LordFall

That's a pretty weird way to jump into a conversation, I don't think that's what he was saying and I don't appreciate your comment. I think it borderlines deserves a warning point for being a personal attack. I think a lot of your takes are silly and I've never personally insulted you for it.

I've been psychotic myself and it landed me in jail so if I were you I would work very hard on training your consciousness before thinking of quitting your medication. Be extremely careful with it and work on grounding mechanisms as you are basically betting your life on this. How it works is you have to deconstruct your reality and what you even are and watch out for your human self. You have to prioritize your safety over any type of realizations or phenomena that you experience. Now that you know what psychosis feels like you should be able to control it much easier. Ask yourself these questions, even if you do hear your family's voices in your head why does that really impact your daily life? Why did you try to commit suicide on the road? Thinking about your mom while masturbating is clearly a very unplesant thought but it shouldn't distabilize you enough that you run on the street naked. Watch some sigmund freud videos on Youtube and realize the mind is a very weird thing and it imagines all kinds of weird concepts literally pehaps all weird concepts imaginable. I've thought about my dad shitting before and what if I'm attracted to my dad since I'm bisexual and I told my mind to cut it out with the weird thoughts I don't want to think about this and it works over time. Don't reject your thoughts but don't let your mind rule you also. It's so common for gay or bisexual conservatives to flip the fuck out and violently prosecute or antaganonize LGBTQ people for example because they judge their own urges and mind. Just accept it and move on but also train yourself to have control over it. Thoughts are not actions, it's not because you have any kind of thought that it has to lead to you taking an action. Sit down and really ponder it over especially if it's gonna lead to some major consequenences that reality has to make happen for you to be coherent and tangible. The fact that you are blaming the medication for making you obese is not a good sign of ultimate agency and control of the mind. It's not because a substance makes you really hungry and low energy that you should stuff your face. Of course it's difficult but the low agency road to life leads in poor results whether you are on anti-psychotic medications or not. Also better anti psychotics are coming out all the time so it's unnessary to take the risk of going off of them. If you wait 10 years you will have even better therapy and better meds available. I told my buddy one time to go off his anti psychotics and just meditate and he landed in the psych ward a few days after so I don't really advise that anymore.

Grounding mechanisms in spiritual work are so fundamental, otherwise you will literally go psychotic and insane. I've had similar experiences of overthinking my bodily functions and I've come to the conclusion it's just the psyche scanning for threats. If you actually feel perfectly safe in your reality and think that's too good to be true probably your psyche is coming to the conclusion that the only thing that can harm you is a random heart attack and over focusing on that. When I overfocus on things that don't make sense I try to use the most basic grounding mechanisms possible like drinking cold water, doing pushups or masturbating lol. It doesn't really make sense to focus on the grand picture scheme of is reality fundamentally real or not especially if it gives you anxiety, whatever you can experience right now is real enough in my books.

I've felt before that I was communication telepathically with people and other minds but the utility of that is limited beyond feeling a general sense of connectiveness and belonging with the world. We have to accept that we are living in material reality and we are separate entites and abide by the rules of the game otherwise dangerous delusions and psychosis are right around the corner. Technology is the proven realiable way to communicate with people at scale, other methods are unrealiable even if more true fundamentally. I've felt before that I was communicating with the mind of Steve Jobs as he was in India taking psychedelics and on that same path as him of pushing humanity forward and it was a cool thought but doesn't relate to my daily life. It's probably true because I do believe in non-duality and we are all the same mind but I'm now very careful between absolute truth and the very real consequences of real life.

I understand that perspective but I think it's a bit dangerous. You cannot rely on relativism to judge the material world, it's not a viable strategy. For example the house that you are living in, hopefully you trust and respect the people that built it otherwise you might worry that they skipped safety standards and it could collapse at any time. It's not pretension to expect high standards from people, in times of low pressure incompetence can do the job but anytime the shit hits the fan you will realize quickly the difference between relying on solid structures or house of cards. Another example are the people that respected Donald Trump without being critical of his background and then trusted him to watch over their safety and that of their children and then he dragged them into a war that can easily descend into acts of terrorism on american soil. Another common one are women that respect a man without thinking it through and once they get pregnant and have kids realize that their partner is a deadbeat and they can't rely on him.

I appreciate you elaborating but I think your view is very naive. If you remove surveillance and police the world will turn into violent anarchy and probably revert back to actual slavery quite quickly. It's not so much the average person you have to worry about surveilling it's the people that are perfectly willing to impose their will on society through violence. The problem is the people currently in charge are also people that are willing to impose their will through violence so we have quite teh connundrum. I do like the push back on surveillance though, these two guys are doing a great job holding Flock Safety accountable for their lies around their traffic cameras. I think fundamentally this push-pull effect is the true way forward if you let either the mass public or the elites get the whole say it'll devolve into either anarchy or totalitarianism.

