Daniel Balan

Firstly atheism means rejection of religion and of bearded men in the sky. We all are atheists in that regard. Secondly psychedelics are chemicals manufactured by mankind in a laboratory. If I don't practice religion which was also created by humans, why should I put in my body dangerous substances designed by the same humans who designed religion? I have respect for psychedelics made by mother nature such as mushrooms or other plants, but I don't want to take them because I made a vow to myself to never ever touch mind altering substances. The thing I value the most about life is independence and sovereignity of mind. Being dependent on a substance to attain some mystical states is the same as being dependent on viagra to get a boner. I want to get a boner naturally via my own natural abilities, not via dangerous and expensive poisons! It would be my greatest nightmare to be dependent on a substance to attain clarity or understanding. I want to do things sober or not at all.

Look! I don't deny that solipsism could be true. It could very well be more truthful than what my contemplation has led me to understand thus far. Probably I haven't done enough meditation or consciousness work to validate solipsism for myself. I contemplate via thinking and reasoning, not via meditation. That's why my contemplation results are limited. I don't have enough life time for how much work Leo's teaching require.

Legendary song. Probably even the aliens from the Andromeda galaxy have heard it

I contemplate forever. Almost anything there is to contemplate, I contemplate. Solipsism is something I contemplate for like a year. Many things Leo says I contemplated, and I validated to be true for myself too. But Solipsism? I try my best to contemplate about it daily and for now, I can't connect the dots. From my direct experience I can't validate solipsism for myself. From personal inquiry I came to the conclusion that I am not god. To me God is like giant mind and I am like a surveillance camera that goes out in the field to experience stuff for it. I came to the conclusion that everything is like an extension to God. I am like a keyboard, you are like a hand mouse, the nature is like a monitor, the animals are like headphones etc and together all combined, we create a PC (Which is God). That's what I came up while contemplating. That is what is true from my direct experience. That God needs vehicles like humans and animals and plants to experience reality. We are like mushrooms that grow in the forest. But the forest is God's mind. Solipsism I couldn't validate through my direct experience. And I will never take psychedelics to help me with my contemplation. To me psychedelics are what create self deception and deceive one's ability to contemplate. From my POV psychedelics are a corruption to one's ability to genuinely contemplate.

So when I will die you will stop existing? If my mind dies, you will just disappear? Will it be lights out for the whole universe when I die? I doubt it. If that would be the case, nothing would have existed before I was born. You are older than me, you existed before I was born. If solipsism was true everything I come into contact should be the same age as I am, because solipsism says I am the creator of everything.

I have no clue

What about Chernobyl? Most of Europe didn't even know that nuclear plant exists! Yet when it exploded, the people under the communist regime found out about the explosion weeks after it happened, by the time Moscow released statements of the mortal danger people living in Ukraine, Belarus and Romania were already dying and having their hair fall of their skull. If solipsism was true why the rural people were dying due to an explosion from a place they have never yet imagined or experienced? Many people in the rural areas who didn't have access to television or radio only knew that something happened when their nails started falling off their hands!

Bro I literally have the same names both the name and the surname as the one who created this worldwide song: Dan Balan

@Natasha Tori Maru honestly I like your surname a lot! Tori Maru is like Ricky Maru or Johnny Delgado! It has punch and power when you read it! Regarding why people are anonymous on the forum, as I said, It feels inauthentic to speak to aliases and weird anime or graphic art photos. If people are scared of bad faith actors that could exploit what they post on the forum, the users should be more cautious with the information they share here. I would love if the forum made mandatory that everyone display their real name and a link to their social media so each knows who they are talkting to.

Wicked

I love chainsaws! Since I was a little teen I used chainsaws and I love them! I litteraly get an orgasm each time I hold in my hands my Stihl or Husqvarna chainsaws! I even earnt good money buckin logs and splitting firewood! I heat my home with wood in the winter thats why each summer I buy logs and I buck them into smaller pieces so that they fit in in my stoves! But which chainsaw do you think it is stronger Stihl or Husky? Man I love them both, the Husky seems a bit more strong but the Stihl is unparalleled, personally I love the Stihl more, I also have a weed trimmer from Stihl and I am very happy with Stihl. I don't know but something about the Stihl branding makes me very happy while handling tools from Stihl.

