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Is there that much energy in semen?? And idek what you mean by life force

Fair enough for the abstaining part, but looking for ways to stop wet dreams because you’re so obsessed with semen retention seems neurotic If wet dreams were harmful to you then that mechanism would not be built into men

IMO the sensible approach to artificial sweeteners is 'why bother taking the risk?' Maybe they're fine or maybe they fuck up your gut biome, make you hungrier, and give you cancer Is it really so important for you to drink some diet coke that you wanna take that risk? Lol

A week or two? Minor energy boost but counteracted by horniness Maybe you get some magical benefits by doing it longer but I struggle to believe that placebo doesn't play a huge role in that. It would be absolutely retarded for evolution to program into your system that ejaculating makes you tired. Like, that shit would get removed from the gene pool ASAP

The problem with this experiment is that there's no way to tell it isn't just placebo I feel like I get a minor energy boost but I also get horny as fuck, which counteracts that energy boost

This just sounds so neurotic to me. Maybe I'm missing something, idk

They’re healthy but if you’re using them as a substitute for sex it will start to make you feel like shit Dont stop fapping necessarily just make sure you’re still fulfilling the sexual relationship part of your life at the same time

Oh, I didn't even notice it was old, lol. Sorry How do you know? Plenty of intellectual ideas are extremely dangerous I mean... Yes. Objectively they are pretty much the most dangerous method of widespread transport we have. Even people who know how to ride them at an expert level die on them every day The problem is that you can't ensure people will interpret it in the right way online. These kind of teachings would have to be administered in person to avoid a lot of the pitfalls. Making intellectually risky ideas like that public is just that.... risky

The solipsism video is particularly dangerous because it's super easy for people to take on as a belief. It's very easy to just believe that you are the only person that exists. But if you just 'believe' in solipsism it will turn you into a narcissist at best or delusional/suicidal at worst. All of these are terrible for you as an individual and strategically bad for actualized.org's reputation which is already perceived as slightly culty It makes total sense to remove that video Anyone who feels so strongly that they need to see that video is likely addicted to Leo's content. There are hundreds of videos on the channel that show you how to attain realisations yourself instead of relying on them being hand fed to you in neat video format

It's an area of life he has a lot of experience with, and it's an area of life that many guys are struggling with It would be silly of him not to share his experience in that area You can't do any of the advanced spiritual stuff unless you have the material basics of your life together first. 'Self-actulization' is derived from Maslow's hierarchy of needs which is based entirely on that principle. So Leo has presumably had that holistic approach since the very beginning of actualized.org

Same reason as alcohol, it gets you into the moment and removes a lot of anxious thoughts you otherwise have. I'd be careful about popping tabs of acid before going to a club unless you're a seasoned psychonaut, that could go very badly wrong if you end up taking too much

I'm confused, why are you not trying to take these girls home? I think I've read a few of your date reports now where it seemed like you could definitely have pulled but didn't for some reason. It's super easy if you build up some rapport with the girl, you literally just suggest that you go back to hers or yours. Most girls (at least where I live) expect guys to try and have sex with them on the first date Girls get turned off by guys who they want to fuck, who they have good chemistry with, but who then don't make sexual advances and take the lead. Guys are supposed to be the sexual initiator, if you're waiting for her do that it will turn her off

Well then spend slightly less time on your hobbies and more time socialising Focusing purely on hobbies at the expense of building a social life is a bad idea. It will make you lonely and then you will be worse at your hobbies Actually, the simplest solution is to take up some social hobbies.

How is your free time so limited? You must be working super long hours at your job With a standard 40 hour work week it's very possible to have Work + Several Hobbies + Socialising going on during your week There is no cure to loneliness other than connecting with people. You're going to have to bite the bullet and start socialsing more at some point. Start social hobbies, that's the best place to start

Jesus, I had a quick look through their main forum section. Anyone who spends any time in that community deserves everything they get in life (or rather don't get)

It barely matters. Just go do your own approaching Worrying about how many approaches others have done is kind of just your mind trying to distract you from the work you need to do It would be like asking a professional basketball player how many dunks he's practiced over the course of his career

Can I make a formal request to insta-ban anyone who refers to girls as 'Females'

Nice! Clubs can be scary but trust me you’re gonna have some great times. Good luck

Yea I like this explanation Not accepting that there are midpoints between male and female seems like such a strange hill to die on to me. Just acknowledge that the construction of gender/sex isn’t perfect and has enough edge cases and blurred lines that we need to be open to deconstructing it a little bit and handling those edge cases healthily It doesn’t even affect the vast majority of people’s lives to accept this fact @vizual Btw your numbers are way off. There are estimates that put the rate of people born with some intersex traits as high as 1.7% (roughly 1 in 60) of the population. Similar to the number born with red hair. Again it depends on your definition of intersex, the lower bound with the most conservative and strict definition is 0.05% (1 in 2,000). Either way it is far from negligible The fact we can’t even precisely define exactly what constitutes intersex is also worth noting here

I mean... yes... Our brains want to divide up reality into neat little boxes because it's useful. But some of those boxes are going to fall apart more easily than others. As it turns out, gender seems to be one where there are a lot of cases that blur the lines and so we need to account for that Except intersex people, who are literally both

If you take a human male and a human female and start replacing parts of the male with parts of the female atom by atom, at some point they become female. When is that? If male and female are not conceptual constructs like you say then you must be able to point at a concrete line during this process at which the male becomes female If you can't tell me exactly where that line is, then there is no concrete boundary between male and female in your mind It's not even like this is mental masturbation, because intersex people are literal examples of this thought experiment

ya @Hardkill you ask a lot of questions, but ultimately you’re gonna need to get some experience if you want results. Randomish questions on a forum online ain’t gonna cut it

Easy Pretty much everyone can get good at any sport to an above average level through mastery and time. But not everyone can get to the very top. That requires genetic luck. Same with relationships. Yea if you wanna be in the top 5% of guys sexually you’re gonna need some genetic gifts but you can get pretty high up that chart without any special genetic gifts in the same way you improve at a sport

I think she said she’d expect it in the first month or something, don’t remember exactly

I had a convo with @Preety_India about this recently, apparently saying I love you super early on is the norm in Indian culture and is expected of guys So it might not be as uncalibrated as it seems