| lol, point taken.... I definately should have stated my point more elequently... Please picture me saying that whole line about fucking in a super cute and innocent way. A lot of times the real meaning behind what I have to say gets lost in translation from thought to writing.
And I apologize if I made a blanket statement. Not all PUAs are the same for sure... You have good style L.A. : )
As for The Art of Seduction. Please don't forget to remind us zip that that is only your opinion. Zip, for the past year I have been studying.... shall we say.... my own form of PUA as a full time job. Stripping has allowed me a perfect resource to be able to test what I learn as well as spend a shit ton of money on books. lol, They sure as hell knew me at Borders! Any ways, I don't watch T.V. I read. I don't play video games, i write. I never once claimed to be an expert on PUA, the reason why I'm getting into this forum now is because I'm now moving into the actual PUA lit! : ) I wish I could say I've read a PUA book in total, but then I would be lying, most of what I've gotten is off the net and in short E-book.
Anyhow here's some of the material I've been using to understand the human psyche... which I know is incomplete, but My work is never over! every question creates even more questions into an infinite spectrum of nuance. One other note, my books haven't arrived from shipping from Hawaii... this list is by all means incomplete right now, I will update it hopefully today when my books come in. Any how:
Books I've read so far:
Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
Art of War, SunTzu <---use symbolicly of course
How to persuade People who Don't want to be Persuaded,
The Science and Practice of Influence, Cialdini
Power Persuassion, ? <---really good
The 48 laws of Power, Greene
The Art of Seduction (of course, shit, read it twice), Greene
The Owners Manual to the Brain, ?
How to Win the Crowd, Steve Cohen (amazing book on entertaining)
Magic and Showmanship, Nelms
How to Talk to Anyone, Lowndes
Books in line for study
Self Theories,
Social Animal & Age of Propaganda, Aaronson
NLP Turning Frogs into Princes & The Structure of Magic, Bandler
Irrisistable Attraction, Hogan
33 strategies of War
The Art of Deception, (<---actually a book on logic and debate)
Secrets of Comedy Writing
The Red Queen
Damnit, I haven't seen my books in weeks now, There's so many more damnit, I can't remember though, there's too many
Now I agree with you that it isn't "right" to try and transform yourself into something your not, unless of course you enjoy doing that... And hey, haven't all of you done that at somepoint in your career as a PUA? I mean we all have to pretend like we're confident when we're not on the inside, or cool, when we actually doubting ourselves. but anyhow I guess I'm just spiritually comfortable with myself to the point that I'm always aware of what I'm doing, I'm strong in my core, I know who I am, I'm strong in my inner world so I am free to play as I like in my outer world... in a sense I guess anyways, that's just the way I see it.
I love taoist philosophy which pretty much states that everything good is also bad and everything bad is also good.... therefore it doesn't really make much of a difference.... I could list all the Spiritual books/knowledge under my wing too... okay I will, just to show that I know what I'm talking about in the above paragraph:
OSHO!!! <--- love it... "insights for a new way of thinking", he's a spiritual guru who curses. Books of his I've read: Creativity, Awareness, Intuition, Freedom, Courage
Buddhism ---> awakening the buddha within, Surya Das
Integral Vision, Wilber
Life after Life, Moody
The Taoist Classics Vol.3
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
The Baghhvad Gita
The Book of Secrets, Osho <--- the hugest book ever on Tantra
Auto Biography of a Yogi
We, The Arcturians
What The Bleep do We Know?
The Secret
Not to mention study on conciousness, hypnotism, Sales technique, presentation technique fuck, there's just way too much shiat that has all rolled into one for me
Anyways... I guess this is just more about me.
See, a lot of people might think you guys are playing dirty right? but it's just becuase they don't understand. It's the same way for me I guess, you guys may think I'm playing dirty, but really the way I see it, is I'm only a little more dirty than you ; ).... I'm not trying to hide it either, at least do I get some points for that?
I've never tried to hide who I am, if someone figures it out, i fess up, and hope they still love me for all the social deviation I wreck on society. lol... although I have to admit that honestly, I don't care whether I get my way or not. I've reached inner peace.
Anyhow, I'm done defending myself, if you guys don't agree with my tactics, fine, If you guys dislike me because of my strategies, fine, But what the methods I use work. And I admit, that I have selfish motives as well, but I'm always trying to make this world a better place by encouraginf people to improve themselves, to keep learning, to connect with a HIGHER sense of self... which in my eyes balances out lows.... but that's just me.
We all have different ways of getting what we want. I understand if you guys just don't understand or agree with mine. Seriously though, it's not so bad, it's just different.
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