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Yes, it certainly is. But that is not the same as a girl giving you advice about how to attract girls or how to be a man. A girl can tell me her perspective, but I don't need her advice for how to do what men do. She has no clue about that and will give bad advice. She does not understand the obstacles that men face in this domain and the pragmatics of the situation.

50% of people have herpes? This sounds absurd to me. This cannot be true.

No one's got time for that shit.

No, since I have a large following and I don't want to influence the market. A) Not necessarily. The whole point of socialism is to change that system. B) Even if there is an owner or a boss, that's not a problem per se. The problem is the systemic value extraction and exploitation. Owners and bosses deliberately conspire to squeeze hard working employees for value. Nothing is stopping Jeff Bezos from paying his employees double or triple. And they deserve it since they built that company. Bezos could still be ridiculously wealthy and Amazon could still be very profitable and successful even while paying x3 wages. It's a value extraction system. That value is generated by the lowest employees, then squeezed upwards and given to shareholders. That is the entire point of Wall Street. The average Joe is hardworking, but does not generate much creative value. But even the most creative people who work for large companies get very little reward. Some average Joes are lazy, but they still do work and still deserve more pay. If they are super lazy then just pay them less. I believe that hardworking Joe should be paid more because his work is often very hard. Think of Amazon's lowest level employees who barely have enough time for pee breaks. And I believe the creative folks should also earn a lot more. Basically all workers should get paid way more while shareholders and executives should get way less. They work hard at stealing value, sure. And Jeffery Epstein worked hard at raping girls, well above average.

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It's not just religion, it's the dogmatic mindset that religion instills in people. The problem in America is excessive stage Blue dogma the obstructs much-needed progress. Europeans are less enmeshed in that, thus they are more open to stage Green progressive governance. Christian fundamentalism has hijacked the minds of many Americans, making progressive politics nearly impossible. It's like trying to drag a mule up Mt Everest. So here we are. Europe is not perfect. They still have religion and stage Blue, just less so, and less powerful. Europe is more secular. You have to understand that religion does not work in isolation. Religion creates an entire worldview and paradigm that infects many other aspects of life: work, economics, healthcare, education, politics, etc. It all comes as one package such that when you try to get a person to question their ideas of abortion or capitalism or guns or education or immigration -- they perceive it as an attack on their God. It's a giant tangled meme-complex, not just a few separate memes.

Realizing no-self is absolutely important. It just ain't the end of the road.

I don't see the irony.

You can learn from anyone, but on this particular topic learning from women is just so unnecessary. It's like learning about makeup from men or learning hunting from a vegan. If women want to teach dating advice, let them teach it to women. Women do not really understand the specific sexual needs of men. Nor do they care.

@Bryanbrax This is not the thread for this conversation.

@Roy Of course

Doesn't matter that it's free. There is much too lose. Money is the least important factor in such things. What is lost is one's understanding of the situation. Such readings can easily delude you with false ideas. False. Every single psychic I visited was extremely confident in their abilities and suggestions. Too confidence. So confidence they often fooled me into their delusions. Confidence is not a good signal of truth or accuracy. Often the opposite. Confidence covers up for genuine not-knowing. No You have no idea if their reading is accurate. It's all pure hearsay.

Then you will not be at peace. Trust me, if the pain gets high enough you will automatically surrender. Extreme pain actually destroys the ego. Pain is actually something that ego creates, so when the pain gets too high the ego cannot keep creating it any more.

This is nonsense. Sleeping with a guy who you definitely know has an STD is way more risking than sleeping with a random guy who has a tiny chance of having it. You are talking about 100% vs 10-20%. Anything is better than 100%. And you should not be fucking randos without a condom regardless. It's not like just because you've fucked a guy 20 times yet he has an STD, that the odds of you getting it diminish. Not every decision should be strategic, BUT that does not mean to be a fool and throw strategy out the window. In this very specific and serious situation strategy over heart is the proper method. The heart easily fools with idiot compassion, especially once you're in love. This case has nothing to do with objectifying people. Her getting herpes is a serious issue and the heart will not solve it. I call total BS on your stats. This is definitely untrue by orders of magnitude. Provide your sources.

He could date girls who also have it. Yes, I understand that. Well, I understand your point. It's a sad situation. But also, is it really humane for him to infect you and other girls with it? Be careful with "idiot compassion". I know you have developed a soft spot for him, you love him, etc. But remember, romantic love tends to be a fickle thing. Chances are your relationship with him with end anyway in the next 5-10 years for other reasons. And then you'll be left single with herpes. That is not a good situation to put yourself in. Don't be so compassionate that you nail yourself to a cross. Also consider your own well-being. In fact, your health is more important than his desire for sex. At least it should be from your POV. Ditching him sounds harsh. But him knowingly giving you herpes sounds harsher. I understand you find yourself in an impossible situation. But nevertheless I think you should have higher standards and move on, as harsh as that sounds. He will understand. It's not like you're being a jerk here. You have the most legit reason ever for breaking a relationship. If you can't break a relationship over this, when can you? A healthy relationship should not involve you taking a bullet for him. What is your age? It would help to know that.

