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Cool idea for a thread! Bump

Green has many different flavors, just like the other colors. It’s not all carebear hippies. Notice the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian, anti-religious frame.

I’ve tried nofap. I no longer see the value in it. What usually happens on nofap is that my sexual drive temporarily increases at first. But if I keep going, it basically just goes back to normal range. In fact, I often find that the more I fap, the more libido I have. There is a limit but it’s not at all like I have to wait a week + to recharge. I can fap almost everyday and have no problems. No loss in energy, no loss in libido, no loss in motivation. Porn is a different question. It does seem to have a strong potential for abuse. And of course there are the ethics of the industry to consider and to what degree we should participate in that. But probably a little porn once in a while won’t hurt you either.

No I don’t think it makes sense to purposefully limit the quality of your books. Make the book as good as you realistically can. That’s the true test. Yes consistency helps. That’s why brands have logos. You’re welcome.

That has always been the take. Of course everything is about blending the material and spiritual. If you didn’t, you couldn’t be alive to write about it. But also, consider that the evolution of consciousness is not just a naive idea of pure progress either. Consider that as consciousness evolves, it creates new problems. Which is what causes it to further evolve. In other words, the evolution of consciousness is literally driven by the downsides of the previous states. So to expect no tradeoffs misses the point.

Good picks. I think ya’ll will do well, best of luck.

Yes you are building your brand as an author. So when people see your name, they will automatically want to buy your books because they’ve heard good things from other people or because they know how good your previous books were. It’s not much different than what we were already talking about. Credentials can also help. Like if you have a PhD in a subject, publishers are more likely to pick you up. But I recognize there are limitations and problems with that route as well.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t want success or to be recognized. I’m saying you may be defining success in a limited or even outdated way. And that this definition is actually holding you back from success, because you are unlikely to succeed by fitting into that model. Just an idea. Play with it. I could be wrong. I can’t say I have exact steps for you. If you do some research you can probably find some more specifics. There’s books on self-publishing that have been written. Ultimately you’ll have to get creative. Yes this is the whole problem. You don’t have a brand. Building a solid brand is always one of the hardest part of a solid entrepreneurial endeavor. There’s no easy solution. People do fail to accomplish this every day. Once you build brand, you get the luxury of coasting off that brand recognition and trust. The reality though is that it’s not an impossible situation either. Think of all the successful brands that exist today. At some point they all started with essentially nothing, perhaps just some start up capital. So you can build from scratch. But it’s challenging.

@halfknots great share, thank you!

@Someone here I did some research in this area when I wrote a book. My perspective was that chasing major publishers was not the path to success. Most of them are not going to give you a chance if you are an unknown author. I’d really ask yourself: why is that? Is this just a self-image thing because that’s what a successful author “looks like” in your mind? What difference does it make how people find your book as long as they find it? IMO, you’re better off self-promoting the book yourself. Treat it like a business and your book is the product. Set a budget. You can promote it doing any of the following: Paid ads (Amazon ads, IG / FB ads, etc) Hire a PR company Sending copies to book review bloggers Creating social media content It may be worth reaching out to the following company. They help authors promote their books in the conscious space: https://consciousmediarelations.com/

I would say that’s a pattern of behavior common in all relationships, not just romantic ones. You can start to take for granted your business parter, your family, friends, your dog, etc. The reality is that most people are driven by obtaining what they don’t already have. That’s the survival wiring of the mind. When you’re hungry, you aren’t grateful for the food you had last week. You just want food now. In this way, gratitude and appreciation are actually harder embody. They require a higher state of consciousness that isn’t so survival oriented and can actually be satisfied with what is. Men as a generalization might be more prone to this, but everyone struggles with this no matter your gender. This is partly why conscious relationships are so tough. You must overcome your lower survival mind every day and choose to appreciate and love the other person. And not just in word, but in action. You must tend to the relationship perpetually, like a garden. And you must find what is new, novel and exciting about them, even if you’ve known them for years.

