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Generally not. Only is some very extreme case after lots of therapy. I think a good compromise position here is to force these kids to go to therapy for a least a few years and only talk about surgery as a last resort.

Of course. That was my whole plan from the start.

I have sympathy for people who are struggling financially, but the solution to that is not to chase financial gimmicks, it is to develop a legitimate career or business. As an artist you want to build a stable business.

@LSD-Rumi I have been busy. I have not forgotten your case. I will look into it when I have some time.

It is true that personal development can turn into a grind after a while. I have definitely fallen into that trap in the past. So you have to be careful not to just turn your life into an endless treadmill of more and more personal development goals. You gotta relax and have some fun too. You can try not doing personal development for 6 months and see how you feel after that. That should renew your passion for it. Life requires variety. You can't just do the same thing every day for 10 years.

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Should be a good one. Oh, Ralston, Ralston...

The author Hellen Keller was basically blind and deaf from birth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

Today's AI is truly novel and creative. It's not just regurgitating the past. It can create the future.

I had one friend who quit his sales job at Zillow and turned to selling penis enlargement pills on Facebook. He was making 6 figures within a few months. This was about 8 years ago. I doubt that exact same method would work today, but methods like that do exists at all times. You just gotta ferret them out. And you gotta be a good marketer/salesman. There is always low-hanging fruit in some industry. It's just a matter of finding it and capitalizing on it. But finding it is up to you. Don't expect anyone to tell you what it is. I made close to a million dollars selling annuities.

It's not different than any other date. You have a coffee, you stroll around, you do physical escalation, you invite her over to watch a movie, you start making out. You should get a sense of what her plans are for the rest of her day if it's early in the day. You want to make sure her evening is free. Screening for these logistical detail is probably the biggest key. You have to manage the time well.

1) It's okay. Just keep faking it till you get some results. As you get results your neediness will slowly dissolve. In the meantime just try to act as chill as you can. Jerking off helps a lot here. 2) Yes, you can invite her straight to your house. The odds will be something like 50% max that she will come over. But you don't lose much by trying as long as you do it in a non-creepy way. A better way is to tell her to drive to your house and that you will drive her out for an ice cream. This is a much smarter way.

If you actually watch his in-field, there is nothing impressive about his game. He loves to brag about his lay count, but you have no idea if he's lying or not. I've seen him game. He's good. But I wouldn't say he's better than most good coaches. I would not trust his self-reported lay count.

One time I sucked on a bunch of crushed morning glory seeds but it has zero effect. Never tried extraction.

I was listening to it, but as soon as he started to describe how anarchy would work I couldn't stand it any more. It's so naive to think that you could have modern society without a giant centralized government. Such a thing doesn't exist because it isn't possible, not because some elites are too stupid or corrupt to appreciate Michael Malice's genius ideas. Government bureaucracy is absolutely crucial. At least for the next century. That Michael Malice doesn't understand this shows how unserious he is.

It's tricky. A lot of those kind of stories are get-rich-quick gimmicks. However, I am an example of someone who got rich quick. I went from making zero to making 6 figures income within about 6-12 months. There is some validity to this field, however there is a lot of trash and gimmickry. I would say 20% of the field is legit, and 80% is marketing BS. You have to be really good at sorting through it and finding the golden nuggets. Most people who try it fail, but some really smart, hardworking, and creative people will succeed. In general I would avoid any product or service which is structured like a pyramid scheme, where the seller of the product teaches you how to get rich by teaching other people how to get rich. That is crap. You want to listen to serious business people whose business is not selling you on get-rich-quick pipe dreams. Try to listen to real business people who do real business. Your goal should be to build a real business, not some gimmicky cash grab or grift. If you want solid business advice I suggest the courses of Eben Pagan. You can search for other teachers like him. Dan Kennedy is also really solid. They can teach you the foundations of marketing and sales.

Tiago Forte was my high school friend. Surreal seeing him in this video. He used to be a Christian fundamentalist. Lol

@Juan I posted a video on my blog about a year ago about the deep problem with NFTs. Here it is again: That's all I really have to say.

AI is clearly gonna happen in the future. So there's no use worrying about it. Rather just make the best of your life. How is worrying about AI gonna help you? The nice thing about doing your passion is that it is its own reward. If you make great music, people will still consume it. Don't forget, most musicians make their money from touring and doing live shows. You could have said 50 years ago that all musicians would be out of business because CDs and radio was invented. However, musicians are making billions doing live performances. Why do people pay $200 for a ticket to see a musician when they could just stream the song for free on YouTube? There is more to life than just pure mechanical efficiency. Especially in the arts. People want a connection with their favorite artists.

There is no clear line. Which is why it's difficult. You just have to use common sense. Again, notice how you sneak in this fear about the Holocaust happening again and you say it in the context of DeSantis. It's like, on the one hand you say you're not doing that, but also you are doing it. The reason I'm not worried that DeSantis will be a true fascist is because American institution, culture, society, and courts are too developed to allow that in practice. Basically the way you know that we're not going to have another Holocaust is because America has developed beyond such things. Of course you could try to argue that we really haven't, and that anything is possible. And technically anything is always possible. However, common sense suggests that making such arguments is not realistic and it leads to a misunderstanding of the right-wing in this country. I just don't see that DeSantis would be much worse than Trump, George W Bush, or Reagan. Of course I still don't like the policies of either of them. Do their policies hurt and even kill some people? Yes. But is this some Nazi-level movement that will bring the country to its knees? No. How do you explain psychological research which shows that if you leave kids with gender dysphoria alone until they turn 18, 80% of them will grow out of it?

Interesting. Seems like she's happy with it though. It's very tricky. It will help some people and hurt others. How do you regulate something like that as a one-size-fits-all solution?

I'm not sure what that issue entails. But I suspect it's more complicated than him simply trying to earn more money.

If only that were true. Trump has escaped justice since forever.

And? Did you do it?

Now you understand that God is Self-Creation. That's a huge aspect of God-Realization. God is the power to imagine things into existence.