Leo Gura

You fundamentally misunderstand what pickup is about. It's not about running a script. It's about learning how to be authentic. Guys struggle with social awkwardness A LOT. Guys are not as socially intuitive as women who practice socialization their entire lives. Again, you're not understanding because you have no genuine curiosity in this topic. You're looking at it and judging it from your female self-agenda. What you're doing is akin to me telling women: Don't watch any YT make up videos and don't shop for panties at Victoria's Secret and don't do anything to improve yourself. Don't wear heals. Don't wear bras. Don't do your hair up. Don't shave your legs. Don't shave your pussy. Don't do your nails. Don't hold in your farts. Don't go out and don't socialize at night with any guys. Just sit at home, be normal, and you'll get a great husband.

Make up your mind about what you want. A distraction is just what you need when you're stuck in negative spiral.

@Himanshu Ramana Maharshi died of skin cancer on his arm. If Ramana couldn't heal himself, good luck. Healing some things may be possible, but there are many things you cannot heal.

When stuck in a loop, the best thing to do is to force your body to move to override any thoughts and simply change the environment. Walk outside, or crawl to another room, or go to the bathroom, or run a bath, or turn on and dance to some happy music, etc. It tends to work really well. But you must DO IT, rather than think about doing it. Train yourself to use your body to override thought, rather than thinking about using your body.

Everything is imaginary, but that does not mean you get to imagine whatever you want. By your silly logic I should be able to turn into a dragon on command and shoot fireballs out my ass. What you're missing is that Leo's ego is not in control. I could die tomorrow of cancer and none of that would contradict my metaphysics, since God is a tautology, God -- paradoxically -- cannot change anything about himself, and is perfect no matter what happens. It is the ego which thinks it can control reality and have all its wishes fulfilled. Awakening does not grant you control over reality. It merely surrenders you to whatever reality happens to be. If an enlightened person breaks his leg, he must go to a traditional doctor to fix it. He can't just wish it away. And yet, that broken leg is of course imaginary. Just because something is imaginary does not mean that ego gets to control it. Make no mistake about it, when your health deteriorates enough, your entire life will crumble. Doesn't matter how enlightened you are. Your ability to live is 100% contingent on good health -- which could go at any moment for a thousand different reasons. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow. And enlightenment will not save you from that.

If a guy doesn't hunt you, how you ever gonna find a guy? You're looking at this the wrong way. You are seeing this as hurting women when actually helping men become better men creates more quality men for you ladies to marry. The problem here is not simply one of getting laid. The problem here is one of how to make better men. You are not going to have quality men when they are too scared to approach a woman. Those men will be socially awkward, bitter, hateful incels. You want to date an incel? Log into their forum and have you pick. If you dare. You are looking at this sitution in such a narrow and selfish way. As if all that matters is you. Men need an avenue for how to learn to date and be strong. It just needs to be done ethically.

No video will ever help you get it.

Yes

@louhad Read the Spiral Dynamics books from my book list. Spiral Wizardry is the term you're looking for.

It's easy for you to say because your survival doesn't depend on approaching. You are like a rabbit telling a wolf, "Don't go hunting. God doesn't approve hunting. Just eat grass like me and you will be godly."

If God wasn't on board with it, it couldn't be happening. God's on board with everything, so it's a moot point. Don't invoke the name of God to justify your judgment and rejection of reality.

@FlowerNote How are you not a madman for deciding to incarnate as this limited deluded being that you are? God had to see what it was getting itself into before it pulled the trigger to incarnate into it. So imagine seeing everything that happened to Hitler from a birds-eye-view, and then saying, "Okay, now let me jump in there and live through it all." That takes some balls.

That's because my video was copypasted from their debating points.

No, this grossly misunderstands the depth of the problem of their lack of development. You contradict your own point with your own words. As you quote above, prior to Saddam was someone as bad as or worse than Saddam. So even if the CIA had no intervention at all in Iraq, the only person who would be capable of ruling and unifying Iraq would be a brutal strongman akin to Saddam or Qassem -- or worse. That's because a stage Purple/Red society cannot be ruled by anything but a ruthless dictator. The CIA's meddling cannot change this. The CIA merely exploits the situation to favor America's survival agenda. Saddam was not born a dictator. He became a dictator because he had to in order to survive in the environment he lived in. And the same would be true of anyone else who took his place. This is not a problem of one or two bad guys. This is a structural problem of the state of society. So it is your view that is short-sighted.

Michael Brooks at his best:

@Carl-Richard Awesome find! That's exactly how they think. It's extremely simplistic and self-centered. It completely overlooks the complexities of 21st century society like nuclear weapons, pollution, jet airplanes, and a thousand other such things.

And there is an entire industry teaching people to sit and do nothing. Just because it sounds simple doesn't mean it is easy and unworthy of study and support.

I don't think we need a thread of these examples.

Not really in my wheelhouse. There's tons of great environmental documentaries on YT already.

Haha.... You are a clever devil.

It's really simple: Go out, socialize, talk to girls. You will get laid.

It's not as toxic as Orange and Blue universities. The toxicity of Green is much over-hyped by people with Orange and Blue agendas. I think his work has been personally attacked a lot by Green and it was never really accepted within Green academia. Wilber also clearly understands the limitations of Green. But I think what Wilber misses is that even though university culture is Green, he does not appreciate that the rest of the country not even at Green yet. Wilber wants us to leap into Yellow without appreciating that first majority of the country has to solidly enter Green. I think that given how smart and advanced Wilber is, he's over-estimating the rest of the populace who haven't even finish university and have no idea the lessons of post-modernism. Wilber is criticizing Green from above, but he doesn't realize that 50% of the country is opposed to Green from below and that that 50% will have to be forced into Green before we start moving into Yellow. What the last 4 years of Trumpism has shown us is that America is less developed than most of us thought, that a transition to solid Green is still decades away, and Yellow will not happen in our lifetimes. The key takeaway is this: however bad Green universities are, the rest of the country is in far worse shape. We have a lot of work to do just to get the rest of the country to the same development level as liberal universities, and even once we accomplish that, we'll still have all of the Green problems to deal with. We are not going to magically leap from Blue/Orange to Yellow.

Wilber has had a chip on his shoulder about Green ever since his college days.