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Her biology was probably thinking "man I should have planted my seed in a man who doesn't get slipped spinal discs" ... there's a subconscious wiring within many females driven by genetics that most people don't want to accept. We have a lot of culturalized customs like monogamy that aren't really native to our genetic makeup. It's much more natural for females to want to be in a harem with a dominant male from a genetic perspective, or to have lots of male partners as a source of protection and resources. Women will literally sleep with the invading army. They will change loyalties to the strongest man in the group. Why? Because over the last 50,000+ years of evolution, the women that didn't do this, got killed. So the surviving women who went on to pass on their seed? The ones who knew how to be chameleons. And thus, the modern human species (with male and female nature being based on evolution and genetics) is born. A lot of men have this "innocent princess" narrative programmed into them by society and that's how they think women are. That's not how women are. The realities of life as an animal species on a primitive planet are far more harsh and in your face. Romance is for men. Bottom line, like someone earlier posted, most women aren't really into most men. They settled for what they could get. One way to know if she's really into you to be honest... she sucks and swallows. Most relationships where the woman really has the "hots" for the man she's with don't really last though. That man tends to have lots of options, and will eventually exercise them. The men that make the best providers, are not the ones women get the "hots" for. Genetics. Don't get mad at the bear for pooping in the woods. It's programmed to do that. Better to hack the system by increasing your social status. Leo has videos on that... "what women want in a man" , along with "why women fall for assholes" covers the basics.

The large problem I've seen post 2008 is quantitative easing... it has driven wealth concentration and put pricing pressure on the middle class as all this extra liquidity floats around the hands of the top 5% who have largely used it to invest in assets. This has led to some of the most expensive housing prices in the history of many country's entire histories as far as home price to income ratios go. Many times these properties sit vacant as the investors sit on them. This is reckless policy done on a global level, using real estate as part of an "investment portfolio" where private equity buys them like stocks. Central banks respond by printing more, providing bailouts, and these entities know the central banks are going to print to oblivion, and that only gives them more incentive to keep buying real estate. If they knew central banks would tighten, allowing a great deleveraging event to occur, they might change their behavior. I'm still hoping we get a great deleveraging event in the US the next 24 months.... meaning no central bank QE which will lead to a drastic rise in interest rates and bankruptcies.... a healthy event compared to this perpetual printing and bailout mentality. The real problem came (and I didn't see this until recently) when they lowered the top income tax rate in the US during Reagan. From 1920-1980 we had a top income tax rate in the 60-75% range which acted as a liquidity mop, keeping wealth from concentrating at the very top end. That was removed, and it only worsened society overall. I consider myself a capitalist, but even capitalism needs checks and balances to keep wealth and power from concentrating. When wealth and power concentrate, you end up with an oligarchy, or an authoritarian dictatorship, and it's not an optimal system for the advancement of society, when the corrupt start to implement all policy. What do the US and China have in common? They both have rather corrupt systems that are very top heavy. They are basically societies by the rich, for the rich, and the ruling class. Part of that is to be expected though, since society's producers should have a greater piece of the pie than a mindless consumer. They add more value to the system, but again, within reason. Corruption must be kept in check.

Northern European nations are great... during peacetime. Should there ever be a global war and should a big nation ever decide to target them, that's where their potential weakness lies. It's easy to be a top tier nation during a time of relative global peace. A nation like China could take them out like nothing, if there wasn't a counter in place such as the military might of the United States and their NATO allies. In the end we are still animals, subject to evolutionary drives. It's prudent to maintain some level of defense against our own nature in this regard. Nuclear weapons are actually a big deterrent to starting any major war. The real issue as evidenced by previous posts... why do we allow the top 5% to buy up all the world's real estate pricing the middle class out of the system? There should be a worldwide ban on this sort of speculative investing. Central bank QE (quantitative easing) has caused tens of trillions to be printed globally, most of that ends up into the hands of the top 5%, who are flush with liquidity. They drive asset bubbles by putting this excess liquidity to work investing in assets. Allowing investment firms and ETFs to buy residential real estate is just bad policy, as is allowing non citizens or foreign natives to buy real estate, or in the case of my town, the realtors themselves buy the houses and then are realtors/landlords. You want socialism? Start with each person being allowed to own one (or maybe two or three) houses. That's it. If you want to own more, you have to build them yourself from scratch (or have it built by a homebuilder.) That will encourage home building. Any house you build yourself, is yours until you sell it. That's good policy there. Increases supply, decreases pricing.

