Nilsi

That's like saying all language, art and technology is not ours and thus a deception we should disengage from. Why do you romanticize being a monkey?

So you're saying become a dispassionate pragmatist instead of educating yourself and creating a badass mind? Of course knowing how to do shit and putting your knowledge to use is important, but there is such a thing as curiosity and understanding for its own sake; not to mention, that having a broad and deep education will make you extremely effective at navigating life and making good decisions. You may be more practically inclined, but don't dismiss all theory as "useless knowledge to impress people," that's a rather lazy and myopic take.

What are you saying? Without the outside world there wouldn't be sex in the first place.

This has nothing to do with luck. What you get out of this will be exactly proportional to what you put into it. Make your plan, and then execute it. If you make a plan to go to the gym 3 times a week and go to the club to approach girls every weekend and read one philosophy book a week, there is really nothing more to think about. You're using your planning as an excuse not to take action, so hold yourself accountable for this bullshit.

I see red as pure will to power and orange more like individuality within reason. I think if you consciously go about creating your orange identity, you might as well make it powerful, so red and orange can't really be disentangled in that case.

Don't try to change your life 180 degrees over night, that will never work. If you want to get there, change 1 degree at a time; sometimes you'll go two steps forward and one backward, that's perfectly fine. As long as you got your eyes on the price and don't give up, you'll get there.

Yup. I'm off the charts in openness and extremely low in neuroticism, so I'm rather comfortable with being "out there." I'm quite good in industriousness, and I can definitely work my ass off if I put my mind on it. The problem I have with schedules is that they just completely stunt my creativity and spontaneity, and I quickly turn into Elon Musk and become way too obsessed with being productive. Maybe you can become the next Schrödinger or Heisenberg, and sneak some mysticism into your discoveries

Im writing this to address the underlying naïveté of the concept of "Life Purpose" as understood in this community. The main premise is that technological progress will not be halted, once you accept this, you take the Red Pill. I think its fair to summarize the philosophy of the Life Purpose Course (which is the framework Ill be addressing here) as "Do what you love, get good at it, and youll have an awesome life!" Now this might seem great when you look at it in isolation, but precisely that is a grave mistake. You might have noticed that the world is kind of a mess right now - Nuclear superpowers engaging in war with each other; Global warming causing natural catastrophes and biodiversity loss; Social media polarizing our society, threatening to undermine democracy; Capitalism running into planetary boundaries, making constant economic growth no longer possible; Actors like China or Andrew Tate shamelessly gaming the current system for their own benefit, creating a game theoretic imperative to either play by their rules or lose; CRISPR based bio-engineering technology being on track to become available for dimes and pennys, enabling the average Joe that is willing to do the work to build potentially catastrophic weapons of mass destruction; And of course a bunch of mad scientists racing to be the first to create General Artificial Intelligence, to hell with any kind of ethical or regulatory concerns. I hope you realise that this is no longer the kind of world in which you can just lean back and "Do what you love." That cute little art project of yours? AI (DALL-E 2), can already create what you do - just better, and for free. Always dreamt of being a research scientist? AI has access to all information on the internet, is able to comprehend and infer from this information whatever you want to know, and will write you an academic paper that will pass the Turing-test in a matter of seconds. What is needed here is a massive Paradigm Shift. Its no longer just about your petty little project. Even if youre a psychopath, these realities will catch up to you and you better have a plan ready for when they do. Im not saying you have to work on solving these problems (if you want to, that would be great of course), but at the very least you have to take them into consideration when planning your career. These realities will catch up to you sooner or later, one way or the other.

If you're coming from this mindset of scarcity you will naturally turn girls off. I don't want to infer too much, but from having read some of your other post's, it seems like there is a deeper issue here, of being confused and not taking any action to create some positive momentum for yourself. You have to actually go out there and expose yourself to more experiences and feedback, be that in regards to your life purpose, your dating life or whatever. You're basically in a state of learned helplessness right now and just sitting here all day with your "woe me" attitude won't get you anywhere. Look for the small wins. Fix your diet, hit the gym, have a non-awkward conversation with a girl, read a book, do something creative... whatever it is for you - that's how you build confidence and the more confident you become the more will these things go your way, and this will create a virtuous cycle; but you have to start with making yourself uncomfortable, there's no way around that.

If you really love your semen so much, you could at least give some form of tantric sex a shot. You could check out Mantak Chias book called "The multi-orgasmic Man" or David Deidas "The enlightened Sex Manual." If you're worried about your time, this would give you your spiritual practice and your sexual expression as a package deal + you won't have to spill your juice. For me personally, the energy that builds up from this gets unbearable rather quickly, so I'm not that into it, but maybe you'll enjoy it.

It's a profound little book on sociology/political theory called "Finite and Infinite Games." The main point is that there are finite games, in which the goal is to win and end the game, and the infinite game, in which the only goal is to keep playing it. This was one of the most paradigm-shifting and enjoyable books I've ever read.

