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@Antor8188 Also, I'm currently doing Nofap and am on day 11. I've also done a number of test runs with this Nofap challenge, with their different modes. I've verified, in my direct experience, several of their long lists of benefits. One of them, ironically, is that it does boost your energy, and makes you hornier than normal. In such a situation, I can see how that can add more motivation towards dating women, because a person who has light, moderate and heavy addiction to watching porn, and has a moderate to high frequency of masturbating and ejaculation, when they discipline themselves into abstaining from masturbating to pornography, will be far more likely to engage with the entire dating process. Some men in such a state would likely have to do frequent dates, or find some other interest and hobbies to channel their attention to. There are more that I've discovered that work and don't work, but I'll be sharing them later. In short, to answer your question, if you want to date, and you are in an ideal situation in your life to support that pursuit, then yes Nofap can give some extra motivation.

@Antor8188 What do you mean that masturbating would make you less attractive?

Hahaha. If only that was the case.

@DocWatts Yes, this is a slow but solid path to growing into spirituality. I can see someone similar to Glink, who already has a world view tied in accepting the possibility, but that's assuming such a person also does the practices and isn't just believing what he/she wants to hear, which can become a problem later. Someone like Mr. Girl, who seems to be strongly atheistic despite being contrarian and has some capacity to hold meta conversations, doesn't seem to be open enough to consider the possibility, which is also tied to him not even taking a psychedelic as well. Someone like Destiny is also another unique problem, in that yes he also has had psychedelic experiences, but he also has had dealt a traumatic one where he seemed, despite what the video showed, hasn't fully recovered from that past experience. In fact, I'd assume here, without those bad trips, I think in this video he would've sided more with Glink and tried more harder to steelman his argument over Mr. Girl's argument.

Yes, Ukraine won first place, and UK second. Spain came 3rd.

@Raptorsin7 Naturally, a consequence of a false accusation, is like crying the wolf. At some point, nobody is gonna take an accusation seriously when and if there is a growing rate of false accusations. There was also a Youtuber who did similar, except he flagged other channels that gave a solid critique and that disagreed with him, copy right claims.

Do you guys think it's just business as usual, or karmic? What I mean by karmic, that Netflix might get the blockbuster treatment.

@MarkKol Sounds like you are doing ok with contemplating work ethic. For a refresher, go and rewatch and note take Leo's contemplation using the mind, and contemplation using a journal, the 64 most fascinating questions, what are questions video, and the different levels of comprehension. Those 5 will get you started. If you follow what each video suggests to do, especially the contemplation using a journal, it's solid for the most part. It's common, in the beginning to middle of contemplating to be distracted by various things, by things around you, or by answers to your question. Give your mind permission to wonder about the main question, let it explore many answers, and try not to get too distrated by what's around you unless it's relevant to what you're contemplating. While concentration and contemplation are mostly different, what is useful about concentration exercises is that it teaches you to bring back focus to the focal point, or whatever you were focusing on for that exercise. Very similar to contemplating, but you have more wiggle room to be looser, as long as it's related to the main question. I personally use a modified version of Leo's method. My take involves less listing or worded questions, and includes imaging as part of the contemplation process. If I have some time I would draw the question, and draw out some of the answers. This way helps me overcome times when sometimes the process becomes boring and dry to me.

After some time of watching this again, they did make a few good points, it's just way too devising for my take. Joe Rogan and TYT should come together and talk it out.

This, right here, is one example of why I hate TYT. While they are progressives, how they speak and communicate with their body language makes them look too hubris and prideful with their political takes. Too emotional and reactive with little logic to sequence ways of actually helping people instead. There are better progressives out there with more sane takes of the political situation than TYT.

Such devotion, commitment and vision. 40 years of playing D&D, and running a campaign that lasted that long.

@Antor8188 Yes, while approaching other women. On days you aren't approaching, you should analyse past cold approaches, and do visualization and positive affirmations of successful dates, and sex, while being comfortable being a player. When you can do, cold approach. Rinse and repeat the theorizing and practicing until you can easily do this.

@Someone here I probably agree that it's a good idea to showcase healthier forms of leisure and entertainment here online. It seems like sime people struggle with what is good banter versus what is trolling, while intending to be funny but worded in a wrong way. A sub forum where it's just entertainment discussions and pop culture might be a good idea to show, again, healthier ways of being funny through text.

@Realms of Wonder My perspective, and I've experienced this before, is that trying to tackle multiple things, aka multi tasking, compared to doing one thing with near singular focus, I tend to do much better single tasking versus multitasking. However, it will depend on many things at that time, so one example from me, is that I have a different way of contemplating things and topics, where I switch between focusing on that thing, to focusing on multiple things to generate many answers, so in this case it ways slightly better to sort of myltiplex my focus than to singularly focus. In most cases, an intuitive feeling is mostly right, so go with that for a while until you feel secure, confident, happy and satisfied your creativity enough, that you could affird to focus more on your dating. Don't jump immediately into dating when it doesn't feel right, when you are not secure enough or confident enough. Same goes for multiple other contexts in your life, don't go against your intuition if you can help it.

@EternalForest A bit of both. In the beginning, when you don't know much about scientific concepts, there's still some wonder, but as you continue to learn more concepts, that initial wonder begins to wane, until it's dry and boring logic. And of course, when a new discovery is made in a scientific field, it reignites that wonder, until the cycle once again makes it mundane. That process is what put me off of science as a whole. When I was a kid, after watching Jurassic Park, I took a liking to dinosaurs, to the point that I accumulated dinosaur toys, books and even drove myself to read some scientific books about dinosaurs. It wasn't the facts, numbers or the sophisticated wording that explains those dinosaurs that made me like them, it was the presentation, the art and other subjective experiences about dinosaurs that made me imagine those creatures in my mind, that was the main factor, not the dry logic behind them. Good rule of thumb, if you want to be a scientist, or be successful in life, lead with the right brain more than the left.

