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Yes your point on plausible deniability for crimes is a good one on the demons in sleep. Witch trials and getting burned at the stake as also a lot of times less about witchcraft and more about power and status games. Good example is Elizabeth Woodville a queen of England who was almost executed because her marrying the King was left field that compromised the power of his right hand man the Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. So he arrested the king Edward IV and had part of her family executed for witchcraft but couldn't get to her on time before political pressure forced him to released the king. People often got away with killing political rivals under church law by you accusing them of sorcery, black magic and witchcraft. Another interesting one is tea left reading/divination/fortune telling being used as a way to gossip and warn people about plots while retaining plausible deniability. Often times being the bearer of bad news gets you killed in and of itself but if you say that you saw a bad omen in Tea leaves then it's not easily interpreted as challenging the powers that be. Another medieval fun fact is the Catholic Church is thought to be the successor to the Roman Empire under it's improved control mechanism. Constantine I the first catholic emperor really perfected the system as one of the main ways to depose an emperor was to accuse him of tyranny and authoritarianism but all of the sudden the advent of Christianity gave the new premise of the divine mandate. The Popes in the middle ages had their armies commit all kinds of mass murders, rape and pillage. A significant amount of them were not particularly christlike at all.

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Cats are cool, one of the top creations in the universe. I feel like a cat in a human body. I think if I tried I can jump as high as a cat but don't ask me to prove it you just have to believe it.

Why would you say they're a distraction over an enhancement?

The irony here is hard to ignore, Natasha. You invoked the Dunning-Kruger effect to imply I suffer from uncalibrated overconfidence—yet when asked to demonstrate the mechanics of your own premise, you retreated into 'me telling you isn't going to provoke insight.' Using a psychological label to claim intellectual superiority, but then refusing to articulate or defend the underlying logic when pressed, is the literal definition of the dynamic you're trying to project onto me. If you have a coherent framework for why solitude inherently yields deeper truth than complex relational experience, I'm all ears and genuinely open to the model. But if the position is just 'I know something you don't, but I won't explain it,' then there's no actual substance there to inspect.

The phrase AIPAC funded campaign should be political death in 2026, hopefully the US has evolved enough recently that it becomes so.

Feel free to elaborate. By ourselves we barely exist so I'm not sure what part you disagree with. Consciousness is a phenomena that grows with exposure to reality, it doesn't thrive in isolation. I think temporary solitude to recharge or to absorb social experiences makes sense but hermits are pretty low consequence individuals that don't achieve much. Maybe they have a great relationship with themselves but they aren't very high quality partners by definition so I mean it hardly makes for an effective dating strategy.

We are part of evolution silly. Unless you aren't using a computer or phone like I am but are using a smoke signal or telepathy to write forum posts then you truly have transcended my level.

That's a shame, God made many little mini yous running around that you can also befriend and work together with to reach mutual goals and have a fun life together!

I just don't see how it applies in the situation. We were talking about relationships as a vehicle for growth and then you said that perhaps polyamory is a way to distract from our inner truth. Then you quoted my line on if we are left to our own devices we aren't much. Which makes a lot of sense to me, a human without its environment first of all cannot exist but even if it can it would have a limited experience of reality. We learn to exposure to the universe which perhaps can be called the higher self if we use non-dualistic terminology. Until we have multiple experiences with that greater self we literally cannot speak, barely think and well are limited creatures. That is why I think that over a 10 year period if one was polyamorous vs single vs in a monogamous relationship I think the polyamorous people will experience the greatest growth in inner truth and self-knowledge over the other two situations.

Yeah that's why I think becoming a high value man is so important. If you're a random dude with average value you can still do it but then I think you'll have a lot more headaches and random drama happening to you because you aren't really a source of stability or abundance you're just there and choosing to put yourself in a high complexity relationship without much to back it up. I'm bisexual. Dominating other men non sexually and sexually is quite fun. My desire for many women is separate from that but perhaps related idk psychology is deep. I think it would just be a lot of fun and growth for everyone involved. How so?

I agree to a point. I think this concept of self-knowledge and inner truth is a bit overplayed though. The self grows and reacts to outside stimulus. If we are left to our own devices then we aren't much. At best our minds just take us down interesting paths ala daydreaming but the self and the world are meant to be explored together IMO and so that's why I think the self would grow immensely through polyamory and thus it can also serve as a path of self exploration that will lead to more interesting insights than living like a hermit IMO.

