Daniel Balan

The most wise thing I saw on this forum. Regardless of the system, bigger people will exploit smaller people. During the soviet era the big people exploited and milked the plebs out of their work in even worse ways than the capitalist system milks the plebs in capitalist societies. During the soviet times you had basic necesities for free, but you worked all your life for them, you paid for them with your lifetime being a slave to the ones that gave you that free cubical while eating chicken feet all your life. Now in capitalist systems you buy your own flat but you also have to pay all your life for it. The level of exploitation is basically the same, but in capitalist systems we have it better because we have more access to diversity of food, clothes, freedom to think and behave however you want, to watch whatever you want etc. Also in capitalist systems you can develop a business if you are ambitious and smart without being in bed with the communist party and paying bribes constantly. That's why the west although flawed, is light years ahead of the BRICS/Chinese governance model that @zazen is promoting day in and day out.

I've manually taken notes as I followed along @Leo Gura video, Why Truth Is The Highest Value. No AI or any transcript summarizing tool was used for these notes, just my manual work of taking the most important insights from the video. A life transforming video. One of my favorite videos of all time! Here are the notes: Why Truth Is The Highest Value Wanting to discover truth is doing genuinely enquiry to discover the truth which is different from defending your current worldview or your belief system or what you already think is true The people who are in the most need to do genuine, thorough enquiry about the truth are the people who think that they have already discovered the ultimate truth and that their worldview and belief system is perfect. To care about the truth is to have a very curious and open mind to want to go in a truth seeking journey! Not by defending preexisting positions and answers. Only by engaging in life long pure philosophy will you be able to generate truthful sense making about reality and the world Caring about truth is necessary for a proper life. There must be a higher purpose to reality than human feelings. Valuing truth is reflected in your whole attitude, your whole lifestyle, it's your value system, is what you think, it's what motivates you, what you prioritize in your life. I'm not advocating for absolutism here, there is no only correct worldview, no only correct life style, it's all relative. We are dealing with 2 sets of values, the ones that drive your daily life and the fantasies you tell yourself. Truth is the highest value because reality is truth. If you don't prioritise truth above else you are going to prioritize survival above all else meaning you are going to drown in self-deception, selfishness, corruption and devilry. If you place anything but truth as your top value you are going to fall into self-deception. Anything less than truth as the highest value must lead to corruption. This episode is going to have a profound connection to the topic of corruption. Corruption is the not caring and not prioritizing of truth. Corruption is the non-prioritization of truth. To prioritize anything above truth, that's corruption. Truth cannot be found collectively. In any collective there is no truth to be found. The only way to experience and live a successful life is to have your life led by a mind that is run by an engine of truth. The only way to experience a fine life is to have mind that is powered by an engine of truth. The engine that runs your life must be truth, otherwise if your engine is anything but truth the vehicle that runs your life will stray to corrupt and self-deceptive paths that will lead to suffering and pain. correct interpretation of reality can only be achieved by driving through life in a vehicle that has as its engine the valuing of truth. Without truth as your engine you risk having your wheels fall off your car as you drive through life. All the things you value are valuable only to the extent they are true or real. Existence and realness are the highest value. What happens if you substitute truth with money? Now you are free to lie to others and to yourself, you are free to bullshit, you are going to believe what you need to believe to make as much money as quickly as possible. In the most extreme examples you are going to start printing fake money on a printer in your house. What happens if you place success ahead of truth? Donald Trump Elon Musk Billionaires What if you place sex as your top value? You are going to be me too'd and you are going to be a classic pick up guy scumbag. You will misunderstand women, and have bad views on them Conversely if you place truth above