SeaMonster

I mean, look at the kind of practices that are commonly used in spiritual work. Self-inquiry, e.g. You're not accepting any kind of concept such as "I am God" (because wtf does that even mean - when you affirm this you invest the terms "I" and "God" with all kinds of baggage, in essence your ego projections) but rather you're ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, such as "Who am I?" or "What is this I?" and variations on that. There is a huge difference between those two approaches.

Hitler loved puppies, therefore loving puppies is wrong? Tate has a point about depression (although he frames it in a kind of crude way.) The modern, popular, materialist take is that it's bad brain chemistry that we need to medicate. The reality is that you have to change your life/lifestyle in order to improve your mood.

How will they get in the way? What are you specifically worried about? I think for long-term relationships a girl liking and wanting you is pretty damn important. If that's what you're after, it's a no-brainer.

All of that is projection/speculation. Let's say he is an INTP; so what? There are honest and dishonest INTPs, that doesn't tell you anything. What matters is the combined weight of all the things he has said. If you look at everything he has said in total, he is bad faith; will say contradictory things on different occasions/sometimes even on one occasion, then will use ad hoc reasoning to justify it if called on it. In essence, that is weasely scumbaggery. A lot of his statements are EASILY picked apart, either on a logical or factual basis. He is impressive if you don't have a lot of specific knowledge and don't think too deeply about things, but otherwise he is kind of a hack tbh.

LOL. Israel was founded after the Holocaust. Get a grip. Unlike many forms of nationalism/ethnocentrism it really is based on literal survival considerations, even if there is a religious/ideological element.

Thinking something an awakened person might be experiencing doesn't make you awakened. You still act at the level of consciousness you are. Conceptual understanding is "fake awakening."

No problem! Being afraid to go "too far" can definitely frustrate women, which sounds like what happened in your case.

This is known as direct game. The problem is that most guys don't have the thick skin/indifference to handle the amount of rejection they will face. It is "low percentage game." The analogy would be like in basketball your team chucking up a 30 footer every time down the court. Also, it weighs heavier on the first impression/i.e. looks factor than indirect game. Also, you have to have sufficient charm/charisma added into the directness to pull it off. The way I look at it in terms of efficiency is (from least to most): 1) Cold Approach Direct game: Advantage - you pick whom to approach; less time spent; Disadvantage - need a strong vibe/charm/looks along with directness. 2) Cold Approach Indirect game: Advantage - you pick whom to approach; less automatic rejection than direct game because relies less on first impression; Disadvantage - still get plenty of rejection/flaking. 3) Warm Approach game: Advantage - the least amount of rejection/flaking out of all Game variants; Disadvantage - your pool of approachees is limited by their signals of interest, so you have to wait until the woman who gives you interest signals is attractive to you. Also, some guys are just terrible at reading indicators of interest from women (even though they are quite obvious.)

You're buying into the feminist/progressive narrative that only certain type of power matters (which conveniently makes men into oppressors and women into victims.) Men may be more physically powerful, but women are better at emotional power/manipulation and this has always been the case.

Yeah = stop fucking doing 5MeO if it's interfering with your sleep. Simple. Your life's purpose includes getting normal sleep, I assure you.

She's partly awakened and somewhat based when it comes to intersexual dynamics, so I guess that raises her above a vast majority of content providers. Being quite above "normal people" is not a high bar to clear these days, which is kind of sad. A "normal person" isn't remotely close to being stabilized in nonduality Stage 1, e.g., so that automatically puts you in the 1%, and probably even the 0.1%.

Red Pill is what's genuinely true. Black Pill takes that knowledge and adds the assumption that raising one's SMV is impossible/hopeless, which is not true. It's doomer propaganda, basically. Red Pill (basically): SMV is money, muscles/looks, game. Of course you can improve money, muscles (even "looks" to some degree) and game. Black Pill is for guys who feel that changing is just too damn hard, so they find this narrative that confirms these feelings and join a club of the hopeless. If you want to understand Red Pill, you have to go to the source (read all of Rollo's books) because there are nuances that are missed when you rely on second-hand (and often dumbed down) interpretations of it.

You're like a lot of young guys who suffer from this delusion that if you find a girl with common interests then you will have a happy relationship. That's like one of the least important things to look for in a girl (#1 would be hitting the sweet spot on the Hot/Crazy scale.)

He's a self-admitted sociopath. Do you know how many hours of streams he has? On one stream he basically said something to the effect that he doesn't have feelings like normal people and that his relationships are purely transactional. Besides, anyone who shills for Biden and H. Clinton specifically (the most corrupt politicians in US history) cannot in any way be considered anything but amoral. His fandom is another one of these "not a cult" cults.

Crazy hippie chicks = quality women? Bruh... Have you ever known a real-life girl whom you would consider a "high quality girl"? Is this some kind of idealization or do you have a concrete idea of what this is?

When you try to make philosophers out of scientists, you get neither good scientists nor good philosophers. So I think, essentially, they are teaching you to suck more, not suck less.

A real man is one who doesn't give a shit about hewing to the societal standard of what a real man is supposed to be. He has his own code.

There isn't a red shadow or a blue shadow, there is just The Shadow with all these aspects to it. Ken Wilber seriously overcomplicates this shit. If you lack self-assertion e.g. you integrate self-assertion. You start by doing a martial art or something like that. An activity where you get to engage that part of yourself. Trying to fit in the SD paradigm is just nonsense.

No, the rule is that it's upto you to comfortably push the interaction until you meet with resistance at which point you ease off. You have to throw the "this is only the Xth date" ideas out the window. If there is no resistance on the first date, you go all the way.

All of that article is just what philosophers do - overthink/mentally masturbate/not see the forest for the trees.

You have to distinguish between Zen Devil behavior and just plain Devil behavior. Zen Devils are typically first or possibly second stage awakening types. The most notorious examples would be Charles Manson, Jim Morrison, Rasputin as was mentioned above, Andrew Cohen, etc. Zen Devilry = nihilism and anarchy let loose after No-Self is stabilized.

My limited exposure to Dutch people suggests that their women tend to be these batshit crazy prog/feminist types and a lot of men are these fake male feminist types who go along to get laid. Although the women do love to take their tops off on the beaches in Aruba, so I guess they're not all bad (plus I like their voices for some reason.) Would smash; relationship, maybe a month tops. So I kinda see which boat SS is in.

That is...such a cope. Of course it's damaging. It's SEDATION, like any other form (drugs, alcohol, video games, etc.)

Practice helps a little, but it's not at the core of the problem (which is social anxiety.) Social anxiety must be eradicated by achieving competence as a man in the areas of your life where you feel weak and vulnerable, and this is often not directly "how to socialize" but other aspects of your life. There is no "one weird trick" -- sorry.

LOL. Why is that? Unless they are your co-workers, or relatives you don't. Edit: oh, you're in NL. Your women are some of the worst feminists in the West. My condolensces. Maybe find some Asian immigrant or something?