I think they even have a documentary about Elon Musk taking over Twitter.

@Scholar I think Leo's all good with what he's doing currently. The Buddha was an exception, as he was reported to be amazing at debating other spiritual masters, however the skills of debating do take time and effort to develop, and if Leo says he lacks those levels of debating as a way to get people to pursue spirituality or consider it and self actualization, then he has to work with what skills he has. Debating is not necessarily the only way to arrive at truth. Also, Mr. Girl, despite his open mindedness and empathy, is not ready for spirituality, let alone a discussion of it as he's strongly an atheist and is a part troll, and too many shadows to work through. Destiny is more likely to be open, but my impression from him was that he got scarred from whatever psychedelic trip he had that he is settled to label those experiences as hallucinatory. Glink is just parroting spiritual and psychedelic talking points with little practices and experiences to ground those theories into being. In a simple conclusion, Leo Gura is far superior compared to Mr. Girl, Destiny and Glink that he'd eat them for breakfast.

@Carl-Richard OH ok then @Scholar beat me to it. You can lock the thread then, I'll be heading there.

The litmus test in question, is their topic discussion about spirituality, psychedelics, and some about the paranormal. Both Destiny and Mr. Girl are falling for the pre/trans fallacy pretty hard, that it has re contextualized my take about where both Destiny and Mr. Girl is at in the spiral, in terms, of stages, cognitive and moral development, personality traits and their life experiences so far regarding the topic. Glink I'm not too concerned for, still sucks rhetorically, repeating new age talking points without adding something new, and still can't drop his conflict with pornography discussion he had with Mr. Girl, but I appreciate his effort to talking about spirituality and psychedelics in the online stream bubble, kinda reminded me of Deeprak Chopra and Sam Harris, Sam Harris is right in the short term and rhetorically, but Chopra is right in the long, long long term. However, this shouldn't detrack from Destiny and Mr. Girl, they are amazing in their own domains of life with the skills they have gained. What are you thoughts, after watching the whole thing?

@Space I've had similar issues with what you've gone through, have some heart issues and irregular heart beats, was subtle after the first dose of Pfizer, but more noticeable after the second dose. Not saying the vaccine was a direct cause, more an indirect cause to a probably underlying health issue I've had but not have had recently from those spiked proteins. Maybe my bouba biased ego hates kikki stuff. Done various tests on my blood, came back with slightly high blood sugar and pressure, and I eat a balanced diet, not as super clean or optimized like some people here who are on a vegan diet, raw food diet, carnivore or so on, but enough that that alone helped me lose some weight and gained a few pounds of muscle while being on a balanced diet. My sleep schedule was ok, again not optimized but am getting the 7-9 hours of sleep I need. The likely culprit, for me, was probably my fitness routine, which is largely isometrics, very slow reps, and occasional heavy lifting and cardio work. However, I've had to lover my usual frequency, 4x a week, to 2 to 1x a week due to my heart issue. All psychedelics, natural or synthetic based, will stimulate the body's various systems, mainly the nervous system. Yes, sometimes the body's heart will get more stimulated to beat higher range. This is obviously because experiencing psychedelics is a radical peak experience not normally accessed by the body and mind by default. In such a case, I would run a basic check up with myself, note any body or mind problems that could influence a likely bad trip, and take a measure of my heart rate before and after tripping. In most cases, my heart rate was elevated afterwards. My general advice is to take a break and do some basic body and mind R&R, until you feel closer to 100 percent, before taking psychedelics, and do check and research what could be causing you these other issues Of course, my body is different from yours, but it's always a good idea to do basic checks prior to tripping. Hopefully this helps a bit. Take care!

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@Hardkill It does make sense. Ask a progressive to stop identifying as a progressive. They can't, and won't let that image go, unless they were exposed to some spirituality earlier in their life that they could intuit that letting go of that self image is better. It's like me asking you to stop being a conservative, or is it a democrat? I don't know, it's such there's so much time, energy and emotional labor put into maintaining that role that giving it up is a bitter experience.

@something_else Furthermore, it's sort of taken out of context. Hive mind is a description of a super organism in nature, that each member has precise roles to fulfill in it's colony, aka the ants, wasps, bees ect. I know that 'hive mind in this context refers to the group think that can permeate the online spaces and forums the lower standards of moderation, but they're not really super organisms. For example, the A.I robots in The Matrix movies, is a good fictional example of a hive mind, that has both elements of a decentralized system with a centralizing A.I that rules over every hardware and software of both the real world matrix, and the virtual matrix.

@Leo Gura I have finally found the comment! It must have been that night mode was on, which made the background screen colours dark grey, and your profile pic was nearly a perfect camouflage. I looked closely at @zurew image of your comment, and just followed the date until I saw it. With that out of the way, we can now focus on issues with moderations. I'm already seeing a few here with leanings towards anarchism and libertarianism. I immediately see a problem, because from what I've learnt of world history, I have yet to see examples of such libertarian societies flourishing long enough to become empires, and to eventually become civilizations. And not only that, if there were such societies, they didn't last that long, so the only valid conclusion I can draw from why there's this libertarian and anarchistic bend, in particular in online websites that have an online forum and online communities, is that such people are nested and secure inside a big, functioning society, for them to get away with what they say and write to some degree in such spaces, that there's this wiggle room for some degree of selfishness to be expressed.

@Hardkill When you think about it long enough, he's technically right, as most progressives will not abandon their self image as the progressive, so the logical thing to do, is to conserve that self image, hence they are conservatives in disguise, in denial that they must conserve their role as person in society. Of course, they aren't literally right wing conservatives all along