Majed

The Jewish question is a question of identity. National identity, religious identity, cultural identity. The key insight is that limited identity breeds violence, injustice and devilry. Unlimited identity, aka God, breeds love, goodness and wisdom. Spirituality is about connecting with spirit, aka God, to become one with it, and recognize it as your true identity: the formless void.

Quite an interesting spiritual path.

I think that antisemitism stems from people not understanding the Jewish perspective. If people studied Judaism, Jewish culture and civilization, and tried to empathize with them, they won't be antisemitic. Fundamentally antisemitism is a lack of empathy which stems from a lack of understanding of the Jewish people.

@Leo Gura But doesn't pick up teaches you to have masculine and manly qualities which can be considered a form of gender performance ?

@Emerald I cannot agree more.

@Leo Gura What do you think ?

The key insight is that we're all one.

I just finished watching his movie : Orlando, my political biography. It inspired me to read the book Orlando of Virginia Woolf, which deals with the subjectivity and fluidity of time and gender. Very fascinating.

Paul Preciado is an incredibly interesting philosopher. You'll gain enormous insights from diving into his work, books, interviews, latest film... Here's a place to get you started. Really top notch intellectual.

Here’s a revolutionary idea: By making reality and imagination one. And the mind at the source of existence. We can imagine historians as the ones having lived through centuries and have the experience of all these diverse eras. Hence time becomes a fiction and the boundary between past, present and future becomes fluid and malleable. I called this idea the transtemporal paradigm and way of looking at the world.

Man, all of my problems stem from this shitty illness: weight problems, financial problems, dating problems, family problems... It's exhausting, it's like i'm a slave to my mental illness, i can't function properly even after receiving treatment, life just feels like a burden all the time, as well as me being tired all the time.

@Husseinisdoingfine How would you say is it different from sunni islam ?

@Leo Gura Leo we want more content on romantic relationships.

@Leo Gura How does me being rich affect my level of consciousness ? If i do the consciousness work then i can be rich or poor it doesn't affect my spirituality. What do you think ?

Is the bible true historically? Look we see the world through a story, and the boundary between materiality and imagination is fluid. So if we imagine the bible as historically accurate, it becomes historically accurate in our experience. The notion of factuality is absurd. If we take the model of factual objectivity seriously, then we end up with an infinite amount of facts. Hence reality becomes unknowable. Think of it this way, there are 8 billion people on planet earth. Okay that's something, now how many facts did occur to every single person just today? An infinite amount of facts. Therefore if you base your model of reality on factual objectivity you're doomed to fail at grasping anything significant due to the sheer robusticity of the domain of facts. However if you think of life as a story, therefore life becomes way more understandable, the boundary between imagination and material reality collapses because everything you imagine to be true becomes true in your lived experience. And wisdom is knowing what story to tell yourself. And a bad story to tell yourself is that you operate under a factual objective mode of viewing the world, which is just intenable due to the reason i cited previously.

Why i am not a vegan? I am not a vegan for simplicity sake. I value having a simple life, and i think that an omnivorous diet is way easier to have than a vegan one. As well as being culinarily richer and more refined. Veganism is an insult to thousands of cultures and their unique cuisines around the world. Thousands of years of culinary practice, wisdom, and experience, thrown away in the name of equality, isn't this tragic? Thousands of plates and recipes, with the richest of diversities, from all continents, have to be butchered in the name of animal rights. As well as veganism being an unbalanced worldview, one that doesn't see compromise, doesn't appreciate the value of animal based food. I'm sick of the old vegan rhetoric, i want new rich and diverse experiences, this includes culinary experiences. Throwing away thousands of years of culinary wisdom, rituals, traditions and habits, is a tragedy. And for this veganism will never win, because at heart the human soul desire novelty, wisdom, diversity and richness. At heart veganism makes you hate humans and their traditions. Also as a non religious person i refuse to be part of this religion and cult which is veganism.

@LordFall I think it is a net positive. It is quite a relief to be able to watch porn and masturbate in peace.

Leo doesn't emphasize the importance of being holistically well put together overall to succeed in dating. Like if you're homeless, most likely you won't get laid. Money, and looks matter almost as much social skills. I feel like Leo doesn't stress this enough. I kinda wasted years chasing girls without a proper money foundation and working on my look, which ended in me not getting laid. My skillset in game and seduction improved significantly though. Also women, and i know this from experience, are attracted to luxury. If you wear a luxurious watch, clothes or drive a luxurious car... All those factors help you get laid. Social skills are not enough, you also need money, and looks, otherwise getting laid will be difficult.

If only enlightened individuals are the most free from self deception, does it mean that everyone else is full of self deception ? And is there a way to rank people on a scale from the most to the less self deceived ?

@Leo Gura Notice that you needed to put your finances together, before entering pick up. This wasn't a coincidence. Also what kinda nonsense is this: women sleep with homeless men ? Maybe 1% of homeless men sleep with women, 99% of homeless men do not get sex. As a bisexual man myself, i wouldn't want to sleep with a homeless man, i have at least some standards. Women prefer men who are have money, over men who don't. That's obvious enough. Without money you'll get nowhere in dating. Money and looks matter a lot. Stop misleading people. Without money you can't move to a good city, without money you can't handle the logistics, so yeah obviously money matters. And in a relationship, a girl would rather be with a guy who has money than with a homeless penniless guy.

I sort of find the whole alcohol culture very attractive, and i want to enjoy it. I never tried alcohol before, and in my muslim family it is kinda taboo. However i don't want to die ignorant. I know there are health risks, however Leo said in his episode burning though karma, to exhaust material desires through indulging in them so that they get out of our system. I'm also open to trying the really hardcore drugs like cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, just out of curiosity, however i don't know if i will ever do it, because it can be really risky and dangerous. However alcohol is more mainstream, and accepted, should i try it ?

@Sugarcoat You should see a physician to determine what's your issue, it's not normal to lose you libido, and your sense of self lmao. Maybe you got some mental illness going.

@Leo Gura Therefore my attitude is either to not want to engage with women anymore or being a sociopath and treating them as sex objects to be conquered to score a point and add more numbers to my lay count. If they do not care about me, which attitude should i take towards them other than the two i just iterated ?

@Leo Gura I mean practicing pick up made me realize how shallow women are, like they don't care about me or my person, only my pick up skills matters to attract them, which is just like doesn't make me want to relate to them or love them. Like they don't care about who i am deep down, what makes me vibrate, and feel passioned or alive, they only care about how i approach them... It's a very transactional kind of thing in the end. Plus pick up is a very fast seduction kind of thing where you can get sexual with a girl very fast. Ideally i want a girl not for sex but for sharing the same passions as me for philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, understanding reality, language learning, rap music maybe...