@UnbornTao I don't understand why. It gives me vibes or not genuine and fake! I have put my real name, I linked my real twitter with a photo of me as a profile picture so that people who interact with me on the forum know who I am. I don't know but the way everyone is having fake names and fake profile pictures on the forum it feels like talking to ghosts or to AI generated bots.

Man I am so lame, I put my real name as I have in the birth certificate as my forum name! I tought I must put my real name, but as I can see, almost no one has his real name displayed. One of the things I dislike this forum is that I have no Idea who I talk to, everyone has weird names and profile pictures, sometimes it feels like I am talking with automated bots. I would love if the forum made it mandatory to display a real photo of the user and his real name!

I never intended to do a tattoo on on my skin, but one day I will tattoo this phrase on my forearm! This is one of the biggest pieces of wisdom I missed my entire life! Always I was asking other people for what is true or what is false, but once you realize you are the sole arbiter of truth... Man, only then the real work begins!

@Leo Gura This forum is a gold mine as well as the blog! I find tremendous value in the forum, I rarely post, mostly when I have questions I ask them on the forum, but the most important tool I use on the forum is the search bar. For example last week I wanted to understand more about China, and I searched the word China in your posts, I found tremendous value reading all your posts about China, a few months ago I did the same for Russia and Ukraine! Your work here is unparalleled and grossly unappreciated! Thank you so much for everything you ever done for us! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Thank you for all the time you put in to make sure this forum stays healthy. I said it and I will say it time and time again, this forum now is in pristine condition.

@AlexopYou are right, some advice can be misapplied and can backfire, but I noticed Leo being extra careful with his wording and what advice he gives to folks. But 99.99% of the time his advice is danger free even for the most dumb people.

So all that story he cut his throat was all just theater? He just made that up for attention? Man this is stuff people like @Preety_India used to do. But how did you figure out it was a fake account and that the story was made up?

Haha, I understand where are you coming from, I asked this myself sometimes, why Leo spends all this time trying to help us on the forum, while gaining nothing in return, but then I tried to put myself in his shoes and I found the answer. He does that because he is a teacher, and precisely because nowhere else you can get the advice that he is providing us. Myself personally, I will forever be indebted to Leo for all the times he answered my questions. I always question stuff in my head, I do contemplate on many issues, and when I can't come up myself with an answer, I go to Leo's mega-thread and I ask him directly to provide clarity on the thing I can't find the answer myself. I think he does all of that for us, selflessly, because he knows how valuable genuine advice is and how hard it is to find genuine advice, because most of mankind is drowning in devilry and self deception, a person who genuinely needs some answers may never find them, unless a selfless and truthful teacher like Leo provides that advice.

One of the biggest blind spot of spiral dynamics is that the model doesn't account or measure for corruption, nor does it explain how corruption manifests at different stages. All it says is that corruption diminishes the more you go up the spiral, which is true, but in my eyes the more you go up the spiral the more sneaky and clever the corruption gets and manifests.

@Leo GuraWhy have you deleted @KEN7's thread? You said something about an OP guy having a fake account... I didn't understand why you deleted that thread, a lot of good advice was laid out in there. Is Ken a fake account? Please brief us on the issue.

Hi @Leo Gura! About your robotics post, I am really damn scared 🥺. This means robots will make a ton of jobs go extinct and I fear that in 5 years I will not find any other job. What should I do today to make sure I will have a job by 2030? How to be proactive today to not be homeless in 2030?

@MandrakeGreat comment. Thank you. I loved reading it!

The communist regime was, by almost all metrics inferior in comparison with the west. But it had some good characteristics. Education was one of the great things the communists did great. During the 45 years Romania was communist, it produced the best engineers, mathematicians and physicians. But the soviet style education system was also bad in many regards. Students were beaten with the ruller and put to kneel on corn beans for not doing their homework. The teachers always were very authoritarian. When I was in school, the techers were nice and more liberal, overall my school years experience was very beautiful. But for my parents and grandparents, it was very strict and authoritarian. But the soviet style education system was right. In order to produce amazing generations of people, the education system must be public, with no private schools allowed. Everybody must go to state funded schools. Public education across the whole country, a culture that values education, plus healthy stage blue aspects will generate the best outcomes when it comes to education. The soviet style education approach would be the best if it is also more liberal and a bit more soft and easygoing.

@Carl-Richard we definitely should have a constitutional court formed with the 7 most senior members of the forum 😂