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Then we agree. Both sides are responsible in different ways. --- Also, the two statements below are very very contradictory. Why can't the Jewish people just have moved on after 2000 years then?

This situation highlights the problem with a foreign policy that involves trying to force regions of the world to develop to Western standards. Yea, Israel is a richer and more developed country now, but it was created out of nowhere in a poor and conflict prone part of the world, in the homelands of native people who were then treated like shit. It was always going to be an incredibly messy situation. Denying that the West or Israel bear any responsibility for creating this mess is silly. Forcing regions of the world the develop doesn't tend to work well, they need to be given time and support to develop. And yes, Hamas is incredibly radical and not the kind of people you want in charge of anything. But a large amount of their fuel comes from being able to radicalise their population against Israel because of past injustice and current treatment. It also seems that you are viewing the Isareli side as the country of Israel and Israeli people, but you are viewing the Palestinian side as only as the evil Hamas. I think that makes it easier for you to see it is a black and white situation when it is not so clear cut.

Fuck lol. I'm glad you realise what a sham that is at least. He is using the age old scam of converting people's insecurity into money. His video titles/thumbnails are designed to make you feel a visceral insecurity so that you click on them to find out if what he is saying is really true and applies to you. From here he can funnel you into his other revenue streams like paying for ratings and offering you a solution to the insecurity HE PUT IN YOUR MIND IN THE FIRST PLACE. It's extremely manipulative. Looksmaxing is a good thing, and you should do it. It will help you. But everything you need to do that is either common sense or publicly available for free. You want to think of it as learning to express the best side of yourself and your personality in an aesthetic way. If you want a decent looksmax channel, I quite like Hamza Ahmed. He is also a mixed bag like many of these types of creators, but I think he's one of the better ones that actually tries to build you up rather than knock you down to sell you something.

This is just a classic slippery slope fallacy. There is a distinct difference between gay marriage and human-animal marriage. Very few people are actually born with a desire to marry a horse. Attraction to an animal is akin to attraction to a child in that an animal is not smart enough to understand what is happening to it, so we can quite easily say that attraction to animals is not healthy, is likely mental illness, and should be banned. And incest creates a fucked up gene pool. Father-daughter relationships are also going to be subject to enormous power-imbalance causing a lot of suffering. The only thing gay relationships hurt is conservative people's feelings. A significant amount of the population are born with same-gender attraction too, so it's not just something you can dismiss as unnatural.

QOVES? I remember watching that guy's content a while back and he offers a supposedly objective analysis of your face as a service. In theory a lot of the stuff he talks about is true, but like others have said it does not actually benefit you at all to consume it because most of it you can't change. Almost delusional levels of self confidence will get you way further than an accurate rating of where your face falls on a scale.

I have good social skills in some scenarios, for example I find it very easy to go on a night out and meet new people. Or when I stayed in hostels in foreign countries, I could chat and make friends really easily. The rules of socialising in a bar/nightclub/hostel just come very naturally. However when it comes to connecting with people at work, the jiu-jitsu gym I go to, or other day-to-day stuff like cashiers/servers at a coffee shop, I find it really hard to connect. I always feel out of place. It always feels like there is a sterile coldness between me and other people which I can't seem to cross. I don't know if it's in my head. I often worry that no one likes me, or that I am being weird in these situations because I don't know the rules. I guess it's a form of social anxiety because these are day-to-day situations where people's opinions of me matter more. If I say something weird, I will see that person again and the consequences are more tangible. Does anyone else have experience with something like this, or does anyone have any advice?

Chrome. Even if that's true, this is still an issue. The website should work on all browsers, especially the most popular one. There are significantly less people online than usual so I don't think it's a particularly isolated issue.

I think this is why he blocked you, not the LOTR reference. If I was messaging a girl and she started accusing me of being a fake profile made by her ex, I'd probably stop replying too.

Yep, same problem. Yup. It logs me back in once I go directly to any forum thread, but if I just try to visit /forum it's not working.

It could be very hindering to your spiritual success if you are constantly thinking about sex and women. It can be good to get all that out of your system and then move onto more spiritual pursuits afterwards. Transcend and include.

Yea I used to be quite scared to wear anything that stood out too, but having this mindset helped a lot

A thread like this was made already https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/94619-show-me-your-fashion/

I also keep getting logged out and shown the login page with no CSS styling ever since the crash

I think this is more how bullies are created. You have mentally ill parents who beat or psychologically abuse their kids turning them into monsters. The kids who get bullied are basically anyone who doesn't conform enough, which could be for a variety of reasons unrelated to parents.

