Hello from Russia

Yes, That is why FOMO is bullshit and what you really need to do in life is find your authentic path of how you want to live THIS particular life

Yes, because meat contains the memory/chemicals of animal's suffering. It isn't merely ethics or their absence that influence your consciousness but actually the physiological/"material" aspects as well

It's funny how in every spiritual school/group there is a discussion which school are shit and which school are good and everyone has different opinion about them It's like with Harry Potter's movies. So much focus on this drama and human's shit. And almost none focus is on the witchcraft. 80% of the movie is about teenage relationships, 20% is about witchcraft. We are not that much different here

Contradiction is a duality

Mate, just open your eyes and recognize that opportunities are everywhere. In a sense, all life is - is a constant stream of opportunities

Blue berries still give me a nice kink too, especially paired with spinach in smoothie, 10/10 brain boost

I hope too. Every time he takes a break it is always some hardcore shit like 30 day of 5-meo DMT or some 14 days enlightentnment meditation push. Could even speculate that his health-related stuff is tied to him not taking proper breaks rather than anything else.

Why not create your own genre of music?

(But Leo?) The low-end cheap products we use and wear contain a tons of toxicity inside them making us sick . You don't have it with high end products made of luxurious resources such as gold, silver, kashemir, silk, etc. which king uses Then, the King has the access to the best people in town for all kinds of things. I'd probably choose a #1 doctor of 4-5 centuries ago than the average Joe we have in our clinics now, the Joe will likely kill me given enough time. Then also having the best philosophers, teachers, etc in person. The women will be much better too. Well, you can learn pickup, but it would put you into top 1% people in the dating world, so it is still an elite privilege. + With pickup you have to hustle a lot. When you're king you don't have to hustle that much for women Your social circle will be the most advanced educated people of that time. While In the current lifetime you'll be likely to be spawned around a ton of neonazis, conspiracy theorists, incels and stuff like that and then you'll have to climb your way out of it Your parents will likely to be people who somewhat know what they are doing in life (they were kings too after all) - will probably give you a much better advice Food-wise, the best cooks will cook for you. The 'groceries" would be the most luxurious and organic ones, pesticides don't even exist yet There are many other examples like this

Lmao, nice

Dude, what an opportunity to contemplate/think about LP or sharpen your vision for half of the day P.S. Yeah, these corporate jobs suck ass

With a capital C

Damn, that's so interesting, can you elaborate on it a little bit?

Nice

Building various kind of infrastructure can be one way of the best ways, people need systems that systematically help them at something

Changes your sex life completely

@BornToBoil You're welcome What I also found is that with dating it is actually EXTREMELY easy to do all this stuff and you have a huge leeway here. It's way more tricky with the long term relationship (which I am in, right now) as you project all sorts of stuff into your partner and want him to be X. And you also get tired very quickly by doing "fun stuff" and "gaming" on a weekly basis. But that's my experience so far, probably can make it better somehow. This is probably when the more robust and authentic illusion is needed, a vision, rather than some dumb story you tell the girl in the mall and she'll be joyful about it and it will all work out great

Oh my

@BornToBoil Well, getting into girls' pants probably won't enlighten you, although there is this story about the monk who meditated for 20 years in the monastery, didn't get the Truth, then he said - " fuck this ", left the monastery, went to the brothel, fucked a girl and suddenly got his satory. So, who knows? With the girls, I found it is very tricky. The problem is that they seem to not be wired to love Truth or truth for its own sake as much as the guys do. You could even say, the girls actually love the illusion, which you could say is the opposite of Truth, right? But it is not so simple, actually. What I found myself is that truth and illusion are a duality, they are not really opposites and they all come in degrees. Try to give contemplating Truth vs Illusion a go, it can be very insightful. In a sense, you could say that to be good at dating you need to be good at skillfully creating the illusions or "experience" that the girls will love. And you can find a lot of truth in these illusions too. It's not like illusions and fantasies are not the truth. They are, but it depends a lot on what frame you put these concepts in. And how you use it. In a sense, everything is an illusion and the art of living is the mastery of creating these illusions. You could also say, that the best illusions are the Truest ones, and the closer to the truth - the better. it is a bit complicated. Probably the best way to replace the word illusion with the word "experience" which would mean the same thing in our context. The feminine really creates for Experiencing life and if you can give her very good experiences - you'll win in this game. And you could say, it doesn't even matter will these experiences be spiritual or not, it's more a matter of your the intensity of it (so she is positively stimulated) and your own style/preferences of how you want to live life and what you want YOURSELF to experience. I think the most important thing to understand here is that girls love experiences. Then, you can put inside these experiences whatever you want, won't really matter. You could also say, though, that the most intense experiences one can experience are of a spiritual nature. So, if you can get her to this point, it might be a major win. They are typically not big fans of rigor and disciplined way of going about it, though, so it might be hard. But they tend to have their ways of doing it, which I am not very familiar with (Feminine spirituality) For the illusion/manipulation dichotomy, I found a good mindset is to be very nuanced about it. Yes, you probably will have to create illusions, but you can do so consciously so they can (1) bring her to something good relative to her - well-being, laughter, prosperity, etc, (2) get her closer to the truth and try to not let her be too attached to the too relative too negative illusions. and also so (3) you don't compromise on your own values of truth. You, in a sense, should have some standards in that domain and don't pursue too untruthful girls for your long-term partners (Simple dating doesn't matter that much probably). And, I think, one of the most key things is that there is this dance in the world between various kinds of phenomena. You dance in between dualities, play with them, merge them, going in various degrees in them, recognizing these degrees. Being too rigid as to only care about one of way of Truth is very myopic in my opinion. So you should probably experiment with these things I'll give you the illustration from the top level of Asian Martial arts and its philosophy. Imagine having an aggressive martial arts style. Then, imagine the aggressive style done soft. Then imagine a Soft style. Then imagine a Soft style done aggressive. Then Soft style done a little bit aggressive (not too much). Then Soft style done superly aggressive. Soft also doesn't mean it is weak So, in a sense, this is how you, imo, should proceed with this illusion & manipulation stuff. Creating the illusions truthfully, or, showcasing the beautiful illusions that are also the truth, or, the illusion that is full of truth, good intentions and integrity, or, you want to be truthful so much that you just can't help but create good illusions about it. A lot of it is the matter of your own style and your particular situation. And, yeah, it is also so fucking complicated. But, in a sense, not going so nuanced and complicated about it will make your life even more complicated than that. There is also can be a high degree of egoic motives and dangers of self-deception in this subject, but it's hard to avoid it in things like that. I hope what I wrote will be useful to you and other people who read it. I definitely got a lot of value by articulating my thoughts on the topic

You also seem to hold a negatively biased view on manipulation. Yes, pickup is a pretty much 100% about manipulation, just like any other type of relating to someone. But what is wrong about it? Is it really the manipulation bad or is it something else that is bad? Give it a contemplation, bro. Would manipulating someone into some positive state be bad? For example, making a girl laugh, or making someone feel loved. Making someone laugh = manipulation, you see? You can't make someone feel something without manipulation by the definition. So, there probably more about the way it is done rather than the concept of manipulation itself... There is a lot more juiciness in this topic