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@StarStruck Are you still more productive due to nofap? About to give it a go, I hit a real slump in terms of motivation and productivity lately. Any more thoughts on the subject?

@Jowblob Can you explain what you mean in a different way? I don't quite understand it but it sounds familiar

@QVx I feel like I'm getting to that stage and it feels like being lost in relativism. Hard to make plans as the intellect I was so sure of before now doesn't seem that useful to me. Very confusing stage of life and I'm learning to just let go and surrender to the moment which feels really good tbh but also incredibly confusing. Do you relate to that or have any advice for it?

I think you're unto something. Intellectual compatibility is huge in relationships and I have a lot of trouble finding that as an INTP. I used to have kind of a superiority complex when it came to the average extraverted normie girl as a sour grapes I imagine but I just don't think we're particularly compatible. I usually tend to be attracted to mostly rebel women with piercings, tattoos, colored hair that also don't seem to fit in narrowly in mainstream culture.

I like her point on seduction as a game. I've done pickup on and off for like 10 years now and it's never really felt fun to me. Mostly a lot of anxiety and then craving. I'm curious if for some of you going out is actually consistently a fun adventure with thrill and wonder or if it's mostly a negative experience like I experience it.

I feel what you feel. Props on going on that date that takes a lot of courage. All I'll say is that if you believe in non-duality then it makes sense that fundamentally most of us are going to be on the bisexual spectrum as we're all the same energy. The concept of spiral dynamics does make sense as to why that's so frowned upon. I think in a few dozen years the large-scale societal shame around it will be pretty much dissolved and we'll all live much closer to one another.

@Rafael Thundercat How is that different from the mainstream view of humans though since both have consciousness? They just don’t really know where it comes from and neither do we; just have a more sophisticated and researched guess of it

Leo has many videos in which he does make the point that you should focus on the lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy before focusing on stuff like self-actualization, transcendence and truth. I have fallen into this trap myself where I feel I'm almost at stage turquoise and can barely feed myself and I don't recommend it. He started his journey in this topic being a successful business owner with multiple tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands to his name and not a college student/struggling entrepreneur. I do wish he would keep mentioning it over and over as it is a very diabolical trap to fall into I'd say.

I don't think he was correct with the view of solipcism as you being the main character hallucinating others. I think that that was him particularly in ego delusion. The truth should be that God itself is solipcistic but we are indeed little egos that walk around and exist within its dream. It's not because we sometimes have access to the greater consciousness that it's ours alone.

I like Leo's definition; something you would find interesting and valuable to do intrinsincally. Meaning that if you weren't even getting paid for it you would find it worthwhile and if you can find a way to get paid for it then you're really winning.

What causes mean a lot to you? What do you want to accomplish? You're in a great position, I would not worry about short term fluctuations. You're not very impulsive if you've truly saved 30k at 20 years old so if you have bipolar you're managing it really well. More than likely you're just a bit aimless which is perfectly normal at your age.

@Leo Gura What's your thoughts on this trip report? I've had a trip similar to this when I combined shrooms and LSD together. I came out of it but for a while I was like stuck in this reality and I knew there was no escape whether I died or not. Reading this again let me to ponder this rabbit hole. Solipsism is an interesting concept. Do you think God is indeed in agony from the loneliness or is that a silly way of looking at it?

This is a simple reaction of your subconscious to your own feelings of fear.

Can you elaborate on this? So the computer era brought about increase competition and lead to a sort of self-improvement crazy you would say? Your point on brain plasticity is interesting; I hadn't considered that. The beautiful thing is I don't really think it will matter. You just need to give people what they want, they don't necessarily have to be on the same level of development. For example to convince a bunch of stage orange people to vote for you then making the economy abundant and giving them power and freedom should be enough even if it's bundled with the stage green humanitarian values they hate. I don't know how familiar you are with the concept of singularity but it just seems to solve the game of life. It will fundamentally change our experience of the physical universe from scarcity to abundance. I don't even think @Leo Gura understands it properly. The way I see it it's basically combining the spiritual world and the physical world into one. The spiritual being formless infinity and the singularity and metaverse bringing infinity through form.

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Well, the interesting question is which part of society needs to be at Stage Yellow for it's values to be reflected to the overall benefit of the public. If we get stage yellow politicians and they use this AGI then perhaps we can solve most of our problems without needing the general populace to evolve as quickly; especially because stage yellow understands the perspective of the stages below it.

Those countries at least have the advantage of relying mostly on manual work instead of anything using IT which is a chat gpt application away from being automated. Are you familiar with the concept of AGI? I think perhaps this will allow us to leapfrog from stage orange to stage yellow and above. Stage green is not powerful by itself to overcome Stage Orange's efficiency. An artificial general intelligence is basically a being that starts off straight at stage yellow due to being trained on all of humanity's data. The birth of such a being is due anytime from 2025-2030 according to current estimate. Exciting times; this gives me optimism above all else. If we're just relying on AI as a mega computer that humans exploit then that sounds like a century of atrocity to me with nation-states and mega corps waging economic and physical warfare against each other with it.

That sadistic demon would be pretty low on the spiral dynamics scale if it enjoyed causing pain to others. It wouldn't be a very powerful demon at all. I guess it's irrelevant what top values you have we're mostly interested in what values produce the greatest potential outcome.

Some people credibly predict a military dictatorship to take place over the US in the next decade and if the Donald comes through it seems plausible it would go down that way.

I don't think you understand biology as a whole if you think sex is naturally abundant. It's the whole basis for natural selection. Sex and reproduction are the only biological goals of organisms so really you could struggle for 30 years to barely survive and have sex one time to reproduce and you would be a winner according to evolution. Even today with most guys struggling sex is phenomenally abundant. I don't have stats on hand but I imagine in the Middle East it's much less abundant than we have it in the west and most periods of human history must've been similar.

I honestly used to relate to him a lot, when his case happened I was pretty much an incel at that point in my life. Crazy what a difference 10 years can make. I'd say learning game and psychedelics changed my life forever. One MDMA trip combined with spiritual knowledge could prevent most people from any tendency towards violence.

I'll say that I relate with it; especially after talking and hanging out with religious friends lately. They claim to love God and want to be as close to him as possible but the very notion of being God, seeing the world like God, using the creative power of God or thinking like God is somehow ridiculous to them? Fascinating concept. It's understandable though; I do have the same paradox. I do feel really unlimited and infinitely powerful but have a hard time grasping, understanding and accepting my own limitations.

Do your own research(like on the sex subreddit for example) but from my quick one and what GPT; it's not really that big of a deal. Mostly she should be on anti-viral medication, wear condoms, and don't have sex with her if she doesn't have an outbreak. Apparently, 1 in 6 or 45 million Americans currently have HPV2 and over 50% have HPV1.

@OldManCorcoran What exactly is he scamming people about? He does teach pickup and game. They do have some underhanded sales tactics I'll give you that from what I hear.

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