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@Colin On the other hand older people have already created the kingdom of hell with their greed and narcissistic behavior.

@Cortex I felt like you until I remembered being in school sucked. The best thing about being older and having enough money to do what you want is not having jerks behind your back telling you what you should be concentrating on and how you should act. What's stopping you from acting like a child now?

Crazy isn't it... Somehow though through all of those debates I was watching between atheist and religious people I was really searching for someone like you. I didn't know where you existed, who you would be, and/or if you would have an online presence but, I said to myself out of all these dogmatic scientists, atheists, conservatives, libertarians, priests, and rabbis there has to be someone out there who has a sense of nuance. Just doesn't have a black and white all in way of thinking. I knew that if I went with the religious people then I had to follow all of those old, archaic, boring, and not modern rules just so I can please some invisible dictator in the sky on the other hand if I went with the atheists that would take all the beauty and wonder out of life and what's the point of doing anything after that. I said there had to be some kind of thinking out there in this day and age that can really be nuanced and find some kind of truth that's not black and white and at the same time it isn't virulently dogmatic (like religious extremism) it's also not completely depressing (like militant atheism) and so here I am. It's funny how when I joined that program for $1000 to make better YouTube videos and become an influencer I met this Malaysian guy living in Japan who wanted to do the same thing. He asked me what my channel was about and I said it was about self-improvement and I was completely against pop culture then after I said that he introduced me to your channel. It was like finding an island of sanity in a sea of stupidity. All the time I'd point out logical and moral inconsistencies within any system whether it was school, family, society etc. people would just get frustrated at me for pointing them out and telling me I should just learn to live with it. Until I stumbled upon your videos and this community. I'm just wondering though eventually in the future when all of your work dissipate do you think that the tides will eventually turn and the world will become more self-actualized and go higher up the spiral dynamics or enlightenment stages or is the pendulum swinging the other way towards hatred, ignorance, corruption, and ideology?

Case and point you said 12th grade in your opinion should be a must. Although in the same exact video you said that was what messes people up. Like in school I had a lot of terrible ideologies tried to be shoved down my throat and if we disagreed we'd be ostracized in some way shape or form. Also I use to have a staunch ideology against those teachings in the opposite direction until it caused me a lot of emotional pain and damage now I am in fact more grounded. I used to think that we needed the opposite system and everyone who disagreed with me was an evil heretic. Now though I am much more nuanced in my way of thinking knowing that I can't impose my reality on anyone else because the way my mind sees things and the way their mind sees things can be Universes apart. So yes you are right I did happen to have the ideology in the opposite direction until a year or two after I realized it wasn't worth it and just as bad. This was way before actualized.org and I even wrote about it in a personal journal.

So did you. Leo Gura's are not as Leo Gura as they think they are

This is totally random but, whatever. So anyway Today I did a focus group about Apple Cider Vinegar and I thought it was about Apple Cider. So all of a sudden I find out about all these health benefits of this tangy vinegar that you add to anything. Any of you heard of Apple Cider Vinegar? What is it and why is it so good for you?

@Leo Gura Why don't you make a video on how someone can market himself to the masses?

@Leo Gura We're just a grain of sand on a giant beach. From time to time one of these grains of sand is an interesting enough color for people to pick up with their index finger stare at it and call over their friends to stare at it too.

@Leo Gura The main problem I have is getting their attention and getting eyeballs... Eventually though the skies the limit.

Well I could use some help . The good news is that I've studied people for a while now. I want to create an alternative. That means my system wont be shoving something down anyone's throat. So let's say I was growing up in an alternate reality where this older version of me already created this better system and in 6th grade (that's when the shit started for me in the education system) I went to the other system that this alternate older version of me created. In that system there would be amazing creative people who are autodidacts and we'd also be learning in a more free more creative way. We'd also have field trips to places that have to do with self-actualization (maybe a field trip to your place to see what your thought process is before you shoot one of your videos), places that have to do with business, places that have to do with finance, and places that have to do with self-inquiry. So if they're are any kids like me in the public education system yearning to be free and wanting to explore more things with out having to worry about standardized tests and learning some irrelevant bullshit they're never going to use in their lives I'd provide an alternative as a sanctuary for those kids so they don't have to suffer at the hand of sexually repressed fascist dictators lol (well I had a few of those in middle school).

Changing this system is what I'm making my life purpose about (or at least part of it) because I was a good little boy when I was younger. I always followed what my parents told me. Got good grades (eventually) followed what the system told me to do. Earned my pats on the head so to speak. Then at the end of it all I was unemployed, un-cared for and left behind like a week old sack of raw meat. Finding myself in the exact same situation as if I would've never gone to school in the first place.

@Leo Gura I concur but, from time to time you have a situation where school (and sometimes family) not only doesn't help a person reach their potential but, actively diminishes their potential as well as pushes them away from what they want to do in life. You have an ultimate life purpose course but, the education system as a whole wants you to be a cog in someone else's machine. Have you ever read anything by the author that goes by the name John Taylor Gatto?

