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Great questions, this is something i always struggled with, however i feel like i have turned a corner with it after therapy and just generally working on myself. I think a key thing for me was accepting myself when i wasnt exactly who i wanted to be in the moment. I would struggle with anxiety and hate myself for feeling this and try and think my way out of the feeling, at some point i realised that it is a feeling and that side of me can be loved as well. There was also a lot about loving my inner child and giving him what he didnt get as a child, almost self parenting. How it shows up is just doing things for myself, making sure im healthy, doing things i genuinely enjoy, spending time with people who want to spend time with me and i want to spend time with them etc.

I think its the same as any skill youre trying to master ie lets say you want to learn chess, yes the best way to get good is to play 1000 games, most of which you'll probably lose, but you will start to see patterns and get to know what works and what doesnt and slowly youll start to get better. However, youll hit a wall where you'll plateu if you dont start having a better understanding of the game holistically through theory and learning about why certain things work. I think you can replace theory for inner game in this case. If you just had the theory though, youd also get stuck when you actually play a game because you wouldnt be comfortable in a game situation and all the little basic things wouldnt come natural to you. So both are essential, personally i go more on the action side when learning new things and sometimes i feel my learning could even be speeded up if i could just sit down and do theory. But you have to see where that balance lies for you and if its all theory and no action you need to balance that out and step up your action.

I honestly don't get the virgin thing, I'd probably go for the 20 body count out of the 2. More experience, she knows what she likes, you don't have to teach her etc. If she had a crazy body count, in the 100s I probably wouldn't go there, not on moral grounds but just because I would get the impression she's in the habit of multiple partners so it would be a red flag for a serious relationship

@AuroraDream Again and respectfully, i dont think a company saying our highest priorty is to achieve something is the same as saying they have achieved something, especially in this situation where things were moving so fast. Think whether this would hold up in court if youre accusing them of lying, your evidence is basically 'they said they wanted to stop transmission, but they didn't test for it'. The truth is if you look into testing for transmission it's actually very difficult to do and can probably only be done once it's given out en masse. Your issue should be more with the government who I agree did overstate how effective I was on transmission. "Dr. Walter Orenstein, associate director of the vaccine center at Emory University, told the AP that the fact that Pfizer did not address the vaccine’s impact on transmission during clinical trials is not unusual, because transmission is a complex metric to measure. “It’s much more difficult to evaluate impact on transmission,” Orenstein, a professor of infectious diseases at the Emory School of Medicine, wrote in an email. “What is usually done is a randomized placebo controlled study, in which the recipients are ‘blinded (i.e., do not know whether they received placebo or vaccine.’” https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-pfizer-transmission-european-parliament-950413863226

Your claim is that Pfizer were deceitful in that they stated that they tested for transmission, but actually they didn't and just said they did. The quote I posted along with the link show that there was never such a claim made by Pfizer, in fact the actual clinical trial papers have been available since Nov 2020 and they do not state anything to do with testing for transmission efficacy. Therefore if you were to take them to court let's say and you say, 'hey you lied about how effective this is at stopping transmission' all they would have to say is 'no we have our official clinical trials papers which have been available for nearly 2 years, that clearly say we were not testing for transmission'. Your case would definitely get thrown out. You could maybe point at governments or media if they misrepresented the efficacy on transmission, but you'd have to pull up specific comments. Either way your post was specifically about Pfizer and I don't think the position is correct.

"Pfizer did not claim that a clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine was testing whether the vaccine prevented transmission of the coronavirus to other people. The aim of the drug trial was to study whether the vaccine was safe and if it prevented disease from SARS-CoV-2. Details of Pfizer’s clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine have been available online since November 2020. When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in December 2020 its emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine, the agency said there was no data available on whether the shot prevented transmission from person to person." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/13/instagram-posts/alleged-revelation-about-pfizer-vaccine-trial-noth/

I'm from the UK, same as Piers, and being for gun control or in fact outright banning of guns is a pretty mainstream position here even amongst conservatives. The upper class might argue that rifles should be allowed for fox hunting or shooting birds but it's not really a massive issue. British people actually think Americans fighting for their guns is pretty crazy. So this is more of a cultural difference. Piers is very slippery to pin down in terms of political stance but he's 100% not green. I'd say he's orange but right leaning, I disagree with Leo that he's mainstream orange as he got kicked off of mainstream channels, after some issues around racism and megham markle, which is why he's on this new talk TV channel that not many people watch.

Piers is in no way green, green actually triggers him a lot, theres numerous clips of him using the same tactics he used against Tate against greens. In reality i think hes actually got a lot of common ground with Tate its just Tate had a few points that could be considered extreme and Piers laboured those points as thats what would work entertainment wise. Tate actually tried to sugar coat the world view he normally projects, which i dont get, he might as well've doubled down on it as hes not got much to lose. But as they were both trying to 'win', Piers definitely won as he framed it exactly how he wanted to and got Tate flustered.

I dont know much but i know thats definitely how genetics work

According to 23andme im 6% Ashkenazi, my question is, is that enough to get into the club?

