mr_engineer

When these people, who had a record of the highest criminal fine paid in the US, $2.3 billion dollars, were rolling out this thing with a liability-waiver, i.e. you can't sue them if anything goes wrong cuz of what you got from them, and everyone was lapping it up, it just didn't sit well with me. Any surprise that we're starting to find holes in their narratives now, officially?! They always existed, they're just surfacing now.

No.

Don't marry. And ignore their BS.

Depends on what you want out of pickup. If you just want to get laid, you don't need anything. Just game. If you want a relationship, though, you need a plan for how you're going to make the money-dynamic between the two of you work. You need to know the kind of woman that's compatible with you and you need to know her role in your success, what you want it to be. That's how you vet out the gold-diggers. HTH!!

@Someone here Why do you want to be a better man? Why do you want to be more masculine? Purpose is the cornerstone of masculinity. You need a reason to 'be better', so to speak. If you don't, your entire morality is purely theoretical bullshit.

Why do you want to have an actual life? Most of it is shallow bullshit anyways. Mostly pointless. It's a serious question. Because if you wanted it, you'd have it. And nothing is really stopping you from having a 'normal life'. As far as that's concerned, you're standing on the shoulders of giants. The root of the issue here is that you don't know what you want. The thing about 'wanting a normal life' is actually conditioning. And what you gotta focus on, is figuring out what you want. And exploring the world to know what exists out there and what your options are.

If you don't want to socialize, don't socialize. It's that simple. The simplest way to fix your social life is to not worry about it until you start feeling lonely. Then, you will start to know the kind of social-life and community-life that you want and you will have that as your objective, socially. This will help you sort through the petty bullshit and find people who you resonate with. My point is that once you get to this point, you won't get lost in the petty bullshit of socialization anymore. HTH!!

Partying is a waste of time and money in general. I wouldn't look to it for self-improvement if I were in your position. Concerts can be fun, though. I'd suggest that you go to concerts of good, famous artists. You can learn a lot by watching a live-performance by a high-quality artist! And if you go with friends, it can be something you can connect over.

It's highly dangerous for your mental-health. If you're lonely enough, it can send you down a death-spiral of delusion. I know from personal experience. I once bought a 'girlfriend texting service' or something. Because I was very lonely. When I realized the long-term consequences of doing this, I stopped it immediately.

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@Ethan1 Think like an entrepreneur. Focus on the problems at hand that mainstream-society is facing right now. With the currencies and supply-chains. Intentional-community has the potential to solve all of that! And then, design a system that solves those problems. Another system that has a lot of blood on its hands, is the single-family home. It's becoming more and more obsolete, as the two parents aren't proving to be enough for the children. There will be a push for community, especially by conscious single-mothers.

I've been a part of a community-lifestyle for a week when I took a retreat. It's awesome! I saw what's possible, even though it was simulated, so to speak. I want to be a part of a community. And I got all the data-points for whether it's possible or not and what it would take to make it work, in that retreat. Intentional-communities are the future of humanity. As fiat-currencies collapse, there will be more and more of a push to localize supply-chains. And for people to come together and fix this mess. So, I highly recommend staying ahead of the game on this issue. If you're the expert on something that everyone wants, that's in-demand in the future, you can get very rich!

I really recommend this channel for guys who rely more on 'social circle' to get laid than 'pick-up'. Leo is more of a pick-up guy, this Hamza guy is more of a social-circle guy. (That's 5 times I used the word 'guy' lol. That makes it 6). https://www.youtube.com/c/Hamza97

