Daniel Balan

@Leo Gura Thank you so much for this comment. That's what I was missing. God bless you for everything you do for us. Without you I'd be in a totally different state of counciousness right now.

@Leo Gura Thank you so much Leo. The post above is what finally made me understand what pure philosophy and perfect epistemology is really about. What I initially taught about epistemology is child's play compared to the magnitude of work required in order to do the real epistemology you advocated for in the post above.

It's not about me. I try to make sense of how other humans perceive truth. Because I see that the rednecks label the truth as falsehood and falsehood as truth.

But what if I am a redneck, orthodox christian, illiterate, all day long tiktok user, conspiracy theorist believer? How do I make sense of truth from this given position? From that position you can only find someone like Trump like a saviour. As do the people from that blog post of yours from few days ago where you said that's the reason you hate religion.

So in order to find clarity again I must only perceive something as truthful if I have direct experience of said thing. If after careful examination and observation of someone or something I can draw a conclusion solely based on my personal observation. This leads me to truth, rather than using stories from other humans to asses if something is truthful or not. Eg. Trump is a devil. I should carefully study the way he acts and behaves, who are the guys who back him up, and after observing these things to use my own judgement to decide whether he is a devil or not. Rather that to blindly accept your statements about Trump, I should do my own inquiry on whether he is a devil or not.

I have watched most of that playlist. I am watching you @Leo Gura since 2014. But right now I am totally lost. The one video that made me like this is your video The power of not knowing. Right now I am without any identity. I feel like I can't know anything, and I can't enquire into anything accurately because all the information sources have been corrupted with human egoic agenda. I have no idea to what truth is. You say that Trump is evil, which is true from your POV, but from the pov of his rich friends he is an angel because he makes them be insanely powerful. So you talk a lot about the truth, but in my opinion all truth is relative! If I break into your house and steal 100k usd from you, my truth is that those money will make me able to feed my family for the next few years, but from your pov, I severely hindered your survival capacity and because of me you can no longer finance your business or feed your own family. So both perspectives have truth. Please help me , I feel like a snowflake in the wind right now.

@Leo Gura Please I feel very lost right now.. How do I build my epistemic foundation? What videos of yours should I watch to have a strong epistemic foundation. What core values should I adopt? Please give me a blueprint on how to develop a good epistemic foundation so I will never become the sum of my friends. I live in a part of the world where most of the people around me are horrifyingly stupid and I don't wanna become like them.

Thank you everyone for everything you shared with me. Much appreciated. <3

I've become aware recently that the substance of a perspective is irrelevant as long as the one delivering the perspective is extremely charismatic and presents himself as a very well spoken individual who is also well dressed and has a deep tone of voice. I've noticed myself get sucked into perspectives as long as the one speaking is someone I personally admire. It is the case with Leo. But it is also the case with my uncle, whom holds perspectives that are diametrically opposed than those of Leo when it comes to politics. Yet both made me buy into their perspectives. The role of this post is to sound the alarm when it comes to extremely persuasive personalities. You need to bring your A game when it comes to critical thinking and skepticism when listening to someone who possesses charisma and seems like he knows the ins and outs of a particular subject, especially when it comes to politics. I also invite you to share your own thoughts on how to not be manipulated by these cunning individuals and how to differentiate between healthy perspectives and people who try to talk you into voting with someone like Trump. I've thoroughly studied Leo's video on Lower and Higher perspectives, and personally I've been even more confused. I don't know why Leo is right when he says that the left and the democrats are objectively better than the right wing conservatives. When I listen to both perspectives each perspectives bring pretty valid points into discution. The only reason I don't vote conservative is because I realize that the whole movement is to keep in place the faulty status quo which facilitates fiscal evasion and maximizing the profits for the ones in charge. But other than than I'm very confused, I don't understand some left wing politics, such as immigration, To me conservatives make a valid point into thinking that people from underdeveloped countries shouldn't be allowed to come in masses. I have no problem if my country brings here 100k Chinese people or Italian people, but I'm actually scared if my country would allow 10k of Somalians or Afgans.

Also I kindly ask everyone of you that if you ever come across some article about Covid related ED, to share it here on this post. I do my best to do thorough research but this kind of information may still be yet to be released. Thank you everyone.

@Jayson G I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I will explore everything in that pdf and do what I can. Thank you.

I've re - watched Leo's video on Spiral Dynamics Stage Red. I've watched it when it released but I didn't do it by taking notes as the information unfolded and I did that just today. No AI no nothing, I just typed onto my commonplace book, every idea and nuance that @Leo Gura expressed. Thank you Leo for exposing to us this brilliant model. Without it I could probably be dead now. This stage red video when it released in 2020 made me cut out of my life all the stage red friends I had back then. Most of whom are in jail or drug addicts that severely injured people in car crashes and violent club fighting. I'm forever grateful.

The biggest difference between me in 2020 and me now is that, before COVID, I could just picture a woman’s figure and within 15 seconds, I’d have a full-on erection. Now, no matter how much I focus on women sexually—whether I imagine their bodies or even visualize myself having sex with them—I can’t get hard, even if my life depended on it. My theory is that COVID completely wrecked the nervous system mechanisms that control erections.

@Xonas Pitfall Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking your time to write such beautiful insights on this thread. I'd have to re read your comments here every one in a while. I've asked myself the why questions and I realized I have a ton of work to do on myself. Thank you beautiful mind. <3

Thank you for this response @NewKidOnTheBlock. You are completely right. I tried already everything that the majority of people recommended but nothing changed. I went to urologists but here in Romania the medical system is piss poor. All they do to me is send me to do expensive blood tests and when everything comes all right they prescribe me Cialis. I've been to four urologists until now and when I mention that it is covid related they say to go to psychologist maybe I have anxiety. I've been to the psychologist too, there I almost lost my temper because it charged me 50 dollars for 2 hours of asking me BS questions about my childhood. I make 20 dollars a day at my job and I had to pay 50 for 2 hours of asking me if my father abused me....... I gave up on urologists because here they just milk me dry of money whilst sending me to pharmacies to get milked even further. I will gather some money and I will go in a more developed country for medical help if I can't fix this on my own.

Thank you everyone for your kind words of support. I deeply thank each and every one of you. I'll try some of the things you guys recommended. I'll keep you updated every 6 months to tell you if I got any progress.

Once a week, My GF has stopped giving me any kind of intimacy so it's when I masturbate. I don't really have time for that either because as I mentioned I have a job to go to and I rarely find myself alone at home, I live in a 12 square meters room with 4 other family members.

@Leo Gura I'm so sorry for not listening to you in 2021 about the vaccine. You did your best to inform me about the dangers of catching Covid unimmunized and I still didn't listen. Man I never thought I'd have to pay such a high price for being stupid.

I book a hotel room.

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