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Chiefs, Chargers Set for Key AFC West Matchup in Mexico City
Everyone hopes the playing surface at Mexico City's Azteca Stadium will not be the main story of Monday night's game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers.
Both coaches said they have received favorable updates about the turf going into the game. Last year's game between the Chiefs and Rams was relocated to Los Angeles less than a week before the game when the field was deemed unplayable because of rain and the stadium having hosted concerts less than a month before the game.
"Everything that I've been told has been positive," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
The teams have taken different approaches to preparing. The Chargers have spent the week at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs to get acclimated to the altitude. The Chiefs have kept their same routine with the only adjustment being to hydrate more, according to quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
It is an important AFC West matchup. Kansas City (6-4) won its first four games but has dropped four of its past six, allowing Oakland to get within a half-game of the division lead. Los Angeles (4-6) has struggled for most of the season but remains only two games out.
This is the first of two straight division games for the Chiefs. After their bye week, they will host the Raiders on Dec. 1.
"To say you are in control of your own destiny at 4-6 is pretty rare," Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said.
Here are other things to watch as the Chargers play an international home game for the second straight season:
Rivers leads the league in passing yards (2,816) but is also third in interceptions (10). He had three last week against Oakland, including a pick-6 that loomed large in what turned out to be a 26-24 loss to the Raiders.
The Chargers were among the league's better teams in not committing turnovers the past two seasons, but their 16 giveaways this season are tied for seventh in the league. Five have occurred in goal-to-go situations.
"We've made some critical mistakes and not being able to overcome them," Rivers said.
Mahomes returned to the lineup last week after missing two games because of a knee injury. He threw for 446 yards and three touchdowns in last week's loss to Tennessee but said on Thursday that this is the best he has felt since early September.
"I would say going into the Jacksonville game," he said. "Just not having to worry about the ankle or not have to worry about the knee and just being able to go out there and play football the way that I have been able to play it my whole career so far."
Los Angeles defensive ends Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa have been a handful for opposing offensive lines lately. They have combined for nine sacks over the past four games.
Bosa is third in the AFC with 8½ sacks on the season while Ingram has added 4½. Ingram had 1½ sacks against Mahomes in Week 15 last season.
Kansas City is beginning to get some of the pieces back on its offensive and defensive lines. Offensive tackles Eric Fisher (groin), Cam Erving (ankle) and guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (ankle) have been full participants this week while Mitchell Schartz (knee) is limited. Defensive end Frank Clark (neck) has also been a full participant.
The Chiefs, though, are likely to be without defensive ends Emmanuel Ogbah (pectoral) and Alex Okafor (ankle).
Chargers running back Melvin Gordon. He rushed for a season-high 108 yards last week and seems to be regaining his stride after missing the first four games because of a contract dispute. He had 166 scrimmage yards (102 receiving, 64 rushing) the previous time he faced Chiefs, who are ranked 31st in the league in run defense.


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Since the Bible App's launch in July 2008, we've seen incredible changes in the landscape of Bible engagement. Many of the numbers we look at every day are now so big that, in some ways, it's hard to get a handle on what they even mean. But one thing is for sure: a revolution is taking place. Millions and millions of people all over the world are making the Bible a part of their everyday lives, many of them for the first time. And our mission at YouVersion remains the same: to help people fully engage with the Bible.
Up until now, the Bible App was designed mostly around you as an individual—you reading or listening to your Bible, adding your personal notes and your insights. While many people have told us that this kind of personal experience has helped them grow closer to God through His Word, we think there's still more we can do—a lot more. The all-new Bible App 5 transforms the way you experience Scripture…from "me" to "we."
Historically, people were only able to experience the Bible in community. Before the printing press, very few people had personal copies of the Bible. But movable type changed everything. For the first time in history, anyone who could read could experience God's Word with their very own printed Bible. In more recent times, audio Bibles in several languages invite even more people to enjoy God's Word by listening—even if they can't read.
Bible App 5 was designed from the ground up to bring the best of all these things together again. It draws the Scriptures back into community, without sacrificing personalized access. You can keep enjoying your own Bible, just as you always have. But now, for the first time, you can also easily experience it within the context of close, trusted friendships.
That's why we are so excited about Bible App 5, the most radical update since the Bible App began. Inside, you'll find all-new features that let you discuss and discover the Scriptures—not with just anyone, but with the people you choose, real friends that you know and trust. Bible App 5 was designed specifically to help you connect more with God's Word than you ever have before…through your relationships.
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Facebook is working on a new app that it hopes could win back the attention of teens while capitalizing on its recently attained major label music licenses. Facebook is building a standalone product where users can record and share videos of themselves lip syncing or dancing to popular songs, according to information from current and former Facebook employees.
The app is designed to be a standalone competitor to Musical.ly, which was a hit with teens and even pre-teens before the 60 million monthly user product was acquired by Chinese tech giant ByteDance for around $1 billion and rolled into the company's TikTok app.
"It's basically TikTok/Musically. It's full-screen, built for teens, fun and funny and focused on creation," one source told me. "A lot of what they're doing is just trying to be cool."
