Natasha Tori Maru

Not to be done without a medical professional consultation. Even supervision in many cases. Fasting definitely doesn't fix even half of the serious issues our modern medicine system can. One of my aunt's was diagnosed with MND. She delayed all diagnostics and treatments. Tried fasting extensively. She is still delusional she can cure MND with fasting. Not to say it doesn't have benefits. But 50 days dry fast, just seems to be the typical human mindset of 'more is better'. Rarely the case with health. It's about homeostasis.

Gotcha - I thought you were making a claim damage was being done to young men through his advice. Substantiating that would be a challenge. The above regarding his financial corruption - yes.

How are you quantifying this?

@Sugarcoat

I cannot talk - I've done plenty of nudist festivals >.<

In my experience people do not cut and run when you stop providing value. It is a limited frame that inoculates out Love.

Cheers to THAT!

In my experience - people who commit these acts do not get away with it. This depends on your definition of 'get away with it'. These individuals have a terrible inner world/existence. Their own minds are their enemy. Our actions not aligning with who we are - a mother - fracture your internal integrity. This causes internal dissonance, self hatred, distress and negative self image (and a myriad other issues). I would hazard a guess and say your mothers mind is a cage of self flagellation and internal self denigration. She will not be aware of this, but it will manifest in profound distress. I am so sorry you are going through this. I too, was hit, abused and tortured by my mother and stepdad. But the path you are taking - to be the bigger person and more mature - you maintain your inner integrity. This is priceless. Your peace of mind and crystal diamond clean integrity will be the key to healing and bouncing back All things change, all things must end. You won't be in this situation forever.

39 years, 5 months & 18 days

I came across these also - it is very, very worth it to note that Scott has really ridden the privilege of being able to capitalise on how much easier prosperity was when he was a young man. His generation received handouts and concessions in a way current younger men cannot access as easily. He's a tail end boomer.

I love he expounds on male suicide. I think it is a tragedy that need highlighting more. What makes it extra horrible is it cements the feeling that men are already disposable and worthless - which many men already suffer from. I think I am concerned and passionate about this topic, because I see the emotional health of men on construction sites. I've had apprentices unalive themselves. As a woman working in the field with them, and sometimes being hands on with demo, hanging doors and running cable in areas they cannot reach, I participate in the communal comradery & banter Scott speaks about. Its when you are achieving something alongside men, they open up. Just as an off-hand comment here or there. I tend to hear a lot about their personal lives and troubles because I am a woman, and there is more perceived safety opening up to a woman (in my experience, at least). They don't need solutions - I tend to end up talking to them about what they are feeling, deeply probing into it, and revealing what other thoughts arise WITH the feeling and where they could stem from. Feelings are always bundled with thoughts, assumptions, narratives, identity claims and self-concepts. We go into uninspected belief territory often. You can tell when speaking to them, they do not often get into deep personal issues many in their lives. I enjoy the psychological aspect of it, and it's a huge boon for me in business. I find the guys on site are more motivated, happier and have a genuine desire to do good work, get the job done on time and on budget. All from having a chat about some troubles here and there. The difference is dramatic following some of these spur-of-the moment heart-to-heart chats. I just let them feel seen and heard. I don't think that happens often for a certain breed of man.

AI slop now. Thank riddence I binned google as a search engine over a year ago. https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

I lean into this. Much more pragmatic take. Stripped down of inflated hype and dreams.

I use duckduckgo, startpage and kagi (paid though). I used to use Brave but it's been turd lately. Not sure what changed there.

Do I? Or do I have my own truth? If you haven't noticed, across our dialogue, and all dialogue with others on this forum, you rarely ask questions about others worldview to try to understand in earnest. Let alone mine. You simply never drop frame and insist on your own. Again and again. And again. And again and again. And that's fine, you can do that if you will. Because you won't ever abandon your worldview in earnest open enquiry, to really try to understand someone else's, you misunderstand others. And this is why you don't understand Ralston. You demonstrate it with almost every statement you make. You also ask others to teach you about Ralston through their own lens of interpretation. Further removing you from understanding him. My suggestion is, if you really want to participate in a real teardown of Ralston - you're going to have to batten down the hatches and read his books.

Respect. I must be shit 🥹

No worries ! Thank you for the support

It is part of the story he tells himself

Yep. Also he HEAVILY advocates for the need and (current gap) for strong male role models men can get behind. The role of "fathers" is really important. He doesn't advocate for returning to a previous system, or trying to change others. I like how he is more focussed on how men can cultivate integrity and worth through changing themselves and not blaming external factors. I think it is a self empowering message to run against the hopeless nihilism much of the younger generations are faced with in current culture. He emphasises how a lot of male suicide is punctuated common narratives around feeling "useless" and worthless. Pointing toward males having a deep need to provide value for their themselves as a natural manifestation of masculinity - and not because they are forced to be value providers by external incentive structures (that's not to deny there aren't significant external incentives at force, more that this is actually a positive masculine trait that produces positive self worth when fertilised). Less 'society needs to fix this' and more recovering male agency, meaning & competence. This is too simple and falls into the reductionist trap. He says alcohol is one potential way to assist with socialization but its a mechanism to loosen up - and there are others. You've also twisted his message of cultivating purpose and value into straight making money - he never claims this is the only way to actualise as a man. This is just your stripped down interpretation.

Okay Jan, go tell someone on the street they are dumb and see what sort of reaction you get. Nice mental gymnastics to justify doing whatever the hell you please. Not discussing this any further. You know the rules - do it again and test them at your peril.

I agree with this - it's a loaded term. When it's thrown around in debates like this, additional work has to go into stripping it of meaning that users bring, AND THEN reconstruct what others mean by the term. You double your work having to educate and redefine it. I don't ever refer to societies structures in a gendered way.

I agree. It reads like dead perfection of human prose. Like a simulacrum of a human mind's thoughts. It sticks from a mile away. I question a lot of its uses in general - is it enhancing our active participation in life - or is it removing us to be more of a 'witness' or 'observer'? We are devolving into spectator chimps of our lives, rather than chimps engaged and involved with the chimping

The internet has degraded in quality. Flood the zone with shit. Misinformation and disinformation is too widespread. Vetting is becoming harder and harder. I've been on the internet heavily since mid-90s when DIALix existed in Australia. It's been a slow boil. Reddit is actually foul. The group think there is really pervasive. And I swear to GOD LLM's are vomiting up consensus from that cesspool

Porn can be addictive. There is no arguing around this.