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I don't think Leo ever said other people are meat-suits. This is just a materialistic anthropomorphizing of the message Leo is trying to convey. All these solipsism threads are just endless intellectualizations. Anyways, this is a great answer from Ralston.

He answered this in Curt's interview and basically said "It's all Love", although the answer may have changed after the alien kangaroo mouse awakening. He recently said his alien awakening is the most important thing to him and that all he wants to focus on is teaching that now. My input, Actualized.org's current ethos is probably something like seriously practicing your own authority. Not being loosely swayed by the opinions of others. Valuing truth over all. And having the courage to say that truth, even if it rubs people the wrong way.

Just read consciously. It seems like you're scared of being deluded by some Buddhist ideas or something. If you approach it consciously with your own authority and a grounded epistemology then it will only be a benefit to you. If you don't, you will probably spend all your time thinking "Oh but maybe Buddhism isn't bullshit, I will never know since I didn't look into it!". If something is bullshit, so be it. You can even learn from bullshit. Leo only apparently realized Buddhism was bullshit after very thoroughly looking into it. Sometimes you gotta jump deep into the bullshit to really conclusively figure out that it is indeed bullshit.

Yeah can you believe he also had an spiritual awakening into absolute love? He's basically God-realized

Cool! It really does create a more smoother caramel-like flavor profile. Just don't put too much, about a pinch, cause salt is surprisingly potent, much more potent than sugar.

Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33086585/ Comprehensive article about above study: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/food/its-time-to-rethink-pink-salt-study-c-1419572 Study: https://themeadow.com/pages/minerals-in-himalayan-pink-salt-spectral-analysis Comprehensive article about above study: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/pink-himalayan-sea-salt-an-update/ Himalayan salt is touted to have about 40-80 different minerals, but funnily only about 14 of those are actually usable by the human body. So, most of the minerals in Himalayan salt are basically unusable contaminants. Also, the pink color of Himalayan salt comes from rust (iron oxide), which isn't really harmful, but it speaks to how unrefined it is. It even contains some radioactive elements. Here's a Reddit post someone made about all the sand they found in their bottle of Himalayan salt: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/106xuqj/the_amount_of_sand_and_rocks_in_kirkland/ This is also supported in my own experience with my coffee, I literally only put about a pinch of it in there and it leaves this: 1. Electrolytes 2. It counteracts any bitter elements in the coffee. The more salt you put, the less sharp/bitter the coffee will become. So, it can potentially balance out the flavor of the coffee 3. In my experience, it adds a really nice salted caramel type of flavor to the coffee

Don't know about that, but I do know that Himalayan salt is full of heavy metals. If you ever put Himalayan salt in your coffee, you will find literal undissolved sand/sediment at the bottom of your cup, lol.

Anger is self-harm. In order to be angry you have to be unconscious of the fact that you are harming yourself.

Ralston explains that "states" are relative, and that enlightenment is not relative, it is absolute, so it is not a state, by his definition. You have to decipher how Ralston uses these words here, and I think he makes it pretty clear. Ralston tends to be very picky about using relative terms like "love" "insight" and "states" because these terms all get tangled up in human stories about "not being enlightened" and "reaching truer states" and it can mislead people. Furthermore, he says enlightenment is becoming conscious of what is true and what is always true. If enlightenment is always true, then calling it a state implies that it is possible for some sort of contrasting state which isn't true to exist, which might be why he insists it is not a state. If something is always true, calling it a state that has to be achieved or found somewhere else is somewhat redundant, because it implies you are in a state where truth does not exist, which cannot be the case if enlightenment and truth are absolute.

Your entire life is a mystical experience. When you create this separation, when you say that life is not spiritual or mystical, you turn life into something stupid and materialistic and limited. That's good. This is spirituality at its finest. Even though it might not seem like it at times, ultimately you are creating all the rules and desires. You don't have to do any of this. But, you are. Why? Because there is something within you that wants to create something. There is something that is aware of the potential that is inside you. There is something that realizes that all of this might actually be worth it. You need to tap into that. Go for a walk. Listen to some of your favorite music. Then tell yourself: Maybe all of it will be worth it if I get to experience beautiful things like this from time to time. It is important to get your mind sorted in this manner, because you can easily get pulled into compulsive states of consciousness otherwise. States of consciousness which make you feel like the entire world is ending. Just like if you have a full bladder, your consciousness will compulsively start focusing on finding a bathroom and nothing else. One moment, the most important thing in all of existence is a bathroom, and then the other moment it is something completely different. So, it is important to keep tabs on what types of environments are pulling you into which types of compulsiveness, and being able to detach yourself from that and be aware of that.

Stories are just stories. They have nothing to do with your emotions unless you want them to. There's a difference between consciously story-telling and unconsciously story-telling. No one consciously tells negative stories. Negative stories are always unconscious. People are constantly unconsciously conjuring up stories which make them feel bad. It's the same as self-harm, like stabbing yourself with a knife for no reason. You are using your intelligence against yourself in that scenario. It doesn't have to be that way if you come up with stories consciously. When it is done consciously, there is no harm, because you will not consciously harm yourself. Just like you would not touch a hot stove because you are conscious that it will harm you.

All the love and understanding you need is within you.

Happy birthday Leo!

Yep

Yes. All of these are explicit and always sexual. You're not gonna accidentally or non-sexually put your penis in a vagina or any of the other holes. So, it is sex. The intentions only go one way: sexual pleasure. A handjob only involves physical stimuli from a hand, which is not necessarily always sexual. Sometimes you touch your penis with your hand in a non-sexual way, and so I would not consider it sex although it can lead to orgasm, because it's not necessarily always related to sex. Same goes for kissing. It's too indirect, and it can exist in scenarios that don't involve sexual pleasure or orgasm. So, not sex. And also, it has to be done with another person/entity, of course. I think this is a good way of defining it.

How odd. He says that homosexuals can't orgasm. And that kissing is gross as well, because it transmits germs, lol. I think the only thing perverted and unnatural here is Osho's own perspective on sexuality.

I used to get salty when I cared about following the rules as a kid. Everyone was around me was cheating one way or another, and it irked me because it basically invalidates all your efforts. I was pretty naïve for that. I saw rules as something absolute and unbreakable. And so clinging to that mindset caused a lot of friction in me because it contradicted reality. 95% of those rules are built on fear. Fear is not a very sustainable form of motivation, so it will be broken. People in school are taught rules without them understanding why the rules are made, and in order to do that you use fear and punishment. Like how you prevent a toddler from jumping into a giant puddle because "I said so". The toddler's desire to jump isn't really invalidated, it's just that there is some external authority forcefully blocking the desire now for some unknown reason.

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Yes, but the problem isn't AI. It's a flaw in the system itself that is motivating such behavior. The system was always being undermined, it's just being done more efficiently with AI now, to such a large degree that people are actually forced to seriously consider the issue, whereas before they weren't really talking about it. It's a reality check. If someone is genuinely interested and wants to learn something, they won't cheat. No one who cheats expects to actually learn what they are cheating on. It's fundamentally still about the asymmetry in values I mentioned before. On the other hand, AI also makes learning easier.

It put a mirror up to my face and of course it pushes you into action when you realize all of a sudden that you have horns and a forked tongue.

I don't know, probably less sweet and less sour, more mellow and watery. Just imagine you're biting into an orange but subtract the solid part.

That's from concentrate, normal orange juice doesn't taste like that

I don't think I've ever actually had orange juice in my life. Just the concentrated stuff from the grocery stores. You never see non-concentrate orange juice anywhere.