I heard it from a parrot owner/breeder. Not sure if it's true. His point was to never roast nuts for birds using Teflon pans. When I heard that, I realized I should stop using Teflon for myself too. Yeah, but Teflon is not some natural food product like sugar or chocolate. It is a chemical and if you research that specific chemical you will find that it is not some harmless thing to living organisms. Research that whole class of chemicals. It ain't good for ya. That Teflon also always scratches off over time and those flakes end up in your food. That can't be healthy. You are literally eating Teflon flakes like lead paint chips. Impossible to say because there are so many other variables at play with my health. It's not going to be something you feel immediately. Rather it might mean that 20 years from now you don't get cancer which you otherwise would have if you kept eating Teflon. It's just an unnecessary risk to take. You can easily use stainless steel pans for 95% of your cooking needs. The biggest problem with steel pans is that they suck for pancakes, crepes, and that sort of thing. But I don't eat those anyway. There may be ways to make those in the oven instead on parchment paper or silicone. There are many healthier methods of cooking than a frying pan which you should research, invest in, learn, and master.

Yes, many brands available on Amazon. Test them out until you find one you like.

@random dude What exactly did I say? I don't remember saying that. Provide an exact quote and the context in which I was speaking so can look at it.

@Bryanbrax Not interested in that sort of thing. Be very careful believing such things. It's all hearsay. I went to 5 different psychics about my health issues and they all told be 5 different stories, all of them BS. You cannot simply trust a psychic.

No, I'm saying the opposite. Employment is good because it usually involve genuine value creation. Leeching off of hard working people is bad. And that's what playing Wall Street is. This is not a problem at all. Any business that creates genuine value and innovation is a healthy kind of business. A one-man company is not necessary. Trading stocks is not a business of any sort. It is leeching off genuine creative businesses. I know you were teasing. But I replied seriously anyway because people here tend to be confused about this topic. The stealing has been abstracted by the system. It is systemic stealing. The point of the system is precisely to give you, the trader, plausible deniability. So that if anyone questions you, you can genuinely say, "But I didn't break any laws. I just sold some paper to someone else who wanted to buy it. So how could that be evil?" You need to think holistically about how the whole Wall Street system works. The bottom line is this: If you earned a million dollars for clicking a few button on your computer, you obviously didn't work for it by creating any genuine stuff, therefore you must have stolen it from someone else who did. Where did that million come from? It came from exploitation of the labor of works of the company you invested into. That million really belongs to them. But you used the Wall Street system to separate it from them. So while you enjoy your million, some mother working at Walmart cannot afford to buy medicine for her sick child and he dies. But the system is designed such that you don't see that and don't care. In a sense this is true. The difference is that I'm aware of that. And also the difference is that I worked hard for my money and it is not fair to me to have my money inflated. So I feel it is reasonable to hedge against inflation. You can say that's selfish, and you'd be right. It is. But life is selfish. I'm not just gonna sit by and watch my money deflate. The problem is, we're all stuck in Game A to some degree. No matter how much you try to break out of Game A, you can't entirely avoid it. But you can at least not deliberately and gleefully double-down on Game A -- which is what stock get rich quick schemes do. Yes, and I'm okay with that. I also worked for money and when inflation happens someone else is getting a portion of my savings "for free" by eroding it. Some degree of competition is hard to avoid here. My point is to not participate in it too much. Participate in it as little as you can stomach. Yes it is, which is why I don't hate daytraders. I am just guiding you away from it for your own sake and the sake of society as whole. We want to create a society in which the hardest working people are most rewarded, not the opposite. A society in which clicking a few buttons earns you millions of dollars is not a healthy one.

Tony is geared toward stage Orange people. If you are just entering stage Orange then you will love Tony and he will be useful to you. But once you outgrow that, you should move on. Tony was useful to me in my stage Orange phase 12 years ago. Always remember, the most popular teachers are never the best. And he is the most popular. So that should tell you everything you need to know before you even buy his stuff.

Food sticks more than a Teflon pan, but mostly it doesn't stick so bad. You just use some butter or oil and heat it proper. Don't put food into an unheated steel pan. Food tends to self-release as it cooks through. Cleaning steel pans is very easy. Pour some water in it. Let it stand a few hours and the food bits will scrub off easy with a brush. I make eggs in my steel pan all the time. Not a problem. Of course if you are used to a Teflon pan nothing will be that easy or nonstick. Steal pan requires a bit more worl and care. But they also last a lifetime. All pro chefs use stainless steel pans. There's just a bit of a learning curve. And they are 5x more expensive.

All that is still finite. There is only one actual INFINITY, of which all your conceptualizing about infintities is a tiny part. The trick is that INFINITY cannot be turned into a concept, which means the logical mind cannot ever grasp it. Which is why spiritual practices teach you to shut off your mind.

Total surrender to whatever is happening in the present momemt, no matter how "bad" it is. The escape from survival. Ego cannot do peace. Ego does war. The ego's function is survival.

Teflon is a poison. If you roast some peanuts on a Teflon pan and feed it to a bird, it will drop dead.