MacAvoy
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Yea I thought you grew out of that phase a few weeks back?Master Bates said:aliasguy- the way you format your posts is really annoying. What are you, a 15 year old girl?
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Yea I thought you grew out of that phase a few weeks back?Master Bates said:aliasguy- the way you format your posts is really annoying. What are you, a 15 year old girl?
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.
MacAvoy said:Yea I thought you grew out of that phase a few weeks back?
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
I agree, but I really am sorry I was such an assh*le about it before.jophil28 said:Tolle is recycling all the hippy drippy stuff from the 60's and 70's . The" Power Of Now" is just New Age BS re-packaged with the commas in different places - Same ole' Zen style philospophy and just as boring as it was the first time I heard it. I am old enough to remember this stuff from the 70's . It is mostly fanciful nonsense and it re-emerges to suck in the gullible every decade or so. It just comes alomg in new wrapping.
This is the 'New Astrology' , guys.
Women love this this stuff . It is just emotional chocolate.
I disagree. I'm just as cautious about believing anything but irrationally disregarding anything one doesn't understand is narrowminded. Not everything we can't touch or see is chick candy brother.jophil28 said:Tolle is recycling all the hippy drippy stuff from the 60's and 70's . The" Power Of Now" is just New Age BS re-packaged with the commas in different places - Same ole' Zen style philospophy and just as boring as it was the first time I heard it. I am old enough to remember this stuff from the 70's . It is mostly fanciful nonsense and it re-emerges to suck in the gullible every decade or so. It just comes alomg in new wrapping.
This is the 'New Astrology' , guys.
Women love this this stuff . It is just emotional chocolate.
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.
You should you rat bastard :crazy: !aliasguy said:I agree, but I really am sorry I was such an assh*le about it before.
Nonsense-TurboOverCubicInches said:As humans, we give off energy.
This is why certain people have a certain "presence" when they walk into a room.
Absolutely.KarmaSutra said:Commander Interceptor,
I bought a copy of this for me and Brother Able and I have to say this is some pretty insightful stuff. It's a different perspective of how the body/mind correlate to happiness or weariness/sickness.
Though I wouldn't categorize Eckhart Tolle as a mystic he certainly believes in what he's experienced and it is that belief which builds his character and makes him a better person in the world.