The product is being built by members of Facebook's video and Watch team under leadership from Facebook's principal lead product designer Brady Voss, a source says.
Voss previously worked on Facebook's TV app as well as the recently shut down Hello standalone app. For a 2016 hackathon project he presented to Mark Zuckerberg, Voss made a technology called Montage that would stitch together into a single image like a still time-lapse photos of say a snowboarder doing a trick. Now he's back at making creative expression simpler with Lasso. "Brady is great with fun new camera and video things," a source said.
Facebook has been investigating the teen music app space since 2016, when a source says the company spun up a research project to look into Musical.ly. There were suspicions that Musical.ly might not be as popular as it touted, and Facebook eased off.
Then earlier this year, Facebook's music efforts were reinvigorated when it secured licensing deals with all the major record labels. At first, this just kept users' videos, including Musical.ly-style lip syncing clips, from being taken down for copyright infringement.
But soon it launched music stickers on Instagram that let you add soundtracks to your Stories, and that feature rolled out on Facebook today. The company also began experimenting with a Lip Sync Live feature for live-streaming karaoke, and today Facebook opened it for Pages and began showing some songs' lyrics on screen. It plans to soon allow users to pin their favorite songs to their profile so friends can listen to a segment in what feels like a throwback to Myspace Music.
Meanwhile, TikTok is on the rise. The app has climbed from the No. 32 overall iPhone app in the U.S. three months ago to reach No. 5 today, according to App Annie.
Now just 5 percent of U.S. teens cite Facebook as their favorite social platform, according to a Piper Jaffray survey. The percentage who use it monthly has dropped from 60 percent to 36 percent since Spring 2016. Facebook needs new ways to engage teens beyond Instagram and WhatsApp, and a standalone music app potentially devoid of its own branding could be a better approach than cramming teen features like Lip Sync Live into its uncool main app.
Facebook already tried and failed to win back the youth with standalone apps like Poke, Slingshot, Bolt, Flash and other variations on Snapchat. But with U.S. giants like Snap and YouTube neglecting to build proper tools for video music creation, Facebook has a shot to challenge China's ByteDance. Most people aren't interesting on camera, especially awkward teens. But with the right soundtrack, a stupid selfie video can become epic — or at least silly enough to watch.


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Summer travel season is over and business concerns about their own company earnings and both the U.S. election and Europe's troubles will likely slow business travel this fall.
U.S. airlines are expected to report solid profits for the third quarter, thanks to steady demand and fuel prices that declined toward the end of the period, but signs of slowing growth could spell challenges for the rest of the year.
Unit revenue – a measure of how much airlines can charge for tickets and how full planes are – decreased at many carriers in September. In addition, the number of passengers boarding planes at most big U.S. airlines fell, as travel started its seasonal slowdown in the month.
"The revenue environment appears to be softening a bit," said Ray Neidl, an aerospace analyst with Maxim Group. "People will be looking to see if these trends continue into the fourth quarter."
The earnings reports kick off next week, with AMR Corp's American Airlines reporting on Wednesday, followed by Southwest Airlines Co on Thursday.
The third quarter is traditionally strong for airlines as it includes the benefit of some summer travel. Among the five major U.S. airlines, all are expected to report profits. AMR, currently undergoing restructuring in bankruptcy, is expected post its first profit after seven quarters of losses.
But other companies' earnings might not fare so well, potentially hurting airlines' revenue from business travelers at the end of the year, said Robert Mann, an airline consultant in Port Washington, New York.
Earnings at S&P 500 companies as a group are expected to fall 2.9 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters data.
"Third quarter earnings (generally) will probably come in under expectations and that will start to show as fourth quarter travel plans being cut back," Mann said.
He said uncertainty over the outcome of the U.S. presidential election and fear of shocks to the economy, should Congress fail to act to avoid nearly $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect by year's end, could also threaten growth at airlines.
"As long as nothing gets done, there is some concern about the nation's fiscal cliff issue and possible impact on high travel-spending industries like defense," Mann said.
Mergers, ticket price increases and the trimming of unprofitable routes have helped airlines recover from the 2008-09 downturn. Carriers have also cut back flying to match demand, created new revenue streams with baggage and food fees and pared the number of seats sold at super-discounted rates.
Those moves have proved to be a winning formula in keeping profits coming in the face of unpredictable fuel prices.
"People have figured out that holding the line on (capacity) growth is how you squeeze the average revenue per mile up, and that's how you prepare for the potential that fuel might be a little higher next year," said Robert McAdoo, an airline analyst at Imperial Capital.
Key revenue metric weakens
However, weakness emerged in the typically strong quarter. In August and September, unit revenue weakened for many major airlines. United Continental, the world's biggest airline, recently estimated that measure fell as much as 3.5 percent last month compared with September 2011, when it had growth of 11 percent to 12 percent.
Savanthi Syth, an airline analyst with Raymond James, said unit revenue would not be as strong as it was in 2011 because fuel price increases have not prompted the level of airfare rises taken last year. In recent years, airlines have been raising fares to cover rising fuel costs.
In 2011, airlines took nine fare increases, compared with six so far this year, according to FareCompare.com, a fare-tracking website.