Being bullied in school can fuck you up more than you realise, speaking from experience. It causes you to learn all sorts of coping mechanisms that affect you negatively for the rest of your life. For example bullied kids often learn that not reacting is a good way to stop bullies from targeting them as much, so they learn to ignore problems instead of facing them head on. Or they learn that self-expression/uniqueness = pain, so they learn to be shy and invisible. Or you end up with crippling social anxiety because your lizard brain learns to associate all other people with pain.

You have more control than you realise over your mood when you go out. Just chat to everyone you can in the most sociable parts of the club where talking is possible and I promise your nights out will get 10x better

This might be long but I’ll share my experience with clubbing. The two things that significantly improved my experience in clubs were: finding people to go with most weekends focusing on having fun instead of just talking to girls This is because a sociable state is key to having a good time in a club, and having a good time in a club is key to meeting girls there. The key to this puzzle is getting into that sociable flow state. The best way I’ve found to get into that state is to chat to guys first. Make friends. This is good because you’re no longer “alone” in the club, and it also significantly improves your state of mind. For example, here in the UK most clubs have a smoking area that’s crammed with people. When I used to go solo I headed straight for the smoking area, chatted to a bunch of people and made some temporary friends for the night. Just from this, my emotional state was 10x better and then I’d also have people to go and dance with or chat to. I now have more permanent friends that I met from doing this who I still go clubbing with occasionally, which makes things way easier. Once you can reliably chat to guys and make friends for the night, then you force yourself to more directly confront the fear of approaching girls. It will be much easier now, but likely still scary. Set yourself a goal of just talking to (or dancing) with 5 girls in one night and then scale it up over time. Once you have done the 5 approaches you have achieved your goal, you are free, you can relax, you can do whatever you want for the rest of the night in the club, you can feel proud of yourself. Then scale that number up each time. I noticed something very powerful happened when I had done the N approaches. Because I told myself that I had done what I came to do and now I was free to relax and chill out for the rest of the night, much of the anxiety and pressure vanishes almost instantly. I hope this helps you, sorry again that it’s so long

The list of issues you listed at the end are 100x more relevant than anything in that guy's video and deserve more attention and discussion. In essentially all cases, if a woman or man dropped a barbell on themselves in any gym, they'd get help quickly and no one would make a big deal out of it. She has a tripod for checking her form, not to detect creeps like is implied. And is that woman who is pressing charges for SA after the guy saved her life ungrateful and cruel? Absolutely. However I also can't find any information about it online either other than the original articles from some less than reliable news sites. Given it was 2.5 years ago you can likely conclude it came to nothing as would be expected. IIRC there is also a good samaritan law which would protect him. My point is not that this stuff isn't an issue. It is. But it isn't nearly as widespread as what channels like this make it out to be. if you want to be properly informed on these issues, channels like this are a very low quality place to get your information from. Just like the woman posting men staring on social media, these channels are trying to make money by creating outrage. They have no incentive to be fair or unbiased.

He mentioned he got falsely accused by a woman and that it had a significant impact on his life. Although I agree with you too, being online too much gives you a very warped sense of reality.

You sound like a broken record. Something horrible happened to you in the past, you need to get over that and move on with your life. Instead what you are doing is trying to convince yourself that the only way someone could have wronged you is because they were brainwashed by the evil boogeyman of feminism. No, they were just a bad person. The world is full of those and they exist in all groups and genders. You were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you got unlucky and met a shitty person who took advantage of you. You need to accept this and stop using it to fuel your own hatred or it is going to eat you alive. Ironically the extremist man-hating feminists are doing EXACTLY the same thing as you. Many of them had a very bad experience with a few men and construct an enemy out of all men to cope with it. That's what you're doing too.

Welcome to the casino

What issue did you have?

You can try holotropic breathing. I got some very interesting observer effects from it. Don't do it if you have heart conditions or breathing problems though. And start small and build up over time.

To be honest I saw just as many, if not more, beautiful women walking about streets in Scotland than when I go down to London for work. And especially in nightclubs. By that logic alone, Dhaka is better for getting better with women than London. City size probably gets you diminishing returns after you hit like 1 mil population. At that point you don't need anymore people. I think that living in a reasonably populous city where you can actually afford to live somewhere decent is better for improving your skills with women. It's hard to get better with women if you are constantly worried about if you can afford outrageously expensive rent or not. The average rent for a London property exceeded the median salary for the UK this year. Fuck that. Meeting girls and having a GF is already expensive, let alone with £1.5k rent for a mouldy studio flat with a 40 min commute to good venues.

Craig Ferguson is brilliant the guy is an absolute genius when it comes to flirting