sex you will lose a lot of sex because you are going to tell women things they don't want to hear. Women will get with men that tell them the most fantasies and lies and bullshit, not the truth. Truth doesn't get you laid. How to decide who to vote for? Ask yourself, which of these politicians or political parties are valuing truth the most and have their life and policies guided by the pursuit of truth the most? That's who you should vote for. What happens if you prioritize power above truth? That's called a dictatorship, that's called a tyranny! Political corruption is people valuing power over truth! The more some politician goes above and beyond saying and doing anything that will get him closer to taking power, that's who you should never vote for. The Italian mob is what happens if you place family and friends over truth. In 3rd world countries once you become a mayor or a governor it is expected that you give your family and friends positions of power. That is the definition of corruption. Fuck your family! Truth is what matters the most. Placing your ethnic group above truth creates fascism, Nazism, nationalism, Zionism, genocide, war and crimes against humanity. Fuck nationalism. Nationalism is a racist fantasy What happens when you put religion as your top value? Spiral dynamics stage blue puts religion as the top value. Anything you place above truth will get corrupted and become fake. Social justice and equality as the top value? Fake social justice if it is value more than the truth Truth is more important than human well-being. More important than mankind. If you prioritize feelings and pleasure over truth? That's called becoming a drug addict There must be a higher purpose to reality than human feelings. Truth is bigger than good feelings, because bad feelings are also true. God doesn't discriminate between good and bad feelings. Discovering truth often leads to bad feelings. Sometimes living in illusion also leads to good feelings A thing can only have value if it exists. Existence is the pre-condition of for the value of anything at all. God is the prerequisite on which everything can exist. Without truth, existence is not possible. Truth is infinite value. Your children are not the highest love, because there are a billion other children that need to be taken into account, and not just children, there are trillions of beings that are as important as your children. No human bias is ultimately true Examples how love fails as a value: If you love your children the most you are going to do some corrupt and evil shit for your children at the expense of every other child or being. If you love your tribe or nation you will do a lot of bad and evil things that will put in jeopardy the rest of mankind that is not part of your nation or ethnic group. If you love your partner, you will get over attached and dependent on that person. Also you won't be able to love that person through thick and thin unless you have a deep connection to truth. If you love mankind that will translate to enormous damage done to plants and animals and forests and ecosystems and to the planet. If you love Christ that will translate human worship into hating other forms of spirituality. And you will not realize what is god because god is well above your Christ ideals. The source of all corruption is not setting truth as your highest priority. God, truth, reality those are the same things By setting something else above truth is like saying I know better than God and I do whatever I want, even though this goes against God's unwritten laws of reality. People in the government lie all the time and they get away with it. Every intelligence agency is a source of profound corruption on the world. Notice how people who don't value truth become! Their minds are deluded. They lie to themselves, they cheat, they steal, they kill, they do violence, they hurt others. They live like animals. They're addicts, they're fools, they have a criminal record, they've spent time in prison. All their relationships are broken and toxic. They're depressed, they have anxiety, mental illness, spread misery to the world, they hurt the people close to them. If you go with a hidden camera to analyse someone who puts family as their top priority, you will see how much they work their children and do violence to them when the rubber meets the road. People who don't take truth seriously, they are incapable of love. People who don't prioritise truth, they spread delusion and propaganda. They spread toxic and hurtful politics, create war, they are unreliable and trustworthy, and unstable, they are insecure. Because truth creates security and untruth creates insecurity. Getting your worldview from twitter or political Youtubers is like having your food ordered from the toilet. Genuine truth seeking means a true and genuine desire