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@Raze Hamas will never represent reasonable leadership for palestinians. They are sacrificing their own poeple in order to hurt Israel, They don't give a shit about Palestinians well-being. Hamas need to disappear form the universe, as they are a threat to both Israelis and Palestinians. On the other hand, If Israel were more developed, they would free the more moderate leaders from theirs prisons and push a cooperation plan that could involve an internal insurrection by the more liberal population of Palestine and prospects of a real and fair 2-state solution, pairing that with Surgical strikes, like they do on Iranian territory. But this costant threat is what blinds them and makes it impossible for that leap to happen. - so what they do instead is vengful carpet bombing, which is like repairing a virus filled computer by phisically hammering it. (because that's how fascists operate).

Creativity is the original combination of different elements. When the combination is original enough, we give it a new name to differentiate from the previous, such as "Punk Rock" or "Cubism" " or "Existentialism" There is no such thin as creation without recombination. Otherwise we wouldn't even be able to understand what we are looking at.

@Leo Gura What kind of evidence would you consider a proof though? I think you know pretty well that some insight and achievements are so radical you cannot give a tangible proof of them. That's why i'm surprised by your attitude. Daily poeple challenge you attaiments and you obviously cannot give them a proof of Alien Intelligence, cause the evidence would be the experience you had, that you cannot transfer to any other. This seems to me like a double-standard in you thinking, unless i'm missing a peace of it and there is something i'm not awere of.

@Leo Gura I'm awere of you opinion about Buddhism and Advaita Leo, but it still surprises me how you are so dogmatic about this suffering topic. How can you be so sure this is the case? full freedom from suffering might be extremely hard, but it's not unreasonable to think it can possibly be echieved. What's your reasoning on this? ------------ @Someone here Not every hardship in life is linked to the dark night. Actually, most of the times it isn't.

8+ months and the bias is still rock-solid i see. reality-bending, even. And the problems for israel won't end if dudes like you keep having this attitude. To say 35000 pople died because of Hamas is ridicoulus and luckily more and more poeple are realising how inadequate this Israeli governemnt is at finding a sustainable solution to this mess, which they are part of.

@mac99 Moderation is key. Lust is fine as long as it doesn't interfere with other areas of your life, including your spiritual practice. If you think about sex for most of your day, to the point you fell like you can't execute you usual task that is when it becomes a problem. If something is obsessing you, the i suggest you to whatch Leo's video called " Burning Through Karma " No true Buddhist will tell you that. Go gently. Renunciations to worldy obbsessions will decade automatically if you practice correcly and tenaciously. Forcing renunciation it will only make your Lust stronger. Buddhism is about the elimiation of Attachment, not Desires. Some desires will abandon you in the process of eliminating the Attachment to Desires. But that isn't a given. Many buddhists with hight attainments still have a sex life, but they are certainly not obsessed by it.

@GLORY Karma, as one of the possible answers. If we wanna get as deconstructive as possible, there actually isn't any logic about why or how thing appear in the present moment. Logic and causation only become a factor when we speak about the world in its duality. In this case, if you wanna find a chain of reactions you will definitely find it. Why did you decide to eat ice cream today? an infinite number of apparition in consciousness prior to that one, all linked to one another through by a thread of association, same archetype etc.

@Majed For how i see it, in art are present both objective and subjective elements: what is objective: Popularity, influence (on other artists), originality, tecnichal ability, level of equipement, sales. What is subjective: all the rest. "x is better then" is a subjective statement. objectivity cannot measure what is "better", because "better" is not a measurable.

@Nivsch The second itfifada lasted atleast 5 years, 2002 was just a part of it. And the total result is always more civilians casualties then combatants. I never said Israel should sit and wait to be attacked. The problem is that we have arrived to this situation mostly because of what i wrote above. Whenever the most powerful in the reagion make it habitual to kill civillian like rain in the hope of chopping down some terrorists, something has gone wrong. I don't have a solution, i just know bombing a whole territory over and over has proved to be ineffective. The point is, Isreael never had the nuanced, sophisticated and compassionate level of strategical thinking that was needed to solve the contentions with its problematic neighborhood. And this is reflected in poeple like you, who use "they can't do anyting else" as an excuse for all that it's happening, without understanding that errors were made and errors and actions birthed from those errors must be condamned, as mush as any terrorist attacks must be condamned. Israel current actions will backfire, like it always had happened, bringing forth an endless cycle of suffering for everyone, until a more advanced leadership will take power.

@Nivsch Doesnt matter the aim. The premise is always to defend Israel, the result is brutality. And brutality isn't surgical. Yes and it is shameful. Israel answer? they "cut the grass". Israel problem has always been its comprehensible belligerant bias and its inability to solve problems in any way other than bombings and police abuse of force. --------- @Danioover9000 what? what do you mean?

@Danioover9000 = The suffering of palestinians and Israelis will continue for a rather long bit i'm afraid

@Nivsch Second intifada / 2014 operation - are this a better example? yes, let's call it a "loose" occupation Killing thousend's of civilians is always despicable, no metter if offensive or difensive. Funnily enough, the scope of the casualites of the recent are certainly not symmetrical, but that's because the Israel Military is completely out-doing Hamas in terms of devastation.

@Nivsch intelligent and surgical operations like Sabra and Shatila? Or the occupation of the west bank territories? You would like to paint Israel as the country that unfortunately isn't. I'm glad you seem to concede that the ongoing response hasn't been surgical. Do you realise that your line of thinking can be applied to justify hamas aswell?

