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The definition of "normal" is average, typical, standard. The majority of people are only attracted to members of the opposite sex, so by definition you'd be outside the norm. But I think what you're really asking is whether you should be concerned. If you have any persistent urges that you're going to commit non-consentual acts, or with minors, then I would seek some kind of help as suggested above. If you have a persistent attraction to pre-pubescent children I would seek help either way. If you're attracted to something like 16 or 17 year olds but know that you can't act on it, I'd say that's closer to normal/typical.

Very cool, never knew this page existed Yeah I agree, was just curious to know if there were any we wouldn't be seeing around any more. Sounds like just standard admin stuff though

Are these just in addition to current mods, or are some of them replacements for existing mods who were demoted for no longer aligning with the forum's values or due to inactivity, etc?

Yeah good question, it's one of my favorite questions in the life purpose course. Basically if you won the lottery and had all the money you needed... after you spent a year traveling to all the places you want to see, buying everything you want, etc, then what would you do day to day. I could keep myself busy for at least a few years: - Writing several novels - Making an album of electronic music - Making my own video game (I have ideas for at least 3, each of those is probably at least a year-long project on its own) - Learning a martial art like Muay Thai and mastering my physical fitness - Create at least 1 full-length standup comedy routine - Having a small farm, growing my own vegetables and looking after various animals like chickens and goats. - Help teach young people entrepreneurship, how to start their own businesses and make money, in a non-scammy way. - Then I have a few very lofty end-goals. Lime mapping the bottom of the entire ocean and recover ancient artifacts and treasure from sunken ships. Probably more that I'm forgetting. A lot of these I'm planning to do anyway. But if I didn't have to make money, it'd just be an extra 20 - 40 hours per week I could use to start scratching them off my list sooner. What about you?

More money / financial freedom. Might sound "low conciousness" but I think it's a mandatory jumping-off point for most people. If you don't have to worry about paying the bills, then you can devote all of your time to creative endeavors and a life purpose that doesn't necessarily generate a financial return. Money is the limiting factor to getting the last few things I really need to check off my list for a complete life. It'd be nice to have a larger social circle and a closer connection with lots of family members, but on the other hand it sounds like a ton of work and would take away a lot of time from independent projects.

Wardruna vibes

Humble Bundle has a NaNoWriMo writing bundle right now with a bunch of books on outlining, writing characters, dialogue writing, structuring your novel, character arcs, and other stuff. Seems close enough to this topic that I thought I'd mention it here. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/nanowrimo-writing-bundle-books I'm not affiliated with it in any way, haven't even decided if I'm going to pick it up or not yet.

Your brain is still developing until somewhere between age 21 and 25. Having a beer or two over the course of several hours probably won't do much harm, a little strain on your liver. But if you're binge drinking and getting blackout drunk, you're going to give yourself brain damage and screw up both your short-term and long-term memory for life. Smoking weed as a teen can cause some pretty alarming stuff, like interfering with neurotransmitters, abnormal brain shape and structure volume. Teens who regularly smoke weed are about 6 IQ points lower on average by the time they reach adulthood. I don't know specifics about mushrooms, LSD, DMT, ecstacy, cocaine, etc. or if their affects on teens have really been studied in-depth. But I would say it's not worth the potential risk of messing around with any drugs until adulthood. You've got a good 40 - 60 years of your life to try that stuff out. If you screw up your developing brain you're really kneecapping yourself in terms of personal development and self-actualization.

First degree you doesn't understand all the languages. Second degree you does understand all the languages. It also understands how it made every word in every language, even the ones that haven't been invented yet. God has known the meaning of "bussin bussin no cap for real" since you first sprung into existence.

Another good figure in this space is Christian Picciolini. He's founded a couple of organizations like Life After Hate and the Free Radicals Project with the goals of deradicalizing far right extremists. The good news is that safety is not really a concern any more, because you can volunteer to help deradicalize people online. Just talking in Discord groups and stuff can help to make a big difference. Biggest thing to watch for, if you want to take this on as a life purpose, is that you aren't burning yourself out. "Fash Fatigue" is a common side-effect of engaging in these kinds of dialogues in an empathetic and understanding way. Some people like Daryl Davis have the patience and a special skillset that allows them to deal with extremely triggering conversations in an understanding and compassionate way. Most people don't. Nazis will shit-test you constantly and either try to convert/gaslight you or just hurl abuse at you, or try to trigger you so much that you give up on them. Even the ones trying to reach out for help who are flirting with the idea of deradicalizing. I know several people who tried to deradicalize and ended up getting radicalized themselves. It's like reaching in to save a drowning person, if you don't know what you're doing they'll probably drag you down too. If you want someone else to be open, the danger is you have to sincerely open yourself up too. I've been sucked back in myself several times. It's akin to signing yourself up to a suicide hotline with no training and listening to people talk about how they want to kill themselves for hours a day. It takes a huge toll on you, mentally and emotionally. It's extremely draining and there's no short-term return. You won't have someone magically deradicalize after one conversation, it's a long and winding process of addressing every concern and argument they have. It takes weeks or months, and in many cases you'll never get to find out if your work actually made a difference or not.

