Natasha Tori Maru

@TheBG FWIW I needed external force to move me on a new trajectory into actualizing my unlived/unexpressed masculinity. It didn't come from within, as much as I would have liked this. The negative feelings that come up around it were a powerful motivating force to pull my attention to attend something. I always feel negative emotions are beneficial as they orient us to look at things that may be wrong. This is from the frame of someone pathology free IE you do not have a panic disorder or chronic depression etc. I am a woman, so naturally do not have a huge need to exercise my masculine energy - and I still felt a huge compulsion. I just wish I had the wisdom to act on it without reality forcing it. And I think your post was really useful - even if you knew the answer all along. You never know how your words might help someone else in a similar position

Commit. Shave it. I love running my hands over dudes shaved heads. Free skull massage at the next meet-up 😄💀

Haha, I love the wellness vampire who sells eevo called 'snake oil' 🥹 He does some good chit with his 4 pillars advice. Solid

I'm going by what he repeats over and over again, his history and how grand vision. Combined with being a member of the elite. I just don't trust anyone famous or part of the rich upper class who do the 'podcast circuit' and all attend the same cliquey events. It makes me skeptical as fuck. Combined with him trying to be so charming. I do not trust charisma and charm. It's a red flag for me. It isn't needed if you have integrity and are a healthy individual. So I have a bias. And yeah I can concede everyone is egoically motivated. But a big ego is always slippery. And I think opens is up to corruption moreso. These silly rich elites are always so greedy for more. And I see this reflectes in Bryan's ideology. Regardless of how he professes this is for everyone - it's just a different wrapper on the same shit. I do not trust him. Simple as that. I think he has some mental health issues - he is pathological with his application of protocols. His money could be better spent elsewhere and the hype makes me 🤢🤮 But I respect your position 😁

@Carl-Richard Yep, and it is those engineering problems that may well be solved. But you have to look at his intentions in totality - he claims his whole purpose and desire is about being remembered in the 25th century. He compares himself to others that are remembered. That could go many different ways - but I think he means well in that he wants to be remembered for the right reasons. There is a lot of hubris there. The only reason I raise this? Most who defend Bryan go on about how humble he is, his pure intentions. At the end of the day, he is just like anyone else with selfish motivations. Ego. It just so happens there are good things behind it all. I just think it is a clever ruse that so many who follow social media are totally blind to. He is living a privileged, elite existence - he stated that 'signing his will' is a sufficient thought experiment to compare suffering to someone on life support with a breathing apparatus, with no quality of life. I see him constantly saying he is a deep thinking and philosopher - and then presenting NO real thoughts behind some huge counter points to his philosophy. No intention to address them. Just some jukes to avoid questions. Couple that with the biggest issue I have; how the hell is he going to know with rigor what works, if he does live for an extended period? I just don't have any faith in n = 1 experiments. But hey - that's me. I also think the excessive testing can be problematic. I do love that he advocates for the basic pillars of health. So overall I like his content and message. I think what he is doing is innovative in some ways. But the hype surrounding him is misplaced. I love he is exploring psychedelics. I dislike the blueprint product grift. I dislike the ideology around AI controlling our existence. I think his philosophy is poor. I dislike transhumanism because I feel like there are huge potential issues that are being overlooked in its pursuit. And Bryan is a transhumanist imo. I am very much middle-of-the-road with my opinion of him. I think nothing will come of his experiment.

@Carl-Richard I agree 'don't die' is a marketing slogan. Bryan also genuinely wants to live forever, though.

@ZenSwift I think it worthy to note, the actualized quote in question is based heavily around ones ability to infer. It is not hard evidence.

