Leo Gura

But that's a silly standard. Try passing the SAT when you are drunk or haven't slept in 2 days. Obviously passing any exam assumes a certain baseline of health, sobriety, and restedness.

But some smartass always brings up the case of the Buddhist monk who lit himself on fire with gasoline and didn't flinch.

Saddam Hussein would torture his political rivals by placing their children in a room with a glass wall, throwing a bunch of bees into the room, and forcing their parents to watch the bees sting their children to death as the kids ran around the room screaming. Try transcending that.

@Natasha Tori Maru For you, imagine being eaten alive by a pack of ravenous kangaroos

That's probably because of the adrenaline from being in a life-threatening situation. If you don't like the stabbing example, imagine a bear attacking you.

The best way to increase IQ is to take a bunch of IQ tests and learn how they work.

Conservatives usually demonize transhumanism. They see it as an evil globalist post-modernist Satanic plot. But of course they are hypocrites.

One of my last hopes is living long enough to see all these billionaire oligarchs die off. If billionaire oligarchs can live for 200 years, we are so screwed.

I have no idea. I regard transcendence of suffering with great skepticism.

To those who think they are close to transcending suffering: Can you even imagine how much you would suffer if you were attacked by a psycho with a knife? Really think about this: I want you to imagine yourself getting stabbed over and over again with a knife. The horror of it is unbelievable. No one here has transcended that. Don't kid yourself.

Ralston should write a sequel: Ending Necessary Suffering

But you are!

Women don't think logically about attraction, making themselves easy to fool. Most women are just naive to the kind of tactics men have invented to snare them. Especially young women between 18-30. Women become more savvy with years.

Pickup can certainly be corrupting to the mind and persona. It did corrupt me in some ways. But it was still worth it. You gotta do it with some moral standards.

Usually online. Search for pickup in your city.

Do not confuse Awakening with mental illness. If you have mental health issues, please see a therapist. Also, it's possible to have both.

Good! Glad to see someone using it. It's an instrictive skill that naturally develops as you talk to lots of girls regularly. It took me years to start to get good. It was a real struggle for me. I was not always so funny and witty. I thought I would never learn to be funny. Trust the pickup process.

Narcissism is stupid Live by the internets, die by the internets.

Opening this up cause we'll be seeing a lot of these corrupt MAGA perverts crawling out of the shadows over the next 4 years and it's good to have a catalog of all them and their crimes in one place. https://apnews.com/article/matt-gaetz-congress-ethics-report-538cb5387bf95925245bf87fa6b1adcb Post all examples of MAGA corruption here.

If someone is Machiavellian, that's not because of women, that's because of who they are.

Of sure. Owen has been captured by his own work.

Owen is sneaky. He doesn't criticize Clav so he can use him to gain more subscribers. He's blowing smoke up Clav ass. Clav's game is cringe-worthy and violates the core principles of good inner game.

There is probably some truth to that, but it isn't necessary at all to game. In fact, it makes them creepy and weird.

You can't be so detached that you don't even approach or talk or dress. You still need to be in the game to win it. If you were truly detached you wouldn't even leave your house. But that's too far above dating. If you want to date, you gotta be willing to put in the effort that it requires.

Yes, but don't underestimate how deep suffering can get when something serious goes wrong. That's not like sitting on the cushion meditating. I don't pretend to be close to transcending suffering because I respect how deep suffering can get. Suffering is a construct like gravity is a construct. Good luck bending it to your will.