Sincerity

Here are my more detailed thoughts on Bashar. He’s a mixed bag. What I don't like I hate how sloppy he is with his predictions and how he’s not being held accountable by his audience. Recently I listened to a talk from him from ~20 years ago and he was saying how 2010-2015 was going to be the time for (beginnings of) first contact and that 2012 would be the turning point for humanity in going into a more positive, lighter state/direction. Now he’s saying the time for first contact is like 2027-2033. WTF? I get the justification that you shouldn’t expect definitive predictions and that he’s just „reading the current energy field”. But like, come on. Just sloppy. I don't buy it. I don’t like all the talk about fucking crystals, other alien civilizations, the „history” of humanity and these aliens, different densities, hybrid children, et cetera. Shit you can’t validate. Just stories, beliefs. I will not believe any such crap until I somehow discover it myself. Will I? Probably not. What matters is that which is, what I do in life, my energetic landscape which determines what I do, etc.. I doubt specific fucking alien civilizations or crystals would ever be relevant to that. I can’t help but facepalm when people ask Bashar questions about the details of these insignificant things - like, how did the greys destroy their planet? Am I a hybrid child? What density was fucking Jesus? I don’t know. Ridiculous. Another thing is: I hate how he's sometimes talking with full confidence about things he can't be confident about at all. For example, someone will very superficially describe their dream to Bashar and ask him what it meant, and then he will with complete confidence tell them what it meant for their life. Man, again, this is just sloppy. A single dream could mean completely different things for different people. You can't just impose these meanings on someone. You simply don't know. (And these people of course buy what he's saying. Sigh.) In general, I feel like often times Bashar will pander to people he's talking about. Again, they ask him about the meaning of their dream, trusting that he can give them an answer - and he will provide a meaning for them, no questions asked. He'll often (but not always) tell you what you want to hear - at least that's my impression. That's baaaad. He's not always pandering though. I will give him props for this: He will not indulge in conspiratorial thinking. He will not indulge in trumpism. In fact, before the election he said Trump would destroy the US. The reason this is relevant is because a large share of his audience seems to be partaking in that. But when asked questions from that frame, he will usually dissuade people from going in these directions. I wouldn't be surprised if like 50% (or more) of Bashar's audience were anti-vaxxers. Or Trump supporters. I've listened to a lot of questions from these people and my conclusion is that a significant share of them are morons. Attracted to feeling special, having some special knowledge, escaping with the aliens, being God damn hybrid children, part of something big and unknown to others. Against the establishment and mainstream narratives. This is all connected to conspiratorial thinking in a way. What I like His most basic teaching is gold - The Follow Your Excitement Formula. Act on your excitement, your passion, whatever is most exciting to you, in the moment. Do this every moment that you can. Do this to the best of your ability. Take it as far as you can go until you cannot take it any further. Act on your excitement/passion with absolutely no insistence, assumption or expectation of what the outcome should be. Choose to remain in a positive state regardless of what happens. Constantly investigate your belief systems. Release & replace the un-preferred beliefs: fear-based beliefs, and the beliefs not in alignment with who you prefer to be. To me, this is what's best about him. The formula is simple, but of amazing quality and importance. I've derived a large share of it for myself through my work on understanding the energy domain (in short: follow your highest viable energy in the moment) - and then later realized he was saying something similar. This is what I'm trying to apply every day. It's brought so much love into my life, so much confidence in my choices and actions (when I'm acting on my highest viable energy = doing the best I can in the moment. Because really, what else can I do?) and so much joy. It's really simple when you think about it. But it's true, it works. I like listening to him guiding people in relation to the formula. People come to him with their unique dreams and fears/limiting beliefs (why they can't be doing the thing they want most), and he will help them realize how they're not applying the formula in their life. It's been useful for me to listen to his advice for others, to see through my own fears and beliefs. I like the concept of permission slips. I think it's very true - we do indeed treat all techniques, objects, etc. as permission slips to be the way we want to be. There's nothing inherent in techniques/objects. It's all about the energy we bring into them and assumptions/beliefs about them. I agree with his basic "existential" teachings like: You are consciousness. You are physical reality itself. You are eternal and consciousness cannot cease to exist. Everything you experience is another aspect of yourself. There is only one moment in creation, and everything you experience is that same moment from a different point of view. Your essence is unconditional love. And finally, I like how loving and non-judgmental he is, especially when assisting people. That's a good sign of character. * * * * * Ultimately, I really don't care whether he's an alien or not. I try to judge him by his teachings. There's gold in what he's saying, and then there's also shit. It takes discernment to determine which is which. Note: My position hasn't really changed on Bashar. I basically like and dislike the same things as before. Previously I simply skimmed over the things I didn't like, but now I wanted to be a bit more critical and call it out.

Very nice. Great work! Looking forward to hearing more from you. I don't think much about pride but I'm very content with life overall, so I could say I'm proud of the journey that's been taking place and of myself. Grateful too.

To me, it’s a brilliant character study. That’s what I love it for. The slow 5-season arc Walter goes through is believable. It doesn’t appear out of nowhere either, there’s good context for Breaking Bad events - Walter’s history with Gretchen and Gray Matter, for example, or Jimmy’s story with Better Call Saul. In a cliche way, you could say there was always a bit of Heisenberg in Walter, just not actualized. Heisenberg is egotism.

Yup!

A new game "Mewgenics" by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glale released last month. It's a turn-based tactical RPG and breeding simulation roguelike. Anyone's been playing it? It's such an amazingly creative and well thought out game. I've played it a lot since it released. Danger: it's addicting. The soundtrack is very catchy and absolutely ridiculous. After playing this game you'll be humming to yourself about eating rats.

