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Bibi gonna fight like a cornered animal cause he might end up in jail. Now it gets personal.

Keep in mind that you can also just have hobbies. Perhaps playing piano is a hobby of yours? In which case you gotta keep looking for your LP.

I have never experienced a hell realm.

Suffering IS the loss of self. Suffering is what it feels like for the ego-mind to get crushed.

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Fear of being rejected, fear of blowing the chance. The hotter the girl, the more you put her on a pedestal, the more you feel you need to impress her. The trick to attracting hot girls is to treat them as if they are nobody special. And being a strong leader. This requires lots of practice.

@orpheos Take ownership of the problem and start acting with more passion. Fake it a bit till you make it. Be more playful, more flirty, more proactive. Rub up on him, tease him, put your hands on him, etc. This isn't rocket science. Don't ask how. Just do it. Learn to turn yourself on with your mind, and learn to turn him on. If you need to watch porn, watch porn and take notes. Although really this stuff is pretty obvious. A deeper issue you might have is shyness or fear of intimacy. Or perhaps you were raise in a family/culture which taught you to be ashamed of sex. In which case you're sexually repressed. How do you fix that? By questioning those old beliefs to death and pushing your comfort zone and exploring sexuality. Many books have been written about sex. Being good at sex isn't natural. It requires practice and training. Don't be afraid to practice and train. Go suck on a cucumber until you figure out a good way to do it. This kind of basic stuff is what women avoid, but it necessary if you want to get good. Don't expect good sex to happen automatically. You have to put energy and intention into it. You have to be interested in doing whatever it takes to make it good. This might mean buying books, videos, toys, courses, attending classes, watching porn, practicing, visualizing, talking with your partner, training with your partner, etc.

Of course not. Male and female attraction is asymmetrical. They fantasize about some knight in shining armor whisking them away. Read some cheap romance novels from Walmart to understand how women think about sex/relationships. That cheap romance novel from Walmart is a woman's version of porn. Much less important. A woman is looking for strength and leadership qualities, not looks. Of course if all else is equal, she will pick the guy with better looks. But in practice all else is never equal. This is why a guy with below average looks can attract girls with above average looks. He compensates for it with strong inner qualities. The nice thing about this is that it's possible to cultivate these strong inner qualities. The bad thing is, this involves serious emotional labor. In a sense being a hot girl is easy because you don't have do anything. You wear your value on your sleeve. The downside of this is that if you're not a hot girl (and definition most girls aren't), it's almost impossible to change that. So men have more flexibility in this department. But in practice very few men actualize this possibility. Most people end up settling for someone at roughly their level of reproductive value.

It's both

Infinity is not a something you can reason about. Realization of infinity requires a new state of consciousness which you have not yet had.

Of course that can happen.

The simple fact is we just don't know. We need more detailed research. And even if vaccines lead to some problems, that needs to be weighed against the lives they save. And that's a tricky calculus.

Yeah, well, that's very tricky because the nature of reality is dualistic opposition. Being "unnatural" or out of harmony is part of the cycles of nature. It's problematic to say that war and slavery are unnatural.

But the world we live in was created by such children. So it's a catch-22. The paradox here is, to have a less barbaric world we need a more socially complex, less "natural" world. The "natural" human world wasn't peace and love, it was bullying, rape, and pillage. Slavery is only transcended after Spiral stage Orange and above. Even if you raise a baby in the perfection conditions, it will still grow up to have a big fat ego.

