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Bryan Johnson is great. In the past year he's motivated me to be healthier more than any other person. Not a fan of Peter Thiel though.

What do you mean by good. - JP

The majority of men might be in the lower stages where they don't think for themselves. Also if a person isn't racist or cares about the environment only because an authority told them to do so they are still stage blue, not green.

While non-fiction self help is great, many people overlook fiction as a powerful tool to learn and relay messages that can directly and positivitly improve daily life. After all, our ancestors have been telling stories for millennia. Here's an excerpt from Oz Perlman's new book "Read your mind" on the topic, he's a master of influencing and reading the human mind:

This is a 1 minute YouTube short on an interesting story. Apparently Kars4Kids was dishonest campaign. This story is a good example of how marketing can be deceiving.

Check out Elephants in the Room episode on this topic for another take....

Thanks to Obama and Biden /s we need to get these stickers back

It's almost common knowledge that women are pickier when it comes to dating, but at the same time men overlook the vast majority of women and focus on persuing the few who are attractive. So which sex is actually pickier?

Read Scott Galloway's notes on being a man. Key takeaways: a real man takes care of the people around him. Do that and you have become "alpha male". Also Galloway says BEING NICE is the best way to find and maintain relationships. Note: being nice doesn't mean being a push over, not having an opinion, etc. Nice people can still have swagger and be nonchalant.

Any woman who isn't prancing around in the woods doing witchcraft and drinking from the streams is supporting the patriarchy. That's just fact.

For sure, It was for a while especially in European controlled areas of world. The Dao De Ching is better, in my opinion, as it cuts more to the chase.

Lol, Yes you are right. It's not the books themselves that are the problem it's human psychology. In your world what would you replace the trashed doctrines with? My answer would be something like actualized.org but the irony is that Jesus and Mohammed thought the same way. And then their teachings got corrupted by their followers just like Leo's teachings would be in a few hundred years. This idea comes actually from Leo.

@Rafael Thundercatinteresting perspective! After all the YouTube videos comes the hard part: finding out what's actually true. Keep in mind that if everyone on the forum is so easily deluded, as you claim, then you could be too. No matter how many YouTube videos you watched.

Yes that's lame as they are obviously both delusional and false. But that's not exactly what being debated on this topic. What being debated is which one is less bad. This is relevant to this forum because we discuss the benefits and limitations to relativity and postmodernism. Relativists say that all religions are equal. But in truth there is huge differences between them. Some are objectively more surpressiolve and unjust.

Glad you find this helpful. A good book can certainly be emotionally engaging. The length of books also means readers spend more time with certain themes, ideas and characters that make it even more impactful than shorter mediums.

Muslim countries abolished slavery much more recently than Christian countries. Early Christians were also prosecuted and lived in barbaric times. Mohamed could have practiced non-resistance like Jesus and Ghandi and just accepted death/martyrdom like what Jesus did.

Sam Harris, says the same thing because while Jesus taught peace, Mohamed was a military leader and a statesmen, who took slaves, multiple wives (some were children) beheaded people, etc. So Muslims countries have better justifications for merging church and state and to spread their religion. Judaism for example makes it very hard to join and that's why there is relatively so few Jews in the world. I thought this was an interesting distinction between these major religions of the world that might indeed help explain some of the actions of the followers.

You are free to leave anytime. It's not like your comments are that great either. If all you find on this forum is argument than perhaps you are the common denominator and your communication style needs work. Pro tip: calling everyone the forum unintelligent, reactive, ungrounded, and distorted is an example of what not to do if you are looking for productive and thought provoking conversation. The irony is that you exhibit many of the criticisms you mentioned above as you seem to also have a "resentful view of men, which distorts any grounded thinking and truth."

Yes it's good you are ignoring the alcoholic partiers but I have a similar problem with people I care about. What can help is reading fiction. This is backed by science as studies show that reading fiction improves empathy. By reading fiction you are spending hours seeing the world through another person's point of view. Whether that's the author or the characters in the book. Reading books on people skills is great too. I found The advice trap, Dare to Lead, Talk so kids Will Listen and listen so kids will talk were great.

You have a healthy relationship with your shadow side and how to live with it

Men have been told their whole lives they suck. We don't want more. Women in the West already have it better than the men; they live longer, they are happier, they have more friends, they watch more TV and read more, they have greater purchasing power, they are more educated, and as a group have enormous voting power. What else do you want?

Was going to post the same thing

Is your post trying to make the point that we should have better government policy that helps the homeless and the struggling? If that's the case, I agree! Everyone should vote and even run for local office. I thought you were asking why Leo seems to focus more on mindset. The answer: mindset is the only thing we have control over. This idea can also be found in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.

I do hope that. Online Disinhibition Effect is a hell of a drug.