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As someone who is getting married, I can relate a little bit of what you wrote. Here's the thing, you only have a limited amount of time and resources, and it gets spent up a lot sooner and quicker than you think. If she want's a baby and you truly know in this moment you don't then, be honest and tell her, do not lie about that. Be open to it changing, or never changing, but be honest. As a man there is indeed this drive to crave more and more beauty, I'm grateful my girlfriend is beautiful, thin and has a nice body but even I still sometimes want more or see a woman who has some unbelievable or different proportions and I desire sex with this other woman. You need to balance these two opposing forces of wanting something else vs being grateful with what you have. It's something you need to reflect on and you aren't born with some manual to life on what choice may be right for you always, you have to live life and make mistakes and just live it, it's always evolving and changing. You can't be outsourcing your emotions to her or blaming her in any way for them. Grow up. Don't waste any more of your time wining and playing games about how you feel bad or tricked or whatever. You know the truth and your mind knows the truth and what you don't know isn't a problem, you can continue to learn and grow in the relationship or leave it and learn and grow single. You overthink stuff way too much. Just be honest and stop being so autistic in your thought.

Interesting. He seems pretty chill. I remember that entirely bogus laptop scandal that failed to take off in 2020.

This is the one thing which keeps you stuck in red pill energy, even if you haven't gone down this rabbit hole. Focusing on unfairnesses and injustices in dating, relationships, man/woman societal roles, access to sex and resources. All these imbalances, unfairnesses and injustices in society when it comes to marriage, mating and dating, grinding an axe and obsessively future proofing yourself over these is what is holding you back from seeing through the veil and finding what is authentic and true for you. You aren't keeping yourself safe by focusing on this. You aren't righting some wrong by by discussing this. Just let it go. Imagine there is a way for this entire cloud over the male psyche to disappear if you just stopped focusing on this and focused on your true value and what makes you special and unique? Imagine that by just doing that any issues you have will resolve and your relationships will unfold in a way where they are satisfying and everything works out? Try it

That post isn’t exactly wrong …. I’m Jewish too. Zionism plays the victim card like crazy. It’s pure delusion. They basically genocide Palestinians because of what happened to them during WW2. Israel is a complete farce and a made up country like no other.

The world is a bit upside down but remember this isn’t the first time it happened in history and probably not the last. Think of all the challenges our ancestors went through. Think of all the times people claimed the world will end. Just put it into perspective. This is our generation’s challenge.

We have been lied to so much that no one trust what anyone says anymore. FBI used to be a source of relative honest especially when it came to crime. Now I’m not so sure.

Yea they do but if coked out Elon ran a third party stooge during a general that could suck away votes for a Republicans more than Dems I would think. Considering a lot of his fans voted Republican this last election. And he has a sizable fan base.

The thing is people are starting to go crazy, so much lies and poison has polluted everyone so much that there is tremendous instability now and the one safeguard of that in society, the state, is so deeply mistrusted that it’s like everyone are turning into wild pigs. So there will be many jumping ship and society will have to reorder itself. States will fall apart during this process.

USA 10/10 in 90s 5/10 in 2025

People absolutely do all the time. States and countries are always changing and they are just as subject to death and decay as anything else. Seems to me society is slowly coming to reckon with the absolutely buffoonery of lying and cheating. A change in seasons is coming. People will eventually realize they are being used as fire word and just abandon the state. Not like there is much left of it anyways after it’s been picked apart by the likes of Trump and his cronies.

To be honest, I have a different perspective on this. Instead of only focusing on FUTURE PROOFING yourself by taking in information you think you may need one day, give some attention to yourself and focus on what you believe YOU need to build a more harmonious relationship with YOURSELF. Because at the end of the day that is what is going to determine if your relationships go well or not, not some green flags or red flags you have been told about. Build this connection up with yourself which in a way builds up the skills needed to have a great relationship. The issue is we live in the unknown and there is an uncountable amount of scenarios you may encounter and there is no life manual that will prepare you for everything you will encounter with women. I'm not saying ignore dating advice. There is some wisdom out there, but I've found relationship issues are far less about being prepared for potential situations and more about how you are within. If you have a great relationship with yourself, you will by the law of attraction have a life that orders in a way where your relationships are right. So I would like to share with you information that is more about building the relationship with yourself. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD Wu Wei Wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/@WuWeiWisdom The Man's Guide to Women: Scientifically Proven Secrets from the Love Lab About What Women Really Want by John Gottman

Not much to be proud of these days. Why would you be proud of the USA in 2025?

