Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Majed]

@Staples Eh yo, respect Leo. He's your teacher, not the inverse. 

[Leo Gura]

13 minutes ago, Staples said:

Hahaha.

[Leo Gura]

29 minutes ago, Majed said:

@Leo Gura Severe ocd i'm sure i had it, because of everything i experienced because of it. However bipolar and schizophrenia, i'm less sure. 

I am not denying your diagnoses, I am saying that they don't necessarily say anything about psychedelic use. Diagnoses are not normative.

I had a bipolar girlfriend who handled psychedelics fine.

You can't know things without testing.

Edited 7 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Majed]

@Leo Gura Ah okay I see, yeah, I'll have to try and see, once I am off meds.

[Clarence]

What Is Death?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPoa-x6CN0g/?stkn=MWJzMHNoajBycWp5OA==

[Leo Gura]

@Clarence Nice share.

[Davino]

Great last blog post, but I'm afraid it will be strawmanned and misunderstood. Still, thanks for putting high quality and truthful content even when it's hard.

[Rafael Thundercat]

To contemplate how Human Rigths are invented is deep. But is simple. Try to claim human rigths for a Aligator running towards you. 

[Leo Gura]

#GatorRights

[Human Mint]

Equally important to understanding crime is understanding how rules appear. Without understanding rules you also have dogma and moralization. They're part of higher intelligence.

Places like that of the video are stuck in lower intelligence. But my point is that they kinda could understand a rule of no raping for example. After raping a lot maybe and creating too much chaos impossible to ignore.

[Leo Gura]

19 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

But my point is that they kinda could understand a rule of no raping

It's hard to follow a rule you don't believe in.

That's why people speed on roads.

[Leo Gura]

16 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

@Leo Gura

I am not a Marxist because I view Marx's analysis of the progression of history as too materialistic and doesn't take into account how ideas are important in the shaping of culture and governments.

Furthermore, I agree more with Max Weber's rebuttal of Marx. Read, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Weber.

But, I think Karl Marx's historical analysis has some truth to it and is not completely wrong. But it leads to him making incredibly foolish analyses of other countries class structures. Labeling the Indian caste system as the "Asiatic mode of production", mistaking it as a mere replica of European feudalism or as a mere economic structure. 

But the Brahmin class of Indian society was a class without any wealth, it was purely a religious authority. Marx refuses to take off his Western minded materialist lens and look at these societies and their structures as for what they really were, which were religious orders. Everything is the cause of or caused by material conditions for the purpose of economic production. 

But, Das Kapital Vol. 1 was one of the most profound books I have ever read in my life. It took Marx and Engels 10 - 15 years to complete volume 1, and just reading it alone, the effort really shows. 

Very interesting. I'm happy to see you doing such nuanced thinking.

Edited 6 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Davino]

Missing the videos, it's been half a year already 🥲

[iamlite]

I am now rewatching Deconstructing Rationality series

This videos are very under appreciated on this forum. It's 12h+ of video packed with juicy insights, 100s of them across videos. 

To me it was not easy to understand it from first watch, but now I am rewatching slowly and taking notes 

They are very significant and unique to understand MIND

 

[Leo Gura]

@iamlite Good, good. You're starting to get it.

[Majed]

@Leo Gura Leo we need a video titled: "Understanding mind. The ultimate guide to mastery of mind".