You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Not hating on you mpimpin, you just doin your job, but that is a lame excuse.mpimpin said:i didn't delete it but probably due to political reasons. Its not a political forum
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Dont know why your thread was deleted but not the zeitgeist.ricorico said:I noticed my post on 9/11 rabbit hole is gone. Can anyone tell me why?
speakeasy said:Dont know why your thread was deleted but not the zeitgeist.
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.
This is the most mind blowing post I've ever read. I can't believe how brainwashed I was.Quiksilver said:The mods are slowly taking away your freedoms and liberties. Very soon we will be issuing all SoSuave members with implanted RFID chips that will monitor your every movement. If an unauthorized thread is started, your chip will blow up.
Also, all posts made now cost $1, with an attached debt of $0.05. All payments must be made by April 15 of each year. If a payment is missed, the mods will come to your house and freeze all of your assets until Accounts Received is satisfied.
But yeah, if you want the thread back, start a thread asking for it back. Questioning how this forum is run isn't the best compromise for either party.
hope7 said:This is the most mind blowing post I've ever read. I can't believe how brainwashed I was.
I think the rabbit hole thread was deleted because the Zeitgeist was discussing the same EXACT topic. Why did you[ricorico] make that thread in the first place. I remember you posting in it, you knew the same exact discussion was happening in that thread.
I don't think there is a lot of name calling in the Zeitgeist thread. Other than LMS calling people a fascist because they want to silence his opinion. And then there is the occasional poster who surfaces that are so set in their ways that they call anyone who questions who was behind 911 un-American and sick.Also, they say no political threads, but Zeitgeist thread is allowed to stay and is 11 pages long even with name calling. WHY???? Because the mods agree with the original posts?
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
I agree 100%. This has been the tradition among intelligent men going all the way back to ancient Greece.Falcon said:It is men's nature to talk about things like politics, human nature, and the world around us, we naturally have that curiosity. Why suppress it in a forum where one of the main goals is self-improvement?
Well, the Zeitgeist thread was still active at the time you made your thread. The orginal topic of the Zeitgeist thread was the events surrounding 9/11 and the federal reserve. More like an interpretation of history. It was made polital by name calling. Your thread right off the bat went into name calling.ricorico said:I made the Rabbit hole thread because I wanted to seperate it from the Zeigleist thread.So threads aren't made on the same subject? If there was a problem, why not combine it with Zeitgeist thread.
Also, they say no political threads, but Zeitgeist thread is allowed to stay and is 11 pages long even with name calling. WHY???? Because the mods agree with the original posts?