But isn't that a great opportunity to apply your meditative skills? You will not be able to gracefully slackline with all that mental noise and chatter. I know you are trying to manage your time effectively, but that's just such a great combination of practices, that it would be kind of sad if you didn't try to integrate them.

That's not what I'm saying. I can listen to some corny EDM tune and actually fucking enjoy it, and I will feel like it's the greatest shit ever. A few hours later I will listen to some Chopin, and the same thing will happen. It's only in hindsight that you actually go about "objectively" analysing this stuff.

It's a great model and it's really rewarding to see all of it play out in the world. The real work though is seeing these different stages conflicting in yourself and working towards integrating them in a healthy way. Embodying Tier 2 sure as hell is not easy, but it's a great goal to strive for.

I get where you're coming from because I used to think like this as well. Let me just tell you from my own experience, that this is not sustainable and will result in a pathological relationship to your sexuality. Take it for what it's worth.

If you analyse art you can objectify it, but the experience of it is inherently subjective. Those teenage girls watching Twilight probably have a blast, and they will go on to tell all their girlfriends how Twilight is "literally the best movie ever."

Why not do both? I'm sure they will complement each other.

He was probably just feeling himself. I almost daily share some new song I found with my friends and proclaim that it is THE definitive best song of all time. That's kind of what good art does to you.

Do you have sex regularly? If not I would urge you to reconsider what you're doing. I went for 3 months + without ejaculating a couple years ago, and it's just a terrible idea. I completely repressed that part of myself and it took me quite a while to find a healthy relationship to sexuality again. I think these semen retention "benefits" are mostly bogus. It's just a short-term high from all that testosterone that is building up in you, which is just your body urging you to fuck. At this point it is kind of public knowledge, that your testosterone spikes at 7 days without ejaculation and then just goes back to baseline. I wouldn't be surprised if in the long run you would completely mess up your hormones and sexual functions with this nonsense, since your body will just think you won't need it anymore. Same story with repressing your emotions - bad idea!

To me integrating orange meant creating a presentabe, competitive, confident identity. That's kinda what I have been focusing on this year. Going out more, meeting new people, buying nice clothes, hitting the gym, nailing my diet, improving my game etc. I guess a big part of it is also creating financial abundance, which I find near impossible to do at this point in my life. It's kinda easy to do these things in a vacuum, but of course they should ideally complement your other values and not clash with them. I guess good mentors for this would be people like Andrew Tate, David Goggins, Owen Cook, Gary Vee, Robert Greene (if you're philosophically inclined, maybe Nietzsche or Machiavelli will do something for you) and the likes. I also found studying body language, tonality, persuasion (salses and marketing in general) and personality psychology to be quite helpful in finding an identity that works for me. Evolutionary psychology/biology is also great for understanding the Libertarian/Ayn Randian worldview. And of course Leo has a section on his book list, that broadly covers this area. I'm kind of blending red and orange together here, but I find it hard to separate them in practice (maybe that's just because I'm a tad psychopathic XD).

Interesting. I'm kinda worried that my worldview is too far out there to work in a serious research environment. I would love to teach philosophy, but I worry that I wouldn't last long in academia. It's really tricky to walk that tightrope between academia and mysticism, but somehow it should be possible.

Sounds good I guess my main hang up is also, that I feel like I have so much more to do in this life and I'm still in university as well, so I somehow have to keep my shit together. I'm trying to juggle this with the spirituality as well, which makes it kinda hard to seriously stick to concrete goals, so your approach is probably a lot wiser than mine, but my morbid curiosity always keeps me coming back to questioning it all. I know I'm being way too curious, but what do you want to do with your degree? (I study psychology as well)

Hahaha yeah I find that way of talking quite grotesque as well.

Thank you I don't stress about this too much, but obviously it comes to mind sometimes. I feel very blessed to be able to kind of experience a bit of both world's, I'm just trying to go one step at a time. I heard this quote recently, which may just be the biggest cope ever, but it kinda stuck with me: "Most people try to do as much in as little time as possible; God tries to do as little in as much time as possible" - that's what eternity does to you I guess

I'm getting a bit emotional right now, so excuse me for hijacking this thread, but I think it actually fits quite well. My fantasies have been shattered enough times at this point, to where I know that I'm not awake right now. But the thing is, I really want this life, I want to have a wife at some point and maybe even kids. I want to be an old man and sit in my chair and talk shit to the youngins about the "good ol'days." I know what I am, and I will always know this in my heart, but I don't want to end up in some freaky indistinct dreamscape where suddenly the trees turn into aliens or shit like that. I'm just worried that if I fully let go this will happen, and that's really not what I want this to be. Maybe this is just irrational fear, but sometimes things are just getting weird beyond what I'm comfortable with. That's kinda my take on why I limit my consciousness. Im curious how you veterans out there think about this.