Daniel Balan

I never was into porn because I live in a small room with my relatives and I never had the intimacy to watch porn or masturbate. I watched few videos just to test if I get an erection. And I didn't. I only get if I use my hand to stimulate my penis, and as soon as I take my hand off, it goes soft very quickly. I never had this problem before covid. I was very pleased with my sexual performances.

@Leo Gura I am so sorry for not listening to you in 2021. I've read every blog post at that time when you got your own vaccine. If I had gone to a vaccination centre in June 2021 when you got your 2nd Pfizer vaccine maybe today I would have been healthy. Back then I was a huge Tate fan, and he always fearmongered about the vaccine. And I told myself that I am young and healthy and because I never got sick or caught colds, plus the fearmongering in the social media I consumed, I decided that even if I caught Covid, It couldn't harm me. It was the worst decision I have ever made. You see? Poor epistemology and low spiral development doomed me this time. One can get away only so many times before his own lack of development lethally backfires on that individual. I use the word lethally because this time my rotten mind from 2021 could possibly end my bloodline. I see in my situation Darwinism at full effect. Weeding me out from the gene pool because I allowed my mind to be influenced by a devil like Tate while I had dismissed Leo's recommendation to go get the vaccine. In a way I reap now what I sowed in my mind from 2019 to 2021 by watching Tate.

@Leo Gura Yes. I work in construction, there I do a lot of physical activity and 3 or 4 times a week I do workout at home with dumbbells and barbells, also pushups and pull-ups/chin-ups and squats with the barbell on my shoulders. Nothing works. No matter what I tried I haven't seen any improvements since october 2021. Probably COVID permanently destroyed some functions of my body. I remember feeling so bad during the infection that I felt within my body like I had small knifes trying to rip every cell of my body apart.

@Leo Gura If you were president instead of Biden from 2021-2025, How would you have handled the Ukraine crisis that led to the invasion in February 2022? And if you were to be the president today instead of Trump, how would you approach the situation regarding the peace talks? How much would you cave into Putin's demands?

@Leo Gura's episode How to avoid getting scammed, Is in my eyes his best episode to date. None other comes close when It comes to how much real world value brought into my life. It is the most practical, the most helpful of his videos. But I'd say it definitely deserves a part 2. In that video he made me aware of how to protect my pocket. But it didn't teach me how to protect my mind. I beg Leo to create a part 2 of that video on how to avoid getting scammed or manipulated intelectually, politically, psychologically. @Xonas Pitfall in your beautiful response you mentioned: But what if my OWN values are wrong? What if I grew up in a stage red maga redneck family? I'd have by default skewed and wicked values. That's why I don't care to much about my OWN values. These also have been forged by the social matrix I grew up in. Because I realized that humans don't think. And I am the greatest example of that. I realized that if Leo didn't exist I would have been a MAGA like redneck. That's why I try to find a system that would allow me to arrive at healthy perspectives and values on my own. I would like that if I were to always surrounded by MAGA like friends, to still have the same values that Leo has. Right now if Leo disappeared, I feel like in 1 year I'd have the same values and views on politics and life, as all my redneck people at work. For example each time I speak with my father(He is extremely into RW politics and conspiracy theories) he talks about these things and I feel like the value system that I've developed by listening to Leo so much, is shaken and I start to doubt my beliefs, and I feel like the more I speak with him the more I start seeing Trump in a good light(Father talks a lot about people like Trump). All I want is to no longer buy into the all the RW BS content my father keeps parroting.

@Xonas Pitfall Thank you so much for this holistic answer. I read it with a huge smile on my face. You brought clarity into my world. Thank you! You have a beautiful mind! <3

Hi @Leo Gura I'd like to hear your opinion on this subject please.

@Salvijus Thank you for the feedback!

Basically after almost a decade of watching Leo, he made me aware that false and true are relative. Russians believe that the west have encroached on them, which from their POV is true. The west thinks Russia is a mafia state which is also true from the western pov, so truth and falsehood are just relative notions depending on who you speak to. Since I'm unable to discern who to vote, I'd rather stay at home.

I've realized that I have such a weak character that basically lets say in an election where there are 10 candidates, if I listen to every each of them for like 40 minutes on a podcast I get convinced by everyone and their points of view. And usually the person I watch a podcast of last is the one that gets my vote. Man I'm such a sheep. Seems like everyone is right when I listen to them.

What do you think guys?

