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  2. @Zenterus How many approaches do you think someone should have under their belt before they start seeing decent results? By decent I mean 7s and 8s.

  3. A Journey to Someone

    jjer94 replied to jjer94's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    existentialist crisis. So, how am I after leaving Medical Medium? In some ways, great. My body has adapted fairly well to a new way of eating (maybe I'll share about it in time). I feel freer than ever to make my own life decisions. I am no longer wedded to any belief system, and I am no longer 100 percent certain about anything, which has freed my mind. In most other ways, I've been really struggling. I feel very alone. I left the one system I believed more than anything else so far in this lifetime. I disrupted the connections I had with people within that system. I lost Elizabeth. I've lost touch with several friends and haven't had much of a desire to even maintain local friendships. The solitude I cherish has become a prison as much as a sanctuary. And every time I try to connect with people locally, it feels hollow — like two masks interacting with each other, with no avenue for genuine psychological penetration. I am stranded on an island of existentialism, screaming into the void without screaming. I don't know what I want beyond what I already have. I've accomplished the things I wanted to accomplish in this life, and I don't have any strong incentives to change. The most obvious change would be to enter a new relationship, but I've found that the price of being with a woman is too steep for me. Too much maintenance, aimless conversation, spending on frivolity, dealing with triggers, and surrendering my autonomy for too little meaning in return, especially if I'm not planning to have kids. I just haven't met anyone yet that felt worthwhile enough to pay the costs. Well, actually, I did, but she died. I am in an existentialist crisis akin to what I was experiencing over a decade ago in my early 20s, after my best friend killed himself and I started doing spiritual inner work. Recognizing the pure meaninglessness of existence and staring it straight in the face is one of the most difficult tasks any human can undertake. And as someone who has undertaken it multiple times now, I honestly don't know if I'd recommend it to anyone. Simply adopting a belief system like Christianity that gives you a prefabricated overarching sense of purpose to this life, a community of people who believe the same thing, and a culture seems way more sane. Even if it's all bullshit, at least you have purpose and meaning by believing in it. I'm going to say the thing that most people won't admit: This place kinda sucks. It's resplendent, meaningful, and profound at times and I feel grateful for what I have, but it's also chaotic and ugly, full of death, destruction, cope, and lies.
  4. Hyper sobriety is the ki to all of this. Become the substanceless subtance.
  5. You simply need to raise your consciousness to your present experience. The profoundness of God is right where you are.
  6. Um ok but I have a real job and AI can’t do what I do nor deal with the clients I deal with. I’m a tutor and guidance counselor for high net worth families based out of Eastern Europe, Dubai and Miami looking to send their kids to prestigious private universities. The scaling for what I do is up-skilling myself for more expensive subject and targeted ads to capture more of the market, I am building a brand but the fundamental problem still exists where I do the face to face work.. There is this idea that I can reach a critical mass with my brand where I can pass on students to other professions for commission which I’ve done before but I don’t want to go in that direction and it’s chasing chicken feed. I need to look for an entirely different business idea that turns into passive income and I need a vision for what I would be willing to commit to. I have my YouTube travel channel but it’s for my own personal baby to share my travel vlogs and I wouldn’t dare put heavy expectations on that, it takes a ton of views before I can Adsense it or get a sponsor (I got denied by Adsense for some reason). So idk 🤷‍♂️ if these concepts apply to me, I’ve chosen this but in the moment it’s the clearest and best path. I’m fully remote and have no boss which is something to be thankful for.
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  8. I used to need 1-2 gummies, but nowadays half is enough.
  9. Wellcome to the forum wood u like a gummy bear? :3

