I don't think they're the type to do that. I do know some girls who I play other online games with who may give IC a try, although I won't bring them here because my posts on this forum are a liability.

> Chris_Balsz wrote:

> this business of getting a female to say hello to you is the hard part>

It's easy. Show her the $.

I can't answer your question until you answer mine. It's a matter of understanding what your logic is, which right now makes no sense.

Avo,

I'm not sure what your point is about the most intelligent people not being the wealthiest in the world. You seem to presume that all intelligent people have the potential to become wealthy, but since they aren't they must value something else. But if that is your reasoning, it's fallacious.

Is that a negative $500?

> Lizon wrote:

> I live in the south >.<

If anything our heat keeps us thin, all you northerners sit inside 8 months out of the year and do nothing and get fat. >

Naw. In my state people are pretty active on the lakes and they enjoy winter sports like hockey. And food is more important than exercise. If you eat bad, then you better burn it off with exercise. If you eat right, you can be thin without exercise. Although, yes, exercise is important for other health reasons.

Yell,

Actually, it is social advancement. You're too old fashioned, and that's why you're still a virgin (no insult intended).

Finally Yell is getting the help he needs.

My point being that fulfilling the model of a "man" is not selected for or beneficial in this world. Most of the most powerful people in the world became powerful because they were ruthless in many ways, taking leisure in ethics and law. Their power has made them arrogant and even licentious. If being a "man" had a return, then more powerful men would do it. In fact, more men would be "men," but since it doesn't have a return only fools try to be "men."

I find it amusing that others have an ideal of what it means to be a man, because it's entirely arbitrary and few even live up to it.

But, being powerful absolutely rocks. The recipe for power requires several man-like traits such as independence, but others like "doing the right thing" are for fools. In some ways I may be some what foolish by doing the latter, since I am usually honest about my intentions with others, but I prefer having a relationship based on honesty than deception. Two years ago I even told a conservative Catholic woman I wouldn't date her because she wouldn't make herself sexually available to me, and I hope my honesty enlightened her on the reason(s) she couldn't get a boyfriend.

Now that you are becoming an adult, you can choose to either live for yourself or for others. These other idiots live for others and what's expected of them, and consequently they will never fully enjoy the rewards of life. In your case, you chose to live for an ideal that others should earn their respect. You have to realize the world isn't governed by how it should go. If you keep thinking that way, you will live a life of disappointment and guilt. Embrace the dark side where you come first, but remember the value of diplomacy, which is something you are lacking in.

That's why I said freeway, heh. Ofc, I would never drive 40mph in a residential area lol.

I will say this again, as I have said it in previous threads. I hate reforms in favor of positive freedom. In my view, it isn't even freedom at all. Positive freedom is a kind of government intervention that favors a group perceived to be of lower status than the majority with the intention of leveling the playing field. Positive freedom can manifest in policies such as affirmative action and special grants. My main reason for hating policies that create positive freedom is because they are opposed to meritocracy.

However, I am fully in favor of the kinds of freedoms that remove needless restraints. Such restraints could be employment questions that ask what sexual or religious preference you have, and solutions to these kinds of biased restraints could be outlawing such questions from being asked and requiring promotional procedures to be more "blind."