Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[gengar]

24 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@gengar

I would not trust such stories.

But what tells that about a person like Yogananda - if he is either lying or self-deceived, why trust his other work?

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, gengar said:

But what tells that about a person like Yogananda - if he is either lying or self-deceived, why trust his other work?

No one is asking you to trust his work.

You are focused on the wrong thing. Just practice Kriya yoga and forget about the stories.

Kriya yoga works. I am doing it every day.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[gengar]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

No one is asking you to trust his work.

You're literally promoting his quotes and teachings. So your stance is now that people whose quotes and teachings you promote on your blog might be epistemic devils? That goes a 180 degrees against your pious claim of aiming to be the human most aligned and concerned with Truth.

[gengar]

4 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Kriya yoga works. I am doing it every day.

What are the benefits, just baseline consciousness, or also less anxiety and clearer thinking and the like?

[Raze]

12 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

No one is asking you to trust his work.

You are focused on the wrong thing. Just practice Kriya yoga and forget about the stories.

Kriya yoga works. I am doing it every day.

Don’t you need a trained instructor to do kriya yoga properly

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, gengar said:

You're literally promoting his quotes and teachings. So your stance is now that people whose quotes and teachings you promote on your blog might be epistemic devils? That goes a 180 degrees against your pious claim of aiming to be the human most aligned and concerned with Truth.

I told you before, you need to be able to distinguish signal from noise. You are focused on the noise.

1 hour ago, Raze said:

Don’t you need a trained instructor to do kriya yoga properly

Not if you are intelligent.

[gengar]

26 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I told you before, you need to be able to distinguish signal from noise. You are focused on the noise.

False claims about huge things like healing ailments are not noise, but signals that they are full of shit. Your epistemological standards are just not as strict as mine, and that's okay.

[Leo Gura]

9 minutes ago, gengar said:

Your epistemological standards are just not as strict as mine

You are the one believing his stories.

When I share a source with you, that does not mean I endorse everything they say or that everything they say is true.

Edited 32 minutes ago by Leo Gura

[gengar]

11 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You are the one believing his stories.

When I share a source with you, that does not mean I endorse everything they say or that everything they say is true.

I never said I believed his stories, I made an inquiry into your stance on them, since you shared him.

From your teachings, your stance about lying is not that you should just ignore the lie and look at whatever might be true from everything else that lying actor said, but that a lying actor is not to be trusted at all. - you said for example lying politicians should lose their job and it should be a punishable offense for them to lie.

Plus, it baffles me that people with genius quotes like Yogananda are still dishonest or self-deceived in claiming their ailments to be cured.

I guess there's no way around people's bullshit, they may share some gold and also lie, and you can't throw out the baby without the bathwater.