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I've had plenty. Don't spiritual bypass me when you get faced with unanswerable questions lol. It's not because you enter states of bliss that life is not suffering for a large proportion of the population and ourselves most of the time. We have control over the suffering we can inflict on others. God by definition should have more control than the average human or it's a moot concept. God perhaps sees no difference as he incarnates as every being at once but that's what I'm saying. If you're a rapist and raping someone and you don't give a fuck if they're hurting them because you're a detached spiritual being that experiences too much to care about one single perspective then you're not only sadistic but psychopathic lol If I decide to beat you half to death and enjoy my power over you, that's sadism. If a human can be sadistic why not God? I feel like you guys are spiritually bypassing hard lol. Go watch combat footage and realize that your little bubble of solipsism has gaping holes in terms of sound reasoning. Welcome to reality. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/

I structured my life for tangible impact, creative freedom, and status. I’m literally producing a live music showcase across the country tonight that kicks off in 20 minutes from my laptop. My goal over the next few years is scaling that footprint across North America and Europe. If no catastrophe happens to disrupt those plans, fantastic—it just leaves more room for pure creation and fun. So let’s cross our fingers and hope that our deeply enlightened and wise world leaders steer the ship in the right direction. To me it looks like there is trouble in the horizon for the next decade or so but I'm not a geopolitical expert.

I totally agree. I think a lot of people on this forum get too comfortable with the chill and don't worry about doing much you're God it's all good side of the content. I think that's a good baseline for peace of mind and satisfaction but true happiness comes from reaching your goals and ultimately achieving your life purpose. That's what my spreadsheet looks like, I shared it with @Deepak sadhwani for the accountability work we're doing together and he seemed to find it valuable. It's very simple, I track habits by order of importance. I had 3 other ones (working out, reading and daily AI research) originally with my 75 day challenge but I found the other ones not as mandatory to me so I stuck with posting content daily which are the checkmarks on the left and daily meditation which are the ones in the middle. I've had periods of depression where I don't do anything but I still track each day, I think that's so important for a feeling of continuity and progress in life. What habits do you track yourself and what's important to you at the moment?

I'm not a big fan of emotional justice, I don't think it works and the wisdom of the crowd has gotten many innocent people killed. I think AI and a global surveillance state is actually a massive forward for humanity and it will lead to the end of crimes and world peace sometime in the next 30 years. A lot has to change until this is tenable but it seems fundamentally going that way. A bit reductionist but it's an interesting perspective in terms of where we are as a species.

We're talking about God here not some mid level manager of reality. If there is so much suffering in the world, it must be because of him otherwise he's not that powerful. I understand that cause and effect needs consequence to make reality tenable but I think it goes far enough to the point that attributing clear sadism to God is warranted. I think post scarcity and biological immortality is the closest thing to heaven on earth that will come. I just don't understand why humanity's history had to be so painful and bleak to get there. The other easier alternative is that God is not all powerful and has to learn through trial and error which is entirely possible but I think time is more relative than that so I don't really buy it.

Well, reducing uncertainty is the basis for sound living. Do you tend to keep your front door open at night, or do you prefer it closed and locked? Navigating and mastering uncertainty is the baseline game of biological life. You build competence, gather resources, and develop systems precisely so that random environmental shocks don't wipe you or your people out. Competence buys agency; pretending uncertainty doesn't matter would just be spiritual bypassing.

No the general social media stuff works with my system mindset. I use a spreadsheet to track my daily posts and analyze the data on performance. It's not fun but it's satisfying. My creativity is mostly channeled through the Legend of the Abyss project at the moment. Working on it feels like crack cocaine, it lets me use all the concepts I've learned to build another world that has none of the frictions of real life. One day I will make it a fully functional world that you can put on a VR headset and inhabit. Hopefully it takes off and is a commercial success but even if not one other person played it and it was my personal sandbox project forever, I would still be very satisfied with it. I know a lot of people don't respect AI art but I would never be able to afford hiring artists to build it nor does my mind work for learning art nor would it make sense business-model-wise to bootstrap it like that. I'm good at connecting ideas together so when I generate an image that hits the right note, it's like hundreds of notes that I've taken coming to life visually and even some cool videos I've managed to make. To me at least it's beyond beautiful.

