Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

22 minutes ago, Raze said:

There isn’t so much rape in India, the rate is similar to other countries. It’s just that there are a billion Indians so more incidents take place, but not more proportionate to the population than most other countries. 

Don't even start with that. There is a whole culture of rape in India. It isn't even considered wrong.

America and Europe doesn't have gangs of rapists running around.

Edited 7 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Raze]

11 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Don't even start with that. There is a whole culture of rape in India. It isn't even considered wrong.

America and Europe doesn't have gangs of rapists running around.

That is false, rape is a crime in India.

India has 1 billion people. Assuming it’s all at one level of development based on crime, is like assuming all of America is like gang infested areas in Detroit or poor rural southern areas where people do meth. 

Gang rapes also occur in the US and Europe.

Edited 7 hours ago by Raze

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, Raze said:

rape is a crime in India.

A technicality

[Clarence]

Trans Sports

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People who don't accept their sex are going to struggle very much to understand reality, to have a truthful attitude towards reality, because they are at war with themselves, because they don't love themselves, they don't have stable minds because their identity is so insecure and ungrounded.

Deciding to transition in a transphobic society can be an act of self-love and self-acceptance, similar to accepting being gay in a homophobic society.

I've transitioned and I'm not at war with myself. I'm increasingly accepting that I wasn't born cisgender. I'm also on a journey to understand reality and to become as truthful about it as I can be.

As a trans person, the inner work I had to do was not accepting my sex assigned at birth and the gender associated with it; it was accepting that I wasn't born cisgender and that my body didn't match how I felt inside.

My work was to accept myself as I truly was. It was not to accept myself as a girl and keep living as such when it was clearly untrue to me; it was to accept myself as a person born in the wrong body and to accept transitioning to align my body with my mind.

I have to accept scars, the lack of male sex organs, as well as other things related to being trans, but top surgery and HRT have completely transformed the relationship I have with my body and with myself. It has helped me become a more secure and grounded person in ways that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.

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If you need to get surgery or chemicals to accept yourself, you don’t love yourself, you don’t accept reality.

That is not the full picture of what accepting reality entails for a trans person. This whole matter is not as black and white as you depict it to be.

I'm not denying that some people transition for the wrong reasons or that surgery or the use of chemicals can be misused and overused in various ways.

But a transition can also be a very thoughtful process, a process towards self-love and authenticity. Generalizing that all trans people are at war with themselves, have unstable minds, and can't understand reality is just wrong. This narrative applies neither to me nor to many other trans people.

I certainly am not perfect, but I am on a journey towards deeper love, deeper acceptance, and deeper understanding of reality. I've been seriously engaged in spiritual work. I worked through a lot of things just to know that transitioning was necessary for me. Being trans does not amount to being that kind of person you describe.

I encourage you to watch this video, just to broaden your perspective. The author is trans, yet he's mature, grounded, loves reality, loves his life, loves his body.

A few more:

Why I Love Being Transgender

My Seven Favorite Parts of Being Transgender

Emotional FTM Transition Timeline (2 Years on Testosterone)

That being said, trans activism and trans people in sports is a whole other issue. I'm not an activist myself and I deeply care about fairness for everyone. So of course, trans women shouldn't play sports with cis women since they have a clear advantage.

Edited 3 hours ago by Clarence

[Majed]

@Leo Gura How is it not even considered wrong? Like what?

[Stick]

Im from nepal and I hear stories of rapes from india all the time.
In this one story, a komodo dragon was raped by a gang.
But its pretty tuned down nowdays though, even the documentary was from 2018.
The richer india gets, the more money it can allocate to destroy these vile rape culture
I think in 2 decades, India will be the new China and Some african country (sudan or smtn) will be the new India
It appears as though the world is degrading day by day, but I think in 3-4 decades, humanity will not only be the richest but also the happiest its ever been 

[Leo Gura]

26 minutes ago, Majed said:

@Leo Gura How is it not even considered wrong? Like what?

I litterally posted the evidence on the blog. Watch the video.

[Leo Gura]

44 minutes ago, Stick said:

The richer india gets, the more money it can allocate to destroy these vile rape culture
I think in 2 decades, India will be the new China

India is so backward they won't fix that rape culture in 100 years.

[Majed]

@Leo Gura Why do you think india isn't like japan or china, but is more backwards ? 

[Rafael Thundercat]

Bryan Jonhson takes on America 

 

concected with this late post in the Blog:

https://share.google/yTVdmLrTT97ACSCA0

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Rafael Thundercat

[integral]

2 minutes ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

Bryan Jonhson takes on America 

 

concected with this late post in the Blog:

 

it's better than what the other rich clowns are doing.

[Stick]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

India is so backward they won't fix that rape culture in 100 years.

thats crazy. In 100 years it will be completely new people wdym they wont fix it
do you know how many societies were backwards 100 years ago?
virtually all countries were very sad place to live in.
Dont understimate human capacity for progress.

[Nemra]

The funny thing I learned from the "Love and Sex in India" documentary was that gays are frowned upon, but transgenders are somehow special to Indians.

They would win at mental acrobatics.

Edited 3 hours ago by Nemra

[Petals]

18 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I do judge sloppy and irresponsible people.

Like addicts, criminals, perverts, liars, degenerates, scammers, etc.

I don't tolerate that kind of behavior and mentality.

@Leo Gura Has your view on free will changed over the last years? I think a few years back you made episodes on free will and Will. One's insights / views on this are central when judging people. 

PS. Can you provide links or the titles for the videos on your blog? Sometimes I cannot view them. I get a grey box which says that the video is not available. I am from Europe, so maybe I just cannot view them here but I could try and search when you provide a link or title. That would be great.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

India is so backward they won't fix that rape culture in 100 years.

This is what China used to be like and would have been if it weren’t for Mao and the CPC.

India and China both began from similar starting positions.

Edited 2 hours ago by Husseinisdoingfine

[Xonas Pitfall]

"But Leo, You're So Privileged!" blog post is amazing. Thank you.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Bryan Johnson is the worst of the rich bastards. Marketing got you by the balls 🤤

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

2 hours ago, Stick said:

thats crazy. In 100 years it will be completely new people wdym they wont fix it
do you know how many societies were backwards 100 years ago?
virtually all countries were very sad place to live in.
Dont understimate human capacity for progress.

He's pulling these numbers out of his behind clearly. 100 years from now will be so different it's gonna be hardly recognizable. This is a guarantee. We're not on a linear timeline anymore.