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@questionreality Sobolev is not really a conservative, he just sold himself out to Russian government. His argument is obviously not genuine, considering how he strawmans everything (having sex with dogs and pedophiles). He pretends to be an intellectual with "moderate" worldview, trying to appeal to a moderate and not completely radicalized part of the population, while actually spreading Putin's propaganda.

I am sure all Christians that watched the ceremony are converted to gay communists now. Cause it totally was not counterproductive and totally didn't push more people further towards the right.

The only religion they have "balls" to make fun of is christianity.

@Leo Gura I am afraid that the forum will get flooded wirth Andrew Taters and other weird people. But the interview could be really interesting, so it might be worth it.

@Davino also, in most cases, when I have some free time, I want to spend it by myself. So idk.

I would love to have some nice friends in theory, but in practice, I am not sure if I am at the right stage in life to worry about having friends. I work a stupid job which I don't like and which doesn't even pay much. And I think it is more important to get this sorted out first. I think that if I enjoyed my work, and also had enough money to spare, I would have a space in my mind to just go out and have fun. Sure, some part of it is depression and stuff.

Huh?

I don't know. I feel like I have no time and energy to do any of this.

Haha, thanks It's a mix of things, I guess.

@Princess Arabia ok, sorry.

I don't have any friends, haha

Is it not possible to have a friend group wwho you just tag along with once in a while? With minimum time investment.

And no girl in history has ever slept with a guy she is not fully into, of course.

@Davino so how did you build your social circle?

@NoSelfSelf Those two statements contradict each other. Clearly you are afraid of "crumbling" and feeling like a weakling, which is why you feel like you need game. So lets put all this "game flr a higher purpose" stuff aside. No, I will just admit to myself that I am attracted to her, and that yes, it is about her, and approach her like a normal person. Without all that grand personal development lore behind my actions. And I will use some ACTUAL self-love to notice that yes, it's scary, and that it's okay, and there is nothing wrong with me feeling this way. Instead of calling myself a weakling.

@Ropuch7 personally, walking out of my apartment complex is the most awkward part for me. I don't worry that much about random people in a park.

Nah, Owen is just gay.

@NoSelfSelf I don't see why I should spend thousands of hours on game, when I could just "gimmick" my way into a decent social life, and then spend all that free time and energy doing ACTUAL self-development work. Actually working on self love Meditating Doing solo retreats Doing shadow work and healing traumas Working with a therapist Etc.

@NoSelfSelf I don't see what self love has to do with game. If goal of development was development by itself than you would live like a monk who doesn't care about women, sex, and career at all. You wouldn't care about developing talking skills, because wasting time to develop them for their own sake is useless. And even on a more basic level. If you wanted to develop talking skills just for pragmatic reasons, like getting a job, or something. You would join toastmasters, or work as a salesman, or become some kind human right/environmental activist. But you chose game instead. Why? Because you still care about success with women and having sex. Why only straight men do game for "personal development". Why there are no gay pickup artists, or female pickup artists, or asexual pickup artists? If it's really such a good tool for developing yourself, as well as for self-love and spirituality, than why doesn't everyone do it?

It's just that in my experience, when people get judgemental of what others are dling, it's vecause they are insecure about it on some level. You clealrly wanted to put him down for what he is doing by reducing it to "haha, that's gay"

@NoSelfSelf right, and the goals of that "development" is to feel confident, attractive, get more sex, and more money. You can come up with a bunch of noble stories about it, but in the end it boils down to the same basic needs. You just think that you need to work really hard to get them. You need to train martial arts, got to the gym, earn more money, "study game", etc. And then you see some random guy who gets all the same basic needs met, with much less effort, thanks to some clever cheese. So of course you want to call it a gimmick, and act like your approach is superior.

Are you sure that's not insecurity on your part? Because if he isn't gay and you were attracted to him, you would have to compete with all those hot girls.

And yet, you've just said "mic drop" one post ago, like having girl friends is a bad thing and is unattractive.

I am pretty sure that the guys that have the most sex are not very developed. I don't think developing yourself correlates much with becoming more attractive, unless you specifically develop yourself in that direction. But at this point, you are just focusing all your personal development and spirituality on getting a girl. How is that not a gimmick?

That sounds great and all, but how would this look like in practice? Also, it's not just about getting laid. It's about having a healthy social life, imho.