Yes... insomnia reduces impulse control, activates the sympathetic nervous system... it literally makes a person angry, crazy, unstable. This post had me thinking, if depression is an overactive dorsal vagal response, maybe a drug like this, a tricyclic antidepressant, would help me. Mostly I just need better habits. My impulsive nature causes insomnia, which causes more impulsive behavior, like a feedback loop.

The first thing that comes to mind for people to try if they are reactive to products are baby versions of these products. Johnson's Baby Shampoo is probably one of the least reactive products on the market for those with issues. It's not just for babies. All it needs are the surfactants to emulsify the oils on the hairs. The rest of the ingredients are mostly for marketing purposes. https://www.johnsonsbaby.com/baby-products/johnsons-baby-shampoo You could also shampoo your hair with a bar of Ivory soap if you wanted. "Shampoo" is a modern marketing creation mostly... pretty smelling compounds which all do pretty much the same thing at various price points. Adding in all this fancy stuff really doesn't do anything for hair.

I don't care either way. If women are fine with having males with higher testosterone levels best their world records in sporting events, more power to them. I'm totally neutral on this issue. The issue by dividing up sports into sexes was more about fairness. Females genetically are not built the same as males. Males tend to have a competitive advantage in many sports due to this, but hey, this is up to women to bring up as an issue if it bothers them. The people who hate sports crowd tend to be the toxic ones though. Fostering a friendly competitive team spirit as a whole is going to be a big positive for any society. Maybe not the amount they get paid, but hey, that's capitalism for you. So you don't like American Football, or European Soccer. Get off your high horse. Many do, and they probably have better lives than you do with your negativity. Just saying. I say this as a person who used to be like this, and I like to call my own ego out on it's own negativity. On another note, if you want to see a "gay" sport, look at professional wrestling. A bunch of guys in underwear feeling each other up, and yet I still enjoy watching it from time to time. AEW made it competitive and fun again, after years of WWE's suffocating monopoly. Thanks Tony Kahn.

We are genetically wired to be a herd species who would rather be around our own, because our own group keep us safer from predators and makes us feel more comfortable, generally speaking. If you dissect human behavior down to genetics, it all becomes so obvious, when you see DNA is the software that tends to drive certain behaviors among all species. For me it's mostly what are we going to do with these people, how are we going to house them and feed them? The economic strain from having too many parasites in a system has become evident post covid with central bank quantitative easing and the resulting supply chain and cost of living issues that have cropped up. More then that, you are often told to not feed the animals, because it makes them dependent on humans. Humans are a species of animal. They need to learn to be self sufficient, like other animal species, optimally. The ruling class are pushing for mass immigration because they want inexpensive labor and replacement labor in nations that have low birth rates. My main criticism is no vetting. I'd prefer have the best and brightest in a society. I'm less compassionate than most here, and believe some must suffer and not be saved in order to make the collective stronger. The problems of infinite compassion start to manifest themselves in time with things like rises in crime and tent cities. There's no easy answer to all these problems given our nature. You need more housing, but to do that you need the manpower and zoning laws to build it. You want to reduce carbon emissions, yet you push population growth and economic expansion... again, no easy answers... only compromises. The theoretical socialist utopian society has a problem... It violates the natural laws that govern this universe. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/business/sweden-economy-immigration.html

Garbage inputs, garbage outputs. Even if the content you watch is true, you have to ask yourself if knowing about it helps your life in any way. Sometimes it's possible to know "too much" the way our biology is wired the more we know, the more depressed we can get. The content is often too one sided and biases things towards the perspective it knows it's viewer wants to hear, like a miniature echo chamber to snare the viewer in and get them clicking on more, creating a self fulfilling belief system. Plus there's the time cost of consuming content. It's a real problem. Before a person knows it they are pushing 40 and realized they missed the starting gate. Now they have to make up for it. Of course all this is just mind stories. You choose to believe what you want to believe, but your genetic makeup will give you these feelings that tend to drive various emotional states based on evolution also. Good example of garbage inputs... these anti-china videos I watch. I never know how much truth there is about how intrusive the CCP is into people's lives. Like Leo says in his video on 65 principles of living the good life, direct experience is king. Anything else, even if "true" could be classified as meaningless, depending on one's perspective.

