Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, AtmanIsBrahman said:

Even spiritual poetry? 

I just don't find it worth my time.

But you do you.

[Human Mint]

19 hours ago, cistanche_enjoyer said:

Hey guys I just found out that I can sit on my bed as if it was a chair (like on the edge, without back support) and it fits me perfectly. So no need to buy a new chair 

And I must be the only one that lays down in bed to contemplate. I don't fall asleep unless I had a shitty night. But I always have back pain without back support.

[Yimpa]

Sit on it. Sit on God. It’s that simple.

This is not an ad.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

How do you define 'ugly', Leo? 

Repulsive, turn off? Is there a moral/ethical fragment that comes into the definition of ugly, for you? Is it something unclaimed within you?

These are questions. Questions that need answers, damn it! 😁

Edited 3 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Leo Gura]

25 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

How do you define 'ugly', Leo? 

It is best left undefined and open.

You know when you see ugly.

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Repulsive, turn off?

Yes, but also deeper.

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Is there a moral/ethical fragment that comes into the definition of ugly, for you?

No. Not in a moralistic sense.

But of course immoral behavior is ugly.

Selfish and ignorant behavior is ugly.

Ungodly behavior.

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Leo Gura cheers cheers 🙏

The intuition of ugly.

Edited 3 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Joseph Maynor]

19 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

No. Not in a moralistic sense.

But of course immoral behavior is ugly.

Selfish and ignorant behavior is ugly.

Ungodly behavior.

I'm curious as to why this doesn't class as a moral judgment.

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

I'm curious as to why this doesn't class as a moral judgment.

It depends on how you want to define your terms.

I don't think moralistically at all, because that implies some objective right and wrong. Ugly is an aesthetic.

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Joseph Maynor]

For me what happens is I have an intention to create well up after being influenced by other creators.  I wouldn't call it a response to ugliness per se (although that could be too) -- but a desire, inspiration, motivation to create something.

Edited 1 hour ago by Joseph Maynor

[Frenk]

@Leo Gura i miss when you wrote posts like these https://www.actualized.org/insights/hitting-rock-bottom

[Basman]

The idea that you can identify bad post-modernism by how ugly it is is hilarious and so true. 

The most unappealing thing to me about woke shit and what tends to repel from their media and philosophy is how unaesthetic and ugly it almost always is. LGBT, trans people and the adjacent always tend to be kind of uggo in my experience (and very stuck in their head sort of). The group think and vitriol of hyper identity politics is ugly. They generally don't value beauty, which is a big mistake. Beauty is a reward in of itself. If you don't value beauty in some kind of way I can't take you seriously.

Edited just now by Basman