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North korean government seems to be Red/Blue. Will it evolve into Orange and Green in the future? Or, is it going to be stuck in Red/Blue for the next thousand years? North korea runs prisons for political dissidents where men are starved to death and women are raped and unwanted babies from rape are fed to hungry dogs. The soldiers must be psychopaths if they routinely do those things to prisoners. According to Pieter Hintjens, up to 4~8% of the entire population are psychopaths who, given chance, would lie, steal, and murder for fun and profit without a bit of conscience.

Why not? If there is a long track record of a good monarchy, I may want to live in it for some time, but I may not want to live there forever.

https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/City_17

Even if you just want to hire a web developer, you need a little bit of knowledge of web development. For example, if I was looking for a web developer to hire, I would be in a better position to pick one because I know the basics and which programming languages and which programming paradigms are good for web development. I know which skills are required and desired for a web developer and what I want from a web developer for specific tasks.

Here's what i would do for web development. Learn basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript because they are important and not going away anytime soon. Also learn some web design. Learn to glue reuseable components together. The forum software used by actualized.org forum is a reuseable component that you can glue to your website, too. If you have to make a web program, consider functional reactive programming which is a paradigm for writing interactive programs. This paradigm is not going to become obsolete for the next few decades. Web frameworks come and go. But, paradigms last. Personally, I would use haskell for functional reactive programming, but I can't recommend haskell until it becomes possible to compile haskell effortlessly to WebAssembly which is an emerging web standard. Don't consider haskell seriously, yet. Minimize the amount of code you have to write. Reuse as much as possible. Consider hiring a web developer if you can afford one and want to focus on providing content rather than web development. Leo probably doesn't need to keep a full-time web developer. But, he would hire contractors from time to time.

This is golden.

Replace addictions with raw being(i.e. do nothing). When you bask in raw being, you are going to come up with insights and creative ideas that you can follow through. Your brain is a super computer. For the super computer to do its work in the background, you should be doing nothing. Life is counter-intuitive. When you are doing nothing, insights and ideas bubble up. Or, you could be working out or doing important work if you are not too tired. If you're trying to do too much too fast, the super computer is spread too thin to apply its power on important things.

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This is a can of worms you don't want to dive too deeply into. You can waste your life just on web development. Currently, web development is going through a tremendous amount of changes. In 10 years, almost everything about web development will change. You don't want to learn something that will become obsolete in 10 years. If you want to learn web development, learn things that are not going to be replaced in 10 years.

Take Leo's life purpose course?

What you say doesn't really compute for me in the way you describe. Probably because I don't have reference experiences. I haven't seen you write about positive experiences on this forum. Is your decade-long personal development journey driving you toward happiness effectively? Ultimately, feeling happy inside is what matters.

I vaguely know. As far as I know, it's about finding one's true self.

The same goes for wanting the life as an ideal man which clearly I am not. Although I know perfection as the ultimate steady state is just neurotic resistance to reality, we should always strive to improve nonetheless. I want the best of both men and women. If you can get the best looks, you should at least try. If you can get the best mindset, you should try, too. I think you will benefit more if you talk more about self-help than about problems. I think that's not inevitable. The average can improve a lot. Self-loathing is unnecessary misery. You can end it or make it insignificant by improving fundamentals of life and improving mindset. I don't think it's very difficult because average human beings are lazy and living in unnecessary misery. After you have sufficiently mastered fundamentals of life such as food, sleep, meditation, exercise, and making money, ask yourself whether you still have self-loathing. From a clouded perspective of an average miserable person, it is easy to be a victim of self-loathing. In a nutshell, I recommend working on positive mindset and improving life fundamentals. Stop thinking that you will be discontent or be loathing yourself because of whatever qualities you were born with, I think that's limiting belief. You can be and do so much more. By maximally utilizing what you are and what you have, you can be more of service to society and yourself. As I said above, even if you lose beauty, your appearance can pick up positive qualities as you get old if you don't screw up fundamentals of life. An old woman can look elegant even if she doesn't look sexy. You can set the intention to become an elegant grandma whom people you know look up to. I'm actually looking forward to more ego deaths. I want to take control of ego deaths and make them drive me in positive directions. My last ego death was positive. One mistake I made in the past was that I let ego death drive me toward negative directions. I would look for ways to let aging process drive positive ego deaths.

Maybe, my response was too long.

By just reading this, I already feel void.

Although Leo said investment doesn't create value, investment creates value. Finance is how we organize and direct resources. In the past, people pooled resources through church and by talking about god. Finance is a better way to pool and redirect resources than doing it through church. Companies get funded, thanks to investors. Currency trading also has value because people want to exchange currencies for various reasons. There have to be some people who dedicate their lives to currency trading and various investment vehicles so that others can convert assets when they need to. Day trading can also help with fluidity of the markets. Without day traders, you are less able to convert your assets to cash when you need to. Why would fund managers make a lot of money? Because they somehow create a lot of value for a lot of people.