Quite true. A psychopath can be totally devoid of emotion and come off as chill. There's only 2 really spiritually advanced people in my plant I've come across. You can tell who they are by their overflowing positivity and willingness to be positive towards anyone, in almost any situation, and unwillingness to criticize anyone. Most people have varying levels of insecurity inside which affect their personality more than they know. Either that or they substitute cockiness and faux confidence in an attempt to cover up their insecurity. That or they just have a cranky, bored, entitled demeanor. That's all absent from these two. If you could think of the incarnation of Jesus.. These two are as close as they come. These types do seem to make up around 0.25 - .5% of the population, give or take. Highly purified ego minds. What really makes a person "advanced" can be rather subjective also. To me David Hawkins scale of consciousness is a pretty cut and dry method of determining ...but of course a psychopath would disagree. For them power itself might be a sign of advancement...control and domination of others. I imagine how life would be if we were all narcissists with no empathy...probably extinct.

So humans really are biologically wired to crave drama eh? Sometimes I feel the people who are supposedly the most enlightened with the way they criticize the so-called "sheep" are actually the opposite... Walking bundles of anger and misery stuck in a sympathetic or dorsal vagal state. I've come to see that the people who like to preach the most do so because they often have these traits in themselves whether consciously or unconsciously and are merely projecting. Its easy to put out the image of being peaceful and at ease...living it can be harder. I find most people I work with despite their impulsive nature are probably more psychologically well adjusted than most of us here, but maybe that's me projecting. I work in a factory making micropore backing making $33/hour. We all make decent money which probably contributes to happiness factor. Being totally happy independent of external circumstances is of course quite difficult. That's why its good to work on Maslow's hierarchy and do more practical ego development. To me ego "transcending" is almost an excuse to avoid the emotional labor of personal growth, whatever purpose that serves outside our genetically driven urges programmed through a million years of evolution. Don't turn spiritual work into remaining in a dorsal vagal state. https://themovementparadigm.com/how-to-map-your-own-nervous-sytem-the-polyvagal-theory/ If you're not in a ventral vagal state most of the time it means you have growing to do. For me polyvagal theory is the gauge I use for progress. Being a spiral dynamics stage yellow does no good if you are miserable about the supposed state of the world which is to me a trap. Its not necessarily the spiritual aspirants job to be the fix it man...fixing perceived problems with society when most people dont learn through being preached too anyways and dont want hear to hear it. They're going to stumble and make their mistakes because that's biology. Of course almost all spiritual teachers tell you this...your job is to fix yourself, not worry about what everyone else is doing, or obsessing over geopolitics and world events. We create our own suffering through the narratives we spin in our minds or the content we consume. Of course I'm projecting.

But it seems to me like socialist utopians are constantly trying to skip the path of pain and suffering. We have a society that these days coddles us and tells us that discomfort is bad so here is your safe space. It's the opposite of how you actually find your peace of mind and grow as a person which is through a certain level of suffering. It actually makes your nervous system worse off to be coddled like this. It tends to make you oversensitive, spoiled, and more easily triggered. I guess nobody wants to be the person who tells people they have to suffer. Good post I liked it! Would you say that we wouldn't be able to understand love if we weren't able to experience its opposite? That the main reason to Incarnate here is to experience these wide range of emotional states?

One reason I stay at the same job I do even though it's kind of a dead end is because it pays well, good benefits, and long breaks. Ultimately we all have to work to live it's a basic requirement of evolution. Try to find the highest paying job you can tolerate. Relocate if you have to. The cost of living can differ vastly in different Geographic regions. Where I live you can still get apartments for $500 to $800 a month while jobs are paying upwards of $20 an hour in some cases depending on the job. Either way it may take a while to build that amount of money. I don't necessarily believe college is the best idea in the United States trade school would put you in a lot less debt and get you a lot more money because trades are in high demand. Find industries that have shortages because you want to maximize your earning potential. Being able to do Electrical Plumbing and HVAC is like being able to print money in this environment as an example.

To be honest all the research I've done suggest that the MRNA vaccines have the least amount of side effects even compared to the novavax. I still think there's a lot of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists permeating the internet spreading their misinformation around... and that's fine. I don't believe in censorship for any reason because it's a slippery slope towards tyranny. I don't personally know of anybody who got the vaccine who has suffered any long-term side effects from them. Given my tendency to be a science geek I'd rather get some inflammation from the vaccine than get inflammation from a virus itself. I don't like being sick but I was Pro vaccine well before covid came around. There's also a certain level of cognitive dissonance among Trump supporters who are anti-vaccine even though Trump himself tried to claim the vaccines were his and totally safe and that you should be taking them. Trump's initial order was called operation Warp speed. No, he didn't mandate them and yes, the left was wrong for trying to mandate them. The whole conspiracy theory movement started because of the mandates in my opinion.

