@Podie45 What this situation is showing you is that you haven't found your niche in life yet.
Finding your niche is a journey and an ordeal. Don't give up and don't settle for a dead end job. You can get a wage job to hold you over but your eyes must be towards finding your niche, where the work you do fits your values and your talents.
You have to think outside the box. I knew a guy who was a nature hiking guide in Wyoming or Montana. He lived a simple life in mountains and in the summers he would give hiking and canoo tours to tourists.
Find your niche. It doesn't have to be in the city.
I knew another guy who quit Wall Street to travel around the country doing Japanese swordfighting and Zen meditation. He lived and slept out of his van. He made money as a roving massage therapist.

Obviously yes. Nothing I say goes against that.
The point is to make yourself so attractive that she is begging to have sex with you.
BUT, this does not mean you don't lead her proactively into it. Leading is still very important.
You're not going to logically persuade a girl to have sex with you anyways.
But sometimes she can be hesitant. You gotta make her comfortable.
Lead, lead, lead. Then if she says No, you of course back off.
Most weak guys give up way too soon. So for such guys it is good advice to burn every set to the ground. Make her tell you NO! Push it to see what you can get away with. This does not mean forcing yourself on her, but be persistent. This is not really necessary in normal dating situations, but if you are hitting the bars and clubs and doing cold approach and SNLs, then you gotta get good at dealing with all the BS obstacles and logistics. If you are doing casual dating from your social circle then such things are not necessary. But in a place like Vegas you gotta burn every set to the ground and push the envelope.

No
All my work is backed up due to health issues. Whenever those are resolved is when more work will get done. There are no guarantees of anything at this point.

Stop consuming all junk food and sweet drinks. Simple.
You are poisoning your body and ruining your health. It will catch up with you. You're at the age where that shit ain't free any more.

@AlwaysJoggin The solution is to stop being needy and develop abundance.
The harsh truth you don't want to accept is that you're needy. Which is why this whole thing bothers you. And she probably smelled it off you and ran away.
The only thing that will lose you girls faster than neediness is creepiness. Girls know how to sniff out neediness the way pigs sniff out truffles. She sniffed you out for a week or two and found you lacking.
You will keep losing girls until you bite the bullet and grow into a stronger man with some balls.

Nah, that don't mean shit.
Nah, they don't owe you sex. That is your agenda, not her's.
 

Hehe....
That's how women are.
Which is why you never invest in a woman before sex.

Ignorance is bliss -- in the short term.
But also, don't underestimate how bad your friends' lives are. Your friends are miserable deep down and their lives are a house of cards which can easily get knocked over.
They have been practicing mindlessness. That's why. When you don't contemplate life, life is easier. You just live like animal.
Takes years and decades to develop that.
It is a mistake to compare yourself to others, compare yourself to your old self.
No! They are morons. Which, oddly, makes them happier.
Living a contemplative life is hard.
Which is why your friends aren't doing it.
The reality is that you have hardly even begun to do consciousness work. You think you're doing it, but you've only dipped your toe in the water, hence you don't have much results.
If you are going to pursue a conscious life, you have to hold yourself to very different standards than average people. You take on WAY more responsibility.
But also: Don't forget to have fun too! Don't be too serious about life.

I'm telling you, the vast majority of spirituality is genetic. Doubt me if you want, but it is what it is.
It's the elephant in the room no teacher dare speak. Yet the facts bear it out. It's not for lack of techniques that creatures lack God-realization. If you are born an ant, you're fucked.
Simple and obvious really. You just don't want to accept it. And none of your rationales or excuses will change this.
But hey, I will not try to debate it or prove it to you. Find out for yourselves.

If you are an ectomorph, of course.
If you eat a whole foods based diet it's hard to get fat. Getting fat mostly comes from eating processed foods which are super calorie dense, nutrient dense, and addictive. Like cookies.
Most fat people eat junk food. That's why they fat. And most of that junk food is refined carbs.

You didn't really ask any clear questions. So how can you expect to get clear answers? You just sort of rambled on about your life. To get quality advice you must ask quality questions.
Yes, this is good and you should pursue that. Build your life. Build a custom life that suits you.
If sounds like you need basic self-help work more than spiritual work. Ground yourself in real life and discipline yourself to create material results.

Spirituality is like 95% genetics and 5% techniques. Gurus don't tell you this cause it's bad for business.
If you doubt this, take a look at a donkey. How many spiritual donkeys do you know? It ain't for lack of technique.
If not for this, everyone would be awake and humans wouldn't be so dumb. It's hard to fix stupid with a technique. That's the bottom line.

