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That's a good point, I like your answer. Basically the ying/yang or contrast. Gotta be broke to enjoy being spiritually rich.

My biggest reason for not killing myself are the loved ones I’d hurt otherwise it woulda been done a long time ago. I think life can be worth it though but my life personally has felt like overcoming weaknesses and shortcomings and been mostly unpleasant but hopefully once I self-actualize enough of my limitations it’ll be worth it. On the topic of health issues though we are about to have the greatest revolution in healthcare in human history in the next few decades so you got that to look forward to @Bandman. Also soon a great leap in porn and AI girlfriend tech so I mean it’s looking good for you bro

Yeah I would guess that death is like dreaming. Sounds more fun than real life tbh idk why we bothered coming here as incarnate people; it's pretty dreadful.

I haven't watched it fully yet and it's a crazily interesting phenomenon. Personally, so far, I lean towards multiple personality disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. Just going by the story so Tristan was a 22 year old man who basically lost his body to a female soul that then took it over and changed his gender so she could be comfortable. Wouldn't that be like psychopathic theft?

I'm a massive believer that humanity will undergo a massive shift up in consciousness with these models. So much of discussions I see online are arbitrary but when you have your personal assistant that you trust that will walk you through your errors in your own cognitive flexibility then it'll be much harder to ignore our own biases. Imagine if every citizen was able to think from this perspective. Our political divide would collapse overnight.

@Leo Gura Definitely Michael Sartain would be a good one. Any of the other guys too like Owen Cook, Max has his own podcast too.

Depends on what you're trying to master. Making authentic intimate bonds with other people? Sleeping with them as fast as possible? Have fun conversations?

@TheUnknown Plenty of qualified people argue heavily against porn use. One is Dr Trish Leigh here who seems to be a neuroscientist as well as people like Andrew Huberman. I'm not the most productive person in general(I think due to ADHD) but when I watch a lot of porn it's easily for me to burn entire days watching videos then watching porn + fap then taking a nap and repeating this 2-3 times a day getting literally 0 done. I've been finding truth in not letting myself do it and then doing way more work because I actually have the dopamine to be able to.

@NoSelfSelf What do you mean by game in this context?

Hard to say what video games will look like in 10 years, I would be so curious to peak at a crystal ball. Economy is so bad now that maybe crypto games will be popular.

@bambi Have you done another line/taken another drink since you were warned not to? It's fascinating to me that you decided to venture into the hell realms, I've been for a little bit but it was too terrifying to me. God is definitely capable of torturing itself, look at it happening all over the world today. It's hard to explain why that would be the case and if those consciousnesses have consented to it like some spiritualists claim but seems very unlikely. Religions like Hinduism are basically about how our existence is meant to be all about pain and suffering until we somehow repent and get the privilege of not existing anymore.

I would guess that your psyche has been traumatized from this and now withholds deep feeling of love due to fear of loss. I have something similar, not sure how to fix it but by understanding it should get better.

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@OBEler LOL that's so good

True it helps to have at least a basic profile down but all you need for that is 10 well taken iphone/dslr pictures. I went heavy down the social media/social circle game and it does pay off somewhat but also kinda shallow and depressing.

@bambi Fair enough I do agree mostly, was curious how you would explain it. What's your thoughts on porn/masturbation now? I'm trying to go through the route of sexual transmutation and using the sexual energy to be productive but easier said than done.

Kamala's new campaign strategy is painting Trump as an odd, weird, and creepy guy instead of as a corrupt dictator. Good Reddit thread on the strategy: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/1ef5frf/harriss_campaign_has_a_different_campaign/ It's especially effective because it pushes Trump into the weird creepy grampa category, part of the strategy he used against Biden. It's gonna work even better because he does have a history of being predatory towards women. Worse for Trump is his daughter decided to stay out of this campaign to focus on her children and he doesn't seem to have a particularly good relationship with his wife so it's just two dudes against the Righteous Women of America campaign that Kamala is putting up.

Would your next goal be to get political yourself then? Otherwise, you'd be like the gurus that bliss out in caves thinking they're beyond earthly problems like you talked about. It's time to take back our world.

@Bobby_2021 I'm so confused as to why you specifically claim that AGI is not possible. Can you elaborate on why you believe that? A human mind basically works like a pattern recognition algorithm as well so I don't see why we couldn't make an artificial one.

@BlessedLion I'd say we have a responsibility to educate and convert people with stage orange ideology like Tate/Fresh&Fit followers. Otherwise, we're over here just rehashing the same conversations and not really having an impact on the world. A lot of the reason these guys have a lot of clout is they make semi-logical points that people don't push them back hard on. I've never heard people call out Tate for literally flirting with guys to scam them when he was running his webcam agency. He's admitted multiple times to being the one understanding male psychology and taking the keyboard away from the women to really get in the guys heads and scam them and then scam the women as well. It's not cool. Its creepy, deranged, and criminal. People just let him get away with being the cool dude driving a Bugatti and standing up for masculinity whereas he lacks every masculine principle imaginable that would have to do with honor and duty. I've had a lot of impact getting people to stop praising him in person because I come from the red pill camp myself so I understand how their arguments work. Having that type of person as well as any standard PUA person would be an easy way to move them into green/yellow type thinking.

Curious what you guys think about this. Apparently common in Germany/Europe where these activists will sit in the road and block traffic until the public/police have to violently remove them. There are more violent ones where the police came up with the "pain grip" which is basically torture to force them to move otherwise they just refuse to. It's an interesting ethical issue because I'd say they're backing the right cause but interfering with civil life causes a lot of chaos for the general public just trying to live their lives. Thoughts?

@Husseinisdoingfine Man I sort of miss Xbox live, that shit is just like I remember it. The good old nights of flipping shit and kicking holes in my wall playing Modern Warfare 2. As for the main topic of this post, I'd say a lot of it is escapism and being able to be more of a somebody online that you are in real life. Especially in competitive video games or stuff like MMORPG. I was a respected competitive LoL player for years while being an awkward nerd in real life. There's also something to be said for it enhancing the experience of life overall though with the fact that there really that many adventures you can go on in real life due to financial or just I mean lack of diversity problem. This will become an even more interesting experience in the next few years as we have metaverse and infinitely generatable worlds with AI generative video coming out soon. Especially when we end up with crypto gaming and the video games are tied to the global economy there will be not that much difference between them and real life.

Sure but now you can call them out on their bullshit very simply with stuff like RAG technology. Instead of more or less knowing that they're saying bullshit but not being precisely educated enough to know exactly how now you have LLMs that can debunk nonsense and give a precise source for their claims and explain the reasoning. Like people that say the moon landing is fake now we can use these systems to examine basically every piece of data humanity has on it. Won't help the truly lunatic find reason but the people who were stuck in the middle will be more easily swayed toward truth now. Before the amount of data was just impossible to be on top of.

Why do you need to commit to either or? If I were you I'd commit to content creation and then mix in the music with skits in terms of acting. You do some sort of patreon subscription to monetize and with 200 subscribers at $10 each for example you're sustaining yourself at $2000/month and only up from there.

I mean try it and report back. I feel like God would just throw you in a loop and waste your time to teach you the value of hard work and labor. I had similar experiences getting high and coming up with genius theories on life and figuring out everything then when I got back sober I figured out it was either nonsense or regardless I wouldn't be able to skip the work so the advanced knowledge was kind of useless.