"If you're not pushing through fare increases, your year-over-year growth is going to be less," Syth said.
Meanwhile, passenger demand has been stable, Syth said.
David Fintzen, an airline analyst with Barclays, said he expects unit revenue to improve in the months after September, which was tough for many airlines because a stronger 2011 made comparisons difficult.
"I think October's probably a better month than September," Fintzen said. "And I think that probably plays out through the end of the year."
Analysts on average expect third-quarter profits to be roughly flat or higher at the top five U.S. airlines, a notable exception being United Continental Airlines Inc, where profit is forecast to fall to $1.52 a share from $2.00 a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
"United obviously had operational issues and it looks like it was due to the merger," Syth said.
United Continental said in late September that unit revenue was expected to fall 1 percent to 2 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier. In July, the company posted a 37 percent drop in second-quarter profit as it recorded big charges from the integration of United and Continental operations from the 2010 merger.
Reporting by Karen Jacobs in Atlanta; Editing by Chris Gallagher. Copyright (2012) Thomson Reuters.
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Radical Openmindedness
By Leo Gura - November 30, 2015 | 77 Comments
How to break free of dogmas and beliefs
Very well done this is completely radical thinking, i'm looking forward to you doing another video on this . Love the way your mind thinks . I believe it was Buddha who said the man who knows who knows nothing knows everything.
Great video! I loved it an found it very relaxing, soothing and empowering.
Everything you say in this video is so true and so refreshing that made me smile and shut up my ego, my mind became very still and present. I think I will use it as a meditation mantra
Thanks ….. you are a breath of fresh air…….and I have never said that to anyone before, but it fits! I don't know what I don't know but I would like to know it! If there is anything to really know! Sometimes I do think just the experience is enough but we all want to be in the know and write our own book! Love the way your mind thinks and how well you can express it to us!
Hi Leo,
Thank you for this wonderful video. I love your work. At first I was offended by the profanity scattered here and there in some of your other videos (I am 65 plus years old and was conditioned to take offense, then remembered that taking offense is a choice, like anything else, so I chose not to be offended and now get a kick out of it.)
Thank you, a thousand times thank you, for what you produce and share. I feel very blessed. You are very blessed to have such open mindedness and intelligence at such a young age.
I look forward to the next video.
Hi Leo! Last week I ask you to tell us how you see reality. You actually did not tell us your model of reality, but this questions are OK. This is a good video. Until now your followers were lost somewere in the Antarctic ocean, and now you showed them the tip of the iceberg. This is just the beginning, and I am shore you can do better. Now you can't go back. Your work is to raise our abilities and show us our capacities. There are no limits.
It is a very lonely feeling. No friends. Nothing to talk about. Sometimes I feel like Palivec from "Good Soldier Shvejk" who said he don't give a damn about that shit.
good one
iam not discussing…most of the time i am trying to let people see the other sides..which iam able to see..if i understood you right
We think in words. Our inner voice uses words…
As all true poets & philosophers know, to attempt to communicate or express ourselves using the coinage of words is to dive into a sea of ambivalences & ambiguities. ;
Leo, please correct me if I am wrong: " all I know that "SOMETHING" exists!!!!!"
I do not know what it is, but it feels like something should exist, should
I go deeper and even jeopardize this feeling that something exist because what if it is an illusion?
one of your best videos yet. thank you
Fantastic video. Visualisation was long and hard to concentrate on fully, but very eye opening. The videos of late have been very deep. I am guessing, Leo, you must be really delving into this stuff of late. There are so many great videos on this website that I feel I will be working with the stuff for years to come and will never be caught up! A good complaint, in truth.
Love this website and think there is a great amount of value. Working through the life purpose course now and reading some of the assigned books. My brain is sore from lots of the concepts but I think my 2016 and beyond will be better for it.
I used to genuinely believe that playing lots and lots of video games would make me happy . I've always been into video games in my younger years but it was at 16 years old when I started to advocate it and would get really close-minded about my video game habit.
However, at early January 2015 (I'm 18 now), that started to change. I started to feel a deep sense of emptiness that I couldn't explain I and I thought maybe it was because I was not playing good enough video games. However, after a few days, the emptiness grew to a feeling of chronic anxiety and existential dread. I didn't know what was going on.
That's when I decided to search "What is Happiness" on Youtube (out of desperation) and I discovered your channel. Now, my life did not immediately change drastically after just watching one video and I still suffered strong anxiety and even suicidal thoughts for two weeks. After two weeks (and some mature open-mindedness), I would have to admit to myself that my original blueprint of living life was wrong and officially began my personal development journey.
I've certainly learned a lot these past several months and I still have a fucking Everest to climb but I can say that I have made a huge difference in my life since the start of the year and you, Leo, have been a huge contributor to this. Thanks for all your advice and wisdom. It's definitely changed me to become a better person. Granted, I still enjoy playing video games but I've been spending way more time in creative hobbies that give me a lot of joy in life like 'game development', 'music production', and even various art-related activities because I've found so far that I'm a very creativity-oriented person.
Thank You So Much For Your Work!
I've seen viruses on an electron microscope.
