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Depends on your body and what you can tolerate. If you're lactose intolerant, milk is gonna mess you up but you can eat bread just fine. If you're gluten intolerant, bread is gonna mess you up but you can drink milk just fine. Generally I'd rank best-worst from least to most processed. Refined oil is probably always going to be the worst, especially canola/vegetable oils. Olive oil and coconut oils less bad especially if you aren't heating them. Sugar is usually super refined as well. Using honey or maple syrup would be better, but still not great. Soy - Eating edamame is better than eating tofu, which is better than eating soy sauce Gluten - Eating no bread is better than eating sourdough, which is better than whole wheat, which is better than eating white bread Dairy - Drinking sheep or goat milk is better than drinking cows milk. Drinking something fermented like kefir is better than unfermented. Drinking unhomogenized milk from a grass-fed free-range cow is better than typical store-bought milk.

Depends on the woman. I'd say it's not the splitting the bill that would be the big turnoff, but the fact you're unable to properly provide for her, even if you wanted to. If you can't afford a couple of appetizers, how are you going to pay for a decent place to live together, or more important stuff later on in the relationship?

It's a red flag if it's not what you want. For me, this would be an ideal arrangement. If we're going to continue after 3 dates then I'd want to be exclusive and devote all our time/energy to getting to know one person. And yeah I'd walk her to the bus stop and arrange better dates than just laying around my house, and text her "good morning beautiful" shit because I think its fair for women to expect chivalry and the guy to put in some effort to woo them. I'd want a woman who has standards. If you just want to sleep around and have fun, then she's not the right kind of woman for you at this point in your life. Go find some strong empowered feminists who'll just sleep with you and then see themselves out, they're a lot more common than women like the one you're currently with. Maybe you'll come back to someone like her when you're ready to settle down.

If you start off as grass or a tree or an amoeba, you don't have the mental faculties to have an ego or sense of self tho. At least according to what conventional science tells us about the experience of these more basic organisms. Are you saying that even grass is able to suffer and contemplate its own existence? Why wouldn't God just stay at these super low levels of consciousness where it doesn't need to distract or deceive itself? I dunno if even fish or insects are there. It's only really when you get to mammals that you'd need to start worrying about something that can question reality. Wouldn't a worm be happy just being a worm for 1,000+ years, without ever questioning anything?

If you live in the Philippines, then things might be very different than in America and our advice might not apply to your situation. In America, I can't imagine an adult being able to survive without a bank account. But in lots of countries it's normal for people to get paid cash at the end of every week and not have a bank account. I'd start off by talking to your parents, family and friends, and coworkers and see if they have bank accounts, and how they get paid. If they have a bank account, ask them what bank they're with and then I'd probably just go with the most popular answer. Based on the multilateral bank's Global Findex 2021 database, 51% of Filipinos now have bank accounts, up from 34% in 2017. Why Filipinos Remain Unbanked: Addressing Banking Challenges In The Philippines

Nobody can force you to have sex with people of any specific criteria if you don't want to. But over half of teens have had sex by age 18 (CDC). So you're dramatically cutting the pool of people that you can date right off the top. People remain virgins for all kinds of reasons... some high-quality women might remain virgins for religious reasons. Some are just normal people waiting for the right person to come along. But you're also going to have a lot left in your pool that are simply too ugly or socially inept to have had sex yet, which aren't going to make for good partners. Like other people have said, I think you need to look into why virginity in a partner is so important to you. Is it because you're also a virgin? If you aren't a virgin, isn't it kind of a double-standard to expect your partners to be? I think most guys get societally conditioned to want a virgin but it's just not realistic or feasible nowadays, unless you fall in love with your high school sweetheart and stay with her forever. I get why you might feel like a woman has been tarnished or made impure by not being a virgin, but again, make sure you hold yourself to the same standard. I do agree with several spiritual teachers I've heard say before, that you basically get the karma of anyone else your partner has ever slept with though. I would try to loosen up your standards a bit. Maybe consider a woman who's slept with 5 or less guys, or 3 or less guys. Or just don't have sex with any woman that's had sex with another guy within the past 1 - 2 months, to make sure all traces of the previous guy have left her body if it's a sperm thing for you.

