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Well, we all have different goals. I too started out to get laid but in the end I focused more on developing myself. No I completely disagree with the ways in which you suggest self improvement. It is not about getting a hobby or something like that. It is about liberating your mind. Facing your fears and blasting them into nothingness.
I am sure that a lot of guys (the choir) wanna get a better life. The life they want is just not the life they achieve by learning to ride a motorbike or surfing. It is a life they can benefit from by developing their inner strength. Kill their demons.
I see pickup not as a final goal to get laid but as a step in achieving something bigger!
Ezo
Of course everyone wants a better life! And everyone wants to be more confident etc.. but is that pick ups goal?I am sure that a lot of guys (the choir) wanna get a better life. The life they want is just not the life they achieve by learning to ride a motorbike or surfing. It is a life they can benefit from by developing their inner strength. Kill their demons.
I see pickup not as a final goal to get laid but as a step in achieving something bigger!
Ezo
Pick up is a tool, it gets used for various different goals, but what it is, is studying how to get laid.
Martial arts, have often been used to help develop character -humility, courage, confidence, discipline-
But if you look at the history of MA, it's key feature is that it is a method used for defending yourself, incapacitating and even killing another person.
To this day that is still what a martial arts system focus's on, sure it's a far more common goal that martial arts are used as part of peoples fitness plan, and have kids sent to these schools to build their character.
But this does not change what a martial art is.. martial arts and PU are not defined by what the majority uses it for. They are defined by what they are, and what in their origonal un-abstracted state they represent.
PU is about getting laid. That may not be your objective, or what you use it for, and this neither re-inforces or detracts from your justification to pursue self-development in PU. But it does not change what PU is.
PU objectively is, guy walks into bar, guy approaches, guy talks, guy closes, guy goes home with girl. guy and girl have sex.
The semantics of PU meaning is ultimatly subjective, the only objective thing about it is.. that it involves getting laid through consentual sex. That is what defines PU that is what it "is".
Any ultimate meaning you sub-scribe to it is subjective.
