"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.

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Are we really living in the reality we believe?

Who Dares Win

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Have you ever wonder if we're not in the reality we believe we are?

I'm not talking about a matrix style simulation altough some things like dejavus are clearly interesting and the official explanation is not really that convincing.

I often see similarities between our lifes and softwares where a programmer can create an event that force the software to act in a certain way.

Think of the macro environment in terms of politics and economics working as a operation system update which necessarily lead secondary software to evolve themselves.

Also phenomenons which are hard to explain as the fibonacci sequences on organic growth or mathematical formulas that basically code what we find attractive and what is not.

Wheter we observe a flower or the proportions of a statue we can see precise numbers.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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Indeed, if one has the time to ruminate in these subjects it can get kinda weird. Our whole universe could be a speck of dirt in the grander scheme. I trouble myself with more mundane issues since it’s a crazy maker. Now if I could plug my head in and become a grand master at shotokan that would be cool…heh
 

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Our reality can only ever be what we experience.

It does not matter if it is code based; our conscious experience is the same.
 

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Have you ever wonder if we're not in the reality we believe we are?

I'm not talking about a matrix style simulation altough some things like dejavus are clearly interesting and the official explanation is not really that convincing.

I often see similarities between our lifes and softwares where a programmer can create an event that force the software to act in a certain way.

Think of the macro environment in terms of politics and economics working as a operation system update which necessarily lead secondary software to evolve themselves.

Also phenomenons which are hard to explain as the fibonacci sequences on organic growth or mathematical formulas that basically code what we find attractive and what is not.

Wheter we observe a flower or the proportions of a statue we can see precise numbers.
No. It's all an illusion. We're all being watched like in The Truman show.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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Reality is what you see before you interpret anything. What most people call truth these days is for the most part their interpretation of reality.

Deja Vu is more likely to be a result of how we process memories of similar past events. Memory is not as tell reliable as most people feel comfortable believing.

Mathematics is a system invented from our observations of reality, not the other way around. The plants were always this way, then we came along and invented a simple way to express what we saw.
 
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