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Haha I have ADHD and I would love to be genetically more conscious of course so yeah I am biased. But I try to be aware of my bias to come to truthful conclusions. I listened to Daniel Schmachtenberger and how there are less dreamy and peaceful people left in the world cause of evolution and I thought that people with inattentive type of ADHD might be the people who survived that. But making this connection is pretty much a guess. Yes there might be some overlap but that doesnt mean there is causality.

Or if it's something emotional. Everything where your attention would usually rises it hyper rises with ADHD. And if that's not the case the attention is unregulated and splitted into all directions.

Thats just a symptom.

Just started taking ADHD medications again and it's hard to live without them already. I mean life were hard without the meds so.. Well it's probably likely that you get a lot done on the day you take the drug? So maybe intentionally built in a rest day in between where you only do light work if any.

I started taking ADHD medications again so I can kind of compare the states. On meds you change psychologically a lot. Like you really enter another form experience. The new experience becomes a lot less profound but a lot more manageable. Like you can get shit done finally which really frees your mind up and makes you more conscious in the sense that there is less stuff pulling away from being conscious. But if my ADHD brain could naturally be supported like with trusting emotional support and a life that is designed to be ADHD manageable I think I would be way more conscious with ADHD.

This video of Schopenhauer really made me aware of an idea I had about navigating the world because it is analogous to Schopenhauers its simply in a different domain. I always had a very high moral development and because of that got easily abused. What I did was that I consciously integrated the appearance of an immoral person in my persona so that I could get along. No sane actually immoral person would do that because it usually gets disadvantages. But for me I wouldnt get abused as easily because people thought I wasn't moral but because it was more of a persona the people that really cared would see through the disguise and find their way to me. And it worked. I had forgotten though that I even integrated these mechanism into my psyche but now I understand why I did that. If you are more developed in spiral dynamics than your environment then it might be a good strategy to act less developed then you are on the surface. On the cognitive level it could mean acting like a fool, on the moral front it could mean acting like an asshole. Of course integrating that effectively takes a lot nuanced thinking. You dont want to actually be an immoral person or an idiot and you dont want to harvest the downsides of that appearance too much. So it's also about integrating hints so the right people can see through the disguise.

If a girl asks you "does my ass look fat?" how does one reply without falling for a trap? I feel as though it would be of great importance to collect a list of possible responses so we are all well prepared if such a situation would come about. My best response so far would be: "Yes but in a good way." // 6/10

Immature superhero. (Another Dalton-like idea 5) A Superhero who gets away with exactly the things mature people talk him out of. Imagine how much damage it would create if such a superhero would be popular for kids. Well we got some very immature role models nowadays so I thought this picture could describe some of that in humoristic fashion.

I appreciate that you recognize the seriousness of the topic at hand.

Ice cold wind in winter which makes me feel alive. Infinite snowflakes falling from the sky. A soul connecting to another soul through the eyes.

I don't know enough about modafinil or the vegan diet to answer such an advanced question. You can try a vegan diet for yourself and see if it personally gives you more mental clarity and then modafinil will probably add something on top of that. What are you looking for exactly? Like do you have a health condition or something and are looking for a solution?

Bad selection of people to ask except Michael. @Schizophonia is an emotional anti vegan who likes to trigger. Leo relies mostly on meat because of his gut issues. Michael is the nutrition expert here. Anecdotally I was vegan for 3 years myself and didnt experience this super mental clarity. When I reintroduced vegetarian animal products I didnt experience a drop or increase in mental clarity either.

Yeah I thought about that too. But even if Peterson would be open to the possibility that higher truths can be experienced through psychedelics which it seems like - I saw a clip on Youtube - it's not certain that Leos experience was interpreted in the right way and Leos claims are so outrageous on top of that. And Leo doesnt really have an intellectual reputation which would be especially important in a conversation like this to make Leo seem a little more grounded. But also JP seems to be a serious thinker in certain aspects and he seems to have a soft spot for God which he needed to surpress to a large extend because of his intellectual persona. I think it's very hard to judge whether or not this conversation will be good.

I would be very interested to see Leo in a political debate as well because 1) Leos takes on the forum seem very intelligent (to me) I cant really critique them or see beyond them most of the time so I would like to see how strong they are in a debate situation 2) it makes Leo seem very grounded which would make the spiritual/ god part of the conversation seem more sophisticated for the average viewer. But I see how that can be counterproductive and a bad opportunity cost.

