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No. I can judge a person by one look, and he's obviously not genuine. If there's one Quranic verse that all Muslim men know, it's this one. That could be the case for anyone in the west, except for Tate and the like. He's a hypocrite and an attention whore, and I'm done feeding him attention. Most Muslims and Buddhists are not happy nor fulfilled, either. I've been one, and you said it yourself that the average Muslim/Buddhist doesn't know the basics of their religion. My experience with religion is that it mostly serves as a band aid or a tool for bypassing the real work of going inside and facing your inner demos. After you reach a certain point with religion, it becomes an obstacle that hinders your progress rather than advance it. After a certain point, religion becomes the devil, especially the more dogmatic you are about it. Leaving the nest and becoming financially-independent in the west is easy. It's a lifestyle choice, and really just the norm there. If someone is struggling with that in the west, then most likely it's because they're simply losers. The system there is fair and designed so that almost anyone can get a decent life if they simply put in a reasonable amount of work and effort. Don't look at these forum fools and think that they're normal. They're the exception there, because they're spoiled, lazy, entitled, and like you said immersed in materialism and hedonism.

Exactly.

Tate became Muslim just to gain more fame/audience/publicity. Yes, he's that desperate and shallow. No thoughts there. Could be anything. Could be wrong, just a coincidence, or something trivial.

Sounds like a Samadhi experience.

@Consept I both agree and disagree on the same point. I think it works differently for different people. For example, in my case, I had worked my ass off all throughout my childhood and early adulthood, only to realize later on that I was barking up the wrong tree the whole time. I was poor, traumatized, and on top of that delusional and not awake, so I needed awakening to fix me, give me clarity, and guide me in the right direction. Right now, I'm still poor but at least fixed and awake with clarity, and on my way to wealth. I've worked so hard to fix my issues and am still working hard to jump out of my financial struggle. But I can see how I'm probably coming from a very different place from most of the people here. In my estimation, most people here are spoiled kids who spend a lot of time playing video games and browsing the internet. They're standing on the shoulders of giants, living off the riches of their parents, and have no idea what struggling means so their suffering is imaginary, to put it bluntly. I think they will most likely benefit from listening to your advice.

An awake person can pretend to be asleep. But an asleep person can't pretend to be awake. They may sleepwalk, though. But it's not the same thing.

Alright, I suck at verbal communication. Let's just face it. I suck so hard that this is actually the first time in my life that I'm realizing this verbally. I mean I always kinda knew it on an intuitive level, and even thought about it vaguely for some time on a conscious level when I was faced with it, but now I realize it clearly in my mind as an actual thought and not just some feeling. I used to suck so hard on both levels, verbal and non-verbal. And I've worked on both in the past couple years and improved a lot on the latter, but not so much on the former. I've learned to detach myself from the monkey mind and even stop it from controlling me. Before that, I was always in my head, but not with clarity. Rather my head was filled with nonsense and delusions, both cultural and personal. I used to be paranoid, obsessive, delusional, depressed, you name it. I don't know how I even survived that long with that much dysfunction, I just somehow did. Right now, I'm at this point where there's not even a monkey in my head anymore, well most of the time anyways. There are always thoughts, but very rarely a monkey. And this seems to be hurting my ability to communicate verbally, both with myself and others. How can I communicate using language without formulating thoughts that can make up logical sentences? It's not possible. I'm realizing that my relationship with myself and others is rather intuitive. My sense of self is non-verbal, maybe even subtler than that. I don't communicate with myself with full laid-out thoughts like most other people seem to do, I'm not sure how I actually do it, to be honest. There seems to be images and voices that appear in my head all the time, and rarely words or sentences. The problem here is that I'm trying to formulate verbal thoughts about my verbal dysfunction in order to describe it correctly, but my ability to formulate these thoughts is defective/retarded in the first place, so you can probably see how hard that can be and why. You've no idea how hard it is for me to be sitting right now and try to write this up from scratch. It actually even takes me more than it normally should. Some random person could probably write the same amount in a few minutes. Some other people with muscular, well-fed, well-trained monkeys can probably write as much in a couple minutes. It took me about 14-16 minutes to write just this. Now, I'm editing, so I'll just add that this isn't really a problem for me in a real conversation, cuz I can bounce back thoughts with another person. It's mostly just a problem when I'm trying to talk to the void like I'm doing right now, or if I wanted to give a lecture, or just simply improvise and talk about myself a little bit (more than 30 seconds), or when I'm recording an audio (the latter is what actually led me to this realization). I can't seem to be able to hold a train of thoughts for a long time like regular people, let alone that freak bastard Leo. It's more like a breathing activity for me. I take in a little bit at a time, and give back a little bit at a time. I am a chat app. Other people are blogs and forums.