It all feels subjective to me, kind of like a horoscope. I think I've embodied all of those descriptions at one point of my life or another, and probably half right now to varying degrees. Like at this specific moment, I'm probably interior 60% ascending, 20% descending, 10% agenic. Exterior 60% agenic, 30% descending, 10% ascending. I feel like most people are just going to say they're ascending, because descending = bad = hell. In most models, up = gaining and down = losing.

Cool premise for a novel I'll give some guesses as to what would happen (admittedly all conjecture, I'm no expert.) But first I'll say that it's incredibly unlikely, almost zero chance of happening, and normally I'm very much gung-ho about financial collapse, apocalypse, end of the world type stuff. Both the Earth, humans, and life in general deserve more credit. The Earth has survived asteroid impacts where the vast majority of land probably flooded for days, and the sky was probably blocked out by ash for years, and life still finds a way to come back. Most of Europe and northern US states were covered with glaciers during the last ice age. 60%+ of humans in an area have been wiped out by plagues at various times, and we always bounce back. The Earth is constantly destroying and rebuilding itself through forest fires, land folding back into itself and becoming lava, then becoming new land again. So I think you could wipe out 90% of humans and we'd bounce back over a few hundred or thousand years. If only 5% of humanity is left out of 8 billion, that's still 400 million people. Right now in the world there are less than 200,000 giraffes, about 600,000 black bears in North America, only 1.5 million moose in the world. Basically you can wipe out 95% of people and there are still more of us than most animals you can name, with a few exceptions, mostly rodents like squirrels and mice. Plus we have the knowledge and intelligence to quickly rebuild. If it was going to happen, I think it'd have to be a pollutant like phthalates or nuclear radiation that could spread all around the world, and lower birth rates even in areas where they're currently high. Even then, it'd gradually drop off and not be like one single generation would never have kids again. Even if the birth rate drops by half, or 25% of people start dying of cancer before age 50, lots of people would still reproduce. First thing to happen would probably be that most economies would fail. Stock valuation, GDP, and lots of other numbers require perpetual year-over-year growth. So a lot of ponzi schemes like pensions would come to an end. Eventually we wouldn't have enough people for more specialized jobs, so some advanced things would have to be abandoned. We could probably keep electricity, water, and sanitation going well into civilizational collapse. But there wouldn't be people to run nuclear power plants or more specialized things like satellites and GPS. Eventually that'd spread to a shortage of nurses, doctors, and surgeons, and other fields that are specialized and require a lot of education. Eventually it hits little quality of life things, like only having 3 varieties of potato chips to choose from at the store, instead of 50. At some point, cities would need to start downsizing. Whole areas of cities would likely be abandoned and become ghost towns, and big cities would be divided into several smaller cities. The occasional skyscraper or apartment building would probably start to crumble after a few hundred years of disrepair and lack of maintenance. The good news is the cost of housing would be pretty low or maybe even free. Probably some kind of improved squatting law would be created, because there'd be more old people dying than new people to fill their former homes. Same with cars and other items that would be in abundance. The problem is this would cause companies to stop building new homes and cars, and if they stop for long enough, humanity might forget how to do it, once we run out of running cars. To answer the original question though.... what if no more children were ever created on this planet and humanity hit 0. Not much. Earth would go on and thrive without us. In a few hundred years, even the biggest urban centers would be covered in weeds and small trees. Most ghost towns you've seen are usually in desert or tundra biomes. Any abandoned city in a temperate or tropical climate would get eaten back up by the earth pretty quickly. If people stop raking up leaves every fall, they just stay on the roads and start breaking down into a thin layer of soil on top of everything after a few years. Tree roots can aggressively break through concrete and bring the soil back. To the point that in 10,000 years, if the next intelligent species that pops up explores where LA or New York used to be, there might not be anything left for them to find. Even steel beams get turned back into dirt with exposure to the elements on that kind of timescale.