If I had to rewind and lets say i was 21, I would educate myself on how money works in terms of if i make money where to invest it, Id learn a lot about property, stocks and take risks by getting into them early. Looking back I wouldnt really change things because i did learn a lot, but there are definitely some things I couldve done differently which wouldve sped up the process - - Really work out if a business is capable of making money. When i started I had a lot of projects which were good ideas but quite hard to monetise, I created a couple of music based websites. These worked but it was just hard to make money from them and i ended up spending a lot of time on something that would either hit really big or not be able to make money. So I found that i need to be clear on what i want to do and if i want to make money it has to be a tried and tested model that i can then adapt and make it work for me, rather than something completely new. If you do have a passion project its better to either try and get funding for it if you can sell it to others or make money first and then fund it with that. - Know when to stop and also be brave and know when to take the next step. As I mentioned above I shouldve stopped those ideas years before i did, the other side of it is if you have something thats working you can get comfortable and just keep milking that cash cow but there i always other opportunities and sometimes you can make a lot more if you pivot somewhere else. For example i was making decent money on ebay and i didnt see the point of learning how to sell on amazon as i was already making money but when i finally did i changed how i did everything, the workload was much less and i was making 7x what i was making on ebay. So always be looking a how you can improve and dont get comfortable, this can be very difficult. - Reading books and just in general learning, I wish Id done more of this but this can really just boost your mindset and make it an almost inevitable that you will do well

Just for the purposes of discussion as ive seen this debate come up a lot on the youtubes recently. Whats the most important quality Men can have in terms of attracting women - Status Money Looks Charisma/Personality Great Body Masculine energy Any attribute ive left out just let me know, not necessarily talking about pick-up this can be just generally how attractive a man is perceived to be. Also obviously all are important to some degree, you can list in order of importance as well

There's the basic investment view of it in that if you did have 100k in the bank and put it in something that could make 10%, you'd make 10k that year. This can compound to more and more every year assuming you don't touch it. You could put 1k in the same investment and it wouldn't get near 100k, whereas if you had more money to invest you'd make even more. It's all about scale and a lot of times the more money you have the more you can scale up and the more money you can make. A lot of people would say if you have 100k in the bank you should invest in yourself in terms of skills, which is true, but this will also be an example of money making money as the money is giving you skills you can use to make money. Also the strange thing is that when you get more money things start getting cheaper. A great example is banks and credit card companies can actually pay you to spend and keep money with them, you can get discounts on things, you'll also be able to borrow money cheaply etc. This is because you have enough money where their business has to become competitive to get it. On the flip if you haven't got much money you can get charged more for borrowing or going over your account limit, so the gap can be very wide.

Money makes money, more money makes more money

Not to tear down your plan but I dont think you should focus on spirituality just because your financial plan doesnt work out, connecting spiritually is a thing you should strive for to be a part of your life whatever you do, not an escape or back up plan.

I think men and women both do this, its just a feature of being insecure so you bring someone down to build yourself up

Not everyone you talk to is going to have the deepest insights about the universe, but they are still humans having their own experience regardless of how clouded it is, so I think there's always something to learn from anyone or if not it's an experience to be present with them

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When you say preselection do you mean social proof? I agree these are all important anyway but it could be said that they all fall under charisma. I think humor, which other people have said is a good thing to have but it definitely depends on what type, like if someone is acting like a clown even if it's funny that wouldn't be attractive, so I don't think you can have that alone. It's interesting to bring in spiral dynamics so thanks for that and for keeping @Tyler Robinson happy with your wishes. Im not convinced by it though, i think there are some men that would attractive accross the board, like for example a man that has integrated blue, orange and green traits fully and is yellow, would potentially be attractive to women who are centered in all those levels. So imagine a man who has a decent income but it doesn't define him and his emotionally intelligent and spiritually curious etc, many women would be attracted. He may not be attracted to many women though, he may find that a women in orange's income may define her or green is too occupied with crystals and reiki whereas he's looking at things systemically. So in this sense it might be hard to find a good match but it's not because of lack of interest from the opposite sex.

I'm from the UK and to be honest I haven't really paid much attention to it, everywhere shut down yesterday and we got a bank holiday, also tv, radio etc is completely dominated by coverage and the history of the Queen. Lots of people talking about it as well obviously. I've never really gotten it and I can't get my head around people queuing for 20 hours to bow their heads to a box containing the queen. But I will say just a person level she did have a quiet dignity about her and did her duty as it was assigned for her, if it gave people hope then fair enough. I think a lot of the out pouring and people lining up is to be part of history as well, this will be a landmark event and dies feel like a big change so my theory is its partly fomo for a lot of people.

