New Video: Why Truth Is The Highest Value

[Thought Art]

@Leo Gura Why is post modernism devilry?

[Davino]

But Leo, not all women are the same. Once a girl told me:

Truth straight to my face. Like a load.

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Thought Art said:

@Leo Gura Why is post modernism devilry?

It denies the existence of Truth/God.

Edited September 10 by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

Feelings can contain lots of truth. Feelings are also a tool of survival.

The same is true of thoughts. People use thoughts for falsehood all the time. But thoughts can carry truth.

[BlessedLion]

Greta video so far. Only an hour in but I’m really enjoying it. Love all the examples. 
 

I also know far too many people who treat feelings as God itself. They almost worship their intuition and feelings, it can be a trap in itself. Makes people uncommitted and unreliable. 

[BlessedLion]

I don’t think people are evil, they are an expression of God, they are God, but they have very strange survival mechanisms that do require deception, selfishness and bias very deeply. So yeah people are inherently kinda full of shit and anti truth but that’s just because our survival hinges on it. 

[Leo Gura]

13 minutes ago, Xonas Pitfall said:

since God doesn’t care only about love, beauty, airy-fairy things

I didn't say that.

God cares about LOVE, not human love.

The issue is that humans have a corrupt notion of Love. Truth is necessary to reach true Love.

All this was explained in the video.

Edited September 10 by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

4 minutes ago, Xonas Pitfall said:

I feel like you’ve straw-manned what truth and love are, making truth seem more accurate, even though they are essentially the same. This creates an impression of an intrinsic bias

I did that on purpose due to the danger of people getting seduced into false love.

The symmetry becomes the trap.

We need to emphasize truth because that's what keeps us out of self-deception. Then you can have real love.

I am forcing you to eat your vegetables before you get dessert. Because I know the child wants dessert first.

I've thought a lot about this issue. It's not just some bias I'm acting out unconsciously.

Edited September 10 by Leo Gura

[BlessedLion]

 

Is it serving truth to shoot someone who spreads racism, delusion and falsehood? 
 

I don’t think so, because everyone should have freedom of speech and not fear for their life 

Edited September 10 by BlessedLion

[Leo Gura]

5 minutes ago, BlessedLion said:

 

Is it serving truth to shoot someone who spreads racism, delusion and falsehood? 
 

I don’t think so, because everyone should have freedom of speech and not fear for their life 

Please don't discuss that issue here. We have a thread for it in the Politics section.

Violence does not serve truth.

[Davino]

4 hours ago, BlessedLion said:

I don’t think people are evil, they are an expression of God, they are God, but they have very strange survival mechanisms that do require deception, selfishness and bias very deeply. So yeah people are inherently kinda full of shit and anti truth but that’s just because our survival hinges on it. 

In my experience, there's a profound awakening and beauty in seeing another animal, plant or human as God. It's such a profound immanent experience. First, comes the seeing of pure Godly consciousness manifesting through their eyes and then comes the point were its very own being and form, its holism, is seen as nothing but God itself. It's such a realization, relief and gorgeous feeling interaction.

[Jannes]

I appreciated the insight that the head of a successful company has to corrupt his mind to create a realm where the employee can effort to be truthful because the head of the company directs the company in a corrupt way to be compedetive. 

[levani]

21 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

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Don't expect the field itself to come with truth, you gotta bring the truth to it. Most fields are corrupt by default. Your job is to make it truthful.

but that's with any career, business or job no ? a nightclub promoter could genuinely love bringing people together, creating friendships and or relationships even if they are based on false values / falsehood (it may be as truthful as one could be at that moment in time aka students) or a nightclub pr could just do the job to get girls drunk to get into the girls underwear or make money by putting her on rich guys's tables knowing full-well that that's complete falsehood but doing it for the money cause survival

[TheEnigma]

In absolute terms isn't Trump a beautiful thing? Trump is God. Trump is reality. And had to exist because reality is perfect just the way it is. It's our own ego that wants to protect itself and others. If a person had a high enough consciousness, wouldn't they see Trump as absolute love and consciousness? If they were in front of Trump, cockroaches and centipedes, they'd still feel infinite joy in their presence.

Edited September 11 by TheEnigma

[Rafael Thundercat]

17 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

We need to emphasize truth because that's what keeps us out of self-deception. Then you can have real love.

I am forcing you to eat your vegetables before you get dessert. Because I know the child wants dessert first.

I've thought a lot about this issue. It's not just some bias I'm acting out unconsciously.

From my experience this is True.  When Truth is the priority then Love is achieved, not human love since human love can be achieved even with deception and manipulation, like the kid being able to convince his parents to give him the dessert before the vegetables by crying or any other strategy. With Infinite Love I guess one cant use this children strategies. 

[Ash55]

The most elegant 2 videos that Leo ever made this + solipsism one

I never thought leo content would get any better but it did
 

Edited September 11 by Ash55

[UnbornTao]

 

[ryoko]

I'm stoked about the upcoming corruption video. I wonder how Leo is drafting the points. 

[Leo Gura]

15 hours ago, TheEnigma said:

In absolute terms isn't Trump a beautiful thing? Trump is God. Trump is reality. And had to exist because reality is perfect just the way it is.

Yes, of course.

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If they were in front of Trump, cockroaches and centipedes, they'd still feel infinite joy in their presence.

It doesn't follow that you have to feel joy about it. Some truths are bitter-sweet or even revolting.

How you feel is independent from what is true. You may feel joy, you may feel hate, you may feel horror, you may feel sadness, you may feel nothing.

Most realistically, your mind will go through a range of conflicting emotions.

Remember, anger and hatred are acceptable and valid emotions. Just don't act them out on others.

Edited September 11 by Leo Gura

[How to be wise]

@Leo Gura Leo, this is the first video of yours I completed in many years. I'm glad to see that hardcore spirituality is back.

I have two questions. First, you said that if someone really cares about the truth, they will find it. But how will they find it?

Second, what if the truth about a certain matter is unknowable. For example, someone wants to find out whether their boss hates them. No matter how much contemplation you do, there's no way of finding out what your boss thinks about you. What do we do in those situations where we can't find the truth?