Chev.Chelios
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I won't tho
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
God exists and he is the Christian God, and I can prove it with 100% absolute airtight logic
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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
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Nothing can "prove" metaphysical viewpoints as such, but here are some notes I've put together in the attempt:
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Life has a missing component to it.
We assess life by what we see: birth, a span of life, death...
...and everything follows some version of that pattern.
But the Human Condition is that we feel a sense of "endlessness" which conflicts with what we see.
Our consciousness operates within a context of sensing its "ongoing" nature. We may express it in terms of doing such‑and‑such "for posterity", our children, the future of the planet, etc. — but it's actually an expression of our sense that, somehow, we will be "present" during that future event.
Why, then, would we feel "eternal" if we evolved from a life force which never had an eternal characteristic? If life's nature is fundamentally temporary, why would one of its species conceive of a "self-permanence" which exists nowhere in nature's species-generating cauldron of evolutionary production?
That's the mismatch between man's spirit and his physical being — our "Existential Crisis."
The Missing Component is:
It required an intervention to reconnect man to eternal life. No labor of man nor intricate theorem produced by his creative mind could produce this missing component. We were helplessly on our own.
The Divine Intervention of the Messiah and his sacrifice on the behalf of fallen man was the required dynamic to interject into man's condition to restore the Full Dimension of life: the reestablishment of Eternal Existence as a fundamental characteristic of life.
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Life has a missing component to it.
We assess life by what we see: birth, a span of life, death...
...and everything follows some version of that pattern.
But the Human Condition is that we feel a sense of "endlessness" which conflicts with what we see.
Our consciousness operates within a context of sensing its "ongoing" nature. We may express it in terms of doing such‑and‑such "for posterity", our children, the future of the planet, etc. — but it's actually an expression of our sense that, somehow, we will be "present" during that future event.
Why, then, would we feel "eternal" if we evolved from a life force which never had an eternal characteristic? If life's nature is fundamentally temporary, why would one of its species conceive of a "self-permanence" which exists nowhere in nature's species-generating cauldron of evolutionary production?
That's the mismatch between man's spirit and his physical being — our "Existential Crisis."
The Missing Component is:
- This life was created as an eternal existence.
- The eternal "fuel" from the Lifeforce was cut off in the Genesis account of the Fall of Man.
It required an intervention to reconnect man to eternal life. No labor of man nor intricate theorem produced by his creative mind could produce this missing component. We were helplessly on our own.
The Divine Intervention of the Messiah and his sacrifice on the behalf of fallen man was the required dynamic to interject into man's condition to restore the Full Dimension of life: the reestablishment of Eternal Existence as a fundamental characteristic of life.
I will go a step further OP...I can prove that you have NO free will (Ephesians 1:4) and that" PREDESTINATION" (taught throughout scripture) is the main focus of the Bible,but I won't.... you already have a "reserved seat " that is eternal waiting for you in heaven or the lake of fire.(so it would be pointless to try and convince you otherwise )
taiyuu_otoko
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There is no such thing as free will, at least not as commonly thought.
There is no such thing as predestination.
It is quite possible that things are not true yet provable, and unprovable yet true.
It is also possible that this is all a massive computer simulation a couple hundred years out in the future, or future that is 200 years out from what we might describe as now.
And this final sentence is not true.
There is no such thing as predestination.
It is quite possible that things are not true yet provable, and unprovable yet true.
It is also possible that this is all a massive computer simulation a couple hundred years out in the future, or future that is 200 years out from what we might describe as now.
And this final sentence is not true.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Haha
Smartly put.
Our world might be an atom and being viewed under a microscope by others as an anomaly in their 4th dimension universe. To us they might as well be Gods.
Even you would could be a God to a 2D creature. Simply because you do amazing feats that's impossible for them.
Bible_Belt
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe in the same god.
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I've heard this computer simulation theory before. Of course, it then begs the question where did the computer come from, and who is running it?
logicallefty
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Yep. And many religions besides Christianity believe Jesus existed. They just don't all agree with the powers he had and what he did.
Then you got Agnostic folks like me who believe he existed but that he was not the son of any God, he was the son of a mother who was a cheating wh0re who didn't want to get caught. I still believe he was a man who did a lot of good tho.
Actually this is completely false.The Christian God the only God I might add is 3 in one..the father,the son,the holy spirit.The Muslim and Jewish God is only one they are not a " trinity" like the Christian God is they have a completely different nature thus not the same God at all.
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
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Abrahamic religion, Abraham god= Muslim,jew, christian god.
It just the Christian in the medieval age decided at a papal council to make 3 in 1 the official representation of Abraham god.
That's something Islam and Judaism don't agree
In the Quran, Islam call the Jews and Christians their cousins and lost faith brother
Under Islam, Jews and Christians can cohabit
Bible_Belt
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At least in an academic sense, Islam is supposed to view the New and Old Testament as the first two of three holy books, with the Koran being the third. ISIS have a reputation for being the most to-the-letter followers of the Koran, and they believe that Jesus (not Mohamed) is coming back to Earth to save them from us (I am not making that up).
I also think that the Taoist idea of attempting to follow "the way" is very similar to Christianity. Jesus said 'I am the way, the truth, and the light."
The other major world religion is Hinduism, and their concept of karma is supposed to be different than the idea of a judgmental god, but in practice, it's the same as every other religion - be nice to people and your life will go better.
I also think that the Taoist idea of attempting to follow "the way" is very similar to Christianity. Jesus said 'I am the way, the truth, and the light."
The other major world religion is Hinduism, and their concept of karma is supposed to be different than the idea of a judgmental god, but in practice, it's the same as every other religion - be nice to people and your life will go better.
Genesis 1:26... God said "Let US make man in OUR image" it was not because of some fruity Catholic council meeting that Christians believe in the trinity.(I am not a "free willie" Catholic anyways).It is because the Bible teaches a trinity.Also Jesus saying "I and the father are one" (John 10:30) The trinity is all over the new and old testament.Also Islam is not an Abrahamic religon.
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I've even heard Hinduism being described as having one god, it's just that they give a name to each facet of god: Shiva the destroyer, Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, etc. This may just be a way of making it more palatable to Western ears however, for those who are trying to bridge the eastern and western religions.
Bible_Belt
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Ancient Native American religion is mostly theory at this point, because they never wrote it down, and then they all died when white people arrived. But there is some evidence to indicate that many tribes were monotheistic.
"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.