  10. Loneliness

    Yimpa replied to Miguel1's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    *beautiful hallucination, my love
  11. Here is the really inspiring story of Jordy Lakiere who built we who are about to die by himself which is one of the biggest gladiator games out there. Cool to see how he made it happen and how it went from not much traction to blowing up due to an entertaining concept and a strong demo that made it big on Steam Next Fest. He launched the full game in November 2022 and these are his thoughts a year later in late 2023. Success stories are helping me stay motivated and keep trudging along.
  13. The issue is you want to point to individual cases and paint like an intuitive picture of "surely this would be very very reasonably true", while the legal system, in the case of the death penalty, has always and probably will always use concrete standards and rules that can be applied to each case individually. If you can't provide that, we can't know whether your intuitive idea of a legal system is even possible or if it doesn't already exist somewhere. The job would be much easier if you could say "yes I would vote for the death penalty in this country with this legal system". Right now, your position is essentially "I'm somehow not satisfied with current legal systems and would want a better one but I don't know how". And that makes it harder to say how much you would "accept" innocent lives being lost (we already know you do accept them with "basically 100%", as basically 100% is not equal to actually 100%, unless you want to walk back that statement). And no, Breivik or Columbine is not 100% (unless you have an argument for that). At most close to 100%. I'm just trying to explore whether you have thought through your point to any significant degree. Because if you accuse liberals of not being serious about serious crimes, I would expect some serious thought into the policies for such crimes. If you don't have that, you're perhaps not being very serious. At least "no death penalty under any circumstance" is a clear policy position.
  14. Well said. I don't think you can grok one of these without simultaneously groking all 3 of them. They are logically inseparable things upon close inspection. But who knows, I am not Enlightened and so I must consider Davino's point that logic is not king in these methaphysical affairs.
  15. There won't be the same parasocial element, which is the main draw of OF. I believe that most AI porn merchants sell access the engine itself as opposed to content, which is probably less work overall. You could use a known fictional character that people thirst for and make an OF where it respond to messages and take requests. Maybe that could work. I know that autistic comfort characters have hardcore fans (Five Nights at Freddies, Sonic, Undertale, any furry shit, etc.). These weirdos get really emotionally attached to very specific things, which you could potentially service. You probably won't make that much though and you'll probably spend a lot of time generating stuff. I'm willing to bet that there's a demand for Groudon OF. Groudon telling people it's going to be okay and shit and sucking dick.
  16. https://www.actualized.org/insights/contemplate-a-hummingbird
  17. Omnipotence is just the ability to dream/hallucinate without limits. When you dream at night, that is a glimpse Omnipotence.
  18. What other books in that genre have you liked better? Personally I liked the general topics covered in 48 laws of power. It allowed me to contemplate different examples of power building and how it can be used in different aspects of society. His new book Laws of Human Nature goes even deeper into psychology, I thought it was a phenomenal read. I want to read the Art of Seduction, that's one I haven't gotten to yet.

  19. Thought Art 📓

    Thought Art replied to Thought Art's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Sometimes you have to say bye to people when things are not aligned.
  20. I think this is the right path. If you consistently take action you'd be surprised the progress you can make in 1-2 years. I started out with regular day game and cold approach, eventually I got a girlfriend for about a year when I was 24 and when that didn't work I moved to Toronto and started throwing events with the pickup guys and promoters I knew there. Throwing parties and shooting podcasts was way more fun than just doing cold approach on the street, you start being able to have a lot of fun instead of the mechanical process of just engaging in shallow interactions over and over again.

  21. The Dynamic of Being Bad

    Olaf replied to Rafael Thundercat's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    @Rafael Thundercat I actually had an interesting experience around this, this week. Both me and my wingmen tried being a bit of a douchebag, and our range of expression became more, as now we can also be dark instead of this sweet nice guy. Dark and light together is full range of expression and that is rare.
  22. @Zenterus yep and that is why you are gonna teach me
  23. @Joseph Maynor I'm a fan of debates, not gonna lie but an open long-form conversation is also fine with me! @yetineti Look man, in the thread in the spirituality section you asked to do this: Then on Page 1 here, you insisted on the topic: You demanded the thread, set the terms, and gloated about trapping me. Now you’ve spent 4 consecutive posts trying to back out. You’re very good at manipulating reality to make yourself seem like the victim when it suits you, but the panic only started once the face-to-face talk actually got scheduled. I scheduled the stream and accepted your challenge in good faith. If you want to sit down like two adults tomorrow at 8 PM EST, I'll be there. But if speaking off the keyboard is too overwhelming and you need an exit ramp after all that posturing, that's fine. Just let me know now so I can clear my evening.
  24. @Majed you just need to move countries, you live in a bad area, seriously
  25. I like to say `I just wanted to say the same thing to you`
  26. Why would I think that's acceptable? stupid accusation. Like, dude. 4k someone shooting people, Columbine style. There are cases where the evidence is overwhelming, but your cherry picking one that supports your point. Zero doubt that Breivik killed massacred people, or Shoko Asahara bio terrorism. I'm just going to ignore you now. Your just being daft. I've repeated the same point 5 times now. You just can't fathom a generalistic point it seem.
  27. @Spiral its all about range of expression, if you can only be nice, you only have 50% of the range of expression, you can´t express all the dark shit, which is the bad boy shit, you need more range of expression and that is done by expressing the dark side for once in your life instead of being nice to these woman, you can´t get there without doing that tho, you actually got to do it and be a douchebag for once, then later it can balance itself out.
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