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Pretty incredible that hair with middle part isn’t mentioned yet. It’s an epidemic.

This one is big where I live: The need to prevent sausages from splitting.

1984 and Animal Farm also need to be mentioned. Orwell is the greatest writer of all time in my eyes, and his books are just becoming more and more relevant. It seems to me that not nearly enough Americans have read these books or remember them well enough. The similarities between Trump and Napoleon (the pig) are shocking.

Mette Frederiksen doesn’t… https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/europe/trump-greenland-denmark.html

Norway still has a lot of oil and gas, and from MAGA’s perspective we are Islamized socialists/communists. God help us.

Seems like I’ve subconsciously adopted ChatGPT’s writing style. Now I’m ashamed.

I disagree here. Stage Purple is the lifestyle our bodies and minds are still programmed for. Therefore, it might actually be the most important stage to understand. It’s at least the stage I’m most interested in. If we want to build lives and societies with as much fulfillment and happiness as possible, I think it’s crucial to understand this way of life. For example, how do you expect to live a happy and fulfilling life if you don’t have anything in your life that resembles a good old tribe? Maybe you have some family members and friends you see once in a while, but that’s probably not nearly enough for anybody. The socialization I’ve had in my life that truly was magical and fulfilling was when my family and I were with other families we were close friends with, with kids around my age. That was kind of like a tribe. On the other hand, normal family gatherings have never given me much, and just being with my buddies has pretty much always just given me a shallow and weak form of enjoyment. We also get a pretty false picture of Stage Purple from our culture, the way it’s shown through Hollywood, etc. For example, a chief is something I have always associated with Stage Purple tribal life, but that’s actually something you find more in Red societies. Purple tribes usually don’t have one strong leader like that. Conclusion: If you don’t have anything better to do, I would love it if you took notes on Purple as well!

+1 I would say this approach is pretty heavily supported by Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Of course, it’s just a limited model and shouldn’t be taken too literally, but still. I would advise trusting your gut feeling here. If meditation and yoga feel like a waste of time, then don’t do them. Personally I’m planning to be serious about spirituality, meditation and yoga later in life. Maybe when I’m 50+. Now I prioritize things like life purpose and relationships.

I’m trying to stay away from this subforum this year because of all the Russian propaganda. Life is too short to surround myself with that shit. I just had to make a little exception today because of this crazy situation. I already regret it.

I’m reading the second book in The Stormlight Archive right now, and I must say I’m really impressed by Brandon Sanderson’s understanding of people and Spiral Dynamics so far. I haven’t read the Mistborn series, but I know that those books have also been mentioned positively on this forum before.

The idea that you should be happy with being single. People mean well when they say this because it gets a lot harder to get a (healthy) relationship if you're desperate, but I don't think it's very realistic for most people and I think this saying does more harm than good overall. If you crave love, you shouldn't let yourself be gaslit into believing there's something wrong with you.

It seems like New Year’s Eve is one of the biggest perks of being in a relationship, at least for me. Finally, it wasn’t the by far worst day of the year, like it has been ever since it went from a day spent with family and family friends to a party day during my teenage years. This time it was actually really great. Happy New Year, everyone!

You’ve got a point. You’d think she’s obviously attracted to you if she agrees to go on a date after you cold-approach her during the day, but in my experience that’s often not the case.

It’s simply incredible that people do this. Saying things like women have become too picky because they’re exposed to so many attractive men and celebrities online. As if this doesn’t apply to men as well… And then this blaming of man-hating culture among women because many would rather stay single than keep dating. Like there isn’t a good reason for this phenomenon, considering women actually want a family more than men do. All of it just to avoid admitting that our culture is dysfunctional.

They have given me some of the best moments in my life while laying on the beach, and Tomorrow never knows is as good as taking a mushroom. Conformity sure can be amazing!