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The problem with this idea is that dating and mating IS fundamentally a marketplace based on commodities. Marriage has always been a socioeconomic institution and even on the biological side mating is just a drive for reproduction based on tribe dynamics and the exchange of resources. I would argue that only AFTER you've taken care of the transactional side of things and making sure you have enough value to offer mates then you can worry about being in the flow of love and other things. This is also backed up by the spiritual side of things, whereas if you believe that love is everpresent in everything and everybody then the only thing you have to worry about is making sure your value proposition is up to par and love will take care of the rest. There's a reason your soulmate is not a homeless crackhead or a squirrel, biology and tribal value have their place.

That's a silly take. You should make friends with people that have the same goals you have and where you can form alliances to achieve those goals. Guys get together and talk about girls, go out together to get girls. Female friends don't really make sense in that context. Men also make great friends in terms of business goals and collaboration, most women won't help you with that. Female friends make more sense in social circles or hobby groups. If you're in a volleyball league or a book club then makes sense that you would regularly hangout with girls. Or if you're a big extrovert/emotional type and you enjoy just hanging out with girls and like venting/talking about surface stuff. If you're in the events/party scene then having a lot of female friends also makes sense. Generally, goals don't really align though.

I think it's important for people to understand the true power of personal development and that it's possible to reach stages of development much beyond Turquoise. His awakening is almost complete

I don't think many people here know this but Leo's been achieving new gains lately. He's been hitting the gym and his recent awakenings have lead to a change in his physical form. He posted these on his Instagram and I'm not bi but damn, lookout Vegas girls, God is coming.

Alex becker is probably the best resource for the investing part of it. He's a rich guy that shares his thoughts, mindset and strategies on stuff that he expects will get crazy returns over the next 5-10 years(50-100x returns.) His Youtube hasn't been updated in two months(he's more active in bull markets) but his Twitter is still active daily and his old videos are still a wealth of knowledge. For understanding the fundamental impact of the technology I recommend Gary Vee's videos on blockchain and NFTs. He doesn't touch the investment/speculation side of it but only the technology which is the most important part to understand. People don't understand Gary Vee's genius because he talks very simply and like a bro but he's one of the natural-born geniuses of entrepreneurship and his insights are always precise(talking about mass content production and predicting the rise of Tiktok and Podcasts 3-4 years ago.) Iman Gadzhi is another great resource on understanding the fundamentals of the market and investment strategy. He's also a genius(22-year-old millionaire worth 30M) and his videos on business and investing are great. He speaks in very simple language and his titles/thumbnails are similar to other clickbait YouTubers but his actual content and what he's saying is pure intelligence. The TechLead has some good fun videos on his crypto investment. He's my least strong recommendation because I think he fundamentally misunderstands the technology but it's interesting to see how an average investor thinks about it and does it. It's good to understand the field from all perspectives. I think he got out of crypto now but once again his old videos are interesting and I'm sure the crypto market blows up again he'll start making some more. The most important strategy IMO is to fundamentally understand the meta of blockchain and the technology behind it. The investment part of it is great and I'm honestly sure it's possible to make 50-100x returns but that only comes with really understanding what's going on so your bets are placed on things that make sense and not hype. A lot of smart people that know the field are saying blockchain is an even more groundbreaking technology than the internet itself and although I'm still not satisfied with my own understanding of it, I'm starting to agree with them. It will fundamentally change the power of governments, property rights, and money itself. If people don't think that's important to understand and master, then inevitably they're gonna be left far behind everybody who puts the time and work in.

What are your thoughts on a crypto/NFT-based VR game? Or an AR life-integrated game? I've always figured that the main thing limiting video games is their separation from real social systems and economies. As an adult, you generally cannot justify spending a lot of time on something that will not improve your life. I was a big fan of League of Legends because of the extended community and esports scene. I made a lot of people in real life that played the game and also made a lot of money playing it so there was an incentive to be heavily involved with the game. I also consider Instagram as a sort of AR video game. I think its extremely similar to something like Pokemon Go because it incentives going out and exploring real life and gamifies this(generally you gain more followers/likes the cooler your real-life content is.) I'm sure the next versions of this are gonna be even cooler. I never understood why nerd communities rejected social media so much, to me Instagram is the start of the revenge of the nerds. One of the first platforms where staying inside and theory-crafting the platform could get you real-life success and girls.