IBD is a horrible illness, I have ulcerative colitis myself and was diagnosed about 12 years ago now, so i can speak from some experience. From a curative point of view there are now a lot of options of treatments, im on infliximab which has basically put me in remission apart from a flare up a couple of years ago, but theyre developing new drugs all the time so there is hope in that regard. Also, doctors cant talk about it but diet and exercise can have a big affect as well, its very important to try and learn what foods makes your condition worse, for example pasta and a lot of dairy affects me, yours might be different but theres probably something. You can also take pre-biotics and pro-biotics, do some research into these, but generally you want to do everything you can to have a really well functioning system aside from the condition. What helped me mentally is of course being positive but also I read somewhere that the people that tend to recover from illnesses or at least dont let them affect their life, are those that actively look for solutions and take responsibility for their health, those that have a negative mindset and just expect some medicine to cure them have a much lower chance of recovering. It has been extremely difficult especially when Ive had flare ups, there were even times when i thought i would die. But you could also see it as a blessing in that this condition really forces you to get on top of your health and stop all the nonsense you were doing before (i used to drink 2 litres of coca cola daily), as well as address stress and deeper lying issues. My theory is that the illness is triggered and gets worse through bad diet and stress, so these need to be addressed. It also could be a good idea to join groups, i joined a couple facebook groups to do with crohns and colitis, you do get some negative posts but there are also incredibly positive ones of people running marathons after surgery for example. There are also people on there who are so much worse off, which makes you feel bad for them but also grateful that you could have had it a lot worse. Dont settle for any kind of life that you dont want, aside from everything ive posted, look at someone like Dr Stephan Hawking, of all the terrible hands you could be dealt health wise he mustve had the worst but his spirit was fucking amazing and look at what he contributed to the world. This isnt to minimise your condition but i can imagine you have a lot to offer so dont limit yourself, good luck!

I realised talking to a friend earlier this week that everyone has their specific ideology and this is put onto the world and becomes how they see and interact with the world, its like Google glasses. The friend in question was a fairly recent convert to redpill ideology after a bad relationship, the main crux of his argument was that there are no good women anymore and their standards are too high, they're selfish in relationships etc. When I pushed back a little and asked if he's actually approaching and meeting women to test these theories first hand, he told me that he has a fear of approaching and has never actually done it. Which got me thinking all of his beliefs as far as he knows, could have no real world implications for him, he could actually approach women learn that some are great some are not, same as all people, and maybe even meet someone he really likes. In the absence of doing that though he's entrenched in this belief system that also gives him a pass for not doing the thing he's scared of, also even if he does meet someone he will bring this ideology into the relationship which could also affect the success of it. Now when he sees things happen that other people may have a different interpretation of, he would draw it back to red pill, for example if his friends girlfriend leaves them it's because she probably found someone better and women are hypergamous by nature, in reality maybe she really tried to make it work and the guy didn't treat her very well, in his alternate reality it would be hard for him to believe. This got me thinking, everyone wears their own set of ar glasses, even people into spirituality or actualized.org. It may not be the intention of the teacher to give everyone these glasses, although it usually is, but the teacher themselves may not be aware of their own biases which then filter into their teachings. There are common traits they all of have, all of them believe they have the one truth, anyone that denies this is either a sheep or an enemy of 'truth'. They have a varied following that range from sympathisers to extremists, where you rank is usually based on how vulnerable or unhappy you are with your reality before getting into the ideology, so if you were having family problems, depressed, not doing anything productive, the ideology can help with all these things and change your state for which in turn you offer your unwavering loyalty. If you notice, most ideologies offer a self-improvement aspect, which is further proof that the current mainstream doesn't care about you. Redpill says you should work out and be better, religions will teach you how to be an upstanding man or woman, black pill even says you should looksmaxx. If your state does change because of this advice its likely that you'll then follow anything else that's said. If your life wasn't that bad to begin with you probably won't go top far down the rabbit hole as you're not trying to escape from anything. Whats also quite ironic is that the mainstream is actually the tamest alternate reality despite being a lot of ideologies' big bad. It is definitely an ar but it doesn't have any hard prescriptions, mainly because it's bound to certain standards which it could be sued for if it breaches, they can spin things but can't out and out lie. There are biases within it as well of course but they are somewhat hidden in comparison to say YouTube ideologies. Conspiracy theorists will say turn off the TV, which is fine but then they'll say 'listen to us, our matrix the truth'. One final note, all ideologies have truth in them, which is what makes them compelling but none of them are 'true' holistically. So if you want to be Neo you have to seperate yourself from all ideologies and just take what is true, the biggest test is to take what you learn and see how it holds up in the real world, that is the true redpill.

Ive been training boxing for the last couple years, never competed but sparred quite a few times. Training wise i dont think anything will push you as hard, in terms of blows to the head you could only spar with people you trust and agree that you wont go too hard or you could just body spar. But yeah i think its a valid concern but there are ways to avoid it and still train

To be honest I think there are as many issues or if not more with not socialising vs socialising. One glaring one related to this thread, is that you can get stuck in your own ideas about how the world works and this can develop into an arrogance that you are better than those that do socialise or at least you might feel that you understand the world better. This is a huge trap I think there is so much to be learnt from interacting with others, you should of course be aware of the traps within socialising, group think etc and this awareness can prevent you from falling down these traps. I do get what Leo is saying but generally I don't think it's great advice for people still developing to withdraw from society to contemplate and then be able to cope by believing that they're smarter than everyone else. As with everything in life its all about balance and both spending time by yourself and others can co-exist. Regarding building up frames, surely direct experience from others would to a much better model than you just sitting there working it out yourself.

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