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@Wildcattt555 Nah, the slot machine was just an example of doing something stupid for no reason. Avoiding vaccination is something stupid that people do for no reason. You can be scared shitless of anything. Some people are scared shitless that they are gonna die from the tiniest bleeding or some weird mild pain in their leg. There is no evidence to be scared of covid vaccine and there is no evidence to justify waiting for such evidence. I am not sure if people who already have had covid and it was benign should still get vaccinated now, but it was for sure an intelligent decision when they first entered the field. Please don't educate me on statistics, I am already trained in it.

@Wildcattt555 There is absence of evidence that I have 10 million dollars. That's not an evidence of me not having it. Gonna spend 20k on slot machines, be right back

I think a big challenge for the coaching training to pass would be to teach you up-to-date marketing tactics. The principles of marketing are the same as always, but the execution of them has changed a lot in the past decade. A lot of new marketing channels, tools and also the old channels work in a new way.

Some serious content about psychedelics. What is the current method, what has Leo tried. Something useful for comparing and fine-tuning your own spiritual practice. Leo doesn't do yoga or meditate hardcore, so he could at least share something practical about things he does. Maybe eleborate on what he envisions monk-mode life like. He says he considers that lifestyle as an option, it would be cool to hear his opinion on what it entails, and why it might be more suitable for him and some people than living a conventional life in a relationship. I would like Leo to do some ecological research and thinking. Spirituality and ecology. There's a lot spiritual teachers who's teachings lack connection to the real world. Leo has good enough foundations in science and epistemology, so he can do some contemplation work on that. But practical, anything practical please. Report on experiences with EEG meditation? If you don't plan to make a course on that anymore you could release at least some comment. It could be one of the shorter videos.

@mr_engineer You are in the wrong, which you can see if you really look and see that scamming people openly like Tate or saying anti-semetic things like Kanye is not allowed in the mainstream media/public discussion. No-one really supports that, and for good reasons. It's a good moment for you to self-reflect why you don't see it and how can you open your mind. Don't tell us to change the world to your liking. Think about why the world is the way it is. Thinks about others too, that they are not 1:1 copies of you.

Man, how are you not banned. There's is no need for "woke mob" to do anything because the ideas you spout go against basic human decency. It's normal, mediocre humans you go against with your defense of misogyny and hate speech. If it were 1990s, people would still argue you with this that this is unacceptable in public. That's how out of touch are the things you say.

Man, in what world do you live, anti-semitic rants are crime in itself.

I don't remember the science exactly, but it's something like, 5-MeO probably won't trigger your seizure directly, but can make you more prone for something else that could trigger you, for a few days.

@Breakingthewall you are forgetting whales, the OG geniuses, dolphins are damn smart too. It's not that they can't do algebra. It's we who can't communicate with them. Humans' power is not in being intelligent, it's in us being copycats. We are better monkeys than monkeys, copying each other's habits, inventions. This way only a few people have to be smart and come up with useful things.

What terrible recession guys? No serious shit has hit the fan yet. The situation is more or less the same right now as it was a few years ago, with recent problems caused by global energy issues and also shaken trade chains. This is what happens when you overfit economy to certain conditions. It's a global issue. There will be more and more energy related issues as climate change and resource depletion progresses. Amercian car-based way of life is just unsustainable. I am saying that because I am guessing you might be talking about rising gas prices in the USA when you talk about recession.

@Tyler Robinson no, techlead is 100% not a left-winger. You can notice this by his lack of humor. To lack humor this much you have to skew to the right. Now, when I read your post, neither Lex or Destiny are on the right. What was the thought behind this post?

You act like you are purposefully fooling me you don't know what does the part "ABSOLUTE" of the phrase "Absolute Truth" mean. It's absolute, it can't be fully out of consciousness. It has to be embeded in your consciousness. Denying that is you doing some Daniel Denett's style judo yourself.

I feel like it's because people are clicking at "submit reply" twice. I have had a situation today where I have thought that I didn't post the message, my message still being typed in the textfield and all, but it actually has been submitted already.

@Strannik Mr. Zen Fanboy, explain to me, please, how can Absolute Truth be proven as just a faulty concept, because of there possibly existing some "meta-reality beyond-consciousness" when Absolute Truth already includes any such known and unknown, possible and impossible to know meta-layers of reality. Because you know, as you have said all language is conepts, and we use them to point at THIS, but I feel like the concepts you propose do worse job at pointing at and describing the indescribable than what Leo uses. Reading your words is Land of Confusion for me, how the heck Buddhism Zen is not a religion? It's as much religion as everything else.

