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Trying to not try lol Highly relate. In my mind I have to draw a sharp line between hustling for survival and letting go/spirituality.

@electroBeam I admit that this ^ is a genuine skill that changes wildly depending on setting and circumstance. But if you are already an attractive man with "game," it shouldn't be that hard to navigate, since imo becoming attractive is the tougher part of the journey. Godspeed!

...but yes it does There's nothing "obvious" about your misconceptions. Just as an attractive woman is attractive regardless of her surrounding circumstances, an attractive man is likewise attractive regardless of his surrounding circumstances. Since learning "game" is the process of becoming an attractive man, game therefore "works" everywhere and everywhen. Maybe you have more to learn... Yes, some details change but the attraction principles remain identical. The criteria for being attractive don't magically alter when the sun goes down, lmao. The only thing that changes is the way you handle logistics + your social calibration. Likewise with whether or not you're dealing with a stranger or an acquaintance. His name was Luke. He sold what he called "social circle game" but to the shock of nobody it was just the same principles repackaged under a cute new name. All of RSD's PUA/game stuff has been deleted off of YT.

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I feel this way myself, even after taking massive action to remedy my social shortcomings, building a high-caliber social circle, and dating the girl of my dreams. There is a deep metaphysical Truth in the fact of solitude. So don't dismiss your alone-ness as an error to be fixed. Life will always have the flavoring of emptiness/loneliness no matter how full or connected it is: and this design is Just, Good, and Beautiful. But I am coming from a very advanced place when I say this. I've gone through the whole journey of learning charisma, earning friends and societal validation, all that jazz. I don't recommend that you skip this step. It's necessary to have your needs met before you can transcend them, otherwise you end up unintegrated. I guess I'm just sharing this to remind you that there is nothing wrong with you. You're perfectly on the journey that you're meant to be on. One foot forward at a time

Lol you just described me. What's your life purpose, zone of genius, and ideal medium?

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Yeah... we all learn this the hard way, don't we. @Rishabh R Snap out of it bro. You're the man!

@Nos7algiK Lol, all meaningless

Exceptional post

How are these different?

@aurum I tried saying the same thing already earlier on page 13 but got completely ignored. Meta perspectives aren't welcome when you think you've got an enemy to disprove

Right, same.

Dude wake up.

Jeeeeeez I leave for 1 night and there's a whole war lmao. And I love how the title of this thread is "struggling with blackpill" ?? --- The disparity here is crystal-clear to me: To the ladies who compare pickup principles to mcdonald's... sorry~ that ain't it! The spectrum of unhealthy to healthy foods has analogously nothing to do with pickup principles. The spectrum of tasting bad to tasting good is analogous to pickup principles. In other words, no matter how healthy you eat, so long as your food TASTES GOOD, pickup principles are taking place. Pickup principles are taking place at mcdonalds, but they are also taking place in the healthy homecooked meal so long as it tastes good. Conversely, if you eat super healthy but it tastes like shit, that's analogous to a guy lacking pickup principles. This is what the guys are trying to get you to see. We agree with you that mcdonalds is bad. We should all strive to eat healthier. But the guys are saying, let's strive to eat healthier AND tastier food. Pickup principles exist to facilitate the latter. To the guys: Just shut the fuck up and (sincerely) accept the ladies for expressing their desires! damn. Who cares if they mischaracterize pickup principles? It's as if you're serving ice cream, and the customer says something like "I want the pink ice cream over there" and then you're like "*ahem* actually that's magenta" LIKE OK BRO MAYBE ITS FUCKING MAGENTA, but the customer doesn't care about the precise hue of their ice cream, they're just here to have a good experience but you're actively preventing that by having such a stick up your own ass. We don't give women even a shred of acceptance because we care more about being right. But there are times when being right is actually wrong. Going back to the text in red above, really consider that women want to have a conversation about healthy eating. Maybe they don't completely understand what makes food taste good, but when they say "hey let's focus on healthy eating" it's NOT your job to march in and declare "ACTUALLY SO ABOUT TASTE..." Consider that we can seriously learn something important about healthy eating by listening to women.

Ah, that's absolutely splendid. Thank you so much for the clarification

@LouieShill You're overthinking. Start anyway and let the money happen naturally.

I thought Inferno was meh from a metaphysics perspective. The whole thing is basically mental masturbation - but I suppose that might be the point of it. Purgatorio was similarly meh from a metaphysics perspective, except for one passage that stuck out like a beacon: around halfway through the book, Virgil describes to Dante precisely how all things have their roots in Love. Even things that appear not to be Love are ultimately Love. The details are confusing and the passage is circular, but the message is clear. Paradiso is amazing. It's basically a psychedelic trip baked into text. The character Dante becomes One with Cosmic Love & God - what more could you ask for?

Self-Love bro. Get gay for yourself first

That definition sounds like something decided by a current state of mind >:D Actually I might've even been wondering, is there something effective about non-bodily survival? Might we do it unconsciously precisely because it is effective? Like, maybe self-sabotage is actually effective survival. Literally. I'm not too sure where I'm going with this, it's just a vague intuition... Yes, it is an idea. But that doesn't disqualify its relative truth. Ego, survival... all of this occurs within a relative framework. Looking at things Absolutely, you couldn't even say that there was ever an ego. So since we're presupposing an ego in this conversation, I'd like to imagine that we're then able to say intelligible things about its nature. Lmaoo I understand that you don't like Leo's absolutist terminology because the promise of an alternative grips your intuition. I don't necessarily agree with Leo's claim in its entirety, I'm just noticing that the answer is not a binary "he's right or he's wrong." As in - even if we conclude that Leo's absolutist terminology turns out to be unholistic, what relative truth can we glean nonetheless from his position? He's onto something when he tries to drag our attention towards conflict of survival.

The outer world reflects your inner world.