LordFall

I think transparency and honesty are key factors. A lot of businesses have shady business models that their customers and employees don't understand. Modelling agencies operating as a pyramid scheme is a good example.

You must study the skill of marketing and branding. What you name as societal forces being against you although not false I would call victim thinking until you've read 5 marketing books. Being an artist and a business person is not enough. Marketing revolves around the fields of psychology and sociology to understand deeply communication and how to relate to your customer/audience.

No I still think America is the bastion of innovation on earth. They are AI world leaders and will be still one of the most relevant players in the 2030s. Name other countries that are as well rounded and impactful globally. @Ishanga And what are you doing yourself to better the city of Toronto and our country of Canada? It's easy to complain and be negative without actually being productive towards solving our collective problems.

No I still think America is the bastion of innovation on earth. They are AI world leaders and will be still one of the most relevant players in the 2030s. Name other countries that are as well rounded and impactful globally.

Do you not believe in the historical evidence of Jesus as being a true figure and the works he's done or are you making a different point?

I think you're right. When I asked it to Grok like this it agreed with you.

There are 7300 deaths in the US anually specifically to cigarette second hand smoke. No such statistic exists for weed because the numbers are insignificant and under-researched to be fair as it involves a more complicated methodology.

I mean I don't see people smoking weed more than cigarettes in public places where I live so I guess its region dependent. Second hand smoke from cigarettes is proven to cause cancer so I'd say it's much more serious than second hand weed smoke.

Yes I think we're ran the course of the utility of representative democracy. Remember that this system was invented when your congressmen would ride on horses to get to parliament in a voyage of multiple weeks/month. Now we can have every single citizen vote on an issue and have it engraved in a blockchain for all of eternity within 24 hours. The system needs immense change and it is coming soon my people, rejoice!

I think you're being a bit neurotic and overestimating the impact that second hand smoke by walking past a dude is gonna have on you. Being hot boxed at the gym is different but on the street/park is a whole other issue. Also if you meditate often and are fully present small amounts of inhaled weed will affect your consciousness very little.

It's a good time fam, now we gotta become powerful as a species being immortal by definition is not enough, soon enough we will be biologically immortal as well.

I think it'll ultimately end up in a global set of rules to be adopted through blockchain/AI and we'll have immutable laws through smart contracts, a phenomenon that's never happened in human history before. Call me an optimist but I believe this will lead to global peace and the end of any crime on earth in the next 20 years.

Cool story, travelling is fun I wanna do more of it. I wanna make a point that's talked against a lot of here and its money and game. People criticize it in terms of using it to attract women but although I think it's part of it, it's mostly about being able to afford the lifestyle you had. If you had a profitable online business you could move to Montenegro tomorrow if you wanted to, date one of these girls and either stay there or fundamentally do whatever you want. Which is why I don't see how money isn't the #1 factor that foretells the quality of your dating and overall life. Even if you say social skills are then I would say with money you can buy time off work to practice them and pay for a bootcamp so it always comes back to the options and freedom that having more money(especially on your terms) affords you.

Hard to have a great dating life without money. You can pull girls here and there for reference experience sure but I would say being financially independent is key. I've been trying to save to take 30 days off from work to do a 30 day challenge for a few years and it's been difficult. I could do it anyway 1 hour a day of cold approach but the mental energy spent there vs my business doesn't make sense.

Are you sure you're not projecting your own intellectual laziness? Are they defending themselves or going above and beyond to release their anger and rage on innocent people and killing tens of thousands?

Competition has just increased since social media. If you are a competitive male you're doing better than ever though. I recommend you guys work on this. If all that happened to make dating worse is open up all the other males and all the sudden your dating life plummeted that's an example of a personal short coming. Earlier societies had enforced monogamy which heavily reduces the competition and mates up almost everybody but the decentralization of dating has made that less viable. It's nothing to cry over individually and collectively as a species I believe we have many remedies to combat this.

