LordFall

That's fair, I don't know much about the Alien Lore. What I like is how it portrayed a plausible version of reality where one of our techbros starts to seek out the secret to immortality through far fetched tales of an alien civilization. How they show the archeologists that were nerds excited to connect the dots and find the drawings that prove the existence of the engineers was cool. Then when they actually meet the engineer who immediately gets offended at being interrogated by humans and tries to kill them all while resuming our extinction was pretty funny. I wished they made Weyland's daughter survive, that would be a cool character to bring back. It also comes at the angle of the creation of humanity through another angle. The black goo genesis idea is very interesting and is like a 4th path to think about part from the religious creation story, atheistic big bang and the actualized.org nondual the mind thinks itself universally from scratch. Now we have this non-communicative advanced species that clones itself on a new world and then assesses if the emerging civilization is worthy or not. It's actually pretty close to the Abrahamic religion judgement after death angle. I haven't watched Alien Covenant yet but I saw the trailer where David drops the goo on them to wreck them and then perfect the Xenomorph I thought was a pretty cool plot. I wish they would make another prequel with a full movie from the pov of the Engineer's civilization and how their politics, engineering, culture and dating worked that would be interesting.

I appreciate man, it's not much in the grand scheme of things but it gives me motivation to scale it big over the next few years. How are the projects going on your end?

Have you tried it or are just imagining that it would be stupid? I had Lenovo Thinkpad with a touchscreen for years before getting my current Macbook and I miss it. It's very convenient once in a while to click on buttons with a quick touch of the finger instead of having to use the trackpad. Steve Job's point is only half good, indeed the horizontal keyboard is the surface that you'll mainly wanna use but having the touchscreen able to be used for like 20% of interactions made a big difference for me. It would definitely get me thinking about upgrading the one I have right now.

I haven't watched the video but most of what Iman Gadzhi says is gold and works. A lot of people like to overthink and not take action. If you are using efficient tools to provide value to the marketplace then of course you'll make some money from it. If you're a beginner then any low upfront cost business model is good to try out, give it a go IMO! He used to run a platform called Digital Launchpad that was basically private business course for $50/month, I took it for a couple months and thought it was quite high quality. Remember that we are blessed to be able to start a business for like $0-100 these days. Not that long ago you had to borrow money from your relatives to put together tens of thousands of $ to open up a brick and mortar store. Remember that overthinking and being a skeptic is WAY more expensive than throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. If you tryout 5 business models, 2 might be terrible, 2 might work but not fit your personality style and 1 will show promise if you double down on it. People say Tai Lopez is a scammer and he did recently do a sort of ponzi scheme type of thing but his courses on business and social media marketing are great. I paid $50 for someone to send me his $1000 SMMA and I myself made thousands from following it. I paid $1500 to take a videography and personal branding course from Corey Chaloff/RSD Luke/Michael Sartain and I've made back around $30,000 from it on top of meeting hundreds of chicks. Take action on concepts that make sense to you, rinse and repeat and you'll end up with 100x the results of men that are too anxious and cynical to try out new avenues.

I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt to elaborate on how your strategy is yielding the results you want. You seem to always default to defense mechanisms and invalidating people working on their social life. That’s where my impressed of you being jaded and isolated comes from. There is no need to take offense to my comments. A self development forum is meant to push us away from our mental blocks and dysfunctional coping mechanisms towards having the courage to take action to build our dream life.

I mean if your philosophy is producing the results that you want more power to you. It sounds like you failed at getting what you want out of building your social life and are not jaded and isolated and trying to make your situation a high moral ground. I feel quite fulfilled and excited to build a life that appeals to me and of course that includes beautiful women and achievements in my business outside life. You saying that having goals and strategy is needy sounds like massive spiritual bypassing to me. I shared some of the results I've been getting in my own life, feel free to do the same if you think your philosophy is genuinely valuable and not simply coping against failure.

Yes I was replying to your comment. I personally enjoy building an intentional social life on my terms. Going clubbing with random chicks is not part of my ideal lifestyle. If it is for you then more power to you but conflating strategy with neediness is a strange idea. I think perhaps you're judging yourself for desiring high quality women and great results and projecting that shame unto others? To me hosting events feels like things clicking into place and is much more fun than pure nightlife ever was.

