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Re: Spirituality and Yoga. I often get into debates with myself, my inner monologue becoming a dialogue, and I'm often surprised, even shocked and disgusted, at what the other "guy" says. The rest of the time, the internal monologue is just static, old memories and idle fantasies, reducing...

Running on instinct, not following plans or paths. The "Zen state" of pure action, devoid of both conscious thought and feeling. I actually experienced this once; 3 am, drafting a floor plan for my final project, did half a dozen lines without paying any conscious mind to either the pencil...

There was an article in the San Diego Union Tribune about this sort of thing, that positive thinking/feeling states have all sorts of benefits. Gut reactions, including emotions and stray thoughts, aren't easily controlled though. It would be quite difficult to fight yourself, constantly...

Instead of a book, he had ambition, intelligence, and years of effort.

I kept reading because I feel like I'm supposed to want wealth and power. Is your money and power making you happy? I ask because I can honestly say that I would rather be happy than be rich; I would rather have a satisfying job than a high paying one. And power just leads to more...

I see a lot of the same unspoken questions being asked, the same "methods" being investigated over and over again. Which works fastest/easiest? What should I regurgitate when the time comes? How little do I need to attract and seduce women? And the mother of them all: what should I focus...

Without desire, it seems like you would also have no motivation. I'm not confident that sexual attraction is enough by itself. Attraction is a state, a physiological condition triggered by an external stimulus, not a motive. Desire, ego gratification through sexual pleasure and conquest, is a...

Actually I have been living in a shell - schizoid personality disorder - boring, lonely, and mediocre ... and fine with it. The closest thing to a "powerful and popular" person that I've ever met were my grade-school tormentors: rich jocks. They were everything that Pook described, but it...

Pook makes it all sound so easy ... but then the post ends and it really sinks in how sickeningly far from manhood you really are.

What advice would you give a guy with no sense of smell? I'm not kidding.

I can relate to this. I am a perfectionist, someone trapped with unreasonably high standards ... so high, in fact, that I often simply don't bother trying, because painful failure is inevitable. These high standards are directed almost exclusively towards myself. My psychologist has said...

I'm confused - wouldn't being put on a pedestal by a woman, where you'd be calling all the shots and the woman would do anything to keep you happy so you'll stay with her, be a good thing? It sounds to me like that is exactly the position that you would want to be in.

It makes you wonder, what went wrong? How did things get this bad? When and why did we drop our guard and allow the feminists to destroy everything we held dear? What we are doing here at this site is so much bigger than getting laid. Just as the noblemen and scholars of the Renaissance...

I agree, as a general lack of faith in myself is pretty much my whole problem. It causes fear of pain and fear of failure, and without enough discipline or willpower to act in spite of it, I end up stuck. I also notice (in me at least) that it messes with your perceptions of cause and effect...

IMO, the hardest thing for the AFC is learning masculinity. The AFC is having to find and use something that he can't easily recognize and really doesn't know anything about, all while going against the grain of New Age hippie/feminist programming that has corrupted him. Masculinity has...

Ours is a culture based almost entirely on deprogramming masculinity and reprogramming you into a feminist-friendly consumer-drone. It sends shivers down your spine; especially because when it happens, you're too young to even know it's happening. Now you have to deprogram yourself ... not...

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I have pretty much the same problem. Accutane got rid of the bumps, but the red marks, along with some shallow scars still remain. I'll try the multi-vitamin lotion, but unfortunately, I can't tan; I just get freckles.

I don't think it would work very well with big and complex internal problems. Apathy, pessimism/skepticism, inhibition/repression, mental/spiritual weakness, nonexistent self-esteem/confidence, and the like, aren't based on simple things like physique, wages, and social skills.

I'd still like to be good-looking.