IronFoot

Even being within close proximity to DC, Richmond, Charlotte, and the beach area wouldn’t be enough options? My issue is that I really like Roanoke and see a lot of opportunity here just on the financial side. I’d prefer not to move if I didn’t have to, but would if there was a good enough job opportunity (which I could definitely look into). What city’s do you reccomend?

Back in November of last year I got out of a relationship. I’m now feeling ready to get back into the game. I have dabbled in pickup before but every time I started to gain traction, I ended up in a long term relationship. So I never gained any real traction (which I think is a pretty big trap I let myself fall into). I am re watching Leo’s videos on how to get laid since they are actually applicable to me now. I also read the game and am listening to the mystery method. I’ve made a lot of improvement to my physical form over the last year by dialing in on my nutrition and hitting the gym. I haven’t gotten back on the dating apps yet since I don’t have good pictures to use at the moment. Ive started thinking I should hire a dating coach as that may help me stay accountable. I’ve been watching a lot of Austin Dunhams videos and have gotten a lot of value from his content. I recently had a video call with one of his reps to find out more about his coaching services. He offers a 12 week program that focuses on optimizing online presentation, text game, style and “using apps to build a funnel for dates.” This does sound appealing to me and paired with actual pickup could be pretty powerful. The 12 week program is about $4,000 which feels like a lot to me, but would absolutely be worth it if it led to the results they are claiming are possible. However there is not a huge focus on pickup so I’d likely be learning that with little guidance aside from videos , books and trial and error. have any of you had any experience with him or anyone like him? Do you have any experience with hiring a dating coach and was it beneficial. Ive never hired a coach for anything before because I’m always nervous to spend the money on it, but I am recognizing this mentality could be a huge mistake. Also, in Leo’s videos, he recommends moving to a bigger city. I’m currently in Roanoke VA which has a pretty low population. I’m not really interested in moving. I am within driving distance of Charlotte, Greensboro, DC, Blacksburg, Richmond, VA beach. Between all of the metropolitan areas, that should give me a pretty wide pool to pull from. By the end of March I’m intending to go spend each weekend in a different city (probably Charlotte because it cheap) to approach more people. Does this seem like a feasible strategy or am I just kidding myself thinking I could get good results without relocating? to summarize: 1. Any thoughts or advice on getting a coach whether it’s this one or another one would be appreciated. 2. thoughts or advice on the feasibility of traveling to cities every weekend to practice approaching instead of relocating would also be appreciated.

I have a slightly different recommendation. This also happens to be the strategy I am attempting currently to escape the rat race. A huge stressor with a job you hate is if you are relying on it entirely to cover your living expenses. It just feels like a house of cards waiting to fall in on itself. 1. If you are in an area with a high cost of living, leave. There are places all over the US that are more affordable and still pretty great. You could also look into leaving the country. I’ve heard a little money goes a long way in South America. 2. Use that money to invest in real estate in one of these more affordable places. A multi family home would be ideal. With a 50k down payment, there are some duplexes and triplexes that could be options. Rent out one side to cover the mortgage and live in the other. If you have a triplex even better because then you have 2 units cash flowing. At this point your income from your job is really just for utilities, food and investing (however you choose). 3. Either buy more with the money you are saving or start your business. If your cost of living is mostly covered by your first real estate deal, then all of that extra money is getting stashed away. And you are probably less stressed because you get to keep more of your paycheck. There’s also less consequences for quitting your job to go find something else because at the bare minimum you won’t be homeless (as long as your tenant pays their rent).

The first actualized video I ever watched was how to be a strategic motherfucker. It kept popping up in my feed on YouTube back when I was in high school and I kept putting off watching it. One day It popped up again and for some reason the thumbnail stood out to me so I watched it. I think the video I watched after that was the one on epistemology. That’s the one that sent me off the deep end into spirituality and changed the whole trajectory of everything I believed. for a newbie I definitely recommend the epistemology one and all of the spiral dynamics videos. If you watch all of those and really put the work into understanding them, you won’t be a newbie for long assuming you keep going. if you are feeling really bold, drop acid and watch the solipsism video lol. That’s an experience. (Maybe hold off on this until you are confident you are emerging into yellow)

