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Hi I followed Leo's teaching for the past few years. I'm looking for some other spiritual teachers to follow. If you have experience with any other good teacher please suggest them. Better if you have a "start here" book, video or lecture from them. Thanks

If God is completely unbiased and all loving, is it even a point in praying? Why is praying so prevalent in religion? By praying I mean asking God for favors

Were you familiar with red pill before Andrew Tate? I watched the whole video just to know the guy for the first time and all he talked about was some even low tier red pill. I understand your situation that you get comfort in his macho ideas and "masculinity" definitions. I was like that when I was younger too. You may think society is telling you these ideas are toxic because all society is beta and politically correct. But as an ex red pill guy, I tell you as a brother, this kind of ideology really IS toxic. If it gives you motivation, great! Use it, but try to outgrow it quickly and don't get stuck on it.

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Hi everyone I am 28 years old guy with an auto-immune illness (IBD), who lives in a Third World country. I work as an engineer in a factory. I make about $600 monthly. I spend about $100 monthly (mainly medication & food). I basically have no life, no going-out, no relationships, no travel, no luxury stuff, no nothing (partly due to illness, partly due to introversion) and I’m fine with that. I have no debts. I have about $9000 in savings now. I live with my parents, but I also have a house which worth about 30,000$. The problem is economic conditions & my illness. *Yearly inflation rate is about 40~50%. *Interest rate is about 10%. *Stocks are not very good investments here (on average about 5% annual rise) *My illness situation is very unpredictable & scary to me. There were times I was unable to work for a whole month. Also, my performance in work has decreased sharply since last year due to my illness getting worse & hindering my abilities. *I don’t have a plan to leave my country as I have liabilities (my illness, my parents, my family, I’m comfortable here). By no means I’m a materialistic guy, I’m very much comfortable right now. My main concern is for the future which my illness maybe gets worse & worse, and I’m unable to make this much money or be unable to work at all, and on top of that the cost of my medications can go very high. I want to be prepared for that situation and don’t end up on the streets or worse. Also, I want to be able to help my parents financially when they get older. My current strategy is to turn all my savings into gold so at least it doesn’t get affected by inflation. Can you guys help me on where to put my savings, so it gradually increases & I can count on that for future? Thanks a lot, everybody

Years ago, when I watched this, my answer was that I wanted to live in an "actual reality" so I wouldn't plug myself into this machine. But now I have doubts. Since there is no external reality, and everything is your interpretations and your perspective with no objectivity to it, What's your answer to this thought experiment? And why? (Consider there is no hedonic adaptation in work)

Hi everybody I was watching two of Leo's old videos about how to stop being a victim and I really liked it. For the last couple of years, I'm deeply immersed in victim mentality since I have a chronic autoimmune condition (IBD) which is painful, causes diarrhea, costs lots of money because of medications, I have difficulty in physical activities because of bone loss and .... I basically gave up most of my ambitions in life because of this illness, and I settled for a below average life. I believe I just dealt a bad hand and I can't do big in life because of these circumstances. In fact, seeing Leo himself dealing with his illness, and sometimes you can see the vibe of victim mentality in him about his illness gives me a bit of more hopelessness. Can anybody give me a piece of advice on this issue and give me some insights about how to overcome this mental barrier? Especially someone who himself is dealing with some kind of disability or chronic illness. Thanks.

That's right, but I'm not interested in game and such things, as I've said I'm not very interested in having girls. I'm just attached to their opinions about me and value their opinions and judgements so much. Can you help me with that?

Hi everybody Before everything, I should state that I live in a very conservative middle eastern country and this might be a bit out of touch with your worldview, but please bear with me. I’m a guy. From my childhood until 23 years of old I’ve had very minimal contact with the opposite sex and women’s world, and frankly I wasn’t interested either. When I was 23, I was introduced to the redpill community and at first I was actually a bit shocked by their claims and point of view about women as I didn’t have any experience with women and until that I thought women are literally angels. After redpill I was introduced to blackpill community and incels forums and everything went downhill from that point. Since they are extremely obsessed with women and their opinions, it subconsciously affected me and from that point I placed so much value in women’s opinion about me too. I went into serious self-image and self-esteem issues with my height and looks, and I felt very inadequate. After about 2 years, I finally managed to get myself out of that mentality but after building up some courage and confessing my love to my childhood crush I was downright rejected by her which given my background with redpill and blackpill ideologies was a huge blow to my self-esteem. But I focused on my career and self-improvement and got myself out of the situation after another 2 years, and was in a very good place last year and gained some confidence. At that time, I proposed to a girl that I developed a crush on in our neighborhood. At that time I was considered a very good husband material guy according to my culture, I had a good educational background and was financially and socially secure, and also we were “objectively” a very good match. My family and also her family were very happy about this marriage. To my, my family and also her family’s utter surprise, she said no. Me, my family and also her own family were very persistent thinking she is playing coy and hard to get. She would left my messages on read for many days, didn't answer directly, almost didn't care about the situation at all which is very unusual and uncommon in our culture (Please don’t judge the culture if you are judging right now, the girl herself always has the last say as in this situation, and she isn’t forced into anything she doesn't want). The process took almost 6 months, which was very hard on me emotionally. As this was a very brutal and unexpected rejection, I spiraled back into self-esteem and self-image issues. My problem is that before discovering about redpill and blackpill and before these two rejections happened, I didn’t have self-image problems and I certainly didn’t believe women determine my worth as I didn’t really care about their views on me anyway (no offense), but now I’m a bit hurt and salty. I’m a bit jealous of my friends and other people having girlfriends and being married. My jealousy is not about them having girls, I’m not very interested in sex or anything, but the jealousy is actually about the fact that they are being accepted and even pursued by women, and I was rejected. I am subconsciously giving authority to women to determine my worth. I want this to stop. I tried so hard to get back my authority and not allowing them to determine my value as a man, but I just can’t. I can understand intellectually that my worth is not determined by women and actually nothing has any worth whatsoever, but I have difficulty embodying that. Any advice is greatly appreciated