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Is there not only life and not death?

feels like you're not highlighting the clear bias RFK has against the standard "woke" narrative of liberals like biden. RFK is profiling himself as a less woke alternative to Biden, so he has a lot to gain by assuming his position. I do agree with you for the rest though.

I'm in a dark place right now guys having very weird symptoms for like a year now extreme social anxiety to the point i can't control my body and facial muscles anymore, can't speak anymore, like literal dissociated loss of control over my body, can only stand anxious paranoia energies constantly surging through my body when i'm with people total mental closeoff muscles literally feel so tense i can't move them fluently anymore, everything is very weird rhythmically and energy in my body just feels completely locked in main symptom is trouble talking which i feel in the mouth but also gut and groin, feels like my chakras are completely fucked unironically it feels very weird, it feels physical and mental at the same time extreme nervousness, low self worth, always feel like theres a threat, breathing and posture get extremely non-stoic (only way i can describe it), shakyness, anxiousness but to an extreme degree constant trauma paranoia energy coursing through me my life is almost destroyed honestly I really don't know what kind of doctors to contact, interfacing with the outside world is extremely difficult help

Don't let this blackpiller get to you, just because he is going through horrible health issues which he's projecting on you. It'll probably not be easy but not a horror show for everyone.

Let hitler talk his nonsense; at least he makes some good roads and fashion.

Lex Fridman leaves too much wiggle room for slippery eels like Musk

Musk's rhetoric has worsened over the last year, hes deep into far right conspiracies now So I think he should be exposed far and wide now, considering he turned twitter into a nazi amusement park, the masses dont know how fucked he is If anything Lemon should have went harder There are conservatives with more and less integrity and Musks integrity tanked to the absolute bottom

@atla If you're up for it, try a low dosage shroom trip. It'll expand your mind and allow you to delve deeper into your psyche, and give you an introduction to spirituality. I tripped a few weeks back and for like 3 days after it helped with a lot of my symptoms including (social) anxiety. I'm gonna try microdosing as well. Also contemplate a lot about life and what you want and write it down. this is one of my fav Leo vids that helps with that: I hope you find what you're looking for.

nice.

@Nivsch honest question, do you think not releasing hostages is a legitimate reason to kill 30k+ people?

if there is an end, has there also been a beginning?

@Leo Gura Forgive me for bothering you about this again, I'm just a human with fears and questions. My worst fear is being irredeemably irrevocably damned forever. There is absolutely no rational or empirical ground for this, it is just the idea itself that scares me. Of course abrahamic religions try to use this idea to make them join their religion. The idea that free thought might damn you forever is truly a criminal act by those religions. But it still scares me. The fact that IRL i'm surrounded by muslims also doesn't help, since it probably has an effect on me, just knowing that those people believe in eternal hell and are afraid of it, makes the idea more real for me, like Plato's cave where all are living in a shared delusion. I've learned that to accept this fear and get over it I have to accept the potential outcome. Quite hard to accept that you might never come back from torment, that your consciousness will be imprisoned and tortured forever. But i'm still going to accept this potential outcome. On the other hand, I want to find out whether this is even possible for consciousness, to be in a certain state forever. Again, I don't even believe it can, since every state and object of consciousness is impermanent, except consciousness itself. So heaven and hell can't be permanent. Also, murphy's law would mean that if any such state could exist, we would already be in it, since time has being going on forever. The fact that I'm not in a permanent state right now, would prove that such a state cannot exist. But I want to verify this statement myself instead of rationally thinking about it. I do realize for example that the words I'm typing now are absolute truth, because consciousness is simply undeniable. I'm not a complete noob at truth-seeking, but I'm also not advanced. Is there any psychedelic you might recommend for this? Shrooms was way too loopy and increased mental imagination instead of decreasing it. Do you recommend 5-MEO-DMT or 5-MEO-MALT for this? I'm a bit afraid of LSD since many people report bad trips on it and it lasts so long. NN-DMT i'm also not sure about, I've heard about people gaining knowledge from DMT entities but that would still imply a duality. I have to verify it myself by being the Monad. Although I'm afraid of such a God-Realization and the collapse of duality and I do realize that a true God-Realization will be extremely shocking(how else could it be) but I still want to face it. It confuses me that after all your insights and you haven't come to the conclusion whether particular states of consciousness can be permanent or not. I want to be fearless about death. I want to face my metaphysical fears. If I can overcome those, any challenge and calamity in life can be overcome, that is my hypothesis. When I was in LA last year, deeply contemplating metaphysical questions, I came across this quote on a church: “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.” -Toni Morrison I feel like this quote somehow holds the answer about us humans. But I don't know, maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic. You've said that truth doesn't serve you. How can it not though? I realize truth won't grow your dick or shit like that. But knowing the truth is liberation by itself right? liberation from insecurity? at least in the grand scheme.

