Leo Gura

Bashing on his office door.

Okay then, come be my pet. I got a nice cage for you, a bowl of gruel, and a box you can shit in.

By that logic don't enslave them as pets either. Pets are basically romanticized slaves.

I think he still has a lot of deep narcissistic and toxic patterns in him that will be very difficult to unwire -- simply due to his upbringing and his deep entanglement with pickup and sexual pursuits. But you can certainly learn a lot from him. He has some great content.

That's like saying, I like the CAPACITY for racism, but not racism. The capacity for barbarism when called for is exactly what leads to barbarism. All barbarism is justified in the mind of its executor as called for. Barbarism is basically nothing other ensuring the survival of your family at all costs. Who were the barbarians? They were literally fighting off Roman Imperial domination. Bravehart style. Your knight in shining armor who doesn't hesitate to chop some heads off to protect his woman. Of course women like that for reason of self-preservation.

Silly to assume that animals don't experience pleasure from orgasm. A cat experiences pleasure from a head rub. I find it odd for a pro-vegan person to take this position. If rubbing your cat's head is considered good for the cat, why not elsewhere?

They perma-banned me. And I would not go back anyway.

It doesn't die. You imagine it does. Death is imaginary. It cannot happen.

Good! All distinctions are imaginary. The map is the territory Keep questioning and deconstructing your mind/reality deeper, until the mind collapses into Infinity. Enjoy the process. Don't make it such a chore. What's real is whatever you imagine. You are the creator of reality.

You need to distinguish between conscious suffering, which leads to ego dissolution vs impairments to the functioning of mind and consciousness: like a hammer to the head -- which will not raise your consciousness nor dissolve the ego. It will just leave you struggling for basic survival. Strong determination sitting may cause extreme pain, but it does not dull your mind. If it did then it would be counter-productive. Your mind needs to be sharp. Which is why a bad diet is terrible for consciousness work. Prolonged fasting can also impair the mind is counter-productive ways. If you're going to suffer, you must find ways that don't actually impair the mind's functioning. Stress yourself but don't break yourself.

@Hardkill Study up on the Mystery Method. Some old school wisdom in there about the phases. LMR is usually just lack of comfort/rapport.

Don't blame it all on trauma. Even healthy women are attracted to signals of strength and barbarism. It's a deeply wired thing. Barbarism can literally make a girl wet. This is not just trauma.

Notice that try as you might you cannot ground "real" in anything.

Does a rock have an ego? Why should a human? When you realize there is no difference between you and rock, you got it. The idea that a human should have a self is the dumbest unquestioned idea of all time. It's just so dumb when you think about it. Why would anything have a self? Obviously nothing has a self.

It's harder, but practice more improv. Asking women questions upon open is terrible. You quickly lose her with your interrogation. Instead, either make funny assumptions about her or talk about yourself. My fave way to open is just telling her about my day or where I traveled recently. Travel stories are the best. Stop the questions. Make statements. Learn to carry the entire conversation. You should be able to talk for 5 minutes without needing any input from her.

No, because strong men enhance a woman's survival. Women have little need for weak men. In other words not for 1000 years If only you knew. Even PUAs who know him think he's too extreme. The dude has serious character defects. He will not hesitate to rape a girl. Beware who you take on as your role models. Most professional PUA teachers are scumbags. Why else would they teach PUA? Whenever you see a PUA, always assume in the back of your mind: something is wrong with this guy. You will be more right than wrong.

That's not really my goal. I am mostly laying groundwork for the book I will publish in some years that will change the world.

I think I could get through to JP better than Sam Harris. I can appeal to JP's sense of God and actually explain God to him. The same cannot be said for Harris. Harris will deny it till the cows come home. But both would be very difficult to navigate. It would be like walking a tight rope at the circus with the crowd throwing tomatoes at you. Their fanbases will be very hostile. That is the problem with these big name public intellectuals. They have too much to lose from a deep conversation about truth.

I never said he was awesome per se. Girls get attracted to narcissistic and sociopathic men who know how to push their emotional buttons and have balls. As a human being, John is bottom of the barrel. But from the perspective of attracting girls, this is a positive. I'm not telling you to be like John. I'm telling you to be a good person but adopt some the excitement and charm of a scumbag narcissist. Bottom line: stop being boring. Girls hate boring. Girls would rather sleep with a murder than a boring dude.

With them you gotta be gentler and sweeter. But still, don't shower them with compliments before sex. Definitely don't ever make fun of a girl's weight unless she is skinny like a toothpick. It takes a lot of trial and error to calibrate your teasing to make sure you don't go overboard. Most girls are insecure and easily offended, which will kill rapport. Only do enough teasing to get her attracted. Then dial it way back to build rapport.

Snowden exposes grifter on live websteam:

Always hard stop a walking girl. Run in front of her with a bit of extra room, do a u-turn and stop her cold. Opener can be anything, but something like, "Hi, I know this seems awkward, but I just saw you and had to come talk to you. Don't worry, I'm awesome."

My whole life in a nutshell. By reminding myself that my work is just a game and that the real jewel is my state of consciousness.

A red carpet

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