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12 hours ago, Basman said:The best way to prevent your store from being looted is to be a bookstore.
Unperturbed and standing strong amongst the flames!
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It's about to start in 5 mins as I post this, tune in it's gonna be one of the top fashion shows of the year and probably the best produced! Super excited to watch it, I've gained a new appreciation for fashion since hosting my own fashion show last year.
Performances from Tate McRae, Katseye, Megan Thee Stallion and way more with obviously the top models of the world walking tonight.
Update: It was sick! Well produced and the performances were really well done. Tate McRae looked divine doing it but Megan really had some swagger with her dancers, I think she stole the show. Kylie Jenner also had a surprise appearance for her first runway show ever!
Highly recommend you guys watch it, it's a stellar show in terms of the visual arts industry and you get some of the hottest women in the world performing!
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5 hours ago, Etherial Cat said:Now, I'm a native French speaker and pretty familiar with the country's cultural and political landscape. From what I've seen, many of the shops targeted by looters were luxury brands and major French corporations. I'm also aware of smaller independent shops that were broken into, and fundraisers have been set up to help them recover. Targeting small businesses or historical monuments doesn't exactly enjoy public sympathy, whereas I don't think anyone is shedding many tears over the damage to Louis Vuitton or Dior.
As for the supposed lack of a plan, French people are highly politicised and organise protests like absolute gremlins. For the better part of a decade, writers, intellectuals and political activists have been publishing books, developing ideas and discussing ways to challenge the existing political order and reclaim control over French institutions. This isn't some spontaneous outburst of anger without any political thinking behind it.
So asking whether French people read books is honestly laughable.
But taking personal responsibility isn't something you can simply learn from books. It requires a great deal of personal development, self-awareness and emotional maturity, which I don't think most people have cultivated yet.
Plenty of people believe they're taking responsibility for their lives, when in reality they've merely identified with the concept. They don't necessarily recognise how, on the shadow side, they remain deeply submissive to the established order, often without even being aware of it.
Moreover, there is a strong contradiction in your reasoning here. You can't have it both ways: either you treat the protesters as responsible adults capable of making their own decisions, or you infantilise them by portraying them as ignorant people who don't know what they're doing.There aren’t 1,500 Dior and Louis Vuitton stores in France, the vast majority of those ransacked shops were neighborhood bakeries, tabacs, and small businesses whose owners now won't all get GoFundMes to survive. Just because French intellectuals write essays doesn't mean teenagers looting phones and torching town halls are executing a coherent political masterplan. An angry mob is completely different from a coherent peaceful demonstration with stated goals.
Calling this a transition toward "Stage Green" is wishful thinking IMO and looks a lot like some unintegrated stage orange getting angry and turning into Stage Red. You don't get a high consciousness society by trashing basic rule of law, that just ends up triggering a heavy Stage Blue backlash, more state surveillance, and an easy electoral win for the right wing party under Marine Le Pen.
Not all books are created equal. Someone can read victim-mindset based literature about how the world is unfair to them or read action-minded books about solving the problems in their life, be it financial or social. It's mostly about using the plentiful self-education tools out there instead of violently protesting in the street.
Also, there’s zero contradiction in holding someone fully accountable as an adult while pointing out that their mob behavior is an emotional tantrum. Tearing down your own community doesn’t hurt the elites; it just screws over everybody but especially working-class people and makes real progress even harder to achieve.
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13 minutes ago, Atb210201 said:This right here is a smart way to look at it. A plan is always necessary if you're gonna do such things to actually change something.
Without a leader or a plan, it's all just a futal attempt.
100% without a good plan protestors are just overgrown children throwing a temper tantrum and causing millions of Euro worth of damage to their own cities.
There are so many more productive ideas. Creating entrepreneurship communities to learn how to adapt to AI and generate cashflow for the wellbeing of oneself and their community would be a good start.
We'll see how it turns out but this is how you end up with France as a surveillance state in 2036 and robot police beating down any whiff of protest. They're gonna end up with Marine Le Pen and the National Rally sweeping the elections in April 2027.
This is the worst of the left. Angry, stupid, dangerous and making life worse for everyone due to misguided idealism.
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1 hour ago, Etherial Cat said:I'm all for providing value.
