Leo Gura

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  1. Condoms are a huge problem for me. The sex is just not good with them. And without them the risk is not worth the pleasure. Jerking off is better than condom sex.
  2. All Mods will be replaced with my swarm of AI girlfriends.
  3. Thanks for reporting the issue. I'm aware of it now and working to resolve it. Should be fixed within a few days.
  4. Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Orange thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Orange. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Orange thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Orange. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. List of Orange Values: Achievement, success, excellence Climb your way to the top Upward mobility Obsessed with being #1, be a winner Improving one’s own position in life Efficiency, progress, productivity, optimization Gaming the system, min-maxing, manipulation Creative exploitation Action, results, pragmatism Never-ending growth Capitalism, libertarianism Competitive marketplace Deregulation, denationalization Hard work, business, entrepreneurship Competition, winner-take-all Self-improvement Skills, knowledge, education Confidence, optimism, charisma Entertainment & showmanship Personal freedom, self-reliance, independence Free speech Money, sex, luxury Net worth Physical appearance, youth, sexiness, coolness Consumerism, conspicuous consumption Brands Pop culture, celebrities, social media Quarterly profits, mass market, sales Mass production, industry Rationality, logic, science, secularism, humanism Technology Materialism, reductionism, atheism, evolution Hard-nosed science, no New Age mumbo-jumbo Pragmatism, empiricism, skepticism No metaphysics Analysis “Facts” Data, analytics, models, quantify everything Science-based fact-based education Double-blind, peer-reviewed studies “Scientific method” IQ Strategic planning, risk analysis Innovation & creative thinking Results & the bottom-line matters most Maintaining a competitive edge Competence vs rank or bloodline Recognition, reward Win-win outcomes Stage Orange Examples: America, capitalism, emerging China, businessmen, CEOs, biz suits, corporate boardrooms, lawyers, Wall Street, Wolf of Wall Street, insider trading, Manhattan, hedge-fund managers, Goldman Sachs, Big pharma, Big oil, Big banks, tobacco companies, advertising, Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, libertarians, Ayn Rand, professional sports, FIFA, NBA, Superbowl, sponsorship deals, fashion, Rolex, nightclubs, pickup, MOGTOW, redpill, bro culture, Republicans, Trump, trophy hunting, breast implants, plastic surgery, Botox, liposuction, pornography, Playboy, Hustler magazine, Hugh Hefner, Larry Flynt, strip clubs, Hollywood biz, supermodels, Silicon Valley, start-ups, venture capital, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, casinos, theme parks, Carl Icahn, Koch Brothers, corporate raiders, Walmart, Amazon, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Disney, Monsanto, Microsoft, GE, AT&T, IBM, Facebook, EA, micro-transactions, gamer culture, Enron, R&D, lobbyists, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, yuppies, internet, bodybuilding, Arnold, steroids, corrupt politicians, MBA programs, golf courses, fly fishing, anti-union laws, patent trolls, Western medicine, Larry Ellison, Steve Ballmer, Dave Rubin, Stefan Molyneux, outsourcing, deregulation, tax cuts, trickle down economics, payday loans, sweatshops, junk food, fast food, energy drinks, used car salesman, marketing, sales & PR, focus groups, television, reality TV, infomercials, game shows, CNN, MSNBC, liberal media, e-commerce, financial industry, software engineers, technical scientists, nuclear weapons, luxury yachts, private jets, personal helicopters, real estate tycoons, railroads, the Gilded Age, Robber Barons, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, William Hurst, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Mercer, technocrats, cocaine, alcohol, pop music, rock music, club music, rap music, trophy wife, gold-digger, oil drilling in Alaska, champagne & caviar, fancy restaurants, luxury resorts, cruise ships, mercenaries, Black Water, gated communities, mansions, video games, Success magazine, private prep schools, poker players, self-help industry, biz books, biz seminars, marketing seminars, Dan Kennedy, Tim Ferris, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Brian Tracy, Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Daniel Dennett, Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking, Christopher Hitchens, consulting, success coaches, millionaire mindset, net worth, sports cars, Mercedes, BMW, Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, VIP, celebrities, paparazzi, Las Vegas, Cannes film festival, Aspen, Palm Springs, Hong Kong, Macau, Dubai, cost/benefit analysis, nerd culture, polyester clothing, PT Barnum, snake oil salesman, atheism, skepticism, separation of church & state, enlightenment values, “Western values”, Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, factories, Henry Ford, WTO, Ferengi, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Paris Hilton, Bernie Madoff, Paul Manafort, sex drugs & rock n roll, mid-life crises, malls, fashion shows, NASA, SpaceX, Elon Musk, for-profit universities, get-rich-quick schemes, online millionaires, Bitcoin, Forex, daytrading, utilitarianism, Logical Positivism, behaviorism, Darwinism, social media, gun rights, Ivy League universities, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, CalTech, military industrial complex: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Sigmund Freud, Harvey Weinstein, 2008 financial collapse, dot com bubble, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, multi-level marketing, Viagra, DDT, asbestos, billboards, GMOs, cloning, human genome project, stem cell research, robotics, computers, birth control, sex education, all-you-can-eat buffet, karoshi: death thru overwork, Alex Jones, prosperity preachers, Howard Stern, South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy, House Of Cards, Avatar, Boiler Room, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris
  5. It's better than any other manual method. I will at some point. These two things don't combine. You can do both, but it's not a combination.
