Joseph Maynor

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  5. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    @Maarten Truth is not the average of all perspectives. If only it were so easy! Truth is much more tricky than that.

    If I were to compromise with a materialist devil, I would only debase myself. It's the devil's strategy to get you to compromise with him. He will kick and scream to get you to take him seriously.

    Remember, all that a devil has to do to win is muddly the waters. That's the game here. The devil cannot win in actuality because he is coming from falsehood. The devil wins by getting you distracted from Truth and Love.

    You seem to be at war with yourself.  Apply the Paradox of War and Peace.  if you white-knuckle cling too tightly to one side of this paradox to the exclusion of the other, you can get locked or blocked.  The Devil is you.  Don't shit where you eat.  Tread lightly and compassionately.  You can be in favor of the Good without demonizing the Bad.  If fact, the Bad is Good if it happened.  Christians are at war with themselves in this manner.

  6. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    I think Zzenn is a good counter-perspective to Leo.  We learn from every perspective do we not?  The great thing about life is we get a cornucopia of different perspectives to learn from.  If you don't like variety, stay off the Internet.  There are plenty of rocks to live under as many people choose to do.  Stay open to perspectives and open to being wrong or stupid.  Nietzsche wisely said that stupidity must be accounted for -- and I think this applies to all systems, including ourselves.  So, stay humble and open to criticism.  If you're secure in who you are, criticism shouldn't bother you deeply anyway.  If somebody has an insight that can help me, I want to be presented with it.  The last thing I wanna do is make people hesitant to share corrections with me.  Criticize me please.  That's how I learn and how I've learned on here to boot.  Welcome criticism and show compassion to those who you genuinely believe are misguided.  Everybody has a genius to them that you can learn from if you're willing to look for it.  It's like Emerson said, and I paraphrase: there is something in everybody where they are superior to you in some way which you can be wise to learn from them.  E.g., you can learn to integrate the pros of Stage Beige from interacting with a baby.

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    11 hours ago, ajasatya said:

    @shahryar Discover your path. Be free of attachments. You don't need to force yourself to watch every video from Leo. Take what serves you. I think you already know what you need to embody.

    This is good advice.  Very, very good advice.  It reminds me of a line I read in a book that said something like if you're capable of being distracted, you're not working hard enough.  People who know what they're doing and are doing it are not getting offended by others.  To be offended is to be distracted from taking the action that you know you should be taking in your own life.  It's a kind of buck-passing mechanism of the Lower-Self.  You stop looking at yourself and start looking at others.  Something must be wrong with something other than me!  Yeah!  No, it's not me that's unfocused.

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    When truly you have it, you don't need it.  What we're currently obsessed about is what we don't yet have.  If I had Industriousness, I wouldn't be yammering about that topic in my journal like I currently am.  If you have it, you're not talking about it.  You're currently talking about and interested in what you want that you don't yet have.