spiritual memes

Kinda wish I had read this like 5 minutes ago...

@Dino D What you are doing is called a gish gallop. You are posting an overwhelming number of arguments all of which lack quality. ''During a Gish gallop, a debater confronts an opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate'' anyways... There's a difference between being open to an idea and believing and acting on it. Strawman argument. Few nondualists would say this. as for the paragraph below that one, what the fuck? Its pretty nonsensical rambling A whirlpool on one side of the world cannot interact with a wave on the other side of the world even though they are aspects of one ocean. There's a difference between 'your' limited human experience and the you which is the entire universe. Also, you do experience stuff when you sleep and people sometimes recall past lives. Why can't a guru charge money? After all, he needs to survive and spread his teachings, all of which require money. As for drugs, most gurus dont take drugs, and even if they did, what's wrong with that? As for fucking up their lives, that's just complete bs. 1. Reality is infinitely complex 2. Leo is pretty different from most teachers Because it's a mental construct Because are minds are optimized for survival, not truth. These methods remove the deception mechanisms. huh? This argument is incoherent Because there is no answer. You are trying to grasp nonduality with the conceptual mind which is a mistake. How do you think the conceptual mind understand things? who is this 'you' and 'me' you are referring to? 'you' is a distinction that the mind makes to separate an aspect of consciousness from the rest. It's a mental construct. As for the other arguments, I cba

@Dino D sure, i'll give it a shot

@NightHawkBuzz The number of people on the planet is completely irrelevant to your life purpose. Your life is just as meaningful whether there are 10 people or 10 billion.

Hi Leo. Can you make a video on projection? like how we subconsciously project our shadow onto others both on a personal and socio-political level

@Ulax Ok I'll give that a watch

Maybe america should do this. Imagine tiktok but with meditation and tier 2 thinking videos.

You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket. 8=====D-----

Haha thanks. Hopefully my career in AI takes off soon, fingers crossed

I came across this video where Aaron Abke has an interview with Jesse Lee Peterson - A far right youtuber and radio host. Aaron is a pretty advance spiritual teacher and he tries to explain nonduality and spirituality to Jesse however, his words get twisted to fit the right wing agenda. Its clear that jesse has no idea what Aaron is talking about because his mind is far too closed. I was surprised to see someone as spiritually advanced as Aaron even on this show, and at certain points in the interview he shows some pretty strong right wing opinions about abortion, vaccines, gender, etc. It's worth a watch just to see that even spiritual masters can have some pretty conservative views.

Hopefully me lol

Perhaps extremely advanced AI? They could have beyond human intellect without our flaws

@thisintegrated fair

But what if gods plan is for humans to destroy themselves to make way for another species? Like with the dinosaurs? Perhaps gods plan is for enlightened AI to replace humanity

Maybe there should be a casual chat board?

Are you saying that God is going to step in and save us? Or that he's planned out a solution?

I kind of agree with this. I wish there was a more casual place to chat about this kind of stuff.

I think climate change, nukes and militarized AI will challenge that statement.

doesn't look like him. and age and location dont match

what's the reason for this?

I think its a combination of all of those reasons.

gimme a couple weeks at least. I'm sure I could whip something up...

challenge accepted

@blueberries I agree but his videos excessively demonize the Biden administration while defending Trump and saying he was actually right so its hard to say that he's not a Trump supporter. If Russell brand wanted to bring people together, he would interview leftists as well but he exclusively interviews and defends right wing people and his viewers have become more increasingly right wing.

Russell Brand is probably a closeted Trump supporter Eckhart I think is politically neutral