But don't kid yourself into thinking that the elites are necessarily hardworking or playing by the same rules as everyone else.Living a good quality of life in France in 2026, especially in Paris, increasingly requires either a considerable head start in life or an exceptional ability to transcend your circumstances.
And if you think chaos and anarchy haven't played a major role in the history of political change, you might want to open a history book. I'm personally much more interested in reforms than revolutions, but I'm also aware that history doesn't always unfold according to our preferences.
For my part, I'm just here to witness the times we're living through. How the pattern unfold is not up to me.
I agree with you that the elites don't play fair and the system has massive issues.
But I say this precisely as a student of history: whenever legitimate frustration turns into mob rioting, the immediate conditions almost always get drastically worse. Burning schools, cars, and local shops doesn't touch the elites, it just screws over regular working people in those neighborhoods and gives the state the perfect excuse to roll out heavier policing and surveillance.
Tearing things down without a solid plan to build something better usually just backfires and makes life harder for normal people.
Real question here, since we are on a self-development forum: out of hundreds of thousands of protesters, what percentage do you think are spending an hour a day reading books, learning skills, or taking free online courses to build genuine leverage in their own lives? Very few.
Developing yourself is hard and takes years, joining a protest and blaming the government and the elites for your problems(even if it's partly justified) is fun and immediate but is fundamentally lazy, bypassing and also mostly doesn't work. It leads to local businesses closing and more global corporations with insurance policies that cover vandalized and looted stores.
How many people in this past month have lost the work of their lives and have had to permanently close their small business because arrogant and wild youth thought they were hot shit and were teaching a lesson to the system? Apparently it's around 1500 businesses were ransacked, vandalized, or looted over this weekend alone.
These businesses are not Hermes outlets. They are local bakeries and coffee shops where people have their hours cut due to this if the business doesn't have to shut down as a whole. Protests also cause public transit issues for anyone needing to use it to get to work on time. You think the protestors have pity for that?
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2 hours ago, Etherial Cat said:I do believe this movement is more than just another protest.
If we zoom out a little, I think we might be witnessing a broader wave of resistance against the current system, and perhaps the beginnings of the kind of change we need as a society to move forward.
It's been brewing for years now. The current government has something like an 18% approval rating, which is pretty catastrophic. After years of mounting anger and frustration, protesters are organising themselves almost like a grassroots insurgency, ready to challenge the institutions head-on and hopefully kick the Macronie out.
I also think there's something quite particular about the French. They grow up learning about revolutions, uprisings and popular resistance, and I think that history is deeply ingrained in their collective identity. So protesting isn't just something they do; it's almost part of how they understand themselves as a people.
And for the first time, I can really sense a powerful wave of collective anger and solidarity. Police brutality against teenagers is particularly hard to stomach, even for people who would normally consider themselves moderates. I think that leaves the government with very little room to manoeuvre, as further repression could easily backfire and fuel even more anger. I don't envy their position
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And it certainly doesn't help when, in my view, the politicians in government are mostly incompetent, talentless, sheltered buffoons who can't read the room, let alone run a country, and who seem to owe their positions more to careerist scheming, political networking and backroom manoeuvring than to any actual merit at creating effective policies.
If I recall well, 1/2 political change leading to a change in Constitution has not be made through the legal institution but outside of them.Right, it's also a lot of lazy, entitled people who refuse to provide value to the system. Is that really what you stand for?
3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:Protests make the politicians listen. Otherwise the politicians are too comfortable and just serve the donor class.
More like it gives them the political will necessary to weaken EU's surveillance laws and will end up with Palantir like tech restoring the rule of law over this nonsense.
Protesting is one thing, but riots damaging cities are another. Chaos and anarchy are not a tool of enlightened beings seeking to better society; they are maybe 30% that and 70% anger and bypassing one's responsibility towards society in favor of complaining and fucking shit up for easy dopamine.
@Schizophonia What are your thoughts on the current situation as a French citizen?
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2 hours ago, Etherial Cat said:I do believe this movement is more than just another protest.
If we zoom out a little, I think we might be witnessing a broader wave of resistance against the current system, and perhaps the beginnings of the kind of change we need as a society to move forward.
It's been brewing for years now. The current government has something like an 18% approval rating, which is pretty catastrophic. After years of mounting anger and frustration, protesters are organising themselves almost like a grassroots insurgency, ready to challenge the institutions head-on and hopefully kick the Macronie out.
