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And by the way, notice how the almighty fact-checkers, who are God's messengers, apparently, as far as us mere mortal humans are concerned, get lost in the content and don't focus on the structure. They do this deliberately, to push their narrative!

How many people you know have died? Do you actually know people or is it just the media? From those, how many had pre-existing conditions? Even if 1% die, let's say tens of millions of people, that does not warrant this reaction. The CDC numbers said that the survival-rate was 99.98% or something! Notice how they try to scare you with 'number of cases'. Show me the percentage, man! If you have a percentage, okay fine, it is a 'pandemic'. Then I'm somewhat convinced. https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-survival-rate-less-998/ Here's a 'fact-checker' on this. They are the almighty FACT-CHECKERS of all people, right?! You would trust them as the ultimate authority, the ultimate source of information, right?! They are even above your 'experts and doctors' because they censor the experts, doctors who have some brain-cells. I mean, to say that your facts are the right ones and that other people's facts are 'anecdotal' means to have the ultimate epistemic authority, right?! There you go.

The lockdown rules and social-distancing rules are passed by the government, not by anti-vaxxers. Also, you're talking about this as if 'you take the vaccine and all rules get lifted'. What if they say you need a second booster-shot? Then a third one? Then a fourth one? Because there's the delta^n variant? They will show you the dream of 'just take the vax and have all rules be lifted'. Keep dreaming, sir! It's never gonna happen. You should be thankful that anti-vaxxers are trying to save you from this fate! I think you're on the wrong side.

Would it be fine to destroy the economy, destroy small businesses, destroy your currency over car accidents? Is that justifiable? Do you know how many people will die because of this? Many many more than those from COVID, I can tell you that much.

Lol. I can relate. Is that bad?!

That's not what I said. I meant, the narrative. If the media didn't hype it up, would you even know it exists? How do you know it was COVID? Who told you that? It's the confirmation-biased medical establishment, right?! In his video, Deconstructing the myth of science, Part 2, Leo talked about the under-determination problem, in which you can use the same 'facts' and come up with an equally valid theory that's the exact opposite of the one you hold! Science is not exempt from this. The pharma-industry just creates the narrative that helps them profit the most! Marketing 101. No conspiracy-theories here. Just asking questions and looking at facts about how the mind works! And how philosophy works.

Unless, you find a way to go completely off-grid. You stop using their money, you grow your own food, you live in an intentional community, you stop watching TV and boom! COVID doesn't exist anymore, all of a sudden. Think about this - Where did you get the idea that there is such a thing as COVID? If no one on TV scared you about it, would you even 'know' it exists?

@Preety_India Work on your attachment-style and attachment-relationships. This is something no one else will tell you - as Indians, we have been conditioned to be enslaved to the system of arranged-marriage. It's like wage-slavery, let's call it 'attachment-figure slavery'. It's a similar thing. Our entire upbringing has been geared towards being a good fit as a prospect for arranged-marriage, we are raised in a society that's literally built on this system. The right thing to do, before getting into dating or something, is to break out of that conditioning. This is the whole reason why I haven't dated yet! I have been working on this conditioning and developing a new attachment-style. To break out of this 'attachment-figure slavery' and to really get into dating is like breaking out of wage-slavery and starting your own business! It's analogous to that.

In my opinion, Steve Jobs is a very good example of a billionaire who truly had an amazing Life Purpose. One of the most well-respected entrepreneurs who has inspired millions and is held as an icon among entrepreneurs. He has literally revolutionized the way business is done. The way entrepreneurs think is deeply impacted by him. He is also a very good counter-example to OP's 'psychopath' theory! Some of them, like Steve Jobs, are just out there to change the world! Not for the billions. I would not be surprised if this were the case for someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. A big caveat about business in general - if you want to be a good marketer, you do not have the luxury of being a psychopath. You need to be able to understand what your market needs. People who have only done left-brained technical work tend to project this onto the big entrepreneurs, they tend to project this image of 'lizard-people way smarter than us, with way more IQ-points, better with computers than us' when this is not the case at all!

The problem of hunger is actually a much harder problem to solve than achieving World Peace. I think we should first focus on achieving World Peace because only then can our solutions to the hunger-problem be sustainable!

@SQAAD You can, technically, become a billionaire if that is what you want. If that is where your Life Purpose takes you. At those high levels, life just isn't easy in general. You have to make tough decisions, you literally decide who lives and who dies. If you are in your Life Purpose though, you will have principles higher than you guiding you in making those decisions. As a human, yeah, you may come across as a psychopath to the world. To your critics. But, if you are in your Life Purpose, the overall legacy you leave behind will be something you deliberately choose! You can choose it to be something that is a net positive.

@Emerald I agree with you. To add to what you're saying, all of this is the sad reality of dating at Stage Orange. If we move up to Stage Green, things just look different! I wanted to say the same to @assx95 on his thread on 'the future for men being fucked'. All of this redpill, blackpill, hyper-analysis is because you're at Stage Orange relative to dating. You move up to Green, things look completely different!

This is the wrong question to ask on this forum. We don't do that here!

Man, if I were you, I would create an entire course on this. What epistemic dysfunctions our education-system causes and how to re-wire your epistemology and think for yourself if you're out of the factory-farmed education-system. Heck, I may do this myself! Because I can. I honestly believe that there is nothing more important for us, as a society, than to critically look at the education-system. It is, hands-down, the highest-leverage point to create permanent change in society.

