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Appreciate the update, tech is very complicated and boring so don't really blame you for not being up to date with it.

@Ryan M You're in a perfect position to date. Analyze what went wrong with your last relationship and fix it for future ones. You can meet new women through different funnels. Social events, online dating and cold approach are the big 3. Figure out the one that works best with your personality. I don't enjoy socializing that much so I find cold approach to be a chore but I like thinking and building systems so building social circles works well for me. Some guys will be the opposite where that sounds too complicated and boring and they just wanna go out and have a good time with the boys and chat up women along the way.

I haven't watched the video but the problem with dating is not really a problem imo. It's just a switch in social contracts. It's been happening since the sexual revolution but social media amped it up big time. They call it the blue pill, be a good man get a decent job and get paired up with a woman that's similar in lifegoals to you. That's still possible and common, just much harder when the whole system became decentralized leading to hypergamy. I don't see the problem though, if you put some effort in you can a much better dating life than what was possible beforehand. Dating just became intentional as opposed to a default activity. @Miguel1 What exactly is your problem with modern dating? Works perfectly as intended for myself and the guys I see taking it seriously. For the average person who doesn't put any effort and expects it to come by magic it's gonna be terrible though but is that such a bad thing?

Is your partner open to exploring that with you both inside of your relationship and perhaps outside? It is a common issue, this is why swinging is so popular for couples in their 40s. I think exploring before you settle down in a monogamous relationship is super important but if you didn't get the chance then you have to figure out how to do it while married. If the partner is open then it can become a mutually beneficial quest but if not that's when cheating happens. I wouldn't recommend cheating though, marriage counselling and breakups are solid options.

Because it's a complicated geopolitical conflict and both sides are violent psychopathic murderers. Gaza's primary form of government was a literal terrorist organization that killed thousands of people. In a case like this it comes down to complex foreign policy and negotiations not so much the Israelis are literal Nazis(which I do see people literally say.) I'm not sure what you mean by Israel and the IDF not getting backlash, they are one of the most hated political entity in the world right now alongside the US government and the Russian government. I think I still see gaza protests happening near me in Canada, latest one was a couple months ago.

What do you believe in? Put your money behind narratives that make sense to you. The US stock market through the S&P500 has been the top narrative globally for decades. Probably will keep doing fine in the next 20 years even if we had some sort of ai bubble correction. Crypto is in a weird situation right now, I'd personally still put a bit of money in it (5-50% of a portfolio) as well, it's mostly against central banking and the endless money printing without accountability that all world governments are engaged in.

Great video posted by Alex Hormozi yesterday on passion I watched it all myself because I've been struggling on work ethic lately. His point is that passion is nonsense and that even if you go into your dream business, acquiring leads, doing the sales, working on video production, managing a team, etc will all not be what you're passionate about. The key is to find your dream lifestyle and what you find worth suffering for in this world as no matter what you do; you will suffer. So @Majed what is your passion and what do you find worthwhile to suffer for in this life? Things are simple to monetize, definitely not easy though. For example I find freedom worthwhile to suffer for. If I had to suffer the next 3 years and then be financially abundant and free to do what I want for the rest of my life that would be easily worth it. Which is why I live on a couch right now and am broke, putting all my effort towards building a business that will free me financially for the rest of my life. I just posted a vlog episode about it yesterday, we're in a similar boat but I've done close to $100,000 CAD in revenue with my current business op so I'm probably a few steps further in the journey than you are. Still feel stuck but it is moving in the right direction.

I mean it's fair to call it blasphemy especially in those times. And it's also kinda correct, if he's God he can't be nailed to a cross.

@Alexop Philosophy is not a job. It's a process. Synthesizing all your findings into products and services that can help people consistently(standardization) is a job and ultimately a business. Plenty of brilliant people that think about stuff all day long but can't anybody else with it. You can call them philosophers or delusional, up to you.

@bazera I think you're perhaps brainwashed if you think that spiritual pursuits is worth more than having children. What exactly are you looking to find through it? Perhaps take a large dose of a psychedelic and reflect on it, once you see the truth it's not so much a quest that you're on more a journey to align your life to it. If you genuinely don't want children and it doesn't appeal to you that's one thing but if you think you're going towards the more valuable path by forgoing it to meditate in your basement, respectfully that's idiotic. I just turned 30 as well last summer but personally I've wanted children for a long time. It's moreso about building my business and dating life so that it doesn't become a trap for me to fall into. I see it as incredibly fulfilling in terms of building a tribe and teaching the next generation in a way that's more lasting than just having conversations with friends. I'm also incredibly into women so I'm very excited to mix my genes with the ones I like most and for us to embark on this journey together and build our own multi century dynasty as it also seems that humanity is soon going to explore the cosmos and break the barriers of biological immortality. I look forward to a big banquet with hundreds of my kids and grand descendants in 500 years. The problem with thinking spirituality is more important than children is you're already infinite bro, what are you looking to find out before you actually build your dream life?