to understand reality. Not acting like you already know. Not acting like your beliefs are right and your worldview is the truth. It is about going on that journey. Integrity is placing truth above anything else. Corruption is the pacing of personal material gain over truth. This people who run this charities, they are still assholes to their wife and children when they come home. Where do they got those money ? They stole it. Their charity is fake. You lie to get a job, you fake your resume, you bullshit as a political actor because you need to fool people to vote for you, you bullshit to get a sale, you bullshit to run your corporation. You want to be lazy and not work. But truth means work. All lying is done because you want pleasure or you want to avoid some pain. Satan is the master of untruth. All evil begins with untruth. Caring about truth is self-correcting. If you care about truth the epistemic errors that you have will auto correct over time. Otherwise your worldview will become more corrupt. You have to be really careful and honest. You might think you care about truth when in fact you are caring to reinforce your pre-existing beliefs and survival. The psychology of being wrong. Rewatch that episode. The critical aspect of serious development is to realize how wrong you are. Caring about truth is what seriously allows you to be wrong. Unless you are deeply questioning your worldview, you are not having truth as your north star. Valuing truth means deeply caring about epistemology and studying it. It means epistemic responsibility. Investing time and energy into truth seeking. It means paying the cost. Sacrificing survival for truth. Until you sacrifice money, power, sex, fame, success and luxury. If you don't sacrifice the aforementioned, you are not a serious truth seeker and your philosophy is false. Valuing truth means doing hard work. You can't value truth and be lazy at the same time. Nor can you value truth and leech off other people. Truth seeking is a proactive affair not passive. Don't wait for Leo to spoon feed you truth. Find the truth for yourself. If you really cared about truth, you could derive the entire actualized.org body of work just by sitting on the couch and thoroughly contemplating about it. Valuing truth means extreme open mindedness. Through close mindedness you can't expand your understanding of reality. Valuing truth means to explore difficult truths. Valuing truth means acknowledging about you not knowing. Stop speaking things you don't know. Truth also means not selling out. Not putting yourself in careers and jobs that would make you compromise truth. A list of traps on this topic: Confusing truth seeking with pushing truth onto others. Expecting others to value truth seeking as much as you do. Don't bash people with the truth. Moralising and become a truth crusader Turning truth into a weapon to advance yourself Being too honest. When in doubt, shut your mouth. Don't talk bullshit. Talking about truth, but not walking the talk. Question your beliefs and lifestyle all the time. Turning truth seeking into an identity To regard what you want to be true, as truth. Or what you already believe to be true, as truth. You've got to be very good at introspecting. Truth seeking is actually inhibited by what you want to be true. It doesn't matter what you want, it matters what is actually true. Make a list of all the things you want to be true. Make a list, identify those. And then drop them. Go watch the episode developing Introspection, it deeply connects with this episode. Do not become perfectionistic about truth and corruption. Practical tips for you: Carefully observe as a practice how no one around you cares about truth. Contemplate deeply why you prioritize other things over truth. Observe and become conscious of the consequences of not caring about truth. Where does that lead to? Notice the difference between the gain happiness and avoid suffering spiritual pursuit vs truth. True spirituality is about knowing how reality functions and what god is. Without truth your default will be group think and conformity. Which leads to madness of crowds. Truth forces pursuit of insight versus belief and fantasy and ideology. Truth forces you to be accountable to counter confirmation bias and cherry picking. Truth makes you fair and just. Truth forces you to clear and clean your own lenses, glasses and microscope and telescope from which you view the world. Calibrate your instruments before you do your science, otherwise your science will be wrong. Truth doesn't market and sell well. This is why you should pursue it. The avoidance of truth creates evil. Surrender to truth. Truth is the solution to all problems. Worship truth. How to become pure? By loving truth more than anything else. Your values really matter. Your values determine your destiny.

