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Not necessarily, for me, I found it stupid the idea of care. I can care for myself and that's all what matters. I hate animals. I hate cats and I hate dogs! You think you want to be scientific? do a study, for me an animal is to be eaten. For woman, she can socialize with animals and connect to them, talk to them..etc. Have a look at the Tiktok videos, and the evidence is overwhelming that woman do care for animals, they can speak to animals! Have you seen the video of a women scolding a bear and asking it to get out and close the door? Men will never ever live up to the notion of becoming more feminine , we don't care, we don't give a shit. It is in our biology that we just don't fucking care. Gender roles are real, and just because you can see some men in the developed countries who can bring out "their feminine side", ask about the overall level of development of that country , and probably a man of these qualities is just acting under immense pressure or brought up in a feminine milieu. I mean the notion of 'care' is so fucking alien for a man, you wouldn't imagine how alien it is! Feminists have created some example of a feminist man, and they are delusional that this can be replicated. I wish I can take you to a trip inside my brain, and the natural position for me is that I don't fucking care! I guess woman don't want to come out of their shell and get their hands dirty in knowledge and rationality, and that's just laziness! but it is easier if you did! easier than trying to create men who care! we don't! I promise you that you won't become a man! if you are a loving and caring woman, you won't become a man once you try to also adopt some of that rationality and knowledge that enables the man to build the world we live in now. No it doesn't, it doesn't at all, it is more simpler than that. the word "care" isn't in my dictionary. I simply don't care but for myself! if you believe in the existence of old men and caves and such, what was the role of men? go out in the morning, kill animals, come back, have sex, eat, sleep. this is what we like to do! Yet for women, it is different, getting pregnant for 9 months, giving birth, raising babies, all because she wants to see them smile, play, this triggers her imagination and flame her yearning for beauty.. perhaps she likes simple things, flowers, smiles, but for men, well I want to jerk off! that's the climax of my joy in life if I jerk of or fuck a woman.. I am an animal inside. When I see a woman walking I imagine her naked, trying to see what it feels like if I would to put my penis between her legs.. This is what I naturally care about! Good luck reforming men of the world I guess? Thank you for your concern here, I guess I am fine by now, yet maybe you are losing something when you're not being exposed to raw experiences like this yourself. Cuz I feel that feminisms is utter BS as you can tell, trying to reform monkeys. Yes some monkeys can be reformed, but only under very narrow circumstances as I stated earlier.

Soon to be 20 years since the American Invasion to Iraq, and I still think it was a good happening and not the worst thing that happened to Iraq. I feel those who cry the Iraq war and think that it shouldn't have happened, I feel that they are actually crying over how Saddam Hussain, a moralist, tribal, criminal dictator was overthrown! This man was sleeping on Iraqi's chests, and was leading the country into wars with neighbors, and during those wars also millions were killed. This man came to power after a bloody coup, and he also solidified his ruling through assassinating all of those whom he thought would stand against his authority. Here's a fact: The war of Iraq and overthrowing of Saddam Hussain's regime only lasted 21 days or so? this is just based on my memory of what happened. As a teenager, it was one of the happiest days in my life when we saw the statue of Saddam comes down, and I ran to check out his vast palace complex, running from one palace to another, until I got exhausted, and then after that a spent 10 days at home trying to recover from sever legs pain. What followed after that and the prolonging of the occupation was actually because of the bloody resistance, bunch of crazy gangster people who were trying to use the religious scripts and international laws as pretexts to kill "the occupiers" and whomever works with them wherever they find them. I am also glad that these were dealt with firmly, and the incident of Abu Ghareeb prison, which personally I thought is a coordinated master peace, has been successful to put an end of that, and that's when those gangsters were promised to be exposed to rape, which is the highest dishonor in Islam. All the movement died and Iraq finally moved on. The ISIS thing happened because of the corruption, and if I had to point a finger to the folks whom were responsible for that, it is the Obama Administration, and the less involvement of Obama compared to George Bush in the Iraqi situation has led to the rise of ISIS. Trump had to deal with the efforts of liberating Iraq from ISIS and the whole country was mobilized to fight them, and also had less involvement. Now for Biden, there's zero involvement in the Iraqi situation, yet the corruption continues as high as ever. The Iraqi state is still the biggest looting operation in the history of mankind, but of course this won't be lasting forever. One day Iraq is going to fall into chaos and war again, and I don't think the idea will hold that it was all because of the war on Iraq in 2003.