Sounds delusional and nihilistic to me. If you choose to avoid responsibility that's on you but I'd argue it's not morally justifiable and makes you a lesser being.

Where is your source for MDMA damaging serotonin receptors in the brain? It just got approved by the FDA for PTSD treatment, I don't think anything like what you claim has been decisively proven. Research it for yourselves though before consuming.

It's one of the better episodes IMO, was one of my first actualized.org episodes. I find a lot of people lack strategic thinking and strategy is one of the most important aspects of life. Your life would be destroyed and you would be enslaved pretty quickly if the leaders of the nation you're living in right now were not strategic. I will rewatch it actually.

I think beauty and aesthetics are an important aspect of life. Both genders have more to offer than their looks and need to bring more then that to be a high quality partner(especially men) but it's definitely important. If you're a man then status, networking and wealth will do infinitely more for you than being good looking. I've tried myself and I'm a pretty good looking guy and it helps to get attraction but I hit a major roadblock. Was way more successful in dating when I was living with a club promoter and being in a social circle that had a culture of casual sex.

I'm highly introverted and care a lot about status and money. A lot less recently these past few months as I've been using generative AI to do some worldbuilding and create my own anime/video game. I now realized I can create an alternative to the real world if need be or even more beautiful is create mix that enhances both. Really looking forward to creating my own cryptocurrency and blockchain so that my fantasy characters in my world actually interact with our own world. I believe the first provable parallel universes will come from VR/crypto. I don't get why most people are not more obsessed with status and wealth. It's obviously not the whole picture and you need to do it from a state of development but most of the issues of scarcity that you have in life are due to your lack of status and wealth. The whole reason leftists/liberals dislike the state of the US government is because they're not powerful enough to change it, don't have enough resources to have a deeper impact and don't have the status to influence important people. How can anyone credibly argue that status and wealth are not some of the top values to have? I know the importance of truth and love being on top of those but if anybody doesn't have those in their top 10 they're bound to have not that much impact on their own life let alone have NO impact at all whatsoever to their greater city and country and our civilization. Why choose to not be able to have an impact?

Only 5-15% of Taiwanese report wanting unification with China, where are you getting the idea that the west is the force keeping Taiwan sovereign?

It's because it implicates much further than just the american political elite. A lot of European politicians and nobility were involved.

Never been to thailand but I do find femboys attractive. Planning on going to anime conventions to game and meet some there this year.

You're welcome. Well if you'd like feel free to share your life purpose and we can explore how deploying more money towards it would or wouldn't help actualize it faster or more powerfully.

@Joshe Way better ways to gain structure and discipline than to sell yourself to a corrupt authoritarian organization. @machinegun How deeply have you worked on the principles on this forum in terms of introspection and meditation? Have you taken psychedelics? What about specifically 5-meo-DMT and something like(not a psychedelic) MDMA? Sounds like you need a mystical experience to make you experience some divine love to set you on the right path. Or in less woo woo terms you need a fucking W my guy otherwise life is just draining and depressing I agree. How is your life purpose doing not some vague bs like helping people but if you were a genie that could manifest your perfect exact dream life, how close are you in % to achieving in today and what's stopping you?

Then your life purpose is weak IMO. You need money to achieve scale and efficiency. You're not too interested in helping solve the problems of the world?

Talks about a quiet civil war brewing

Yeah I think it's important for us to talk about and think about these events as they happen as it's basically applied spirituality and epistemology. “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” The Iran situation is hard to keep track of with the internet blackout but I hope they stay safe and unite for a better future.

trade war against Canada now

Yeah I agree, there is a reason these guys don't wear body cams. They hate accountability and responsibility. Truth will expose them. The foundation of western society is rule of law and the legal system and their abuse of it has to be thoroughly documented. The agent that killed Alex Pretti yesterday is not yet identified but the last one that killed Renee Good is Jonathan Ross. Shame. https://sundayguardianlive.com/world/who-is-jonathan-ross-ice-agent-identified-in-minneapolis-shooting-of-renee-nicole-good-163814/