Why on earth would a PhD be a credible thing? For an institution to credit you as an expert of their field you need to fulfill their expectations of knowledge in the field and then perhaps go 10-20% further. Any more then that and you would start to confuse them and you would be censored and ridiculed. I would go as far as to say if you have a PhD then by definition you can't really be doing groundbreaking research.

Filmmaking is very emotionally difficult. Especially the editing part and being able to judge your own work, having the mental strength to put the project together and respect deadlines, booking your clients and getting sales, etc. You say you haven't gotten much done, which step are you stuck at?

I mean his claim that the media is owned by Jewish organizations isn't too far-fetched. A lot of these corporations are run by Rothchilds and similar families. He should've singled them out rather than lump together "the Jews" as those oligarchs don't have much in common with the average Jewish person but fundamentally it's not too crazy of a point.

Why is the pedophile issue so popular? I'm not sure about the numbers but it doesn't seem to be the most prevalent thing causing harm in our society. Is it because it's so outrageous that it keeps getting brought up?

Thank you for the reply. I'm not really too familiar with manifestation(which is what I assume you're referring to) which I'm gonna consider as optimism. I think the most reliable ways to trust in the future is to understand how the systems we have now currently work and the issues with them. The point is not to come up with a doomsday scenario but to see how the world has been, how it's now, how it could go and how we can address that. If we understand how wealth and business have progressed then switching to a more widespread decentralized freelancing/startup industry seems like the next logical step rather than a full-on socialist/Ubi revolution coming from nowhere. This is especially backed up by the coming recessions and global conflicts meaning that big western states will not have the leisure to spend free money on their populace. I predict that the economic and geopolitical conflicts will start ramping up next year and last throughout the 2020s. 2030s will see new tech kind of solidify itself and we can expect more calm, peace, and a return to growth in the mid-2030s and 2040s. To me studying, understanding, and preparing for these scenarios gives me great peace and comfort instead of being in a cloud of uncertainty, naively hoping for the best at any time, and being decimated by tragic events that I would have no way to predict. I feel like believing too much in manifestation seems to be a bit like magical thinking to me, I manifest by being prepared for the future and being ready for the opportunities it's gonna present to me.

What does it have to do with an escape from accountability? It's a decentralization of central banking and digitalization of asset classes. Very few people have ever had their wallets hacked/stolen, definitely way lower than people's online banking/credit cards getting stolen. A lot of people have lost money stored on exchanges but that's a whole different story. You're undereducated on the subject and exactly the kind of person that will regret not understanding this technology.

@Razard86 I mean you're taking it a bit too literally. Self-made just means built their own companies themselves without being handed down wealth or having their businesses massively subsidized(there's a line here, you can argue this one a lot of ways.) A good example is the new crypto/blockchain/metaverse revolution that's gonna happen in the next 5-10 years. It's already easy to predict that this is gonna be a new gold rush and plenty of people are gonna become millionaires/billionaires from it. Then there are those that complain now that's its a scam and will complain in 10 years that it's unfair when thousands become rich from it while they haven't gotten much out of the opportunity.

This is a win for progressivism worldwide and also environmentally as well. Bolsonaro had really industrially destructive plans for the rainforest and Lula is much more environmentally friendly. The amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and thus impacts literally everyone on earth. https://twitter.com/i/events/1586365341487308800 Congrats Brazil, will have to come visit you guys soon.

Christian Leblanc and his business Lost Leblanc He graduated college and worked as an accountant in Toronto and figured out it was miserable and not for him. He flew to Thailand with a GoPro and started posting content. Now his business generates 7-8 figures and he has a community where he mentors people on how to be traveling content creators. He's fully financially independent and travels the world and is now building his own custom villa in Bali that will serve as a community compound and rental property when he's not there. In terms of lifestyle design and life purpose, I'd say he's pretty up there. Get to do what you want, wherever you want, and develop a community around it. He also has a girlfriend that he travels with and shoots with so he's got the relationship department going pretty good as well.