Hello again! sorry for the delay. For the above, well, we can assume that he's a mimi-ayatollah for Iraq, and certainly trying to compete with giants who are not only older than him, but also more knowledgeable and reputable. The thing that gave him a push is that his dad was a reputable cleric whom allegedly was killed by Saddam Hussain's guys, and this is where he is gaining the authority from. and yes he was backed by Iran until late. In the following photo, you can see him siting between the Iranian Ayatollah, and General Sulaimani who was assassinated by a US drone strike Yet right now, it seems that the honeymoon has ended, and that's when his father's disciple who himself living in Iran decided to resign from his post, and in his final statement, he said that all Muhammed Alsadir followers in Iraq (Muqtada's assassinated dad) should follow the Iranian Ayatollah. I mean this could be true yes, although there are no solid reports of that and I haven't heard or seen any videos of such operations. What's better is just flying directly to Syria over Iraq using civilian jets and going undetected. I recently knew about his dad's disciple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazem_al-Haeri , a "true knowledge seeker" and his resignation and last statement in which he challenged Muqtada's eligibility . Basically Mr. Muqtada has authority as an heir of his dad. (Link to his dad's page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_al-Sadr no not really, Muqtada won like 70 seats in the recent election, yet the other Shiite wing who has stronger ties with Iran wanted to deprive him the chance to form the government, and the armed wing of that political wing started shooting at his followers at that night. The country is run on bigotry and injustice and nobody actually cares for the future as long as everyone is getting their share of the treasure. All the security forces are there shutting the mouths of people on behalf of the whole world, suppressing and killing those who have opinions, I can see ISIS was probably a cry for justice, where the Iraqi government was really overthrown once more time by people driving Toyota pick ups, but then this government was restored and protected once again by sheer force, in the meantime tens of thousands were killed, millions were displaced, just in order for the corrupt government to come back to rule Iraq once more and for the oil to continue to flow. It is looking more and more that my ultimate goal for now is to leave Iraq forever, and I am trying to make plans for this. This country is going to go down, and one day, the US is going to find out that it is better not to get drunk on oil unless people who control it truly reform themselves and their corruption

Basically I hit the wall for hundreds of times, and that's when I learned.. The politicians don't hit many walls, all they have to do is to repeat and amplify what the collective think

Correct.. It was Audai, has a pretty interesting story and went through a failed assassination attempt which left him half paralyzed.. Was all over the media. The other was Qusai, was living a discreet life away from media while still occupying higher positions in the states, being prepared to be next in line to rule Iraq.

I wish I knew about more about systems thinking, and my intuition tells me that there was something there and the regime that Saddam was on top wasn't going anywhere anyways.. Here's an actual footage of Qusai, teaching his children (soon to rule Iraq) how to use guns, and makes me wonder at what age he would start teaching them to use it on people? https://youtu.be/5mvB-dDLSh4

@Leo Gura You're completely and absolutely right with the two points that you've just mentioned Leo. Saddam was ruling with an iron fist, and as some Iraqis also think that he was "keeping a lid on the manhole". My next point is that it was very hard to forge this national identity that you've . here are some factors that might have prohibited that: 1- During his 30 in power, there were no practical attempts or initiatives that I know of in that direction. Unlike let's say Ataturk who worked actively to forge that identity. 2- He kept the tribes and tribal system intact and used their support in order to solidify his power. 3- He himself was a tribal man, and even his sons, both of them were tribal. Even Kim Jong Un said to have studied in Europe, yet Saddadm was refusing to open up and send his children to study abroad. 4- he was actively trying to get himself into wars, and basically starting from 1991, he positioned the Iraqi people to be at war with the united states. His attitude has shifted more towards considering the US to be his number one antagonist, thus mobilizing Iraqis to look at the united states as their no. 1 enemy. Basically if anybody to support him stay in power, they are also supporting endless suffering and wars for Iraqi people I don't want to build my national identity on hating America! I love America!