Well tbh, it is nasty as fuck imo 💀 When it comes to personal taste and aesthetics, there isn't some objective metric we can use to take a dump on someone lol. It is by its very nature subjective 😄

What makes the first impression on you when listening to a tune, rhythm or melody? Do you play music, or dance? Many dancers and drummers I know tend toward noticing rhythm first, movement & beat. Other musicians hear the emotional crescendos of the melody & sequential pitches. I do not know if there is any pattern to be found here. I am a dancer and only ever learned some drums and a touch of bass guitar (rhythm). I have always heard the beat and rhythm first. It catches me before the melody. I feel the beat in my body as movement, I feel the melody as an emotional weight in my chest and heart 😃

@Florian hey man, I just questioned some gaps in Bryan's philosophy. It's got nothing to do with you. I didn't make a comment about your character, I make comment about the arguments you present. I pointed out you glossing over the seriousness of people with terrible rng quality of life by stating 'sleep fixes most emotional problems'. I did remark that you might have some egoic attachment to Bryan though, if you feel a compulsion to defend or become emotionally charged over this topic. I think the nature and volume of your replies makes this a logical inference. Where did I say that? I questioned his philosophy and how it applies to those individuals and how he avoids addressing it. Like he avoids addressing any question that might poke a hole in 'Dont Die'. It points to the position of privileged alite living in a myopic bubble. I mean - for God's sake he equivocated someone on a ventilator, totally incapacitated, only able to breath and survive like that (endless suffering) as him signing his fucking will document! He literally thinks he understands that persons perspective based on the thought experiment or signing his will... I've personally lived with an individual who suffers from a cluster B personality issue. Sleep doesn't fix this. Sleep helps with most low level emotional regulation issues. But most people aren't so fragile that 30 minutes less bricks their system. Bryan has thyroid issues. He only publishes his TOP STATS and won't release them all. There's just some inconsistencies in his behaviour. I've stated many times the basics pillars Bryan emphasises are great. Overall he is doing some innovative things. But you can't just ignore the huge issues with his philosophy. You can't ignore the fact that if something ends up working to extend his life, we have no way of knowing what worked. And that's mainly because his experiment is throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something will stick. We won't know what spaghetti strand worked because there is no rigor on his experient. It's not controlled enough. Or at all. n = 1 isn't a viable experiment scientifically. Couple that with his desire to create a religion 'my competitor is Jesus' + his don't die dinners. You have to critically question what's going on? He proposes AGI making all decisions for our wellbeing in those dinners. No decisions on our behalf. When you raise issues about the application of Don't Die projecting out to the future - his answer is the equivalent 'it will be alright, it will work itself out'. It's not like I am not familiar with Bryan, I've been following him for longer than many. There are just some huge parts of his philosophy that are fucken weird and sloppy. Again, yes I am gung ho raising this issues. And I want to hear the debunk, because I change my mind regarding my assessment of people all the time. I still dont see any evidence to convince me he is anything other than a grifter who slowly introduced the grift. It's just packaged in a nice way for people to digest it easier. It's crazy to suggest closing the forum because you disagree with others... Holy moly !

@AION yeah similar reason for me going for the X1. The only drawback is the fucken matte black finish. Maybe I'm just a grubby bitch, but holy mother of god the fingerprints. God help you if you have ANY grease on your hands. I liked the MacBook pro but I need Windows apps a lot. And I prefer windows OS as well. It's light enough for me to ride to work with it in a backpack fwiw

It was a long dialogue. We live in the same apartment complex and work together. Just little conversations here and there with lots of time between . Always different aspects of his troubles with women. I think the time between let him think about it, take small steps and watch how his results changed. I also think he had an idea of how women 'worked' and projected this onto all women. So he tried to apply some formula to 'get women'. Like step 1. 2. 3. = results. He had to let that go & a big part of it was realizing women are all different. All want different things. All respond differently. With some commonality of course. I went out with him a few times as a 'wingwoman' at bars and clubs. It got him into places, and he also got to introduce chicks to his sister who was out having some fun with him. I think this made a lot of women feel safer around and acted as an icebreaker. I think the biggest thing it did was to open up opportunity so he could just speak to women like humans and not pedestalize them.

