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Lol ok that was pretty funny response but your crassness suggests you are indeed in need of self-help of some kind and so does your obsession with generations. Try fiction, as studies show it helps develop empathy. We all read non-fiction on here too man but OP specifically asked for fiction recommendations. Is everything okay with you at home? If there's something else going on we're here to listen and support you.

It also seems that modern feminism gets itself confused with environmentalism.

This is a good point but I don't think that it applies to actualized.org forum users all that much. It safe to say we are inherently a multi-perspectival group and most people know that of course Greene is just one perspective that is merely interesting and somewhat helpful at times.

Yes people like you bring much needed attention to the plight of women. That's great! In some pockets of North America this is already the mainstream view. What's been getting my attention recently how actually the average man has far more to fear than the average woman. Men make up the majority of victims for random violent attacks, homicide, suicides, job death, over-doses, war, natural disasters, emergency scenarios (women and children first after all). Men are victims of or die in greater numbers from all causes with sole exception of domestic violence. I know what you will say: it's the evil men's fault and so who cares. But it doesn't matter who the perpetrators are as what I am highlighting is as a man the world is more dangerous place than for a women, statistically speaking. I doubt you can appreciate it but I thought it was an interesting perspective.

Tell me about, that book is as existentially unsettling as it is profound. Glad you enjoy it too. "I Who Have Never known men" is equally bleak and disorienting if you like that sort of thing. They are nice and short too.

This shows how the human mind works and yours specifically: 1 You think the distinction between men and women is important (almost everyone does) 2 you think gender roles are important and shouldnt overlap in some areas, like motorcycle riding 3 when you see a gender breaking their role it's ok to feel "weirded out" Question these assumptions. There's more you can think up probably.

Yes, it's a form of self harm (that feels good admittedly) like cutting or over eating or alcoholism. The irony is that, like overeating, it actually contributes to being more stress overall and is counterproductive to and compounds stress. These habits make you poorer, less healthy, and less able to tolerate stress in the future. It's a negative feedback loop.

Awesome, great topic!

So you don't like art - in the form of literature? Or intellectualism? Also where does Tony Robbins recommend to shit on other people's interests?

So true. Not to mention that its popularity, even to this day, can be traced back to heavy corporate marketing strategies of the early 1900's. How big of a sucker do you have to be to smoke cigarettes? On the other hand being sedentary is also pretty bad for us but many people do it. It reduces life expectancy and brain function just like cigarettes. This article is titled "Why sitting is the new smoking" https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/the-dangers-of-sitting Interesting post it's always valuable to contemplate health.

Interesting because I had almost the exact same experience growing up. My parents are Catholic Bible thumpers and they taught me to mistrust the "evil materialist, consumerist, mainstream culture" at every turn - from fast food, to fast fashion, to profane music videos, latest videos games/books/movies, and clever marketing tactics. It was this same skeptical attitude that I instinctively applied to Church itself at a young age. It was so obvious to me that it was a patriarchical, brainwashing, intellectually dishonest belief system that doesn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny. I was confused (and still am) why adults believe this nonsense.

Insightful thanks for sharing

These are too funny, and a great way to see how Iran sees the US.

If you liked Robert Greene check out Oz Perlman's "Read Your Mind". Ignore the bad reviews, there is a subtle genius to Oz Perlman. Also check out some of his interviews where he does some mentalism.

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Good point you are right. I agree church is an especially cruel form of psychological child abuse.

Exactly, and by only reading self help (as you suggested) you can miss out on something better.

I'm sorry this happened to you. Thanks for sharing so we all can learn about this topic in such great detail.

Everything is child abuse: Our food, our education system, our culture, the way we encourage our kids to out compete each other. And then we wonder why they become destructive unhappy adults. Not to mention that just by giving birth you are contributing to overall net suffering. Even relatively good lives have more suffering than pleasure. This makes reproduction unethical in a certain sense.

Nice, me too. What's your favorite take-away from all those books?

These are awesome books on human nature that contain many deep emotional, complex themes - things that stage yellow thinkers might enjoy. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Brothers Karamazov. There's a reason it's routinely considered one of the best books of all time. Some shorter books: A Short Stay in Hell by Peck I Who Have Never Known Men

Fiction can sometimes teach better than non-fiction.

He says that because Mindset is the only variable factor whereas reality can't be changed. It's useless to focus on changing reality and so mindset becomes the only thing that really matters. But in truth success depends on a nebulous mixture of both. The less conducive reality is to success the more important mindset becomes but also success becomes less probable.

Ya looks good, will read it for sure