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I doubt his gamer cred. He comes off as if he studied gamer terminology but never actually touched a controller. He has massive "howdy fellow kids" energy. "Depression is like fighting an Elden Ring boss" 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ But kudos for connecting with young people. And it triggers the "self-help is a scam" crowd, which is always a good thing. I've gotten good value out of him.

Sure. I understand spirituality to be essentially to be content with boredom.

Even though milf Leo is kind of pug faced, she looks pretty all done up. And you know she's an expert judging by Leos old videos, if you catch my drift. And you wouldn't need to be super rich or anything. Just listen to her yap about god once a day. Top 10 women who look best pregnant.

I only ever met a couple of people I would consider fit to own a dog out of the myriad of dog owners I've met. Most people don't have the time, resources or discipline to properly tend to a dog. I know people who got breeds simply because they look cool but don't fit their lifestyle at all. I know a chronically ill person who owned a sleigh dog. Obviously they couldn't keep up and it ended up so stressed and bored that it started eating glass. But then they had a huge ego over giving it up to a certain someone who was capable of giving that dog a decent life. The rise of dogs getting medicated is a sign that too many people own dogs that they can't properly take care of. The high demand on dogs incentivizes irresponsible breeding, which leads to bad genes and anti-social dog behavior. Way more shelter dogs should be euthanized, which is clearly an unpopular thing to say, but would realistically be the most responsible thing to do. There are way too many dogs in circulation. And people are way too fucking obsessed with dogs, to a point of mania. I've had people let their dogs into my home uninvited, then act shocked when I get mad. I've seen people walk their giant illegal looking pitbull monster through a park full of kids with no leash acting like it's normal. The shitstorm people throw over "dog abuse", like that Hasan situation. Shit's childish and irresponsible. It's like dogs have become the personification of Neverland. Dogs being compared to children is manic af too. It's just a fucking dog, my god.

Stay away from him and act like he doesn't exist as much as possible if you see him again. The fact is that there's nothing to gain from him in injuring or threatening you at this point. If he does, he'll be arrested. A good approach for dealing with negative thoughts is to simply notice them and then do nothing. You do that enough, the thought loses power. You stop sustaining it with negative energy. Try it. Bullies live of the negative reactions they get from people. Most of the time it's sufficient to remove yourself and ignore them. Practice emotional non-reactivity. Training MMA, going to the gym, etc. are good for building confidence and self-development, and you should, but you'll find the greatest safety in numbers. Social isolation is the biggest predictor of being targeted.

Nofap is internet brainrot. It overemphasizes failure while giving next to no tangible results. In practice you end up just feeling guilty about jerking it. Stop conforming to fringe ideologies, sects and cultural moralizations. Their goal is rarely genuine self-improvement. If your watching too much porn, the deeper issue is likely too much free time and a lack of solid goals. Aimless people turn into bad people as they default to the path of no resistance.

Learn to create results. Confidence comes from surviving failure, and failure and set-backs are indicitative of progress. You need to take lots of action towards your goals. Make sure to define clearly what your goals are and work incremently on them everyday. What differentiates jocks and chads from other men is that they are outwardly action oriented. Don't think in terms of embodying a stereotype or being always keyd on and aggressive. Pick your battles. Sometimes its better to be submissive when the cost winning a situation is not worth it. Any humilliation, failure and set-back you suffer is endurable.

Body language is an amazing field of study. You can learn so much from just reading the subtleties of simply moment to moment gestures.

In pass #5 your just trying to make what your value means to you concrete and clear. Previously it was just a vague notion. Now your making clear in your mind what your value actually entails in real life. What exactly does this mean to me? Just be general here. What comes to mind when you think of this value? What would it look like tangibly? What would look like in real time? Here your honing on what actions this value entails. How would I know if I embody this value? How would you look like if you embodied your value? What lifestyle are you living? What feelings and states do you experience? what specific experiences do you have? Here your honing in on what kind of person you'd be and what kind of life you'd live if you embodied your value. Your value means something specific to you. Not just in the abstract, but in terms of what kinds of action you take and states you experience. The definition is just a one sentence description of what you understand your value to mean to you in essence. Don't overthink too much. It's supposed to be somewhat intuitive. Here's one of my examples:

They are a parody of themselves

Antropomorphism is wrong. It's a projection of qualities that don't exist. Dogs are not children and they can't fulfill emotional needs like other another person. It silly and can lead irresponsible behavior, like overfeeding or behavior issues. Nothing I've said has been definitely untrue. Your clearly biased yourself.

That's cronyism lol.

Betterment is a good short-term solution to a crisis, but long-term generosity creates dependency and undermines the local economy. It's hard to compete with free so poor countries are rendered indeficient at developing their own businesses and systems for handling survival. And the free stuff is often mediocre and eats away at peoples dignity, like used clothes. Africans wearing a tired old oversized Spiderman shirt instead of something locally produced. The "gifts" poor parents give their children during Christmas are all donated. It sends a message to one's self-esteem when it's chronic. It's a good example of how good intentions tend to backfire if you don't appreciate how systems work. It's an example of why stage green is insufficient at solving the problems it cares about, and often actually makes things worse. Sometimes its more evil to rob people of the opportunity for self-improvement and dignity with your compassion than to just let them suffer and struggle.

Burn out is such a powerful force. It can take years to get over. I know Leo has been dealing with his own burn out, so I'm sure there's insight to be had. It's such a universal and often frustrating experience, because often what we're burnt out over is important to us in someway.

This redefining of matriarchy as something that's closer to egalitarianism reminds me of how certain progressives tried to redefine racism as being defined by power relations. Calling everyone who's white racist and that it's not possible to be racist if your a minority. The definition of matriarchy is political exclusion. It's obviously silly and hypocritical to advocate for that, so why use that term?

That's every thread in existence.

No one book will solve all your problems, but they can expand your understanding and equip you with tools to better handle your issues. Think of it more as a process than a goal you accomplish which you can contribute to with greater knowledge.

Feminism is pro independence. By necessity it is going to contribute to atomization and the breaking of communal bonds.

They should have a pet rock.

It's true that having a pet is like a child, but at best only 1/4. The anthropomorphism is stupid, like calling them fur babies or referring to oneself as fur mommy. It's a sign of the end times. A relationship with an animal is nowhere near that of one with a human in scope and effect. A lot of this dog mania is because people are too immature to handle real relationships.

Women are less likely to kill themselves in general. They are less impulsive.

The bottomline is to focus on your strengths. Classic self-help principle. Men generally need prove their worth more, whereas women get to coast to a greater degree. On the flipside, men generally have a greater opportunity to build character. There's a reason why men tend to gravitate towards leadership to a greater degree.

Is the patriarchy in the room with us right now?

Indoor dogs is modern phenomena I believe. A dog makes a lot of sense on a farm. Not only as a work animal but also for the dog itself, who love working and it's a stimulating environment. I think the happiest dogs I've ever met was a small pack of four in an Aboriginal village in Queensland Australia. They would run around, play all day and chase dingos at night.

In my experience, a lot of guys get funneled into blue collar work because they are "losers", because they can't focus on their academics and/or aren't cut out for school. They typically have issues and lack good role models I think. My brother who's a metallurgist distinguished between the people actually interested in the subject and the "nitwits" who where more interested in getting wasted and driving cool cars (what I think you'd call bogans in Australia).