Children seem to have a sense of right and wrong hard-wired into them before language comes.
I've read and understood Meyer's book, "Signature in the Cell," and have dealt with human tissue for long enough to have developed an intelligent appreciation for its mind-boggling complexity.
Most of what you're saying is true, but if I said to myself that I have found no evidence of objective right and wrong and no evidence of a DNA code writer, I would be lying to myself. There is evidence. It's just not politically correct for a person with a science background to say so. People's careers and reputations are attacked for pointing out the philosophical implications of the information in DNA, and the way it is organized and controlled epigenetically.
Let's examine your dogma of "we don't really know anything" with an open, objective mind, not swallowing it blindly in hopes of promised reward.
The state of "not knowing" is not a state of believing that objective right and wrong does not exist. It's just a realization that the mental faculties you use to learn everything you have learned have its limits and that there is always going to be something unknown connected to whatever knowledge you think you know is true that may either prove it wrong or at least give you a completely different perspective on certain knowledge. And this is going to be true for literally everything including the information you have mentioned.
Leo does not have a dogma or strict belief that we cannot really know anything. I don't remember him mentioning anything like that in the video.
In his newsletter for this video he wrote:
"I don't place any limits on what I should believe, or what can and cannot be true.
I don't care about any ideology or belief system.
I have no loyalty to beliefs or ideas. They are all completely disposable to me."
This is what true open-minded thinking is like. Saying "we cannot know anything" is a belief or ideology you are falsely attaching to open-mindedness.
Leo, I have BIG problem. I do personal development 1 months and now i tell all the thing i've learned from you to my parents… And they just don't care what i talk. They said is bullshit and i was tried to explain to them but they said" YOU TOO YOUNG YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW LIFE IS" and i was hopeless. I see how my family live and think. I just want to change them, my mom live with no life purpose and my dad work with uninspired.
And i just 16 year old and i have life purpose for 2 years. They not support me on my purpose, they don't want me to DO THE THINK I WANT. They want me to study good at school and my life purpose is become DJ/Music Producer.
Please Reply Leo, and thank you for change my life.
Dear Leo,
What you talk about here, for me it has been basic stuff as bread and butter. I KNOW these things in my heart. The problem for me is: how do I get on with society, with others in my society, who are not aware? how much do I tell them? can I confide in anyone?
I feel lonely out there and usually I communicate better with other animals than with my own species… I feel them (by the way it would be lovely to know if you are vegan/ vegetarian and also hold a world view that other animals are thinkers and man is just another animal).
Could you send me videos related to psychology in the work place? how to feel more hopeful with people, when you know you are intelligent and yet, feel ill confident and suspicious because of your past experiences?
Thanks Leo, I enjoy watching you!
I've been extremely interested since I accidentally ran across one of your videos about 6 months ago! I wasn't even sure what self actualization meant! I am now journaling and working on self improvement, and have some friends that run/help with the ISA Experience, which I will be attending in February! You are still my favorite and I try to watch at least one video per week, although many times it's more! I have often thought of some of the questions you asked in this video and I really enjoyed it! This will be one I download, for sure! After losing my husband a year ago, and losing my career as an OR RN, to back/neck injuries, I needed to pull myself out of the pity pit, and you have helped me tremendously. Thank you
Kathy RN
Great video Leo!!! BUT. At what point will you be sure of anything? If everything we learn can be proven wrong? When can we go with out gut instinct? Having a open mind is great but somethings we might never prove. Me and you disagree on spirituality, even though you seem very confident that you are right and I am wrong. You didn't say it point blank, but you where very confident that my Christian belief was not right. We can both be wrong about some aspect of religion/spirituality subject, I am open to that. Your video seemed to say don't believe in anything, it can all be wrong.
Great work Leo! Thank you from Romania!
Hi Leo! Greetings from Russia! I love to watch your videos. This is a great episode, just want to point out that what you told about stars is wrong. Stars that are visible with naked eye are in our galaxy, with a distance from several to several hundred light years. I am not a scientist but from what google told me stars live on average billions of years, so almost all of the stars we see exist now. We can only see about 10 galaxies with naked eye.
But this also illustrates your point about not believing other people)
Leo you are my "psychological twin " you steal my mind . That is why I am seeker of actualized.org .
Thank you 1 , thank you 2 , ……………………. thank you x times ( where x grater than 1000…..) !
I think what you provide is world class content for me . thanks a lot !
Well done Mr. Leo. I'm just starting the Life Purpose Course. Jodorowsky's Dune was awesome! Your hard work is greatly apprciated. Keep it comin
Can you let go of your spiritual thinking Leo? Could that be holding you back from any truth?
After some months of self-inquiry and enlightenment work, my relationships with people have drastically changed. My empathy rised and I can understand them better, but at the same time, I can see all their hypocrisy and egoism, all their flaws…and this actually pushes me away from them, I can't get along with them, I can't get along with people who are pretending all time and just show plain stupidity with their mentality.
I'm not trying to be an arrogant, I'm trying to rise my empathy, but when it rises, I can see more clearly that nearly no one is open minded, not even a little and everytime there is pretending and stupid judgments.