@Leo Gura Radical open mindedness no? Why is the word must even in your vocabulary? https://www.businessinsider.com/wildly-successful-people-who-dropped-out-of-high-school-2015-9

@Leo Gura Have you ever heard about unschooling, and or homeschooling? Also if somebody stumbles upon your channel who hasn't finished 12th grade why do you think they'll have that much harder of a time self-actualizing? Also doesn't it depend on the school? What if the teachers poison your mind with rhetoric like you'll never amount to anything etc.?

@Leo Gura What about high school or really the K-12 education system in general. I mean seriously 12 years and they don't even touch up on most of that stuff you mentioned in your 2nd paragraph.

@Leo Gura Self driven isn't something you learn from family or school. Hopefully when more people of my generation grow up we will be more self-actualized to teach the generation coming after us this concept. I don't plan on having kids but, I do plan on being an inspiration for the generation after me.

@Girzo College.

Best way to learn in my opinion

@Feel Good well any food or drink is not healthy in large quantities.

@Michael569 Ya that's the one. Bragg brand right?

So the main reason people (especially stage blue people) join religion is because of the eternal rewards (heaven) that await them when they finally pass away. For any amount of time, effort, energy, cost, and/or stepping outside of a comfort zone people invest in anything it's usually to get them one step closer to a certain goal. This happened with religion in the bronze age now it's happening with the education system in the digital age. Students taking on debt to go to University for degrees that will hardly get them anywhere in life. So with this entire self-actualization stuff it made me happy when I found out about it but, now it just seems like a never ending desert with mirages everywhere. Even for @Leo Gura when he said he had his enlightenment experiences he still says things about life can still bother him. Also there are different levels of enlightenment and even when you are enlightened that doesn't mean that you're good to go in terms of no more pain, sadness or depression (correct me if I'm wrong). I guess what I'm really saying is that my main goal is to reach somewhere where pain, anger, depression, and suffering are gone and done in my life. It just seems like though when Leo releases new content it seems like there is so much more to know and learn that it gets a bit overwhelming and it's like with some kind of new thing all the time we constantly have to start back at square one (for those of you who played video games and one day all you progress is erased you know how that can feel). On the flip side of it though once a Promise land/ end game etc. is reached where to go after that? It reminds me of a Futurama episode where Professor Farnsworth was so happy he figured out everything about the Universe and he said there were no more questions left to answer. Then when he thought about it again about there being no more questions left to answer he became depressed because all he did was answer questions and there was nothing left for him to do. It kind of reminds me of video games I enjoy playing. I'm so excited to be playing them and fighting the enemies and then I get to the final boss I defeat the final boss but, once I'm done doing that I don't touch the video game after that if I do touch the video game after that it's to do all the side quests then I'll do all the side quests get a perfect on all the side quests and then the game has no more replay value. It's quite the paradox with all this self-actualization enlightenment stuff. On one hand I'm looking to "beat the game" on the other hand what do I do when I "finish the game?." At this point I'm even wondering if there's anyway of beating a game that has infinite levels and infinite bosses? It's like one of those olden games like pong where the point is to beat the computer by scoring points against it except the scoreboard just goes on forever til the rest of eternity. I don't know maybe the point is to just enjoy the journey with out wanting to "beat it". Wonder the desert in a way that's fun and exciting and brings you happiness? I'm very confused but, maybe I should just embrace the confusion as the absolute infinity and instead of being bothered by it use it as a helper? I'm wondering in 10 or 20 years down the line some ultimate amazing answer will be reached that'll move humanity closer to enlightenment. Or if this actualized.org stuff will somehow go mainstream and when it does I could say that I was happy to join it before everyone else knew about it. All I'm really looking to at this point is to fulfill my life purpose and to live a life where my pain and suffering is out of the picture or at least very minimal. What do y'all think.

@peanutspathtotruth what's your personal experience in all of this?

@peanutspathtotruth Thanks. I'm just wondering about the suffering part though. Like how to reduce negative emotions that end up hurting you and sabotaging you.

@Wasem My parents are Iranian but, I was born in LA. The only reason I'm interested in this end suffering stuff is because for most of my life as a youth I had no control over most things. I suffered in school because the work was too much, the teachers were boring, and I didn't relate to most of my classmates. Then my parents were also divorced so that meant that not only did I live with my grandma and my grandpa in a house in a place where it was only possible to get to by car and there were only houses as far as the eye can see. I also had to deal with both my mom and my dad and their families constantly saying bad things to me about each other. I also didn't have any brothers or sisters that I could talk to about any of it and no internet access at that time either. I was in a very dark very depressing place at that time. I do agree though that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. The thing is though I never want to feel as if I am trapped in a place of suffering and their is no way out.

So Tomorrow I'm part of Mars Academy USA low fidelity Mission at the Star Trek filming site near Vasquez Rocks in California and Ph.D Doctors will be flying in from India and Mexico to join me and the founder of the project Susan Jewell. I'm excited and nervous at the same time I'm in charge of so much of their technology (I'm the engineer) but, my main focus will be on the 3D printing. Just goes to show you what a little bit of volunteering, networking, and the right attitude can do for you I overheard her talking about 3D printing at an event at the ISDC and after that had a conversation and here I am now. Hopefully after all is said and done and since I've made so many friends with doctors, scientists, and space enthusiasts it can open a lot of doors to endless opportunities.