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This is a very good and important question and it should not only apply to books, but everything. Being interested in so many things is a double-edged sword. This problem has plagued me for a long time. "Essentialism" should probably be one of your top 3 principles. Reality is full of shiny things and you will be attracted to and distracted by many of them. The problem is, there is not enough time and energy. For example, if you need to focus on building a business, you do not have time and energy to dive into the vast world of medical science. It's very interesting, but you could swim around in that topic from now until you die, so you have to get "good-enough" information on important topics like health, and then focus on your business. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - https://a.co/d/4ArCpvz This principle is hard to embody but it's a force multiplier, and for me, probably the most important principle.

I suppose humans are too diverse to say one way or the other. I can tell you that not everyone needs to be touched and not all of the people who feel that way are operating on avoidant attachment. As a child, of course you need your mother's touch, but when growing up, I found that so-called psychological needs are often malleable and can even be removed. With ample intelligence, self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-efficacy, many so-called "needs" are recognized as bullshit. As far as I can simulate out, the only psychological/physiological utility of touching others is bonding and to put the nervous system at ease. For example, there's a type of therapy where the therapist does nothing but place their hands on you to let you get used to being touched and this makes you more comfortable around other humans. Calms your sympathetic nervous system, which is a good thing, but I wouldn't call this a "need", no more than I would call meditation a need because it trains your mind for calm.

More evidence that Trump wasn't fooled by right-wing twitter shit. He was aware of the absurdity and pushed the story anyway, and it was all planned: Vance’s team was told Haitian immigrant rumors were false before debate, Springfield mayor confirms https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/politics/springfield-ohio-vance-campaign-wsj-report/index.html So, like I said, they all knew it was bullshit and pushed it anyway, regardless of the absurdity. Trump was waiting for a good time to insert "blacky eating household pets" into the debate, not because he believed it, but because he and his campaign thought getting millions of eyes onto a real-world example of rampant immigration would payoff more than the lie would damage him... and he was right, because his lies are normal and no one bats an eye when he displays zero integrity. It's currently assumed that this story is so absurd and so overtly false that it only does damage to Trump. Everyone just defaults to believing this, but I wouldn't be so certain. There's an idea of "the scared majority". I know some apolitical normies in PA and I can tell you that the idea their town could be inundated with Haitians is WAY MORE powerful a motivator to check the R than Trump being a liar motivates them to check D. So, this was the goal and I think all these pundits assuming the Trump campaign is only hurt by this is ridiculous. All this media coverage did was show the left another example of what they already knew, and it gave the normies reason to vote Trump. They were already aware Trump is a bullshitter but there were not aware what was going on right next door.

When it all collapses and there is no more you, no more story, only the ONE, then what? In that space, what are you doing? If it’s so grand in that space, why not stay there? Why come back? Was one even there? From my understanding, when people fully transcend the self, they often die from lack of concern with the body. So what is the point? Novel experience? It seems the whole point of existence is for there to be a story. It’s beautiful and interesting to discover the magic and the design of it all, but I don’t get the urgency to exhaust the self and for everything to collapse, unless one is running from something… then I get it. I also get the love of exploration, but that’s just mentation feeding the self, not unity. I’m just trying to make sense of things.

You definitely have to be careful. Here’s the key if you want to hit on girls all the time in this scenario. You have to balance out your approaches. Be social with everyone… teachers, staff, guys, everyone. Then, when you’re on the prowl, do all you can to avoid detection from bystanders and passerbys: Don’t look like a horn dog. Don’t get caught staring at girls asses Don’t stand around looking like a predator looking for prey. Never run to catch a girl. Be slick with your eye contact. Don’t fixate on targets. Make all approaches seem organic. This would be the base of my strategy but it’s too much work IMO. Probably best to put the energy into coursework and just wait on organic ass to fall in your lap.

Jack off and it goes way. Much less painful than chopping it off. Drain it often so you don’t get blindsided into thinking you want someone to caress you and tell you they love you. If it doesn’t go away, then it’s societal conditioning. In that case, you got work to do, which is doable.