The desire to share their hidden or secret knowledge unsolicited to strangers is a big indicator for me. A mentally ill person can't help themselves but to approach you at the bus stop and tell you the truth about the nature of reality, how you're being lied to, and generally info-dump on you with no social awareness of weird they seem, and how uncomfortable they're making you feel. If some chick at a party jumps from talking to me about mundane everyday topics, to how she channels aliens and has secret knowledge about the future, after just a couple of minutes of meeting her, I'm going to err on the side of mental illness. An enlightened person almost has an unwritten code where they don't talk about it unless asked, or a person seems advanced enough that they'll understand. Similar to how freemasons have a code where they don't invite people, you have to ask to join. They have no desire or interest in converting or convincing you. Where there's some crossover is the period when someone first becomes enlightened. The handful of people I know who are / claim to be spiritually enlightened, were all institutionalized in mental hospitals because their family/friends thought they had suddenly become bipolar or schizophrenia.

Don't necessarily need to avoid, just prioritize video topics that make sense based on your current level of development. If you're new to personal development, I'd sort videos by oldest and focus more on the self-help type content to get your material life together first, before you start worrying about metaphysical and spiritual topics. The cutoff for me would start around 2014 - 2015 (videos from 7 vs 8 years ago) where things go from more practical topics you can apply in your everyday life, to advanced spiritual topics. Pre-2015 you've got 200+ videos to watch already, although most are shorter and about 15 minutes long. Most videos in the past 4 years or so, there's little to no value to beginners, because most topics will go right over your head, or build on previous concepts, or just not be relevant to where you are in life. If you haven't been working on yourself for at least a few years, don't have a solid idea what your life purpose is, and all of your basic needs met -- Then you don't need to be thinking about free will, the social matrix, solipsism, going meta, holistic thinking, nonduality, or even spiral dynamics. At best, the advanced topics will just be mental masturbation and not benefit you. At worst, they'll actively delay your progress and hold you back. When you tell normies about those advanced topics too soon, you just end up creating a conspiracy theorist, because they can't properly contextualize and integrate it.

I've never seen anything physically manifest, but I've had a handful of weird experiences. When laying down on my bed just for 5 - 10 minutes while waiting for dinner as a teenager, I heard a female voice whisper directly into my ear (or maybe telepathically in my head): "Love has been given to you." Within the past year I've experienced weird stuff like my bedroom TV turning on in the middle of the night, my alarm clock going off by itself at 12:34 AM when set to off, waking up and my alarm clock is counting down like 0:54, 0:53.... It's an old-school alarm clock with no sort of countdown timer or programming to allow for that sort of thing to happen, including display of 0:XX numbers. I attribute a negative energy to all the bedroom incidents. It started happening when I started experimenting with Orthodox Christian prayers, like I stirred something up. As well as possibly from bringing something into my home. I've captured some sort of sprite / faerie thing on camera before. Had feeling like some extraterrestrial entity was trying to telepathically reach out to me a few times but I rejected it and told it that I was too scared and it just backs off. Communed with my ancestors and made a deal with them in order to overcome my wife's fertility issues and have a child. Created various sigils which I'd consider to be entities (egregores) once fully manifested. In one bedroom in my current house, I pretty consistently feel the energy of a little girl and kind of creeped out by it. When I first bought the house, I felt unwelcome and like I was trespassing for a few days, and had the feeling like the energy of the previous male owner was still guarding the house, but it gradually dissipated. My friends and I saw UFOs and weird objects in the sky pretty regularly during public school (around age 12-13). We all saw it and confirmed to each other, and really weird unexplainable shapes and patterns, not just a plane leaving a contrail or something. Probably a few other weird things like that, most of which you could rule out as coincidence or misinterpreting. Haven't physically seen an alien or ghost or demon standing in front of me anything. Probably a good thing, I feel like I might have a mental breakdown if confronted with that.

