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Doesn't mean you can't enjoy short-term pleasures, once in a while. You aren't really living life if you're only thinking about the future. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller

The reason people have such a negative view of porn and masturbation is because it can easily be addicting and toxic for the ego, and when people suffer from that addiction and then want to improve their life they often rebound and swing the pendulum to the other side. Which is why in self-help circles it's viewed as an objectively bad thing and all sorts of statistics and "science" is sought out, it's to confirm a highly relevant bias that those people have, because they are fearful and don't want to go back to that suffering. It's all about balance. Porn and masturbation can be enjoyable and great things, you can get a release and express your sexuality while single, which is a totally natural and necessary thing. Think about them like cake. Cake is fucking tasty, and can be really exciting. But it's also not great for your health if you have too much of it. Would you eat cake everyday if there weren't any consequences? Probably, but there are. So you have to be wise enough to limit yourself to only having it a few times a year, or maybe another treat only once a month as a reward. There is not really an issue with most things in life. It's people that are the issue, not respecting themselves or the power and impact things can have. If you are really horny once in a while, nothing wrong with jerking off. Just be honest with yourself to notice when you need it, vs when you want it and it's coming from a place of addiction.

If by making it you mean opening cans and emptying them yes haha. I just moved in so my grocery shopping hasn't been a deep dive, I'll eventually learn to make the soup from separate ingredients.

Something like this. Tomato soup with a can of lentils/chick peas + some spinach and leftover korma paste for flavor. Takes 10-15 minutes just have to stir and that's it!

Are you seriously surprised? Of course the president has to peddle to the Zionists. It's been in the US' (+ main European powers) strategic interests for the past 120 years to have a proxy state and ally in the middle east, because oil became the primary energy source after coal became irrelevant. The ethnic, religious, and historical factors are all tertiary justifications for governments to position themselves in places of greater power. As soon as oil starts to phase out in favor of a cleaner more efficient energy source, you'll notice Western powers conveniently becoming inactive in the region.

Actually I am quite unpredictable, and I am impulsive. For example I talked to a man yesterday about his motorcycle while he was eating lunch. And I don't even like motorcycles!

Am super good looking, can confirm life is still quite hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Perhaps the key to life here is to stop focusing on so much resistance to the present moment, and focusing more on acceptance.

The best definition of respect I can think of personally; Faith in the good will and intentions of an individual, and to a lesser degree their ability to carry that good will out. Out of our appeal to greater humanity we are encouraged to show respect to everyone by default, and we rescind respect for them when they violate that good will. For example socially we scorn criminals and typically lose our "respect" for them, because their behavior wasn't in good will and we now question their intentions as malicious. This has a lot to do with integrity. It's difficult to respect someone who has low integrity.

? My post in this thread was about men who would date single mothers.

@Eren Eeager Maybe you have low self esteem. Perhaps you give too much authority to other people to have better answers for things than yourself. Stay open minded and listen to people, just don't take them as seriously as you have been. You'll make yourself naturally inoculated from gaslighting this way. Even if you end up holding wrong positions on things that's ok, as long as you are always trying to grow those will correct themselves. Having faith in YOU YOURSELF is the most important first thing to do

Fate is nonsense. The universe is just "ISing"

I'd never date a single mother for me personally. I was just using immature redpill/pick-up lingo to flip the scenario being suggested upside down to show that people can find happiness in relationships with other people who already have kids. People need to start dropping the childish "Alpha, chad, beta, cuck" language and start treating people as human beings.

You answered it yourself friend

Straw man? Blyat! Communism is great comrade!

A real CHAD would get with the single mother and not care that she already has kids, because they are so successful they can pay for them AND also the future kids he has with her. He will also win over the other mans kids to his side with his great charm and fathering skills Checkmate Redpillers

I wouldn't ignore them. I would confront them. If you think he's at a point he can receive it well bring it up in a mature setting. Also strongly consider going to a sex therapist either alone or together if necessary. They might be able to help you through this. It does sound like this to a degree, but that is up to you and your values. This is a radical option and should be a last resort. A suggestion like this is very tricky and can spoil a relationship to end instantly. It could be, this kind of depends on you and your past. Do you have a volatile history of getting hurt or possibly hurting others? Did those relationships actually fulfill and grow you or were they hollow? Do you think it's time you "settle" and ground yourself a bit more? Sit down to be honest with yourself, analyze your flaws, cravings, bias'. Consider everything I said, contemplate, and wait 2-3 weeks to move through your thoughts and feelings. It usually takes such time to come to better clarity. I'll say this. It sounds like you've got a good thing, but you're a bit torn with yourself over going backwards to the past. I would try to understand and get in touch with those things about yourself first. Observe yourself and try to eradicate all the selfish thoughts and feelings you may or may not have. Then think about how you want to approach the conversation with him. It's important you're brutally honest. If you really love each other and there is a bright future perhaps this is something to work on. It IS possible for him to get better at sex and maybe exercise or groom himself better in order to be more sexually attractive. Most men while taking a hit to their insecurity at first will gladly look to work on themselves for their woman. It sounds like he is already the type of guy to be willing to do that. If all these options fail you have to consider finding someone new. If you can't comfortably have a sexual relationship he is basically just an extremely good friend. I wish you all the best @Clarity808

Reading into it too much, she probably just picked it up somewhere and is having fun using it. If you're really curious just ask her casually why she's saying it

Just for the sake of a thought experiment let's say all these critiques are true, it still doesn't change the fact someone is sitting there following Leo around trying to debunk and expose him because they disagree about some things. It's probably done to countless other people as well. That's the problem with critiques, reviewers, judges - Even if you end up being right, it's still such a bitter and toxic way to be oriented with the world. Like go create something positive for people. Trying to tear stuff down is an inherently negative game and a wasteful distraction from reaching your full potential. It's the intellectual equivalent of scalping/pawn shops basically, they literally leech off the creations and works of other people. It's a sad way to live.

This is actually more to do with her and how she reacts. As long as you prefaced your criticism in a mature, nice way then you did your job. Couples should be able to point things out to each other once in a while so they can improve, because they want the best for each other. It becomes toxic when it's constant nagging or a one way street. If you notice it's still bugging her and she's being self conscious just reassure her like @DaneV said. Tell her it's not a big deal and it doesn't change your opinion of her at all it's just something you noticed, that's all.

of what haha

The evil and corruption in China will collapse the harder it tries to grip to power. With a population of billions of people and those people getting access to better technology, connection with the larger world from the internet, education, and material wealth they will inevitably turn on their government. It's simply a matter of time. The idea that China is going to be a menacing totalitarian nightmare that's going to take over the world is laughable. Not that you're saying that with this thread, it's just a paranoid attitude I see becoming pretty rampant.

LOL I actually hate most people. I'm a massive introvert. Not truly hate, of course. Just hyperbole.

Nobody actually said that here, notice how your mind came up with a thought which could be a reflection of an attitude you might have. When someone > it means she likes you and is giving you an opportunity. Seize it. Women love it when you do that.

Next time you see her, you ask her out @Willie.