I also think there's something quite particular about the French. They grow up learning about revolutions, uprisings and popular resistance, and I think that history is deeply ingrained in their collective identity. So protesting isn't just something they do; it's almost part of how they understand themselves as a people.
And for the first time, I can really sense a powerful wave of collective anger and solidarity. Police brutality against teenagers is particularly hard to stomach, even for people who would normally consider themselves moderates. I think that leaves the government with very little room to manoeuvre, as further repression could easily backfire and fuel even more anger. I don't envy their position
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And it certainly doesn't help when, in my view, the politicians in government are mostly incompetent, talentless, sheltered buffoons who can't read the room, let alone run a country, and who seem to owe their positions more to careerist scheming, political networking and backroom manoeuvring than to any actual merit at creating effective policies.
If I recall well, 1/2 political change leading to a change in Constitution has not be made through the legal institution but outside of them.Right, it's also a lot of lazy entitled people that refuse to provide value to the system. Is that really what you stand for?
3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:Protests make the politicians listen. Otherwise the politicians are too comfortable and just serve the donor class.
More like it gives them the political will necessary to weaken EU's surveillance laws and will end up with Palantir like tech restoring the rule of law over this nonsense.
Protesting is one thing and riots damaging cities another. Chaos and anarchy are not a tool of enlightened beings seeking to better society, they are maybe 30% that and 70% anger and bypassing one's responsibility towards society in favor of complaining and fucking shit up for easy dopamine.
@Schizophonia What's your thoughts on the current situation as a french citizen?
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I think it's cool, the media that will come from stuff like this over the next few years will be amazing. I think there is a hard cap to the financial upside you can get by copying others ideas so I'm not too worried about this. In most jurisdictions you're allowed to copy others work but when you start to commercialize it you can get sued. Finding inspiration from other art is the cornerstone of most artists though. Fifty Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan fiction and then E.L. James found her own creative direction and made billions from it; that's a great story.
Ideally there should be a way to link back to the original content so the creator also gets virality when a piece inspired by their content blows up; then I think it would be a net positive.
There is always an evolving moat to business where you need to find ways to make your value-producing ideas hard to replicate by others, this is nothing new and has been happening since the dawn of craftsmanship. It's part of how our species evolves as a whole and is mostly a positive phenomenon.
@Heaven Why do you think Iman Gadzhi being involved makes it a scam? He's an entrepreneur looking at worthwhile products to put his money into.
@Olaf You're inventing numbers lol, Iman's entire net worth is not even $1 billion so he can't invest that much.
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The future is looking bright beautiful people!
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6 hours ago, Atb210201 said:Because it's a disgrace to a society if its population is concerned with lust rather than creating a healthy family and becoming a mother and a father raising the future (children).
I think that's the best purpose of human life after spirituality and realising one's self, which is BTW in the same direction that is in line with creating a healthy society.
Porn is just lust there is nothing educational about it.
If it educates you about something it is educating you about lust nothing more.
Therefore creating a lustful society as we're watching today.
Got it so you favor authoritarianism to push your personal agenda on society as a large.
I think that's an atrocious viewpoint and if you don't want to watch hardcore porn you should build up the willpower to stop washing it instead of wanting the government to handhold you.
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9 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:It's consistent because you have been in it. Wake up. And it all goes poof. Like any other dream. Have you established yourself as an idealist or a materialist?
I would say that's a false dichotomy, I don't think you have to choose between drinking the full solipsism cocktail or being a materialistic atheist. I don't really have a label for what I believe at the moment, I'm growing and learning and consolidating my knowledge.
I've had plenty of mystical experiences and they did not make the world go poof like any other dream. Did it for you? Seems inconsistent, you're still here with us my friend. All my awakenings led me to is appreciating life way more and realizing that a lot of my limitations were self-imposed and I could do almost anything in this world.
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Why don't they invest more funding into sex ed class? If people grow up with porn as their main form of sexual education then of course strange behaviours are gonna occur.
1 hour ago, Atb210201 said:A good move on England's part if true I must say. Very good.
Although I myself am guilty of liking hardcore porn but I do wish for it to be banned altogether from the Internet.
Why do you want it to be banned?
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On 10/13/2026 at 1:54 PM, Joshe said:I liked these:
Which of Hawkins' books did you like best? I've only read Power vs Force so far, and I found it quite excellent. I want to get more into his enlightenment and spirituality books, it's a subject that's calling to me recently.