I'd encourage most people to start exercising and eating healthier if they aren't. As long as it's not severe enough to warrant immediate attention and they have time to try and troubleshoot it themselves a bit. I notice a big difference in my anxiety and general neuroticism based on whether I'm exercising regularly or not. I guess depression would be an exception, because it takes away all your energy and motivation to help yourself.

"You cannot increase IQ by practice" - Mensa However, you can improve how well you test by getting a good night's sleep, eat healthy, perform memory-increasing exercises, reducing stress, and a bunch of other stuff. Also there's more to intelligence than just IQ.

Okay sorry, my bad then. Only seen that emoji used to express sarcasm Honestly I'm not that in tune with what finance actually is, in contrast to accounting and economics. I only had to take 2 finance courses for my degree so I have a pretty narrow idea of what it's all about, and what kind of job you can get with it outside of banking. The more entrepreneurship and independence you can work into it, the higher your earning potential is, kind of what I alluded to above. But that also comes with increased risk and uncertainty. I'd probably get whatever job I could get to start paying the bills. Like an insurance actuary, investment banking, credit manager, in the treasury dept at a large company, or even just a loan officer at a bank. Then on the side build something finance-related but that you 100% own and control. Like a website, blog, or Youtube channel about personal finance. A course on investing. Or being some kind of consultant. (I never really understood how people get into consulting without tons of experience though.) Hopefully the side hustle is something you're passionate about, and eventually grows to be large enough to quit your traditional 9 to 5. I'm trying to think future-proofing against AI and automation for the next 40 years in Finance, and I don't know what that would look like. Definitely want to avoid the low-level data entry type stuff. There'll probably always be a need for more analytical positions where people interpret the numbers and present them to non-finance people. At least in our lifetimes. But the competition for those remaining positions might get pretty fierce.

I can see both sides. Of course it's Leo's platform and he can post whatever the fuck he wants. On the other hand, I can see people viewing the website at work suddenly being caught off by a fully nude woman on Actualized.org, when historically NSFW content is not something you'd expect to have to worry about here. It'd be nice if there was a way to add some kind of NSFW spoiler/warning where you had to click through to see it. Does seem a bit hypocritical as well when someone tried to start a porn megathread to share high-level porn a day before.

Nobody in this video is trans. By claiming that either one of them is trans, you're misgendering them. Within the first minute they say... One identifies as a masculine-presenting woman. The other identifies as a feminine-presenting straight man. Again at 15:35 they clarify that she identifies as a woman, he identifies as a man. It shows pics of them as kids where they were still the same gender, neither of them has transitioned. What you can say is that this video is an example of toxic masculinity, and the way that society judges men who don't act traditionally masculine. My wife and I have a similar dynamic to this couple, albeit not so extreme. I don't dress and talk like a gay dude. But she's the more assertive one, she works and earns more money than me, she drives me around 90% of the time, if something's wrong with my order at a restaurant she's the one that speaks up for me. She's predominantly only dated women in the past. I'm a homebody and do most of the cooking, cleaning, etc. traditionally "feminine" tasks. The plan is for me to be a stay-at-home-dad. I don't like cars, sports, or most traditionally masculine stuff. And yeah a large chunk of society would probably say that makes me a "pussy ass beta bitch" based on all of those details. But that doesn't make either of us trans. It just means we don't follow stereotypical gender norms.

Yes. Compounding interest on money is nice, but people don't realize that learning and knowledge also has compounding effects. You can't take knowledge away from a person. So if you take most multi-millionaires and forced them to start back at $0, they'd probably have a million again within a few years. (Assuming they're true entrepreneurs who earned their wealth and built up from nothing the first time, and not just trust funders.) If I theoretically had the choice between all of a serial entrepreneur's money -- vs. -- gaining all of their knowledge, experience, and mindset, I'd always take their knowledge. You can always make more money. Its like in an MMO game, even if you die and lose all your gear, you still retain all of those underlying levels and it's much faster and easier to build back up again than some noob starting at level 1.

Dude also says not to eat garlic and onions. Apparently raw onions make you too angry, and cooked onions make you too horny... or vice versa? As well chili and eggplant for some reason are also negative pranic foods? I don't get why he says eggplant is bad for you but other nightshade vegetables (tomato, pepper) aren't. Anyway I agree with what he said above about coffee though. Isn't it? Hello? Isn't it so?

