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@Leo Gura appreciate all those insights very much .. I always find that they always help me get unstuck even when I didn't even realize I was stuck. I'll contemplate and integrate these points.

@Leo Gura regarding your recent blog post on Truth .. Every now and then I get the courage to question what reality is, etc. .. but I used to be able to do this quite effortlessly. I think past trauma has made it hard to even question it even a bit. I start to freak out a bit now, and have to keep re-grounding myself. But then I started thinking about your blog post more. You said "Anyone not doing this is corrupt and deluded." If the pursuit of truth removes corruption and delusion, is it also the case that the pursuit of removing corruption is sort of a path of truth? What I mean is that if questioning reality even a bit triggers trauma, etc. .. is a path to truth removing trauma, fear, negative emotions, improving mental health, physical health, building ones life, etc. I'm a lot better at journaling my corruption and purging that, but can I consciously take that as a path to truth until I'm more receptive again to a higher quality path to Truth? or do you think I am flawed here somewhere in my thinking? And do you just mean absolute truth, or is your idea of Truth very holistic, multi-perspective, encompassing direct and indirect paths, etc.? Also, I hope you can answer this also very specifically: one of the greatest joys I get is tapping into infinite creativity, in my own way, within my life purpose, and I fundamentally feel more holistic, less fearful, more connected to life, etc. In other words, a lot more conscious when I'm really applying myself creativity. How does something like that fit with in with Truth? Because from one perspective I see that being higher conscious, becoming conscious of the beauty of reality, participating consciously in creativity, etc. but on the other hand it doesn't seem as direct, and therefore is that still not even in the ballpark of pursuing Truth? I guess if I had to boil all this down into what I'm really asking here, is that if there's room in the pursuit of Truth to be strategic in how you go about it, as the path to Truth. Like there's more than one way to climb a mountain sort of thing, even if its indirect, you can still be climbing that mountain, whatever resonates, whatever feels fitting and is doable, etc. Sometimes I get the sense that when you talk about Truth you mean either a) "all this work of actualized.org as the path which is super holistic", but sometimes I get the sense you mean b) "yeah you'll do all this actualized.org work but really you need to be pursuing absolute truth very directly very often"

@Leo Gura ah okay, that is an important distinction. I can see such extreme levels of power being blinding .. that possibly explains trumps and musk's behavior as well.

@Leo Gura maybe its a rule of life: the less you possess (stuff, attachments, etc.) .. the clearer you see. Just a theory.

@Leo Gura I didn't even realize things can get worse lol .. I really need to watch your 4 part politics series. None of politics make sense to me. It feels like a jungle where its hard to understand anything. All other aspects of personal development are far more clear to understand, but politics is a mess from my POV. So many lies, bias, etc. I recall mark andreesan say he read tons of books on politics .. yet he's the biggest trump supporter ever .. claiming its "morning in america" .. but of course he is highly biased by techno-optimism, but its surprising because despite reading tons of books, he seems deluded to be a huge trump supporter without naunce.

@Miguel1 My god if Owen really did that .. Id be so disappointed. I've been getting increasingly annoyed with Owen over the years .. how he treats his son, forcing me to pay for his stuff, buying a course with basically nothing in it, and the list goes on .. But despite all that I still think he's genuine at heart. But let me get this straight, he lost a court case and wiped the assets after that so that he wouldn't get the money or something?? I don't get law that well, but is that the case? That's another level to stoop too.

@Leo Gura This being an example, and other examples I have .. to suggest that trump may not be "THAT" bad? Of course I am not supporting his authoritarian agenda, etc. but every now and then I come across some very important changes his administration is making. I can't tell if this is me being delusional and being caught in my own agenda, or if he is actually making important changes. For ex. deporting illegals, from one perspective I can see as a good thing. So thats sort of 1 good point for him, although its been a bit harsh and inefficient, but generally been fine? Then also I see that his admin is limiting chips to China, which helps US advance in AI, and also some of the de-regulation helps US AI companies advance further than china, which is also good in the case that we don't want an authoritarian regime being far above and leading the world in AI, which would be bad for war, as such a thriving economy and power in china would also trickle into war and military of theirs in many ways. Which is another important 1 more point for Trumps administration? Now I can see this de-regulation thing potentially being a bad thing in terms of just letting companies do whatever they want, further building bigger pockets of AI companies (and possibly trump richer) .. and he likely didnt do this de-regulation because he's protecting national interest (or is he?) .. But I guess overall I'm wondering if my views on Trump being 100% bad is completely accurate? Many things have made me furious in the past like what he's doing with Medicaid, and to the elderly, etc. though.

@Leo Gura well damn .. maybe ill re-consider taking elon's mars flight coming in a few years

@Leo Gura But then you're claiming supply and demand graphs will never have any gaps, or if they do they'd immediately get filled by AI? I'm not sure if you're being hypothetical or posing this as a serious possibility? But also by that logic isn't your job also gone then? And if that really is the case, then how will any of us physically survive, or have a life well-built that survives? I don't think I want to rely on the government for UBI. I mean sure I'll take it but I wouldn't want to rely on that.

@Leo Gura On the opposite end, if we have tons of diverse AI agents at our disposal, incredible polymaths, imagine what we can actualize and create in the world with our vision, good taste, good judgement, utilizing all these agents? And even if there was an AI that could replace the visionary, so what? There's always room in the world to create amazing world-class products. For those who care about building amazing things, I don't see how AI would be a bad thing.

@Leo Gura are there any particular videos you made that opens the creative capacities more than others? I listen to some of those creativity, requisite variety videos from your blog a lot, as that puts me in a creative state before work, but I was wondering if you had any on your channel that is particularly good at that?

@Leo Gura Gotchya .. I guess I asked all that because I know you're able to access certain insights with the mind and tools you have that many of us don't have access to, that could flip my entire way of living inside out lol I'll try my best not to project my fears. I tried to frame it in a way where I'm focusing on the philosophical aspect, and which I am, but the fears do come through sometimes. I'll work on that.

@Natasha Tori Maru its probably like a fish aquarium in her mind .. her very own turd aquarium. Why even flush the toilet at that point?

@Leo Gura Well if we take that lady for example, what that says to me about her psychology is that shes highly emotionalized by that lifestyle. But also you mention objects of luxury, like does having any object of luxury create some sort of deep delusion in your mind? For ex. say you're mostly living a normal life, but you have an Audi S5 sports car. If most of your life is grounded in high conscious principles but you still own such a car does that fall into the category of what you're saying? I guess Im wonder is if any objects of luxury at all create some form of deep delusion or is it the overall emotionalized pursuit of objects of luxury in general.

@Leo Gura Regarding your post on luxury, is that a generalization that luxury is a trap? For ex., I'm not in pursuit of "endless luxury" in the way some rich person is constantly after stuff, etc. I value more higher conscious things above that. I envision living in a normal cabin type house, by the beach, nothing fancy really, but Im sort of applying that practice you mentioned in a video about investing deeply in your space and house, and the joy you get from that, and like setting up an archery space, your own library room, getting into the fine details of building your house the way you'd like, etc. In a sense the pursuit is for creating a space optimal for inner growth, but also for living a good life. Is that so bad if its in pursuit of higher ideals but that incorporates some degree of luxury? Or does any bit of luxury deeply delude you, or any partial pursuit to create an aesthetically pleasing environment for oneself, and that you should aim to remove all luxury from your life lol .. Im mainly just trying to understand your thoughts better.