Instead, you should be compassionate, have empathy, choose non-violence, avoid ego boosting, etc.--you get the point. Be humble and grounded, basically.

You should. I am not religious but I think Buddhism is one of the better religions and has a lot of good insights. I also don't think it is really at odds with TRP.

Let me tell you something: when I was younger, I screwed up and messed up chances with a couple of girls because I was stupid and too caring. In hindsight, I was sometimes trying to be nice, but then I realized: I actually hurt those girls by essentially also taking away THEIR chances of being happy with me.

Ever since then I learned that working on myself and improving and learning game not only makes ME happy but also makes the girls happy. What's important is to understand that the girl would NOT be better off if she wouldn't date with you. let's say you apply game and you have a good time with a girl but it turns out you two are not a good match for a LTR and her heart is broken and she is sad. Do you think this girl would, in hindsight, choose to NOT do the same thing again? Rarely. Chances are, she would still do it again because she enjoyed it, even knowing her heart would break.

Don't believe me? Just look around at how many girls hang out with bad guys and go back to them even if they get beaten. Do you think those girls are all braindead and stupid? That would be quite arrogant of you. No, they choose this because they enjoy the "good parts" so much that they prefer to also suffer through the bad parts. That's reality.

So what you are supposed to do is: live by your religion but don't interprete your religion wrong and making it an excuse not to act. There is nothing in Buddhism that prevents you from running game. The only thing it does is telling you not to run game if game contains really bad things like beating someone else up to get the girl - while this CAN in fact be part of game, you should not do that if you are following Buddhism.

Otherwise, please give a very concrete example of what happened and how Buddhism made game impossible and then you'll get a concrete answer.

And last but not least: religion is still made / carried on by people, by humans. Rules that might have might sense true hundreds of years ago do not necessarily apply to current times. So be mindful of that and don't follow religion blindly. Try to understand the core believes and the intention behind it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RPChristians/

PS: Don't get sidetracked with "religion is BS" or some new atheist BS. It's pointless and a waste of time.

FYI I'm an atheist.

I engaged a few times with RPC. The gist of that sub is: god first, RP second. So basically whenever there is a conflict or some discrepancy between TRP and god/Bible, the second one wins. That's basically handicapping yourself into half-BP half-RP position when it comes to engaging women - and that's b/c sexual strategy is amoral and Christian morality heavily resembles BP style of engaging with women. Not to mention women have no qualms about actively being immoral (not amoral) toward men by lying, half truths, keeping things from them - not b/c they are evil or have deliberate bad intentions (some do tho) but b/c their female nature tells them to play to their strengths and our weaknesses. Blame god, he made them that way.

That being said, here's another lesson from RPC: there's enough Bible verses and most of them are open to interpretation, to varying degrees, that you can just coast on quoting Bible verse that vaguely, maybe, probably means that you should fuck that girl. I've seen that happen. Go forth and multiply.

I really don't think there's any such thing as ethical game.

FYI I'm a PUA.

You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. For brevity, there are only 2 possible states: she wants to fuck you or she doesn't want to fuck you. If she does want to fuck you, you can be a convicted pedophile (as the tinder experiments showed) and that wont stop her at all. If she doesn't want to fuck you, no amount of being ethical or unethical will make her.

The purpose of the game is to understand the process of seduction, meaning to understand what happens between man and a woman from the moment they meet to the moment they end up in bed. There's a general framework to this process, but the specifics can often be tailored to both you and the girl. If you want to be "ethical" it's up to you to customize the process in a way that will satisfy your morality.

concerned about the women and other people who are going to get damaged by this shit.

How are women going to get damaged by game?

the larger culture that's going to descend into degeneracy

You overestimate how much many people actually do game and ow much impact does it have on anything else. There's a lot of "degeneracy" all over the place and I haven't seen guys on PUA forums scheming how to make something "degenerate". Maybe I'm not on the correct forums.

Ideally I, or any religious person for that matter, would've preferred to get with a simple, virgin girl with similar goals and values. Someone to stick together with through the thick and thin, no matter what. But in this and day, I'm uncertain if that's even a possibility.

I strongly urge you to suspend your Christianity for an hour or two and read the sidebar on the main sub without preconceived notions that this is degeneracy, unethical or that women are evil and so on - and do that until you understand, not agree with us. Read it like a car manual without moral judgments, you have your entire life to be Christian.

The reason I'm saying it like the is b/c you have MAJOR bluepill glasses on. You see, I haven't even read that line of your post and have correctly diagnosed your problem - "Christian morality heavily resembles BP style of engaging with women".

Finally, most likely, you want to get married. RP is generally opposed to the concept for various reasons, both cultural and sexual strategy ones. There are guys who swear marriage is the only proper way to live and they have their arguments, but for every guy like that there's 10 guys with horror stories about what their virgin wives with similar goals and values put them through once they decided they have enough of their husband.

My experience is that there are bluepilled and redpilled groups inside every religion. Birds of the same feather flock together. These two groups are categorized as the “reform” or “modern” and the “traditional” or “orthodox” group.