I know the book has given me an insight about how differently woman think, and that has made smarter So Naturally I won't read the critics. Basically my life and what I knew and I was taught are the contradictory evidence which of course didn't work! I believe the author has also a book called "The Male Brain" and I haven't read, but I can assume it is a good read also.. Yet it is truly important to dive into this topic, and I don't find it wise to skip it. It changes your whole approach to the topic if in case you know there are deeper differences than you've thought was the case. Perhaps the socialization happened in a different way than you would imagine, perhaps the our ancestors have tried to socialize with baby boys but they finally found them dumb as F***, so they simply gave up! while it is more fun to interact with gals! I know that this is the case, and when I was young, they would allow my cousin girl to dress up and dance, while me.. nah.. I was one time traumatized when I was singing for the family and my dad brought down my pants exposing my genitals at the end of the performance and I kept beating my head and cry until my ears started to bleed. Being the monkey he was himself, perhaps he found my performance ugly! if to be compared with my cousin who wears make up, and colorful gypsy skirt and starts to dance.. I would like to think that I became much better recently.. Around 6 years with Leo, and about a year of Teal Swan, The Female Brain Book, and then on top of those around 7 months chatting with a woman on a daily basis about her life, and her break up with the one who used to bring her joy. I can relate to some of that, and it must have been tough feeling detached from the society and an outsider. How are you dealing with those issues for now? I mean this is a man's world! If you have a problem in this world it is because man has created it, with less love and understanding and compassion. I found validity in most of Teal Swan's teachings, and especially when she talks about family and gaslighting.. I feel we must go deeper and try to contemplate the origin of family, the amount of gaslighting and preassure that is practiced on young men and women in order to make them commit to marriages that otherwise they don't want! Let's start having less families or re-define what a family means. This can have an effect to raise healthier adults IMO. As of any project, you need to plan it, staragize about it and then hope for the best! could be 5% chance of winning.. One thing I learned about is that woman need some sort of guarantees before they embark on any sort of journey. IMO Feminisim is just an attack on this concept that's so called 'masculinity', what if we start thinking that men are just way way under-developped, are we going to waste this energy attacking that abstract idea? I am tired of running in circles in this world. Perhaps if I can walk a female through the corridors of knowledge and rationality, she can learn how to run the world, and she can bring her passion love and kindness to our world! I am still a man inside, and I care less, and I am less kind in general, I can only care for people that I know and no one else. Not even animals or plants or nature.. no not really.. I can't be but a man

Let's start from here, and I truly believe, and especially after I read "The Female Brain" that boys and girls are different psychologically, and it is not merely a matter of how they were socialized. According to the book, even science now knows that when Testosterone is injected in the male brain inside the womb, it corrupts the brain. In the book mentioned that a baby girl is much more intelligent than a baby boy when recognizing her parent's emotions and faces and such.. I mean for me the truth are out there, girls are much more intelligent or emotionally smart than boys, and there's little can be debated about that. What kind of struggles you've been through? for me, I was struggling because I was dumb as F*** emotionally, and it made me a clueless person when dealing with people around me.

In Leo's latest video about double standards, he talks about 9/11 and the Covid, and then drag the topic of drone attacks, and I really think he's trying to bring in perfectionism here to the scene when hoping for a near perfect America. I wish Leo was living in Iraq, where all the motehrfuckery that he's talking about is present here also! the governments here are involved with genocides against their own people, but nothing else present on top of the motherfuckery, at all! and I am pretty sure a larger percentage of the world countries are the same also. I feel what have been achieved by the American empire that truly enabled this age we're living in, and the technological advancement, the relative peace , and all those thousands of intricate international systems and treaties that enabled billions of people to live on our planet should itself become the center of attention, and should not be decimated by mentioning what's *not so perfect* stuff Truly, if you can magnify the horrific things that take place in countries like Iraq by its government, they can be a thousand times worse from all the drone attacks combined. I believe that 99% of the world stability is a direct result for the existence of the American empire, and if I wish for anything, it is just to enjoy some of that freedom that American people enjoy, and if I get there one day, I 'm going to start to talk about the horrific things that happen in Iraq, not sit there and complain about drone attacks or lack of health care coverage. Also I believe that America is embarking on its own hero's journey, the journey to bring freedom and prosperity to the whole world, and 9/11 was just another call to take action in this regard. American needs to spread freedom. While Leo is there shooting videos and speaking what's on his mind, it has became a dream for me now the simple act of shooting a photo on the street as freedom of speech is virtually non-existent here. Why don't you defend my right to free speech in Iraq? Also there's no such a thing as a Middle Easterners, and drone attacks by Americans almost unheard of here. Middle East are just a bunch of separated cities, put together because of the international law that defines countries, while they are just a bunch of isolated cities.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/removing-all-militias-baghdads-international-zone

Some Iraqi news was quoting from: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/

Kamusta ka po! Of course it is good to know that the Philippines is friendly towards LGBTQ community..I wonder how that came to be as many of its people still identify as religious there. here in Iraq it is still forbidden even for straight couple to live together without the marriage license! and also single people can't have a permit to rent a home if they were not married, a single man can't rent a home, a single woman can't rent a home. Literally no clearance or permit is given if there's no family.