I think you're overthinking it man, equating intentionality and lifestyle design with "neediness" is a complete category error. By that logic, building a business is needy because you want revenue, and training in the gym is needy because you want strength. Building a high quality lifer requires designing your life, career, and social environment from first principles rather than drifting passively into whatever situation presents itself. Expecting to get high-ROI outcomes in life without a coherent strategy isn't "non-attachment", it's just laziness disguised as philosophy and I don't think it produces high quality results for many people.

Sure, you've not seen Game of Thrones? You can experience dragons visually and through your ears through the show. Eventually when VR takes off you'll be able to experience touching them, talking to them, riding them, etc.

Weird take. Are you able to enjoy a cold cup of water or a nice meal or is also ruined by falsehood to you? You can enjoy reality without getting stuck overthinking ontological truth. It's the main purpose of reality; to be enjoyed.

There is a difference between being stuck in your head constantly overanalyzing social situations vs having an overall strategy for your dating life. Joining girls on nights out a few times and having fun is fine. Then I would suggest to sit down and think on whether you enjoyed it as it is or do you like bringing girls into your life more. To me catering the environment overtime makes much more sense and makes it possible to justify socializing continuously since I also build value for the ecosystems I'm building as opposed to just using socializing to blow off steam or to to pull women. I hosted a content mastermind a few months ago and it was both a fun way to meet new chicks and also it helped my agency and community. About a month before that I went out for drinks which chicks that invited me out and it was fine and fun but the ROI was much lower.

I wouldn't recommend it, forex is very volatile and is mostly a get rich quick scheme. I would make money in a way that's aligned in your industry. If you have around $800 USD you can buy a nice camera and start getting paid to shoot concerts and events which will get you networking in the scene. You could also work as a promoter for other artists and sell tickets to their events and eventually be an opening act and then in a couple years sell your own shows. The road to becoming profitable in trading is around mastering complex arbitrage strategies which can work if you have an a deep interest in finance but be careful getting tricked into "Copy these trades and make 200% yearly returns no effort needed!" It seems like mastering a basic fundamental skill like videography or direct response marketing will be a much better foundation to your skillset and will give you the foundation to start marketing and profiting off of your own work much faster than trying to become a quantitive analyst that crushes forex.

I would recommend trying it a few times but more than likely you'll realize it's a bad idea. Better to invite women to your events than to come out to the club with them. It will leave you in a reactive frame where also she'll probably subconsciously or intentionally put you against other guys she knows or random dudes that come up to hit on her. If you've been gaming a lot then you might be able to meet other women there and merge sets and use the opposite effect on her but either way you start off at a disadvantage. It's not a bad thing to experiments with environments that don't favor you but in general you obviously should build a social life that works for your goals and not against them.

So beyond your post-colonial grievances, how do we suggest that we move forward to make our societies productive and safe? That's a very real geopolitical truth. The US mainly flourished as a superpower due to Oceans protecting its borders and being basically impossible to invade. Europe doesn't have that luxury and it's a great part of why it and the middle east are conflict ridden regions. The solutions that we propose and our politicians implement must consider these truths if they are be viable and not just based in virtue signalling.

It's near the top of my to read list. Currently reading his other book Laws of Human Nature and once I finish that I'll probably pickup a copy of the art of seduction. I'm very familiar with seduction strategies and framework, I'm now looking for a more historical exploration of how seduction work and the different archetypes of it. Especially I'm interested if he's gonna touch on the sensual lover archetype that enjoys human sensuality and connection and thus values having many sexual partners as that's the one I feel myself developping into. It seems missing from modern discourse as sexuality is either talked about in terms of solely the strategy of it or how the sexual revolution has affected culture whereas I'm more interested in the exploration of love with many people otherwise known as polyamory! I like this image, came up when I typed polyamory wallpaper on Google images. Combines the many loves etymology of Polyamory(poly = many and amory means love) with the bisexuality angle of being able to desire and love both genders.