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  2. No! I'm talking about experiential understanding, not truth. And I used "not-you" as a tool to step out of one's mind to make a more fair, unbiased assessment relative to one's real understanding of some activity. It doesn't have to be a person or a group. That you're able to do it - and to the degree that you do - is the proof. Not to be confused necessarily with social validation. But if you're going to become a surgeon, say, of course that social element is an essential component in this regard.
  3. I'd say yes, but with two exceptions. Firstly, it just sort of skips the beginner social skills stage. For example, most pickup doesn't start with you going to the local meetup and just practising making friends with others who are also there to make friends. It starts with you going to some bar that can be hella intimidating as a noob lol. And the social skills needed to have good interactions are higher. Its like learning swimming by your dad chucking you into the deep end of the swimming pool lol. Secondly, its all fixated around making you have social skills that help make sex from cold approach more likely. Things like relationships and friendship social skills are not included much. But i dont want to speak too much on this subject. I have struggled a lot with pickup in the past, have done maybe 10 months total of it consistently and am still low on the skill tree. So i dont want to mislead.
  4. Then it's time to pump up coke numbers
  5. The pup 😍 I'm genuinely tried of waking up to alerts in the middle of the night with cortisol levels of 9000000. How are you? What do you think about the recent law passed in the Knesset today?
  6. It depends on how effective this US ground operation that's about to unfold is going to be. But I doubt this war is gonna last years. There's not enough political capital in the US to make it continue and resources and money are being burnt throught way too fast. All of these operations are meant to be knockout blows, which they really are to a certain extent. This will probably turn into a cold war scenario, with either Iran or the US having the control over the flow of oil in the Persian gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. Which side it's gonna be is hard to predict. US can't back out of this one, there's just way too much at stake, so regardless of the level of administration's competence. US military cannot actually yeld and pull out of this one
  7. Oh, didn't realize this was already posted.
  8. I'll always try to approach things from a systemic/holistic perspective (self-help, diet, exercise, science, spirituality, religion, technology, consciousness work). I don't believe in a silver bullet or one-size-fits-all solution.

  9. Why Is Truth Really Important?

    LastThursday replied to SimpleGuy's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    More accurately it should be truths not Truth. It's not like Truth is some fundamental substance filling the universe. It's about seeing the world as much as possible for what it actually is, with clarity. There are truths to be understood and accepted, and not obscured by beliefs, stories and ideas about how things should be. Some truths are in plain sight, but are hard to see - work needs to be done to uncover the truths.
  10. I don't think that you just had a feeling 1x and then you are depressed out of nowhere. As I said, I think depression is something more profund than just a specific feeling on a specific timestamp. It is like a belief, a hidden POV, something that you exist as, persist as some form + physical conditions. Feeling sad or apathic is not depression. If people say they are depressed everytime they feel sadness, we would have a general pandemic of depression on the entire world. Real depression is terrible. People can't even wake up from bed. I think you are being reductionist on your perspective. We all know Ralston says that we can stop things out of nowhere but I would not generalize this principle.
  11. Ironically, he jerks off to offload the excessive dopamine from all the coke he spoons up his chute Coke and jerking off is like salt and pepper, bread and butter. Ask Joey Diaz.
  12. It's pickup an attempt of doing that? Attempt at traning social skills.
  13. Did you like it? It seemed a bit dragged-out for me, not to mention we have to wait for second season god know for how many years.
  14. Pickup can be great. But i don't see it as a solution to men's dating issues. Its way too difficult to be a reasonable solution that will help most struggling dudes out. Its good for the minority of dudes who are willing/ able to put in the high effort and strategy to really transform their dating lives. Basic social skills help is a better form of general solution I'd say.

  15. Why Is Truth Really Important?

    Rafael Thundercat replied to SimpleGuy's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Well, you just biased AI on Truth?
  16. don't they say ignorance is bliss? being smart breaks the magic of life by being shown the trick of how things actually work. being smart also means being aware of the bigger picture and how you lack choice and control in a lot things. that feeling of loss of control can give you depression. but being even smarter allows you to counteract being emotionally triggered by thoughts and circumstances and take back some control over your state.
  17. I accept your apology, but I don't accept condescension. I am not trying to undermine you or claim you 'need' to maintain a 'stance' or that you might be 'attached' to an identity. I don't need your reassurance that I might feel destabilized by your worldview; I need you to recognise a boundary. But you don't seem capable of respecting that without some need to condescend. You came in here guns blazing showing disturbance at my words. Not me.
  18. No I don't think it's good for me to go down into that rabbit-hole I've already seen enough for one lifetime. But if that works for some people, I get it.
  19. Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those up
  20. @Miguel1 Okay, got it. You seem like a guy who’d be fun to be around Same for me actually, when it's warm outside, a warm spring weather, I like to drive around in the evening or at night when there is no traffic, or just sit at my balcony during sunset trying to do what you described but with myself. Those moments are one of my best memories. It's funny, my best memories doesn't involve other people much. One question, when you mention deeper connection with another, what do you mean exactly? How do you express that with another? Do you have specific topics that you like to talk about, you mean just deep presense and listening to others in that way, or what?

  21. Actualized Quotes #485

    Christoph Werner replied to Christoph Werner's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    @MrTruf dude. dont contaminate this thread. Leo is not your enemy.
  22. Yeah but there is a difference between the type of person who is persuaded by evidence such as in the Epstein files situation, and someone persuaded by the mere existence of a dark possibility, i.e. 9/11 inside job. Yes there is an element of inaccurate pre-judgment from the mainstream when it comes to conspiracy theories. It is wrong to dismiss things as impossible just because they sound outlandish. Conditional probability makes outlandish events very likely. However, it is also inaccurate to jump to conspiratorial conclusions when other possibilities also exist. Conspiracy theorists who make correct guesses about things are still guessing. For example, those who much earlier guessed what Epstein was doing. A reasonable person will take the dark possibility seriously but will not jump to it as a certainty.
  23. I see. So for you truth is what can be demonstrated to others (or to a reasonable person) for verification.

  24. Why Is Truth Really Important?

    FlyingLotus replied to SimpleGuy's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    This is an excellent primer on the value of truth.
  25. That was brutal 😂
  26. Yes some porn genres do. forget the crappy porn which is 100% focused on penetration and women screaming unrealisticly. There is ASMR porn and Roleplay audio porn and these can give you the intimacy you’re seeking . Also live cams when you can chat with the model and make her do what you want her to do if you pay her.
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