks mate. I’m choosing to dca $100 weekly to just bitcoin now after learning more about that. Do you use ledger or electrum? What wallet do you recommend?

@BlessedLion @Leo Gura Do you do ethereum also? I wonder if it is worth it to also be invested in ethereum? Any cold wallets you recommend? I was looking into Ledger Nano S+ for my cold wallet. My current plan is to DCA invest $200 a week into bitcoin and ethereum at 50/50 ratio ($100 bitcoin, $100 ethereum). Plan on leaving coinbase and getting cold wallet when I have invested 1k.

In the next 5-10 years, I see bitcoin going to 200k.

I know sourcing is against community guidelines. I just want to share my issue and you can take it down if you feel it violates guidelines. I am having a hard time with finding psychedelics such as mushrooms, lsd, and DMT. I am not sure if it is possible to be pointed to the right direction on this topic. I currently have met some people at a club, and this one girl said she could get me some psychedelics. But I wonder, what are the methods you all use to get psychedelics? What I mean is, do you get them from (1) a friend, (2) online, (3) grow/make your own, etc? I had one friend who I got mushrooms from. I have expressed interest in getting more, but I don’t wanna feel like I’m pushing him to get me some. I just want to talk my options out here on the forum and see if anyone can help me see my options. Maybe I could ask this girl for some next time I see her? I’m not sure if it is risky or a good idea since she is still kinda a stranger. I feel like my inaccessibility to psychedelics is holding me back. I would appreciate any input based off of my options so far. What advice do you all have and some advice on avoiding the common traps? Thanks!

@vinc3nc Wow. Thanks for advice. I am doing just bitcoin and ethereum. I was planning on doing DCA of maybe $100-300 a month and setting and forgetting it, keeping it in there for 5-10 years then considering selling it. What would you recommend? I also don’t see why bitcoin won’t go to 200k given it has already jumped above 100k

Thanks man! Which kit should I get? I want something simple and easy. I assume the kit and spores don’t come together in the purchase.

So far, I have created an account on coinbase and invested $200 into bitcoin and $200 into ethereum.

So I can just buy the mushrooms from that link? You recommend golden teachers?

He said it literally this week. That quote was from 2019. Mine was from this week. I just wanted to clarify. @everyone Nobody has addressed the points I brought up. If millions of dollars can exist in a treasure chest, then there is some contradiction because that implies an external world. How can you claim there is something that exists inside the chest when you aren’t observing it?

@Leo Gura On a post earlier this week, a forum member said something along the lines of “if I am sitting on a chest with a million dollars inside, that million dollars exists regardless if I’m aware of it.” And you seemed to agree with that. I also remember asking you about this, and you said that God hides things from itself. For instance, your toilet exists even though I’m not aware of it. But your toilet and chest with gold is still mind-dependent. I am dreaming that it exists right now, and I could verify it by being conscious of it directly. I’m referring to this thread: It seems like you are saying that reality exists independently of the mind when you imply that an elephant is an elephant even if my mind doesn’t recognize it as such. This seems to suggest that my mind alone isn’t constructing reality because the elephant is truth even if I don’t recognize it. And you seemed to agree with Koops that something exists inside the chest even though I’m not aware of it. It seems to imply that something exists independently of consciousness. However, you cannot prove that a million dollars or an elephant exist independently of perception because an elephant, the chest, and the imaginary million dollars is your consciousness.

I wanted to know your alls thoughts on the abortion debate. Case 1: Imagine that a professional basketball player is in a coma from being in a car crash. You happen to have the rare blood type that he needs to sustain his life. Treatment requires you being hooked up to him for 9 months, putting your life on pause. Does the government have the right to force you to be hooked up to him? If so, then does the government have the right to force you to be an organ donor and to give blood every week for someone who may need it? If not, then why do we subject women to carry pregnancy onto birth? Case 2: Imagine that new scientific technology comes out that allows pregnant women to know whether the fetus is gay, straight, or transgender. Does the woman have that right to abort based off of her homo/transphobia? Also, does she have the right to drink and use drugs while pregnant or should the government step in? Case 3: Imagine I am an evil time traveler serial killer and I have killed all my victims by going back in time stopping their parents from meeting and having sex. Am I killing you? Is it murder if I stop pregnancy from happening? If so, then by that logic, that means every time a woman has a period without fertilization, they are killing babies. If the answer is no that it isn’t murder, then how is abortion murder? What do you think of these arguments/thought experiments?

Mind is all there is. No matter what you do, you will always be using your mind.

Anybody want to come up with their own original proofs for God as the homework assignment from the video?