Lol, sounds like we're all dating the same girl

In practice you're gonna have to settle for some compromise. You're never going to find the perfect package. Try to make a list of everything you want in a girl, then rank it from most to least important, and then be prepared to only get 60-80% of that list (if you're lucky). There will always be hotter girls. Attracting and maintaining 9s and 10s is very difficult in practice. The chances of attracting a 9 with a great and suitable personality is very low. And of course looks will fade too. Perfectionism here will be disastrous. But also, you gonna determine if she meets your basic quality standards. Otherwise you will never be satisfied with her and she will sense that off you, and it's not fair to her. So ask yourself this question very honestly: "Is she good enough for me to settle down with? Or would I regret it in the back of my mind?" In general you need to get very clear with yourself about what is and isn't good enough for you. You need to be clear so that you can better screen girls in the future. So you don't end up settling for something that isn't right for you. This problem is not with her, but with your lack of knowing what you want. So get more clear about that. What are the things with a girl that you're not willing to negotiate on? Make a list. For example, I have a few basic rules that are deal-breakers: like if she smokes, drinks, likes to get tattoos, or is overweight. I just know that I will never be satisfied with that. So it's best to not even continue down that road. Physical attractiveness is more tricky because there are so many degrees of it. Sometimes a girl is right on the edge where it's not clear. Ideally you want her to be at least 30% over the edge. Any lower and you'll probably be too luke-warm about her. I've actually invested quite a bit of time simply training my eye for physical attractiveness. You can go to the local mall and just walk around looking at random girls and asking yourself, "Would I fuck her? Yes or no?" And force yourself to quickly make that determination within a few seconds. Do this a thousand times. As you practice this more you'll get better and better at quickly determining if a girl is right for you on the level of physical attractiveness. Obviously there are many other factors beyond that. But since looks is the first screen, it's important to get clear about that screen. Self-clarity is the key. As you become more conscious, looks will matter to you less and less and your ability to love will increase exponentially. Determine which features of physical attractiveness matter to you and which ones don't: tits, face, ass, height, hair, legs, weight, skin color, teeth, eyes, nose, race, etc. Get clear about what your deal-breakers are. It's a lot easier when you can screen for this stuff up front. It's very painful to do it once you know her. This screening needs to be done as early as possible.

It's not so simple. Small children can act very selfishly. And they certainly have fear. Try taking a baby away from its mother. Notice the fear. In a sense it's easy to be joyful as a kid because if you have good parents they will handle all of your survival needs for you, allowing you to play and not worry about survival. But as you grow a little bit you gotta start surviving by yourself and that's when life becomes hard and ego invents elaborate devilish survival mechanisms. So that ego defense mechanism rises as a necessity of life. How do you navigate a world where everyone lies, cheats, steals, and manipulates? You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. This is the fundamental dilemma of life.

I don't know much about him. He seems a bit like Canada's Bill Clinton. His brown-face scandal I think is pretty silly. I don't think he's a racist. People just behave in crass ways sometimes when they are young. When it comes to fighting racism the important thing is to look at the politician's systemic policies and not get distracted by superficial scandals. For example, Trump's policies are racist. I don't see that with Trudeau. That's the important difference. Judge Trudeau by his policies. Honestly I don't know much about his policies. He seems neo-liberal moderate and somewhat corporatist. Stage Orange/Green. Similar to Macron of France.

You're not going to be able to detect the effects of heavily metals through direct experience alone because there are numerous potential causes for stuff like fatigue and cognitive decline. You might feel the effects, but you won't know the cause is mercury from your sushi. You might think the cause is old age, your drinking water, a hormone dysfunction, a genetic factor, or stress at work. You will not be able to sort all those out without some external testing. Maybe it's not the sushi after all, maybe it's the lead in your favorite brand of toothpaste. You don't know. You could be a Zen master and still not know such things.

Culture wars are not driven so much by hatred as by ideology, closedmindedness, lack of education, and fear. Culture wars are not a good example of hatred.

Looks like a stalemate similar to what we have in the US. So nothing gets done.

@Sirius Orion Excellent example with the comic.

The Buddha was a Bodhisattva, who's life purpose was to awaken mankind. What you're missing is that a life purpose doesn't have to come from ego, it can come from God. And anyways, all ego is just a limited expression of God. So even if an LP is coming from ego, it's still seeking God, however imperfectly.