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I second this thank you @Forestluv

Hooray!!! This bs is finally over now the real show begins

You know what's funny, if Trump didn't mishandle Covid I'm 90% sure he would have won by now. Im generally disappointed on how close this election seems to be.

Most defiantly, I always preach whether man or woman you must learn how to defend yourself. If you or someone you love is in a serious threat you need to have confidence you can escape with minimal damage. Keep doing it, try sparing with another fighter if you really want to test yourself

I've never understood why Joe is friends with this guy in the first place, Jones exhibits so much negative aspects of stage red it surprises me that him and Rogan are so close. Is it normal to be friends with people that low on the spiral if you're considerably developed?

Now that we're coming up on the election date, I've been speaking to relatives and friends about politics and all the events thats been happening as of late. Supreme Court decisions, presidential candidates ect. Some of them I actually respect and look up to but when I hear them adamantly defending why they support Trump and Amy Coney Barrett or any conservative leaning politicians, I can feel myself getting mad on how stupid their thinking process is. I then try to explain to them why their not moving America forward but are actually keeping us stagnant and it always feels combative and dirty which is quite draining. They believe they're all individuals and should be treated as such and believe Trump is going to maintain that right. When I tell them we're all part of a community and voting should not be for ourselves but for everybody they laugh and tell me I'm to idealistic. I have no problems with either party, as they both have their pros and cons but from now own I refuse to engage anybody who honestly thinks Trump should be President or he should stay in politics cause it never goes anywhere. Why is talking about politics always feel dirty?

@lmfao Great job confronting this person! Always do this to people who cross certain boundaries. The fact he actually apologized and is still engaging with you is actually pretty surprising. Your gonna meet assholes in your life thats inevitable but you have one advantage, you understand that this is only bad because it goes against your Ego-mind and you can change the meaning of this experience. He's probably suffering from living his own life and is so numb to his emotions that he doesn't even know how to sympathize or see his own flaws thats gotta suck. If you want to speed up this emotional cleansing find a way to forgive him and actually put yourself in his shoes and see what life is like from his angle. Letting go and challenging your limiting beliefs about this guy is what's going to heal you, not hearing his apology or getting him to see his own flaws, he'll change when he's ready.

What you do in this situation is try to find a way to get direct experience in whatever it is you're trying to understand, whether by speaking to somebody about the topic in real life or by going through it yourself. Then repeat again Nothing cuts through the Ego-minds bs more than direct experience!

@Loss I get what you mean, Redpill can serve as a good outlet if you've been naive in how the world works and can actually force you to improve yourself but its meant to be outgrown. Ive talked to people who stumbled upon redpill ideology and man do they stick out like a sore thumb. Their views on women are selfish and borderline misogynistic. They give off a weird, bitter vibe and aren't really fun to be around. Redpill does have some good ideas that points out toxic elements of female nature but once you understand that stuff just move on to higher quality material. If you fix your biggest insecurities you realize girls are human too and can choose to do what they want, just like how you can choose to do what you want. Most women arnt as bad as redpill ideology makes them out to be. Basically Redpill is like a prison for your mind, if you don't outgrow it and move on it will creep into other areas of your life and make you worse off as a man.

@Karmadhi Seriously hight doesn't matter as much as you make it out to be I've seen it with my own eyes, a buddy I used to game with bagged some serious stunners (regularly) and was only 5'5, didn't have model looks by any stretch and didn't start off with good social skills. He would have this joke where he would stand on his tip toes to kiss girls sometimes and it usually got such a good reaction. Its not your hight thats killing your chances with women its the fact it bothers you so fucking much, women have a sixth sense for sniffing out insecurity's and no 6inch boots or whatever shoe padding there is out there is gonna fix that.

@Willie Pay attention to your epistemology and how your mind interprets info. If you feel uneasy, angry or unwilling to change your perspective seek to understand through direct experience or at least try to adopt multiple perspectives. You do this for a while and your intuition takes over and you can easily see all the epistemic traps someone might have when introducing an ideology. Alex Jones is childs play, if someone can't see what's wrong with him they've got a lot of work to do

@BoyinParis You recongnize that people will always have it better than you and people will always have it worse, so you choose to live your own life. If you live in a first world country, with internet, in a relatively safe neighborhood, a decent family and don't have to worry about if you're eating that week you should be asking, "why do I have it easy compared to others" Think on that for a little. Always strive to live life based on your direct experience not what your mind is drumming up, if you don't like it do something about it.