One of the best Leo videos. To perfectly encapsulate the house of cards that society is in 3 hours is pretty remarkable!

Well, low-hanging fruit doesn't hurt! Sexual experience doesn't hurt, you will not regret it at all. And, hanging out with your friends doesn't hurt at all. It's normal! Being normal is okay. Nothing morally wrong with it. Having friends becomes harder with time. Having relationships becomes harder with time. With time, you'll see that no amount of success will compensate for loneliness or lack of good relationships! Money will not make you happy either. The point being, don't waste these opportunities for socializing you get in your teen-years if you like and fit in with your friends. Even if you're doing nothing productive at a party! However, if you feel like your time is getting wasted with them, if you don't really like them or fit in with them, if you have some goal that you're procrastinating taking action towards and your addiction to spending time with your friends and partying is getting in the way, that's a different story. Then, everything that Leo says about Life Purpose and self-actualization applies to your situation. If you want to rise above the norm, if you aren't happy with the 'normal life' that society offers you, if you want more, then you have to go above and beyond the norm. Then, yeah. What Leo says applies.

It's not low-consciousness if you are a virgin. You are acquiring a new experience, you are growing yourself, you are raising your level of consciousness. You are getting a new experience! However, if you were a sex-addict who was just pumping and dumping women left and right, then yes. It would be low-consciousness! And as far as pleasure goes, that is the point of sex! That is the absolutely right motivation to have sex!! You are in reality about sex if that's your motivation. You're not deluding yourself about it.

@Jon_Bundesen If you haven't seen for yourself that sex won't fulfill you, you don't know that. In that case, it would be a good idea to go for it. If you haven't figured out how to get what you want for yourself, talk about 'not being narcissistic' in relationship is just irrelevant! When you used the word 'need' in your question, I got confused. Ideally, this should be the reason to have sex with them! When you said 'to satisfy a need', that got a little confusing for me.

@Jon_Bundesen If it's only about sex, then you're gonna be fine! Then you have no issue here. However, from what you're saying, it's not only about sex. It's about meeting some emotional need of yours through it. First of all, sex is not a need. It's a desire or a drive but not a 'need' per se. If you're feeling the 'need', that's a deeper emotional need that you're trying to meet. So, sexual pleasure will not fill that void. If you disagree with me on this, go for it and see for yourself! But, if you do see it, you could benefit from taking what I'm saying seriously. Now, if she doesn't know what she's signing up for, you could create an emotional dependency on her. Right now, you're saying that you don't want something long-term. This may change! I'm not saying an emotional dependency is a bad thing or that a long-term thing is a bad thing, I'm saying that in order to be emotionally prepared for things to go long-term, you need to know what need you're meeting for her and commit to that. If you don't do this and you start to emotionally depend on her, that is a recipe for disaster. This is irrespective of whether you actually want things to go long-term or not. What this will do though is that it will take away your fear of things going long-term, if you catch my drift!

@Jon_Bundesen Good question. Do you know what need you're meeting for her? If you know that and you're doing that and that aligns with your need also getting met, i.e. if it is a win-win, then go ahead with it! If this isn't the case, and if you aren't really desperate, I would advise you to scrutinize your reasons as to why you want to do it. The thing that could happen in this situation is that you may come up with an idealized Disney-fantasy of how it's going to go, when the reality may be totally different. This is a product of objectification of the other person. If you're doing that, it will drain the other person to be your sexual object. Also, you will act narcissistically and not consider her boundaries. A pretty problematic trap to be cognizant of in the long-term. Which is why I really appreciate you asking this question! If you're desperate and doing the Disney-fantasy thing, a one-off thing could go well for you. I don't know about her though. And, it's not going to go well long-term, that's a guarantee. But, if you are able to sense what she needs and if you are wanting to offer that to her, then it'll go very well!

A big point I want to make here that I just realized - This attitude of 'having a child makes you happy and gives your life meaning' may be the common way people find meaning in their lives, but it's not healthy. It's dysfunctional! What this sets up is this dynamic in which you set expectations on your child that you would want them to meet for you and your life being meaningful is going to depend on whether your child meets your expectations or not. Which will put a lot of pressure on the child and you will be a really shitty parent. The solution to this situation would be to question all the things you find meaningful until you realize one day that your life is inherently meaningless, then see that you are the creator of meaning in your life and then associate 'meaning' with something that you can actually control, like a Life Purpose or something like that.

@Adodd What I've heard some people say is that 'having children makes you happy'. And having children is much more convenient when you are married than when you're not! I think that could be a major factor, that the couple has something to do together, a shared goal when they're married which makes their lives and the relationship meaningful.

Know what you're offering to the other person. And confidently offer it.

There's gonna be a bunch of people saying 'It's her choice, she gets to do what she wants to do, you have no reason to be angry, you can't or shouldn't be angry, how dare you be angry, she only cheated but your sin of being angry is worse than her cheating, women can do whatever they want and you don't get to be angry or else you're a misogynist' but we all know what's going on there! In case you don't, that's shaming for being angry. And having boundaries in relationship. So that they get to exploit you and manipulate you.

I do. I have factored all of them in and I have integrated all of them. Everything I said was a conclusion of that process. I just have a lot of practice doing it now so it happens quickly. I have been studying this specific pattern for 2 years. Or 2 1/2 years. I know what I'm talking about!