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In a conversation, when someone mentions xyz and then the other person says “That’s crazy, I was just thinking about xyz” or “I have a friend who did xyz thing.” It’s fake and just trying to appeal to the other person’s ego.

I agree with you generally, but what if you buy the watch because you want to appear high-status and wealthy, even though you don’t personally value it at all? Are you a conformist or a master social engineer? Or is wanting to appear high-status itself conformity? Even in this kind of example, it’s not so obvious that it’s conformity. Identifying conformity is a messy business.

Gym is definitely an important part of self help. You will be respected more and treated better with an aesthetic physique

Just from watching part of the podcast, it seems like he has a bit of a resigned, depressed outlook on life — not that uncommon among intellectual types who don’t do spirituality. It feels like he’s decided to take the little tidbits of joy he can get from life. Not sure this is the peak of wisdom/maturity.

There are many ways to live a fulfilling life. Stage blue religion will get you a narrow, closed-in kind of life. Is it fulfilling? I don’t know. That’s up to you to decide. But why are you choosing Islam and not Christianity? Only because that’s your culture. So really you just want to fit in. The choices are: move somewhere else, conform, or risk being different.

I can’t answer from experience as I’m an INTJ, but I can answer based on what I know about INTPs. They have a reputation for being unproductive people living in their mom’s basement if their intelligence isn’t nurtured properly. When they are productive, it revolves around deep intellectual curiosity where Ti hero can apply itself to analytical understanding with the help of Ne parent. An INTP can probably answer better what it looks like for them though.

I don’t think it has to be conformity. Rap is basically a form of music that uses rhythm and cadences over an instrumental. A lot of what rappers say and do is conformity, I agree, but not the genre itself.

Hi Leo, I have a question about #441. You say that the answer to "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is that there is Everything. But then you say it doesn't mean that there is a planet filled with flamingos or something like that out there. Wouldn't it mean exactly that? You also say that Everything exists outside of your field of perception. Doesn't this contradict solipsism? And what is this everything if not every possibility, including a planet full of flamingos?

The mind is not an honest actor Big picture understanding is key What rationalism is and why it fails Reality as absolute infinity

What is the most surprising insight you had? How does your understanding now compare with the masculine/feminine polarity in spirituality?

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Second this!

I did some more research and thought about it more, and I was being too impartial. Tate doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt here. I edited my post a little bit to have a more clearheaded analysis.

Andrew Tate recently got arrested, but he recorded a podcast soon before. There are some lessons to learn from this podcast. 1) You learn about deception mechanisms 2) You learn how a narcissist/egomaniac makes sense of reality and convinces people 3) Being corrupt boomerangs on you 4) It's honestly very entertaining TLDR of the podcast: Andrew Tate explains the full timeline from his rise to fame to the present. He frames himself as initially gaining a niche following from saying whatever he wants on social media. Then, he gets the idea to start a non-traditional school that teaches people how to make money. He gets subscribers and soon gets an offer for 50 million, which he describes as similar to Hollywood contracts that limit what famous people can say. He declines, ruffling feathers with powerful people, especially the British state. A woman falsely accuses him of human trafficking. Then he gets into more and more legal trouble, which he believes is contrived by the British in collaboration with the corrupt Romanian legal system, to shut him down because he is "capable of starting a revolution." He spends months in prison, developing PTSD and ruining his mental health. Tate tells an elaborate thriller movie-like story involving multiple break-ins to his house, framing himself as some kind of real-life John Wick. My Take Tate conveniently leaves out the fact that he ran a shady webcam business prior to becoming famous. He has admitted to using the loverboy method on video, and his “university” contained instruction on how to use this method. It is less likely that Tate was persecuted as a political enemy than that he got exposed for his scheme due to literally teaching it. Overall, it’s very interesting to see the self deception play out. I don’t doubt that Tate suffered in Romanian prison, but that’s because the corruption he planned to benefit from backfired on him. This podcast is a good lesson in seeing through the tricks of con-men. Tate frames everything as him being wronged and probably even believes it. It also goes to show the intelligence of survival. Tate, sensing that he is cornered like an animal, gets on a podcast and spins a highly believable, intricate narrative about how he’s been set up. An uninformed audience would probably side with him. Survival can be very intelligent. Andrew Tate has a strong intellect — it is obvious from his speech — but wisdom? True intelligence? No.

So a person can develop "intelligence" -- wisdom and knowledge -- but IQ is fixed. Is this an accurate explanation of your position? Do you think that G is the same thing as the raw capacity to understand reality, meaning someone's spiritual abilities are capped by it?