I am a man, and from my experience I can ascertain that men probably are closer to monkeys than to full-developed healthy human beings, pick the best man you know, and if you are a woman, you can tell sometimes that men are closer to monkeys and gorillas. What you're saying is just labeling, healthy and toxic masculinity, just labels, and I don't think this idea can hold. No he can't, he's closer to a gorilla or monkey, in terms of his mind development and brain or whatever. Psyche development I guess the correct term. If you ever feel like that sometimes, then your feelings are true! I know what I was, and I know how much effort and attempts it took me to become what I am today. This is a good question. Man's brain is corrupt actually, look at a male child, and look at a female child, and you can discern easily that a male child is clueless, while female child is much more smarter emotionally. A male child grows, goes to outside world, study, go to army, or find a job,make gadgets, and make the world run, yet he never has the chance to make himself smarter emotionally by training himself with a woman! in fact society expect him to be smart out of the box! or from the get go.. If you are a monkey, you need some training from someone who's smarter than you, a woman. Men lack this type of smart, and they simply can't acquire it by themselves. They simply can't!

Thanks again for the solidarity here. It is nice to learn that good people like you do think about my safety Let's get back to business: Muqtada Alsadar is today the strongest man in Iraq, has a wide populous base, and a militia. He's playing power games though, and it's been many years where he learned that he can have the biggest mass in the street, bigger than any other populous mass. He seems to be playing power games, reminding everyone that in case they don't take what he wants in account, he's going to be causing chaos. Now his political wing won the election, yet other political Shiite are not letting him also have a subordinate as the Iraqi PM. That would be solidifying his position as the ultimate leader of IRaq, making him sort of similar to the Iranian situation, and for that, he actually gave his followers 24 hour to do whatever they want to do, by claiming that he resigned from his post. Next day, and after they turned Baghdad into a complete chaos, he went on TV and expressed his dissapointment in his ,militia and followers! ordering them to go home in less than 60 minutes! As if he had nothing to do with what was happening! That's true, there was sever fire in the "not-so-green" zone.. it continued for the whole night until he appeared again on TV the next day at around 12 PM maybe? So what's happening is that now everyone is complementing him and sort of sucking up to him for ordering his followers to go home, even his rivals, and the Iraqi president, and current PM, they are all applauding him for that! Now we are in the next phase, are they going to listen to what he wants and go to a new election? It is really dark and complicated, yet after the chaos night, I believe everybody is going to try to take what he wants in account in order not to upset him again.. Also his resignation came as a reaction for his deceased father's friend and disciple, himself a religious man living in Iran, and the latter when he resigned, he said that Muqtada doesn't represent his father anyways, and that all the current followers of Muqtada and his deceased father should follow the Iranian Murshad Khaminie.. And that's when Muqtada made a statement, scolding that man, and announcing resignation, and that's when the chaos started and storming the green zone... Yet Basically, as I stated before, Iraq is probably the biggest looting operation in the history of humanity, and at the end, everybody is going to come together so that the oil flow continues.. Today I've read headlines that even the US is making statements that goes with some Muqtada's Demands.

Hello there thanks for checking on me.. I just came back to the forum again. I'm fine and I hope you're too I'll try to comment soon on the topic again and elaborate..

Who's going to hold man accountable and make him understand the scope of his madness? A woman can't do that while at one hand she seeks man as a protector, or take him, and masculinity as her enemy. I feel woman must try to get her hands dirty with thoughts, logic..etc and with enough love can truly reach man's heart and touch it, not as an enemy, or a protector, but as a Goddess. I would say mostly woman, she bares, she raises for years, she carries, she feed. Man is barely the monkey around that hunt for food.

With my simple English, I just want to say thank you for sharing this here. I've read it all and I like what's in it.

Hey have you tried experimenting with this? seems that it works for me https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNVgmnky/?k=1

I remembered Kennedy's words when you were mentioning not to choose the path of least resistance. From Kennedy's speech Were these good goals to work towards? @Leo Gura

I purchased the latest and greatest Amazon Kindle, only to discover that I suck at reading! I ditched it and now I am using a tool called Natural Reader This is the free online version: https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/ Also there's an Android app that I am using to read the PDF books for me. What I do is to make the app read me about 5 pages per day, and then I come back and review them the next day. I discovered that when you review what you've learned, the benefit will double, and that's because the first time you are becoming familiar with the language or rhetoric used in the book, and second time your focus will be on the content of the book. Have Fun!