All I want is that I never get manipulated by mainstream media, alternative media, etc. Leo said it best, we are living in complete media and epistemic perverty. All I want is to be able to discern which thing is objectively best for society and myself AKA how to develop a healthy perspective on everything. In 2015 I descovered Leo, and I've been brainwashed by him, in 2019 I've firstly encountered Andrew Tate, when he had like 10k followers on Twitter, damn I was mesmerized by him and I got totally brainwashed, at that point everything good Leo instilled into my mind for 4 years was completely thrown in the bin by Andrew Tate, Hell I've even been scammed by 60$ by Tate in 2021 with a BS program of his. That was the time I've realized how big of a pervert Tate was. And my first instinct was to go back to Actualized.org and listen to the videos that released weekly. But from 2019 to 2021 Tate in a way made me hate everything Actualized.org stood for. Only after I realized that behind the mesmerizing persona is a damn conman who's only objective is to take every penny away from gullible people like me. I've been raised only by my grandma, and when I saw Tate for the first time I felt that all the advice and his worldview is like that from a father I never had. Also Tate fooled me into being an extreme right winger for those 3 years, and after I ditched him, I basically adopted Leo's political perspective. I hate that I can't think for myself, I need someone like Leo or in the worst case scenario someone like Tate to shape my perspective and worldview, political or my attitude towards life in general. How do I know that I'm not currently hypnotized into believing everything Leo advocates. I honestly confess that I'm unable to think for myself. And that is bothering me deeply. After 7 years of following Leo's work which at it's core is to make the audience think and arrive at certain conclusions without external manipulation. Bottom line is: How would I have developed good politics, good worldview, good everything, If I never encountered Leo. Some day maybe something tragic happens and either Leo is gone, or my country will become a dictatorship like Russia, and I won't be able to access Leo's work. I want to know how to become someone like Leo or Daniel Smachtenberger if I never had access to the internet to listen to such remarkable minds, and my environment would consist of only individuals such as Tate and the only media to consume would be Fox news.

Nice advice! @Jannes Thank you.

Most of the times the ones speaking the truth are usually not very charismatic, yet being truthful gives you a veil of purity.

That is interesting. Thanks for the response.@NewKidOnTheBlock

I'm both poor and for most of the time sexless and I've never cared about anything but Truth All I ever cared is about Truth. Im at a point in my life that I only work for the minimum amount of money so that I don't starve, and I don't go homeless. Truth is the only thing that is satisfying and the only thing worth pursuing. I never understood why people love money and sex so much. I mean you don't have multiple stomachs to need so much fking money to eat, and you don't have multiple legs or arms or bodies to need a ton of the most fashion clothes, or you don't have 10 dicks to need so much sex. I am happy as long as I have one GF, and If I have enough money for basic food and bills, anything over this is just not needed from my POV.

Relativism ain't a bad thing. It is beautiful to understand that everything in this dream is relative. All you need to do is behave in a councious way. Relativism isn't a licence to behave like a psycho! Relativism for me, grounded me even harder in survival, made me understand how serious survival is, and to not take survival for granted.

Damn. I just can't wrap my mind around this God concept. I don't understand what is more to understand about God! To me breathing air and looking at a tree or being completely immersed in the present moment is the furthest God realization I could ever experience! What is there more to experience than being alive and observing the mother nature? How much more God could I experience than this? To me complete awareness of all of your bodily senses is the MAXIMUM you could do to experience God! What else is there to do? I'm genuinely curious!

But why does one need to pursue God? I feel like pursuing God is no different that trying to pursue your foot! It is already there right under your nose. Isn't God everything ? isn't me messaging you on this forum also God? Isn't my laptop and my fingers typing these words God? I feel like the pursuit of God is redundant. Echart Tolle said it best. God is the now! And you can't find the needle in the haystack because you are both the needle and the haystack. Everything you need to do to experience God is to realize that reality is a Big Picture and you are one with it. You trying to find particularities within the picture is redundant due to the fact that even the particularity you find, it is still encompassed within the big picture which is reality.

Regarding the latest blog post. If someone scams you of all your money and assets, is that a good thing for you? Certainly not, but is great for the one who scammed you, for you it's your life greatest tragedy and for the scammer is his life greatest fortune. So my comment is this: Everything is true only from a certain POV. From another POV something could be extremely false. So good or bad is objectively true but only from a certain POV. I get that everything is relative, but some aspects of relativity can hurt the self more than other aspects.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this heart felt answer. I copied and pasted it on my commonplace book. I will need to read it multiple times so that I don't fall back into darkness. God bless you. This answer helps me so much. Thank you. Thank you for existing <3

@Leo Gura You always talk about the importance of developing independent thinking, You see all my conclusions I've shared today on this thread are as a result of my own independent thinking and contemplation, yet my independent thinking resulted in a flawed and dangerous view of mankind, from my POV I feel like it is the correct one because of all my past experiences, but on a holistic level it is wrong because It makes one become bitter and helpless. My question is, how to do independent thinking and contemplation, in a way that doesn't result in toxic ideology like it resulted in my case? How to ensure that you are not self deceiving yourself even further by practicing independent thinking and contemplation?

Probably because I've described the situation in such deep detail like it happened a few days ago. As I said I have accepted the situation, It was not the death of the dog per se that caused me to view mankind in such a negative manner, It was all the experiences that I had since I was a child, and because I contemplate nightly everything that happens during the days, after years of contemplation and independent thinking I came to the conclusions I laid above. The only thing I can't contemplate is why such horrific events are ought to happen. That is the main reason I follow your work, to make sense of the blind spots in my own contemplation. My contemplations have been corrupted by the negative experiences I have been exposed to, and I came to you in order to address the flaws in my corrupt worldview.

I thread very carefully every interaction with humans, I am always on guard when it comes to my physical safety! In the village I live I've only encountered all my life stage red individuals and I am treating every interaction with extreme caution. That's why I am the happiest at night, because I am alone and I feel a deep sense of serenity. When I'm all by myself. I've never needed anyone to be happy all I ever wanted is the serenity of the nightsky!

@Leo Gura He died on the 17th of October 2023! Roughly 15 months ago!