Yes. They did more damage than the virus would have done, but I don't really blame anyone for reacting the way they did. Its normal for the fear response to drive people to actions like these. I see people to a degree as preprogrammed NPCs operating on genetic imperatives embedded into their DNA over a million years. That said the lockdowns and money printing drove most of the inflation. I believe the political left got a bit too authoritarian for my liking during the peak. Its human nature for people not liking being told what to do and there are numerous examples over the decades on both the political left and right where people rebel when they're being told what to do. I mean, they were locking the bathrooms in local parks and they didn't even want people outside walking around. You shouldn't be surprised that the right reacted how they did when governments tried to mandate all these things like the vaccines. Everything in life should be optional where people should be allowed to make their own choices within reason. Of course everybody's going to argue what reason actually is and that's always the classic argument in the fight of order versus chaos. There's been a significant decline in academic performance from the way they locked down the schools unnecessarily also. But hey, you live and learn. One of the biggest supporters of defund the police in Minneapolis got brutally attacked by some of the same criminals she pushed to be soft on crime with and suddenly reversed her stance. Sometimes real life changes your perspective when you realize human nature is not compatible with socialist utopian ideals or some philosophy you may hold strong beliefs on. We could argue Forever on the correct form of government and the correct way to live but it benefits us all to be tolerant towards each other because authoritarianism can backfire and turn on any of us. Basically having good intentions and thinking you have all the answers for how people should live their lives and being some sort of social engineer who then tries to force your belief system on others. That sums up any large group of people no matter what their political affiliation. To me the whole thing was a fascinating sociological look at human nature to see how we respond to fear. The way everybody just kind of followed orders even though they didn't agree with them was fascinating to me also. Those people in middle management who just do what the people higher up tell them to do fascinate me.

You are correct on this one, and im actually working on "nofap" because I see that easy dopamine robs me of my zest for life, contributing to feeling "like a zombie." Thanks for the post! I will add this term to my vocabulary and dig more into it. Would you call this a dopamine reset? I always have the intention to try this but always give in to the cravings yet. Still working on the sitting with the craving thing. Its always helpful to hear someone else say it.

I think people tend to be stuck in different polyvagal states of their nervous system ... Someone who has a strong ventral vagal response and is at peace, playful, and social, is going to behave different than people stuck on dorsal vagal mode (basically the freeze response), which I'm convinced a lot of people in this forum are. Far from being personally developed, many are depressed and defeated through really no fault of their own or others...life circumstances wired their brains this way. Dating sites for people based on their emotional state would actually be handy. What people call "god realized" is simply a playful ventral vagal state much of the population are already in that has been further enhanced through personal development. https://themovementparadigm.com/how-to-map-your-own-nervous-sytem-the-polyvagal-theory/ It helps to be an interesting person too. I personally am not. At this point I'm boring and responsible, rather than impulsive and adventurous. Im working at it, but have a certain level of acceptance I don't vibe with this culture, because I still have a well developed dorsal vagal response but I'm gradually releasing it. Baby steps.

This reality is more than just a love simulator it's designed to simulate the entire range of experience including suffering. The real question is for me is why are we here and do we have to come back in subsequent lives? When I look at the totality of human and other animal species evolution it seems like this planet has more suffering than it does good moments. Reality is how you perceive it though :-) Is reality really about pursuing love or is that just the human nervous system talking or simply some philosophy being promoted? Plenty of people with Psychopathic Tendencies would tell you that their goal of life is not to spread love. The purpose of lower animal species in which we used to be one is not to spread love. Love is an evolutionary adaptation to stimuli in some respects. Just my opinion based on my narrow field of experience and knowledge. What I really need to do is take some DMT I think I've reached that point. There's only so far the intellectual Pursuit Of Truth can get you. Ultimately though I want to understand how this entire Matrix works I want to understand everything and then break free of it. To me life on this planet seems like a prison even with its inherent Beauty and goodness.