Leo talks about money and sex as some goals in life to be worked on, but really what's money? And what's sex?

Did the colonial era ended? not really... I live in Iraq, and it is a made up country, a British lady known as Gertrude Bell helped tribes in Iraq to form the first ruling council, and it didn't work, as after that there were many bloody revolutions and regime change, and the last one when the United States came to Iraq and installed a pseudo-democratic regime. What are Iraq's foundations? -Oil industry invented by the west. -Oil exported to the rest of the world in exchange for dollars -The dollars are distributed to people from top to bottom, and poverty is very high due to corruption. -The western countries invite the children of wealthy top people to their universities and taking their money, giving them worthless certificates. -Everybody is selling Iraqis something and no one wants to purchase anything from them except the oil -Corruption is very common -Iraqi passport isn't really a passport, it is a document that deny its holders from entering most countries of the world, having the second from the end of the list position and only beaten by Afghanistan. The west insist that this is a developing country, assuming that it can develop in the future, but in reality they are sponsoring all kind of corruption that's happening in Iraq, and stealing Iraqi people's money through their educational institutions. Like seriously, the only people who can afford to send their sons and daughters to study abroad in western universities are corrupt upper class ruling people in Iraq, and westren enducational institutions welcoming them with open arms. Are they choosing to teach the most brilliant people of Iraq? of course not! Are you thinking that sons of wealthy and corrupt are going to want to build this country when they have higher degrees? But even though nobody seems to care, Iraq is going to be as it has always been for the past 20 years or so a source of trouble for the whole world, until somebody think to pay attention and come and try to sort this mess up and make things work.

@ThePoint Upon reading your reply I feel like I remember a part of my life when I had this kind of anxiety, and I didn't know how to describe it or what it is actually, and I used to feel annoyed by that. The source of my anxiety was the fact that I am living in Iraq, where things get out of hand every now and then, above that there were news about possible future disasters like a dam that could collapse and kill 500 thousands people in 24 hours. I think what helped me to be calmer is that I learned how to get to a place that enables me to be safe psychically, and also watching lots of videos from Leo, which helped me recontextualize things in a totally new manner Do you think you can share what type of life you're living? with what people? and such... it would help to try to figure out the effect of your surroundings on you..

I met this girl about 6 months ago online, she's an American-Chinese girl, and out of necessity, she did let me into her personal life in exchange for asking my advice for a romantic relationship she is having with a Middle Eestern guy. It was an enlightening experience for me, and especially in the light of the development that happened since my last failed relationship about four years ago, and we are now not talking after I tried to set boundries with her when it comes to access for my time. She didn't like what I said apparently and I don't know, maybe she's a bit angry when I mentioned to her that I need to limit the time we are talking on the phone, but anyways here are some of my remarks which in my opinion can be a good interpretation for the dating reality, therefore I am generalizing here: 1-Girls like cute guys, they try to imagine how would it feel to be with a cute guy, someone who's taller than them (how would it feel if he hugs me? probably I am going to fit well in his arms), and this didn't make me sad because I don't fit the category, on the contrary, this makes me feel pity for cute guys, because all those girls who are around them are probably not interested in them genuinely (although they think the opposite), and this certainly won't push me to look good and become one of those cute guys that women wants to be with. 2-Girls have a sense of urgency. Time for girls are measured in days, minutes and hours, and they want good things to happen to them almost instantly, they need instant results with little to no planning, unlike guys who are geared towards planning and strategizing. This way, girls are in a very disadvantage position, and their sense of urgency will certainly gets them nowhere. 3- Connection for woman is essential, she wants to be connected to as many people (mostly men) as possible, chatting with 3 different guys per day for hours and hours, phone calls included, and according to the book "The Female Brain" woman depends on connection to survive, while for us men, connection is a mere luxury, we want to connect to others when we are done from our daily business and survival activity, and just a little of that is enough to make us feel good. 4- Unlike men, Women do not interface with the outer world directly. They don't like to try to understand the world like a man does, and that's because they depend on others and the social network to get their needs met. They have little to no interest in gadgets, and they don't know how it feels for a man who is supposed to meet his need wrestling with the outer world. More often than not, I felt that she wasn't able to understand the magnitude of the problems that I am facing in life, and the daily challenges. I'll add to the list later if I remember any other points.