Her vagina is physically big enough to accommodate. The problem is an emotional/mental one. Possible reasons that you'll have to get to the root of: 1. She experienced sexual abuse in the past that she hasn't opened up to you about yet. 2. She had an overly moralistic/religious upbringing that has subconsciously programmed her to think that sex is disgusting and immoral. 3. She's not feeling emotionally connected enough to you If you can't get her wet enough, then it's going to feel like trying to shove your dick into a tightly-packed bag of sand or a beanbag. You can get her wet through just clitoral stimulation, but she'll probably need to reach orgasm to release a sufficient amount of natural lubricant. If she can't orgasm from her clit that's another red flag there's some emotional/mental block there. If you rub and rub and she says she can get close, but then gets increasingly frustrated that she can't finish. If she doesn't like fingering then she probably doesn't like anything inside her, ranging from tampons to dicks. I'm not trying to be funny when I say that she may even be a lesbian and just hasn't had enough experience to realize it yet. She's just gone along dating guys because that's the societally-acceptable thing to do. Maybe she wasn't totally into it but kissing was okay, but now is realizing that sex with guys is just not for her. Either way, something is seriously wrong if you're having sex with a gf for the first time and she's not already dripping for you before you get her panties off. My money would be on either #1 or #2 above. If you want to try and brute force it and work through it (if she's okay with it) then use lots of lube and go in very slowly.

This happened a year ago but I was totally unaware of it until now. I think at least a few people here followed EA Koetting / Become A Living God in the past and might be interested. Probably the darkest possible side of spirituality and related forums, literally driving people to murder. BBC Article - YouTube removes occultist who influenced murderer of two sisters - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59103568 What do you think? If someone teaches people how to allegedly communicate and make deals with demons, should they be deplatformed for dangerous information / misinformation? Or even arrested for playing some part in influencing a murderer? Or is it a free speech issue?

I've tried it off and on. Yeah, Tik Toks get lots of views. Actually kind of a sus amount compared to other platforms, which leads me to believe a lot of it might be bots. Youtube Shorts get a sus amount of views too, but it's clear that Youtube is heavily pushing those in the algo. Biggest problem for me is views on shorts don't convert into anything. People won't click a link or go check something out or buy something, at the same conversion rates they will for something like a full-length Youtube video, Instagram post, or blog post. It's just people mindlessly scrolling through dozens of shorts in a row with 0 engagement.

Ultra soft foam earplugs and blackout curtains I got my earplugs on Amazon, like $15 for 60 pairs. Get the highest dB number you can, mine are 38. I've also tried Loop reusable silicone ones and I'd rather just use 1 pair of foam ones for a week and discard for hygienic purposes. Now I usually sleep with just 1 earplug in. I also sleep on my left side. So I put 1 earplug in my right ear (facing up) and the pillow against my left ear cancels out most noise from that side and it's more comfortable. Key is to put them in properly. You have to go deep enough to get a good seal, don't worry about them getting stuck. And you have to hold it in place for about 30 seconds while the foam expands. One of my favorite things lately is listening to the world gradually go silent as the foam expands haha. The difference is crazy. I can't even hear a fan running on high setting in my room once they're in.

This guy gets it

You can test it for yourself and see. Wear white shirts for a week Then wear black shirts for a week Track and keep note of how you feel. Sadhguru also says having long hair and wearing a copper ring will help prevent you from spontaneously and permanently leaving your body. But unless you're within the top 1% of enlightened people, for the majority of the population it's not a concern and they aren't sensitive/developed enough to notice a difference. If it's an easy change for you to make and has no downside, then I guess just do it to be safe. Or at least avoid wearing black whenever you're going into very negative emotionally charged situations. But there are a lot of other things like your diet and sleep cycle you can change that'll impact you much more dramatically than wearing black. Do an online test to determine your ayurvedic dosha, and then eat a diet in line with your dosha, and you'll notice a bigger difference than switching to all-white clothes. I have pitta dosha and I find that when I eat sweet, bitter, and astringent foods it really cools me down -- in terms of temper, anxiety, even body temperature. When I go back to eating sour, spicy, or salty foods it lights a fire inside me again. You'll notice the difference after 1 day. Sadhguru-approved advice. Every cell in your body is made from food that you put into it. Isn't it?