They’re not going to let the government default. No one is that stupid. Granted, the debt is a problem. But there’s this big panic every time the ceiling comes around and every time we raise it. This has been happening for decades.

@bloomer if you still like Tate and think he is a good role model after watching Leo’s video, nothing is going to get through to you. That was about as good of a breakdown as you will get. You like Tate because of your biases and because what is he saying matches your level of maturity and development. Not because “he is funny” or “he is helping men”. There is nothing objective about your appreciation for him.

Ask them: what is God? Notice the quality of their response.

And just like a dream, it will not happen in real life. You will all still very much care about death. You mean like laws and a criminal justice system?

I think your intention is in the right place. I think you want to improve society. But I’d strongly recommend you scrap this project, or at least change course dramatically. You are not going to be able to build something superior than current society. What you will realize that society is the way it is because it’s the best we are currently capable of. For instance, not having laws will not make you city better, it will make it worse. You imagine you may be able to get away without having laws because everyone will be so conscious, but this will never happen. In reality, what will happen is that shit will hit the fan and people will demand rules. And at a societal level, we just call those rules “laws”. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Contribute to the raising of consciousness and progress of society the best you can. But be careful with overly idealistic projects. They sound harmless enough, but I’ve seen people devote their entire lives to these projects and get nowhere. In the end, they accomplish essentially nothing except that we learn it doesn’t work. Which we could technically say is still contributing to progress from a very broad POV, but in practice it’s still not a great idea.

This guy was highly suspect from minute one I saw him. Typical red pill nonsense. In fact, he is more toxic than your average red pill guy. No surprises all this is coming out now. A younger me that was searching for what it meant to be a man might have been fooled. Glad I’ve learned.

I’ve never been able to fully anticipate the direction of Leo’s content. And I like that about it. Makes it more of an adventure. Looking forward to another year of curveballs.

To a degree, yes. But I wouldn’t overblow this point either. Whatever selfishness and corruption you are accusing Stage Green of, the lower stages WIll BE WORSE in their selfishness and corruption. That’s one of the fundamental errors the anti-woke crowd is making. They are not seeing the hierarchy.

I agree that the cult debacle has likely influenced her, but I don’t think she’s doing it just to refill her fan base. I think she generally has gone through a lot of criticism as a public figure. And that has skewed her perspective. This video is not a good example of multi-perspectival tier 2. Or at least it’s not a healthy example of it. Too biased and missing the big picture. Healthy tier 2 would look more like Jonathan Haidt’s or Ken Wilber’s work.

@Victor van Rijn This may be one of Teal’s worst videos. Her political takes and takes on social issues are not great in general. First off, it is not a deeply contrarian position to be going after woke culture. Being “anti-woke” is already incredibly popular in right wing circles, and even with a sizeable amount of the left. No one likes wokeness. Second, she is way overblowing the dangers of woke culture. It’s not a balanced critique. And in doing so, she is likely to push some of her less politically savvy followers further right.

To a degree. It’s mostly prerational behavior, not a display of wisdom from the child. The child hasn’t been socialized yet to realize that throwing its milk is not a good idea.

Not exactly. Dschmach is already fairly integrated with his conservative and liberal mind. So it would be more like the comparison of someone who is highly integrated, knowledge and genuinely looking to solve collective problems versus a scammer. That’s true to a degree, but that doesn’t mean their perspective is anywhere near equal. A two year old is also trying its best when it throws its cup of milk across the room in the middle of dinner.

It’s good that you want to maintain your integrity. But from my POV, a sex doll really doesn’t sound like the healthiest way to solve this need. It might take the edge off for a while but it’s not going to last.

Yes, that’s precisely an argument made by a lot of socialists. They have a more optimistic view of human nature. They feel humans are more intrinsically motivated then capitalism seems to portray. And they’re not exactly wrong. But they’re not exactly right either. I do think we can get there at some point. But If we could currently pull off socialism, I suspect we would have already done so. So it’s more of a question of “how long”. We need more people to move up the spiral before socialism hits mass scale.