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If your intuition is that your personal understanding will evolve further independently you're likely correct. But we still need each other for basic life stuff, human things, etc... Other humans can be quite skillful at that -- and point us in the right direction. Don't underestimate the pragmaticism of non spiritual folk. Could come in handy.

@Miguel1 If anything you are encouraging to move to Finland or another country in Scandi. How did you find out about pickup anyway? You are one of the very few that ran with it and got insane results.

That sounds like something a solipsist would say.

@ROOBIO That is a wasted life. Think about how many years and, and how much of his focus was placed towards such a shallow goal. And no girlfriend is insane. Has a similar energy as John Anthony's trajectory.

@Oppositionless Thank you for sharing this. Yeah and I def think about that. The amount of time being wasted obsessing over a false goal. Likely preventing me from connecting with others (or myself) authentically. Imma figure out my way out of this. It's now or never, either way.

Point proven. INTPs do it for the love of learning. Not necessarily as execution obsessed like INTJ or ENTJ. Still I struggle to close this loop in my life until I gain somewhat of level of results. I think for certain personality types need to be okay with "settling" or adjusting the bar according to their temperament. Maybe it's the wrong goal to begin with.

I think I might also be INTP. It might be harder in some ways for perceiving types since they struggle more with follow through and structure which is needed to learn game in a more systematic way -- which could be described as almost definitionally. What's the formula open, hook, close?

@Jowblob 8 A basic level is required. Not putting any level of investment into setting yourself up for survival would mean you make your life 10 fold more treacherous and difficult. Obviously not getting carried away with the hamster wheel of success but leveraging existing systems so you don't have to worry very much about the roof over your head constantly could prove useful. Unless your can effortlessly samadhi beneath a bridge and be content spending $1.50 usd each day on basic caloric requirements.

Is your friend Clav?

Stage green women are more common than stage green men. While stage yellow is far less common it is probably prevalent in more intelligent women andor neurodivergent. Especially if we're not talking a full blown transition into yellow. Which is uncommon even on this forum.

@Joshe Not unless you aim at that ruthlessly. The amount of baggage we take on from culture and society is deeply ingrained. To undo that requires serious commitment.

@psychedelaholic Some ego structures are more expressive and extroverted. If we pedestalize the hermit in the cave and demonize pop culture icons in terms of spirituality -- we throw the baby out with the bath water. I think Brian's meticulousness is one of the strengths that I see as a sign of good faith.

@Leo Gura How will you get past non-conformity / autonomous outgrow it etc... What limitations are you intuiting experientially that will lead to the next stage if it works that way.

What'll happen to human civilization if world leaders start having these experiences? If 5meo dmt is not just some niche thing like back in the arowid days, or even forums like this, maybe a couple famous celebs like Mike Tyson -- But like actually part of the Zeitgeist!?

@BasmanIt is true that women have more options by far. Hence there is a lack of evolutionary pressure on attractive women. In a purely supply and demand way, dick is worthless -- but the thing is we are not just sexual organs... We are multi-dimensional beings -- which means that a "developed" man still has 100x less options than the average woman with a multitude of undesirable traits.

@Alexop The gender wars has some truth to it. But the reality is that secure people with healthy self-esteem don't deal with so much of this shit from either genders. There is an aspect of not "putting up with men's shit". But if your patience and tolerance is essentially nearly 0 don't be surprised if you end up alone. Nobody is perfect and the idea that men are these horrible assholes is a bit overblown. The real asshole guys that are toxic tend to get the most results because they are capable of manipulating women and have a high sense of entitlement. I think the average man has a lot to work on but a lot of it is his own self-confidence and self-rejection, not that he's a raging misogynist.

@Carl-Richard No problem. Was just to make myself more concise. Human generated text by yours truly, fully! It's a modern day Shakespearean-style story. I can't think of a show or movie in the gangster genre that did it better that BB. It breaks through the trope of some egotistical, low educated, sociopath like Tony Montana (or Tony Camonte in the 1932 version). This is one of the many gangster come up story archetypes but instead inverts them -- this guy is an under achieving genius who feels betrayed by life -- and so his thirst for relevancy VERY gradually transforms every facet of his life. The cinematography is exceptional. Walter is someone that many of us can identify with. Definitely lower middle class at best. He feels like he deserves more. In terms of IQ he is obviously much smarter than 99% of people but his life feels like bottom 20% -- not really in alignment with his life potential. I think with other gangster characters like in Scarface, or Goodfellas, or even Denzel in American Gangster it's like we're voyeuristically getting to see life through the characters lens but it's not really a psychology or frame of mind most people could inhabit. Kinda like true crime shows and so forth, it allows people to explorer something they'll never be. The difference is that Walter White is somebody we can identify with more readily. He's a nerdy guy that's been screwed by life, people, and circumstances. He says enough is enough and I don't think he really understands what he's getting himself into but incrementally what that entails reveals itself to him and the audience. There is a believability of it and strong underdog ethos initially but when suddenly Walter isn't this low confidence middle aged guy with cancer we feel pity for.... Like when he lets Jane overdose and die. At some point the audience looses all sympathy for Walt and is no longer rooting for him but just seeing how his path of self destruction ends. At which point the audience loses that sympathy is hard to say. Is it gradually or at a singular moment?

@bazera That's the interesting part. At the start you think of Jesse as the criminal but he is really so innocent compared to what Walter becomes. Makes you question every day people. Are the people in prison the worst of the worst, callous evil sociopaths, or are there more of those amongst us? Like Walter White. It's easy to pretend nice. But how do you really evaluate a person? With Walter it doesn't become apparent until we ride along with him for a couple of seasons. Otherwise, he is this unassuming nerdy middle aged chemistry teacher.

@No1Here2c And yes how one chooses to interpret such things is highly contingent upon cultural upbringing, personal beliefs and biases, and so on and so forth. One of my childhood friends says he will have dreams regularly and they will occur in real life within a short period of time. Lot of schizophrenia in his family also as well as ADHD and very high IQ.

@No1Here2c Both... Yes, I think it is a bit of both. Like when people say people can read each other's minds, or existence of God, etc... materialist will scoff at such ideas. Yet, these abilities and realizations are on a spectrum. Certain folk have the full blown thing. And many others have milder forms of such abilities and perceptions, yet a hardcore scientist type would ignore the correlation or not consider it rigorous enough. I think it gets a bit muddy for sure.

@No1Here2c What do you mean, specifically. I'm extremely intuitive and feeling/emotion driven so I am very prone to inspiration and driven by narrative and purpose. In that sense, yes.

@Leo Gura Another useful topic is 'confidence' and how that evolved as you move up the spiral, spiritual maturation and so forth.

People will also believe and cling onto anything before God. Astrology, Tik Tok level of sophistication New Age beliefs, EvOluTioN and sCienCe (as if they were mutually exclusive), their own veneer of intellect and a sense of intellectual superiority.

Disagree. Humans are chimps after all. Are we pretending the Walmart guy is post conventional now? Not likely. Humans constantly engage in primitive social games dictated by there biology. Some are way less effective at it obviously and you will see that omnipotence chipping away at the overweight video game addicted mid 20s Wal-Mart employee. Of course in this hypothetical scenario I'm imaging a guy with possible trauma and neurodivergence but nevertheless if he had the opportunity to display his passion and areas of strength in a way that bolstered his status he'd be very eager to do so.

Brutal sorry about your friend. The unfortunate part about the world we live in is that culture changes hard and fast. At the end of the day this is a spiritual forum I feel, right? So to me that inner alignment and values precede and override any worldly circumstances and inconveniences.