I pasted your comment in Gemini and it said it's an inaccurate debunking. I think poly is a great way to explore spirituality and sense-making. You still need time to recharge and isolate as an introvert but you can do that even living in the same house and having a mancave type of thing. You learn a lot dating even one person so dating multiple gives you a breath and depth of experience and you can learn from each person's journey as well while overall being a guiding anchor. As I said I haven't tried but when I was in my more fuckboy phase I slept with multiple women in a short period of time and had multiple FWBs so I got a little preview of it. It was quite the positive educational experience but also a fun way to live life. Why would you not want to experience reality from the point of view of multiple women that love you? Seems more fun and rich than just a single one.

Yes one of their aims is to abolish the US Senate which is basically legally impossible since it needs a majority from both sides senators but overall they are a wave of positive change for the system. The US being anti-socialism is pretty cringe and only hurts most americans.

In an infinite universe with infinite possibilities, my boat will go towards the dock of multiple women at the same until I have burned through that desire which so far is only burning hotter by the day. Well I'm inspired by the post on vulnerability so I will crack open one of the skeletons in my closet which is I I do resonate with that kind of probably toxic polyamory at the moment. I don't actually mind my women sleeping with other men if I was polyamorous but my life is build on accumulating power so I will treat those men that are paramours with some kind of contempt and aim to overpower them in life so my women revolve more around me than them. I will explore this desire further and I'm curious what you guys think but I think perhaps it's healthy to a point. If I work on my business enough to get to the point of financial abundance in the future then pretty much surely the women I end up dating will end up partly financially dependent on me which is fine and I like the idea of being a provider male and I don't tend to leverage that fact over them. If there is another male in the picture then he is competition for me for my women even if it's in an agreed upon format and my women will then use my own money that I've given them in their relationship with this man which is fine to a point but I will get a lot of satisfaction from outcompetiting them and sort of cucking them in this format. We'll see if my thought on it change by the time I start poly dating next later this year or next year but I'm a very competitive person so even though I'm very open minded I find it hard to believe it won't play out in the scenario I've outlined.

Sorry to hear man that sucks. When I was 18 I moved out and got a cat, adopted her from the SPCA and she had a heart murmur. A year later she had fluid built up in her lungs and chance of survival was not guaranteed even with multiple thousands of dollars of surgeries so we chose to euthanize her. It's part of the reason I'm such a ferocious advocate of biotech and AI, a lot of deaths are preventable we just need to push science further faster.

Feel free to link your channels and I'll subscribe! Here is mine https://www.youtube.com/@Kyle_Fall/ I'm not great at Youtube but my most viewed video got 100K views in 24 hours when I posted it on the league of legends subreddit and got me the 400 subscribers I have overnight. So my recommendation would be similar to yours but to use other platforms and distribution channels to push your content as solely relying on the Youtube algorithm for growth is like canoeing across the ocean.

There is only one way to resolve it. We must become serious men of science and consciousness and explore reality with our penises and see which way leads to the best life. Someone needs to revive this thread in 2031 and see how we ended up. I will have been living with multiple women for years at this point if the general plan keeps on course and perhaps I will have some kids by then.

Your opinion is valid, it's simply that political science is already mapped out so I don't see a reason to deviate from their definitions. I you are right that emotional resilience is a subset of what leads an individual to achieve power because if you get stressed and break down when things get tough you will never be able to gain leverage in society. Power is important in dating because it reflects the resources you will be able to command from your society. Stage 0 is you have no power at all and are dependent on others to live. Stage 1 is you have a job and are able to sustain yourself. Stage 2 is your job allows you to sustain others as well Stage 3 is you start to build systems to not only earn income from the system of another aka your job Stage 4 your systems become sustainable enough to elevate your life and the life of others around you Stage 5 your systems become so consequential that you shape your society and civilization and you are part of local/federal/geopolitics Step 0 is kind of like an incel and you can hardly date from there. Step 2 is a traditional relationship. Stage 5 I believe is at the reach of a lot of people reading this and I think is worth striving for which is why I will defend chasing power as a tool of both making your own life better but also to be able to personally assist in the evolution of consciousness and mankind. It will also be much more exciting for a woman to date a man higher up in the stages of power as literally you're part of the plot of the world and can do both fun things but also shape the story of our species instead of a leaf in the wind, a wage slave or a random dude however you wanna put it.