Well we'll start with removing as much uncertainty and building as much competence as possible and if I end up scaling up my power to be able to save all of mankind it will be my great honour to do so. Trump and his buddies are getting old, I'm sure they have a few blindspots we can exploit! Now that I've rewatched The Avengers, I'm ready. Give me the quest and I will accept. It's time to take over.

I run creative and business communities helping people build reliable streams of income. I don't think we're doomed but me building influence and power is the best way I've come up with to shield myself and others from an uncertain future. @Cathal So you're focused on spiritual purification at this stage of your life. That's a worthwhile endeavour. Alright, I’ve got another question for you: in monastic Theravada, complete celibacy is mandatory, and sensual craving is treated as a core defilement. Having lived this for three years, do you genuinely see sexual desire as an obstacle to consciousness that must be eliminated, or is renunciation just a tactical boundary for the monastic container?

How's this for non-duality and boundaries collapsing lmao, I'm into a lot of things but this one I have never done and am not planning to. According to the stats some of you on this forum are bound to have done it Kinsey Institute (1953): In Alfred Kinsey’s landmark survey, approximately 3.6% of women reported having had some form of sexual contact with an animal at least once in their lifetime. Modern Epidemiological Estimates: Contemporary psychiatric and sexological research estimates the prevalence of actual zoophilic behavior across the general adult population to be around 1% to 2% or lower. Kinsey Institute (1948): Alfred Kinsey’s data indicated that approximately 8% of men reported some form of sexual contact with an animal at least once in their lifetime. (Among men raised in rural environments, Kinsey reported rates as high as 17%, largely involving farm animals). Hunt Survey (1974): Morton Hunt’s study reported a decline in lifetime prevalence among men to approximately 5%, reflecting increased urbanization. Modern Sexological Estimates: Contemporary studies estimate current active or lifetime zoophilic behavior among men in the general population to be around 1% to 2%. These stats hold true in my experience, I haven't even been with 100 women and I've had one admit to getting head from her dog and one admit to fantasies involving horses. If any of you are dating dudes raised on farms then Godspeed, you need all the STD panels available to mankind In some cultures it's not even taboo, this vice news doc investigated a niche Colombian tradition where young men are made to lose their virginities to donkeys as a rite of passage to manhood.

@Zeroguy You don't think God can brainwash itself to be able to experience limited life? If you were an infinite being you couldn't have sex, that requires two limited biological beings to rub their genitals against each other. You think God is too stupid to invent sex? Your lack of faith is disturbing.

You have a beautiful Obsidian setup, I think it reflects in some of your insight on the forum. Being thorough in researching and thought makes a massive difference in making strong points. @Natasha Tori Maru Sorry you had to go through that trauma, resiliency through that kind of weight is no small feat. I really like your mindset with the creative art pursuit, there is something very powerful about simplicity and being able to illustrate a subject accurately without clutter.

Very good in that case I think the divine scepter will indeed be used to reach powerful visions!

Watch out, he’s gonna tell you the best way to ground yourself against the bad sides of visions is to take your pants off to be able to ground yourself and he needs to do so too to properly channel God

I don't think your point is good as its too generals. There are business models that are much more effective than others and thus result in a faster AND more effective lane towards success.

That claim doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Highly attractive women deal with far higher volumes of opportunistic, disingenuous attention and deceptive tactics—which is precisely the predatory dynamic being discussed. Asserting that higher attractiveness automatically shields someone from being targeted ignores basic filtering realities. Until you can point to actual data showing high-visibility targets face fewer predatory interactions, dismissing direct female observation as "coping" is just projecting your own assumptions.

Sure, that's the first step of inquiry. That's why I linked it's points and not just the rating. Which points of Jiang do you think are his strongest? We can talk about that and see where he falls short. Where the AI criticism is perhaps weakest is on his speculative points, especially if he did admit that they are speculation. Big events are speculation until they happen, all we can do is follow the breadcrumbs and weigh odds with the data that we have.

