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  2. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Interestingly just a few minutes ago I made the inner decision that I needed to find my own happiness. Well .. there are always thoughts I have about stuff, thats a bit esoteric of me.

  3. Women are attracted to emotional guys

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to Someone here's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    Would it not make sense to address the health issue instead of take a drug? The drug has significant health risks and side effects. Cardiovascular issues are particularly nasty to combine with the drug.

  4. Women are attracted to emotional guys

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to Someone here's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    Incentive systems and societal conditioning... through conformity, status, authority, and the desire to belong, are powerful forces that shape human behaviour, often overriding or redirecting our innate biological predispositions. Think of the guy who suppresses his sexual interest because acting on every attraction would damage his relationships, career, or reputation. The woman who works full-time because economic realities require two incomes, even if she would personally prefer to spend more time raising children. The man who avoids expressing vulnerability because workplace or cultural norms reward stoicism. Remaining single because modern dating markets, career priorities, or personal freedom outweigh the benefits of partnership. A woman who competes aggressively in a high-status career (promotions, income, and autonomy are valuable incentives) etc etc etc Biology provides us with predispositions that in turn give us motivations. Incentive structures are so powerful, their effect must also be accounted for - even enlightened or awakened masters are not immune (which is why we sometimes witness corruption from spiritual leaders). Red Pill definitely has some truth in it, but it is half the story, and neglects the critical thinking that would entice us to ask "What else could cause this effect?" I like to ask myself "what if...? when trying to understand information and systems - especially when it is a new idea I am presented with

  5. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    An ex-theatre club member just texted me. I was super in conflict with him. He is asking to get shrooms and gives me kind regards. wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf !?!?!?!?!?!? So obviously there is 90% chance this isnt about shrooms, he could get them anywhere and last time we met I ignored him .. I changed me profile pic a few days ago so that could be part of it. I wonder if ... STOP I shouldnt overinterprete things. I almost wrote an impulsive response back immediately. No I should calmy write back and not fuck this up, its possible to solve something very important here.
  6. If I were healthy I wouldn't need to use it :>
  7. ' This is too tempting. For those that don't know about options trading, you can buy stock options to sell Nvidia for its current price at a later date, it's called "shorting". You don't have to buy the stock, you would effectively 'buy' it if you 'excercise' the option when the stock crashes, but then exercising the option you sell it at the previously(now) higher price.

