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  2. The first claim in this video, the guy is arguing that women make better leaders while the women argue the opposite! This is truly a mind fuck.
  3. Here's a wiki article which describes "understanding" as contrasted with "knowing". It's useful for rapid deployment and language learning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboxing Here's a Ytube on it: Secular western education and social media discourage understanding in favor of knowing. Knowing is rewarded. Inquiry is not. It's a big problem, world-wide.
  4. “i’m going crazy, i’m going mad. i want you, baby, so bad.” -olivia rodrigo
  5. Most succinctly, "knowing" is a masculine form of cognition. It's probing, intimate, sharp. It's fact based. In order to "know" one must cross into the other's territory. That's why "knowing" is a euphemism for consumation of nuptials. "Understanding" is a feminine form of cognition. Understanding a matter involves traversing around its perimeter, watching its behavior, without violating its border. "Knowing" is like a closed fist. When something is known, there is no denying it. It's a sort of brute force type of cognition. "Understanding" is like an open palm. The cognition is fluid, and ideas blossom from it. Understanding trumps knowing when considering... the "unseen". It's "void"?
  6. We are equivalent to pressure. Your body under alot of pressure you feel it. when you die pressure is released you go thank God and realize there was none. Or you go the other way and early pressurize yourself even more. Its up to you. You can be a pressure cooker with your lid stuck to the rest of the container or you can let go of the pressure. Right now you feel pressures of life and say thats me but its the air pushing against itself. The homecoming is when all pressure is released and you float to heaven. Spirituality is like brining the release of deep sleep into your real life.
  7. Thank you guys @Asayake @Elliott@Sincerity @integral@LordFall @Basman @WonderSeeker @Jirh for sharing your perspectives. In the end @LordFall and @Elliott I think you were right. This is the first girl I stayed together with in South East Asia and I just got totally addicted by the warmth, femininity, comfort ecc. I just realized that I sold myself away for comfort. The wisest choice here is breaking up with hear, keep traveling, giving myself the chance to have more experiences and women that are more compatible with me which there are definitely plenty of when you know where to look as @Elliott said.
  8. This is relevant here. First prompt: men are better leaders than women. Watch how 20 Maga women argue for this claim while the liberal guy is against it!
  9. Curious if Russia will sabotage the Iran deal. The Iran war greatly benefited Russia.
  10. The Object can't be different from the Subject. Nor can an object exist without a Subject. Reality must be awareness(whatever that is) by the simple fact of your experience right now.
  11. Today

  12. FIFA World Cup 2026 thread

    integration journey replied to Someone here's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    My favorite team has been Japan