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I've manually taken notes as I followed along @Leo Gura's video, The psychology of conformity. No AI or any brain-dead transcript summarizing tool was used for these notes, just my manual work of taking the most important insights from the video. For me personally this was the most impactful and life transforming video I've watched from Leo. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank Leo from the bottom of my heart for creating this video. Here are the notes: The psychology of conformity Your mind judges the truth based on popularity and acceptance by others around you. You haven't been taught to really evaluate truth in your life. You have been taught throughout all of your education and your job and your career and your professional life you have been taught to conform. So you don't judge truth through your direct consciousness as you should, your mind is not autonomous. You are judging truth to the extent your culture and your group has led you to believe is acceptable, rational, sane and normal. Almost 100% of people's worldview is just group think. The only reason you have the worldview that you have is because of the place and time that you were born. Conformity is a stage of cognitive development. You don't think original stuff, you parrot whatever the collective requires for its survival. There is no limit to the amount of fantasies and falsehoods that your mind can be programmed with in the first 20 years of your life. Once your mind has been programmed with illusions and falsehoods you fall in love with the falsehoods and you defend the programming. Programming is bad because it limits your mind. Your mind is capable of so much more than what your culture has programmed it with. Conformity connects deeply with the topic of self-deception. The key insight is that you assume that your worldview is true simply because everyone around you believes in the same worldview. Developing above the centre of gravity will present you with problems. It is going to create friction for you within your family, in your community, in your church, in your business, corporation, in your government if you are part of the government, in the military if you are part of the military etc. Notice that all the people in 3rd world nations are completely lost in conformity and group-think. Conformity is the reason conservative ideologies and politics have such a high traction to the public whereas progressive politics struggles to convince the electorate. Precisely because 50% of the adult population is entrenched in conformity and stage blue. All humans that are in stage blue or below are so conformist that they are incapable of doing any intellectual work. All the biases of your culture will infect your mind and your thinking process. Group think creates an echo chamber effect where contrary views are not allowed and this results in collective fantasies and illusion that you mistake for reality. Ideas that challenge and contradict conformist norms are denied, demonized, rejected and suppressed. That results in a collective paradigm lock. Conformity equals belief. An autonomous mind is experience, consciousness and insight. Insight can never be conformity. Independent of culture. Understanding reality and proper sense makes requires breaking out of conformity. Genuine philosophical work is about generating insights and deriving ideas for yourself. It is not about reading books, it is about generating your own ideas. Humans always parrot other humans in 99.99% of the time. Intelligence is the ability to question infinitely, thinking through a topic all on your own from first principles, questioning every assumption. Examples of conformity Religion, all religion is conformity Islam and the middle east Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses Quakers and Shakers The only reason you believe and follow your religion is because of conformity, there is no other reason. Judaism Zionism Traditional cultures in China, Japan, Russia, India, Africa Ethnocentrism Nationalism Stereotypes Demonization and scapegoating Racism Xenophobia Anti-Immigration Indigenous folk culture Traditionalism, people defending their traditions The entire conservative worldview is to blindly conform to tradition without ever questioning it. Views on sex Arranged marriage Political movements like populism, fascism, communism, Christian nationalism, theocracy, propaganda CIA Military industrial complex Views on abortion Woke Anti-Woke (Anti-wokeness is more conformity than wokeness) KKK Groypers Socialism Marxism Capitalism Progressives Leftists Environmentalism College campus political activism Gender ideology Post modernism Centrism News media US media on Israel Money in politics All political analysis on social media/alternative media is just conformity. No serious thinking there. Iraq war, reactions post 9/11 Washington DC culture America Empire Libertarianism Legal system Conspiracy theories Internet culture Debates Popular social media influencers Silicon valley conformity investing Crypto NFT's Pod-casters Mano-sphere Toxic masculinity, young men imitating Andrew Tate, who is also extremely conformist Business culture Sponsorships The Tai Lopez phenomenon Pick up Ideas of success. Success is defined by your culture, you didn't come up yourself with what successful means. Health, nutrition, diet and fitness Gym routine Anti-Vaxx Western medicine New age alternative medicine Circumcision Drug views Psychedelics Self help Book publishing industry Hollywood Rap Hip-hop Basketball expensive shoes Dance videos on Tik-Tok Popularity of brands ( Iphone's etc, Rolex etc) Wine Fancy chef cuisines Business suits Sports Golf The way you use language, the jargons and expressions you use, the way you use grammar and punctuation signs, this is all just copied from other humans. AI doomerism is also pure conformity Human rights Freedom Veneration of the constitution The legal system All society and all your entire life There is a big connection between conformity and corruption. All corruption is just conformity. Seeing and curing corruption requires tremendous independent thinking, live consciousness Also any time spirituality is done in a conformist way it becomes corrupt because god is live autonomous intelligence Conformity is also a corruption on morality Observe that the ones who claim to be the most religious, the most fundamentalist of Christians, Muslims etc happen to be some of the most immoral and evil people, often stealing as much as they can get away with. Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by group think and conformity. What is terrorism but conformity and group-think. Have you noticed that the most evil things mankind has done was done out of conformity? Conformity creates mass stupidity. You are just a survival zombie that follows the path of least resistance laid ouy for you by your culture, which mostly leads to mediocre results. Your mind has been hijacked by collective survival and you don't even know it. Autonomous minds are virtually impossible in 3rd world societies because survival is too difficult. In such societies survival is eased by conforming to the biases of the collective. Notice how you conform to make money. Autonomy of mind requires financial independence. You think as others think because it is easier to survive that way. The devils exploit the conformity of the masses for their own personal gain. Look at Facebook, Tik-Tok, they are just conformity milking mechanisms. Tiktok, Facebook and others just feed the reptile brain in you for their profit, they give the devil in you more and more fuel. Near all political views and perspectives are just conformity. There is no true political autonomous thinking happening on social media. Conservatives are more conformist than liberals. All of conservativism is about insane levels of conformity. Conformity and group-think devolve into extremism. You can be intelligent when it comes to politics only after you have transcended all the conformity of the right, the left. Conformity affects what you find the most meaningful and what you should pursue in life. You are a monkey copying other monkeys. You need to put in decades of inner work just to realize who you really are and what you want out of life. For that you need to transcend conformity No one can tell you who you are but you. If you are doing business in any kind of industry pay attention to the norms of the industry that you are doing business in and why you follow those norms. Look at how much of what you do is conformity. Audit Your political beliefs, how you dress, the music you listen to, how you use language, grammar, spelling, idioms, cliches, stereotypes and memes. Even the emojis you use, the abbreviations like lol etc. Audit how you speak to waiters to customers to your boss etc, see the conformity in those Audit the tropes and concepts you think in. Categories like leftist, conservative, liberal, good, evil etc, audit why you use these categories. Audit the mental models that you use, models like spiral dynamics and many other models Audit your Fears and problems Audit criticism and judgement Audit history and narratives, who you respect and admire, your business ideas, a lot of your business ideas are extremely conformist The city and country you live in, your morality, how you learn, the methods you use to learn, what do you consider authority sources, who you trust and who you distrust. Audit your opinions, where did your opinions come from? Most of your opinions are not your own. You got them from some YouTuber or some influencer. Your style and your taste. The kind of art you like and do. Your art will only improve the more you transcend conformity. Be mindful of the philosophers that you parrot. Notice the font you use to write your word documents. Notice the food that you eat because of conformity Notice your entire religion is just conformity Notice the language that you use is conformity Notice how you talk to your friends is conformity Notice that your scientific explanation of reality is just conformity Notice how you apply skepticism is conformist. Your ideas of right and wrong are conformist Audit all your behaviors, beliefs, lifestyle with this one question: why am I really doing this? Am I doing this just because others are doing it? Why you are in this career, why do you admire this person here, why do you like the art that you like etc Start noticing how you think in clichés. Trace where your ideas are coming from. Notice just how much you are repeating ideas you have heard elsewhere. Whether is Marxism or some libertarian notion like freedom or some notion of human rights or some notion of climate catastrophe or some gender ideology. Notice that you didn't generate these ideas. Oh god, I've never had an autonomous thought in my entire life. It's all been just rehashing stuff that's been around my environment from other people. Especially be weary of this if you are an extroverted social person. You are always talking to other people, socializing thus you get bombarded everyday with new perspectives and opinions that you adopt for yourself without too much observation and reflection about them. This is what happens to all the podcasters. You are just accepting stuff just by talking. Symptoms of group-think Overestimation of the group, its power and mortality. Illusions of invulnerability, delusional optimism and encouragement of risk taking Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions. Close mindedness. Rationalizing away warnings that challenge the groups assumptions Stereotyping those who oppose the group as weak, evil, biased, spiteful, impotent or stupid. Pressures towards uniformity Self-censorship of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus Illusions of unanimity among group members, silence is viewed as agreement Direct pressure to conform toward any member that questions the group couched as disloyalty and treason. You are a traitor if you think differently. Mind guards, self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information Group-think results in irrational dehumanizing actions directed towards out-groups Your number 1 priority in any organization you take part in is to combat for yourself(not publicly vocally) all the group-think. Group think is the price you pay for being part in any organization. Realize that everything you hear a human say is group think, which is why you can't take any of it too seriously. Don't underestimate the power of just observation. Observe other people acting out of conformity. More importantly, observe your mind, your thoughts, how you speak and behave out of conformity. You can assess someone's mind by the capacity to which it can think autonomously. Tier 2 cognition, spiral dynamics stage yellow and above is highly non-conformist. Conformist minds are extremely predictable, they are like animals. Your mind only becomes nonconformist