LordFall

My point wasn't to paint all moderators with a single brush. My critique is strictly operational: when internal friction gets weaponized publicly, it drains the engine. But I appreciate your energy on this platform and respect where you're coming from Natasha.

Sure, it does offer a lot of value. It's also a way to obtain power and status in a community. And then quoting all the bad things the owner has said in the community is another way to gain more status. I don't know Carl I haven't put too much thought into his behaviour overall on the forum but this post rubs me personally the wrong way. I hope he messaged Leo and/or hopped on a call with him before he posted this and perhaps Leo has been closed off to criticism I haven't read through the whole thread but if not I stick by it : I would ban his disrespectful and unprofessional ass.

For sure! The ides of march is very sad, Brutus is truly one of the worst traitors in history. I won't spoil more then that but how they explore his character and what happens in season 2 is masterful media. Enjoy the story of our people.

I don't think highlighting all of someone's flaws without taking into account their strengths especially publicly is disrespectful. I wouldn't keep someone like that on my team. Sounds like a liability.

I think Leo is quite patient and egoless for tolerating people questioning him all the time lazily without offering any other credible viewpoint nor really offering value at the same scale. Nobody is perfect, even Jesus is just a dude that preached for a while and then got killed without chancing too much about the world and he's supposedly god himself in human form. Even God lets so much suffering and abuse happen in the world. Personally I woulda banned your ass for the ungratefulness lol @Carl-Richard

Have you tried it in real life yet? I did recently after thinking about it for a few years. Was pretty fun and relieving. I feel more whole now and I can sense men's energies a lot more clearly. It's pretty cool but can be kinda creepy at times, a lot of men are quite intense. I'm not really attracted to masculine men but I'd try it to see what it's like. I wanna try dating a submissive femboy type that sounds really fun.

About done season 2 of it, I never watched the show previously because I thought it was old and boring. Oh boy how wrong I was. It's top 3 show I've watched for sure, maybe tied with it's successor Game of thrones. It's one of the most historically accurate representations of the Roman Republic that existed. I think its worth watching to study history in a fun and entertaining way. Some takeways I've had it from it 1) The structure of the world hasn't changed much in 2000 years. Class warfare and social status dictate a lot of how your life will go. Be born a patrician and you're set. Be born a wealthy merchant's kid and you're doing pretty good. Being born a plebian(lower class) or god forbid a slave and you're fucked. 2) The lower class has it pretty good today. I can't really imagine the reality of being a slave in the mines. I did one summer of manual labor and I was amazed at how much suffering that existence entailed. And that was working on a farm with a bunch of cool dudes vaping and getting high everyday and working only 9 hours a day. Can't imagine these 12 hour days getting whipped. Anything after the industrial revolution and workers right is not bad in comparison. In those times people that thought themselves moral and virtuous had no trouble killing and abusing slaves. Civic rights are a godsend and you can see the evolution of spiral dynamics quite clearly. 3) War has a very strategic purpose in human history. It allows for the relieving of basically the equivalent of "late stage capitalism" in histories throughout time i.e. capital saturation. You send the young men to war and the ones that live get rewarded with the spoils of war. One of the main characters in the show Pullo seems himself as a soldier and his life gets much worse everytime Rome gets a period of peace. Seems that a lot of the reason men are struggling these days is we are bred for warfare and some of us struggle with a boring domestic life. 4) Alliances and reading people is very important. Trusting the wrong people in those times and in today is perhaps literally suicidal or at least will cause you great misery. 5) Empire is inevitable. It seems that a disunited society will always run into an edge and the road to least effort is attacking your neighbours. Caused me to reflect on where we are right now with WW3 looming around the corner. It seems hard to find a way forward that's perpendicular, I think it will clash towards unity one way or another. Hopefully violent warfare is not required but there's no such thing as a stable multipolar world order. We will end up with a united world government at some point. 6) World peace is coming. Watching the history of warfare throughout the time it seems that the reasons for it are predictable and solvable. I have great hope that AI will unlock new avenues of capital that don't require the subjugation of the lower classes. Space travel also shows great promise in letting expansionism get it's way without our self-destruction. Our society revolves around labor one way or another, it was the case in roman times and in caveman times and today. Artificial labor has never been achieved before, industrialism caused the greatest wealth boom in history and surely artificial labor will do the same.

Some of them are like that but I don't think that's the majority. And as a conscious man who's picking a mother for your children it would be your duty to identify such traits and either work with your partner to solve it or to not date people that are too deep into neuroticism or narcissism. It's funny you talk about the Congo, I plan to do a world tour over the next few years and date women from all over and my dad is planning on doing some work in Africa specifically Chad not Congo but perhaps I will try dating an illiterate village girl and I'll report back on how that went. Women are very different in different places in the world, it's become a trend to hate on western women because they're too neurotic. I think a lot of them are great and worth investing into but I'm quite curious to check out places like Colombia, Africa and Eastern Europe and seeing how women compare.