@Emotionalmosquito Do you understand the practical applications of torture? Gathering intelligence from your adversaries through torture has been used for millennias and has many uses apart from sadism. You can also look at torture in terms of lack of efficiency in our factory farming system. Unfortunately torturing animals en masse to feed ourselves is the point in our civilization that we're at currently. 20 years from now that should change and with AI/CCTV I think that criminal torture will stop as well. I find that understand these things logically takes away from the emotional horror of it. If you're not a foreign spy or do business with criminal organizations there aren't many ways for you to end up being physically tortured by another human being so I wouldn't worry about it too much. And if it keeps you up at night to worry about human suffering consider that this is just a form of procrastination by your ego. If you really want to end it I would send at least 6 hours a day studying AI business models and you'll have huge impact on the state of the earth over the next 5-20 years.

You don't need to be ready to date to level up your social skills and build a network with access to a lot of women. Socialize weekly and build a social circle around a niche with a lot of women in it and you can build both your value and your social life.

@czar24 Pickup and dating is an emotional dance. Being good looking helps a lot but if you're autistic or closed off with your communication won't help. I'm a 6'4 model looking dude and I've struggled a lot in life with it. Best thing to do is: - 1000 cold approaches. - Building a community of wingmen and people to reflect on your seduction skills from a third person and also see them in action. - Building a wide social circle that puts you in a position of authority, access and status. You live 2 hours from Miami. The best geographical area on earth to do cold approach pickup and social circle game. If you take this seriously 6 months from now you'll have so many women in your life it'll become a liability to all the other areas of it.

So for those that haven't read my first social circle post here: I host events as I believe that Social circle game is the #1 dating strategy there is. It's a long term one but holistically it helps you meet both women and cool guys to do fun activities with you and also raise your attractiveness, status and access to partners. I've been a photographer for a few years and that transitionned into me hosting photoshoots and a fashion show in May. The fashion show was fun af, as its been a meme for years in the pickup community to start a modelling agency if you want hot girls and I'm actually doing it but it's the business model is extremely complicated and expensive. Ended up losing $2200 that show. The photoshoots are cheaper but have less scale. I turned my events into group chats and as a result I run creatives groups in multiple Canadian cities and am doing show in Calgary. We had the first music show August 7th and had the 2nd one this thursday! It's extremely complicated to figure out but if I had to put it in a simple concept it would be : offering value. I like the oasis metaphor for social circle game. Most humans live in a desert that is their boring and hard life and if you can make it better for them you start becoming an extremely valuable man(or women) to the people around you. Most average guys are barely surviving out here so if you can get passed that stage and start thriving in a way that also in involves other people then you start to become a top 1% man pretty quickly if not a top 0.01% one. There are many ways to look at dating but as an INTP I like to make things extremely logical as it removes the confusion for me and gives me a straight map to follow to get to my dreams. From my efforts these last few years I've gone from hitting my head against the wall to having multiple model show me a lot of interest and inviting me out to stuff out of the blue. I still am not where I want to be but the next few years are looking good. Stay tuned for the rest of my adventure and feel free to ask any questions you have on social circle game as by this point I would consider myself one of the top practitioners of it in the world and close to being a world class authority on the subject.

I have a thing for cruel women, I want to spank them and cuddle them into being chill. Sadia is a smart girl she just needs a man to ground her or some spiritual work.

I've seen a few when I started out my game journey. I recommend it to take sex off the pedestal. I like strip clubs for that too, for 10$ you can see live naked women. Once you're beyond the mental block of sexuality though you'll need to invest thousands of hours into your actual dating life otherwise it's gonna be hard to be satisfied in that regard. Nothing like cuddling with your own girlfriend after you fucked her brains out and she's the person you find most attractive on earth and you get along with the best. Great feature of reality.

Such a weird way to frame the initial topic that guys are more purely intellectual and girls are more self-interested. I would frame it more that most guys have lost the plot and use their energy for interests that doesn't serve themselves or their families or their friends or their communities. Women are much more in the plot and pragmatic indeed. I run a book club and an investing club and I'd say it's probably 60% more likely that a random girl finds interest in that more than an average guy. You're bias because you're a man but most men are really dumb and useless people and to paint that as admirable is pretty wild to me lol. I fill my social circle mostly with women and a few select men and it's way more effective and fun that way.

@fabger Host your own events. Use cold approach and dating apps to build up your social circle in which you're the leader of. Look at my Instagram for practical examples of this. I host creative events as well as business/investing type of events.

@Shakazulu What exactly was missing from the product? I've only torrented one of his course on SMMA back in the day but it was pretty legit and I hold him in high regards.