And if i want to get along with them, I must put a fake smile on my face and pretend that I'm interested in their infant discussions… but I dont want this, because I want to be authentic… Is it wrong to act sometimes like a "dickhead"? How do you act? Also, I'm a highschool student, if that helps…
Great video. Very effective and comforting. However, I do know that I die.
I understand that to be spiritually true as well Leo. But let's limit the definition of death to – 14 dead in mass shooting. That entire scenario, that it is a part of existence is what I know. We can't fathom what happens when we die.
'In more "spiritual" pursuits, a peaceful clear-mindedness is considered laudable and, to the newcomer, somewhat mysterious. If we look closely at this state of mind, we find that at its base is simply openness, a willingness to not know. This aspect of wisdom's clarity usually goes unrecognized, since what followers most often seek is knowledge and answers.' – Ralston, 'The Book of Not Knowing,' p.36
I like this quote because it goes some way to explaining why 'spirituality' is the most misunderstood concept in society. We believe that learning is synonymous with 'gaining knowledge' when in fact it's the very opposite. As you inhale in order to exhale, so you must un-know before realising any sense of truth.
Hey Leo, I experienced quite alot of anxiety during the visualisation process I couldn't sit peoperly after I felt the emotion sensations all over my hands and legs, true not knowing is frustrating..guess that was an ego defence mechanism. Also now one month is over for that stop being a critic exercise but after removing the band the critisism has increased exponentially.
what i try to do is just be aware of myself without judgement
Hi dear Leo from Iran,
I think that what you say can be Extended far more vast from our beliefs !
actually the beliefs part is the easy side of it. The complicated part is our efforts and even our desires. which means most of the things we want are not helpful to us.
I appreciate if you share you opinion on this and thank you for all good videos you share
Hi dear Leo from Iran,
I think that what you say can be Extended far more vast from our beliefs !
actually the beliefs part is the easy side of it. The complicated part is our efforts and even our desires. which means most of the things we want are not helpful to us.
I appreciate if you share your opinion on this and thank you for all good videos you share
Why don't you have a specific video on social anxiety solution?
Cheers Leo. You draw me in with your abstract views & thoughts. I'm enjoying all your videos very much & sharing these with my 21 year old son. He also loves ' thinking outside the square' .. My anxiety & inner chatter has desolved since I have listened to your videos as well.. An unexpected bonus lol! – loving your work!
I am relisrening to these heartfelt inspiring best wisdom for me who want to live an exceptional life all my life, nonstop effort, till I leave this earth. Laziness and not hold my feet to the fire got to go starting this day this month and this year. Deep gratitude to you Leo
Leo, I don't want to be a numer nazi, but please take care in your videos when you employ numbers to describe a situation. Like at the minute 17, when you said "we know your body is moving at perhaps hundreds of thousands of miles per second?" Well how many hundreds of thousands of miles? 3-4? Well then my body is moving at light speed!
Don't be so overzealous with numbers. I remember in another video (maybe about enlightenment) you said that this truth is unknown to 99.999999999% of people. Well then preciseley 0.07 humans know this truth. Now don't get me wrong, I get the point, but please be careful. Thank you!
Very good video, by the way!
Also, forgot to say, Euclidian geometry isn't wrong, it just operates with a different kind of axioms then non-euclidian geometry. It's like saying that if my friend and I cook with different tools, then surely one of us must be doing it the wrong way.
Also, Tesla invented the radio, not Marconi. Marconi stole from Tesla.
Now I know that one of the concepts employed in this video was not-knowing, and I am not 100% certain about anything, but if one of your top values is truth, then you will find this feedback useful.
Isn't enlightenment more about losing yourself than gaining yourself?
Okay I did love this ….. I truly believe we need to see through what is going on around us especially with the MONEY grabbers, and I do understand how the only real things that satisfy us are our needs like water, air, food & many more things that mother nature has to offer. Our wants only create more wants and for many just makes them fat unhealthy-selfish beings. That is a merry-go-round that people do need to see through….wants will never make you happy or satisfy human desires.
Here is what I do question however, Leo please respond to this I would love to hear what you think, I believe we ALL are spiritual beings with no beginning or end. We ALL are here to have an earthly experience/adventure (we choose this). I see however that many humans are trying to be spiritual (which is backwards because we already are)! So instead of spending this human experience trying to get back to being spiritual we should just enjoy the human experience which is only for a very short time and know that we are spiritual and don't need to do anything to get or keep it……we are spiritually eternal. So give up religion, dogma, spirituality or anything that we think we need to be BECAUSE WE ALREADY ARE. I AM……so enjoy the adventure…good, bad or ugly. I say have fun with it and choose wisely! Trying to be spiritual is a conn game….we already are, and now we get to have a human adventure! Start creating, exploring, inventing, loving, sharing, caring, & living a human life! It is not the meaning we find in life, it is the meaning we put in life. Love Joy Peace
Hello Leo… I read that you lost your transcriptionist. If you would let me, I'd like to volunteer for you. I have some free time at home and I love listening to you A LOT because I see you are helping many people. So if you want, I am more than happy to volunteer as transcriptionist until you find one. Helping you is like helping many people for me too… I'll be waiting for your reply.