I agree with you. I think a lot of people demonize bodycount because of a sour grapes situation more than anything factual though. Generally it comes from men not knowing how to sleep with a lot of women/attractive women or men that can but then end up mistrusting and fundamentally not knowing how to vet a quality partner. Let alone the hypocritical influencers that are hypersexual but then demonize women that are also promiscuous. Even if we go away towards the topic of bodycount and sex and more towards love, people are scared to death of that as well! My favourite insight towards this is when Dr Helen Fisher set out to study love and break it down scientifically for her phd, she was highly discouraged from researching it and one peer review literally told her it's unstudiable as it's part of the supernatural lol. Good interview to watch overall.

Sure but generally I don't think women need to be as developed as men. Men don't have much value by default and need to bring more to the table whereas a woman well incubates your kids, raises them and nurtures the structure that you have built. It's a generalization but it seems to be the way most relationships thrive. If you're a well developed man you can date a midly developed woman and she'll follow your lead if she's open to coaching. The reverse seems to be less satisfying for most people.

Part of it is finding people that are open to change. Part of it is also having a wide network and reach so you can find quality women that are already living in a conscious way that just want a greater adventure to join. I didn't say it was my highest value, we're just talking about dating life here. I enjoy creating communities and helping people figuring out systems that they wouldn't have trouble figuring out on their own. I run multiple creative communities and business chats. It's high consciousness because I use system thinking to raise up myself and the people I interact with and have to utilize massive amounts of understanding and empathy to connect to people and understand both their goals and their limitations. Each time someone thanks me for an insight or help that I've helped them with it feels quite fulfilling. Doing it inside of an intimate relationship is even more rewarding. I wasn't necessarily talking about you when talking about being delusional. If you know yourself and are happy with your relationship and impact on the world then you've won your life there isn't much else to say. Personally I am not and have much more to accomplish in many areas. I was talking about people like @Valach and others in the thread and in society as a whole that make blanket statements on systems they don't really understand and try to come at it from a higher than thou perspective while clearly being intermediate in their journey.

I watched an Alex Hormozi podcast and he talks about burnout being about your reward cycle being out of whack. Meaning that you're not feeling rewarded by the actions you're taking anymore, perhaps it's because the rewards are too far off and you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel anymore or you're habituated to the reward you were giving yourself and need to switch it up. I can relate to it because I have such big goals and it's taking decades to get there but learning to find the Ws regularly helps me. I'm a big fan of women so I use them as my muse for a lot of my work so having just moved to Montreal there are so many beautiful ones it's inspiring. My money situation is not to the point where I can date comfortably at the moment so it's frustrating but I'm finding ways to find rewards outside of that. It's really hot here so I get a lot of enjoyment out of my daily mcdonalds $1.50 iced coffee. Hopefully that somewhat helps. @Yimpa I agree that there seems to be a lot of suffering baked into life. A lot of problems and suffering seems to be self-inflicted though. Someone posted a good thread in the general section with an an Orion Tariban video on true intelligence being able to solve problems. I've been reflecting on that a lot since I think of myself as smart but I run into very predictable problems often times so perhaps I'm not as clever as I think I am! I get a lot of peace from suffering from knowing a lot of it is in my control and can be avoided if I manage to learn from mistakes and plan better next time.

Yes it gave me a lot of appreciation for games and software that works well. It's why I went with just a 2d platformer for my first one, I don't wanna fuck with 3D at all seems like a nightmare. I think a lot if it comes out good. I don't really think people care how things are made just the quality of them. There's a vocal minority of people that are hating on AI everywhere right now but I think once phenomenal AI products start coming out they'll fade away just like the luddites did. Cool that we live in the same city! There's a lot of meetup events related to game dev in the city. I went to the unity one a couple of weeks ago and it was a bit disappointing just a silent coworking session. I'm going to go to one of these drinking with game devs one next at the esports bar probably in early July, if you're down to join lmk we can coordinate. https://www.meetup.com/montreal-game-development-meetup-group/events/314915342

She's 21 and making millions, I wouldn't blame her for not being the highest integrity person on earth. If you look at her speak in podcasts like the recent one with Graham Stephan she seems like a thoughtful and smart young woman. On the one with Howie Mandel and his wife he seems to be the one behaving weirdly and being resentful and toxic in my view. @integral You don't need to want to sleep with many women, if you're happy in your relationship that's phenomenal. I'm saying that the way you speak about people sounds defeatist and jaded. Also it seems like coping because instead of putting your lack of communication skills and leadership at the forefront you blame people for being underdeveloped. Especially since we're on a forum to raise our consciousness made by a man who raised his consciousness and acted as a leader for people to raise theirs as well. Seems like a sad perspective coming from a moderator. I think you should both give people more credit and yourself as well in terms of being able to influence people positively!

That's true. Do you have another source that you like better?