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Nah. His joke about the person dying was pretty gross. It was designed to tickle his audience rather than actually contribute to the debate.

Maybe! That's a big assumption to make. You'd have to look into that.

So, fighting the Nazi's in World War 2 is evil? Would you say picking the lesser of two evils is still too evil to bother doing? It is possible to kill with love - killing one person to save many is such an example.

@integral You could also just stop being a human. Then no identity crisis

@CARDOZZO Owen thinks Andrew Tate was just a misunderstood self-help guru, like his pal Julien. It's cute to look for the positive in Trump. Sure, there's lessons conscious people can learn from Trump in what not to do, but the overall impact on society is a massive loss having him around. I would say it's a big lack of awareness on Owen's part to tell the unconscious masses to stand-up unconditionally for what they 'believe' in. That's how you create people who are stuck in dysfunctional thought. Owen idolizes people with an unbreakable frame, which ironically are people with a form of poor social calibration.

Ugh, I don't even know what to expect anymore. If Trump was killed, would that kill or embolden the movement? Is the far right a hydra? Cut one head off two more grow back? American politics is the ultimate speeding train. Trump is going to make your dream miserable.

Well, I think such a person should question why their alignment is so. If you're conscious about what you're doing, and you know what you are doing has a negative effect on the victim, then what you are doing is not love. A crocodile only kills because it does not know how or have the ability to meet its own needs in a more loving way. If you gave crocodiles high levels of consciousness and the ability to use tools, you bet they would turn to agriculture or laboratory grown meat. If you had the ability to choose between butchering a chicken for meat, or just having the meat, you would choose avoiding the butchering every time, right? This is partially the reason why religions have developed ritual slaughtering practices, like Halal meat. They are recognizing the devilry in which they partake and seek forgiveness from God. I'm personally not at all religious, but Jesus really put it best. "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." The most divine thing in this reality is consciousness, and all of our efforts should go towards making consciousness a pleasant experience for all. Of course, what is pleasant is subjective. But if one person's pleasure costs ten person's suffering, pursuing that path is selfishness and devilry. It's a net loss. That's the whole game, maximize pleasant experience without being a devil (AKA, asshole).

@Thought Art Exactly right. The 10,000 hours rule is such bs. It takes 10,000 hours for mastery if you practice mindlessly. Practice with consciousness and you could cut that it half or more.

I am not sure that absolute emotional mastery is entirely possible as a human. But you could get very very good at it. We are slaves to our biological machines in this life. To my knowledge the best we can do is get hyper-conscious and override our reptilian brain before it reacts in stupid ways. First step would be consciousness training, with a deliberate focus on emotions. Noticing them, learning how to change them. Read Peter Ralston's consciousness series and mastery, that should give you all the tools you need.

Yep, be very careful when picking your doctors. They are human and have biases. I've had doctors withhold information about certain things about my condition as to not hurt my feelings, which cost me months to figure out without them. It feels a bit odd to do, but I kind of press my doctors a bit now and get them to explain things to me two or three times just so they don't accidentally leave something vital to know out.

Hell yeah it is. But you have to work it. It's not just a book that shares a nice perspective, you have to run the things you're interested in through it like a machine to get results. But the results are amazing.

Owen is such a character. For the most part the ideas he shares are fantastic, but his style is very problematic. The mental spell he casts on his audience is insanity. He tells them to break out of the matrix, wake up, stop being derpy and all that jazz, and then markets to them like the derpy animals he perceives them as. Look at his sales pages and youtube thumbnails. Look at his playbook, and then how he treats his audience. He treats them like mindless animals, with his sensationalist language and big flashy monkey-brain attention grabbing style. It makes sense why he does it, because the sales strategy works. He makes a fuckton of money from what he does. The problem is that it reveals a kind of unspoken disgust for his own audience, and for society as a whole. There's not much love there. He's okay living like that, but for most people it would tear up their soul. @petar8p That's the cost of hyper-predatory marketing. That's the integrity cost. If Leo marketed the shit out of his courses like that, you would feel talked down and condescended to. Leo and good teachers like him don't do that because they actually give a fuck about your mental state and development. From the perspective of someone who is very high consciousness, they understand that treating people in this way is like a crime against god. They are giving up hundreds of thousands of dollars to not lose their integrity and their connection to god. Or you could be like Owen, and just not care about that stuff. You do you.

