Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

4 minutes ago, aurum said:

"...I made 5 professional, feature length films" he whispers as he closes his eyes and makes his ascent 

"I love my country! I love my country!" 

[mmKay]

19 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

That is the joke his fans keep hoping for.

Unfortunately, Occam's Razor is that he's just laughably untalented and clueless.

I wish I had his delusional level of self-confidence. I could walk on water with that degree of self-belief! 

Neil Breen is like Owen Cook's pickup mindset applied to filmmaking combined with zero talent.

Funny enough he lives near me. I recognize the desert envirnoments he shot Double Down in. Some scenes there from Red Rock state park. I could drive to the exact location from memory.

He is such a weird human. Like an alien.

Please get an interview with this rare alien mind 

[mmKay]

Plot twist:Actualized.org was just another of Owen Cooks 15 year long  marketing gimmicks for Blueprint Decoded. 

Blueprint Decoded stonks right now📈📈📈

Edited yesterday at 01:55 AM by mmKay

[Leo Gura]

The great thing about Owen is that he brought philosophical depth to self-help theory. It wasn't just about sex or money.

Edited yesterday at 04:08 AM by Leo Gura

[PenguinPablo]

@Leo Gura The most insane part is that Tyler Durden from Fight Club is a plot device warning against the alpha male front as a defense mechanism against lack of meaning in a man's life. The book is written by an actual gay dude that can see through that facade clear as day. And yet a whole industry was born from that. The irony.

Personally I would love to lean into the appreciation of intellect over everything else. 

Anything less than that is a distraction imo and that is very costly.

[Miguel1]

7 hours ago, PenguinPablo said:

The most insane part is that Tyler Durden from Fight Club is a plot device warning against the alpha male front as a defense mechanism against lack of meaning in a man's life. The book is written by an actual gay dude that can see through that facade clear as day. And yet a whole industry was born from that. The irony.

Wow, I did not know that. That’s quite the twist.

That being said, hopefully it leads to Healthy Game becoming the thing in the near future.

[Terell Kirby]

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The great thing about Owen is that he brought philosophical depth to self-help theory. It wasn't just about sex or money.

Lots of Owen bashing lately on the forum. And really demonization of  stage orange in general.

youngsters stand to benefit from good ol fashioned self help. Positive thinking, self mastery, goal setting, follow thru, ambition etc. All things we try to bypass with spirituality and new age shit

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Terell Kirby

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, Terell Kirby said:

Lots of Owen bashing lately

Well, he does bring it on himself with his weird political rants and skeevy ways.

Edited 15 hours ago by Leo Gura

[CARDOZZO]

43 minutes ago, Terell Kirby said:

youngsters stand to benefit from good ol fashioned self help. Positive thinking, self mastery, goal setting, follow thru, ambition etc. All things we try to bypass with spirituality and new age shit

On point. Healthy stage orange is necessary to advance spiritual wizards  I'll do my best to bring healthy stage orange materials/teachers here on the forum.

Edited 15 hours ago by CARDOZZO

[Terell Kirby]

4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Well, he does bring it on himself with his weird political rants and skeevy ways.

Take what is useful and leave the rest. That’s my approach with Owen and all teachers / gurus

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Terell Kirby said:

Take what is useful and leave the rest. That’s my approach with Owen and all teachers / gurus

That is usually my attitude, however with his teachings the youngsters will not be able to distinguish the corruption in it.

It takes a very developed mind to distinguish that. So there is real danger there. Young men get suckered into toxic Red Pill and Alt Right politics so easily.

Edited 15 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Terell Kirby]

7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It takes a very developed mind to distinguish that. So there is real danger there. Young men get suckered into toxic Red Pill and Alt Right politics so easily.

Fair point- can’t deny the importance of cognitive development required in making nuance distinctions.

Your work is also doing a great service in teaching youngsters how to make such distinctions. Keep doing what you’re doing

Edited 15 hours ago by Terell Kirby

[Butters]

1 hour ago, CARDOZZO said:

On point. Healthy stage orange is necessary to advance spiritual wizards  I'll do my best to bring healthy stage orange materials/teachers here on the forum.

On 25-6-2025 at 8:16 PM, fabger said:

@Leo Gura

@CARDOZZO  very good. I believe that consistency is important and something I've been lacking for a long time. Do you think that is orange or blue? 

[CARDOZZO]

47 minutes ago, Butters said:

@CARDOZZO  very good. I believe that consistency is important and something I've been lacking for a long time. Do you think that is orange or blue? 

Contemplate: What is consistency? How do I define consistency? Consistency = Perfection? If I do something 4x week is it consistency? How many times I have to do something to call it "consistency"? When will I call myself "consistent"? What is inconsistency?

[Jannes]

I know a girl in my social circle who has all kinds of mental illnesses: adhd, bipolar, depression and something else. She is also insanely artistic, always coming up with otherworly dimensions in her paintings. I figured all her mental illnesses were in some way connected to insight into higher consciousness.

[Leo Gura]

58 minutes ago, Jannes said:

I know a girl in my social circle who has all kinds of mental illnesses: adhd, bipolar, depression and something else. She is also insanely artistic, always coming up with otherworly dimensions in her paintings.

Kanye West has joined the chat.

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Jannes said:

who has all kinds of mental illnesses

I imagine Neil Breen's next film is about a guy who has ALL OF THEM -- All the mental illnesses.

That's a brilliant story idea that's never been done before: a character with every mental illness 

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura

[ExploringReality]

Leo for your episodes you should add some classic pornography music that they use in the intros, you got to add that low  background music when you blow us away with those insights 

[LoneWonderer]

On 10/12/2025 at 0:46 PM, Leo Gura said:

That particular post is saying something concrete. It is not a koan.

It will make sense after you watch the entire Deconstructing Rationality series.

Regarding that post. I intuitively understand what is being communicated. Ask me to explain it to you and I'm checking out thank you very much.

Edited 1 hour ago by LoneWonderer

[WillCameron]

14 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

That is usually my attitude, however with his teachings the youngsters will not be able to distinguish the corruption in it.

It takes a very developed mind to distinguish that. So there is real danger there. Young men get suckered into toxic Red Pill and Alt Right politics so easily.

It took me a long time to move beyond the paradigm Owen gave me. Your work was a big part of keeping myself from ever getting too deeply into it, but it was definitely my primary paradigm for most of my 20s. I'd say reading Byung-Chul Han and Rachel O'Neill's ethnography on the pickup community were the last nails in the coffin. It's necessary to learn pickup to a certain extent, but it's a toxic strategy for a toxic terrain. Owen is likely among the most sophisticated and ethical that the worldview can offer.