Isn't God more than just the fabric of reality though? It sounds like you're giving more of a Buddhist view here of God just being the ground of reality. For example, in your video about the purpose of life, you said that the purpose of life is Consciousness/God experiencing itself in all its forms and manifestations to explore itself. By this statement it seems God is more than just the fabric of reality. I'm not asking for some answers to dogmatically believe, I'm just interested in you talking about God lol. I'm on my own path of finding truth and gnosis. Reality just confuses the fuck out of me since I've had my awakening experience a few years back. My ego wants to cling on to various belief systems about reality and God. Fear of hell / tormental incarnations does also play a role here. I'm working on cleansing this from my system. However I'm not even sure if answers exist to the existential questions I have. Is it even possible to gain understanding and answers to all questions? You've said that you've gained infinite understanding of all of reality. But you've also said that you don't know the answers to many questions and that there are some things you can't know. This apparent contradition in your rhetoric confuses me.

isn't the whole idea of yoga to engineer your own inner system? Are you being cynical about being able to learn to control your own state and body?

nah you won't. your content will be preserved and people in 500 years will recognize the wisdom and truth in it.

"The possibilities are just as unlimited inside of the limits as outside of them" -Jules Deelder

Can't really blame him for seizing the opportunity to provide for his family generations down the line.

It kinda makes sense that to claim infinite sovereignity over reality it would require the sacrifice of ultimate suffering first, the harrowing of hell. But maybe I am mistaken.

I kinda like Sadhguru's take on suffering. He says the more spiritual you will become, the more you will suffer, because you are living life in fast forward. you are burning through karma and are really trying to find the truth... I mean in the end everyone in spirituality is looking for that ultimate thing, which of course means the ultimate sacrifice... like Mahasamadhi/a full submission and dissappating of the self, the ultimate death... of course you're going to suffer more if your soul is moving in that direction.

nah, it's deep spiritual compassion for the universe and being set towards purifying your soul. Jesus was a pretty harsh teacher but his compassion was cosmic. he realized that love and christ consciousness is something that needs to be stood for otherwise devils will just overrun you. [34] Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. [35] For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. [36] And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. [37] He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. [38] And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. [39] He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Matt 10

Are you familiar with the pythagorean metaphysical ontology of the monad, dyad and numbers? What is boggling my mind lately is that the numbers 1 and 2, seem to have more metaphysical significance than numbers above them. What i mean is that in the end there is only one thing, monism, which is the number 1. however duality, the number 2, seems to be as significant as monism in the end. similar to what is discussed in the aztec metaphysics.. we seem to live in a world of opposites, hot and cold, awareness and unawareness, night and day. it seems like a continuous marriage of duality and non-duality, merging and seperating... god being everything , the entire universe, but also being ever transcendant... But why duality? what is so important about the number 2 or the dyad? once we go from the number 3 the numbers seem to lose their metaphysical importance. the numbers 0,1,2 and infinity seem to be abstract discriptors of metaphysical realities. why aren't the other numbers? or is this just an illusion? Is the entire notion of duality and non-duality even worth contemplating about when trying to get to the ultimate truth?

although i've always hated Yang's metaphysics

however most people would probably benefit more from serious human spirituality than trying to reach higher and higher and levels of consciousness. You are probably the most hardcore psychonaut out there and you still are going deeper. it's like James Cameron descending in the ocean with his pod only after years off going down he is still descending and there doesn't seem to be an ocean floor ever in sight. I get that that's the point but most people would just throw the towel in a lot earlier before you. that's really the only thing people like Frank are doing. their spirituality is just limited but by that margin could be a lot better balanced and integrated by humans than Leo type spirituality going as deep and far as possible to see whats out there. also how are you even sure that those levels of consciousness that you've reached are also reachable by others? i mean those levels you're talking about are clearly beyond basic god-realisation and solipsism. why are you still trying to convince us dream characters of certain stages that are only available to you anyway since you're God?

@Leo Gura what financial and economic system should humanity strife for in the next quarter century? And what steps should we start to take right now? how do we work towards a (more) cooperative economic strategy right now, what steps should we take? It feels like we're in a prisoners dilemma that causes each individual to have to be very selfish and individualistic to survive. I realize some kind of hierarchy would always be present, weighing in the Ayn Rand argument (not in a libertarian retarded way but the argument does hold some weight, a communist utopia does not exist and would be hell). How long can the big corporations the rich play the late stage capitalist game before shit will hit the fan? will the companies see this coming and refrain in their greed to not cause their own demise? Such an interesting and intricate game the world is.

Do you think it's possible though? True public money like crypto is does fit in a libertarian socialist society, since the people own their own money like if it is cash. In my country bank costs are through the roof and the banks are acting like tirants simply because there is no alternative than using the banks for money.