Israfil

I've met some doomers in this forum, but you take the crown, man. Is there some chance that the negativity you feel affects the way you talk to people? Don't you think that people can sense the anger, frustration and depression you constantly talk about here when you interact with them?

This is confirmation that the name should be Narcisophonia.

Should change your name to Narcisophonia after that one. hahahahahaha

Explain to me why your input has any validity if in every post you are constantly complaining about your inability to get into a relationship, while many people don't seem to have any problems with women at all. Have you considered that the way you're framing women and yourself is precisely what's holding you back? You don't realize how much the doomerism black pill content hurt you, man. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are constantly dehumanizing women. In one of your posts, you wrote "women are completely different creatures". You also seem to only think of women as some kind of living sex toy. Your only concern seems to be sex. You have no consideration for what other people might feel, and victimize yourself for being rightfully removed from space after "being expelled after saying a harmless naughty joke to the wrong NPC". Do you realize how much you alienate yourself from other people and unconsciously hurt them for subscribing to this way of socializing with them? Then, it doesn't work, because you listen to the advice of people who haven't spoken to a woman in five years, and when that happens it confirms your bias about "modern women". You'll only go down in that spiral if you don't stop consuming this content and investigating the nature of your failures by your lenses, instead of a pickup guru or some dude in their grandma's basement. I've said to another person in this forum and I say to you: You don't know yourself. You're not in a position to know anybody else.

That's great already. The simple fact you're new makes people curious. It's a great conversation starter, by the way. Remember what I said about travel and sharing life experiences. You might find people who have lived in many different cities or lived in that city their entire lives interested in talking about it. You will nurture and develop your social circle just by consistently being in the ambients you frequent. Don't be afraid to talk to people that you chit chat with a little bit longer, for example. It is a balance between seeking it and letting it happen. Give time to it.

If you have an interesting life, maybe you should focus on expanding your social group first. Find some friends, and women will be way more open to you, simply because you have been previously vetted by the people you're hanging out with. From there, practice talking to girls in those social settings. Soon, you'll be able to handle one-on-one conversations easily or they might even occur naturally during the process of engaging those people in social contexts. If you're sensitive, you'll easily recognize people interested in you and people who are not interested in you. Look for those who are. You are on the right road. Just avoid too much content about it on the internet. Your own experience is more than enough to handle this. If you need help, talk here or with people that you know that have good relationships. They'll paint a very different image than that of redpill grifters.

Sure, you are. But that's many steps ahead of finding purpose and working towards it. I would say that should be your main focus. You'll see how many friends and potential partners you attract when you're focused on developing the basics of your life. Working on my career and my hobbies gave me way more friends than school or university. These people are also more aligned with my vision and strengthened my connections in general. Do some cool shit, man. That's it. After that, you go out and find people that do the same shit. After that, you go out and find people that do different shit. That's what I did. You eventually talk to people who want to talk to you, and if they're interested enough, then you get to the attraction part. It seems simplistic, but it was the thing that increased my results the most.

You are equating two verbs not usually used as equals. This is not evident, nor it is the common use of these terms. Be careful not to fool yourself.

Are you okay?

A dream city for meeting new people. Cariocas are very open to one another. From the little I've seen people talking about other countries, I genuinely believe it can be one of the best places to live if you set up your life correctly. If you ever comeback, let's meet up and share experiences. It'd be a pleasure to show you some cool places.

I am a musician and a Designer. I'm dating a very high-quality woman from my office job, and met several girls playing live or on rehearsal after parties. I also talk to girls who have similar interests as me on the internet. Eventually, those interests make you closer to them and we flirt and play with each other between hobby or life talk. I go to bars that play the music I enjoy and talk to people about it. I travel and exchange stories about my place and the locals. I live in Rio de Janeiro, which is a touristic city, so I meet a lot of foreigners from all over the world, who I can talk to because I developed my English. See? It's a matter of becoming interesting. To have meaningful topics of conversation and be open to others' perspectives. You have to have something to say, but have to actively listen and engage in what people have to say too. This approach increases the odds of meeting and keeping high-quality people in your life. From very early in my life I wanted to become a polymath, so I guess I directed myself towards this direction. In this trajectory, I found the impossibility of developing my skills if I didn't balance my intuitive and logical side. By intuitive I mean, my feelings, my thoughts, and later, my spiritual side. This narrow view of "How can I do cold approach?" or "How to do cold approach?" misses the underlying problem in both perspectives about other people (PUAs and other red pill adherents, for the most part, dehumanize/objectify people in general, but more emphatically women) and perspective about your problems. You do not know yourself, you are not in a position to know someone else.

