Basman

You want to have a growth mindset where leveling up is more interesting than staying the same. There will always be some kind of pain to pushing yourself because you have to discipline yourself, put in effort and take risks. But see it as challenge that makes your life more interesting. Like, a video game on super easy mode gets boring fast. We tend to overestimate how painful pushing our comfort zone actually is anyway. You can handle much more than you think. Like soldiers going through boot camp push themselves physically much farther than they thought they where capable of and end up just fine.

Inside your comfort zone you already essentially mastered your environment. The experience you will gain from outside your comfort zone is what you'll need to grow ultimately. Anything valuable will require some short-term pain, but the long-term pleasure will pay for that pain with interests. The trick is to associate more pleasure than pain to acting on your growth and more pain than pleasure to avoiding taking action. What actions have you have been avoiding taking? Why haven't you been taking action? What pain have you linked to this action? What have been all the pleasures you've had indulging in negative patterns of behavior? What will it cost you if you don't change? What pleasures will you receive by taking action now?

Which is why AI is automating information based tasks first and foremost. There's no automation without infrastructure. Industrial infrastructure is expensive.

A lot of guys have bad taste. So it evens out slightly.

Most people are religious as products of their environment. People might gradually secularize if they live in a secular society where they maintain certain traditions as part of their community. Much of the west's traditions and values are religious ideas that have been secularized to become devoid of their original Christian belief. I believe that religion is in large part a survival response, so as society evolves it tends to secularize as religion becomes outdated relatively speaking.

Government is not for regulating people's personal relationships. Marriage is strictly a private matter.

You guys are always adding these magical qualities to busting a nut that don't exist. Jerking off is not a big deal in the slightest.

It's like playing video games or watching Netflix. You know when you are wasting your time and should be doing something else. I never experience loss of "vitality" or whatever and I jerk off almost everyday. If my balls get heavy enough I get so horny and bothered that it's not funny anymore. I might be above average horny though I think.

You can't perform good genes. A man isn't getting hard for ugly women.

If you need the government to lit a fire under your ass so you don't neglect your relationships then you shouldn't get married in the first place. Just divorce if you don't want to be married anymore. It's just a promise of commitment at the end of the day. Not actual commitment.

Kant is a nerd.

Judaism as a religion is unique in how little it is tied to a particular nations history and culture compared to every other religion. Islam is uniquely Arab, Christianity European and Hinduism Indian but Judaism precedes having geography for most of its history. Jews can be found a bit all over the place as a minority religion. They've always been doing their own thing to a certain extent and been principled in their culture for better or for worse, which has lead to conflict. Generally, people don't like foreign, much less in the past.

Being culturally isolate is perhaps the biggest cause why people are suspicious of Jews historically.