Point Out My Bias

[Ulax]

16 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

Everywhere that I disagree with you is where you're bias.

Hehehe

Hahaha

[RendHeaven]

from my POV it seems as though you are not as Merciful towards ignorance, deception, falsehood, and weakness as you know you could be.

God need not crusade against the lesser because that would be Self-defeating and Self-contradictory.

but Leo "crusades," often subtly, under the guise of lofty nonpartisan truthseeking (which is subtle precisely because it actually IS for the sake of nonpartisan truthseeking!)

the truthseeking has become so hardcore that it "steamrolls" all other MOs (especially anything concerned with survival), which functionally becomes a "crusade" regardless of original intent.

and i imagine you have already encountered this sort of realization for yourself countless times, especially around "normies" and ladies in your life, where being too stubborn about the truth has caused conflict (which is ironically in its own way untruthful because all conflict is a failure of Consciousness to accept Itself)

so perhaps you have resolved to be more gentle and lenient with normies IRL, but then on the blog we still see scathing condemnation of deceptive survival and human weakness. which sort of betrays that in the privacy of your mind, there is still a "bone to pick" with unconsciousness. though you may be gentle and lenient in-person for the sake of social harmony, that's a "front" so long as you refuse to hold humanity in higher regard in the privacy of solitude.

a facet you mentioned of Infinity a while back is how, with regards to scale, "every point is the mid-point"

often you disparage humanity as being relatively low on the Great Chain of Creatures, but surely you understand that humanity can likewise be relatively high (and more precisely, everything is always at the mid-point from its own viewpoint (and there is only ever 1 viewpoint )). I understand that you disparage human consciousness only in proportion to how falsely inflated humanity's self-asessment is. If we weren't so braggadocious, you would not have a bone to pick with us. 

but nonetheless, reading through your blog, there is a vague, ever-so-subtle miasma of disdain. if we went through every blog post and sorted it into "critique of humanity" or "celebration of humanity," I bet the former would overwhelm the latter. and ending your scathing rant with a positive/hopeful note does not emotionally offset that difference. I would imagine that a true, sincere celebration that says "Thank You God" would not entertain the emotion bandwidth of incessant criticism

you might contend that you're not "criticizing" in any common sense of the word. to you it may seem like a neutral performance asessment without emotional charge. but i want to make it clear that it's precisely this "neutral perfromance assessment" that i think IS your bias! the fact that you managed to strip away emotional charge doesn't change the fact that, for you, pointing out falsehood is more important than highlighting and appreciating the elegance and perfection of falseness and deception.

ofc i could be projecting, perhaps you are beyond all of this already, but this is certainly something i struggle with, as someone who sincerely shares your values.

i often catch myself sounding vaguely misanthropic despite, deep down having a true love for life and people. If i think about it too much, it really starts to hurt how far i stray from the Mercy of God. my autopilot is so petty.

[integration journey]

Focusing too much on god realization, enlightenment and not realizing most people need basic personal development tips and training of psychology before moving up to higher goals in life. 

Edited 19 hours ago by integration journey

[Carl-Richard]

Lack of collaborators, allies, identity with a larger movement. Creates insularity and lack of feedback. Also limits reach. And one-off interviews don't count.

[Carl-Richard]

1 hour ago, integral said:

Looks like this thread is people revealing their own biases and projecting it onto Leo.

Bias is inherent in perspective-taking, in having an opinion, in the very act of perception.

[Joseph Maynor]

9 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Earnest replies ONLY.

This thread will be moderated under much stricter terms.

I'm looking forward to your response.

[Jacko]

normie bias
people who are not into personal development bias

[Joseph Maynor]

My biases:

1.  I value emotion in a central way.  

2.  I see intuition as a form of emotion in strong part.  

3.  I don't like rigid rules that serve no purpose.  

4.  I feel like this work is about challenging ourselves.

[Jirh]

8 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

My biases:

1.  I value emotion in a central way.  

2.  I see intuition as a form of emotion in strong part.  

3.  I don't like rigid rules that serve no purpose.  

4.  I feel like this work is about challenging ourselves.

Sounds like the things you say when you're asked about your negative traits in job interviews.

I work too hard. I care too much.

[something_else]

22 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

My biases:

1.  I value emotion in a central way.  

2.  I see intuition as a form of emotion in strong part.  

3.  I don't like rigid rules that serve no purpose.  

4.  I feel like this work is about challenging ourselves.

The irony is that reading between the lines here shows more bias than any of the items you actually listed

[Joseph Maynor]

@something_else  I do not assume I am unbiased or could be unbiased. 

[enchanted]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

Lack of collaborators, allies, identity with a larger movement. Creates insularity and lack of feedback. Also limits reach. And one-off interviews don't count.

💯 💯 💯 

[integration journey]

This is lowkey becoming a venting thread😂 take it easy guys. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

If you make a claim, please try to substantiate it.

[Jodistrict]

Consider that focusing on nonduality is cherry picking and the context is missing, particularly purification.   Take ancient texts more seriously.  This forum as a whole has a bias towards intellectualization.

[Heaven]

Respect for opening this thread.

You’re biased towards being a human and not God. I guess that’s understandable.

 

[Asayake]

2 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Bias is inherent in perspective-taking, in having an opinion, in the very act of perception.

This is what I believe as well, essentially the nature of consciousness vs unconsciousness. If you're having any perspective you're excluding/repressing some other perspective to create your perspective.

[integral]

2 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Bias is inherent in perspective-taking, in having an opinion, in the very act of perception.

I dont think thats the case, its just that perspective is a open system so its very difficult to navigate epistemicly.

In chess it takes years of training to be epistemicly accurate. That training only works because the chess board is a feed back loop of trail and error until the epistemology for chess is mastered. Bais = loss in chess, so its grinded out of you. 

In the real world there is no chess board to give feed back, a thought has no board to bounce off of, instead you have to audit yourself. That self audit is were all error happends. Or find people more conscious then you to train off of. 

Leo is one of the best epistemic chess boards you can train off of.

This makes identifying his bais very hard because you have to be in range of his epistemic rating. 

Edited 16 hours ago by integral

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Epistemic bias - confirmation bias and self-sealing beliefs or circular epistemology 

• Agreement means the teaching is correct
• Disagreement means the person is trapped in ego, bias or conventional/conformist thinking
• Failure to understand means the person lacks the requisite consciousness
• Criticism means the critic is stuck in survival/defending their survival interests

This is endemic to the entire forum. 

This produces downstream effects when discussing loaded topics. Making them more explosive, adversarial and degrading truth seeking.

Edited 16 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Rafael Thundercat]

11 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

But still, I need to work on that because sometimes it leads to falseness.

Wow, now I got curious of this pattern, how it could lead to falseness?