The more integrated and conscious you become, the better your relationships. That's my personal experience. I've dated increasingly better people and made increasingly better friends as my mind expanded. The experiences I searched for and the questioning I did were fundamental to it. I am not even close to reaching my greatest potential and I am being blessed by a very positive social life currently. It is a matter of personal development.

This is a completely false equivalent. Money precedes "government" by centuries. Having more information about prices has little to do with the core nature of money. Again, people understood inflation before the name of the phenomenon was even created. The fundament of the value of money is simply trust. As long as people can agree on a perceived value equivalency and hope that future agreements of this type can be done in the future, the currency can be used. That's what I'm stating.

That's the place to be! Great times of presence and openness.

This is also why, even gold/silver is a "scam" if you think deeply enough. You receive a piece of metal in exchange for a piece of your time or other materials in the hope that the next person you meet will agree to do the same, presumably bearing the same hope as you do. In that sense, money is the most successful pyramid in history.

This whole game is so alien to me. I see a girl I like, I talk to her, we either stay together or don't, either way, life moves on. Being sincere and genuine gives you so much less tension in your relationships, I don't see the point of hiding interest just for the sake of it. Hell, I get surprised at how often I am interested in someone who also is interested in me. I doubt a "strong man" is afraid of rejection, and I doubt he needs to play little games to have a relationship. Just build genuine connections with people and you'll have way more time in your hands, from not consuming weird dating advice on YouTube.

Affection is not an equation. It is a consequence of exacerbated materialism to start to think in terms of "quality a + quality + quality c = relationship/sex". It is mostly a matter of seeing the other person as a complete human being. The person with "no qualities" might be a good listener or very affectionate. And plenty of relationships are predicated on neediness or ulterior motives. Many people are stuck in toxic relationships too. Expanding your relationships by actively engaging with people is the best way to understand this. About 80% of online content on dating/relationships is completely toxic and unreal.

Moloch is the name given to the degeneracy tendency of competitive systems. Reading the original article explains it very clearly. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

It's a survival issue. Just taking into account the first year of the original occupation, over a million Palestinians were displaced and most fertile land was taken by Israel.

What is so shocking about nudity? Everyone is naked inside their clothes.

This is not true at all. For a long time, the Islamic world was a safe haven for both persecuted Jews and Christians. The modern theocratic Muslim states are a product of the interplay of the medieval Muslim states and the European colonial empires. For a very long time, the Muslim world was more enlightened and dare I say more progressive than Christian Europe. Here's a small article presenting this view: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobalsociety/2022/09/tolerance-versus-toleration-the-lost-civility-of-the-muslim-empires/#:~:text=From this perspective%2C Muslim Empires,the Islamic judges (qadis). The idea of western societies being the most advanced and developed in the world stems heavily from warfare results. That's the whole "history is told by winners" trope. Europe, and later, the US just punched people harder than anyone else and therefore got the self-proclaimed moral high ground to state that they're the most morally and technically advanced societies in the world.

Many mixed feelings on this one. I thought about the paradox of egoism/altruism. How you can't really have one without the other. Wrote beneath a beautiful tree, having a nice beer after 12-hour work day, by the silence of 1 AM Rio de Janeiro. What is a tree? Its parts separated by the intelect You see a leaf, forget the tree See the tree, forget the forest And what would I do if I were a leaf, Rather than nourish it? For if the trunk, the roots and branches forgets me As a leaf I wither and die I hope as leaf To root become And nourish the tree as well For the trunk, the branches and leaves forget me I as a root wither and die And what would I do as a tree Rather than nourish the forest? For I would wither, and the land beneath me desert If it weren't for the trees alongside me Such is the nature of our kind We nurture those seemingly above us So that our existence doesn't waste away to time So we don't dry and fall As every leaf does Until, eventually, The entire forest can live Without the burden of bearing us Nature killing away The blind egotistical part That it gave birth to In order to keep itself alive.

No serious opinion is one paragraph long. I was just responding to the "individual rights" argument that was posed.

The only point I find troublesome about the anti-vax sentiment is if it spreads to other provenly effective vaccines. You don't want to take the fastest-developed vaccine in history? I can understand that, but some crippling diseases were nearly eradicated thanks to many vaccines. People who refuse to vaccinate their children expose them and other children who cannot be vaccinated to them. The atomist dream that you can socialize the consequences of your actions with the society supporting your own life is also a dogmatic and fallacious dream. You cannot expose other people to disease in the name of your personal liberty, because other people's health is part of their rights. Your right cannot infringe on others' rights.