Probably not. I mean, I doubt there is the infrastructure and resources for this. The only way this could be done if everyone was green and working on the same page and shared the same values. But in capitalism it won't work. It's already turned to feudalism.

Send in the clowns…. Hopefully it can split the right wing vote some and break up the fascist chokehold republicans have

If we were a lower stage society without democratic values it would be longer. Keep in mind Biden got 80 mil votes even though all the magatards want to deny this fact. USA is too developed for this to be something that consumes us for generations. But it absolutely will take its tole and many people will be hurt by it. I don’t believe tech will prolong it for generations either. They have problems with getting AI to lie. Reality and intelligence has truth baked into it. The AI fundamentally in a way is on the side of truth.

The good thing is there is eventually a day of reckoning for doing this. Hopefully Trump will live long enough to experience this. I think he won’t live long enough to see it. We got maybe 5-10 more years of this by my estimate, 20 to be fully extricated, 30-40 to heal.

Good stuff

You should probably ask people who started a family and have a long and rewarding marriage. I'm getting married, and to be honest you have to be really honest with yourself. Marriage isn't a means to an end. Half of all marriages end in divorce. As a spiritual person, it's about being honest and balancing the love and wonder of life with wisdom and inner stillness. My marriage could end in divorce one day, it could technically. We live in the unknown and anything can happen. Starting a family isn't going to somehow make you safe nor an accomplished / valuable person. You are valuable as you are no matter what. I think marriage should be about being the most authentic person you can be and spending time with a person who wants to be authentic and live life to the fullest. Marriage isn't about defining you or earning some sort of status, but many people make it about this and sacrifice something. There are also logistical benefits for it and having a girlfriend in general is nice for companionship and relating, if you enjoy relating. So what that means is you have to be doing all this with yourself before any relationship with anyone begins. How is your relationship with yourself? Do you believe you are valuable as you are? Are you playing games and steeped in judgement? Are you walking a path that is authentic for you?

"Should a man grow old and die without ever leaving his village let him feel as though there was nothing he missed." Tao Te Ching, Chapter 80

Grifting scumbags

This is what I'm thinking may happen, the entire party (Republicans) are going to try to cancel elections for president.

It's not really a mystery why. It's well understood and to be honest I think we have passed the "trying to be understanding" phase. That was in 2016 when Trump won and everybody was surprised, and books like Hillbilly Elegy came out written but the current Veeptard. The country is going in the direction every academic has said and it's going to likely continue to go in the direction they are saying which is further erosion of government, corruption, wealth inequality, political instability and a lessening of human rights / liberties. We are in a sort of hybrid civil war now. It's a matter of fighting back now.

Read the book “nonviolent communication.” Or check out the YouTube channel “Wu Wei Wisodm.” Both are very helpful spiritual based resources for living through challenges. Remember that all of Trump’s actions basically culminate in his own belief system about being inadequate in the eyes of his father and family. And with that belief he can tap into other’s fears because they hold similar beliefs of inadequacy and being in danger. This play by the super rich is their belief system of being afraid of being in danger or overthrown or losing some sort of power. That’s why they go after leftist mayor candidates in NYC like they want to kill it in the crib. Equality is deeply threatening to them because they believe they need power and control to be safe.

I see things in the same way often. I think you have to keep a bigger perspective. What you said is accurate, at the same time see the bigger picture and don’t disconnect from within. This too shall pass. I think things won’t get much better until consequences are felt from electing these people. The entire population has to wisen up and mature and that can indeed happen but it takes time after learning some hard lessons. Elections have consequences. We may have to sit with this for many years to come.

So why don’t we rename this thread to include the big beautiful bill discussion because that is pretty awful news and it seems no one has mustered the will to make a thread on it yet