and unpredictable at tier 2. Autonomous mind is a signal that cannot be faked, you can clearly see when a mind is not autonomous. Atheism is conformity. The highest intelligence must be nonconformist. Why is the highest intelligence nonconformist? Because if you were infinitely intelligent, why would you need to conform to anything? You'd operate completely on your own, you would be self-sufficient, you would be confident in your own intelligence, You wouldn't doubt yourself. High intelligence means questioning assumptions and seeing paradigms and frames. True intelligence is non mechanical, is not about copying something. It is not about going through an algorithm or a formula. It's not about regurgitating something like these LLM's like chatgpt or grok or others. When you need others to tell you what is real, this breaks the unity of your mind. The highest intelligence makes new discoveries, that cannot be done from conformity. Social media algorithms are fueling group-think and AI is making things even worse. The AI is just the averaging of human thought. The monkey see, monkey do dynamic is very powerful and present in your everyday life, notice how much you are imitating others. Celebrities, successful people or business leaders, politicians, social media influencers, actors, spiritual teachers. As an artist you imitate other artists. Some of this is necessary, but it goes way too far. Many of you unconsciously want to imitate Leo. The stuff that works for Leo might not work for you. If you value creativity, you must overcome conformity. This enables you to create things no one has created before. The biggest artists, the biggest inventors, scientists, philosophers and leaders were and are non-conformist. Non conformity is essential in starting new innovative businesses, developing new technologies, breaking out of wage slavery and developing financial independence. For very good investing, great leadership, new scientific discoveries and great art. The beauty of life is to find your unique self-expression. Great art is rare because most people are way too conformist to come up with anything new. What they are doing is that they are just imitating others. Evolution requires new ways of thinking that challenge current intellectual norms. Imagine inventing a new system of government. Not socialism, communism, dictatorship, democracy etc. Something uniquely new. Non conformity allows you to discover the most amazing aspects of life. New music, film, games, people, inventions etc Conformity is a shallow way to live, nonconformity is an unique, deep and fulfilling way to live. To majorly change your position in life, it requires doing the change in nonconformist ways. Lets say you are poor, you are stuck in a bad situation in life... How do you change your position in life? That will require serious unorthodox ways of thinking. Sure there are ways if you suck up to some very rich corrupt guy that you will become rich and corrupt yourself, sure that can happen if you conform to that. But the bottom line is that you want connection to yourself, not connection to corruption and theft. That's why this is not a good strategy. Warnings The trap of developing a nonconformist identity. The ego loves the idea of being special. Doing non conformity in a conformist way. Like anti-vaxx, MAGA, flat-earthers, conspiracy theorists, goths, libertarians etc. Joining a non-mainstream subculture and thinking it will make your thinking autonomous. There are 2 types of conformity, the wider, bigger conformity like mainstream conformity, national identity and there is then the sub-group conformity like MAGA conformity, gamer conformity, Marxists conformity, silicon valley conformity, new age culture etc. There will be a lot of challenge and friction for challenging conformity. You will have to stand up to a lot of gaslighting and demonizing and nay-saying. Non conformity can be dangerous or even lethal. Especially in 3rd world places where they have a weak legal system. You are really playing with fire if you are going to be nonconformist politically or religiously. If you will be nonconformist politically in Russia or Saudi Arabia, they will kill you. So think very carefully about that. Conformity can also be lethal, wars, cults these can also be lethal. Non conformity can be socially isolating and lonely. All the human social stuff gets harder, that's why people conform. Also be aware that the crowd can be sometimes right, the crowd is not always stupid and the crowd will know more than you do. For the most part collective thinking does work and is very helpful all you gotta do is to sort the wheat from the chaff. Conformity is the shadow of the collective thinking, the collective thinking is quite good. Also imitation is good if you are just a newbie beginner, you gotta learn the fundamentals first before you start innovating. How do you develop to the autonomous stage? Start by observing your own conformity. Do the audits that were outlined earlier above. Lots of observation work, also observing the conformity of others. Observing the conformity of other cultures. Study other cultures Questioning and contemplation. You question everything. Ask many, many powerful questions. Stop getting pleasure and meaning from being approved of by others. Stop needing their approval. It is really important that you make sure to design your life in such a way that you are not dependent on the collective. Also you need to make sure that the way you are earning money is totally under your control and responsibility. If others hold the strings on how you pay your rent then you will never be autonomous in your mind. You are always gonna be their slave. Critically question every truthism, every platitude, every truth, every claim in every book that you read. Don't just take something as truth, question it and come up with counter arguments. Catch yourself parroting authority figures like authors, experts, Leo or others and cut that off. You want to reach a point when you generate your own ideas. Not just repeating what you've been reading or hearing. You need more diversity or experience especially from other cultures to break out of your bubble. Spend hours alone contemplating. That is the gist of how you develop autonomy of mind. Also take psychedelics. An exercise: sit down and try to think of an original thought that no one has thought before. Try to imagine some completely new video game, a completely new movie, art, object, music.

