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Comparing this with rape, really? In most people’s ethical books a daytrader is better than a guy who’s purpose is to convince people that they imagined their own family. Thanks for telling us we are scum if we try to make money off these corporations. If that makes me scum then im a fucking scum and you can suck my dick with your demonising. And no you don’t have to ban me for that comment because I’ve seen now that Actualized.org doesn’t fit with my values. This is my last post. Thanks for your help with all your content and good luck in life. Just know that you are a hypocritical hater.

@Leo Gura Small critique: Your attitude around these topics is a bit annoying because you laugh at people who want the world to transcend capitalism and wage slavery, but you also have a very cynical tone with people who want to use capitalistic games for their own gain and survival. I'm critiquing because it's confusing, you seem to look down on a lot of things while also loving the entire universe including all the evil shit.

Will only work if we have enough robots to do the 9-5 jobs, and have the people who used to work those jobs profit from it. so probably in 250 years, maybe earlier. Remember people in the 1900s said we would literally never ever have a man land on the moon.

Of course, the elites have unconsciously created the very system which rewards unconscious business like this. Who doesn't love the big bully getting a punch back, no matter how tiny?

What are your opinions, is the curfew too much of a restriction in proportion to the virus? or is it necessary?

@Forestluv Yeah it's way off the line. Curse of The Netherlands: Always idolizing and following the US. Including moronic MAGA uprisings.

@Preety_India A combination of corruption and bad leadership. The government actually resigned a week ago because of a witch hunt on people who got government benefits, falsely accusing them of fraud and extorting money from them. racist slurs by government organizations were involved. (research "Toeslagenaffaire"). In my experience and from what I have seen in the news it has been getting worse here economically and socially, as in division and racism in the last 5 years. Don't get me wrong The Netherlands is a great country with a 'soft bottom', if you fall into poverty government help for housing and food are almost guaranteed. However this is mostly because income is taxed heavily here, after 60k income per year, the government takes 49%. This is after other taxes that they hold on your labour earned money or business revenue. In my opinion this is corrupt, because there are extremely wealthy people and corporations in this country which almost don't get taxed. "Wealth is most concentrated at the top of the distribution in Austria, Netherlands and Germany" (source: https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/cope-divide-europe-2017-background-report.pdf) the 10% wealthiest people of NL hold almost 60% of the total wealth. It is also seen as a "Tax Haven" by extremely rich corporations, who therefore decide to put their headquarters here. How is this fair when normal income is taxed so high?

@Leo Gura Is it possible that a psychedelic trip can actually give you secret facts about the 'material universe' that you would not have known if not for the trip? or is it all just coincidence and self delusion?

@Preety_India Of course, the majority of the people here think those protestors are retarded, but you have to realize our government's covid policy is and was a pile of shit, and the only reason the Netherlands is standing is because the government has a big pile of money over here to hand out during times like these. despite the government support still 150.000 ppl have lost their jobs and many entrepeneurs don't get any money. The Netherlands is literally the last country in the world to have started vaccinating. this is all because of The Netherlands' bad organization and frugality. The only reason it stills stands reasonably well during this crisis is it's wealth. But I respect the curfew because of the UK variant of virus. It seems extremely contagious so it's the responsible thing to do a curfew at least untill we vaccinate the majority of the country.

@Leo Gura I’m not comparing Van Gogh with crypto investors, I’m just saying he did not get rewarded. But great answer to my point.

@How to be wise yeah but he means the imaginary small self's "experience", so in that sense "ripple of consciousness" is quite a beautiful poetic description of human life, since it is infinitely limited and small compared to the true vastness of infinity, therefore only a ripple. I guess it's just the solipsism question again, but in my experience solipsism contradicts itself because it hinges on so many relative assumptions and imaginations.

I just saw the trailer and cringed harder than i have ever had. All faith in the US is lost.

@How to be wise Yeah, but "Your" is not that of the individual. The "individual experience" doesn't exist, in the same way a hydra's heads don't exist, only the hydra. But it still looks and acts like a hydra.

@Leo Gura Sometimes you have to work with what you got. Or do you just want everyone to recognize your work in a 1000 years when everybody has already realized God thanks to the small elephant eating workings of things like the Qualia Research Institute. To realize God shouldn't we first focus on realizing consciousness as fundamental and denouncing materialism dogma? What is the true focus of your existential teachings, why does it stand apart from other consciousness teachings?