Okay. So, after some thought, here's my steelman version of feminism. Here's what it boils down to - women should not have to blindly take on a male morality and follow it. This male morality is naturally male-biased and women perceive it to be 'the patriarchy'. Now, where they go wrong, is that they assume that 'equality' is the solution to this problem. I disagree with the actions being taken in the name of 'equality' and I think they are highly destructive to society. Especially the family-unit. The actual solution is for women to have their own feminine epistemology, which is feelings-first (the masculine epistemology is facts-first because it's action-oriented) and have feminine versions of 'God' to worship, like the New-Age women do. This will undo a lot of damage that male-dominated religion has done to women. And because women will have their own feminine power, they can end this power-struggle against men. Someone here asked me 'what role should women play in your ideal world?' That is how you repeat the exact mistake that led to feminism to begin with! To construct a morality for women. This attitude is the root-cause of sexism. And feminism as it is in the world today is not immune to this. The governments are still male-dominated, the 1% are still male-dominated and the laws they're going to pass 'for equal rights' will still be benevolently sexist. Fine, there are some surface-level solutions needed, but it's not going to make feminists happy until they really resolve the root-issue, which is an unconsciousness relative to femininity as a whole. And one final point - a lot of 'male feminists' think that if women get to 'enjoy' the kind of life that men have and aspire to, which is one in which they're financially independent, they get to roam at night and fuck around, this is their idea of 'being compassionate towards women'. And that's the form their 'advocacy for women' or 'male feminism' takes. While well-intentioned and upholding the value of 'equality', the fundamental mistake here is the overlooking of the differences between us. Biological differences. Including the fact that women bear children, men don't. And that men have more physical strength than women. So, if we are to decide to be fairer to women, the system will look very different from what you guys are trying to do. Now, how will it look, is a choice that's yours. And believe me, the changes that'll come will be very different from what we're trying to do. For example, some New-Agers are saying that we should have 13 months in a year instead of 12, because women have 13 menstrual cycles in a year. That's how fundamental and radical our changes are going to have to be, if we really want to do this!

The touch-dynamics in a Stage Blue culture are going to be shit in general, because there is no sense of personal boundaries, personal identities or personal individualism. Maybe you can 'score', so to speak, but compatibility is going to be very hard. Compromise is the Stage Blue mantra.

I care about some facts, not others. And I definitely don't care about agreeing with the consensus, cuz it's inconvenient to my agenda. That's true. I don't have a steelman version of feminism. I don't even believe in 'equality'. I believe in fairness. Which is different from 'equality', cuz men and women are fundamentally different.

Why should I care about man-hate?! They're 'strong and independent' anyways, so I doubt they give a damn about my opinion anyways. I don't really care about being an SJW. I care about the lived experiences of the people I care about. And, they sure as hell aren't feminists, cuz they don't need it!!

This prescription is not mine to make. My opinions come based on a lot of extensive discussions with non-feminist women. I can't have it with feminist women cuz of the echo-chamber like paradigm-lock.

False accusations, promotion of a 'work hard, party hard' life for women, which is inherently masculine. Also, unsafe for women. Bad HR-departments who are on a witch-hunt for men, whose job is to incriminate men. Cancel-culture, censorship, abuse of the metoo movement. It's an inherently sexist question. I'm not dodging it, it just is assuming that I'm being sexist.

I'm not telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do. It's just facts and consequences. If you want them, your call!

From women. Women lionize the 'strong, independent women' and see traditional women as 'weak'. Oh boy. If we're comparing this to the abuse that feminists do to men, it pales in comparison. That is institutional. Don't make assumptions. This is a loaded question. When I answer this, you will say 'you're being self-biased', when you're asking me to tell you my biases!! Which is irrelevant to a discussion about the facts. I'd suggest we stick to facts.

No, they're not a way you act in the world. They are energies. That you feel. And that show you the way to authentic expression. No, it is 'men' and 'women'. Biological men and women. Feminism is the conditioning here. I'm talking about the actual facts about biological men and women. For the sake of argument, let's assume 2 genders that are biologically defined.

They'll be fine with a feminine man if their 'masculinity' is natural. That's not the reality with a lot of them. A lot of them are naturally feminine. But, because they have daddy-issues, they become feminists. And then, they learn the feminist 'masculinity' that only applies to women, by the way. When men do that, they're seen as 'little bitches'. And don't ignore the fact that most women have a physical disadvantage to most men. And most women have a very different emotional-response to most men. Men's way of creating safety is by being logical, factually oriented and battling it. Whereas, women rely on people to keep them safe and protect them. That's how our biological response to threat/danger has evolved. Feminism does hold the idea, though, that masculinity and femininity are socialized into you. That's not true. And, they then demonize the masculine and lionize the feminine. Without realizing that they're being the definition of masculine! And this repels men. It's all good and fine when you're a child or a young adult. But, as you grow up, you start caring about the long-term and the kind of life you want to live. And then, if you make choices based on feminist conditioning, your life typically goes to shit. Man or woman.

All of you who are players, you will love feminism. Cuz feminist women will be more likely to be up for casual sex. Cuz they want to be 'independent'. Which is understandable. You'll really see the problems with it when you try to make a relationship work. There, her 'independence' will really get in your way. And you will struggle to take charge of the relationship long-term as a result of it. Not because it's your fault, because 'taking the lead in the relationship is sexist'. Have fun trying to make that work!!