I hope those notes are helpful to you guys, btw what are your thoughts on the video? For me this is the best video of all time.

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Because Leo has really good takes when it comes to politics.

Then you are God too. Lotta Gods here.

Even though, does this "God" care if a speck of dust, like me, believes in god's existence or worships "God"? I think this god couldn't care less whether I worship it or not.

Because her man is busy working his ass off in order to provide for his family and the children they have together. Because women need constant attention and she seeks that to whoever is offering the attention since her man is busy handling the survival of the family. Bro, you are the reason I loathe humanity. Y'all after only your own needs, Y'all so devilishly selfish, you don't care at all about others, Y'all are only after getting your dick wet. She told you in your face that he values her family the most and that she wouldn't risk it for a silly affair, yet you still act like a pussy deprived loser. Be a man and learn to find single girls, don't be a loser to keep flirting with married women.

Ok, I understood. Thanks a lot for the advice.

@Inliytened1 I have a mediation practice where I meditate 10 minutes everyday and I also try to observe and be conscious of my thoughts 24/7, like I'm trying to meditate non stop, but in regards to psychedelics I have a strong stigma against them. I have this stigma because I don't like to conform. Almost all the youngsters in my village are taking canabis and lsd and shrooms on a weekly basis and honestly they look like homeless and I am disgusted by them. I have a image of myself as being clean, well groomed and taking care of my life and myself and whenever I see the youngsters in my village spend all their money on psychoactive substances, seeing them how they let themselves go and become total zombies made me abhor psychedelics as much as I abhor religion. As I am the only atheist in my village I think I am the only one that has never taken any kind of drugs. All the people my age or below are drug addicts and precisely because I hate conformity with such a passion, I vowed to never ever touch any substances in my life.

I don't see any contradiction with my worldview. There is no bearded old man in the sky that lords over the universe as the Christians believe. There is no human magical otherworldly entity that lords over everything. There isn't some "other" larger than life figure hidden in a plane of existence of its own that controls and shapes the universe at his own whims as the Christians believe. This is pure insanity and atheists are right when they believe that no such god exists. As far as your teachings on god go, every instance of when you use the word "god" could be replaced with the word "universe" or "consciousness" or "infinity" and I doubt there is anyone alive that can say that these things don't exist.

@Leo Gura at 3 hours and 5 minutes you say that my atheism is just conformity. I strongly disagree. For me atheism means the lack of religion. I simply do not adhere to any religion. I haven't got that from other humans nor social media or you. I was born an orthodox Christian, I've gone to church every sunday and I prayed everyday, on my own volition till I was 17, then using my own mind I saw how barbaric and ugly those Christians behave towards one another and towards other beings, I saw how church is just a means for Christians to gather and find business and work among themselves. It is all just survival enhancement. I saw how corrupt and rotten the whole fundation of Christianity is, how they preach about love and kindness, yet at home they beat the fuck out of their children with the belt and horse whip. That's when I became an atheist, I dropped in the dustbin this religion, I dropped all the customs and rituals associated with it and become a man without any religion, and I feel so free and unchained now, I feel so light like a bird after throwing in the trash can that burden that is called Christianity. I am the only atheist I know on my county, I never meet another atheist IRL thus far. I do not adhere to any of the atheist dogma, hell I don't even know what scientific dogma atheists adhere to because I have never been on atheist forums or follow atheists on social media. Because I live in a rural village I started to form my own spiritual rituals, such as praying to the earth and nature to keep me alive and protect me from harm, I thank the earth for the food it grows for me when I sow seeds in the spring etc. I became very spiritual and connected to earth and nature. This is not something you ever preached. I tried to understand your spiritual teachings but I failed so I decided to go with the things that I can understand. I can proudly say that when it comes to the things I explained above, that I am not conformist in those endeavours, I can proudly say that I developed those using my very own mind and cognition.

@Leo Gura Next year in the USA will be another world cup, do you plan to go to a match if the match will be hosted in a venue near you like Los Angeles?

I haven't started watching yet but I know, Leo! Conformity and group-think is the reason I decided to be a total loner. I can't stand other people for this very reason. Everyone I talked to up until now has the same mind, believes the same conspiracy theories, follows the same social media content, like the same football team, vote for the same politician, talk about the same petty stuff, wear the same clothes etc. This made me contemplate deeply this topic, it baffled me to realize that no one is using their mind, they just copy each other like sheep. I've always been against the herd and it baffled me even more the sheer violence and determination they defended their worldview when challenged by me. The moment I rejected and laughed at their religion they almost torn me to shreds litteraly. Humans are merciless creatures to the "outsiders" like me that challenge their worldview. After all, why would I talk to a human? They all talk and think the same. That's why I know 100% that this video of yours will be my favourite to date. Your previous video is my current favourite but this one, I think it will surpass the previous.

