Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[vibv]

16 minutes ago, vibv said:

God has no choice but experience everything deeply & intimately.

In fact there is a choice, but it is always the same: It is LOVE.

That's why TRUTH=LOVE=FREEDOM. It chooses EVERYTHING.

But TRUTH, LOVE & FREEDOM are not the same, they are different facets of the same underlying thing, that which could be called just TRUTH.

TRUTH experiences itself as LOVE by discovering aspects of itself by acting out FREEDOM.

FREEDOM reaches where LOVE does not, but it leads to LOVE, because they are part of the same—which is TRUTH. Can't you see the BEAUTY in that?

[LambdaDelta]

If someone was a pedophile and resisted their urges because they refuse to harm children — even indirectly through watching CP, for the rest of their life, all the while regularly witnessing all the vitriol and demonization society throws at pedophiles, that would be godlike behavior worthy of a medal. This is so backwards. Most of you, including the supposedly spiritual people, can barely even resist the urge to jerk off or subtly manipulate others to satisfy your sexual needs, despite it being a well-established fact that a solid chunk of porn is produced through exploitation, coercion, and trafficking. The sex drive of a regular person is absolutely insane. Now imagine you cannot ever scratch this itch — it drives you up the wall, yet there's nothing but your own consciousness standing in the way of relief.
Of course that's not how the vast majority of pedophiles are, but there are some. Even a compromise such as only jerking off to loli hentai is already commendable. 

Integrating evil has always been very easy for some reason, much harder is understanding why others are seemingly incapable of doing so, being patient with them, and not dumping blackpills of vileness & horror over their heads like a bucket of rotten pig guts. 

[Leo Gura]

8 minutes ago, LambdaDelta said:

dumping blackpills of vileness & horror over their heads like a bucket of rotten pig guts. 

Well, that's what the Epstein file dump was.

Haha.

When it rains it pours.

Edited 15 hours ago by Leo Gura

[LambdaDelta]

7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Well, that's what the Epstein file dump was.

Haha.

When it rains it pours.

A good ice-cold shower is in order every now and then to wake the senses 

An online format also makes it simpler for people's minds to conveniently brush over anything they find too threatening

[Natasha Tori Maru]

It is not like it is hard to find bad news. Harder to find good news.

Sex used to be the big seller - now its rage-baiting or just shock/clickbait headlines.

The news we are shown will always have a negative spin given who is in power.

[LambdaDelta]

 

 

[Leo Gura]

@LambdaDelta Bingo!

[VioletFlame]

3 hours ago, LambdaDelta said:

 

 

Haha I always say we are living in the days of Idiocracy. The writer/director of this movie, Richard Linklater, is a pure genius. He also wrote and directed one of my favorite philosophical/metaphysical movies of all time, Waking Life. Highly recommend to everyone on this forum.

@Leo Gura did you ever see Waking Life? 😄 Would be cool to hear you review the concepts & specific epistimelogical/ontological conversations discussed in that movie. Many principles rooted in Existentialism, Taoism, and the nature of consciousness and reality. Way up your alley, lol. But probably most people on this forum would dig it.

Edited 9 hours ago by VioletFlame

[VioletFlame]

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

For sure. For sure.

Me lecturing sexual victims with metaphysics of Love will not work.

Thank you @Leo Gura 

I believe part of my calling is to emphasize Love, embody/demonstrate grace as a virtue, teach others how to switch perspective on the trauma & how to channel the pain in a healthy way to help others heal and learn what I've learned from similar experiences. It's my moral responsibility. It's saved me, so I know it can save others too. They just need a little hope, guidance, redirection, & a willingness to change and improve their quality of life. Many people give up too easily, and choose a path of misery & self-destruction. That's when it gets really sad. People give up easily because it is very difficult to do, but far from impossible. Humans are an incredibly resilient species. Trauma survivors are a prime example.

Edited 10 hours ago by VioletFlame

[AtmanIsBrahman]

I want to push back on the last blog post. How are sociopaths godless? If we’re being objective, these personality disorders like sociopathy and psychopathy are just differences in the brain and psyche.
To call them godless is a weird moralization that’s uncharacteristic of actualized.org.

Couldn’t there be a god-realized sociopath/psychopath?

[pursuitofspirit]

@Leo Gura what meditation techniques do you use nowadays? Noting? Do-Nothing? just curious

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, AtmanIsBrahman said:

I want to push back on the last blog post. How are sociopaths godless? If we’re being objective, these personality disorders like sociopathy and psychopathy are just differences in the brain and psyche.
To call them godless is a weird moralization that’s uncharacteristic of actualized.org.

Couldn’t there be a god-realized sociopath/psychopath?

I just explained what godless means. It is not a moral judgment.

These sociopaths are just survival machines. They can hardly be called human. They have no respect for truth.

A chimpanzee is just a difference in brain.

45 minutes ago, pursuitofspirit said:

@Leo Gura what meditation techniques do you use nowadays? Noting? Do-Nothing? just curious

Replace all meditation with Kriya yoga.

[Miguel1]

Catching up with the blog from the past few days. Its so freaking good. I mean its always hella good but lately its been exceptionally good.

”Your #1 responsibility as a father is to select a sane mother.”

I never were able to articulate it that way, but that’s exactly how it is! If I am to have a long future in a close-related relationship with a person, they better be truly sane.

[AtmanIsBrahman]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

A chimpanzee is just a difference in brain.

I guess the question is if it’s possible for a being to be extremely conscious but at the same time be “evil” by our human definition.
If you act immorally, are you necessarily godless or is the immorality a consequence of the godlessness?

It’s also interesting how a lot of the things psychopaths don’t feel like guilt and remorse are also removed by spiritual work, where you realize that those things are egoic impulses. 

 

[Butters]

So what happens when a sociopath takes a psychedelic? 

Apes eating mushrooms is the whole stoned ape theory btw. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Butters

[CARDOZZO]

 

[CARDOZZO]

If you really want to succeed in today's society, it is detrimental to study sociopaths and functional psychopaths. They embody traits that can make you millions of dollars. Crazy, huh? But at what cost...

[Human Mint]

18 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Epistemic responsibility means following truth wherever it leads. If it leads to pedophile cannibals, so be it.

Growing a thicker skin is an important part of this work.

In what sense following truth would lead you to pedophile cannibals? Do you view it analogous to a detective following the steps of a crime scene?

I am trying to make sense of every time you use the word Truth.

[Butters]

17 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Dude, your attitude is that of a child who only wants to eat candy.

I am like a vulture, I will eat anything. I see a dead skunk on the side of road and eat it. That's what makes my mind strong.

Wow you're so cool dude. 

How do you even know what is appropriate for me? I've had a very chaotic childhood. Perhaps for me at this point in my life rest and quiet is where I find my truth, not in your Epstein garbage. 

[UnbornTao]

1 minute ago, Butters said:

Wow you're so cool dude. 

How do you even know what is appropriate for me? I've had a very chaotic childhood. Perhaps for me at this point in my life rest and quiet is where I find my truth, not in your Epstein garbage. 

That's fair. To be clear, it's unnecessary and can serve as a distraction. It's also rather superficial.

You can instead examine the truth of things like: What is curiosity? What is stillness?