That's fair putting everything into a dichotomy is not very helpful. Are you not a fan of mass surveillance? I think genuinely it's the way to move the world forward but it's hard to trust the current forms of government to be able to handle it. Generally having a monopoly of force and not letting criminals roam free has helped society tremendously and there are a way of random crimes hitting the world it seems due to the economy going bad like the London knife crime epidemic for example. Surveillance is not the only tool to help fix the situation, education and genuine ways of upward mobility are important but I think in 5 years we'll have robot police and AI cameras everywhere in most western cities and that's a good thing.

Yes monopolies tend to cut corners and get more and more corrupt because they can and have no accountability. If there was another global soccer tournament that popped up I think they would be forced to clean up their act. Markets need at least 2-3 top competitors or they get really shitty.

Well what are you seeking? Personally I'm in a business and no more excuses phase of my life so I quite like Alex Hormozi. That man is so smart every video of his I watch I get an ephiphany. Much deeper and more accurate than most other business gurus out there. He's pretty close to a genius, he graduated from Vanderbilt early and was a consultant for the military before he decided to quit and pursue his life purpose and become a personal trainer and start gyms. Super inspiring guy and he shares his whole journey online.

For someone like Andrew who constantly speaks about intelligence and competence, isn't this quite obvious? If the US has an extradition treaty with the UK isn't this super predictable with one AI session? Why tf would they risk this? Just chill in the 50 countries that have no treaties with the UK if you want to be a free criminal on the loose. Most criminals tend to be dumb thankfully and it's a self-correcting system of the universe.

In what way do you think Peter Thiel is insane?

Peter thiel reminds me of this meme for some reason lol He is clearly a very competent and ressourceful guy but he's missing some chill and spirituality perhaps and comes up with some very strange takes. He does explain himself in long form content and seems genuine in his pursuit for truth so I do respect that about him. I watched his Joe rogan interview it was pretty good. He was open about him being curious about the JFK case and trying to figure out life so I think he's mostly an honest guy. Also he seems interested in eschatology and looking into the anti-christ stuff which to me is interesting.

Yes this screams depression and dissociation to me. I feel the dead energy from people who are overwhelmed with life and their soul and aspirations are crushed. Some people though are bursting with aliveness and there are sparkles and shine in their eyes, they radiate life. It's rare to see because life is tough but it's beautiful. I notice it especially with attractive femininine expressive women that are enjoying their life and don't really worry about much.

I think I agree but Natasha also phrased it in the context of a partner. If your partner respects you but doesn't love you they will probably break up with you due to the relationship being boring and not very alive. If your partner loves you and doesn't respect you then she might stop fucking you or being attracted to you but you can work on yourself and fix it or get other women. Being emotionally connected to women is the core of the male to female dynamic and the respect part is more your relationship to the dominance hierarchy and society at large. @Natasha Tori Maru Also to answer your point on contractors demanding respect sometimes they can be worth respect and you just forget to give it but a lot of times men that ask for respect haven't done to earn it and they're trying to gaslight/manipulate you into giving praise like a hurt child. I don't think that's very respectable. @Schizophonia Respect has to do with valuing the competence or contribution of someone. If they don't contribute much what is there to respect? You perhaps respect your parents because they've added a lot of value to your life or a teacher like Leo because he offers you insights that you don't encounter in society at large.

Do you think perhaps you're depressed and feel unconnected to the world and this is what you mean by this? I don't really understand it another way, feel free to explain.

Feelings are kind of the soul interpreting reality without the logic to filter it. They are very vivid but can sometimes be dangerous.

Definitely love. Respect is too intellectual. I'm sure some women respect certain authors or people whose professional work they admire, but love or lust is completely different—and that's what you want if you desire a passionate relationship with women. Respect doesn't have much sexual polarity to it. It's important as well but secondary.

There is some truth to this but Owen definitely has a chip on his shoulder when it comes to traditional markers of success and status. What he says is correct but half truths. Most people won't get phenomenal success from just cold approach because they don't structure their life like he did. He went all in and went out basically every day for a decade and built a business around it. Most dudes that have a job and go out a few times a month won't have the same level of leverage from just social skills. I've met some of RSD Madison's students when they were out on bootcamp in Toronto after a few nights of coaching and it seems like he didn't teach them basic things like dressing well and one dude had these really funky thick glasses that made it at least 5x harder for him to hook women. Stuff like this needs to be fixed to get great results with the least amount of pain possible. Also a lot of looksmaxxing is fitness and muscles. Upper body muscle mass is one of the top predictors attraction for a man that actually translates to sexual interest in women. Leo's blog post is a bit cope. Women don't fuck enlightened dudes in droves, they fuck those that give them the right cocktails of emotions which is basically dopamine. Who get's laid more an enlightenment guru or the average club promoter? The whole human experience's point is to experience materialism, just being high consciousness will not cut it. If you can be as materialistic as possible while being high consciousness and loving and growth oriented THEN I think you got a good recipe for hooking up with a lot of hot high quality women.

Hojo is like the poor man's nonduality enthusiast lol, what he says doesn't really make sense most times. At least to me idk about you guys. If you don't believe in people Hojo then who are you? I don't like to do eye contact too much I feel like it's too intense and we get too close to eachother when we look into eachothers eyes it's like it divolves the barriers between consciousnesses. I like my individuality. With certain women it's intoxicating though.