This is an interesting thought. However, it would effectively dismantle the entire rental market as landlords would not exist in the same capacity they do now. A few thoughts: 1. limited rental options due to only being allowed to own one home could be very inconvenient for people who don’t have good credit or can’t get a mortgage. 2. It would be inconvenient to have to buy a home every time you wanted to move cities. You could always 10-31 your home when you move, but that’s a lot of work if you were planning to move somewhere for only a brief period of time. This also doesn’t account for where you will be living in between closing on the sale of your primary residence and closing on the purchase of your new one. 3. This would be inconvenient for people who have to move between cities for work. I know a guy that owns a home in DC and PA. He lives in DC for work during the week and travels up to PA on the weekends to be with his family. 4. Rental properties are a great wealth building asset. Not being able to have several could hinder a lot of normal people from building wealth (not just the corporations). 5. if a relative owned a property and died, would the sale of the house just be forced if the immediate family already owned their own homes? One of the major reasons housing prices are so unaffordable is because not enough new homes are being built. In order to keep up with demand, the US would need to construct 1.7 million homes each year. In 2024 only 1.36 million were constructed (approximately). Year over year the US has been in a deficit in the hundreds of thousands for the amount of homes needed to keep up with demand for a long time. If we need to construct an extra 400,000 homes per year, why don’t developers just build them you might ask. The cost of materials have went up significantly (especially lumber). The higher cost of materials causes the developers to raise their prices. New builds that could have been bought in my city in 2019 for 300k are now being sold for 600k or more. This has out priced a lot of buyers. The builders know this and don’t want to spend money constructing houses they won’t be able to sell. Because of this, developers will wait to build the houses until they have found a purchaser (this allows them to offer even more customization options that will cost you an arm and a leg). I liked your idea about not allowing foreign investors to purchase large amounts of real estate. I’ve had this same thought. Instead of putting limits on how many homes a person can own, I would propose putting a limit on how much wealth can be stored in real estate. This number could be reassessed if the values of property in a state were to change significantly. Maybe the system would be no individual or corporation can hold more than a billion dollars in real estate in each state they operate in. If they pass that threshold maybe implement some sort of rent control on their holdings in order keep affordable options for people on the rental side. in order for this to work there would also need to be a system in place to make sure no one tried to circumvent the limit by having multiple corporations holding real estate. (also the 1 billion dollar threshold is a number I pulled out of thin air. More thought would need to go into that limit than I just put in. I’m just throwing out ideas)

No kids. Don’t plan on reproducing. When I’m more financially secure I plan to adopt if possible though.

My protocol for high doses is the following: 1. Decide on the dose a few days ahead of time. If you want to redose or take a second substance, decide this ahead of time. These decisions should not be made while intoxicated or sporadically. (DMT while peaking on acid is super interesting. It is a lot though. Once was enough for me). 2. leading up to the trip, avoid other intoxicants, major dopamine kicks (cell phone usage, video games, porn). I found I am able to go deeper if I do this. 3. Remove any weapons, sharp objects, or anything that you feel would be a bad vibe or unsafe. Stick it in the trunk of your car. Plan to give your keys to your trip sitter and make a commitment to not touch your phone. Also, clean your room. There’s nothing worse than laying on the ground and noticing dirt and crumbs everywhere. 4. This should be a no brainer, but take a shit and piss before you dose. It’s crazy how much stress and anxiety not taking care of your bodily functions can cause when you are so fucked up you don’t even realize you need to go. 5. Have a friend or family member you trust come over to trip sit you. I use the term trip sit loosely. I would generally isolate myself to a dark room in my home and maybe have some frequencies playing. They just hang out in the living room. I don’t interact with them until I’m coming out of the trip. Every solo high dose experience I have had was set up like this. Having someone in the other room makes me have an easier time letting go. If I start having thoughts like “what if I hurt myself” or “what if something goes wrong”, I just remember I have a competent person in the other room that can handle an emergency if it occurs. This does the trick for me and I have had great experiences with this. Honestly group trips and small dose solo experiences that don’t follow this protocol have felt more challenging and less safe.

