"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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The American Empire is Finally Over!

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Geologists Find 90 Billion New Barrels of Oil in Arctic

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12481


This Discovery confirms what Lindsey Williams has been saying in his speeches, how the American Empire wanted to keep this a secret so they can make oil appear as a scarce resource and profit from oil producing countries, and middle east wars.
http://www.reformation.org/energy-non-crisis.html

No longer are countries bound to the will power of the American Empire which is Exxon, Shell, Halliburton, Mobile, other US Oil companies and American Government.

Peak oil is now renamed abundant oil, and many countries may stake its claim and sell oil using currency other than the Dollar.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

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.

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that first post makes no sense

America as a hegemony is limited by oil scarcity and lack of renewables. those of you who hate America should be worried that they found oil, not happy. that takes the focus off the energy crisis and allows our federal government to divert funds in other things instead, like bombs and sht

btw there's supposedly enough oil underneath Alaska to supply the US for 12 years but nobody wants to drill because it'll destroy the environment
 

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Lol! That's the funniest thing I've read in the last 6 months on this site! I think you stole this from Out There TV!!! You hack! You dirty hack!!!!
 

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Why does everyone believe in conspiracy theories? And why would the supposed discovery of 90 billion barrels of oil end the American Empire? It would only fuel it.
 

"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.

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teagan said:
Why does everyone believe in conspiracy theories? And why would the supposed discovery of 90 billion barrels of oil end the American Empire? It would only fuel it.
Yup, exactly! Irony is lost upon them.

The overwhelming vast majority of the members of this forum are young. People are suspectible to conspiracy theories when their personal lives lack control, what psychologists call an external locus of control. They need SOMEONE in control of their life, even if someone sinister. The teenage years are generally when people have the greatest dissonance and least control over their life; financially, occupationally, educationally, and socially. Further, the teenage years are when young people are transitioning from believing everything (which is a biological hard-wired impulse, as Richard Dawkins is fond of surmising) to just beginning to think critically and practicing skepticism; but, simultaneously, their cognitive filters are inexperienced and so they have difficulty filtering out bad ideas. (However, nonsensical beliefs tend to rebound after middle age. As Oscar Wilde pointed out, "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.")

There are a few other high risk groups for conspiracy theories, but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.

Just as a side note, last year I briefly had a roommate who believed every conspiracy theory. The guy was in his thirties, he was just getting off a five year suspension from a second DUI, and his life was a mess. He was amicable enough of a guy, but his beliefs about the moon landing being a hoax and modern life being reversed engineered from aliens, didn't surprise me.
 

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"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way" Franklin D Roosevelt
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

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.

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Haha, this still makes me laugh. I guess people have never heard of OPEC either.
 
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