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As far as his original works go Chomsky's pretty good, but his commentary on contemporary politics and technology etc. sucks ass.

The point is that noone is awake, else we couldn't have this conversation. Neither Leo nor Ralston nor anyone else is awake. Awakening is not something that you can attain and keep; either you are awake or you are not - everything you see in these gurus are just extraordinary degrees of consciousness/development or whatever the fuck you wanna call it.

Calling yourself awake or enlightened, as these spiritual gurus do, is a completely arbitrary and deceptive statement. God is always beyond your finite little existence, no matter how "spiritual" you think you are.

Can you shape and animate your shapes at will though?

This is too funny

Its not wrong, but its not the highest form of competition. I recommend you read the book "Finite and Infinite Games" by James Carse, if youre interested in healthy competition.

Wut That's a plot twist if I've ever seen one. What does Ralston have to do with this all of a sudden?

Healthy competition is not to compete over something, but competing just for the sake of being a great competitor.

Thats just evolutionarily adaptive behavior (for obvious reasons), so girls are hardwired to be attracted to the kind of guy that would win these fights (because he would provide her offspring with the genes to win these fights and in turn spread her genes). So either find a conscious girl that has transcended her attraction dominant guys (if you do, please tell me where you found her) or become dominant without fucking anyone else over (i.e. have game).

Sure, he seems to lump some things together, that don't necessarily have to go together. You could call it holistic though and I think there is a strong argument for not being so anal about keeping these things separate.

I would consider the whole "you have to become a cup of tea to understand consciousness," as "psychonautics," but his emphasis on becoming more intelligent and conscious is just pushing the envelope on human evolution/development, which I personally find very intriguing and don't really see anyone doing on such a high level (maybe Schmachtenberger, but he's really covert about it). I guess good old spirituality by the likes of Eckhart Tolle or Rupert Spira transcend all this "seeking," but it's also rather boring and stale.

Thats crazy. I dont get there through meditation at all, but contemplation works quite well for me.

That line is not clear to me at all.

The first thing I thought of when I read freak of nature was Danny Carey lol. He is just built different. But yeah, those are some big hands, holy shit.

You dont understand what hes talking about, thats all.

Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging https://amzn.eu/d/3NXjhOY As far as biology (or Q3) goes, this one is pretty comprehensive (although leaning a little toward bro-science at times).

Get you one of these bad boys.

What's your point? Many of the greatest intellectuals are university professors, that's just a fact.

Just go to Lex Fridmans channel and you will find a whos who of the greatest contemporary intellectuals, most of which are in fact professors at prestigous universities.

Lol haven't heard that one before

Jokes on you, if you listen to a guy you don't consider that smart.

Those speeches are always extremely lofty and flattering, but in the end it's all a huge pile of bullshit, unless you actually have some realpolitik solutions for these problems. Listen to a speech of Xi Jinping - that motherfucker has better speeches than Gandhi, yet he is running an autocratic dystopian hellhole and is out for world domination.

What has this man not done? Absolute legend.

Quiet the mind, open the heart.