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You've never heard it because where would you hear it? And who would even know? Millions of people die every year from cancer, or suffer from depression, anxiety, dozens of auto-immune diseases, brain fog, ADD, autism, insomnia, chronic fatigue, and hundreds of other conditions. They themselves don't understand that many of these are caused by heavy metal toxicity. And even if they do find out, you certainly won't hear them advertising it to you on YT. Most of the things you know are what sells, not healthy solutions. There are tons of studies and research that has been done on the affects of heavy metals on cognitive performance and many health conditions. Google and ye shall find. Leaded gasoline was banned in the 1970's because the lead in the gasoline caused serious cognitive decline and diseases within children turn them into criminals as adult. Lead in your brain literally increases your likelihood of being a criminal by like 5-10x. There are millions of criminals in the US right now who only became criminals because their brains are toxified with heavy metals and they don't even have a clue.

No there isn't. That is chief the self-deception and meta-self-bias at work here. What you are talking about is survival value. And it comes in infinite flavors. One flavor of survival value is big tits. Another flavor of survival value is masculine containment or marriage or intimacy. There is no reason whatsoever that intimacy is more important than big tits. If you think there is, that's because it's more important TO YOU. To say that big tits are just as functional as little tits is to not see the situation holistically. What we are attracted to need not have any functional value per se. A giant peacock's tail is not functional. Also, little tits are not as functional when it comes to sticking your dick between them. So there are many facets to "functional" which you are reducing. Your definition of "functional" is already corrupted by your self-biases. If you were a man, you wound find big tits very functional. Just ask any man.

Realistically you should find a local wingman in your area who has some experience and can show you the ropes. Look online for one in your city. If that fails and you dare to brave it solo, you need to research areas in your city where lots of attractive women hang out: bars, clubs, cafes, malls, etc. You need to make a list of all these venues, visit them, double-check them, and find the best ones that you will be using in the future. Then start going then several times a week and start approach single women.

@Hardkill Heavy metals If you want optimum health don't look at sources like WebMD. They merely regurgitate mainstream dogma. There's little scientific about it. There is no safe level of heavy metals. They are toxic in any amount and it all adds up.

That's one option. There are many different spiritual practices you could do instead. I think Kriya yoga is one of the best. Mindfulness mediation with labeling is also very powerful if done rigorously. See my video: Mindfulness Meditation, also see my video The Important of Real Yoga. Yes Yes, this is challenge if you're new. You need to spend a good deal of time researching your options and then sit down and draw up a plan of what you'll be focusing on. Go with what feels most right for you. There is no one size fits all plan. You are unique and need a unique plan designed by you. Don't feel guilty or bad if you spend a year or more just watching videos and reading books to get your bearings. You need an big picture idea of what all the methods are and what is worth doing and what is not. Education is not a waste of time it is a crucial first step. You want a decent view of the whole territory so that you don't get stuck in some dead end or trivial pursuit.

@Roy Then you should love the What Is Goodness video. It addresses this point in much more detail.

@Iksander Good. Those are important and core realizations. But, Are you conscious of what Infinity is? Are you conscious of what God is?

Yes. I've done both for years. Of course it's not as effective as picking one. They do interfere with each other. Then again, you could establish strong spiritual practice habits while you go about building your success. You could implement something like a Kryia yoga routine which only requires 1-2 hrs per day and takes years to solidify, while you focus on your work. That is a wise strategy since newbies cannot handle too much spiritual practice too quickly. But if you really want enlightenment there will come a time when you will want to take time off work and focus on it exclusively until a breakthrough happens.

Of course you can and should still do that. Containment is offered by being a strong man. And nothing I say is anti- healthy relationships. One leads into the other. Once she falls in love with you, THEN you can offer her all the perks of a highly conscious and empathetic man. But not before. Be like chocolate candy: hard exterior, a soft interior. She gets to taste the soft interior if she's willing to open her legs for you. In the end, this is what she really wants as well, so it will be a win-win. But just don't go discussing this strategy with her because she will never explicitly agree to it for game reasons. It must be implicit. Which is why you should not seek dating advice from women.

In a conservative state they would probably just arrest all the homeless and put them in a for-profit prison. Although there are tons of homeless in Austin. You don't see Joe Rogan talking about that.

