Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Jacob Morres]

9 hours ago, LoneWonderer said:

We have just been in Sri Lanka doing the exact same things the young chinese woman was doing and maybe even more dangerous things such as walking without guides through slums at noon.

You should also consider nuance in india as well. There are many safe areas within india - esp in nicer areas in cities 

I've been to india several times and never witnessed harrassment either (lived there for 1y+). But i also dont know what its like from the pov of a non brown woman so theres that

I also have read abt white women that live in india that that say that they havent experienced harrassment 

Edit:

I also do recall now, without doxxing details, i was in an area of where there were around 1k indian people and around a dozen non indian women, and at least from hearsay, i didnt hear of any incidents of harassment. So theres that 

Edited March 22 by Jacob Morres

[Leo Gura]

5 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Do you feel disgust behind the judgement?

I don't have much emotion behind it.

Mostly it's just sad that humans are so unconscious and negligent.

And there is a feeling of how deep Reality is. The dysfunction of mankind is so deep it's stunning.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

And there is a feeling of how deep Reality is. The dysfunction of mankind is so deep it's stunning.

There are many functions at play contributing to this dysfunction. Illustrating them has always been a huge portion of your work.

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't have much emotion behind it.

Mostly it's just sad that humans are so unconscious and negligent.

Not to say sadness is an incorrect emotion in this instance. There's a possibility more subtle emotions hide underneath the label of sadness, that would reveal where the judgement portion would stem from. Stopping and observing in the next instance of the despairing might reveal more subtly in the feeling. Not sure.

Feelings are a strange one, as they are a powerful and intelligent system evolved as a protection mechanism for survival. But they do all sorts of juju when the intellect is involved.

Anyway, thanks for the dyadic  

[LifeEnjoyer]

4 hours ago, TheBG said:

I have put 50 hours into it so far (I beat sts1 on a20, so naturally I was looking for more spire)

I had to slow down because I let it consume my life...

It has big issues and is easier than the first game right now, but it's fun. What do you think of it?

I'm unemployed and can't afford it yet. It's all good though, I still have a lot of juice to squeeze out of the first one! 

[Rafael Thundercat]

@Leo Gura Just finished this one

Dark Web Child Abuse https://www.actualized.org/insights/dark-web-child-abuse

They catched a few from the web, but of course that this stuff is far from solved. This is the tip of the iceberg. 

[bazera]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-464

Life feels much more mystical and spontaneous in childhood, then we get used to it.

@Leo Gura Is child more connected to what you are referring or did I misunderstood?

Somehow it feels that life got much less exciting once I grew up and survival pressure increased.

[Leo Gura]

28 minutes ago, bazera said:

Is child more connected to what you are referring or did I misunderstood?

Yes. Mildly.

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Somehow it feels that life got much less exciting once I grew up and survival pressure increased.

Lost in the sauce.

No time to stand around and smell the roses. Go work the salt mines.

Edited March 23 by Leo Gura

[Nemra]

It's something else when your ordinary life itself gets mystical.

[Raze]

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. 

[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 March 23 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 March 23 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 March 23 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 March 23 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.