I'm sold! Looking forward to it

In one of Leo's recent videos, he mentioned he was going to do an episode on non-violent communication. I wanted to get ahead and see what the fuss was about before he made the episode, and found this gem: It's a 3 hour video, so a great time killer for us self development nerds. Seriously this has already totally changed my way of thinking about social activities and how we relate to people for the better. Very keen to see Leo's video on the topic, I think it will make the episode extra juicy having a little bit of extra background knowledge before diving straight in.

@Thought Art im getting through Marshall's audiobook as we speak! I will check out Betty's book, thanks for the rec.

Totally overthinking. Most people just fuck whenever they get the chance. This sexual kung fu stuff is probably not helping. I understand your position, I was the same as a guy in my early 20s too. It took a lot of work to accept and understand that I was deeply sexually repressed and ashamed. At least that was my situation, yours is likely different. Start by totally accepting your current situation, and start making identity-level changes to become the type of person you want to be sexually.

You can do both. Minimalism just means to have a really tight core circle of possessions. Just have a small but classy wardrobe.

@Leo Gura Then how else do these crimes get exposed? Sometimes we gotta reach into the crocodile's mouth to pull out the truth, right?

Elden Ring was great when it came out, but it's been like a year and a half since I played it. Jumping back into my old character into this new content felt so weird. I'd need to play through the whole game from scratch then do the DLC to enjoy it and I don't want to spend that time.

Love it. Good ol' classic violence. No need for any of this NVC stuff 😂 I would miss out on the joy of smashing a windshield in if I asked myself what needs the coffee purchaser was subtly expressing first.

@NightHawkBuzz These things are indeed a painful part of life that we live and die by, that's true. As a hypothetical: Let's say I believe that the world was created by an angel or good spirit, because the world contains food, air, water, friends, lovers, nature, happiness? Shouldn't that argument be equally valid? What would you say to me if I believed that? It seems to me that the existential nature of the universe is so much more fundamental than good and evil. It occurs way prior to any of that.

@NightHawkBuzz It breaks my heart that this idea has infected your mind. It's so coloured by this idea of good and evil when the reality is these concepts are moral constructs built by culture to maintain stability. The world was created long before good and evil were ever invented, therefore the idea that a 'devil' created the world makes no sense. It's putting the cart before the horse.

@Leo Gura Do you remineralize or supplement your RO?

@Leo Gura I think in this case Leo is speaking directly towards using meditation for awakening. If a few minutes of meditation a day improves your quality of life then of course go and do it.

I really enjoyed Leo's latest video. Fantastic breakdown and examples. I want to open a thread listing as many traps as we can, I challenge you to think of 20 unique traps and post them on this thread. The more raw examples the better, you might stumble on something important that someone else might not have ever considered. I'll start: 1. Being an employee. While sometimes necessary, you lose a degree of personal agency and self-reliance. You become dependent on the employer for basic survival. 2. Getting a bad cosmetic surgery, example a bad hair transplant. 3. Exploiting your clients. Taking advantage of their ignorance for short term benefit. It will ruin the relationship over time. 4. Buying too many physical products. Not being a minimalist. 5. Not looking after your health especially at a young age 6. Time wasting 7. Not maintaining your family and social circle 8. Moving to a new city or country too hastily without a plan 9. Failing to do pre-mortems 10. Getting involved in business or drama with shady characters and gangs 11. Doing anything you can't take back, but you want to 12. Having people dependent on you, when you are not yet ready for the responsibility. Kids, employees, family members, romantic partners 13. Getting addicted to substances or habits 14. Failing to deconstruct an ideology or belief system before you subscribe to it 15. Working for and becoming financially dependant on a company that does not share your personal values or morality 16. Taking on more projects and clients than you can handle 17. Taking what people say literally as fact, and not investigating their emotional state or social games 18. Buying or renting a bad property 19. Not taking the time to listen to your body or emotions 20. Giving up forever on sex, money, spirituality or health.