@CARDOZZO appreciated 🙏🏻 unfortunately any truth I might speak on the matter will be dismissed, because I have a pair of tits over a cock. It's good, well rounded, healthy masculine men who need to lead the charge. More fathers who aren't 'genetic' fathers. I mean male leaders ❤️ My brother went through some resentment toward women for a while. When I really sat down with him a lot of what he spoke about was desperately wanting a woman. Loving women. But resenting them for not accepting him. Resentment because he felt he wasn't 'chosen'. That resentment was unconsciously coming out and women were turned off hardcore. He changed his mindset and deleted all social media. Now he has kids and solid relationship. Happy chappy carpenter 😄

@Valach I think I misspoke actually - I think secures do use dating apps but are on them way less prior to paring up. I think they get used as a tool to filter heavily, efficiently and quickly. The 2 secure people I know used them to filter their preferences and moved off them right away. They didn't get caught in 'paralysis by analysis' of all the options out there. Well this is what they told me, anyway. They could be wrong - sample size of 2 there 🥹🥹🥹

I use a Lenovo X1 carbon professional. Hasn't skipped a beat in 2 years. Use it for AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Revit, email, conference calls (zoom, teams) + ten million horrible .pdf files for plansets that typically kill a laptop. Also run a few AI recording apps that compile meeting minutes etc. What will you use it for? And what was your main issue with the apple laptop?

@Tenebroso to be quite frank, again. I repeat myself - you don't know what women want. Don't be content to lay down and cry rather than try to take action to change your cognitive bias. You have severe victim mindset. Try to understand that video I linked. It might help unravel the false meanings you have created.

@Tenebroso yeah. I will respond to you that way. Because the content you consume is making you a victim. You view yourself as some innocent person who is at the mercy of evil women. And you stereotype all women this way. You have all the power to go out and have a different experience. The sad thing is, manosphere 'red pill' and content creators that peddle this bullshit want to make you feel powerless so they can hold your biggest commodity; your attention. Your click. Your view. Your time and money. They want you powerless and you believe them. Don't. Listen to someone like @CARDOZZO who has the opposite of this victim mindset. And stop being sexist, stating 'all women are this'. No.

@Florian can you link me to statements or some evidence Bryan has made about curing suffering? Addressing people with chronic pain? Personality disorders? Depression? I am sorry 'sleeping well along fixes most emotional problems'. Strawman. I am talking people who have low quality of life. People who have incurable personality disorders or depression. Some of these people would not like to be told they are going to love forever in pain. Please link me Bryan's strategy for addressing this? Not your interpretation. Even just some thoughts from him, rather than his cowardice avoiding the question all the time. I am happy to change my mind. But I have never seen Bryan even try to think or address people who suffer chronically from pain. He has never once tried to understand how Don't Die applies to them and rap on it. He just deflects the question and talks about the virtue of existence. Have a listen to this. Some of the comments below ask these serious questions: https://youtu.be/OqlPU1CKEpI?si=d9HGaiuOZ0lmiTpn

Fuck you, Ames Window (many of you have probably come across this): Demonstrates our brains prioritise assumptions over raw data. Perception is a best guess not a direct feed, here we are predictively processing. Reality = sensory input + built in expections. Depth cues like perspective and motion are ambiguous... When two cues conflict the brain fucken brute forces it, picks one interpretation and makes it fit what it thinks will happen. What we are 'seeing' in reality is like a controlled hallucination mechanistically. The brain is constantly predicting, correcting errors and then making shit up to fill the gaps. I feel betrayed 💀

...that you cannot believe is still free? For me its VLC, Blender. ffMPEG, OBS and Linux (to name what I use currently)

@Carl-Richard what is more fucked up is as an artist raised on first principles in fine art, I was taught myriad tricks in rendering images to fool the onlooker. So a serious of random lines close up look like a mess but then from afar it's a reed bed on water etc. I feel like I should know better, but the depths of self deception is like a recursive shit spiral of lies 😭 This deserves a blog post - Actualized.org quote style, imo

You're not wrong - I see 20% tauted by reputable people who study attachment theory and dating patterns. But then my experience says... Fuck no.

@AerisVahnEphelia rofl it always comes down to projecting the spigot

@Lila9 heh heh so tldr - it's all shit in different forms? Poking fun, but I agree. It's easy to look on externally and form some opinions from that surface; the reality of living it is another thing entirely.

You know - when you remove problems from people. It reveals this big empty hole inside they have never faced. An unoccupied, un-inspected place. When we are first confronted with it - it gets slapped with 'boredom' or 'understimulated'. But if you sit with it, you reveal what cannot be spoken. You connect with breath - how we connect to reality moment to moment. But yeah most people fucken hate the mundane that is underneath their drama and problems. So they just make some more to replace the old 🤣🤣🤣