Leo Gura

Just cause you love a girl does not mean you gotta have her in your house every day. This is not healthy. I love ice cream but I don't eat it every morning. And if I did I would get sick of it. If you like a girl, create space for the chemistry to recharge. It's like you're draining a battery and never giving it time to recharge. Not to mention that as a man you got other things to be doing than babysitting your girl. You need space to work on your life purpose and she should have something she's working on too, not just middling around your house. Obviously do whatever you want, but I would urge you to think about how you might be shooting yourself in the foot by unconsciously following the "normal" path without thinking it through. Why do you need a girl living in your house? Think about it. Is that really wise?

I got friends who sleep with girls with boyfriends all the time. I think it's gross, but girls will certainly do it if you lead them. If you start talking about it explicitly it will not work. This situation is a good test of your character. Let's what kind of man you are.

You come here and spew your bias without any sign of self-awareness. I am not explaining anything to you because you are so biased you are beyond my help. This forum is not a place to spew political bias. We are here to attempt a Tier 2, meta-perspective on politics. If you are unable to do that then eventually I will kick you out of here because you do not deserve to pollute the entire politics sub-forum with your unconsciousness. It's not about you, it's about maintaining a clean space for others who want to discuss politics without the typical partisan noise found elsewhere on the internet. If you post like an unhinged extremist you will not be welcomed here. This is not a zone where all political opinions are held on equal footing. You need to have a certain level of development and self-awareness to deserve to discuss meta-politics with us because we are not interested in rehashing the same unconscious trash discussions found everywhere else online. If you want to be part of the Actualized community, get with the program. We have certain values here that require some observance. No one is asking you to be perfect, but at least demonstrate some capacity for objectivity, openmindedness, and self-reflection.

Lol The definition of Toxic Masculinity and also Narcissism. Trump, Kanye, Tate -- these 3 are competing for world's biggest narcissist award.

Yup That was Awakening. Try to see it as a positive thing.

@Someone here It's good that you are so curious. But rather than me filling your head with words, how about you leverage that curiosity to actually directly discover and experience the answers for yourself?

If you're gonna live with a girl I'll tell you this right now: You are never Awakening.

@mr_engineer If you continue to spread political nonsense, you will be banned from this sub-forum. Do not mistake this place for Reddit.

Why do you think the Buddha left his wife?

@Tyler Robinson No one specific was mentioned by name so it is fine.

Within reason. Don't do it more than she does. This is not a license to be a pussy. The point is not to act like a man because you are afraid she will leave you otherwise, but to act like a man because that is how you most respect yourself and feel best. In general, a man should not need to run to a woman for a shoulder to cry on. That's not the kind of man you wanna be.

Hell no. All that will do is create burn out and ruin your life.

Tell her to move out. Don't allow distractions like that. Your space is divine and should not be given up for any girl. Living together is only gonna make you two hate each other soon. If you love a girl, the best way to ruin it is to see her too often. And everyday is the worst.

1) So what? 2) People protested a bunch anyway. Dude, you need to learn reason and moderation. You are so extremist and unreasonable in your expections for how a society works. None of the countries you mention have anything close to an authoritain regime. You are fighting with monsters in your own head. In the real world we got democracy as its always been. It's messy, it doesn't fit your silly ideals, but it works about as good as one can expect given the complexities of life. It's like you are deliberately looking to be contrarian and unreasonable because you got nothing better to do with your time. Go create something valuable rather than obsessing over this shit. Relax, things will be okay.

And sometimes people plot evil-doings.

@mr_engineer Dude, you keep saying nonsense. No one has outlawed protesting except in China.

I have reduced the limit a bit today. This platform is not designed to be a private chatroom. For you own good I decided to limit that from day one back in 2015. A core part of what I teach is to not distract yourself with social games and nonsense. Less talk, more work. We are not here to feed your endless appetite for talk and distractions.

IPEC is good. Or it was good 10 years ago. Not sure how it is now.

@ZenSwift Thanks for the enthusiasm.

That just means you're an ectomorph. Accept it. I'm that way too. I could have but I was very underweight so my goal was to fatten up as much as I could. I wasn't fasting to lose weight. It is impossible to lose 22 pounds in 5 days. You just shed water and feces. Which quickly returned. It is not possible to lose more than 1 pound per day. You don't burn nearly enough calories for that. Even half a pound per day is a lot. That's about the max you'll get long-term, true fat-loss. It took me 5 months to drop 65 pounds of solid fat. That's about as fast as it's realistically, sustainably possible. And there is no reason to do it any faster. Anyone would be thrilled with that result.

Government IS self-regulation. Self-regulation has already happened 1000 years ago. Now here we are. This is what it looks like. It looks way more sophisticated than you tiny brain can fathom so you don't recognize it.

More like ruthlessness. But more seriously, businesses become big because they do better business than everyone else. It's not just a pure power grab. Power ultimately comes from delivering value. Amazon is big because it delivers amazing value. Not because Jeff Bezos is a corrupt prick.

It's hard for me to say. I don't have enough knowledge of how that stuff works. Also hard to say. There seems to be some of it, but I doubt it was a core cause. That's just more like them tightening their belts in a tough economy or being opportunistic. The problem with inflation is that once the cycle begins it starts to spiral upward out of control as everyone freaks out and starts raising prices to stay ahead. I wouldn't necessarily blame individual companies for this except in some rare cases. I see it more as a general dynamic of the whole economy. It's sort of like in a Mexican standoff, when one guy starts shooting, they all start shooting as fast as they can and everyone ends up dead. The key there is to ensure the first shot is never fired. Which the government can do by not overprinting money.

The software has no such feature. Few threads stay up for long enough to make such a feature meaningful. Those that do are usually of higher quality.

I feel zero addictiveness from weed. Of course I would not smoke it chronically, only for a serious trip. It is addictive for some though so don't use chronically.