The sales page says it contains 25+ hours of video. Then you've got to figure probably at least 30 minutes x 10 value passes. At least another 10 hours for the strength assessment and life purpose exercises. Making a vision board should take you at least a couple hours, making your list of goals. First time through I'd say probably 50 - 60 hours without rushing it. I've done it every December since 2017, so this will be my 5th year. Actually I just found an email with my LP exercises I sent myself in November 2016 so it might be 6. I don't see much value in re-doing it more than once a year. The first time through it'll take several months just to integrate everything and make it a part of your life. Even doing it once a year, I find that not much has changed. My values re-organize slightly every year, and after covid, freedom jumped way up to top 3 for me. But otherwise I haven't been able to come up with a new life purpose, despite kind of wanting a change haha. So it's more just re-calibrating and confirming that you're on the right track. I've tried changing mediums a bit, but my LP has stayed the same. Mostly it's a good jumping-off point to re-evaluate my current set of goals and see if I want to change or reprioritize some for the next year. The second time onward, I listen to the Intro and Core Concepts section at 2x speed, so I shave at least 6 hours off. You need to give the exercises your full attention every time though.

Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ in the world. And most number of Nobel prize winners. Their culture also highly values reading/literacy. And Jews are one of the groups that still have a very strong in-group preference. A Jew will almost always help another Jew out. Networking, social circle, etc is huge when trying to find a job and get ahead in life. A black person you might feel some solidarity when they see another black person, but it's nothing like a Jewish person has for another Jewish person. That's where most of the anti-Semitic conspiracies come in. Really it's just really strong networking and in-group preference, always give an opportunity to one of your own before someone else. Look up Chaverim, Shomrim, Hatzalah, Misaskim. Jews basically have their own volunteer roadside assistance service, ambulances, private security, and other services. What other racial group bands together like that?

Not sure how I feel about them nickel and diming for every module, and having monthly limits on everything from word count to # of characters. It makes it really convoluted and difficult to figure out what you'll actually be paying. I agree that I think I'd rather pay $50 for Scrivener one time and own it forever. To lifetime purchase every Campfire module would cost you $375. I'm sure they have the numbers that a user will use X modules on average, for X number of months on average, and I'm guessing you'll end up paying more than $50 over the time that you use it. For just manuscript, characters, timeline, research, locations at the lowest plans you're paying $5.25/month or $63/year. It might be okay to just get it for 1 month per year during NaNoWriMo, write a bunch, and then cancel. I haven't tried Obsidian yet, but I think it might be a good free alternative to both. Especially if there are community-made templates you can download and use. Overall it's not really my cup of tea anyway, I wouldn't really want to write pages of details for each character and refer back to it as I'm writing.

Is this just limited to cognitive decline, or what do you think this means for all the other claims about soy, especially when it comes to estrogen? Is it time to start doing studies on the effect that high sodium diets have on estrogen production in men? Is it just salt on its own? Or do you think there's some synergistic effect when you combine soy + sodium which is where the problem comes from? I think there's also some data on estrogen causing an increased sensitivity to sodium, and higher sodium retention in the body? So eating soy might amplify the effect of sodium on the body? If it's a salt thing, and cultures that eat a ton of soy also eat a ton of salt, then shouldn't we be seeing an epidemic of high blood pressure, heart disease, and strokes in places like Japan?

Probably a necessary evil and net benefit at our current societal stage of development. But we should also probably move past it at some point soon. Like everything, it all comes down to survival. It's in the best interest for both males and females to try and isolate their preferred sexual partner to guarantee their offspring gets the genetics that they find desirable. Most men want to make sure they aren't raising some other guy's child. Most women want to lock in a man to provide for them, who isn't going to leave them for someone else, and leave them raising a kid on their own. Should women have to deal with slut shaming? No. Is it easier than dealing with constant paranoia and jealousy from your partners or potential partners? Or women worrying about other women stealing their man? Yes. When women slut shame other women to their female friends, there's an implicit understanding of "You can trust me, I would never do that to you." When men slut shame women to male friends, there's a sense of "I'm a higher-value male than to need to sleep with the village sl*t", again having standards kind of implies to male friends that they have a bro-code and won't try to steal another man's girl. Inter-gender slut shaming creates "healthy" (in lower-stage societies only) social boundaries. Again enforcing a sense of "we're better than that". Even if two people want to bone, they understand the social taboo and risks associated with it, and how everyone else will perceive them.

Happy for him Also where do I find this type of theatre LOL

Most people are dumb and require it. You're probably the exception. It's easier to standardize everything and make certain that everyone gets all the basics upfront, rather than getting hundreds of questions about how to do stuff for weeks down the road once they start working. If you cover the basics, then people can hit the ground working and actually start working with minimal supervision. Especially if you're working on commission, they don't care if you have confidence or good communication. The good people who already have those skills will rise to the top, and the rest will fail to hit quotas and get demoralized until they quit, or are fired. For larger companies it's easier to just churn through people en masse and pick out the promising ones, as opposed to trying to train up a dud. Some of it is also just corporate bloat and bureaucracy. I had one office job that made me watch probably 10 hours a year of the same videos on health and safety, workplace harassments, safe lifting, fire safety, WHMIS/OSHA/MSDS, etc and then do quizzes about them on company time.

Thought this was going to be serious, did not expect a Joel Haver and Trent Lenkarski cameo lol