I have a G17. I should have gotten the G19. Regardless it’s a solid handgun. I also picked up a micro roni chassis to hook it into with a bunch 33 round extended magazines. It’s a lot of fun. For home defense you might want to look into a shotgun though. I’m leaning towards a Beretta 1301 whenever I can afford it (which might be a while). you could also look into building an AR. Pretty fun experience in my opinion and really helps you understand how it works.

Probably not a shit test. Constructive criticism. I would recommend putting some pictures up of you hanging out with your friends and being engaged in your hobbies. if you have a pet, get a selfie with it. If you don’t, then get one with a family member or friends. if your pictures are all like your profile pic, it could give the same vibes as a crime documentary on Netflix. Back in high school I had profile pictures of myself in a gas mask or brandishing a katana since I thought it looked badass. I also did not get laid in this time period lol. If you post on social media at all it’s good to be well rounded in what you are putting out there, especially if you intend to use it for dating.

I definitely feel it about these teachings getting me into trouble. These days I tend to avoid talking about philosophy or actualized.org with people unless I already know they are on the same wave length. I definitely don’t bring up actualized if I don’t think they are would even finish a video. For some reason people in my neck of the woods will start asking me about Leo’s credentials on whatever topic I was showing them as if I am supposed to be an expert on him. Or they go into the whole cult narrative. I find this super irritating as the actualized videos are almost always my best reference point when talking about philosophy (since they always paint such a clear picture). People will find any way they can to discredit this stuff. If they can find an argument to make the concept seem evil/ unethical, schizophrenic, or criticize the speaker, then they never have to seriously contemplate any of it. I think these conversations that “get you in trouble” are really just people’s egos trying to get as much distance possible between themselves and these ideas.

Depends on where you are buying. Go somewhere like Roanoke (or almost anywhere in southern va) and you could get something decent with 20k down. Won’t be luxurious, but it could be comfortable.

A compassionate approach to mental disorders definitely wouldn’t be a bad thing. I don’t disagree with that at all. however, as others have stated, I don’t think our society is equipped to make the discernment between a enabling or solving this issue. What sort of approach would you propose to be compassionate to marginalized groups of people while still protecting the children that could be victimized by these people? Children that are victimized seem to have a higher likelihood of developing other mental issues too which would just lead to more societal problems. I have no idea if this number is accurate, but off a quick google search I saw that it is estimated that less than 5 percent of the world population are pedophiles. Out of that 5 percent, I wonder how many of them are acting on those urges and how many of them are functioning members of society that have never done anything damaging? I would say there are bigger fish to fry than supporting pedophiles. Having society reach stage yellow would likely lead to solutions to these problems becoming more feasible. If consciousness were elevated on a large enough scale, this could be true for a lot of other problems as well. I think that it would be pointless for anyone in power to come out and support something like this with where we are currently at on the spiral. Defending pedophiles and other topics like this is a great way to scare people off from ever moving up the spiral. Public positions that create so much backlash that it hinders consciousness from being raised ultimately hurts everyone.

If you don’t like EDM and go to other festivals for other genres I’d love to hear about that as well. I just got back from Electric Forest!

This is my favorite pizza: pizza topped with pineapple, mushrooms, salami, on Alfredo sauce. Well done with extra cheese. Cheese stuffed crust makes it even better.

I would strongly encourage you not to trip with your family around if they aren’t into this stuff. I have a buddy who got acid while he was still in high school thinking it would only last an hour. His parents came home while he was tripping nuts. He held it together and they never figured it out. The whole experience was so uncomfortable for him that he didn’t touch psychedelics again until he was like 27. Solo tripping isn’t favorable if you have never done them before. If you go that route don’t take much. Out in nature would probably be less stressful for you. if you want to find awesome people to be friends with that tend to be into this sort of thing (at least to a certain extent), I’d recommend the following activities. Rock climbing (these guys love tripping) white water rafting/ kayaking long distance backpacking skiing/snowboarding ( the ones that look like they do it are the ones to talk to) mindfulness/ meditation groups martial arts if you get involved with any of those you will probably find someone would be a solid friend/ that you would trust to trip sit you.