Remarkable. Your presentation activates issues that long term meditators grapple with. The beauty of your approach is the speed one can reach troublesome behaviors to act on. One may add the use of direct experience to catalyze the doing with continuous feedback. This will reinforce being here now.
When one follows your path it will lead to the ego dilution and freedom.
1000 Thanks & continue the excellent work.
Love a good jail break! Who knew. Mainly from the labels others have put on me… from strange to damaged, and everything in between. She is in her own little world.
I have been on this transcendence journey most of my life. Your advanced videos have helped my understand this. Can not get enough!! It is mind blowing to be understood! And massively freeing! I LOVE IT!
The last few years have been intense to say the least. I have been isolated, not literally in a cave hehe, for more than two years. Everything about me is wide open and beyond ready for more!
I think I have seen every advanced video you have in less than three weeks. I will keep searching your site. I thrive on this! Something about you and your methods just click!
If you have anything extremely advanced that you are willing to share with me, please do! Tremendous love & gratitude, Tami
hmm… …I stumbled across "inspect element". Again, thanks for the video, blew my mind. I await your reply.
Yesterday I had a strong felling that the entire representation of the world is in my own head and it is funny some times, As I was talking with my friend It really felt like my mind was making him up and in essence i was talking with my self, or more like i was making him and the rest of everything up as the conversation was proceeding. it kind of felt really ridiculous.
I also felt like I should write this email to you but had a strong sensation that I was making you up and what ever was appearing and happening was just new thought patterns emerging inside me, kind of like every thing was inwards. No external representation of anything.
As I left the room to an other room it was like the new room and my transition a across my jurney to the other room was just like new thoughts emerging and everything felt so synthetic and un real. I felt lonely because suddenly I felt like I am the only one chounchess person and everything else pure imagination made up my mind. This part a feeling
Then I realized that the rest of my body was in visual frame and somehow I got sucked in to the imaginative thought, but this part did not feel, it was more like a thought and then I relaized that I was not in the presence anymore, some how I had glided in to imagination and new thoughts.
Interesting was that everthing inside my visual filed, the table chair and distance between the objects was all synthetic and like separate thoughts emarging. Like the visual beeing super flat and the perspective and distances in the room beeing merging thoughts on top of a super flat visual thought I can not describe it so well in language.
Any how, even everything felt so fictive and inwards, there was still a sense of me presence but I can se that everthing emerging in my mind is a thought pattern of a kind and I have no idea how I could breake through so many thoughts, a huge pillar of them
Is the personally developed life and talking about that with people then a dogma? believing that it is really true and helpful?? :L
Hey wasn't it Tesla who invented the radio
Hi Leo,
Can/should we apply this radical openmindedness for our emotional feeling? In particular, higher emotional experiences such as enlightenment experience. I'm just wondering whether we should consider the possibility that our spiritual/awakening/enlightenment experiences could be also an illusion.
Thank you!
Leo, I've found your questions very interesting. My mind has been entertained with these ideas for a while now. However, I don't see how not holding any beliefs can benefit me.
Shouldn't I believe X and Y will fulfill my life and Z won't? That the strategy A and B is shitty for what I want?
What do you mean by holding no beliefs?
I loved this video. It filled me with humility and compassion.
Thank you Leo!


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Muslims from around the world forge onward with the Ramadan fast in hopes of being successful this holy month and reaping all the benefits. Year in and year out, the rites of Ramadan remain primarily the same. Fasting, performing the daily and nightly prayers, reciting from the holy Quran and rejoicing in the season are the activities that most Muslims find themselves engaged in during the auspicious occasion.
However, while most things stay the same from one Ramadan to the next, there is one thing that always changes. The Iftar meal, which follows the breaking of the daily fast, is as diverse as the leaves adorning a lush green tree. Muslims in the Middle East, most of which continue to thrive despite the economic turmoil affecting the rest of the world, are renowned for the Iftar spreads offered on their tables. Surplus oil wealth and heavily subsidized governmental social services ensure that cups runneth over and plates are filled to capacity during Ramadan as well as the rest of the year.
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Written: December 1918.
Source: Gesammelte Werke, Berlin (GDR) 1970-75, Vol.4, pp.431-34.
First Published: Die junge Garde (Berlin), No 2,4, December 1918.
Translated: Dave Hollis | Alternate Translation: What is Bolshevism?.
Online Version: marx.org 1996; marxists.org 1999.
Transcription/Markup: Dave Hollis/Brian Baggins.
The proletarian revolution that has now begun can have no other goal and no other result than the realisation of socialism. The working class must above all else strive to get the entire political power of the state into its own hands. Political power, however, is for us socialists only a means. The end for which we must use this power is the fundamental transformation of the entire economic relations.
Currently all wealth – the largest and best estates as well as the mines, works and the factories – belongs to a few Junkers and private capitalists. The great mass of the workers only get from these Junkers and capitalists a meagre wage to live on for hard work. The enrichment of a small number of idlers is the aim of today's economy.