I've been too obsessed with technical topics lately, I feel like a hamster with a smartphone walking around his wheel.
@Davidess Cool, I hadn't heard about this one! I've read a bit of the first conversation with God book, I quite enjoyed it. Have you read them all?
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1 hour ago, Inliytened1 said:My post was more why this dream above others. Yes. This thing is real. And its detailed. But as @Elliot eloquently points out it could be one among an infinite amount of others. So why is this one special.
What do you personally think about his hypothesis?
Ironically with all of Leo's ranting against science, I think the scientific method is our best tool to make sense of reality. Mysticism must be combined with science to produce the greatest insights and understanding of reality; otherwise we cannot figure out who is saying delusional nonsense and who actually understands reality far better than the average person.
I have not experienced any other worlds personally, I have dreams where I experience flashes of concepts and experiences that lack tangibility and don't stand the test of time. This dream stands the test of time and has been consistently progressing for millions of years.
You can believe that life is a simulation aiming to teach us some kind of lesson, people like Nick Bostrom have published very popular theories around this.
I think personally it's closer to universal consciousness expanding and learning more about itself. An omniscient God would already know everything so perhaps God is evolving alongside us. I think full virtual reality is the closest thing that you can prove that will lead us to experience alternate realities that are almost as real as ours. Any other hypothesis is just a dream or fantasy unless proven otherwise.
If you don't believe that God is evolving alongside us but already knows everything then we loop back to my theory about God already experiencing life as a virtual reality game and enjoying things like wars and atrocities for the sake of I guess call it divine dopamine.
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5 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:I'm deathly afraid of AI labor. 😀
Fair enough it's unclear how the rollout is gonna go with the amount of irresponsible politicians currently in power, it's definitely a bit concerning.
It's fundamentally gonna free mankind from labor though and end proverty globally basically almost inevitably. It's the next stage of workers right, global UBI. Socialism and communism were always pointing towards this, their aim are unrealistic without this technological unlock.
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This is base reality that gets unlocked towards infinity once mankind unites and stops fighting itself. We'll unlock AI labor, infinite green energy through fusion power, extended lifespans to eternity with biotech and soon start to populate other planets. This century is gonna be wild.
The more you study history the more you see that it slowly but surely has evolved towards abundance in the material universe. Perhaps it's possible that there are alternate realities but this one is built from friction brick by brick, getting us to the point where we can talk to each other with technology that spans thousands of kilometers instantly.
I'm proud of us.
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5 hours ago, AION said:There are younger girls who are into me. And I see them on a weekly basis during my work outs but they never make moves. Only give obvious signals like being giggly and excited when I talk to them. But you are right about me leveling up. I have had some stunning gfs and that pumped up my self esteem I guess. And being worthy of higher quality. It is so obvious to me that men are the price. And it is expressed in your physiology.
5 hours ago, AION said:I think young girls don’t appreciate intellect. For them other things are important. If you are a guy with a giant intellect it is like having a huge dick for girls that are into huge dicks, and most of the time older women are into that or special kind of people. I think I have to start catering the right thing to the right people. For example if you are in a nightclub your intellect won’t get you anything. It is all about vibe, appearance, presentation, confident and leading. Older women can lead relationships themselves so they don’t necessarily look for guys that can lead but personally I don’t like that kind of girls.
They appreciate the fruit of your intellect, not the intellect itself. If you manage to use your brain to solve a lot of problems in your life and become a high-status, abundant man that makes a lot of cash, you will have more women in your life than you know what to do with.
The problem with intellect and making money is it's only half the battle; the other is emotional resilience. Building a profitable business that frees your life up and makes you a 1% man takes a lot of emotional suffering, easily 5x more than I would've thought 10 years ago.
I've networked with multimillionaires and influencers in Toronto; there's no one dumb in those circles even if not all are intellectual powerhouses. If you are truly an intelligent man you are well set up to reap all the benefits that this world offers. You need to cut out the victim mindset and become ruthlessly focused on your goals and raising your status in your country and city.
If you truly are high IQ then become a ripped multimillionaire over the next few years and stop fucking complaining on online forums. You can get any type of woman you want, they are not that picky. They just need a man that brings something to the table and being low or medium value with a complainer's mindset on top of it is a recipe for stewing in your own shit in terms of results.