I wanted to come up with my own proofs of God given what I have realized so far about God. This is a rough draft. I have spent the past month reflecting on my insights into God and the past 2 weeks trying to come up with my own “proofs” of God. Here’s my rough draft: 10 Proofs For The Existence of God Proof 1: Existence Itself 1. Existence exists. 2. Existence cannot not exist. 3. Existence has no external cause or source because that cause/source itself would have to have Existence. In essence, Existence is more fundamental than proof and causation because proof and causation require Existence in the first place. 4. Existence transcends all conceptualizations, models, and theories. 5. Thus, Existence is fundamental. 6. God refers to that which is most fundamental. 7. Therefore, God exists as the most fundamental aspect of Existence. Proof 2: Consciousness 1. Consciousness exists. 2. Consciousness is capable of having insights into the nature of consciousness. 3. What we call reality or existence is really just consciousness. 4. Any object within consciousness is by nature contingent upon consciousness. 5. God is not an object or person that can be found within consciousness. 6. God refers to the necessity of consciousness itself. 7. Therefore, God exists. Proof 3: Mystical Experience 1. Mystical experiences exist. 2. Mystical experiences are a valid form of epistemology. 3. Some of the most commonly reported insights from mystical experiences are about oneness, time, God, etc. 4. The scientific method may be limited in the ability to study mystical experiences due to the fact that mystical experiences must be experienced first-hand for them to be considered a mystical experience. 5. To realize and know what God is requires one to have a mystical experience. 6. To reduce all mystical experiences to hallucinations is a very unscientific assumption (especially if you have never yourself had a mystical experience). 7. Therefore, God can be discovered through mystical experience. Proof 4: Reality as Hallucination 1. Hallucinations exist. 2. A hallucination is no less real than ordinary, conventional experience. 3. If every human being is hallucinating, then that hallucination becomes reality. 4. If reality is a hallucination, then that would mean that reality is nothing more than consciousness. 5. There is nothing more than consciousness. 6. There is no objective difference between reality and hallucination. 7. God refers to an infinite hallucination. 8. Everything that exists is a hallucination—a figment of consciousness. 9. Therefore, God exists as an infinite hallucination. Proof 5: The Field of Consciousness 1. Consciousness exists. 2. There is nothing that exists outside of consciousness. 3. If something did exist outside of consciousness, then that would be an idea within consciousness. 4. When we say something exists, we are referring to something that we can be conscious of. 5. God is not a specific object within consciousness that you can be conscious of. 6. God represents the entire field of consciousness. 7. Therefore, God exists as the entire field of consciousness. Proof 6: Solipsism 1. The only thing that exists or can be known to exist is consciousness. 2. If consciousness is the only certainty and necessity, then that would mean solipsism is true. 3. God refers to Absolute Solipsism. 4. Therefore, there is only one consciousness that exists, and that is God. Proof 7: The Present Moment 1. The present moment is all that exists. 2. Anything you imagine outside of the present moment is your imagination in the present moment. 3. God is not some event of the past but is happening in the now. 4. Therefore, God exists as the present moment. Proof 8: Absolute Truth 1. Absolute Truth exists and cannot not exist. 2. The Absolute Truth represents what is most fundamental about reality. 3. Any reference to God is a reference to Absolute Truth. 4. God is Absolute Truth. 5. Therefore, God exists. Proof 9: The Universe as Oneness 1. The universe exists. 2. Everything in the universe is deeply connected; otherwise known as oneness. 3. God is oneness due to omnipresence being an attribute of God. 4. Therefore, God is synonymous with the universe. Proof 10: Necessity of Existence 1. God represents the necessity of existence. 2. If existence is necessary, then God exists. 3. Existence is necessary. Existence is not an accident given the vast complexities required for anything to exist. 4. Therefore, God exists as the necessity of existence. These are all my original ideas based off of my contemplations. Any feedback is welcomed. Please let me know if you have a favorite. Thanks! 😊

I honestly do not understand why there are women who are anti-choice. Why would you intentionally want to give yourself less rights? Abortion should be a choice. It just goes to show that nobody trusts women to make decisions. If people trusted women’s decision-making, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

How so?

For those of you who want a simple solution to YouTube’s algorithm madness, just turn off your search history on your YouTube account. It will always turn off recommendations regardless of whatever device you are on. You don’t need to install these extensions. Just turn off your search history and if you really like a video and want to see it again, hit the like button and it will save to your likes folder or save it to a playlist. When I open up YouTube, I don’t get any recommendations which is nice. Hope this resolves this discussion for you.

Want to know if y’all recommend this water filter? https://a.co/d/24H0yn4 I don’t think it’s good idea to drink straight out of the sink. What do you think?