@Loss Yeah great job man, listen the best thing that you did was realize this at 30 and not in your later years. I'll save you with the generic advice you've probably heard before and give you more personal advice. Don't join any far right or left extremist political groups, gangs, Incel, Redpill or any other cult like organization, this will create an echo-chamber on your deepest insecurities and bring you to a point of no return, if your in any right now set a goal to rid yourself from them. Journal down all crucial decisions or events that led you to the person you are now. (Mentality, levels of consciousness, actions, ect.) Surrender all feelings of pain, guilt, regret and let it come out. Then for each reason, rack up your mind to re-define each event as a blessing in disguise, (most of the time suffering leads to the most purest form of growth so don't half-ass or skip this step I promise you'll find something insightful.) Abandon complex spirituality and concepts, for now don't look too much into it. From what I can tell most people on this forum study spirituality as a form of bypassing to prevent learning survival skills, which always bites them in the ass. Instead focus on developing a strong mediation routine, (don't meditate to get "enlightened" but to say grounded and find inner peace) Stop comparing yourself to other people or what you could've been, recognize this is a fabrication of your own mind and it's something you don't have direct experience with. Measure yourself only on the goals you set for yourself and the ones you manage to complete. If you find you can't complete any start of small and continue to build up your goals as you develop confidence in yourself to complete them. This is what develops true confidence

@Chakra Lion Being open-minded is no problem but one needs to know when to draw the line. If you honestly believe Alex Jones has helped make this world a better place than thats all you buddy, but most people are not seeing that way.

Definitely agree with this, the sad thing is Joe really does seems to be open minded based upon his vast catalog of guests but he's becoming so mainstream that eventually he's going to confirm to mainstream narratives. Kind of like how Joe is getting backlash from Spotify for stuff he used easily get away with back in the day. The more mainstream you get, the more you have to fit to their standards, and Joe's the perfect example of this.

@Loss Were do you want to improve the most? Or a better question would be, what can you fix that would solve 80% of your problems? Narrowing this down is important that way people can help you better and not give such general advice that may not apply to you.

@Scholar Joe is changing though, this episode he had Alex on leash anything, he would claim he would have Jamie fact check to see if what he was saying was true much different than the other times. It's entertaining yet low quality it's so easy seeing all the epistemological traps they both fall into this episode.

@DocWatts I agree with you Ive definitely been introduced to new topics and perspectives through JRE but can see the danger introducing Alex Jones types to his 10million followers. Youtube is actively suppressing this episode for this very reason, a typical podcast ep with Alex gets millions of views the first few hours its released and I didn't even get a notification for this episode.

@PurpleTree I don't believe I'm "better" than other people just because their not as cognitively developed, it's just hard to relate to someone with such destructive values. Didn't Alex vow to destroy Joe Rogan for some strange reason then go back to being buddy buddy with him? It's just weird people can be friends with somebody like that.

If you make good money in this country it doesn't matter who the president is you won't really be affected, (speaking from personal experience) I recently got into politics only because some of my friends and family members were struggling severely after covid hit and that led me to see how delusional and inefficient Trump is as a leader. The only people who suffer from Trump seems to be middle class and poor people yet their Trumps biggest fan base go figure...

Great thread! Definitely going to check out some of these teachers

@Don Wei Hahahaha remember these days kid, it will be something funny to look at once you get better at stuff like this. This date is most likely not going to go well and so will the next 5. The problem isn't "you" but simply you just dont have enough experience. One of the biggest lessons I learned from pickup is that if your afraid to "lose" the girl your actions are going to be congruent with that frame. You give off a "Im not used to girls showing me attention" vibe and they have a 6 sense for it. Handling this part is the most essential key for getting women to be attracted to you. They only way to combat this is to talk to many many girls its as simple as that. Find a way to go out and meet girls whether at a venue, park, social gathering, tinder and just TALK TO THEM. I see people on this part of the forum giving terrible advice to guys who don't have any experience with women to "work on yourself and let them come to you" but this just isn't true. No matter how much mediation, working out or whatever other self improvement you do, if you want to get good with girls you must have a plethora of infield experience. Ofc to get the best results you need to work on yourself but going out and talking to a lot of women will solve like 80% of all of your issues.

Ive been putting off watching her work only because her teaching style turns me off, but many people keep recommending me to watch her videos so I think ill give it another go. @Origins @Mesopotamian Which of her videos do you think transformed you to the most?

Honestly old RSD material was a goldmine no other PUA material goes in-depth in terms of attracting high quality women then them. Tyler and Julian were the best instructors. Their Yt vids got taken down and there doing a mass scrubbing of all their old content but if you look up "RSD Tyler Megalink" on reddit or google you should find hours worth of life changing content

@Thestarguitarist14 I see where your coming from but you've gotta understand that your saying this because you've spent time getting good with women, how could you expect a guy who has never gotten laid or is not good with women to believe, "I can be in a healthy loving relationship with myself." I believe every guy should go into a healthy form of pick until they feel confident in their ability to attract a partner, then focus on other things.