Leafy greens will almost certainly give you the biggest bang for your buck in terms of vitamins and minerals, and what you seem to be lacking the most. If you really want to take your health to the next level, then you should aim to eat some kind of greens at least once a day, not once a week. If you want to get outside of just eating salads and juicing, I'd prioritize vegetables based on their score on the ANDI (Aggregate Nutrient Density Index) scale. Once you're eating greens daily then I'd add in vegetables of a variety of different colors (red, purple, yellow, orange, blue, white) to mix things up and ensure you're getting a good mix of phytonutrients. The higher the score the better:

If we're going by WWII Nazi standards then no. A 2nd degree mischling requires at least 1 Jewish grandparent. At only 6%, your Jewish heritage is low enough that even Hitler would class you as an Aryan. I'm 14.2% with 1 Ashkenazi grandparent so in WWII Germany I would've been considered a 2nd degree mischling. I could marry any Aryan but not another mischling or Jewish person. And I'd be restricted in terms of higher education and career options. But still probably wouldn't be sent to a concentration camp. On the other hand, the Jewish community would also reject me and wouldn't consider me Jewish because my Ashkenazi ancestry isn't through my maternal line. So kinda rejected by both sides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling_Test

Just tell her straight up, she can respect your autonomy as a 27 year old grown ass man, or she can choose to die alone and on bad terms with her child. Forcing you to get married in a year has a big chance of ending up with someone you won't be happy with. If she really loved you, she wouldn't doom you to the next 40 years of potentially being in an unhappy marriage, or getting divorced because you made a hasty decision. What does it matter when she's dead anyway? Talk to her and try to get to the root of why you getting married is so important to her. Whatever the reason... so you'll have someone to look after you that cares about you when she's gone, etc... marriage is no guarantee of that. Also don't use being in the same city as an excuse. It's easy to move somewhere else, not tell them where, and just disappear. Except maybe running into them while shopping once a year or something. If they find out where you live then just refuse to let them in and call the cops on them, like you would with any other threatening stranger / stalker. Realistically -- if it's not an arranged marriage situation, you're just going to stress yourself out trying to find a girlfriend and failing for the next year, and then she'll die. If you're desperate to get married, women will be able to tell and it'll turn them away. Or everybody in this situation can just chill out and enjoy the little time they have left with each other.

I think we run into a problem with figures like this, where we make perfect the enemy of the good. Yes, we should be striving as a whole to do better than Andrew Tate. But if you come from a stage blue society like the Bible Belt of the Southern US, a country where Sharia Law is practiced, or a place in Africa where female genital mutilation is still commonplace and albinos are killed for witchcraft.... Andrew Tate is a big step up. Maybe the odd person can skip an Spiral Dynamics stage. But you can't take people en-masse who are listening to everything their Imam is telling them as truth, and move them straight up to Noam Chomsky or Eckhart Tolle. You need a figure like Andrew Tate to bridge that gap. If someone is going to admire and model themselves after Andrew Tate or a mafia boss, I think we should help them gravitate more toward Andrew Tate. Maybe someday they'll transcend that to something better, or at least their children will. You gotta meet people where they are. Otherwise you end up just demonizing everyone below you. That doesn't help them, and actively makes society worse for yourself and your kids.

They might all be tapping into the ultimate truth, but seeing it through the worldview and framework of the time in which they lived. Same as scientists a couple hundred years ago. Sometimes they got the answer right by sheer luck, but their rationale behind it was wrong in bizarre ways. Other times they get stuff totally wrong that is obvious to us today in retrospect. It's easy to think that we're at the pinnacle and peak of understanding. In some ways we are compared to the vast majority who came before us, but we're also most likely incredibly ignorant on an infinite timescale. Chances that even Leo has the ultimate truth are near-zero, as demonstrated by the fact that he continues to have even deeper and more profound awakenings.