You know, I am an aspiring sociologist and I can tell you that it's 100% not because of pointers. Common religions don't get people out of their beliefs because it's not their job. They might advertise like it's their job, but not really. Churches are ideology dispensaries, power structure legitimzers and part of social control mechanism. They don't know that. That's a belief, too.

Because God is a wisely created, accurately pointing label. Just as you wouldn't get Enlightened by browsing Pornhub instead of learning about and applying spirituality, you wouldn't grasp what THIS is by contemplating about flying spaghetti monster instead of God. I don't think that God is an overloaded label in serious spiritual circles. It might be in the common person's mind, I agree.

I assume you mean being a state in which there is nothing and just THIS, where there was a computer a second ago, but now is nothing. Using my mind right now not being in that state I can say that there were still sights and sensations, but I know they were't really there and it didn't feel like anything being in that state, other then bliss, but that's also a description added now, not coming from that state. But that would be a pretty passive type of state. There are more active states like this spiritually dull one where I am also creative and talkative and eager to read your posts. I think that Leo's argument is that THIS can reconfigure into such state where it's both very clearly THIS, but also active and from this superior "position" make an absolute judgement about itself being God. And other insights. They are not stated by dull Leo character, they are made by THIS itself, while THIS is absolutely itself. I stay open to this not having experienced it ever, the same as I stay open to your ideas.

Nope. Non-duality is non-duality. It's not a value. It's an area of study, philosophy, approach to spirituality, however you want to use the term, but not a value. Green is a label for a postmodern value system. Since non-duality is not a value even some Red mafia thug can adopt it as a form of spiritual belief and for example use it to justify his socially harmful actions, for example by arguing that there is no-one being robbed, so he is not doing anything evil.

All this stripping of labels is uneccessary. Obviously in an Enlightened state there is no self, no Self, etc., but there still is THIS. Something that is nothing. And I am not in that state right now. No-one is, communication in that state is impossible. So we are not in the state, right? So we can use the powers of the mind to create appropiate labels. And I don't know about you, but in my opinion Absolute F####g Truth is a pretty good label for THIS. Ain't it?

I have had one Awakening into no-self. It's so profound. There is no higher joy that I have ever experienced. You are drowning in Bliss. It's like all of you has been just clothes and you finally strip them. Nothing in your experience changes but everything changes. This not at all like what I have experienced from meditation and I have done retreats. It's way way more radical, I have never seen Sam Harris describing something that awe-inspiring but I haven't consumed much of his content.

Sex is all in your head. The best girl is the one you can take acid with with and contemplate the beauty and harshness of life. All this physical attractivness, shallow, we are all beautiful and normal, just built different.

Comes from Latin/French Comes from Latin/French This also comes from Latin/French It's like saying "Oh, we have such beautiful words in English, like Wanderlust!" while in fact it's a German word xDD Edit: Oh, helloo brother, I see we both like this word heh

I always give creative presents to my SO. Like hand-made stuff, hand created images, poster of a show we both like, that is like an inside thing for us, or "blank" ones. Blank ones are the best, like some empty journal, special paper, coloring book or art supplies. Or something practical if it's something useful, like an ebook reader, it's really not that pricey for a gift if you factor in how much you would have otherwise spent on making a DIY thing Maybe some gift that makes a promise. Like hiking gear and a promise that you will go on a great mountain adventure in the summer together. Or tickets for some hippie summer festival or concert. Oh, oh I know, I know! Prinitng photos makes a great present. But not the standard lame-ass postcard size, but bigger, like twice as big at least. They are great. Big, high-qulity, selected photos of YOU, together. And since we are on self-actualization forum, then Yoga accessories make a great gift. Maybe a cool hand-made psychedelics stash, or vape stash, or maybe fance vape accessories. Muse headband for meditation.

Politicians are politicians. They mostly don't care about things they say. He isn't saying that because he has been a free speech advocate all his life and became a politician to defend it. No, he is saying that because he is a politician. He is playing a different game, he is trying to score political points by using rhetoric and reffering common memes. He might even think personally that free speech is terrible and absolutist implementation of it would be a disaster and still nevertheless advocate it fervorously, because it's going to benefit him politically. If it comes to him having to implement any free speech policy and it not being radical enough or failing terribly, he can always blame that on someone or something else. Win-win for a politician, if his skills are top-notch he can say whatever he wants and never suffer consequences, someone else is going to take a beating.

Said every drug addict ever.