Leo Gura

@Raphael Congrats! Welcome to Tier 2

@Akemrelax Well, it seems like you're interpreting what I said in an exaggerated or simplistic way. That post about ambiguity was just a single piece of advice. You don't go building your entire life upon it. It's one piece of a giant puzzle. Obviously I'm not telling you to disregard basic facts.

Of course only you can decide those things for yourself. It's a matter of your highest values, desires, and priorities. In general I would say, don't give up on your dreams. But you have to be creative about how you go about them. Don't just keep doing the same old thing if it's not working. You must find new ways of pursuing your dreams, or perhaps adapting your dreams slightly. No achievement will ever make you happy, but at the same time, not following your dreams will make you miserable. Maybe you can take a couple years to work on your social life before you jump back into business? You don't want to work so long that you never have a social life. 34 is still pretty young. If you plan things out properly you should be able to get a girlfriend and then work on your biz. But don't waffle around. Get clear about what you want and what order you want it in.

Nah

Sounds like she wants you but you're not being man enough to get her. If you want her, you should man up and go for it. Don't get sexual with her unless you have her in an isolated location where sex can occur. If friends are around, you can do light flirting and build rapport. Once that's done, you have to isolate her and get to business. If a girl likes you and you hesitate too long to pull the trigger, you will lose her. Don't be afraid to go fast when you get clear signs that she wants you. You can test whether she wants you or not by the quality of her eye contact and whether she lets you touch her body. If she's allowing you to touch her body, that's a very positive sign and you should escalate quickly and isolate as soon as possible. A girl being bitchy early on can actually be a sign that she likes you. She's testing you to see if you're strong enough to be her man. You need to plow through her bullshit by not taking it seriously and keep flirting and physically escalating. Don't let her bitchiness faze you. Pretty soon you're win her over and she'll become submissive. If you know for sure that she told your friend that she likes you, this is as big a green light as you can possibly have. You need to get her into a bedroom ASAP. Stop being a pussy. Be the strong man she wants. You can't get a girl without risking rejection. Isolate her and tell her that you want her. Don't stop unless she explicitly rejects you.

We are all different and have different spiritual talents. Some people get enlightened in one weekend, others take 30 years, other never. I have some special talents which many people don't have. It's impossible to compare what he and I have integrated. I have no idea what he's integrated. Maybe he did more than me in those 20 years. Hard to say. I don't recommend it either. He did very high doses which is dangerous. My approach is doing moderate sizes doses but doing them more often. I wouldn't call it the same. There's no way to know or compare these things nor should you try. I have been contemplating the metaphysics and epistemology of reality since I was 16 years old. So I had laid a deep theoretical foundation. And I'm also very good at contemplating metaphysical things. Of course. Why not? Almost any psychedelic can be used to have serious spiritual insight and the insights will be similar. You could do what he did using almost any psychedelic if you're committed enough. The magic is not in the psychedelic as much as in your intent to use it to understand reality. What we're talking about is understanding. His doses were way too high. I recommend low to moderate doses which won't be so difficult to integrate. I don't recommend you copy me in doing 30 days of 5-MeO-DMT. That's too much and it's not necessary. I did it because I wanted to push the edge and explore uncharted waters. I was only able to do it because I had a deep theoretical foundation and I had several years of prior experience working with psychedelics. For a normal person such as yourself, you should be aiming for small doses done once or twice a month, with breaks in between. A good starting dose is 1g-2g dried mushrooms or 125ug of LSD. Or the equivalent of that on any other psychedelic. There are dozens of wonderful psychedelics or research chemicals you can use to achieve a similar result. Through experimentation you can find which molecule works best for you. Don't assume we are all the same. Your brain chemistry is unique. In general I would say you're getting ahead of your skiis. Do a few small trips and just see how psychedelics make you feel. They may not be right for you, or you may find that they are perfect for you. It all depends. There are too many variables to know ahead of time. This is a domain which requires exploration and careful trial and error.