  13. Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

    integration journey replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Voting for the big teams at the world cup
  14. Basic multiplayer - done!
  15. I hope I don't need to be a psychopath to hallucinate.
  16. Notes based on Leo's video: https://youtu.be/pxyJiN4Z2Ds See image for quick overview Make a distinction between pleasure and gratification hedonic happiness vs. eudaimonic happiness Hedonic happiness: The idea that well-being is achieved through maximizing pleasure, enjoyment, and comfort while minimizing pain and displeasure. Eudaimonic happiness: Living a virtuous life: embodying your greatest strengths, living up to them, living a life of integrity and noble purpose, living with higher consciousness and wisdom. How much of my happiness is about hedonism and eudaimonia based on the activities I do? How can I move the ratio more towards eudaimonia? Eudaimonic happiness cannot be chemically induced. There's no shortcut for it and it requires hard work. It doesn't come naturally and easily to most people. You cannot buy deeper fulfillment in life which can only happen through inner development towards eudaimonia (a virtuous life). 3 factors for screening an activity that provides you with happiness. How long does the happiness last in duration? What does this happiness cost to produce? (Does it cost a lot or a little) What are the consequences of engaging in this form of happiness? - What does it cost me long term if I keep doing it? Does it make my psychology weaker or stronger? Happiness spectrum: First third of spectrum: Anything in this section can become an addiction and these activities give you a big spike in excitement but then leave you lower so you're left with a feeling of emptiness. Drugs Food, partying and drinking Beauty - Trying to make yourself physically look better/look more attractive. People that obsess about beauty are more miserable. People who are more physically attractive objectively speaking are no happier than the average or even below average attractiveness levels of other people. Money/shopping. People who primarily have money-based goals in their career and in their life are the most frustrated people. Even if they achieve their money goals, they're still not happy. All money can do is buy you more hedonic happiness. Media and entertainment. It creates a opportunity cost which means that if you're heavily engaged in entertainment you're using so much time that could otherwise be used on eudaimonic activities. If you take a person watching TV for a long period of time and you measure his mood it's mild depression. Gossip/idle socialization. Mindlessly hanging out with your friends. Fame, public image, success (external signs of accomplishment). It's hard to believe initially before you have it that these things would not make your life better. But once you get it and get acclimated to it doesn't do much for your internal levels of fulfillment. Validation from other people - Getting people to like you, to approve of you, to give you compliments etc. Porn/sex Romantic infatuation - Around the first 6 months of a new intimate relationship where you're falling in love etc. Romantic infatuation is not sustainable it always dies off. Middle third of spectrum: Hobbies Physical exercise/physical growth. Don't confuse this with beauty, a lot of guys do physical exercise because they're obsessing over their beauty. Friendships and strong relationships. You can have shallow gossipy type friendships and you can have deeper, stronger and more intimate friendships, you want the later. Also family relationships that you strengthen. Companionate love. The deeper bond and rapport you build with a partner after the first 6 months of excitement wears off. Last third of spectrum: Learning and education (Especially after college). Excellent work and flow states. Does your work produce flow states for you? If not you need to create that. Inner development and self-acceptance. Any kind of personal growth activities like: Coaching, exercises, journaling, meditating, seminars/workshops etc. Any work you do to ACCEPT yourself exactly as you are. Not worrying about your beauty and trying to be different or worrying about who you should be as an ideal but instead just accepting yourself exactly as you are. You can't really be fulfilled in life if you're not accepting of yourself no matter what kind of external circumstances you can create for yourself Kindness. Most of us haven't figured out how to integrate this kindness in a consistent systematic way into our own lives since it's not really part of our daily routine and also not really natural to some our work. Create an alignment to become more kind daily. Gratitude. If you're not grateful for what you've already got then you're not going to be satisfied because you tell yourself you'll be grateful when you get or accomplish a certain thing but when you then get the thing you're not going to be grateful for that either because hedonic adaptation will happen and you will be chasing the next thing. (Create a gratitude practice) Integrity. Are you living up to your greatest values? Are you doing the things that are actually meaningful to you in life? Are you honoring commitments to others and to yourself? This means not lying, cheating, stealing or harming others but also are you keeping your own commitments to yourself? Contribution. Contribution is what your work does for the betterment of humanity and the world. Is your work contributing in a meaningful way that you believe is meaningful? Being/to be/existing. The best way to practice this is through meditation because it teaches you how "to be" and enjoy the moment of being. This should be your greatest source of satisfaction in life which means you should not need any stimulation of any sort. All the other ways to reach happiness/fulfillment are fundamentally activities that create stimulation which create a kick. Ask yourself: What are your top goals for the next year? Are they hedonic goals or eudaimonic goals? Re-engineer your hedonic goals into eudaimonic goals.

  17. Women are attracted to relativity

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

    I feel pretty similar to this. Echoes my thoughts. If objectivity/subjectively is a spectrum rather than binary, the marker is skewed heavily toward subjective for me. Sure, there are some universally agreed upon attractive qualities. But the range of taste is so bloody broad. Just look at porn as an example of that range...
  18. I think the the most possible scenario is that Russia will threatens a real escalation. Russia cannot afford to lose or be weakened to the point of instability. Lets see where they can arrive
  19. this is good advice...enjoy!
  20. Moscow
  21. Seven Scientific Reasons for Sports Fandom: Vicarious Achievement: Sports allow us to experience the intensity of competition and high stakes without having to risk anything ourselves. Tribalism: Humans have an innate need to belong to something larger than themselves; sports teams provide a pro-social way to satisfy this need. The Halo Effect: We tend to assume that because an athlete is excellent at their sport, they must be equally amazing in all other areas of life, which often leads to disappointment. Catharsis: Sports offer a socially acceptable outlet for adults to express intense emotions like frustration or euphoria. The Illusion of Certainty: In a complex and confusing world, sports provide a predictable structure with a clear winner and loser every 90 minutes. Old-fashioned Inspiration: Watching athletes overcome limits gives us hope that we, too, can achieve our own personal dreams. A Shared Frame of Reality: Sports act as a unifying force, allowing millions of people to focus on and care about the same event simultaneously.
  22. I mean, self-help content, books and courses, there's one obvious way to market, Google Ads on YouTube. Leo has a lot of potential to market future products, the main channel is for social proof, that this is not some random course scammer posting YouTube ads. But even if someone doesn't have such assets, trust can be manufactured in various ways. That's the devilish nature of marketing, it's way faster and more effective to create a false impression, than honestly grow support for your products from the ground up.
  23. I don't think he's saying anything. He's a con artist.

  24. Finished the LP course

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

    I like these. I just couldnt do them which isnt fun
  25. Making multiplayer is hard af. Hopefully I will be able to finish today.

  26. Finished the LP course

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

    I am kind of passionate about creating trainings spaces.

  27. Let’s Take Looksmaxxing Seriously

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

    When you understand that people are just talking to themselves you understand why most spiritual people end up, at best, having an orange lifestyle.
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