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Noted and certified. I am not awake, nor have I seen anyone awake on the forum. At least, not as awake as Leo.

Interesting. Maybe I should watch the video. But I'll just say that Marx or whoever said that religion is the opium of the masses was right. Most of the people I know don't take religion seriously. So as a result, all these ideals of transcendence and connectedness and meaning are suppressed by religion rather than expressed through it. People are so stuck in the material world, they lost their innocent curiosity. So whether you give them religion or spirituality or something else, they will use that to suppress the innocence and curiosity. They will just turn it into another drug in order to bypass looking at the truth. It costs a lot to be innocent and curious in a material world.

Obviously not suffering is not automatically high consciousness. But in my experience, suffering does reduce your ability to be conscious. It takes away from your focus and ability to get deep in the moment, so it kind of literally deletes consciousness. There certainly is a link there, but I'm not entirely sure of what it is yet.

@withinUverse When you said newbie, I thought you're just starting out. But you seem pretty well together. Good for you.

Nice one! I'm secretly hoping that it will be similar to when he tries to quit smoking cigarettes

Mostly not. I'm generally very happy with my life. To sum it up nicely, I couldn't be happier, but somehow I just am.

Mods can already give users restrictions on posting. But a guideline violation is needed for that. They don't just hand them out for free lol. Word of advice, try not to take the forum very seriously. It's a place to chill more than work. The real work is done in real life. All of this here is simply a less wasteful way of wasting time.

It's not new, but I found it to be interesting to share here. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned https://stackoverflow.com/help/gpt-policy

Seeing through the bullshit does not mean you can't relate to it or empathize with it. The problem is that most people don't see through their own or other people's bullshit. So they use that bullshit to manipulate themselves and you and everything, and they aren't even conscious that they are manipulating. And most of the times, it's harmful manipulation. And what's more fascinating is that there's layers of bullshit around the most deepest layer of bullshit as a means of protection, so that you can never reach the truth behind all the bullshit. People lie and build illusions and get sucked into them so deep, even they themselves don't know that they are lies and illusions anymore, and they even get hurt when the illusions are threatened, let alone actually harmed, or God forbid, destroyed. When people say don't hurt my feelings, most of the times they're actually saying don't hurt my bullshit. Most people cannot handle the truth. Maybe some people can handle some amount of truth, but very few can handle all of it. Of course, needless to say that I'm still a human with as much bullshit as anyone else, if not even more. The only difference is that I'm aware of my own and of people's bullshit to a ridiculously extreme degree. Nevertheless, I can still relate, empathize and even enjoy the bullshit. Cuz I'm a top G, meta level, military grade bullshitter

Yeah, that's what I meant. Sorry for the wording. I didn't notice it can be interpreted this way. My main point was that we don't need to overthink what the term means. Toxic masculinity is simply any masculine behaviors/qualities that cause harm rather than good, whether to oneself or another. I think generally when people go deep into certain topics, they can forget the most obvious and basic stuff. So I thought I might add this reminder.

It's masculinity that causes harm.

Great! Best of luck!

LMAO! The jellyfish represents female members.

@StarStruck I watched the video. It's teaching a manipulation technique that exploits a loophole in weak women's minds which activates a FOMO reaction in them that causes them to seek after you. That's the magician archetype, it's sneaky and deceitful, but it works. If that's what you find yourself good at, then do it. But if you're like me, then I suggest that you find the archetype that is closer to your personality and build upon it.

Actually, they both move towards each other. They usually meet at the first third of the fallopian tube, which is closer to the ovary. So yes, the sperm does chase a lot more, but the egg has to leave the ovary too.

This is only true in the pick-up world when you're just a random dude to them, and it's fair. Why should they go out with a random person that they met off the streets or in the club and will probably never see again? Women that know you in real life are not usually flaky unless they didn't want to go out with you in the first place but didn't know how to get out of it, which is rare unless you somehow manage to creep them out before the date.

She means attractive, not necessarily masculine. Masculinity is about illusions and appearances, which are not necessarily true/truth.

I remember when I was deluded that I used to think thoughts that used to make complete sense to me, even though they don't really make sense in reality. And what's interesting is that I knew something was wrong on some level, only problem I couldn't reach that level or see what's wrong. My mind was literally like a computer that doesn't have the drivers installed properly. So it is malfunctioning even though it's seemingly working. Then I healed by actually re-installing the drivers lol. I'm not kidding. I questioned all my old delusional drivers and replaced them with truth drivers. I did not have the right definitions, so I did not have any clarity. Hence, I was deluded. I was only able to restore my sanity by redefining and rebuilding my reality from the ground up.

And the ones that are not deleterious are very obvious, often you don't even need to doubt or question them, especially the more grounded and established you are within the system.

This is pure nonsense that may only serve as mental masturbation material or clickbait titles.

A critic has standards and can provide answers and solutions. Destruction is not a goal. It's what happens naturally when you don't have a goal. I am no teacher. And I am merely communicating on an online forum. Don't expect me to write essays or do elaborate research on everything I speak about.

Yep.