This state of affairs should be remedied. All social wealth, the land with all its natural resources hidden in its bowels and on the surface, and all factories and works must be taken out of the hands of the exploiters and taken into common property of the people. The first duty of a real workers' government is to declare by means of a series of decrees the most important means of production to be national property and place them under the control of society.
Only then, however, does the real and most difficult task begin: the reconstruction of the economy on a completely new basis.
At the moment production in every enterprise is conducted by individual capitalists on their own initiative. What – and in which way – is to be produced, where, when and how the produced goods are to be sold is determined by the industrialist. The workers do not see to all this, they are just living machines who have to carry out their work.
In a socialist economy this must be completely different! The private employer will disappear. Then no longer production aims towards the enrichment of one individual, but of delivering to the public at large the means of satisfying all its needs. Accordingly the factories, works and the agricultural enterprises must be reorganised according to a new way of looking at things:
Firstly: if production is to have the aim of securing for everyone a dignified life, plentiful food and providing other cultural means of existence, then the productivity of labour must be a great deal higher than it is now. The land must yield a far greater crop, the most advanced technology must be used in the factories, only the most productive coal and ore mines must be exploited, etc. It follows from this that socialisation will above all extend to the large enterprises in industry and agriculture. We do not need and do not want to dispossess the small farmer and craftsman eking out a living with a small plot of land or workshop. In time they will all come to us voluntarily and will recognise the merits of socialism as against private property.
Secondly: in order that everyone in society can enjoy prosperity, everybody must work. Only somebody who performs some useful work for the public at large, whether by hand or brain, can be entitled to receive from society the means for satisfying his needs. A life of leisure like most of the rich exploiters currently lead will come to an end. A general requirement to work for all who are able to do so, from which small children, the aged and sick are exempted, is a matter of course in a socialist economy. The public at large must provide forthwith for those unable to work – not like now with paltry alms but with generous provision, socialised child-raising, enjoyable care for the elderly, public health care for the sick, etc.
Thirdly, in accordance with same outlook, i.e. for the general well-being, one must sensibly manage and be economic with both the means of production and labour. The squandering that currently takes place wherever one goes must stop. Naturally, the entire war and munitions industries must be abolished since a socialist society does not need murder weapons and, instead, the valuable materials and human labour used in them must be employed for useful products. Luxury industries which make all kinds of frippery for the idle rich must also be abolished , along with personal servants. All the human labour tied up here will be found a more worthy and useful occupation.
If we establish in this way a nation of workers, where everybody works for everyone, for the public good and benefit, then work itself must be organised quite differently. Nowadays work in industry, in agriculture and in the office is mostly a torment and a burden for the proletarians. One only goes to work because one has to, because one would not otherwise get the means to live. In a socialist society, where everyone works together for their own well being, the health of the workforce and its enthusiasm for work must be given the greatest consideration at work. Short working hours that do not exceed the normal capability, healthy workrooms, all methods of recuperation and a variety of work must be introduced in order that everyone enjoys doing their part.
All these great reforms, however, call for a corresponding human material. Currently the capitalist, his works foreman or supervisor stands behind the worker with his whip. Hunger drives the proletarian to work in the factory or in the office, for the Junker or the big farmer. The employers take care that time is not frittered away nor material wasted, and that both good and efficient work is delivered.
In a socialist society the industrialist with his whip ceases to exist. The workers are free and equal human beings who work for their own well-being and benefit. That means by themselves, working on their own initiative, not wasting public wealth, and delivering the most reliable and meticulous work. Every socialist concern needs of course its technical managers who know exactly what they are doing and give the directives so that everything runs smoothly and the best division of labour and the highest efficiency is achieved. Now it is a matter of willingly following these orders in full, of maintaining discipline and order, of not causing difficulties or confusion.
In a word: the worker in a socialist economy must show that he can work hard and properly, keep discipline and give his best without the whip of hunger and without the capitalist and his slave-driver behind him. This calls for inner self-discipline, intellectual maturity, moral ardour, a sense of dignity and responsibility, a complete inner rebirth of the proletarian.
One cannot realise socialism with lazy, frivolous, egoistic, thoughtless and indifferent human beings. A socialist society needs human beings from whom each one in his place, is full of passion and enthusiasm for the general well-being, full of self-sacrifice and sympathy for his fellow human beings, full of courage and tenacity in order to dare to attempt the most difficult.
We do not need, however, to wait perhaps a century or a decade until such a species of human beings develop. Right now, in the struggle, in the revolution, the mass of the proletarians learn the necessary idealism and soon acquire the intellectual maturity. We also need courage and endurance, inner clarity and self-sacrifice, to at all be able to lead the revolution to victory. In enlisting capable fighters for the current revolution, we are also creating the future socialist workers which a new order requires as its fundament.
The working class youth is particularly well-qualified for these great tasks. As the future generation they will indeed, quite certainly, already constitute the real foundation of the socialist economy. It is already now its job to demonstrate that it is equal to the great task of being the bearer of the humanity's future. An entire old world still needs overthrowing and an entirely new one needs constructing. But we will do it young friends, won't we? We will do it! Just as it says in the song:
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Introduction: The question of how a future socialist society may look is scarcely found in the Marxist literature. Rosa Luxemburg took up this question in an article written in the heat of the revolution, in December 1918. It was reproduced in various newspapers and journals: in the Hamburger Volkszeitung on 20th December 1918, in the Jugend-Internationale (Stuttgart) on 28th December under the title German Bolshevism and in the Volksblatt (Halle/Saale) on 6th Janurary 1919 under the title Nationalisation [Vergesellschaftung].