@Breakingthewall This is true, but it doesn't change the fact that Israel's response is autoritarian regime-level.

@Breakingthewall Yes, war is war but war is also justified with something called propaganda. This is utter BS. Whenever a vastly superior military decide to basically destroy a community there is always atleast 1 other way they are deciding to ignore. The fact that they were brutally attacked doesn't suspend Israel from their moral obligations, and their answer was "vengeance". That's fine, but then they souldn't be surprised when the whole world look at them in scorn. Call it war. But it is simply isn't true there isn't any other way the could tackle this. And even if there weren't, they would be be responsable, given how they handled the situation through the years. Don't spread this "there is no other way" BS.

@bobby_2021 I meant Us as "us", we, the collective. Not America. As i wrote earlier, the reason for the magnitude of the Palestinian conflict are to be found in the split and support to either one of the two sides involved. Anti-semitism is a factor, but most decent poeple criticise Israel based on their handling of the situation in Gaza and in the West Bank. Their operation and intentions are highly criticizable, independently of Ethnicity and Religion. And this is a position shared by many moderate Jewes and Israeli citizens.

@Vrubel Yes, but notice how what you just wrote can describe what part of the ruling class in Israel think of Paestinians. Don't portray Israelis as harmless lambs who have the whole world against them for no reason. As i wrote above, reasons are evident for disliking israel operations.

@Bobby_2021 Just explained to you. The Israel-Palestine debate is more wide-spread in the west because the media and the public is divided. Division create discussion. Put in the mix Antisemitism and Islamophobia and you have a bomb. We are so invested in it because, in a sense, this conflict talks about Us, westerners, and our internal political and social conflics. If you dig, you're going to find many condamnations of Saudi Arabia, but it just doesn't add up because public opinion generally agrees they're bad. Never said nor implied. Nevertheless, i think it was to be expected judging how they've been handling the sitation down there through the years. ---------- @Vrubel Antismitism is surely a thing in the west and not only. Urban myths and strange theories have contributed to the discrimination of Jews and Israel over the years for sure. But you also have to consider that poeple might be mad at Israel because they don't find it right to bomb houses and hospitals just because potential terrosist might be down in some tunnel. Jew have been often ostracized and hated but this shouldn't morph into a the victim card that you play whenever you are accused of something. I've always witnessed plenty of critiques regarding these topics. That the Saudis do not seek destabilization si arguable. Every time you participate, even indirecticly, to a war you are destabilizing the area.

@Bobby_2021 The logic is that usually Pro Pal. are pro Yemen aswell. The difference is that Palestine is a more heated topic in the West cause of the Israel support crushing with the support for Palestinians. Everyone hate Saudi Arabia. Easy.

@QandC This is common. What is basically happening is that you are disingaging/unhooking from worldly rules, morals, obligation, authority. Imagine a child that is taken away from his mom while he's still in the process of sucking from her breast What is going to happen is that you will naturally start to become you own authority. In other words: when you realize life is meaningless, it's ultimately Good because you can start to create your own meaning. My advice is: when you are ready, cut the stuff you feel you are annoyed by, keep the things you genuinely like to do. Because you will find that even in this ocean of nothingness there are some things you naturally gravitate towards. It's desires that made you incarnate, identify tham and fulfill them. That's the game. Change your life according to your inclinations. So it does bother you. There is always going to some deeeeeeeep programming that serves the purpose of not making you act like a madman. Because of survival, you're going to see that it's easy to act out of common sense. There is simply stuff you cannot avoid doing unless you want to harm your body-mind. Which is not something you want if you live anywhere there are scraps social constructs (ex. You follow the queue at the supermarket, exacly as you did before).

@r0ckyreed Which again, is not the same as telling other poeple to do so.

@r0ckyreed Leo never taught to live as if death is imaginary, quite the opposite infact. This is a fantasy of yours. Don't confuse investigation of Truth with a prescription on how to behave in day-to-day life. Conventional life is lived by conventional rules. Even if death is imaginary, that doesn't mean you should go jump from a building. No one is denying that "death is something that is inside the Universe". This is true, in relative terms. When Leo says Death doesn't exist, he's not negating the concept. He's saying you are imagining the concept, And there is no real concrete reality where this process is gripped upon. Hope this clear it up.

@r0ckyreed Is exacly because you don't distinguish between Abs. and Rel. that you don't comprend the teaching. To say that " Stallone wil die" is true in the relative day-to-day domain, but it false in the absolute domain cause Stallone doesn't have inherent existence, all he is is a character in this infinite stream of existence. You are imagining his consistency. You are imagining your consistency. ------- It's years now that i'vs seen you coming up with this topics, and the leit-motif is always this misunderstanding. Nothing has inherent existence, no separation. no will of its own. Every object that appears in your experience is perpetually sustained by a process of immagination. Including the concept of death.

@rnd Don't fall into the trap of thinking every country has the same level of developement. Authoritarian is a step back of Democracy. Here in Italy we had what Russia is having a hundred yers ago. And no, Democracy doesn't mean heaven. it can be pretty corrupt. But is better then whatever Russia is today. And no, Covid wasn't just a little flu virus.

@Danioover9000 good stuff you're smokin' eh When did i ever implied 9/11 was a hoax? i'm just saying that Al Qaeda didn't attack at random. There were reasons. But if you just look at the attack with pre- and post- knowledge you cannot possibly guess the why's. I repeat. Data are important, but they must serve the big picture, othewise there is a risk of useless and endless arguing about minutia.