Lol. What are you smoking? Women worry all the time about the guy leaving her for a hotter, younger girl. As a man you gotta suck ass for a woman to leave you once she's in love with you. It's effortless to keep women. It's much harder to keep men. A woman's reproductive value is dropping every year. A man's value increases every year if he's doing personal development work. In this respect, relationships are much either for men than women. The hardest part for the man is the attraction phase -- which is why men focus on it almost exclusively. Indeed

I would attribute the CA homelessness problem more toward CA's crazy real estate prices, which are due to CA's popularity as a highly successful and desirable state to live in. The rent in CA is like 3x that of Nevada, for example. It's not even affordable for me to buy a house there, and I'm rich. To live well in CA you gotta be more than a millionaire. Ask yourself this, if CA is such a shitty place, why do so many people move there and want to live there? Despite the recent CA exodus, people have been flocking to CA for the last 50 years because it was such a great and progressive place to live. The progressiveness of CA is part of its appeal. Who the fuck wants to live in Alabama? Texas is an appealing state because it's way more affordable than CA. But Texas culture is ignorant and backward in many ways. Having lived for a long time in both places, CA culture is way better. Texas feels like a redneck backwater compared to CA. Once I went to a grocery store in Forth Worth and asked them where the capers were. The cashier had no clue what capers were. So she called up her manage to help. The manager had no idea what capers were either. I looked at them like they were Neanderthals and left shaking my head in disbelief. And it won't take long before Texas real estate prices also skyrocket.

Yes, because these biases are baked into the male and female survival agenda. To a man, the attraction is most relevant. To a woman, the relationship is more relevant. And each side will stress what is most relevant to them out of their selfish needs while discounting the importance of the other. Self-bias 101.

And what is it you realized exactly? There is much to realize, you know?

If you witnessed a rape in real life I guess it could. Depends on how your mind interprets it and how horrific it is, and how graphic it is.

We are all deeply self-biased, men and women. But we must play games and deny it otherwise we appear too selfish and dishonest to ourselves, which undermines survival. The function of survival is to be selfish while denying that you are doing so, portraying yourself as an innocent angel. Notice how you do this all the time throughout your life, not just about sex. Governments and corporations behave this way too.

Women not only don't care what men want, they get offended and call men gross and shallow and sexist for wanting it. So please spare us. Imagine if men on this forum started a thread about the ideal pair of tits they want and how women should be more understanding and accommodating on this matter. It would be called outrageous and sexist. Even though there is no fundamental difference between wanting a big pair of tits vs wanting a man who offers you "feminine containment". Women routinely misrepresent what they are attracted to in men. This confuses many men. Hence I say some of the things I say to men, to clear up that confusion in their minds. The situation is asymmetrical because men do not misrepresemt what they are truly attracted to in women. It would be like telling everyone how vegan you are, but when you get to the restaurant you always choose the pork ribs rather than the salad. It's important for the chef to know that what you really eat is the ribs vs the salad so he can plan accordingly, regardless of what you tell yourself in your head. Women's attraction is less honest and more convoluted. A man's attraction is more direct and straight forward. So false equivalence indeed!

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Only if the people are unconscious and selfish. Maintaining unity among great diversity requires one to be more God-like (selfless, conscious, loving, intelligent). If you are closed-mined, ignorant, judgment, biased, selfless, and unconscious, then yeah, your mind cannot hold diversity. But you are mistaking your own small-mindedness for a fundamental feature of reality -- which is opposite of the truth since reality is infinitely diverse and ONE. In other words, the more of a devil you are, the more you will believe that diversity and unity are impossible to reconcile.

Great! Nice work.

I'd say that practically-speaking that is not going to happen. Trauma is not just some minor anxiety or mental concern. Trauma is a deep visceral scar in the psyche. To get it your psyche must get scarred somehow, and is not likely to happen from 2nd hand experience. It is not enough to watch a rape in the movies to be scarred.

A person at Stage Blue has not yet developed an internal moral compass, therefore he requires and highly values an external one. This is where God and authority comes in. Which is why most conservatives are very defensive about preserving structures of authority. Since they lack empathy and have no internal compass, they have a legit fear of devolving into animals. Most liberals cannot understand this because they are stage Green which has developed excess empathy and an internal moral compass. For liberals the external moral structures are superfluous and even a hindrance to justice.

These gender wars are like a conversation between a blind man and a deaf woman

Freedom is one thing, responsibility is another. The more freedom you wish you have, the more responsible you must be, otherwise everything turns to shit.

Nice!