Yes, that's a solid approach. The only thing I would include is a social networking component; you can invite the girls you aren't romantically involved with to group events, where they still contribute to your social capital. Which is why adding girls on Instagram is so much better than getting phone numbers.

Their UK charges, the government asked the US gov to get them for extradition. What a great day, it's always a shame when crimes go unpunished. I've had so many frustrating conversations trying to explain to guys why they shouldn't respect the Tates. Literally knew a girl that went to Romania to fuck Tristan Tate lol that was a little bit frustrating but that's life

If I were you I'd develop a content strategy. It's what I find to be the highest ROI activity with the lowest possible output time(15 mins to a few hours to make a reel/youtube video.) I don't know if it's what you consider magical but making consistent trackable progress towards your goals to me is the best magic in life. The rest is mostly temporary or an illusion. The quickest way to today feel magical is to take drugs or fuck an escort or watch porn but it doesn't really do anything for your life. I offered to help you throw a model photoshoot, we can still do that. Gaining status and having people in your city recognize you as high value man to me is the most magical tangible feeling I've experienced in life. One of the best moments in my life is when I organized a fashion show and some of the hottest girls I've met went out under my Royals Agency Brand. That's not really short term and I lost $2000 doing it but it was one of the best memories in my life. I like combining hot women to my business there isn't really anything more fun that I've tried. I'm working on a clothing brand that I'll launch maybe next year. To backpedal on Leo's point on discipline, the best magic I've found is realizing that your goals and ideas are working and you are actually able to impact reality and actualize your deepest desires and dreams. So no really you cannot create real magic soon in my experience. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DHCQsJGSYR2/

It's hard to beat the S&P 500 for general growth and stability, but if you're worried about tech over-concentration, you don't necessarily need to hide in gold. There’s a strong case for looking at Nuclear and Biotech as structural growth plays. Nuclear is no longer just a climate play—it’s becoming the backbone of AI infrastructure because data centers need massive, 24/7 baseload power that renewables can't yet provide. Similarly, biotech is seeing a massive wave of innovation in precision medicine and gene therapy that is maturing into actual revenue, offering growth potential that doesn't depend on the same market cycles as Big Tech. One quick thought on diversifying outside the US: while it’s a standard move, be careful about defaulting to Europe. The economic data there currently looks pretty weak compared to the US, with lower projected growth and ongoing energy-related risks. If you want true geographical diversification, you’re likely better off looking at a broader Emerging Markets index (focusing on regions like India or SE Asia) or considering a Global Infrastructure ETF. This gives you exposure to the actual 'hardware' of the global economy—power grids, logistics, and communications—which is less tied to the specific tech-bubble volatility you're worried about, and covers global regions without being tied to the EU’s specific economic challenges.

Classic to my people's culture and you guys know me by now, it's gonna be a harem anime so Nerathar(the main character) will have 4 main wives I find how harems is portrayed in anime is usually quite cringe like the dude gets all the girls but is really shy and uncomfortable with them and he never kisses them or has sex with them. Nerathar will have kids quite early let's say. I want to also put some realistic pickup component in it so it's fun and informative to watch. I had to tone down the number of women in his life so that it's not 100% male gazey and women viewers actually enjoy watching it. Originally he had like 18 wives and concubines. I want to perhaps still do it like this but I need to find an appealing way to write it and not making it too unhinged. Also I need to spend more time writing male characters there are really only 2 in the story so far and like 30 female characters. The premise of the show is actually based on post scarcity and a mirror to AI. The whole story is that he has incredibly powerful blood magic and teaches it to his followers to overthrow the current 15th century european powers that also have magic in the show but are using it to enslave and crush their citizens. I want to explore post scarcity would look in a fantasy world. He will use blood donations to create an infinite magic system and feed and house everyone for free. I want to create a realistic economic system and see how that affects labor and how you'd transition a fantasy world based on exploitation and slavery towards ultimate freedom. I want to see how that affects engineering as well so there will be massive construction projects in the empire as well as war machines like this one which is my favorite concept, the imperial dreadnoughts which are massive floating ships like the Star Wars Star Destroyers that are literally magically powered. The whole IP is based on logic and although it's fantasy I created a system to calculate the magical powers of the characters. I feel like anime and fantasy TV shows rely too much on plot armor and sudden power ups based on the power of friendship and it hurts my brain to watch a lot of times. So the mana system of the universe is called Aether and is calculated in Thaum units. An average human has 0T(I now just realized writing this that's the same accronym as testosterone idk if I'll keep or change it lol), a magical commoner has from 100 to 2k and a trained soldier is 2k to 6k and so on and so forth.

How so? This is what I would call genuine AI slop. People that use bots to spam Spotify with AI music and they had to take down 75 songs https://www.gadgetreview.com/spotify-deleted-75-million-ai-generated-tracks-and-its-not-done-yet If you genuinely use your time and use AI as a tool to create AI music I think that's genuine art and creation. I guess bots could also create genuinely good music en masse but we aren't really there yet.