I like girls like that, as long as they've healed from it and are able now to act in their own best interest. Life isn't always simple and I admire those who manage to get through. Not everyone has a rosy peachy life and I see the women that get through that without losing their sanity as warrior princesses.

I would just like to say I empathize with self-shame regarding materialistic pursuits. Mine wasn't caused by Owen and I don't necessarily think yours was caused by him either possibly just awakened. This seems to be a strange feature of the human race. Most religious people have this where they think extramarital sex will cause them to literally burn in hell for eternity so I think you're not doing too bad. I don't actually understand where this is coming from but it's very deep in our psyche. I have huge self-doubts and overthinking when it comes to my motivations when it comes to things like masturbation, porn and money as well. It causes me to examine my thoughts and actions over and over again which is good because I try to choose the wisest path but it also comes with a lot of self-demonization and anxiety. I literally feel physical sensations as if my body was fighting against "negative energy." You're definitely not alone in this.

Money is the accumulation of human work and value. Have enough of it and other people will work for you. Have not enough of it and you will have to work for other people. Jobs suck because other people have a monopoly on all of the world's resources and they make you work legal slavery to maintain it. You need to invent a winning hand in someone else's game basically.

@Yarco This is why the market averages out things relatively well by giving it an economic value. This is gonna become even more accurate when central banks lose some of their power. Those activities that you mentioned are great but are niche whereas there is an almost accurate objective value that a human brings to the global economy. Onlyfans is a fascinating study into a woman's sexual value translated into economics, and for the well-marketed hot ones that goes for about $1.5M/monthly. You can consider only fans a woman dating mankind in general instead of just an individual man.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JRAlli has good tutorials on making top-notch cinematic content. For real though, just start and post. It's not the knowledge that's limiting you but the limiting beliefs. You just youtube how to make a youtube video and any of the videos are good enough. It's not making a youtube video that's hard, it's making 100 of them.

Depends on what your goals are and what lifestyle you wish to have. My dad has rental properties and tenants and renovations are a pain in the ass so I would never go down that path. Makes it hard to travel for long periods of time too. If you plan on staying in the same place and you're satisfied with your lifestyle then your net worth doesn't really matter as long as you can maintain your expenses indefinitely. If you aim to keep building businesses or live a more extravagant lifestyle then that question matters a bit more. Net worth itself is a fairly useless measure of lifestyle. Plenty of people worth 7-8 figures are not liquid enough to enjoy a peaceful leisure-filled life.

Get a nice place(ideally with a hot tub) right next to the biggest game venue near you so you can point to it and say "hey come over, I live 30 seconds away." Do trauma releases and look into divine feminine meditations so you can effortlessly be vulnerable and connect to women on an emotional level.

Do you have another source other than Fox News? And foreign spies are nothing new, Soviet spies and American CIA assets learning Russian have been a thing for decades. I would be shocked if any moderately relevant country didn't have people inside of every other moderately relevant country. Who are these people even loyal to though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL8r1DH1Hw8 The most interesting thing to me about China is the various factions and groups surely vying for power behind the scenes. The CCP itself isn't a very united entity, it's just held together by destroying anyone that openly questions/opposes it.

@Heart of Space For someone trying to make a point for intelligence, you make quite remarkably stupid points. This is not a personal attack, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, your original posts and all your following comments fit the 5 definitions of the word stupid. I actually agree that we should open up controversial topics for discussion but none of your arguments stand the test of scrutiny. Are you aware of how the metric of IQ is defined and how it was invented in the first place? You didn't really answer Leo's point on how you can't judge a group in a vacuum, you have to access the history of that subgroup. What's your answer to the Japanese having higher IQ than white western countries? How do you even define a race? Do you judge the anglo Saxons the same as the white Eurasians? They have drastically different average IQ scores. What do you even consider black? Are black Brazilians included in this? You would at least think that if you're trying to make an argument for intellectualism you would cover your bases.

@Leo Gura Do you enjoy debating endlessly with people that won't ever get your points? I feel like it'd be easier just to make a cult with a small following of people you handpick. I admire the calling, it's truly selfless I don't think I could teach people. I get irritated by illogicality too much.