@Leo Gura Van Gogh didn’t provide any value while he was living. Yet he was following his passion and life purpose and always creating. According to your logic, if van Gogh would have invested in gold (btc speculation equivalent at that time) he would be a value leech, purely because he did not provide value to the world. But everyone always looks at his life story in a sad way saying he should have had so much more. My point is its very difficult to be a massive value giver to society because society decides whether you have value or not. Van Gogh followed his life purpose and created a lot of art and tried to sell it but it just did not work out. It’s easy to look down on people trying to make money and not looking to provide value from your position. It’s a privileged position to be a massive value giver to society, and to not focus on money because your value will always give enough money in return. Of course you worked hard as fuck but Van Gogh did as well. Did he truly deserve to live poor just because society didn’t see his work as valuable?

Nice misquote

All your feelings are completely valid. However due to your trauma you can be deluded in your path. That was the biggest issue for me with dealing with trauma, the self deception it causes in situations surrounding your trauma. I of course dont know whether you are deluded, some of the things you said I agree with some not. But keep your mind open to the possibility that you are deluded. One thing i will comment about, you said you don’t know whether a man approaches you out of selfish intent or empathy. I hate to break it to you but those things are not close to separate from eachother. Ego is a complicated thing.

Step one of getting laid: realize that and why this forum is not the place to ask advice on how to get laid

Facts. Most of crypto is just a bunch of bullshit. People don't realize winning on speculation doesn't have any value at all. But I disagree with your notion that you are 'creating wage slaves' when profiting off crypto. It's more like playing poker with all speculators who invested in BTC. they all consented to investing in a digital coin which they know doesn't have to pay off. you are only profiting from other people who are also buying BTC just like you. I have however found out that the US dollar is literally a ponzi scheme; selling bonds which, if all were tried to be paid off, would destroy the US money supply, and there would never be enough USD left to pay back all loans. This means the US is literally forced to go further in debt forever. In theory this would lead to hyperinflation. Many economists are seriously afraid of USD hyperinflation in the next 30 years. My theory is that gold and other precious metals or stones will always be the only real viable currency because human shenanigans are not possible with them. This is because precious metals are more spiritually connected to humans; they come from the earth and every human across borders recognizes it's worth. Compare this to USD which have some dead white presidents on them, printed by the US Fed and like I said, is literally a ponzi scheme by design. I understand printed currency gives power to government which can be a good thing, but we can't say this about the current US situations. And with gold backed currencies governments could still be powerful through taxation, they just wouldn't have total control over the currency and its validity. Great documentary which explains all the shenanigans with fiat money, and a possible US Fed gold ponzi scheme where they sell physical gold bars to multiple people assuming most people don't deliver their actual gold.

Let’s be honest. When talking about the absolute most desirable women from a crude societal standpoint (the top models, actresses, etc) Is it a must to be highly succesful athlete, artist, businessman or male model? or is it possible for a high level average joe (average looks, physically fit, finances covered, life of purpose, good game, good style) to attract the 0.5% of hottest women? Please no theoretical answers, only from real world experience.

@BlackMaze Just don’t worry about it. You clearly have free will in your experience so see that as a blessing. The more consciousness, the more free will because we are consciousness.

@Leo Gura so 5-meo is not a psychological horror experience, but just pure conscioussness? why does this produce panic attacks? i've yet to try it

I agree but can you truly say that he is a traitor to his God self, I thought you said God has to experience all of itself because its all equally good

The conceptual duality of free will is completely imaginary. You don't have free will, but you also don't lack it. Another way of looking at it is to say that you have free will, but only when looking at it from a relative standpoint. Because in the relative realm we have imagined the concept of "choices". whether I put on shoes A vs shoes B today is a choice i can make freely. However in the absolute there exists nothing like "choice"

@SirVladimir Zima blue is a must watch for every spiritual artist. I remember watching it and thinking, Leo would like this. Then I saw it on his blog and i felt all cool lol. @caveman Do what you want to do but as an artist myself I have to say to you, go balls to the wall with art. If you truly put your soul in but also are a smart businessman who can find a profit, then you wont be broke. And if you are still broke just start a side hustle somehow. I know a guy who only makes music and grows weed. That way he can still provide nicely for his family while still saying fuck a job and putting his all into music. And he doesn't have to worry about his music selling which would maybe be a detriment to the authenticity of his work. But above all contemplate for yourself, maybe with half a gram of shrooms. You yourself ultimately know what's best. But be aware of your own self-deception and biases.