The point of this thread is that men are luckier than women, because it's easier for a man to raise his sexual value.
Takes lots of work though.
Exceptionally physically good-looking men and women alike get special treatment. This has always been the case and will always be the case. It is like being born to a millionaire family. It is a rare gift that lands in your lap. And if you get it, you will certainly use it to advance your survival.

@Godishere Most serious spiritual teachers are exceptionally gifted. They do not have a normie brian or neurochemistry. Which is why they rose to the level of a teacher. They are worldclass people.
There is a good reason why less than 0.0001% of the planet is awake. Most folk simply lack the hardware to do it. Psychedelics help bridge that gap.
Some people are basically born mystics and enlightened. Some do zero work to get it. It's like being born with a huge cock. Yeah, a guy born with a footlong cock doesn't need any pills. But is that you?

It's true that it is easier for a man to increase his attractiveness simply because women are less attracted to looks than men are.
It's easier to change your personality, status, wealth, and game than your looks. But even so, it's still not easy and most guys are too lazy to do it.

The James Bond approach is too passive. James Bond is a fictional character who magically attracts the best pussy by just standing around and looking sharp. This is every guy's FANTASY. It does not work in the real world unless you're a celebrity. An ordinary guy has to be much more active about approaching girls and dealing with lots of rejection.
When there are 200 guys at the club, if you just stand around acting cool, waiting for a girl to notice you, you'll get nowhere because nothing about you stands out and other guys are being active and emotionally stimulating the girls. The girls want to be emotionally stimulated.
You'll get more girls by being silly than acting cool.

Yes, being chill, nonreactive, detached, and masculine is all good and important. But while doing those things you must actively approach, and you should be more emotional, silly, and playful.
Half James Bond, half clown.
PLAYFULNESS is the #1 key to game. James Bond is too fucking serious.
The problem is that girls will not give you the same attention Bond gets. Because Bond is fiction. No guy gets that kind of attention automatically without being a celebrity. So you have to grab her attention and keep it captivated with effort.

@machiavelli BTW, it's every easy for you to validate the things I say.
All you gotta do is a big dose of DPT, if you dare
Why all this talk when you can take concrete action? My work is not about empty talk. I give you concrete methods to empirically validate all my metaphysical claims. The only question is whether you have the balls to do it.
My work is purely scientific. I gave you all my lab methods. But are you willing to do the labwork?

Naturally. Everything is always improving in the long-term.
Sorry, I don't buy this logic.
Running from/fighting with cops is a very bad idea no matter what color you are, but especially if you black. It's dangerous all around. And even if you are black the statistical chances of you being killed by a cop while arrested is like 1 per million if you don't try to flee. So fleeing is just the dumbest possible idea. It shouldn't get you killed, but that is legit a risk.
Being sloppy is not an excuse, it is what happened. People make mistakes. I'm sure she feels like shit about it. And she will still be tried for manslaughter. It is manslaughter but I would not hold her morally guilty for murder because she obviously made a simple mistake, which all of us are capable of on the job.
She worked under pressure for years. And today she made 1 simple mistake, which will be the worst mistake of her life. I'm sure she will regret it for the rest of her life. It's tragic on both sides. But that's life. If she gets a sentence I prose it should be very light.

You dress like a boy.
Start dressing sharp, like a man:

 

Not if you're a Boomer
Remember to give Boomers some leeway with their outdated Boomer ways. You'll be glad you did once you turn into a Boomer yourself.

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you." -- Werner Heisenberg
@trenton Maybe you should actually study the greatest scientists
There is nothing scientific about atheism, rationalism, materialism, or realism. It's all pure fantasy.
If you actually start questioning reality you will see that 50% of sicence is bullshit.

You gotta factor in inflation. Inflation will cause both stock values and house values to rise.
The whole point of a house is that it's an inflation hedge. That's mostly why I bought my house.

@Roy
1) Dan Crenshaw's eye is the least funny thing about him. No need to stoop to such lows when we got the stupidity of his ideology to work with.
2) Keep in mind Vaush is still in his late 20's. He's basically a big teen. He will mature a lot over the next 10-20 years. Considering his age he's doing pretty well. When I was his age I was so immature and dumb. Age matters A LOT.

There is an epic difference though between your normal interactions with your parents and you being conscious that you imagined them.
The difference is shockingly huge. It's fucking freaky. Most normies would think they've lost their minds if it happened to them.
But I highly recommend it