Today, my visualization was even better. I'm seeing progress. Before starting visualization, I let a seed of visualization come to me. And then, I focused on quantity and diversity rather than perfection and quality when I visualized. Focusing on diversity of outcome works better.

Nowadays, in the morning, after I take a shower and eat breakfast, I do positive affirmation for 5 minutes Then, I meditate on my chair for one hour. And then, I take a break for a few minutes and visualize for 10 minutes. When I try hard to visualize specific things, I'm hardly creative. Proper 10-minute visualization is significantly harder than one-hour meditation. I try to force visualization, and it doesn't work well. When I just try to visualize improvements in general, some visions come to me. After eating dinner or while I listen to music at night, visualization comes to me effortlessly. Then, my life purpose asserts its very existence and dances in my mind. My inner steve jobs wakes up and visualizes effortlessly when I'm just relaxing and not particularly trying to visualize. Is there something wrong with my visualization techniques? Or, is it just another counter-intuitive aspect of life? If I looked back retrospectively, I notice that my best visualizations were always potential outcomes of my future work rather than process of my work. When I try to visualize process consciously, it is not inspiring.

My sister and my mother don't give much thought to their sexuality or their fading looks. It seems to me that most women don't think much about female sexuality with regard to society or whatnot. It seems to me that you're over-analyzing and not seeing enough of the positive aspects because you are stressed from too much sexual attention or your life is not going well. I haven't seen you write positively about female experiences on this forum. What perspectives would you hold if your life was better than those of 99% of the population? What if you made your life excellent through hard efforts? I like healthy ego death which I experienced recently. Ego death can be enjoyable. There are bad life experiences on both sides. On men's side, there are years-long conscription, financial destruction of divorce, becoming an incel who blames women for not having sex with him, and becoming an ISIS terrorist. Would you want to become an incel? I guess not. It's easy to live as a priviledged man or a privileged woman. If you are a daughter or a son of an aristocrat, life is easy. I think the pain of getting old can be mitigated a lot if you have other good things going on, such as having a lot of money in your bank accounts and seeing your children grow well. Instead of feeling bad about your fading looks, try to utilize your fading looks. Looking like an elegant grandma comes with certain privileges. Old age comes with social privileges and also physical disadvantages. An old man gets respect. An old woman gets love and trust. Although male sexuality feels social to women, it's personal and biological to each individual man like me. Penile erection is honest and biologically hard-wired early in the developmental stage. My sexual preference and sexual instincts cannot be changed through social conditioning, just as a gay cannot be turned into a bisexual man or a straight man through social conditioning or by having sex with a woman. Rather than fighting what I am biologically, I try to utilize my sexual instincts to my advantages. So should you. It's natural for me to want to live as beautiful women that I desire. I am not interested in living a life as a very ugly woman or a radical feminist for the same reason that I am not interested in living as an incel or an ISIS terrorist. A con of being a sexy woman is that you get sexual attention even when you want to take a rest. A pro of being one is that when you find a man you want to be your boy friend or your husband, there's a really high probability that you will succeed. If you, for example, find yourself attracting 99.9% of men, this means you can pick almost any man you like. You can utilize reproductive fitness to your advantages while minimizing the downsides.

Nihilism?

TJ Reeves once said "Don't convince people. Inspire people."

I've almost mastered fundamentals of life such as sleeping, food, meditation, deep work, and doing nothing. I can feel that I'm heading toward a financially stable future. However, my sister is heading toward the opposite direction. She is very poor at the fundamentals of life. She goes to bed late. She doesn't wake up early. She doesn't brush her teeth as often as she needs to. She doesn't meditate. She eats junk foods. She can't focus on one thing. She is not capable of single-tasking or deep work. In my mind, the only way to fund her lifestyle till her death is to marry a rich sucker. However, she doesn't want to marry, either. She doesn't want to make money. From time to time, she just takes one-day jobs that don't pay much. She just wants to be lazy and wish everything will be all right. This is not going to work. If she doesn't want to marry a rich sucker or make money herself, she's going to become homeless by choice. Currently, our parents fund her lazy life. After our parents die, I cannot and am not going to support her sloth life Watching a family member becoming a bum is not a pleasant experience. Sadly, I cannot envision a way out. Perhaps, the threat of homelessness will at least make her take part-time jobs. She could become so much more if she took initiative and used the super computer that is her brain.

I noticed that my visualization technique improved today. But, it wasn't nearly as emotional as spontaneous visualizations that occur to me.

Maybe. I may just give up trying to change others' life situations and focus on helping myself.

Like what? Were you hit with real obligation? There's one real obligation I know. It is to acquire access to money.