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They call the switch in your interest of the two sexes the bi-cycle, it's fairly normal. It's also one thing to figure out your identity from mental fantasies versus doing it in real life and seeing how you really like it.

I would volunteer on one or a farm to see if your fantasy life is as pleasurable as you make it out to be. Also, I would break down which parts of modernity you dislike. Is it just a job? Start a business. Is it a lack of deep relationships? Start a cooperative project right now in your city. A lot of the lack of enjoyment in the current modern experience is probably in your lack of skill in navigating the system not so much the system itself. This is great news because you can learn and get better at the things that are causing you problems. For example, financial issues are a massive drain on 99% of society but there are precise ways to fix that.

I always liked the advice that you only need to be 2 or 3 steps ahead of the average person to be able to offer them value. Also, coaching is based on empathy and relatability so you could be a better coach than a billionaire if you're better able to empathize with people's problems and guide them through them. Also, AI will give you a lot of the answers so implementation will be a bigger piece of the puzzle than before.

I think the codependence, independence and interdepence model works well for life purpose in couples. Having an independent relationship where both people work on seperate goals and come together at the end of the day to relax and share accomplishments with another is one thing but if you can make these goals align and synergize with eachother that's most likely the best possible outcome.

I don't understand what you mean by this.

@Elisabeth It's definitely about relationships for me; not just sex. I'm a fan of BDSM so personally I would incorporate some elements of that into it. People have 4-5 children and love them so I don't know why you couldn't do that with romantic partners about it.

Do mass approaching outside of you campus and now when you talk to people on campus you'll be more calibrated. Focus mostly on indirect game and social circle/social media if you're in college and you'll kill. Watch people like Michael Sartain for social circle game and Hector Castillo for college game and read the book The Setup by Dan Bilzerian to understand high leverage social circle game.

Use your energy to level up you life and do some introspection on the intrusive sexual thoughts. It's natural to have sexual thoughts about family members but that's the monkey mind and you should not let it control you. You can become an abundant man that has access to a lot of women, it's time to get to work.

There is no such thing as a normal relationship like normal people. Most people end up in a mediocre relationships, divorced, in a dead bedroom, etc. It was always extremely hard to get a high quality relationship going. Adopt the growth mindset, reject that loser victim mindset and become a high value male. Social circle and social media game are the most powerful forms of game at the moment.

@nerdspeak What asymmetric relationship? Plenty of bi women would want to date a man and a woman at the same time. I think mainstream conditioning is so powerful that it causes people to defend it even if it doesn't make sense. @Elisabeth I don't think people in the poly community have any idea about game. They're usually quite strong on trust and communication which is great but if you combined that with good game and some money game I think you could do it on a way grander scale than they can. But also he never said he wanted to date whoever; he said he wanted 2 girlfriends.

I think that's half the recipe here. Provide for multiple women and have the emotional intelligence and compassion to not lie to them and love them equally in the way they want to be loved and I don't see why it wouldn't work. Plenty of bisexual women would kill for this arrangement. No need to bring other men into it if you don't want to. It's not an open fest for everyone, just multiple women and one man.

Find local people to practice with especially since you're near London as well as read the book The Likeability Factor by Tim Sanders, it's similar to how to win friends and influence people but way better IMO. Basically he says likeability has 4 parts friendliness, relevance, empathy, and realness and as long as you hit those 4 parts most people will enjoy spending time with you.

I think honestly this is pure nonsense. Especially if you're gonna base it on tantric people who are not particularly productive. I think if you wanna experiment with nofap that's great and do it but I never felt any more or less energy/productivity while on and off masturbation.

Well AI systems are fundamentally gonna change politics because it's gonna let every politician use their superior reasoning ability as well as let citizens analyze policy in a matter of minutes instead of weeks of study. Big hopes for our civilization in the next few years.