Same, thanks for sharing bro. It is really almost humiliating to go hard at trying to build big and seeing progress and falling short. I understand why some people don't try at all. I don't know if you remember the RSD Julien point about game though "Once you peek behind the curtain, you can never go back." That's been a defining concept to my life. I was born in Montreal, grew up in Calgary and then after breaking up with an ex and being aimless I moved to Toronto. The level of success I saw there was both inspiring but also deeply humiliating. One experience that stands out most is I met a guy who was the same age as me and is a well-known dating coach in Canada, was a millionaire at the time, and had a penthouse and sleeping with new 3 girls a week. I actually moved into his old place so it was a bit surreal. I also met AI engineers who were like 23 years old making $25,000/month. An AI CEO that was younger than me making millions whose company got funded by Nvidia and my roommate started doing marketing for them. All the while I was stuck selling $500 photoshoots, barely able to pay my rent at times and trying to figure out how the fuck I can scale to that level in my own ways. Not there yet obviously but I'm glad I've met those people, they helped me break my limiting beliefs. I've accomplished a lot in my life that I'm proud of but hopefully when we have this conversation again in 5 years I have a lot more on the scoreboard. I'm hosting a small concert across the country tonight remotely through just my brands and the reach of my group chats so I'm pretty happy about that. It's not gonna make me any money but it's building me the leverage I want so one step closer to the dream.

Don't you find that you forget a lot of the stuff in audiobooks? I like to take notes when I read and I listened to half of the Fiat Standard as an audiobook and I recall general trends but I really mostly remember like 3 main points out of hours of listening. I would highly question auditory retention but I think for less important books it makes sense if it's more inspirational than technical.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1witbdd/florida_mom_grins_after_shes_caught_having_sex/ Wild week for this couple lol. Husband checked his cameras because apparently someone was stealing coins from a jar(they have two sons) and he caught his best friend Ranger(the house dog) and his wife doing some spicy activities and posted it on Facebook and the FBI got involved. They told her it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and she completely misunderstood the assignment. The wildest part is that he apparently had the footage sitting in his camera roll since 2024. They stayed married, she eventually caught him cheating—presumably with a human—and that was his cue to finally drop the nuclear option. Crazy how human psychology and revenge works.

You know what they say, 3rd time's the charm! Buy it one more time and you will experience a mystical breakthrough in your life purpose potentiality.

You might be under thinking it. Don't be intimidated by others putting a lot of thought into worthwhile concepts. It's how we reach breakthroughs!

This is good. I think having a foundation of spirituality helps to find peace and true north in the rat race. A lot of spiritual people will fall for the trap of spiritually bypassing and refusing to build themselves up in society and try to argue that's the superior way to live. I don't think that's the case and I think as long as you're going towards the goals that you want and you are centered and grounded in yourself then you're on the right path bro. I'm in a similar situation, I thought I would be way further in terms of financial success than I am now. I underestimated the depth of the marketplace and the character building necessary to really be a consistent operator in high level business. Everything is still going as intended but it's gonna take about 5-10 years longer than I thought to get to the leverage and life quality I thought I would already have in my late 20s. That's where the spiritual grounding makes a big difference for me and self-help concepts really shine like trusting in the process and enjoying the journey instead of being desperate for the destination. You might enjoy this blog series, it's an author that talks about purpose in a very powerful way. https://www.woujo.com/blog/2019/12/5/the-purpose-series-part-1-of-3-purpose-anxiety-fear-the-unknown-and-the-purposeless-epidemic-in-modern-society He explains that having a grounded psyche allows a man to derive genuine joy from the quest itself—an effect he calls journey pleasure. Contrasted to the average person which has not worked on themselves and needs constant reassurance and stability from the system or from others more competent than them to feel safe and therefore don't really experience journey pleasure.

You gotta be careful with Jiang, he is not qualified and makes bad points to get views. I relied on him too until I used AI to fact check what he was saying and he uses the Pareto principle very well to research 20% to come up with something that sounds 80% credible but is 70% full of shit. I used to like his videos too because he links multiple topics together in interesting ways but if you watch them without double checking every point he makes you will be caught by misinformation if not probably intentional disinformation. There are more accurate videos that you can watch on the key points that he brings up. I have to admit they are way more boring though and you have to go deeper in your research but at least you're not mislead.

In this case the predator is a toxic man or a low value man pretending to not be one. Even for a man, association with low-value men is ruinous as they literally don't offer value to your life and nothing is really neutral so often times they really lech value from you until you're drained to the point of exhaustion or worse. For a woman it's the same thing except if she makes the error of getting pregnant by such a man, her life will now be disastrously impacted compared to having found a reliable man that she can count on.