  8. Women are attracted to emotional guys

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to Someone here's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    @MarkKol Do you think it is healthy to address this in such a way?
  9. Bravo. Beautifully written.
  10. looool If only you were a man you would understand how much it helps :> you can get hard with cialis even if she decides to start chasing you with a knife around the room sex is more enjoyable when you can get more blood into your peenor, sorry i had to tell you that women should respect cialis more
  11. All mental disorders exist on a continuum (shades of gray), and the exact line dividing "normal" from "disordered" is fundamentally a human made construct. In a sense, everybody experiences micro manic and micro depressive episodes because everybody's mood is variable.
  12. I was listening to my dad with the intention of getting to the truth about his worldview. My dad is a fundamentalist Muslim, a classic Sunni Muslim, in short. He isn't into mysticism or any of this sort of things, he's into mainstream Islam. And listening to him I got multiple insights and wisdom from his worldview. But before jumping into the insights, I've realized before through contemplation that there isn't one correct worldview, because what you pay attention to becomes your view of the world. So, for example, if you're a Muslim and spend your time studying and practicing Islam, Islam is going to be your worldview, to put it simply, and there isn't one correct worldview so to speak, because reality is infinite hence there's an infinite amount of things to pay attention to, which will result in an infinity of worldviews depending on the object of observation of each observer. But anyways, here are some insights on the wisdom of a Muslim fundamentalist: So basically, I realized that the point of Islam is psychological well-being as well as material success. It's a very pragmatic view of the world, but incredibly effective at producing happiness and material success. For example, the idea the principles that lead to success in the material world, are the same that lead to success in the spiritual world, the afterlife. And that by following certain rules of conduct and behavior, you can thrive on a material level as well as in the afterlife. For example, a key principle in Islam is discipline, both in spiritual practice (prayer 5 times a day, fasting...) but also this discipline will carry over into other domains of your life, than religion, for example in your health and career, making you successful in both of them. Because what you tend to do in one thing, you tend to do in all other things. So, if religion teaches you discipline, this principle will be implemented in other areas of your life. For a fundamentalist Muslim, his God isn't a sadist, who likes to torture people in hell, but rather that the way the spiritual world, the afterlife, works is similar to how the material world works. If you don't follow certain rules and principles like discipline, bad things will happen to you, you might become an addict or homeless... Fundamentalism isn't as foolish as many people can make it sound; it is filled with practical wisdom. That's why people subscribe to it.
  13. yeh endorphine is a hell of a drug I know.
  14. @AerisVahnEphelia nah, you don't know how addictive it is to be a gym rat. If you have the right genes bodybuilding makes you feel incredible. It's like any other hobby, if you are incredibly good at it and see results you will go further for improvement . No insecurity complexes needed for that.
  15. Yeah, right. I was being a bit extreme, but he was suffering because of the impossible standards he had set for himself, and that probably created a constant state of anxiety, which in turn fueled his desire to hyper-perform. By my standards, most elite athletes and high-level artists are mentally “sick” in some way. They often suffer from an intense need to prove themselves to the world. That’s just my best guess, of course. I obviously don’t know him, and I had barely watched any of his videos around the time he started his whole ayahuasca phase. So ultimately, no, he didn’t want to physically die. He wanted the suffering to stop.
  16. @Girzo There are different levels of bipolar. I think full blown mania probably is not a great thing but I don't have experience with it. Also... From Gemini: Elon Musk has not publicly shared an official clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder or hypomania. However, several psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and biographers have speculated that he exhibits traits associated with hypomania—such as extreme energy, impulsivity, and a reduced need for sleep. [1, 2, 3, 4]
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  18. So this state of looking at nothing got scared and that spun your entire life?
  19. Fucking gross. This is just a cult of bootlickers defending the guy they've put on a pedestal. Nothing more conscious or more sophisticated is happening here. And now there's equivocation on "God." (Suddenly everyone isn't God anymore --- only Leo is God and poor God needs a lot of patience) Now this is supposedly "corrupt" and "devilry," and apparently one main deciding criterion is whether something "helps Leo," (as if every discussion is obligated to optimize for Leo's interests.) Meanwhile, none of you have anything to say when Leo went on his thousandth rant about science and scientists, or when he regularly opens with lines like: "You don't know what the fuck you're talking about." "I'm the standard of epistemology." "You ought to use my definition of cult." "I'm the most awake out of all you spiritual rats." Apparently all of that is "sophisticated," "conscious," and carefully calibrated to "maximize" truth. Or when he gaslights people for holding him to standards that he himself established. Or when he insists he never said something, is shown that he clearly did, and then ends the conversation with, "I can't be wrong because I once said self-deception is endless, therefore if I'm wrong, I'm actually right about self-deception being endless." And the list goes on and on. None of you actually care about tone. None of you really care about truth or substance. Your supposedly "sophisticated" or "conscious" analysis of what best serves truth begins and ends with whether Leo is the one saying it. It has virtually nothing to do with the content or with the tone of the message.
  20. @PenguinPablo If you have a very high intelligence and talent to begin with, then maybe. I also know two bipolar people and both are very foolish and hard to deal with during an episode. Not genius at all, normal people, who suffer the condition and need to medicate it.

  21. Texting my girl often with fast replies

    AerisVahnEphelia replied to felixk_priv's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    there is no universal rules it really depends, some girls need reassurance especially the serious ones.
  22. I'm really concerned, I hope Europe does something, the U.S. won't. WTF. I'm sick to my stomach, Faith Based Capitalism. These people are using the evangelical playbook, total frauds, it's like a Joel Osteen church.

  23. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I got such a kick out of this little product trailer on amazon, I spent half an hour searching for it again for a lick of that sweet dopamine. Holy shit! https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0FP5JZ6KT/ref=sspa_dk_detail_4?pf_rd_p=cf5ead54-c2f4-4493-953a-430e94cae639&pf_rd_r=4TG4PJCY33FKYCG9HR2W&pd_rd_wg=qOCZ6&pd_rd_w=0Ed1i&content-id=amzn1.sym.cf5ead54-c2f4-4493-953a-430e94cae639&pd_rd_r=60bee80e-8f6c-41fa-b34e-908565d8b04a&aref=7Z2z94nCqB&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWw&th=1&psc=1

  24. My meditation journal

    Thittato replied to Thittato's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    2nd session of kayaking this year We were four friends together, out for 6 hours, paddling, hanging out on a beautiful island we were paddling around, bathing in the sea, going for forest-walks, etc. Amazing. These are the best paddling-experiences. The solo-paddling I do is kind of just to keep it alive, so that I'll sometimes attract my friend-group into this.
  25. If all the other aspects are same, yes, the good looking guy will have better results. But that rarely happens. The points of the statement about looks not mattering as much is that it is just way more rewarding for a guy to focus on developing his personality, his inner game etc. than to focus on looks. I did not ignore anything. I just do not really know what you mean by the social outcomes, could you expand?
  26. Isn’t there anything in her responses that could give you a clue about what she thinks about your texting?

  27. Let’s Take Looksmaxxing Seriously

    AtmanIsBrahman replied to AtmanIsBrahman's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    Ah yes, so a short, ugly person will have the same results as a good-looking tall person running the same game. I don’t deny that game works, but it’s absurd to say looks “don’t matter that much.” Plus you conveniently ignored my point about social outcomes. This isn’t just about dating.
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