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Look at all the major scientists that people like Curt and Lex Fridman interview. They are clueless about metaphysics. I could name dozens of names. Read Sean Carroll's book, The Big Picture. It's pure nonsense metaphysically and epistemically. Even someone like Donald Hoffman (a sort of idealist and meditator) horribly misunderstands what consciousness is. They don't understand much outside their narrow technical field. Yet the public considers these academics as intellectual geniuses. They aren't. They are horribly dense and conformist in their understanding of reality. All of these academic types are hopelessly lost in concept-land and they will never break free.

Remember though that imagination IS reality. So if you imagine it hard enough it is as real as real gets. Like when you are dreaming it feels totally real, until you wake up. It's not complicated. It works just like in a dream.

If I was a chair, I wouldn't mind being a lady's bicycle seat. But hey, I'm biased

For something that specific you'd want to attend and network at industry events, trade shows, conventions, etc.

They def make the mistake of confusing the map for the territory. The problem is that this mistake is so obvious and embarrassing to admit that it will never be admitted by a serious intellectual. If you try corner him on it, he will deny that he ever confuses the map for the territory, even though routinely he does -- which you can verify by asking him some basic metaphysical questions about the substance of reality. He will give you the map as the substance. For example, if you ask a quantum field theorist What is the substance of reality? He will say something like: Quantum field equations. This is literally what Sean Carroll says in his book. Max Tegmark makes this mistake flagrantly as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark Pretty much all materialists do this. Since it never occurs to them that the substance must be consciousness.

Of course if you corner them they will start to fess up and try to save themselves. The point is that they don't understand what they are talking about. The don't have a coherent metaphysics. But they basically picture reality as a giant computer crunching numbers behind the scenes. Which is laughable. Ask them this: Are quarks made out of mathematics or is mathematics made out of quarks? Are brains made out of mathematics or is mathematics made out of brains?

By that logic then mathematics is no better than any other language. Which scientists and mathematicians would want to deny. The problem is that they don't accept that mathematics is merely language. There are plenty of scientists and academic types who literally believe reality can be reduced down to 1s and 0s or an equation. If it cannot be quantified it isn't even considered real. Which is as dumb as saying that if you cannot call a thing a duck, it cannot be real. Here's an example of the kind of stupidity rife within science:

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Focus on something productive.

Honestly I don't know what he's spending his money on other than a house. Nor do I give a fuck what he spends his money on as long as it doesn't corrupt the government.

Real Social Dynamics, Owen/Tyler See Owen Cook's YT channel. Research was RSD was. He had to rebrand themselves. You can find old archives of their pickup videos. Find Owen's old videos. They are no longer on YT.

@charlie cho I am talking about reaching hook-point, where she is clearly attracted to the guy and is willing to date him. Little pursuit is needed after hook-point is reached. Then you just slowly reel her in. She will come willingly. You don't need to chase her.

You make some good points. I agree that Green has a lot of depth to its embodiment. In my way of thinking I distinguish between mild Green and deep Green. You are talking about deep Green. I just don't expect deep Green from a gamer streamer. I also don't know if its fair to place that much burden on people. Expecting Hasan to drop his streaming career and run off to build a commune is not necessarily what is right for him. If he did that he would stop having the big audience that he has and it would probably be a net loss for spreading Green politics, shallow as streaming may be. It's not like I'm running off to start a commune either. "Benefiting the community" is a very relative, subjective, and personal thing. My benefit is via my YT videos. I extend the same to Hasan.

Ahh yes... observing one's family as animals

That's where you gotta be very intelligent and clever. No one will give you those.

@Scholar When I assess Hasan I do so by his public policy positions, not his personal life. Stage Orange people don't tend to have Hasan's policy positions. I give him allowances for some Orange stuff in his personal life. You can say policy positions are just empty talk, but it's not so simple. Within the realm of politics (which is what his work is about) Hasan is spreading the Green value set.

Never touched by a guy. I got punched in the face by a girl once. Drawing blood. I got clawed in the neck by a drunk girl once. Drawing lots of blood. Still have a scar on my neck from that one. A bouncer once pushed me out of the door as I was walking in. He didn't like me because I was stealing girls on the street in front of his bar.

Rest assured that those marriages will soon turn boring, sour, and dysfunctional. You aren't missing much. Those people aren't happy. They're mostly living an illusion.

Use search function. We covered this to death already and it never leads anywhere productive.

I've watched enough Vaush to know he's not even close to evil. In fact, he has some very intelligent political instincts for a socialist. He's just not good at accepting and empathizing with stage Blue, and he's still immature. But it is silly to expect him to be some kind of Yellow Spiral Wizard. He is peak Green. And that means all the classic limits of Green.

There can be some loose correlation, but it's not as direct as people hope. You need to be very careful about the trap of chasing positive feelings. Chase Truth instead. Positive feelings will come and go.

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@RMQualtrough Yeah, but those people need to tackle consciousness head-on because they keep wondering "What is consciousness?" while chasing their tails in circles, and no scientist or academic tells them straight that they are deeply misguided about what consciousness is. You can't avoid the elephant in the room by calling it something else.

@Vivaldo You need to watch like 100 hours of RSD videos. All of attraction theory is fully known and articulated. That's what pickup is. It teaches you the fundamentals of how to talk to a woman with sexual intent. Once you study the theory then you go out and practice a lot.

Check out Vladimir Kush. His who art style is based on metaphor.