Last month I finally had money to buy Leo's book list and the first thing on the page is a video of Leo where he makes an introduction for the book list, I could clearly see that the video was shot in like 2014 because Leo was so young. Having watched him weekly for the last 10 years I didn't realised how he aged, because he aged in front of me, together with me. Man I just realized that Leo is the human that I spent the most time with in my life.

Happy Halloween 🎃 🎃 🎃 Thanks a lot Leo! This is outstanding. I know for a fact, that this video will be my favourite of all time. This is something that I deeply contemplate all the time. I hate with a passion conformity and groupthink. I know for a fact that this video will give me a ton of clarity and understanding about stage blue. Conformity and groupthink are the kryptonite to the work actualized.org entails.

Hell yeah ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yet the retards in the Kremlin think that he was a western puppet. The man could live like a king in the west yet he decided to give his life away just to prove that you always stand up and fight against dictators and you never kneel in front of them. Navalny was a real hero, the floor he walked on was full of cracks because of how heavy his balls were. As opposed to the little girl in the Kremlin who has others do the dirty work for her while she hides. Navalny was such a brave man, the moment he decided to return he knew he was a dead man walking yet he returned. His death showed the whole world how much that man wanted to live in a Russia that was a liberal democracy, where rule of law and care for its citizens is normalized. Navaly is one of my role models and if ever my country will become a dictatorship again, I will follow in his footsteps. Dictators are a plague that must be annihilated.

Amen to that.

@Hardkill Orbanization is the biggest threat that liberal democracies will face. Orbanization is much, much more accurate than calling MAGA fascist. Fascism will never happen in the west the same as it did in the 20th century, those who propagate this idea are people desperate for clicks. However, Orbanization is extremely dangerous and oftentimes much more damaging than fascism because fascism is way to brutal to be tolerated in the 21th century. Orbanization means the normalisation of unchecked corruption and theft. Theft without police. That is what Orbanization means. Even in Hungary Orban can't really do what he wants because the Magyars are pretty educated, but even so, Orban managed to corrupt the entire governance apparatus from top to bottom with loyalists, the press in Hungary is basically similar to the Press in Russia, although to a lesser degree. In Russia if you criticise Putin you accidentally fall from a window, In Orban's Hungary, if you criticise the regime, the entire press that is subservient to Orban will accuse you of pedophilia, will find that you own obscene amounts of wealth while the average citizen has nowhere near the wealth that Orban's press found out that you "have" etc. Basically they will shoot the messenger until no one will believe that messenger. Hungary is not a bad place to live, but corruption is unchecked and the only way to have a successful business there is to be in bed with Orban's party. Basically Orban gave all the wealthy people in Hungary freedom to steal and exploit off of the plebs without any shame. All right wing populist movements have in common the mantra that the corruption is not the bug, it is actually the feature. The people who vote for those parties don't want less corruption, they want more, they want to be allowed more to be corrupt themselves, they want to be allowed to pay less taxes, to do more fiscal evasion, to exploit more shamelessly the workers etc. For Orban corruption is not a bug, it is a feature that must be amplified.

I feel a lot better. Even though my survival has become much harder because it is really hard to do everything by yourself, but in exchange I found peace of mind, I found self esteem, I found self love, I found authenticity and serenity. When I was a teen I found myself conforming a lot to the customs and beliefs of the people around me and I hated with a passion myself back then. I conformed out of fear of rejection. Now I love myself and I am really proud of myself for mustering the courage to have shown the middle finger to the herd.

No, I'm not that stupid to be a contrarian to everything. I'm only contrarian to stage blue people. I live in a rural village near Ukraine, here everyone is cousins with one another, everyone has the same beliefs as one another. Here in my village people want dictatorship and are against democracy. People here want the return of a figure similar to the former communist dictator from the cold war era. Against such beliefs of course I will be against. Whenever I visit my friends from the big cities of Romania I find myself agreeing with their stage orange beliefs. I'm not a contrarian and a skeptic just for the sake of it.

When I realised that everyone around me has exactly the same beliefs as eachother, I wanted to vomit. I told to myself, how come everyone follows and beliefs what all the others around them believe? This amount of sheep like behaviour, blindly regurgitating all the beliefs of your group and the sheer backwardness, made me want to revolt and abhor the herd.