I'd say Gandhi was an usually healthy manifestation of Blue. Some Blue become very righteous and pursue integrity as their whole life purpose. Like Mother Theresa

Chris Hedges has some good ideas, but don't expect him to give a deeper spiritual context to all this. Collapse is not the only possibility. There is a lot of untapped progressive potential going forward and you as an individual can do a lot to build a good life. The problem with listening too much socialist political commentary is that it makes your thinking so collectivist that you forget that as an individual you can do a lot of stuff to escape wage slavery and build a good life. Listen to socialists, but don't forget to build your life. Don't buy into their excuses.

Of course. That's what I mean by ivory tower.

In the perfect strange loop, one day Chis Hansen realizes that every pedophile he caught was himself

Yellow is not likely to take part in any mob movement. Yellow will probably just sit in his ivory tower and observe the mob from afar.

It doesn't really take that much. That's just in the very beginning as a total fool. The results curve is exponential. So you will get a lot better. Also, when I count approaches, a lot of those approaches a very brief. Most of them are not long conversations since you will get blown out a lot very fast.

Asking for a number right off the bat is like the biggest wrong you could come up with short of, "Hi, let's fuck."

I never claimed I have. Be careful what you assume about me. Pickup has an extremely steep learning curve. The first few years you will suck so bad and get very low numbers. Most of your numbers will come 5 years in. Guys who get laid a lot are either naturals or very experienced and veterans of the game.

Sorry. I stand corrected. I was not thinking of it as a percent. 0.2% is more realistic for a newbie. Although I knew a newbie in Vegas who slept with 25 girls in like 3 months. So it very much matters your geography and also how quickly you learn. The biggest problem will be that you will attract a LOT of hot girls, but you will be unable to close them for stupid logistical reasons. The most important element for getting a high lay count in pickup is becoming an absolute master of handling the logistics. You will lose 90% of girls due to logistics. Which means, 90% of girls who are ready to fuck you, you will lose. At least as a newbie. As a vet you will get good at handling all the bullshit obstacles.

Fucking brilliant! That's the FoxNews audience right there. "Are you a Marxist?" LOL

Folks so easily forget that Green is not above violence. Green will definitely use violence when it feels cornered, in the name of justice for the oppressed. Green is not Jesus constantly turning the other cheek.

Kanye is just a dude off his meds. Don't forget that not everything is Spiral Dynamics related.

I challenge you to make your pickups so emotionally engaging that the girl asks you to please take her number.

Dick size is irrelevant to pickup.

You need to take a math class.

This is called neediness and women can smell it off you. Even if you are good at socializing you will have to train yourself to be good at socializing specifically in the context of talking to a hot girl. This is much more challenging than simply socializing with a friend. You have much to learn about communicating effectively man-to-woman with sexual intent. No! Stop confusing the guy with terrible advice. You don't understand pickup if you walk around asking girls for numbers. This is childish and it is not effective for getting laid. It reeks of neediness and low value. A high value man does not walk around begging girls for numbers. This is like a filthy pigeon waiting around under a cafe table for breadcrumbs.

@Consciousone35 You're really just talking about selfishness, and avoiding drawing the connection between the selfishness of criminals and your own selfishness. What you're doing is classic projection.

That's your projection. You have no clue how they actually see the world. Moreover, most living beings see other living beings as objects to meet their survival needs. So your criticism amounts to nothing more than that "people are selfish". Which of course they are. The question is, how do you help people to transcend their selfishness?

There is no way you're going to stop sexual abuse directly. You can't insert yourself into everyone's bedroom. The way to stop sexual abuse is by improving society as a whole, by creating a more conscious, loving, and fair society so that everyone is respected and supported, so that no one is left out, so that people are emotionally healthy and compassionate towards each other. One of the best ways to reduce sexual abuse is by creating a more equal economic situation where no one is left behind.