I didn't wanna be outright insulting and compare him to geared PLing, but I'm afraid this is the gateway drug.

I have just the red slingshot. So yes.

The true gateway drug is wearing skinny jeans while you squat.

Good thing I can't even get in a deep squat with my new pairs I'm breaking in. Dunno who started me on this dark and dismal road, but now I have like 2-3k in jeans that will last me till 2030, barring of course any actual gains that would make them too small. (lol @ that happening tho)

W5D1

LBBS
X1 paused
Up to 325
X2
Up to 355, 335, 335, 335

Comp bench
X1
Up to 295
X2
Up to 295 (lol warmups), drop sets 280

Blistering heat during the bike rides no doubt taking lbs off the bar, but it is what it is.

W5D2

LBBS
X7
Up to 315

335x7 PR there for sure, but restraining myself from going HAM @10 every session.

Close grip bench
X4
Up to 260

W5D3
LBBS
X4
Up to 335, then 300, 300, 300

Should have done around 350 today but was a donk with form, leaning forward instead of sitting back and down, figured it back out at 300 but then was ready to repeat and move on

Red slingshot bench
X2
Up to 335

Weighted chins
X4
Up to +90

W6D1

LBBS
x1
up to 345, 345
drop sets 315
x5
up to 315
x10
275

Just a huge donk when it comes to squatting. No consistency.

Comp bench
X1
up to 315 wut wut there whenever I want it
drop sets 300, 300
x5
275

Tired. Good news bad news. That's life. If anyone knows of a way to gain fast access to $10k that doesn't involve sucking dick, please PM me and we will invoice it as a "massage."

Short some bitcoin

Rooting for you

Wasn't aware anyone else had seen Kumare, glad to hear some people have. I had pretty conflicted views after seeing it.

Thanks BGP.

What were your conflicted views after seeing Kumare?

okay you do it first and show me how it's done

You have to be willing to suffer a negative move when you short sell, if you can't stomach a potential $2k loss for a potential $10k gain (for example) then stay far far far far far away from the idea of short selling.

What if I short Syndr0m's short? Sounds like easy money

This. And depends for what you need 10k. Bank loan? Cash advance on cc? Friends and family? How good are you at poker?

And to the theme depression: a really good decision to go on meds. And give a Yoga another chance. May be more power yoga where you do the whole hour just the physical side and no guru talking. It forces your mind to focus just on your body. You just have to focus to keep the asanas and not forget to breathe to be able to do it at all. I found it always super good for my mental state.

It's been 5 years so I might be remembering things wrong, but my impression at the time was that half way through he realizes what he's doing is pretty ****ed up and tries to turn it into a positive message.

The woman who storms out at the reveal (and likely the one during the "several months later recap" who is still refusing to talk to him) was trying to start a business and had invited him for special classes and was even teaching his "method". She's got every right to be mad for what happened and its reveal could potentially ruin her financially, but starting at the beginning:

I don't think he had a very clear plan where this movie was going when he started filming. There was a lot of stuff at the beginning where he was just out to make people look stupid... which is pretty easy. It was also easy for him to do it morally because they were just random strangers who he knew nothing about. When he decides to take on his own students for a long period of time he can't do that anymore; they become actual people, not just complete strangers, and he grows to like them. The movie then takes a pretty big turn where he's still kind of trying to show how people are sheep and will believe anything but at the same time combating the fact that what he's doing could hurt these people that he likes and who are generally pretty nice people who just want to improve their life.

The message changes drastically at this point imo and I'm not sure he pulls off the new message (whatever it's supposed to be) by the end of the film. The ending is a bit abrupt too, and I suspect it's because he realizes that he is potentially hurting these nice people. To me at least, the documentary turned into being more about him than what he set to do. It was almost like if we were to watch a documentary of Thremp making people look stupid, but sometime during filming he blossomed into a real human being capable of empathy.

I just couldn't quite figure out the message(s), and even if I had some idea of what they were at the time I watched the movie, I wasn't sure I agreed with them.

Have you seen "The Big Short" or any of the other movies about the financial crisis?

You describe what is basically a Credit Default Swap that was used by guys like John Paulson to make billions during the financial crisis.

Do the math also, to short and make $10k you need the price of BTC to fall by a percentage that equals $10k against what you short.

$50k short? You need BTC to fall 20% etc

That post is worthless without spoiler pics

Interesting thoughts. It's been some time since I saw the doc. I didn't recall the woman who had made a significant financial investment that could be ruined. I need to watch it again.

When I think of the doc, I think of high profile gurus such as Deepak Chopra who espouse a New Age philosophy that repurposes concepts and language that feel intuitively appealing and correct but end up being vacuous nonsense if you know anything about what they're discussing.

I mean my god. This guy.

Big Short is where I got the jab that I could short Syndr0m's short

bgp,

The part where I find empathy for people is almost as absurd as someone thinking an interview with an author about a movie is discussing the book. Gotta be a real ****ing dumbass to think either of these things are possible.

Lol looked at the imdb page and didn't see her. I have no idea how to find who she is.

I think that he started off with something like this kind of in mind although not that well thought out. He doesn't follow through though. The end of the movie is "find the guru inside yourself" he goes from being a fraud whose only purpose is to make fun of people to becoming a fraud who is very active in several people's lives, realizing that's he's gone too far and realizing it's unethical, and then tagging on some catch phrase at the end of the movie to try to make everything ok. I feel like it just doesn't make any point particularly well. I mean if his point was frauds are bad, then ending by showing all of people he fooled coming out to hug him (minus the woman he might have ruined and some others) then what message is it giving about frauds?


Wow that was painful to watch. Also lol at the guy at the end.

Exactly! which is why if that were to happen midway through a documentary on you making people look foolish then the nature of the documentary will change drastically to now cover what once seemed impossible.

So you've been stewing over me proving you wrong for months now and this is the strawman you come up with? Better go back to the drawing board. Just because the discussion started off about the movie doesn't mean they didn't also discuss the book. They did discuss the book. He was asked for the very answer we were trying to solve, and the author agreed with me. Better luck next time.

I'm a let you finish but you guys can keep that in the LC thread

Its k Busto. I'm happy to take a high stakes reading comp bet. Rich get richer. Or whatever it is they say.

Busto,

I only really know you from the LC thread but you come across as a really decent person and I enjoy your posting. It was actually the comment you made about your father that brought me to your log. Things your parents say when you are younger can have a profound impact not only then but later on in life.
In regards to your depression, it can get better and that's something to try and hold onto when you are at your lowest.

Deepak on that stage is just bound to fail. It's basically the same as sitting in a room full of atheists trying to convince them that God is real. It will always sound like madness. Mad respect for him for still going through it and trying to make spiritual and scientific ends meet. The several times the 3rd guy goes "what are you even talking about?? IT MEANS NOTHING!?" is the real joke of this video. Obviously has no clue how to interpret Deepak's words and probably never experienced any deeper state of awareness. I found the comment "you have to stop with being the Jihadists of conservative science" pretty damn spot on. Alas, science is not advanced enough yet, so they simply can't.

No.... jesus a lot of these have horrific side effects that can be way worse than what you were suffering from and cause long term complications there's no treatment for. You can also have acute reactions that may threaten your own or other's lives. They should be absolute last resort and are frankly way over-prescribed. I can't make a judgement either way because IANAD and none of us know FauxB's full situation.

But ofc once you're on you can't get off without medical supervision.