@Someone here That sounds awesome! Like @Roy said, set the date with one or two messages max where you set the location and time and just ask for confirmation. Then stop texting until it's due, like one hour before you go out so that you don't get flaked. As general advice, don't try to be perfect. Nobody's perfect, and they still go on dates and get laid. Of course, look and smell nice, just don't overthink it, that's my point. If there was some universal formula to be sexy, then everyone would already know and apply it. But the truth is that there's always a subjective factor on her side. You could be the most handsome man on earth for 99.99% of women, but only for that one woman that you're on a date with you're a 6 at best. So don't take things personally, cuz in most cases you can't really control the outcome. It's not always about you. Actually, almost never, unless you act creepy. And sometimes, you might get lucky even if you're creepy. There are really no fixed rules to attration, but the most rational route is this: Just be normal, don't invest too much into this. Obviously, look nice, smell nice, be yourself, be playful, make eye contact, speak with certainty and confidence, be open, be positive, don't be egoic, judgmental, or too serious or logical, know that she's interested in you as much as - if not even more than you're interested in her. Generally, just try to have a good time while signaling sexual interest without verbally rushing into sex (Indians tend to be more prude than western women in general). Learn to communicate subtle sexual signals. If you feel that that's a lot to do, then throw it all in the trash and just go out and try to experiment, learn, and have fun. It's often not what you say/do that matters, but how you say/do it. And an easy-going, open, curious attitude goes a long way. https://www.verywellmind.com/types-of-nonverbal-communication-2795397

Nooooooooooo! Please! Not this card! ???

@Someone here She seems into you. I don't think it matters a lot what you say next as long as it's within a normal conversation/date invitation protocol. Just don't scare her away with advancing way too early or acting too desperate. Play cool, don't make her a priority just yet. Go on with your life as normal. If it works between you, then great. If not, then try again later, or with someone else.

What if he was wearing the mask to hide the alien underneath it?

@Zeroguy I have already taken the MBTI test more than a few times, and on different websites. I don't remember getting the same result twice, although it's possible that that might have happened by accident and I'd forgotten. Bottom line is that I honestly don't identify with one personality type. I tried to, but I couldn't. My personality could not be narrowed down and fit into one type or particular category. What I find in my experience is that I can be alone or with people. I can think originally or listen to what others have discovered. I can think rationally or follow my emotions. I can go with the flow or move according to a plan. I'm totally fine with either sides of the coin. I don't really have strong preferences with these stuff, and it all really mostly depends on the environment around me. I can be one way in a certain environment and completely another way in another. That doesn't mean I don't have weak spots that I can improve on. It just means that I'm cool and not dogmatic about how I should think, behave, and carry myself in various settings.

@Loba

Dem a try, but they can't take away mi sound

@AtheisticNonduality Wrong journal, brother. Let me help you out.

Good (me) vs. Evil (other) ❌ Masculine vs. Feminine ✅

@Mohammad You're right. The Iranian government is a lot more established than Al-Assad.

I think that for someone to have a personality type, it requires at least a certain level of dogmatism to be able to hold the mask up for too long. It's not usually an easy task, but dogmatism can make it so. The more dogmatic, the easier it will be to have a personality type, regardless of what it is. If you hold dogmas about feelings and how they're more important than thinking, that's your dogmatism right there. And vice versa, of course. This applies to all the traits. Someone who privileges intuition above sensing is also dogmatic, but they're not necessarily more dogmatic than someone who does the opposite. Why would you settle for one part of the puzzle when you can have the whole picture?

Only if you tell me how to hypnotize Leo without sending nudes (maybe) Absolutely! That's probably the hardest insight to decipher for a fanatic. I've practiced for about 1 hour in total. Improved a bit, but I still mostly kind of suck. Any advice? Must be tough. Cry me a river for all the bourgeois out there.

Nope. Impossible. Especially after all the lessons the Iranian government has learned from the Syrian experience. They have gained immunity.

@Zeroguy We'll see. If I die poor, then I am an INFP dreamer.