I would jump on trends earlier and take more risks. Especially early on with things that only require your time and little/no financial investment. I felt like I was late to writing ebooks in 2017, but comparatively I was early and had at least a couple more years where it was the wild west. I would've gone all in and written hundreds of ebooks. Then I might be making thousands of dollars of passive income per month from them still today. Getting involved too late --- I first learned about Bitcoin when it was like $20, and thought about buying a couple hundred dollars worth, but the process of buying it was too complicated and the darkweb stuff seemed sketchy, so I didn't. If I had bought $200 worth, it'd be worth $200k today at even the currently low prices. Exiting too early --- I amassed 2.5 million dogecoin at one point buying from people on Reddit in the very early days with money from my tax refund, for maybe $2,000 in total. I left it on an old computer and forgot about it for years thinking it was basically worthless, until I saw it was peaking around $0.005. So I sold all of it for like $12,000. If I held to anywhere near the peak when you started to hear about Dogecoin in the news and Elon Musk tweeting about it, it would've been worth over $1M. Even at today's prices it'd be worth $150k. Exiting too late (and sometimes risks just don't pay off and ideas are duds) --- I bought into NFTs early on thinking it was finally my chance, and now I'm still holding thousands of dollars worth of pretty much worthless NFTs at the moment. That's the risk you take though. You gotta take educated risks to get way ahead. But you can't take TOO large of risks either. Don't put 100% of your money into something, because you don't know what's the next Bitcoin and what's the next NFT. If you feel there's a really strong chance it'll blow up, I'd throw maybe 10% of my savings at it at most. If you find something that looks like it has a solid chance to offer a 100x, 500x, 1000x reward for the time/effort/money you put in, go for it. (Assuming you're smart enough to tell when something is a scam or not.) Right now I'm keeping an eye on writing AI because 1. It's going to eventually replace me as a freelance writer 2. When it gets good enough (it's not yet), I can be first to market and use it to pump out a couple hundred novels in a year. Writing AI might finally be my chance to shine and apply everything I've learned previously and make my millions. Or it might be another dud like NFTs, I'll invest hundreds of hours of my time into it and only make a couple hundred bucks, and then I'll be waiting 5 years for the next thing. But now I have the knowledge and mindset to take advantage of whatever the next thing is. Maybe 5 or 6 times before you're 30 years old, you'll see an opportunity that you know will be the next big thing, like the next Tesla or Amazon. Don't be afraid to at least make a small bet on it. Those big chances only come around every few years.

There's a page on the site called "Start Here" with a list of introductory / foundational videos to get you started in some kind of order: https://www.actualized.org/start 6 hours isn't going to cut it for this kind of work. It'll take at least 100 to get the foundations down. This is unlike any other type of self-education you've done before. It's a lot more work but the rewards are also a lot greater. But you can't really dabble in it and get much out.

First you have to define what being more masculine means to you, and then go after that. In your original post, you already list some things... making your hands less soft, playing sports, learning to fix things, being less indecisive. Being more aggressive and competitive (a more positive version of that might be just "assertive"). I think all that stuff is a good place to start. Although I wouldn't force yourself to do stuff you know you'll hate. If playing sports has no interest to you, then don't play sports. If you don't have a masculine guy or father figure in your life, then having a strong masculine Youtuber you look up to isn't optimal but it's the next-best thing. As corny as it might sound, find guys that you wish were the dad you never had, and then start listening to them. I think Jocko Willink is probably a good place to start. He's hard and firm but not too toxic. I haven't watched his content in a few years so I don't know if he's still the same, but Alpha M is probably a good all-around intro to a more masculine life, grooming, confidence, etc. As much as people here will hate to hear it, you can do a lot worse than having Jordan Peterson as a masculine father figure too. One of the first things he'll tell you is to clean your room. If that's not a father figure, then I don't know what is. For someone less about fitness and more of a kind/gentle father figure, I'd watch some of a guy from Denmark named Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen videos. Will give you the experience of going camping in the wilderness with your dad, and the types of conversations a boy would casually have with his dad. Even listening to Joe Rogan, will just start to give you a good idea of how guys interact and talk to each other. Are parasocial relationships healthy? No. But if your alternative is having no masculine relationships at all, it's better than nothing. You'll also notice an tendency for these masculine father-figure type guys to be right leaning politically. I would've tried to balance it out and provide you with a couple examples of leftist masculine guys, but I'm not aware of any. I think it's just an inherent part of the masculine polarity. A big part of being masculine is taking 100% responsibility. You do give to the less fortunate and help from a masculine energy, but always from a place of strength and handing down abundance, not trying through trying to redistribute and make things more fair. That's feminine schoolteacher archetype energy. If you want an Indian guy to look up to specifically as a father / older brother figure, maybe Ramit Sethi although he's pretty much exclusively into financial stuff, not masculinity specifically. Or someone like Dr K. I think there's something powerful about making it someone who actually looks like they could be your dad or brother. You might not get the same experience from listening to a masculine white dude as I do. People here also really hate on Hamza but I also think he'd be good for you.