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.
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.
That's an accepted fact, but Islam hardly has anything to do with it. Individual rulers always make their own rules. Consider Ulughbek who had the most advanced observatory in the world at the time. He was ruler of his country, and he bent Islam to his will. He build mosques - still standing today - with an insignia "Striving for Knowledge is the duty of every Muslim". He basically forced Science on his people.Prove it. History is subjective.
Muslims basically pillaged and stole from other societies.That's an accepted fact, but Islam hardly has anything to do with it. Individual rulers always make their own rules. Consider Ulughbek who had the most advanced observatory in the world at the time. He was ruler of his country, and he bent Islam to his will. He build mosques - still standing today - with an insignia "Striving for Knowledge is the duty of every Muslim". He basically forced Science on his people.
And today we have other rulers, or powerful groups that say the exact opposite. Consider Boko Haram - "Education is forbidden [for Muslims]". And they are forcing it on their people.
Rulers and politicians are the problem, really. Those crazy religions are just interchangable.
If Muslims actually follow the whole Quran and don't cherry pick, Islam is not compatible with democracy or science.That's an accepted fact, but Islam hardly has anything to do with it. Individual rulers always make their own rules. Consider Ulughbek who had the most advanced observatory in the world at the time. He was ruler of his country, and he bent Islam to his will. He build mosques - still standing today - with an insignia "Striving for Knowledge is the duty of every Muslim". He basically forced Science on his people.
And today we have other rulers, or powerful groups that say the exact opposite. Consider Boko Haram - "Education is forbidden [for Muslims]". And they are forcing it on their people.
Rulers and politicians are the problem, really. Those crazy religions are just interchangable.
The roots of algebra are Greek. But it's development into workable equations, particularly quadratic equations, is most definitely (and mostly pre-Muslim) Arabic.I don't believe Muslims invented algebra. I wouldn't trust what bias far left wing professors say.http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/08/how-muslims-did-not-invent-algebra/
"In Renaissance Europe, he [al-Khwarizmi] was considered the original inventor of algebra, although it is now known that his work is based on older Indian or Greek sources.
There is archaeological evidence that the roots of algebra date back to the ancient Babylonians, and were then developed in Egypt and Greece. The Chinese and especially the Indians also advanced algebra and wrote important works on the subject."
I wouldn't trust what some liberal professors pushes. A Muslim took some one else's work, passed it off as his own.
So please explain how Muslims invented algebra.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Islamists such as Sayyid Qutb argue that since "Islam appointed" Muslims "as representatives of God and made them responsible for learning all the sciences," science cannot but prosper in a society of true Muslims. Many "classical and modern agree that the Qur'an condones, even encourages the acquisition of science and scientific knowledge, and urges humans to reflect on the natural phenomena as signs of God's creation." Some scientific instruments produced in classical times in the Islamic world were inscribed with Qur'anic citations. Many Muslims agree that doing science is an act of religious merit, even a collective duty of the Muslim community.Muslims basically pillaged and stole from other societies.
If Muslims actually follow the whole Quran and don't cherry pick, Islam is not compatible with democracy or science.
Those animals need ruthless dictators to keep their societies stable.
Tell that to the Muslim brotherhood, al-Qaida, bokoharrem and Isis. My son.Islamists such as Sayyid Qutb argue that since "Islam appointed" Muslims "as representatives of God and made them responsible for learning all the sciences," science cannot but prosper in a society of true Muslims. Many "classical and modern agree that the Qur'an condones, even encourages the acquisition of science and scientific knowledge, and urges humans to reflect on the natural phenomena as signs of God's creation." Some scientific instruments produced in classical times in the Islamic world were inscribed with Qur'anic citations. Many Muslims agree that doing science is an act of religious merit, even a collective duty of the Muslim community.
Tell that to your zionist overlords who deliberately created these organization groups to divide the middle east using their 'divide and conquer' technique. If you think ISIS and these other groups are a representation of Islam then you need to turn your television off, or the very least stop watching Fox News.Tell that to the Muslim brotherhood, al-Qaida, bokoharrem and Isis. My son.
The Quran also tells them to kill and humiliate nonbelievers.Tell that to your zionist overlords who deliberately created these organization groups to divide the middle east using their 'divide and conquer' technique. If you think ISIS and these other groups are a representation of Islam then you need to turn your television off, or the very least stop watching Fox News.
So does the Bible.The Quran also tells them to kill and humiliate nonbelievers.
It's misleading when you say that we created Isis. We just created an opportunity for them to take power when we pulled out of Iraq.
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.
We're talking about Islam not Christianity.So does the Bible.
Quite a contradicting paragraph. I don't know what your stance is.
As if Christianity and Islam does not stem from the same root.We're talking about Islam not Christianity.
Changing the subject.As if Christianity and Islam does not stem from the same root.
Are you arguing that Islam and Christianity (along with Judaism) are not under the umbrella of Abrahamic religions?Changing the subject.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
That's why Islam is the real issue.Here is a great article about ISIS that I posted a few months ago when it came out:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
US ...want ISIS to create its new state that will divide Syria and Iraq to 3 countries so Israel will be safer.
That may be true, but if so it reflects a poor understanding of ISIS. As a caliphate, they refuse to recognize any political borders. Any other rebel group, if you made the offer to stake off some land, give it to them, and leave them alone, they would eagerly accept it. But whatever we gave ISIS would never be enough; they would always be in constant war with Iraq (US) and Syria (Russia), and whoever else they could get to. That's the directive of the end times prophecy that they follow.
The real issue is allowing muslims into western countries. We didn't have problems until we allowed muslims in at great numbers back in the 90's. Non-westerners immigrating into western countries is the problem.That Atlantic article makes the very blunt, uncomfortable point that ISIS follows the Koran more closely word-for-word than any other Islamic people.
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.