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@Victor you finally showed us the real you, a square!
@woodsmoke when ever in history of the world has dopamine been so easily and wide spread available to such wide spread demographic?
You make a good point, but at this point it seems like stubbornness because the point I'm making is still not coming across correctly.
You mention opium addiction. True. When has a 5 year old in a first world country have access to opium?
Never to this degree until now.
There has never been a time addiction was so wide spread.
Only times that even come close was the Roman Empire. Even then, did kids have ipads back then?
Most of the damage here is being done at an early age. We haven't even seen the damage yet since it's happening in real time.
You will see in 20 years time when it becomes more obvious and apparent
Generally speaking, any time someone says something to the effect of "humans have never been/done X like they do today," you can be pretty well certain the individual saying it is completely and utterly full of shit.
Sure, we build different sets and props. Cast fresh actors. Dye the curtains and upholstery a different color. Maybe even change up the emphasis on the recitation of a given line.
Window dressing, nothing more. The fundamentals of who we are and how we behave may as well be set in stone as far as history is concerned.
Today it's smartphones. 100 years ago it was opium and alcohol. I don't know what the vice du jour was 1,000 years ago but I'm certain, if one were to look into the historical records of the time, one would find any number of ways in which people, particularly young people, chased the metaphorical dragon.
All this has happened before and will happen again. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And/or speaking from a position of profound ignorance.
Read More@Vermillion-Rx I think women are going backwards. They’re not becoming blue pilled, but they’re getting further from understanding the system dynamics it seems. I think the politicization of dating and gender has led to more sloganistic thinking - phrases become like spells, incanted to end uncomfortable lines of logic such as “he’s avoidant.”
52m ago Ask TRP Forum
How to deal with other men joining your conversations with chicks?
I was talking to this girl outside of class and a guy from class joins our conversation and doesn’t leave. Later classes, she asks him to send her stuff from class but they never act like they like each other. Every time I see her, the guy is there to but in and act like we’re a class friend group. I didn’t like her too too much but I wanted to know what to do next time something like this happens.
20h ago The Hub
@Victor wow
We're supposed to be Brothers here, I have nothing to prove to you and what's more, I respect you.
I've been training since I was 7 years old, I was in the NSW state team for 5 years. I'm a 1st Dan Black Belt.
And one of my favourite kata is Empi. I just really like the flow and the transitions. Hard and fast, soft and smooth moves. I like how explosive it is. I like that it has some fancy techniques.. and yet it is so simple. And it's the simplicity that makes it stand out because you get to exerce your basics. The same one's we stand in line doing week in week out. So when I/we do Kata Empi, so much of your Karate gets to be used in it. Especially the hips. And it remains increadibly conscise.
More importantly, Karate is about humility and respect I teach now and I enjoy passing on what I've learnt to my students.
Read MoreHere is what she is missing (and its quite sad)
She is disparaging her pool of available men BUT what she fails to realise is that this (in her mind terrible) range of options is nothing but a mirage anyway.
I know this kind of woman. I have listened to them across dinner tables, their tales of woe from the dating game at over 40. They all sing the same song:
"The guys in my cohort are useless and rubbish - I go on dates with them and I have never met one that I would like to marry"
And I listen to them in silence. I never tell them, because they would only shoot the messenger.
The thing I would tell them if I could?
Listen lady, you are not understanding the situation. None of these guys that you are going out of dates with are actually interested in marrying you. Nobody is interested in marrying you. They are simply looking for some sex. And they are going out on dates, because that is what they think that need to do to get sex. You're thinking marriage, they are thinking how long do I need to listen to this nonsense before we get to the sex.
You are not happy with your 'options' but what you don't even realise is that they are not actually options. Those guys, the divorced dads, the freyed around the edges guys, with receding hairlines and middle age spread, those very same guys that you think are below you, would not marry you in a million years.
They are down dating. You don't realise it, but they are down dating. They are realists. They would rather be fucking a woman 20 years younger than you, but they are realistic and they know the game. They think that the only way to get sex is to pose as a guy that's interested in 'something real' or 'something long term', go on OLD and try and find a post wall woman that is desperate for a bailout.
Their strategy is to pose as an interested party that might bail out a leftover, then 'sample the goods', then ghost you and move on.
You keep telling us its happening over and over again, that you keep getting ghosted, and you can't put two and two together
But lady, I have even worse news for you. Are you ready to hear some bad news?
No matter how much you hate what is happening to you now (in your 40s), you are really not going to like the next phase of your life.
Right now, you are getting some interest on OLD from what you might think are 3rd tier men (not tall, not ripped, not billionaires, you know, ordinary men). Very soon, you will not be getting any calls from them either. Very soon, you will be invisible even to broke 80 year old men living in a trailer.
If you don't like what is happening now, as your RMV hovers around zero, you will really not enjoy things as it dips below zero and into negative territory.
Read MoreWomen have a problem, and it's that they don't listen to men.
There is nothing wrong with self improvement. The problem is that women improve in ways that don't fucking matter to men then they mistakenly assume that it's men who are the problem.
We tell them what we want, they continue to do what they want and act surprised when we aren't interested in their results.
You win some, you lose some, and this is just one girl. I wouldn't put too much into one rejection, and all the things it could possibly mean. Just take it, move on, and don't chase. Also, don't focus one just one girl at a time (sniper approach Vs. shotgun approach).
As for you ending up with no dance partners, that makes sense when you got dumped by yours, and everyone probably already have one. I guess, I don't dance, so don't know exactly how that works. But if it's humiliating to end up alone each time, then either quit, or set yourself up with a new dance partner (invite a new girl to join the class or something).