Leo Gura

OP can apply the advice given and decide for himself what works best. My job here is done.

If you already have attraction all figured out then of course your concern is now finding quality personality and character. You are like a girl who takes attraction for granted. You people are completely out of touch. Like millionaires swimming in money. You don't even understand what poverty is.

Well, my understanding of everything has increased 10x since that video was recorded.

Dude, I still got PCs running Win8 that I have used for 10 years without a single virus.

Mind your spiritual fantasies.

There is no better example than Chris Langan of why IQ will not save you in this work.

Call the Ghostbusters.

But also sometimes an old fool CAN just take a psychedelic and awaken. The point is that intelligence is not the main factor, or else all the smartest people would be awake.

I know. And I told you that's a mistake. You have invented a self-reinforcing delusional tautology. Like: The Bible must be true because by my definition it was written by God and God cannot lie. Or like: science must be true, because if something isn't true then it cannot be real science. You can craft all sorts of definitions like this, but you will get reality wrong by using them. The critical point in all this is to realize that you cannot trust your own mind. You're trying to skirt this point with clever mind games but that will fail because your mind will deceive you. That's not a maybe, that's guaranteed. You are already in a state of self-deception, you just don't realize it. The point is that there is no way to trivialize the distinguishing of truth from falsehood. This is like a law of the universe which you are trying to short-circuit. You're trying to do the psychological equivalent of traveling faster than the speed of light or building a perpetual motion machine.

The part where dating cannot just be about manipulating women into sex, it has to be about integrity, emotional connection, intimacy, communication, and all that stuff. Character matters inside the relationship.

You don't need support. It will work just fine.

@manuel bon You can go get an MRI just to make sure there's no serious damage. But even if there is damage, it's not like a doctor is gonna do much to fix it. You just gotta give it time to heal. Brain injuries take lots of time to heal: months. So be patient. Don't panic.

It is important to see things from the feminine perspective, but you also have to check it against cold hard reality. In this case it just doesn't pass the check. You can believe whatever you want about dating, but then reality will crush your ideas to pieces. Women can hold ungronded ideas about it because they never need to face the cold hard reality of the man's situation because that is irrelevant to them.

It's purely a matter of ideology. They have brainwashed themselves to believe that that land belongs to them. It's religious dogma. They feel entitled to kill anyone on that land to "liberate" it. It's as if my religion told me that your house belongs to me. I would feel it fair to kill your children squatting in MY house.

Well, in the ultimate case you actually experience it and accept it. You can experience the death of a dog or a house and realize that life goes on regardless, and you even grow from it, painful though it will obviously be. That's a pretty easy fear to build a system against. Why don't you just install a security system like SimplySafe, which offers 24/7 emergency response and sensors for fire and smoke? You could even build a remote control door which you can open for your dogs via your phone in case of emergency. SimplySafe will send a text alert to your phone if there is a fire. You could train your dogs how to use the remote controlled door. This is not a confronting of your fear, but at least you can render the fear insignificant. Fear has an important function, which is to alert you to preventative actions you should take. In the case of your dogs your fear is really just a message to buy a home security system. That's one option. There could be others. You could just realize that it's a silly thing to worry about. I have a house. A few times I've worried about it burning down, but in total I spent less than 5 minutes in the last 4 years worrying about it. The question is, why do you spend so much time worrying about it? Clearly it's dysfunctional to worry about something so much which you 1) do not control, 2) you can easily prevent with technology. Serious contemplation is a good tool for squashing excessive fears. By contemplation you can realize that your fear is out of proportion to reality and counter-productive. Or you can take preventative action and make your fear irrelevant. You can also use contemplation to see that you will still live on even if you fear is realized. Your dogs will die one day anyway, so that's a bullet you will still have to bite no matter what. And your house is insured so it can be rebuilt. And if it isn't insured then you should get proper insurance. But most fears are not so catastrophic, so you can face those. Through contemplation you can realize that the only fears worth having are the ones you can do something to prevent. Beyond that you don't bother to think about it since it is counter-productive and irrational. This is like a kind of CBT (cognitive behavior therapy). Could I burn alive in my sleep tomorrow? Sure. But will I spend any time worrying about it? No. I got smoke alarms in the house so that's good enough. If I didn't have smoke alarms then the solution would be to install them or create some kind of better alarm system.

No, that's false. Thinking that your intuition is always true would be a massive source of self-deception. That's exactly why many New Age people are deluded. They naively go with whatever their intuition tells them and don't apply scientific epistemic rigor to any of their ideas, since that is difficult and disillusioning. You should make a practice of catching your intuition going wrong.

They just don't know it's even happening. Hopefully AI can soon lay this problem to rest once and for all across the board.

What about just going into business, sales, marketing? You can make good money that way to bootstrap other things in the future.

@Majed Well, to be honest, rap is an iffy career choice, especially in your part of the world. You can't just blindly follow utopian passions, you have to also balance it out with pragmatism. You need a career where your odds of success are reasonable, not like a lottery. Just because rap is unrealistic doesn't mean there aren't many other interesting career options. If you were to get into music, it would need to be part of a much larger plan than just rap. You would learn music production skills that could be applied in other fields like making film, commercials, audio editing, etc. Then you could attempt a rap career but also have something more stable to fall back on like being a sound technician or music teacher or whatever.

@Majed 1) You don't need to ace physics to continue on to higher education. 2) There are many other options, like developing skills and trades, programming, art, design, plumbing, welding, business, marketing, sales, management, law. Your #1 priority should be to find a domain of skill that you can excel in. Not to get a piece of paper with your name on it.

If they wanna play like that, fine. Then anti-semitism and terrorism are also just how history works. Zero concern for anti-semitism then.

Consciousness doesn't need a source. Being and Consciousness are the same thing.

It's annoying to me that American media cannot find better Russian translators. It casts doubt on all their translations of anyone.

Awakening is a function of state, not intellect. Which is why no one at MIT is Awake.

You can't live by the opinions of your parents. It is your responsibility to build a life and career for yourself. You cannot build a career at things you're bad at. Find what you are good at. You won't please your parents by doing things you're bad at. There are plenty of degrees and trades that don't involve physics.