A relationship is where you're committed to helping and improving each others lives. If you just stay in the early dating phase and don't go further you are basically just spending time together and fucking, but have no real investment in the other persons live besides maybe hearing about it.
The pros are you can actually build something together and have someone (hopefully) reliable in your life. The cons are you lose a lot of your freedom.

Salvia produces a degree of no-self that is so radical it is terrifying. You will not be able to remember your own name or how you were born.
If you want to truly understand madness, salvia is your gal

Stan Grof wrote entire books about "spiritual emergencies" and "spiritual crises".
This is very, very common in the spiritual world. If you're going to practice hardcore spirituality you will almost certainly face a spiritual emergency at some point if you go deep enough. Many people don't go deep enough so they don't understand. And this is not exclusive to psychedelics. Hardcore meditation can be just as challenging.
Smoke enough salvia and you'll have a spiritual emergency, I promise. Salvia will scare the living daylight out of you. It will wipe away your whole reality within seconds and you will cry for mommy like a little girl. And there will be no mercy with salvia. It will not treat you with kid gloves like some other psychedelics. Just as you're begging for mercy it will rip your face off.

Online dating will leave at least 50% of men with nothing.
Social circle requires building one, which can be harder than pickup.

25 is pretty late. The longer you push it off the harder it will get. 25 is the perfect age to start solving this problem.
You need to start socializing every weekend consistently.

@The Redeemer Most normies will not do game. You need to find likeminded guys and wings through online forums and such.
Solo is very challenging when starting out.
A good way to find wings is at pickup seminars. I don't know if RSD still does freetours but those were a great place to meet local wings.

It will only get harder with age.
Socializing it quite fun once you get into it.

I am talking about professional photos, not some potato phone selfie pics.
You cannot manipulate the fundamentals of your looks.
If you have shit pics just because you took lazy pics, that's on you of course. But I am talking about 100% optimal pics.
You have to understand that all these pickup coaches are biased. They don't care about truth, they tell you whatever sells their services. They themselves don't understand that they are self-deceived. Because it would invalidate their business.
It's pointless to theorize about this. Just go test it.
Look at Owen from RSD. He does zero online game. Why? Because it's obvious to him that he will never get a hot girl through online given his looks. But in-person he can do well with his charisma.
If your goal is to find yourself the one dream girlfriend, online game is gonna be your worst option because that's the lowest quality girl you can get. If your goal is just to sleep with a bunch of random girls, online is perfect for that.

No, it's simply because you don't socialize.
Stop inventing excuses when the answer is always you.

Hence the gainz in skillz.
Nothing makes a soldier like hand to hand combat in the trenches on the front lines.

From day one. But after about 2500 I got tired and stopped counting.
You got a lot of negative, limiting beliefs about women which will make it impossible for you to have a health relationship with them.
Sadly you are only shooting yourself in the foot here.
Setting boundaries with women is a given thing you will do. There is no need to posture or flex about it, or turn it into anything political. You are politicizing women. The vast majority of women are simply apolitical and don't care about politics at all. I can count on one hand the number of times of those 5000 women where we talked or disagreed about politics.
One of your biggest mistakes in all this is that you fundamentally don't respect women.

That's just not true. You're living in a fantasy.
I doubt you've even been deeply intimate with one woman. So you're just speculating.
I promise you that your view of women is false, badly distorted by your biases and social media consumption.
I've talked to over 5000 women, so I am not speculating. I have very wide experience with women and I know how they operate very well.

I have talked to somewhere close to 5000 girls. I have never been in a fight.

Scientists are like women, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em

What happens with the solipsism thing is that you spend a lot of time in denial about it. Then you feel depressed and bothered by it. And then eventually you become so conscious you stop even thinking about it and just enjoy being conscious. Ruminating about the downsides of solipsism is a kind of delusion which you must transcend.
Nothing about GOD can be bad. That's AWAKENING.

Enlightenment certainly does not obviate stage development. Ken Wilber is right to stress this point.

@mr_engineer Dude, stop worring about long-term relationships. Sleep with some women first.
You are putting the cart before the horse.

Ken Wilber has done amazing work though. He's one of the few philosophers who have a clue what reality is.
Anyone who would dismiss the insane value in Ken Wilber's work is not serous.
You just have to never forget that all models are limited. As far as explaining general human behavior we have no better models as far as I have seen. So really the burden is on any critic to provide a better model.
If you think Spiral Dynamics is bad, you tell us a model that's better, or pipe down with your whining.

You are being way too logical with these girls. You have to stop taking the things they say seriously and just be very playful and emotional and sexual with them.
And def stop listening when they tell you they want a nice guy or whatever.
It takes a few years and lots of practice to develop a sense of humor. It's worth the effort.

Stop caring what any girl calls you. Don't take it seriously. It's just a joke.

Online dating is a scam unless you got great looks or no standards.

Why would you want that?
Being valued for your beauty is the greatest curse.

You simply need to learn to socialize.
You are overthinking all this.
If you went out regularly and socialized, you would get laid.
No amount of your theorizing will change the simple fact that you need to start going out a lot.
You can either sit there and stew in resentment and self-loathing, or you can just muster the balls to go out and socialize.

You are trying to reduce this whole thing to a money, status, looks thing, which is very shallow and will get you very stuck.

It's not merely some blind optimism, you need to build a rock solid inner game grounded in core principles.
That produces massive improvement in results.