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On the one hand, it's going to start getting real uncomfortable, real quick when his continued big-government policymaking somehow miraculously fails to whip the economy into shape, and the four years that for some reason weren't enough to "get the job done" start to melt into eight. The Energy Information Administration released part of their annual energy outlook this week, and despite all of the greenie gloom-and-doom naysayers, our energy future is dazzlingly bright. We have oil and gas reserves available in remarkable abundance, and employment in these industries is the highest it's been since 1988:
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On the other hand, President Obama is very much beholden to the interests of the Left: The globalists, the climate radicals, the green lobbies, and even the casually uninformed-but-oh-so-hip eco-trendy young folk that make up so much of his base. Joel Kotkin breaks it down:
The ideological stakes for the green movement are tremendous. Greatly expanded American fossil-fuel production violates the "peak oil" mantra that has underpinned environmental thinking for decades and undermines some of the core rationale for subsidizing expensive renewables such as solar and wind.
Geography also may play a major role here. Outside of Colorado, the industrial Midwest, and western Pennsylvania, where the shale boom is widely seen as boosting local economies, the vast majority of energy-producing states tilt strongly to the GOP. In contrast, Obama's strongest support comes from green-oriented coastal residents whose familiarity with energy production starts and ends with turning on a light or switching on an iPad.
Obama's financial base—in contrast to that enjoyed by the Republicans—relies little on the energy industry. The president's corporate support comes largely from the entertainment, media, and software industries. Many of Obama's strongest business backers, particularly in Silicon Valley, have become entangled financially with "renewable energy" schemes, many of which can only survive with massive subsidies in the form of tax credits, loans, and surcharges on energy consumers.
It'll be a difficult decision to make — the green lobby is particularly well-monied and influential, and then there are the pushy eco-radicals like the ones who just spent two weeks at a United Nations conference trying to convince developed countries to quixotically move backwards into self-inflicted poverty. President Obama at least understands, however, that Americans generally don't take too well to "necessarily skyrocketing energy prices," which is why his campaign-self repeatedly tried to take credit for the energy boom currently going on while at the same time touting an "all of the above" plan that included renewables — heck, it's the best of both worlds, right? But now, he's going to have to start choosing: Strangle out hydrocarbon energies via regulation and pour more money into the green-energy black hole, or step back and allow the efficiency and innovation of the private sector to take it away?


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December 12, 2012
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A return to more normal U.S. corn yields in 2013 could send new-crop prices spiraling downward, but persistent drought in some of the nation's top corn-producing states could have the opposite effect, says Purdue Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts the midpoint of U.S. farm prices on 2012 corn will be $7.60 per bushel. If yields are more normal in 2013, Hurt said prices could fall by $2.10 to $5.50 per bushel - the largest ever year-to-year drop.
"The previous largest drop in the annual farm price was 73 cents per bushel for the 1986 crop," he said. "The percent reduction in 1986 was 33 percent, which would compare with a 28 percent reduction in 2013 if prices dropped to $5.50."
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"However, some of those end-users, such as the ethanol industry, might be able to return to full usage at the flip of a switch," Hurt said. "The domestic animal-feeding sector and the export sector won't be able to build usage as quickly, and increased corn production outside the U.S. will likely compete heavily with farmers for export business."
But normal 2013 U.S. corn production is nowhere near assured, especially if drought centered in the western Corn Belt and Great Plains states persists into the growing season.
Twenty-five percent of Minnesota, 42 percent of Iowa, 63 percent of South Dakota and 96 percent of Nebraska are in extreme to exceptional drought - the two worst categories. All four are among the top six corn-producing states.
"U.S. corn yields have been below trend for three years, and more farmers now recognize the possibility of four poor crops in a row," Hurt said. "This, of course, means that normal crops and sharply lower prices are far from a reality. Prices won't move sharply lower until crop production becomes more assured as the 2013 season progresses."
Futures markets already are taking into account the possibility of a short 2013 corn crop and building in a greater-than-normal weather risk premium. While the amount of the premium is unknown, Hurt said 50 cents to $1 per bushel isn't out of the question.
"As long as the drought threat remains as large as it is today, new-crop corn prices could stay higher by the risk premium," he said. "If the drought risk were to be eliminated, then new-crop prices would likely drop.
"The weather threat could be reduced if more rain arrives but can't be eliminated until next year's corn growing season reaches mid- to late July."
So while a return to normal production could mean $5.50-per-bushel corn, Hurt said continued drought in key production states could still translate to new-crop corn prices of $8.50 per bushel.
The uncertainty makes risk management difficult for corn growers.
"Farmers will have three key tools to deal with the financial risk from this wide range of possible outcomes: federal crop insurance, the new government farm program and their own marketing decisions," Hurt said.
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