Damn. You mac users must have it rough in terms of gaming. 😅 I’m on Linux (Mint) and thanks to Proton, most games I want to play run smoothly on Steam.

Yup. You need to be really strategic in this game.

Incredible.

You are God.

I can and I do 😈

Tangible changes are approaching. Moving elsewhere at the end of April. Will no longer have a daily companion in the form of my ex. Going on a 1-day trip to another city on Sunday. Rent prices are low there. I've been expressing my views more on the forum lately. I'm happy with that. I had a surge of energy in the last days to do things in my life. I did quite a lot. Now I feel lower energy since yesterday evening. I'm fine either way.

Lol. 😆 Maybe. Or maybe not. We don’t know. His students could be reached out to and asked.

I think he has too much baggage with politics now. He’s not that popular or liked anymore.

I think these fools like Mr. Beast or Jake Paul might try to run sometime, but they’d never get past the primary. I hope so. I really have a disgust reaction when thinking about them.

Here's another AI-related idea. Leo mentioned in his Traps for Online Content Creators blog post how reading all the positive and negative feedback corrupts the mind, and that the feedback you get is extremely noisy, biased, and low quality. Youtube creators should have the option to get an AI summary of feedback from comments under a video. This would make it so that if a creator wanted, they could only read the impersonal summarized feedback, instead of having to read through every biased personal comment, positive or negative, to get a sense of how they're doing. It'd be nice if the creator could also query the AI deeper about some aspects of the feedback, whatever is of interest to them. @Leo Gura What do you think?

I think moderation of social media platforms (and eg. a forum) is something AI would easily cover. A level of human oversight would still be needed, of course. But basically 80% of moderation work could be handed over to AI and perhaps it'd do its job even better. For those familiar with agentic AI: an AI agent "Social Media Moderator" could be created with detailed instructions and attached guideline documents on what to moderate and to what degree. A trigger event for this agent could be a post report, for example. How it could work on this forum: when someone reports another user's post, that post is run through the AI agent that determines whether there is any action needed. If there is, then the AI agent can perform the appropriate actions - hide the post, shoot the user a message, warn the user, perhaps give them a posting restriction. This is all doable with the right tools and software. But then there would still be a level of human oversight that could override AI decisions. This would all require iterative feedback, of course. The agent would have to be adjusted across a span of time to finally find the golden middle and moderate the space in a desirable way. Also, there's a lot of technicalities that would need adjusting - since agent calls could be abused and be costly, there'd have to be rules like "posts older than 1 week can't be reported" or "if an user reports a few posts in a row that weren't guideline-breaking, the user can't report posts for a given time". I'm just presenting it as an interesting idea. Just another thing that can reasonably be delegated to AI. LMK your thoughts, I think this could be an interesting discussion.

@Scholar Might respond to you later. I have a few points in my head but I'm too tired to lay them out. Haha. Possibly

@Carl-Richard Okay. I’m done with the topic - thanks again.

Thanks! Well, I think in the majority of true emergencies the rescued would be aligned in will with the rescuer, so still unimposing. Let’s say that someone starts jaywalking on a red light while I’m next to them waiting for the light to switch, and suddenly I grab them by their shirt and pull them back forcefully because a car would run them over in a second which they didn’t see. That’s still „unimposing” love to me, because we’re assuming that the person’s deepest will is to live. So we’re aligned in will. On the other hand, there’s also the possibility that eg. an overprotective parent will see a choice his teenager wants to make in their life as a „grave danger” to them („an emergency”), and forcefully try to stop the teenager from making it. In this case, there’s high chance that the love would be imposing. Judgement is tricky, isn’t it? I think challenging is still done best from an unimposing love. When there’s imposing, the other side is more likely to close off even more. Yeah, it’s all complex. Love matters are not for the faint of mind!

I think I agree. A powerful thing for (some) parents to realize - that they never really loved their child, they just „cared” about it. That is, loved them only in the limited way they could. I guess with love, I have a standard of it embedded in my definition. Which I acknowledge might be not correct on one hand. But on the other hand, there’s something true about that. Keep in mind, everything I was saying was mostly in reference to your statement „My wish for Leo to go to therapy is out of love”. In my replies, I was pointing to my belief that this is „imposing love” - meaning that you think you know what’s best for someone. Also, since the word „imposing” can be understood in different ways (and I should have cleared this up earlier), I’d like to propose a distinction between soft vs hard imposing. In short, hard imposing would be you applying pressure on someone to do the thing you think is best. And soft imposing is even thinking that you know what’s best. All this to say, I’m not saying you were hard imposing. But when you say „my wish for him to do the thing is out of love”, I see that as soft imposing. So still imposing. In my honest feedback with my friend, after he described his situation and I felt like I more or less understand it, I’d say something like: „Given the circumstances that you have, personally I’d go to therapy. But I acknowledge that I don’t have the full picture, and also this is your path, so the „advice” might not be valid”. I mean, first and foremost, notice that you don’t really know Leo, you don’t know his circumstances. Also, in the exchange with the friend, the assumption is that the friend is interested in advice. But okay, you’re already saying you don’t know what’s best. So nevermind. This whole thing might be about minutiae at this point. 😆 I was just saying that I think „imposing love” fundamentally lacks respect in general. Even if it’s soft imposing. But again, nevermind. I think we basically cleared up everything. Thanks for the discussion - we went on a tangent, but it was interesting.

Hahahahaha. Brilliant exchanges. I’m Jar Jar Binks. 💀

@Leo Gura You’re on fire with these essay-like blog posts these last days! Thanks for them

Listened to this yesterday and thought about posting it as well! Ngl, this professor might be a teeny tiny crackpot and I’m trying to be careful with believing things he’s saying. But he does have a unique perspective, that’s for sure.