I just eat a common sense diet with a mixture of foods and don't worry about it too much. It's definitely healthier than the average Americans because if it wasn't I would gain weight and I don't want to do that. There's a subreddit called volume eating that I like to take inspiration from so I can maximize the amount of food while minimizing the amount of calories. Most of the options here are going to be healthier because most healthy foods are going to provide you with more food for less calories. https://www.reddit.com/r/Volumeeating/

The vast majority of the improvements in my life come from working on my psychology and purging past trauma from my subconscious mind and finding my peace of mind. Diet and exercise are a relatively small contributor but still important. I've exercised and eaten clean and still had major problems with autoimmune issues that solved themselves when I worked on my psychology. If you go according to polyvagal Theory you need to work on cultivating your ventral vagal nervous system which is basically the playful social side for optimal health. Unfortunately introverts will always be at a disadvantage because it's harder to stimulate that part of your nervous system when you're not socially engaged. It's doable with mindfulness practice and the whole process of personal development however. There are a number of people on this forum who are stuck in dorsal vagal mode which is the depressed and defeated state which is the worst state for the body to be in. In that state you will be subject to a number of Health problems just as you would be if you were stuck in sympathetic dominant mode. I can speak 100% from experience for me this isn't just Theory. https://themovementparadigm.com/how-to-map-your-own-nervous-sytem-the-polyvagal-theory/

I'll admit I like to come here to question leftists because I genuinely believe their philosophy is flawed and would never work applied on a mass scale due to human nature and the nature of this reality in which we incarnate into and natural law. I'm integrating acceptance of what is into my programming and achieving higher levels of peace of mind as a result. Still, that's not what I REALLY come here for. I like to debate deep, philosophical issues, something the general public really doesn't do much. It keeps my screen addiction going too. Unproductive time that could be better utilized at this point than on any forum, but whatever. I'll change when I'm ready.

Censorship of speech always ends up being a slippery slope because eventually the one that is censored is you. Just because of human nature I lean towards never supporting it. The crowd in charge wants everyone to assimilate into their cult, regardless of where they reside on the political spectrum. We are a herd species and capable of great deception and the best way to eliminate your opposition is to make sure they don't have a voice. The line between alternative viewpoints that the establishment doesn't want pushed and outright falsehoods is a thin one though. Bottom line, there are no easy answers to the human nature problem. We evolved as a species over a million years and have programmed genetic traits embedded into our DNA computer software that drive us towards certain traits. Anyone can take any philosophy and push it as though they have all the answers. Nobody has all the answers. It's better to take that attitude and let people find their own truths, not have the truth spoon fed to them.

I take the following: Multivitamin (cheap costco brand) Magnesium (citrate, glycinate, or bicarbonate) Vitamin D (winter months) Creatine Glycine Taurine Father got me into creatine. Taurine and Glycine are for anti-aging. Sometimes I'll buy Aldi Pork Rinds (spicy version) for the collagen. Great with smoked oysters or dipped in cottage cheese. Diet is antioxidant rich, focused on whole foods and reduced refined carbohydrates. I also use Tretinoin on my face and sun block in the summer. Sunlight ages the skin and makes white people in particular look terrible as they age.

They shouldn't even be running Biden again, nor Kamala. Kamala is unelectable and Biden is senile. Surely they are intelligent enough to see this. Personally I'm fine with that, because unlike most here I believe the leftists are the big threat in the 21st century, at least the faction of them that is in charge right now pushing unchecked immigration, unlimited money printing, not wanting to punish anyone for non violent crimes, along with pushing "equity" in the schools systems and society at large, giving unqualified individuals passing grades and jobs they shouldn't be doing. Natural law dictates these policies are going to cause societal decay. Still, advice to democrats... don't run Biden or Kamala if you want to win. Bottom line, society's problems are a human nature problem. No easy fix outside genetic engineering.

Pretty good documentary on Xi... he is a victim of his childhood and upbringing. It made him who he is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DKIQpu4hhQ (Age Restricted for some reason) Otherwise I tend to watch these two... https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaFactChasers I don't believe in authoritarian rule so naturally I don't support the Chinese Communist Party. It's a 1984 dystopian society.

I like to "dabble" and one of the things I got into was studying musical theory, the clefs, and it's made me appreciate classical music that much more. Western musical notation is really quite amazing in it's own right, the way the notes are designed around sound frequencies and that when you go up an octave you are basically just doubling the frequency, so that say middle C is 261.6 hz, an octave higher is 523 hz... they understood this before they even knew what frequencies in hertz even were... that when you double a frequency it has a similar sound. There's a lot I don't really even understand yet, like paying music in particular keys, the makeup of chords, the circle of fifths, etc. I did understand briefly but if you don't use something constantly you'll tend to lose the information over time. This is a really good musical theory course free if anyone here is interested...