  6. The entire line of argument is stupid, biased, misleading, and false. DMT can produce more than enlightenment within 30 seconds. Not a single Ralston student will ever reach that level of consciousness in their lives.
  7. Be careful adding materialist explanations to it. If you look at what it is, it's purely feelings.
  8. Find both in your direct experience. Point it.
  9. That's not higher states of consciousness.
  10. In a certain paradoxical sense, yeah. Your friends and family will certainly feel like you're being selfish for neglecting their survival. Humans have a twisted sense of selflessness: where being selfless means serving their survival.
  11. Girls do this all the time. It's their problem, not yours. Girls don't take responsibility for being slutty. So don't worry about it. Don't take their bullshit seriously. Impossible to say. But 1-2 is great. 3-4 is not ideal but acceptable. 5+ is bad. A lot depends on how much time has passed.
  12. Is that true? 1) No post-modernist knows this is true. It's just a belief. 2) Even if it was true. That would be Truth. Post-modernism is incoherent. It destroys itself. These people have no proof that any perspective other than theirs exists. The whole notion of perspective needs to be questioned and deconstructed. Where did anyone even get the idea of "Perspectives exist". This isn't proven. These people are mindless. They are not thinking. They are just parroting shit their friends parrot. You can twist a post-modernist's nipple. Then when get angry at you, you tell them, I never twisted your nipple. When they insist otherwise, tell them that's not true because truth doesn't exist. Post-modernists are idiots. So never fear them.
  13. Passion works everywhere, but in 3rd world countries it takes longer to bootstrap yourself from nothing. You need a highly pragmatic strategy to make the passion viable. It can't be utopian passion where you just hope it magically works. You need a plan with concrete steps and goals and pathway to profit.
  14. How drunk? If mildly drunk it's not problem at all. If heavily drunk, just ask her, "You sure you want this?" while in bed. If she is so drunk she can hardly walk, then I just don't deal with girls like that. You should also ask every girl how many drinks she's had. They will lie, but still, good to ask.
  15. 10mg >> 15mg >> 20mg >> 25mg >> 30mg
  16. Do Kriya yoga and it will rewire your brain and burn out your karma. You will be happy for no reason at all. It's far better than your current trajectory, which will end very badly. Whether you believe you can or you can't, you're right. No. I have sex very rarely. It's not a big deal. I honestly get more pleasure from jerking off than most sex.
  17. @gengar I am sorry about your situation. I know how difficult life can be. The whole point of spirituality is that you can find happiness beyond material achievements. Double-down on spiritual practice. Remember, monks are celibate and they live deep and rewarding lives. This isn't theoretical. This is reality.
  18. I'm sorry your situation is so difficult. But social anxiety can still be fixed. That's no reason to give up. Even if ultimately you can't socialize, you can still find happiness through spiritual work. Then throw all your effort into spiritual work. The happiness women bring is quite minimal. If you get serious abouy Kriya yoga, within a few years you can be happier than a guy who slept with 100 girls.
  19. @stephenkettley It doesn't much matter as long as it works and generates income. Find any business niche that doesn't directly harm others.