Thanks for sharing, sorry you had to go through that. I think your definition of chasing power is more about coercive power and ego than actual power though. I like this definition centered more around your ability to influence others and thus the world. I would say that your bullying incident occurred because you didn't have enough power and status in that environment so insecure guys used your vulnerability as a tool to try and increase their own status. That type of insecure power is usually short lasting because it creates enemies wherever you go because the people that use it are using situational status as a tool of leverage as opposed to true power which just comes from being a source of abundance. I don't know you but maybe you're a smart nerd archetype and that guy instead of bullying you could've pitched you a business deal and you guys could've made money together. Truly powerful people don't burn bridges because it catches up to you. There are a few counter examples like president of the united states but that tale has not been fully written yet and if I had to bet that's gonna blow up in his face in an incredible manner so I still say that his life strategy is weaker than it could've been. This is a cool video and I highly recommend watching the whole movie. It also shares your view that dominance is power applied incorrectly and the true artful way of doing it is inducement where you seduce someone to your way of thinking as opposed to coercing them into it. The movie is about Professor William Moulton Marston who invented the character Wonder-woman, an early version of the polygraph and was openly polyamorous in the 40s while teaching at Harvard. Legend.

I think Occam's razor is an important thing to understand in regards to monogamy. It is more simple and easy for society to organize itself when monogamy is enforced. I've studied how relationships format have evolved throughout history and it's very context dependent. The best way to raise children seems to be in a communal format and our current atomized society pushes couples to mostly have to do that on their own. If you're lucky you have close family to help you but in general a two person unit is the structure of society today but wasn't the case before. I think polyamory sounds phenomenal and gives people a lot more options when it comes to structuring their dating life. I have not tried it myself but it's what I'm aiming towards over the next few years. There are some challenges that a monogamous couple wouldn't have but also vice versa. I think being able to share your intimate life with many partners and build a collective lifestyle and purpose together is a beautiful vision. I like women a lot so why not date multiple of them together and build a polycule instead of just limiting myself to one? I don't think either model is superior to the other, just depends on what you enjoy in life and which environment you think is optimal to bring children into the world if that is your goal.

That makes a lot of sense, exponentiality is a real thing and is flat for 90% of it until it takes off drastically. That's how my business knowledge feels, 14 years ago I started my first unofficial business and I got a lot of experiences that the average person doesn't have but I still have pretty massive holes in my execution capabilities that I don't see being filled until I'm 33-35 so mid 30s onward should be a different paradigm entirely.

Absolutely I think finding security in false power is a fool's errand and being able to admit your shortcomings is the hallmark of a confident leader. I don't really believe in overemphasizing your weaknesses just in owning them like Tyrion tells Jon Snow in the first episode of Game of Thrones"Never forget what you are for the world will not." I've watched most of Leo's videos. Can you explain how in your experience chasing power leads to powerlessness? I am very weary of vague spiritual ideas unless people can back them up with substance otherwise to me it feels like fortune cookie generic sayings that are true in some cases and not in others and aren't useful guidelines to live your life by.

Why are you being so antagonistic? Talk about lack of calibration lmao. Obviously power is very important in life otherwise you'll be a leaf in the wind unable to control your own fate let alone help others you care about. Why would weakness lead to happiness? Avoidance only goes so far.

Pretty wild situation, the latest escalation in Europe's refugee crisis. Except these aren't really refugees, these are apparently people organized by the government of Morocco/Israel(just from what I've read, nothing official confirming it) to pressure Spain and the EU due to Spain making a deal with Algeria to cut oil transfer from going through Morocco as well as taking advantage of a Spain Supreme court passed last month that prevents Spain from kicking out migrants that come by sea. Moroccan border security intentionally relaxing checkpoints has been confirmed. Pretty tragic situation especially for the residents of Ceuta which are basically getting invaded and left with struggle to access food as their cities are well invaded. Here is a post posted on the Ask Spain subreddit posted by a woman from Ceuta 2 hours ago. You can use browser translate to turn it from Spanish to english. https://www.reddit.com/r/askspain/comments/1vbqkv3/ceuta_ahora/ We have a lot of liberals and left wingers on this forum who will perhaps automatically side with the migrants but keep in mind there are no jobs nor resources on Ceuta to attomodate these people, even the Spanish and overall European economy is struggling. This leads to nothing but pressure on well meaning Spanish and European politician to escalate the use of force in dealing with these migrants otherwise it leads to anarchy. I do feel bad for the people being pushed towards doing this but it's not a good solution for them. The Moroccan government should prioritize vocational training and a business education for it's youth. Moroccan king Mohammed VI and prime minister Aziz Akhannouch should personally answer for this and help the moroccan youth figure their shit out. You're the king my guy use your title and status for a reason otherwise the next place they storm should be his house.