YESSS!! Keep us updated!

Although I really liked him back in the day I needed to think about that for some time because its some time since I watched him and I inhaled all the criticism I saw about him on the forum. But I have got some points: - The way JP explains concepts of psychology through archetypes is epic and simple. - He helps to integrate stage blue values - JP to some extend is a very nuanced stage yellow thinker and this is not very common. I have listened to his takes on feminism back in the day and was amazed by his nuanced thinking where he crushed stage green opponents who couldn't think in that sort of detail. Not sure if I would agree with all of his takes nowadays but they were certainly sophisticated. Sucks that he has a stage green shadow and (because of) that his political takes are so bad as I think there is much potential in JP.

It's a spectrum. But I think making general distinctions makes sense.

@Someone here I missed this kinds of threads. Seems a little extreme. Like you are on one extreme now with your strong horniness and avoiding foreplay and all that and now you want to go to tantric sex. Not sure if that's gonna work out for you like you may need some steps in between. Hmm when I learned about how to do foreplay right and the effect it has on girls I built quite an ego around that and the sex that I have now is always very long. Like you can be so creative in your foreplay so it's very fun if you like improvising.

@spectra didnt work for me haha I needed to get louder. I think you need a base of respect for that to work. You are in your second year also so they know you better it gets easier then.

Sex at the metaphysical level: An Instagram post from Desiree Nicks Playboy shoot. She is the oldest German Playboy with an age of 66 (while shooting). I won't show any pictures of her here that's not what this post is about. What interests me is her developed understanding of sexuality at this age. And this post of her particularly struck me. It's often said that metaphysically the reason why sex feels so good is because it's the process of two opposite parts coming together and becoming whole. And that feels good because the universe wants to be itself/ united. Well doesn't this picture capture that just perfectly?

I am vegetarian. But generally when you are vegan or vegetarian for ethical reasons you are probably stage green which is where questioning traditional gender becomes a thing. I dont see being called gay or girly as an insult in the slightest actually. Integrating female traits takes courage and is counterintuitively manly. If you hide weakness with moral superiority you are full of shit and if you hide behind a traditional masculine facade you are also full of shit. A strong men should feel like a women who kicks ass inside.

When I was younger and really unexperienced with women I had romantic feelings towards them very fast. As I got more experienced and confident around women I noticed a big shift in how I perceived women. I see them a lot less as an individual and romantically when I dont spend a whole lot of time with them. There is a part of me that seeks the experience of sexual abundance and another part of me which seeks deep romantic experiences. I will get a lot more experience and confidence in the near future I am sure so it's likely that this effect will become stronger and I have mixed feelings about it. I am not talking about something unique it's probably just a universal effect. The primal brain designing the best behavioral strategy for maximum reproduction. So many of you guys will have had this shift as well I would assume? Where does this lead to? Will romanticism cease to exist with infinite "power" so to say? I see the only way to get romance now as true romance instead of bullshit romance. When before you might get a girl you are not really into but you couldnt find a better match and are locked into this relationship you might put on some romantic fantasy and built some kind of fantasy about your love for each other because that's the best you can do and you know that and therefore you invest in it although its not true. But when you become abundant with girls no fantasy really interests you anymore. You are either made for each other or every disharmony becomes cristal clear. And that two people are made for each other is really rare so a relationship might not interest you at all anymore. So what is it like after lots of pickup experience? Will pick up become boring so your shift changes again?

@spectra I tought philosophy 5 hours a week for a year in middle school. Yeah it's fucking though and you need to grow up to manage the situations and holes in your personality become very apparent. I lack a lot of assertiveness and confidence but developed these things to some degree because I was forced to. I lock forward to teaching more just for the raw development you get from it.

@Yeah Yeah Of course I get you with everything you said. It's all highly human. But it doesnt feel like you accept reality. You are behind in game and want a magical 19 y.o. virgin to get even. Like you are holding on to some belief and would rather do suicide instead of dropping that belief. Which is all very understandable but won't get you to move forward. Your situation isnt all that bad. There are plenty of girls in their early twenties who would settle for a guy who is 27. Can you say what exactly went wrong in the situations you had with girls? You were very loose about that.

@Davino If you go alone you can join friend groups for the night or you could ask a girl to be a wing for you. Thats how I built my state often and you can just randomly do that without any preparation.