So I have this new theory that no one can be 100% corrupted because they have an agenda. So their goal is to fulfill their agenda however selfish that might be and not actually the corruption which is just a byproduct. Even a theoretical demon/devil whose goal would be to inflict pain and misery for the sake of enjoyment and sadism would also not even be close to 100% corrupted because their goal would be that enjoyment and I mean dopamine they would get from that. You would have to be really committed to evil to be 100% corrupted and I've never even heard of such a concept or entity. You could also argue that everything is moving towards corruption which is basically achieving your agenda while inflicting 0% harm to other beings outside of yourself. Those would be things like the metaverse, AGI and simple things like artificial meat to replicate every single selfish goal without harming others as really it's kind of inefficient to do so. Even if you consider things like murder, rape, theft, etc all these things will be able to be replicated in much more satisfying ways in metaverse and augmented by stuff like neuralink for more precise dopamine modulation.

Do you guys think Lex is pandering and is basically a sellout? He could go much harder on his conservative guests but then that would lead to him not getting as many big guests and being less irrelevant. Is it that simple or is there some other benefit he is giving society by platforming Trump? I found his interview with Ivanka much more interesting as you could at least get some insight on Trump from an unusually close source but this one it seemed Trump was just lying and making stuff up with Lex trying to push him a little bit then just giving up.

@Keryo Koffa Do you have more links to read about the systems harmonizing part of game theory? That's precisely my point, I'd love to read more on it. @Staples I don't know if you're saying platitudes and being intellectually dishonest or making a good point but I don't think that the universe is ignorant or indifferent towards suffering. Saying that corruption is a construct of the mind seems like a silly point because well isn't everything a construct of the mind?

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Putin has already asked to join Nato in the early 2000s and was told no by the american military industial complex under Bush.

@oldhandle Try to break down your tasks into clearly achievable objectives that helps big time to reduce procrastination IMO. Instead of having a vague "gotta work on my business today", break it down into chunks like e.g buy domain for landing page, create youtube channel, write one sales script, etc. I especially like the pomodoro method where it's goals in 30 min chunk and then you chill out for a bit then do another 30 min work block. If you have any kind of ADHD too then undefine tasks that stress you out will be the worst thing for your productivity.

Per Leo's latest blog post on Ekajivavada and total solipsism basically saying that nothing exists outside of my experience? That makes no sense, no human could claim that. I have never invented a laptop yet I'm using one. Who came up with it? A being with a different life experience than me would be a completely different being regardless of how someone our consciousness is one. Non-duality as a whole makes no sense even if we are all one being on some level the different identities of that being are individual single human agents with different realities, life experiences and, effect on the world.

@AsafTheMagniv I think your point and @Keryo Koffa make the most sense. These new experiences are supposed to be for the better so if you keep hanging out with the same people and nothing changes everything is familiar and stale then you're basically getting worse and wasting your life. Idk if there are studies on it but the good feeling probably comes from safety like being near people that you've known for a while you would feel safe and accepted but the challenged and progress part needs to still be there otherwise kind of a waste of time.

@OBEler I just don't think we can use that definition of dream. If I tortured you for 30 years then we died and I was like haha it was just a dream bro we're actally the same person! It would be irrelevant even if that were true, you still had to deal with 30 years of pain and suffering because my individual actions. That's what seperates "reality" from what we call dreams; the dreams are supposed to have no consequence. @CosmicExplorer That's a good question on dream people because I can't really control their actions so they do act like free agents. I guess they don't interact with me in the way a real life human would with questions, requests, complaints, etc that's what makes real humans be not dream humants?

But like how do you even define a dream in this context? Can I choose for a VR tv to appear in my living room tomorrow? What are the rules of this dream? Why can't I choose to manifest myself a million dollar today if it's my dream? Clearly there are plot holes here. Why are people dying in Gaza in this dream? That's not cool let's stop that today and if it's not possible why not?

@Lila9 That's a nice theory but it makes no sense. I can learn to accept my suffering and accept that as god teaching me lessons and loving me but should I also believe that homeless crackheads, children dying in gaza/ukraine and people getting assaulted against their will are also experiencing that same infinite love?