Leo Gura

Yes

@CuriousityIsKey You've never actually eaten a pizza. You just imagined that.

There isn't a clear answer because there are periods in my life where I've socialized A LOT, and then other periods where I didn't talk to anyone for months or years. You're looking at a few solid years of it at least to get decent.

If you were 100% detached there would be no need for the relationship. The point is not get attached in unhealthy, toxic, or dysfunctional ways. If your cat of 15 years die, obviously you will be sad about it. This is normal. Experience the sadness consciously and use it as part of your spiritual work. There is no such thing as "achieving emotional mastery". You just get a little better at handling and feeling emotions. This is a complex question which I can't really go into here.

A good opportunity for you to practice not giving a fuck. Go socialize anyway. It's very beneficial for you to do some socializing when you're not looking or feeling your best. So you stop trying to "be the best" for people. Get comfortable letting people see you when you're not "on". If you have a giant zit on your face -- Go socialize! You'll see that no one cares.

It's the opposite in practice. The more I socialize the less I care what people think about me. I used to care A LOT. Now it's just irrelevant because I've talked to 1000s of people, many of whom rejected me and I grew a thick skin. No! You fundamentally misunderstand what charisma is. It's not about getting people to like you or saying things you think they want to hear. Go out and talk to people. Talking to people is not some high consciousness activity. It's dumb. Learn to relate to people on a dumb, fun level. Don't treat it too seriously. Especially when talking to girls. The biggest change I had to make to get good with girls is to learn to talk dumb. The biggest mistake is to trying to be intellectual or serious with girls. Ironically, learning to talk dumb is not easy if you're smart. It is a mistake to try to make socializing "high consciousness". It's not supposed to be. It's like playing with a child.

@bambi The context is you asked me about the nature of physical death. And I told you you are imagining it. You are lost because the possibility that you are imagining death is so radical your mind isn't open enough to fathom how this could be possible. You honestly believe you will die.

All our current Mods are in good standing. No need to doubt them, they are doing good work.

Being a man is attractive.

@Fred Fulton Yes and no. It's tricky. The point is to move beyond the relative and yet you still gotta wipe your dirty ass every day or it will stink. The mistake is to say: "I am God, I have transcended, therefore I don't need to wipe my ass any more."

My position is that phyiscal death never happens. You are dreaming it. That's how profound your dream is.

Into Infinity.

God is EVERYTHING. It can't exclude anything. That's Love.

It doesn't really matter where your date is. You could make any location work if you got some game. Of course some locations are more optimal logistically and more enjoyable, but you could do a date at Walmart. It doesn't matter. Personally I enjoy nice outdoor shopping malls with some scenery to look at. Window shopping together makes for a great date. I like these places because they tend to have a lot of variety and everything you could want: drinks, coffee, food, window shopping, park areas, trees, ponds, benches, ice cream, cookies, people-watching, etc. You could do a date at Ikea. Be creative. And also, go places you actually enjoy.

I don't do bar dates usually. I prefer coffee dates. But if I have no other option but a bar date I would just order a club soda. Actually, I don't drink coffee either. So again, "coffee date" is just a convenient excuse to meet up. What you drink or not drink is irrelevant.

It is YOU. YOU exist. Here you are!

It's inevitable. If you cannot foresee such warfare years in advance you have no biz running a spiritual community because it will devolve into devilry behind your back.

Drinks are fine, but you need to have drinks in a location where you can bounce around to multiple venues. My fave 1st date location is an outdoor shopping mall area, with cafes, bars, restaurants, shops, ice cream, park with trees and benches, scenery, etc. Then you bounce around between those. Try to do more walking than sitting in a booth. Walking lets you escalate easier. As far as conversation goes, you're just being too logical and boring. The core of game is learning emotional, nonlogical ways of talking to girls. Also, if you are not sexually attracted to her you shouldn't be dating her. Follow your dick on this. Stop setting up dates with girls you wouldn't sleep with. This is a waste of your and her time. Law Of State Transference: whatever you feel she will feel. If you don't feel excited neither will she. You need to be sexually excited by her. Then ride this excitement to bed.

You are mixing up absolute and relative matters. Of course everything is a unity at the highest level, but that says little about climate change, war, oil, etc.

Is he?

I am refering to pure Intelligence. Intelligence is God's capacity for self-understanding. Imagine for a moment being so intelligent that you can create the entire universe from nothing. That's what intelligence is at its highest level. Then there are sub-degrees of it which are less than omnipotent. Omnipotence is simply a function of intelligence. When your intelligence reaches infinity you become omnipotent. God is pure Intelligence. Intelligence cannot be defined because it is infinite.

Existence is Absolute. It has no opposite. You exist. Absolutely. The rest is mind games.

I don't want to give them publicity because they are recruiting. No I am talking about joining a forum that's a copycat version of this forum and being recruited to join via this forum by current or ex-members. I don't care what other forums you join of your own accord. What's disallowed is leeching members from this forum into splinters and factions.

He who doesn't realize himself as God will project God out as some "other". There is only one God, and he is you.

Because first they are banned. Then they want to start their own community thinking they can run it better, then they recruit here because they have nowhere else to get traffic or members and they are too lazy to do the work from the ground up. I have my hands full just moderating this place. I'm not going to be overseeing a live chat group. This kind of chat devolves in nonsense and time-wasting very quickly. It will not be any more productive than this forum. It's hard enough to keep people from wasting their time on this forum.