LordFall

Well we'll start with removing as much uncertainty and building as much competence as possible and if I end up scaling up my power to be able to save all of mankind it will be my great honour to do so. Trump and his buddies are getting old, I'm sure they have a few blindspots we can exploit! Now that I've rewatched The Avengers, I'm ready. Give me the quest and I will accept. It's time to take over.

I run creative and business communities helping people build reliable streams of income. I don't think we're doomed but me building influence and power is the best way I've come up with to shield myself and others from an uncertain future. @Cathal So you're focused on spiritual purification at this stage of your life. That's a worthwhile endeavour. Alright, I’ve got another question for you: in monastic Theravada, complete celibacy is mandatory, and sensual craving is treated as a core defilement. Having lived this for three years, do you genuinely see sexual desire as an obstacle to consciousness that must be eliminated, or is renunciation just a tactical boundary for the monastic container?

It's great to think God is purely all loving but when we think about an omnipotent creator of the universe, sadism must by definition be one of its top traits. If one was omnipotent there would be no need to use evolution as a way to evolve consciousness, there would be little to learn if you know everything and have infinite intelligence to calculate everything. One of the traps that such a being could fall into though would very simply be boredom. So creating billions of creatures that fight amongst each other can perhaps be proved as one of the foundational divine plans and be based in the enjoyment of watching them fight and kill each other infinitely which can simply be recapped as sadism. The idea of a hierarchy of values is key because I'm not claiming sadism is God's primary value—reality could easily be engineered to be far more agonizing if pure malice were the objective— but it clearly sits much higher in the divine design hierarchy than conventional spirituality is comfortable admitting.

@Zeroguy You don't think God can brainwash itself to be able to experience limited life? If you were an infinite being you couldn't have sex, that requires two limited biological beings to rub their genitals against each other. You think God is too stupid to invent sex? Your lack of faith is disturbing.

You have a beautiful Obsidian setup, I think it reflects in some of your insight on the forum. Being thorough in researching and thought makes a massive difference in making strong points. @Natasha Tori Maru Sorry you had to go through that trauma, resiliency through that kind of weight is no small feat. I really like your mindset with the creative art pursuit, there is something very powerful about simplicity and being able to illustrate a subject accurately without clutter.

Very good in that case I think the divine scepter will indeed be used to reach powerful visions!

Watch out, he’s gonna tell you the best way to ground yourself against the bad sides of visions is to take your pants off to be able to ground yourself and he needs to do so too to properly channel God

I don't think your point is good as its too generals. There are business models that are much more effective than others and thus result in a faster AND more effective lane towards success.

That claim doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Highly attractive women deal with far higher volumes of opportunistic, disingenuous attention and deceptive tactics—which is precisely the predatory dynamic being discussed. Asserting that higher attractiveness automatically shields someone from being targeted ignores basic filtering realities. Until you can point to actual data showing high-visibility targets face fewer predatory interactions, dismissing direct female observation as "coping" is just projecting your own assumptions.

Sure, that's the first step of inquiry. That's why I linked it's points and not just the rating. Which points of Jiang do you think are his strongest? We can talk about that and see where he falls short. Where the AI criticism is perhaps weakest is on his speculative points, especially if he did admit that they are speculation. Big events are speculation until they happen, all we can do is follow the breadcrumbs and weigh odds with the data that we have.

Same, thanks for sharing bro. It is really almost humiliating to go hard at trying to build big and seeing progress and falling short. I understand why some people don't try at all. I don't know if you remember the RSD Julien point about game though "Once you peek behind the curtain, you can never go back." That's been a defining concept to my life. I was born in Montreal, grew up in Calgary and then after breaking up with an ex and being aimless I moved to Toronto. The level of success I saw there was both inspiring but also deeply humiliating. One experience that stands out most is I met a guy who was the same age as me and is a well-known dating coach in Canada, was a millionaire at the time, and had a penthouse and sleeping with new 3 girls a week. I actually moved into his old place so it was a bit surreal. I also met AI engineers who were like 23 years old making $25,000/month. An AI CEO that was younger than me making millions whose company got funded by Nvidia and my roommate started doing marketing for them. All the while I was stuck selling $500 photoshoots, barely able to pay my rent at times and trying to figure out how the fuck I can scale to that level in my own ways. Not there yet obviously but I'm glad I've met those people, they helped me break my limiting beliefs. I've accomplished a lot in my life that I'm proud of but hopefully when we have this conversation again in 5 years I have a lot more on the scoreboard. I'm hosting a small concert across the country tonight remotely through just my brands and the reach of my group chats so I'm pretty happy about that. It's not gonna make me any money but it's building me the leverage I want so one step closer to the dream.

Don't you find that you forget a lot of the stuff in audiobooks? I like to take notes when I read and I listened to half of the Fiat Standard as an audiobook and I recall general trends but I really mostly remember like 3 main points out of hours of listening. I would highly question auditory retention but I think for less important books it makes sense if it's more inspirational than technical.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1witbdd/florida_mom_grins_after_shes_caught_having_sex/ Wild week for this couple lol. Husband checked his cameras because apparently someone was stealing coins from a jar(they have two sons) and he caught his best friend Ranger(the house dog) and his wife doing some spicy activities and posted it on Facebook and the FBI got involved. They told her it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and she completely misunderstood the assignment. The wildest part is that he apparently had the footage sitting in his camera roll since 2024. They stayed married, she eventually caught him cheating—presumably with a human—and that was his cue to finally drop the nuclear option. Crazy how human psychology and revenge works.

You know what they say, 3rd time's the charm! Buy it one more time and you will experience a mystical breakthrough in your life purpose potentiality.

You might be under thinking it. Don't be intimidated by others putting a lot of thought into worthwhile concepts. It's how we reach breakthroughs!