Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Rafael Thundercat]

Answer to Leo IQ test with a wild animal a chair and a rope.

Play Death and Hopefully the animal will lost interest in Killing you, and in case he kills you,well,Now you are Infinity.

[Leo Gura]

28 minutes ago, ChadT said:

@Leo Gura I guess what I struggle with is, if I ( Chad ) die, merge with everything and cease to be,  It seems like that is basically the same thing as just disappering.  As Chad. Nothingness.  Or no thing.   Now, if I merge with everything and have some degree of awarenes of the process, than that would be different.  I guess I am not sure which you are saying.  Perhaps I am misunderstanding, or just not at a point where I can see it. 

Your entire line of reasoning assumes a self.

There just isn't one.

Edited January 16 by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

22 minutes ago, Jannes said:

I got an Audio Book from Peter Ralston and I could not listen to more then 30 minutes of it as I know Ralstons original voice and that just didnt seem right. 

Same with Alan Watts. 

It would be the same for your book I think. 

Okay, good to know.

For people who know me it would feel weird. But for people who never watched my videos it would be fine.

Edited January 16 by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

20 minutes ago, Jannes said:

I got an Audio Book from Peter Ralston and I could not listen to more then 30 minutes of it as I know Ralstons original voice and that just didnt seem right. 

Same with Alan Watts. 

It would be the same for your book I think. 

Really? His off-the-cuff speaking voice is whack as shit in terms of modulation. Sometimes he has a bit of word salad and lots of odd repeated phrasing. In addition, his general speaking tone can be VERY emotive. Aggressive, assertive, incredulous. I am all good with that tbh, doesn't stop me, as it reads like passion and conviction.

In contrast, his audiobooks (I have listened to them many times) are a lot calmer. Thoughts, word pacing and phrasing is a lot more coherent. I am able to focus on the book in a leaner way that enhances digestion. Often I will return and relisten many times. I really enjoy that the audiobook is narrated by Ralston himself. I do not mind the tonal/pace change at all. If it were narrated by anyone else I would not be so captured.

Different strokes ay? 

[ChadT]

But there is a self.  I think therefore I am.  Even if the self is an illusion, it's still an illusion then.  It seems to reason it has a purpose.  Even if it is god fooling itself into experiencing reality as the self.  I like the self.    

I'm really not trying to be argumentative.  I just struggle with this.  Sometimes I feel like I almost see it, but never can quite fully buy into it. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Just now, ChadT said:

Sometimes I feel like I almost see it, but never can quite fully buy into it. 

Maybe it is to see through it, rather than see it

[Leo Gura]

20 minutes ago, ChadT said:

But there is a self.  I think therefore I am. 

There is Consciousness, but there is no self.

Without a self you would just be Consciousness.

As a self you imagine that Consciousness belongs to you, is something you have which you can lose. Rather it is Consciousness that will lose you.

Without a self Consciousness is no longer yours, it just is.

Edited January 16 by Leo Gura

[Joshe]

4 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Add to that the cosmology it is coming from.

Are you agreeing with me or suggesting the cosmology could justify it?

[Terell Kirby]

13 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Without a self Consciousness is no longer yours, it just is.

The illusion of my, me & mine.

What stands in its place is Nothing proper. 

[Loveeee]

Loving all the blog posts 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Beg for the gruel

[Joshe]

14 minutes ago, Loveeee said:

Loving all the blog posts 

😂 Textbook

[UnbornTao]

2 hours ago, Joshe said:

Are you agreeing with me or suggesting the cosmology could justify it?

Agreeing. 

[Nemra]

@Leo Gura, regarding quote #369, doesn't my state limit what kind of things are possible to happen?

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, Nemra said:

@Leo Gura, regarding quote #369, doesn't my state limit what kind of things are possible to happen?

Of course. So what?

Your spatial coordinates also limit what is possible to happen. If you were at spatial coordinate (5,343,480,034,802, 3,303,085,112,831, 537,983,132,445,830) you might see a unicorn. But since you aren't you won't.

Edited January 16 by Leo Gura

[Nemra]

@Leo Gura, seeing goblin coming out of a zipper that appeared out of nowhere is very radical compared to seeing a unicorn at a specific coordinate. 

I wasn't trying to say that it's irrational.

[Rilles]

Zipper Goblins sounds so Salvia tbh. Has been Leo been hittin the sage?

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Nemra said:

@Leo Gura, seeing goblin coming out of a zipper that appeared out of nowhere is very radical compared to seeing a unicorn at a specific coordinate. 

No more radical than your morning coffee existing.

[Nemra]

37 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

No more radical than your morning coffee existing.

The mechanism seems more radical. But I digress.

[Davino]

16 hours ago, Joshe said:

Strange response to a critique of overt sycophancy. 

 I'm just being grateful. Maybe you don't value things as I do.

It's like we're in a Mozart concert and at the end some people stand up clapping, crying and shouting bravo! Then somebody was half asleep in the armchair and looks puzzled at everyone else.