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Has anyone here done this? I've had a few offers but I always declined. I once went to this place where old people massage each other on a table with oil and and I joined in lol. But not like full on swingers. I also offered doing some swapping with my ex but she hated the idea. I guess I just liked the idea of another chick or couple watching while we fucked. I think swinging is much more prevalent with older couples cause after 20 years of marriage they just don't care anymore and see it as something novel. If she's old then the guy doesn't get jealous anymore.

This is the spiritual part of Bali. Today is my second day here and it's amazing. Lots of business here are owned and operated by local families and it really feels like my money is going back to the community. Balinese are very friendly and welcoming people and incredibly warm. Many yoga places here, massages, incredible food and rice field views. They say influencers have ruined Bali but I think it's the opposite. Service and presentation in restaurants is superb, probably because of the influencers. Today I had two ladies tickle me for 90 minutes straight. It's supposed to bring out your inner child, felt pretty relaxed afterwards

Not sure if this video has been posted already but it's worth the watch Boils down to: both OpenAi and Anthropic are deeply indoctrinated by this weird doomer religion. So everytime you hear doomsday talk about AI, now you know where it comes from.

I'm looking at volunteering at retreats in exotic places, mainly Thailand and some others, to get a place to stay in exchange for labor. I much prefer to offer my tech skills than some general work like gardering or cooking. It ties in with my life purpose as well so it's perfect. But some of these are paid opportunities. Like today I saw one that asks a $45 a day contribution and you still expected to work 30 hours a week for free. Even the Ram Das ashram in Portugal here charge you $450 contribution in order to volunteer for 40 days. Do you believe this to be ethical? It feels like my time is not only being valued low but negative? Yes you are paying for this 'good cause' but cmon 😐

It gives me a boner. This is a pretty common reaction I think.

Because it would seriously reduce the quality of my life in return for a vague promise I can't even check for myself. I'd literally rather spend it on toilet paper. It's totally different if I'm making it my life purpose though and actually travel to Africa to do the work. Then absolutely I would.

Yes exactly, everyone is oriented differently so let them do as they please.

How do you know all this? Can't you imagine being married to the same woman for 50 years? Those old people don't care. If swinging spices up their sex life who are we to judge?

Ever since starting my business I've become so practical and utilitarian. For example my Muay Thai coach took me out for dinner and I immediately thought "yeah but I pay him 1000 baht per private lesson, he only paid 500 for dinner once so that's still not much". Or when service staff is being kind and friendly to me I immediately think "that's just their job". Perhaps when I was younger I was really naive with this stuff, but now I feel like I've overcorrected. Same with girls. I just think "they're only into me because of these biological reasons". It's just annoying. Like I've fallen too deeply in love with my own rational mind. And can you blame me? That is after all what's given me this lifestyle. So put simply: Young me: naive, anxious, irresponsible. Now me: cautious, self correcting, rational Future me: less rigid, gets shit done through pure magic. Proper SD Green integration.

Fantastic by not doing it. Instead of taking these volunteer jobs in Bali I decided to focus on building my own web design business instead. Now I'm in Bali with my own money, own work hours and much more freedom. And I can still go to yoga and resorts whenever I want. But that's personal. I can see these being fun when you're young. I'm 37.

Excellent question and very well put. Isn't the problem that guys like that have giant egos? You don't do arena tours just to help people (which in itself is an egoic reason) It's about the rush of being on stage, of being significant, making the business work. I've seen many NLP guys cross over into all sorts of shady stuff such as Multi Level Marketing.

This is why Elon has 8 kids.

The AI isn't the problem

We've already offloaded our brains into the computer a lot. If I were to upload all my LLM chat history to this forum you guys would know more about me than I know about myself. Social media posts and other thoughts you've shared continue to exist on servers after your dead too. Thoughts you shared in these forum posts included.

If you just work on your purpose day in and day out, it doesn't really matter how you feel cause you got bigger fish to fry.

Leo has finally replaced himself with AI

I'm just listening to old tapes of RSD Owen Cook talking about success and working 16-hour days. But then I also see today's Owen saying it's all bullshit. Is that how it is? When you're young you think working hard matters but as you're older you realize it was just a lie? Can you build a successful business or career without hard work? I mean, define hard work right? Right now I work maybe 35 hours, 7 days a week in my own business. That's actual focused work. I'm quite happy with it. But then are these hustle and grind guys just fucking deranged, or is there something to it?

What's the point of dating? The whole operation is not genuine because it is ultimately driven by people's reproductive desires. You're not genuinely broadening your horizons when there's a dating partner involved because the underlying urges drive a lot of it. Else you can just get a dog and move on. And since the whole venture is corrupted, it's a distraction. You will almost certainly get sucked into this unconscious behavior together. The whole escaping comformity Leo talks about? Get ready for more of it, much more conformity when dating. Much more lower consciousness. That's another thing: you're entering into a giant pool of normie, low consciousness gunk. It's very unlikely your dating partners value truth, insight or thinking for themselves. People don't care about those things. Idk maybe I'm cynical. Can we all agree dating is not expanding your consciousness because of it's thick survival bias? It begs the question: why date at all? To me it's a headache, more admin. I don't want kids, so what's the point?

I think I'm just being impossible with this. I just fantasize about stuff, like a hopeless romantic. I really enjoy my current life which is full of little interactions, that's mostly my social life now and I'm happy with it. Perhaps a girl to explore together with since I'm here in Thailand. But at the end my fantasies are just that. People have flaws and relationships arent perfect. For now I'm choosing to just think about these things instead 😝 What about you?

Yah I vibe coded an entire profitable freelance business on this premise this year. What matters is you getting the clients. What concrete thing can you offer? More leads? Less time wasted? That's all that matters. Then figure out Claude code as you go, as it can pretty much do anything. And where will you find your audience? Who are they? Niche down, don't be general. So target "freelance accountants with a broken website who hate admin" not "business owners". And then reach out to them. My bot now emails 180 leads per day automatically. I only talk to people once they qualify. Took time to build my lead machine,now it makes money. Constantly improve your business, always improve and get better. Be obsessed. That's my advice.

Hmm I don't actually think so. Most people would just work a lot and be broke. Millionaire comes from creative thought, from mind, and those ideas come at rest or during creative peaks. Ai or staff can do the long work hours.

They say Leo can turn vodka into wine 🤫

Eating food and dating aren't the same. With food it's very low effort to just eat and move on. With dating comes a whole social entanglement and now you're playing that game. Nothing wrong with it, but it's unavoidable. You can't have two conscious beings just interfacing, that is not a romantic relationship. A relationship is exclusive. You have a relationship with person A means NOT with person B. This always comes with social games. It's separation, exclusion, survival. Breath can be used for spiritual development. Dating, I don't see it. But I notice I'm closed off to it at this moment. I'm just cynical about other people's developmental levels, which probably isn't a great quality but hey. I should be aware that this could turn into a self fulfilling prophecy. Fyi I've had one long term relationship, that was fine, not open to it now and casual dating is also kinda lame.

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All these experts who said we're going into the greatest oil crisis since the seventies were wrong.