Women are offensive to men with a victim mindset because they are an existential mirror. If you are on top of your shit they love you and if you're fucking up they won't spare any time on you and will move on to a guy that's actually offering value. That's not bad, that's a divine blessing.
There is very little other experience in life that hold a candle to having hot steamy sex with a woman you find incredibly sexy that you couldn't have attracted a few years ago but she now appreciates and lusts over the man that you are today. Actually on that note there is another experience that I think is equally as good and perhaps much better, finding two of those women at the same time and cashing in your universal progress.
The full ownership mindset works like a charm but it is a slow and painful grind. The events that I host are a lot of effort and also complicated to set up but it's already given me access to the hottest women I've ever been with in my entire life. I cannot wait to see how much it'll scale over the next 5 years; it's what makes all of my life's pain and effort worth it.
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5 hours ago, Emerald said:I'm just wondering if it's something like... you feel comfortable flirting with women you're not interested in. But you feel uncomfortable flirting with women you are interested in.
Also probably this, I've had that same problem before. I think most men run into this at some point in our lives.
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It's good, it's a sign that you have some sex appeal. I would keep levelling up so that the women you're more into also start giving you indicators of interest.
You should flirt with them to practice your verbal game, it's win-win for both parties. They'll feel good about receiving the attention of a younger man and you can let them down smoothly. It's like a hot girl some of them are gracious about refusing advances and some of them are really bitchy about it, no need to be unpleasant to people that are into you.
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I never heard about the trauma correlation before but it would make sense. Having trouble being present on a single task and being hyperaware of the environment sounds like a trauma response to me.
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3 hours ago, Basman said:Red pill is just like an ideology of why you think you are impotent as a male and why it's largely women's fault. It's an ideology of victim mindset. It makes sense that it's going to make you a bitter mad person.
Have you read books like the Rational Male or read through the red pill forum? If you're only watching Fresh & Fit type of content then of course that's the impression you're gonna have from it.
It was mostly about the opposite and stopping blaming other people for your mediocrity in life and sharing ways to elevate men's standing in the sexual and financial marketplace.
I don't agree with everything in it but most men should probably read through it at least once and also books like the manipulated man by Esther Vilar.
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@yetineti Thanks for the kind words man.
I would say I'm quite aware of other people's emotions, I'm a very aware person in general who's always analyzing my surroundings. I tend to compartmentalize my own emotions though, I realized this after I had a dream where my emotional range was so vivid and I woke up shocked and wondering if this is how some very emotional people experience life. Felt quite good but also like it would be hard to be an effective person on a day to day basis with this much reactivity so I'm glad my subconscious is built the way it is.
I would say I fall into intellectual empathy more than sharing emotions all the time, usually I get way less stressed than other people when stuff goes wrong and I only feel the anxiety after the situation is dealt with.
It's partly why I have the dating vision I do. I have found not many experiences much more satisfying in life than embodying the grounded masculine surrounded by an abundance of femininity. Spending my time consuming knowledge and upskilling myself so I can solve problems with people is very satisfying and each time I do it specifically in an intimate context it feels even 10x sweeter.
That's why I think being vulnerable and crying as a man is fine but the real gem is in developing hyper-competence so you can bless others with your divine masculine gifts and they gift you back the joy of unencumbered emotional expression while in your presence. I think a lot of women also get hooked on that part once they meet a man who's genuinely worked on himself and they give you a degree of appreciation and love that other men that are not as advanced in their journey often complain about not receiving.
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13 hours ago, Elliott said:Going out to do pick up is those things
Weird take, it's just an activity like any other where you go with the goal of meeting new people. Some people do the same thing with co-ed sports league or any other type of hobby. There is the added feedback loop of introspecting on your experience and getting advice from others on how to make your socializing more effective. Having a growth mindset and tracking your progress over time are effective ways to get better at any skillset.
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1 hour ago, Elliott said:Trying to entertain or impress people, trying to be funny, trying to be liked; just sets the relationship up to be artificial. And a lot of mature people can see right through it anyway, a McRelationship.
Developing genuine social and conversational skills isn't the same thing as putting on an entertaining persona that turns you into a dancing monkey.
Have you actually done pickup, or are you looking at it from the outside and concluding that it's solely about putting on an act?

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Very exciting! The world is changing so fast, in 10 years it'll be unrecognizable in the best of ways.