I tried Gemeni pro… it sucks. Meta is actually pretty good for reasoning, IIRC, and I appreciate it not being so verbose. I currently have ChatGPT and Claude pro versions. Claude’s free tier is too limiting so you need Pro and then you need ChatGPT for when you run out of messages. And you need the pro version because Chat 4o sucks. You need ChatGPT 4. Also, many tools are coming out that are designed to accept a ChatGPT API token. With this, you can communicate with ChatGPT directly in other programs, like Obsidian. Also, OpenAI is working on their own phone and having an ex-Apple engineer designing it, so I think that’s gonna be big. Currently, ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are really all you need. Perplexity is replacing Google for at least half my searches.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Speaking of JP, I saw where Alex (cosmic skeptic) finally got JP to admit he believes in the literal resurrection of Jesus. That was funny. Then, his reasoning on Piers Morgan for why people should vote for Trump was some of the dumbest shit I’ve heard a smart person say. He’s skilled at playing around in the world of abstraction to gain insight but when it comes time to use those insights intelligently, he’s like a child. His positions are too convoluted and unnecessarily intricate. They require too much computational energy to decipher and comprehend. This process seems like intelligence, and often it is, but it seems more and more it’s just him having unconscious fun, constructing his own sand castles and then telling people they don’t understand because they didn’t account for the hidden room he constructed on the 8th floor of his sand castle. I do like many of his perspectives and admire his thinking, but I think it can be found elsewhere in more accessible and accurate form, without having to devote an hour to compute one of ten ideas needed to understand his sand castle. Maybe Decoding Gurus feels the same as me and just says fuck’em… he doesn’t deserve our time in sifting through his bullshit to find the parts of his sand castle that are worth keeping, so fuck the whole sand castle.

Some people can’t discern the ways of the devil. They can’t decode Russel Brand, so these guys are using mockery as a teaching strategy. (Probably unconsciously) Yeah, they’re not the highest quality, that’s for sure. BUT, they are criticizing from a higher moral and cognitive development than what is typical. They seem to be in the 70-85 percentile of intelligence and they have integrity, which is way more than can be said for most. They don’t usually shine light on things I haven’t already seen, but I think they are for many others, hopefully.

Devils say many things. If Tucker “says” something out loud, in public, you would be wise to not categorize his words as representative of any truth. This thread is about embodied devilry. If someone like Tucker, Trump, or Vance say they like Mountain Dew, you should consider their claim to at least be a 50% chance it is a deception, unless you have collected other evidence or reasons you can use to discern the truth of their claim. We can’t simply take their words at face value. We should always see them from the context of their character, their motives, incentives, past history, etc., because they can, and often do, dispense with the truth in a heartbeat.

Their takes are usually still higher quality than most. Multiperspectival analysis doesn’t sell well. We probably wouldn’t know about them if they included it. We need people like them critiquing the obvious clowns, even if they don’t balance their perspectives out with more helpful ones. The fools need to know there are consequences to their devilry and they will be laughed at and mocked for it, which bothers them.

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@Forestluv Interesting stuff! As volatile as DJT is, it seems intuitive that a PAC short coinciding with some other bad news could be all that's needed to really mess things up.

"Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation" - Donald Trump 😂😂😂

Yeah, that seems solid.

@Forestluv This occured to me about an hour ago but I don't know enough about it. I saw where there's a limit to how much you can short. I would guess there are already a lot of people shorting it??? Also, if he wins the election, it's going to go up, at least some, right? And if he loses, it's gonna tank for sure, right?

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I'm surprised they haven't juiced the shit out of the retruth #. 3.4k? WTF? Maybe one last grift before he sells his DJT shares?

You would think someone would be doing something about this. What I want to know is, what are they going to do when there is a discrepancy? Because there most certainly will be MANY! If there aren't clear procedures in place for this and if there is no one overseeing the counters, this is absolutely insane. I was already predicting mass rejections to certify so I'm not surprised about that, but this is just strange. All they have to do is say the tallies don't match, and spend hours and hours recounting, which leaves room for all sorts of plays. IDK enough about the electoral system to speculate though. @Hardkill You seem to be well-versed in politics. What potential scenarios do you see unfolding?

I see the Lincoln Project serving 2 functions: 1) They put Trump on tilt. They're like an evil clown, always popping up and fuckin' with him. Their sole mission is to destroy him (and make money while doing it) and he knows it. This is incredibly useful if they can reach him. 2) Just like how Trump provides his cult with a big "Fuck You" to the people they hate, The Lincoln Project serves as a big "Fuck You" to the Trump cult. This is not all bad. We're in the muck already. They're slinging shit. People want to sling shit back. I wasn't too impressed with that particular ad but they do have some really good ones from time to time.

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