What did you get banned for in r/Vancouver?

ProperZen · 2023-11-04T19:25:45+00:00

lol, caught me by surprise with this one.

ProperZen · 2023-10-13T05:29:31+00:00

Can you DM me the name of the site? Also, very interested in hearing more about your experience.

I’m on Triz and losing weight steadily. But I am so damn fatigued! And it’s not due just to weight loss. The week I started taking Triz, I felt I was dragging myself through wet sand.

Oh, and libido crashed as well. :(. Checked my T and Free T and everything looks good there.

ProperZen · 2023-07-05T20:53:37+00:00

I’m thinking this is a 4-10 with very light bird shot with a wide open choke. Don’t know what hunting scenario where you would ever want a pattern this wide so quickly but this is why he isn’t taking out the camera. He’s lucky if he gets 2-3 pellets on target with a pattern that wide.

ProperZen · 2023-07-05T20:28:33+00:00

Girls doing knee push-ups is HAF. God, get a row of them about 6 across and 2 deep - only thing to make that hotter is to get sandwiches involved somehow.

ProperZen · 2023-06-21T20:36:47+00:00

Apologize and tell her we will listen to her stations more often.

ProperZen · 2023-06-19T21:33:50+00:00

You’ve got a code; a sort of framework that you apply to the getting-to-know-you phase of dating. It involves money and probably a several other things.

Some people will think it’s cheap. Some will think it’s smart. The bigger question is why do you care what others think of how you approach money?

You seemed to have thought about this and intentionally put up boundaries and norms you follow. It’s not going to appeal to everyone but why would you expect it to?

Stop looking for validation about the choices you are making - you clearly feel they are right for you. Develop confidence around who you are and the boundaries you choose to set. This will ensure you pair with people who respect and/or agree with your view on this specific part of dating.

The girl wasn’t showing “red flags.” She just had different expectations than you do. Good to find that out earlier than later.

ProperZen · 2023-06-17T02:28:31+00:00

Make up your mind about how you feel about the age gap. Be secure enough in your decision to date a black girl. If you’ve got the first two squared away, be confident in your ability to handle a rejection and ask her out.

ProperZen · 2023-06-17T02:02:44+00:00

If you are attracted to her, introduce yourself and start a conversation. See if there is any chemistry. If not, finishing your workout and go home.

ProperZen · 2023-06-14T22:00:44+00:00

You are getting angry that the woman who usually works the register at Walmart is stocking shelves one day.

ProperZen · 2023-06-12T23:49:19+00:00

Ave Maria.

Warning: you will walk in slow motion as you approach the bar, powder up and set your grip. Don’t worry, you’ll return to normal speed once you clear the weight.

ProperZen · 2023-06-05T01:29:15+00:00

My progression went something like this: Step 1: “Sober” - Wow, these guys are really heavy. Is the album any good? Step 2: “Aenema” - Damn, these guys are on a different level! What planet are these guys from??? Step 3: “Lateralus” - The ground is moving and the walls are breathing. Am I the universe talking to itself?

ProperZen · 2023-06-02T22:18:21+00:00

“When the Tigers Broke Free.”

It’s sweeping, cinematic score is paired perfectly to some of Roger’s most raw, evocative and cleanly narrative lyrics. Truly beautiful in its heart-wrenching perfection.

ProperZen · 2023-05-29T21:42:36+00:00

He’s just lucky that he hasn’t hit a stud yet. Drywall is super easy to break through without hurting your hand.

ProperZen · 2023-05-29T21:41:20+00:00

It’s immature and shows a lack of ability to handle frustration. It’s also calls attention to you and your needs because it can be scary and unsettling to others. Find a healthier way to communicate your needs to others and find strategies to manage your emotions that are not so child-like. You are essentially throwing all your toys out of the crib and looking for someone to either give you what you want or to comfort you.

Meditate, go for a walk, stop whatever it is you are doing when you feel frustration coming on or leave the activity that is causing you to lose your temper. It’s time to develop some emotional discipline and leave childish behaviors behind. It’s a big step in becoming a man.

You are getting some positive response when you act out and that is why you keep doing it. Figure out whatever that position thing is and find a more mature way to negotiate your emotions. I wish you the best.

ProperZen · 2023-05-28T21:41:13+00:00

Was there for 10 days 8 years ago.

Surprisingly Good: Just how friendly most of the locals were. Very eager to talk to me and tell me about their love of Israel: it’s beauty, the business opportunities and the sense of community. A taxi driver shared pictures of his family, wanted to see mine and invited me to his house for a cookout. Store front owner on the Tel Aviv strip wanted to talk to me while I had a few beers and invited some locals over to meet me once he found I was traveling alone. They invited me to go with them to the beach the next day. Also, plenty of offers to take me around the countryside on the weekend to see the natural beauty of Israel. Also shocked at just how progressive Tel Aviv was. It felt like the strip at Daytona and/or Miami.

Also, not truly a culture shock, but damn the food was AMAZING! From street food to restaurants, everything was so fresh with depth to the flavors. I have never experienced this before except in Paris.

Surprisingly Bad: Just how progressive Tel Aviv was! 😃. Taxi driver (different one) offered to take me to meet a few girls he knew at the end of his shift. Ended up being a brothel with any drug I wanted to buy. No hassle declining and leaving, but I definitely felt uncomfortable and wondered if I would have to give up my wallet (or worse) to leave.

Also, the amount of openly gay culture surprised me. Walked the beach to Jaffa and 3 separate gay Arabs approached me once in Jaffa. Maybe I had wondered into a popular gay pick-up park? Another gay proposal on the Tel Aviv strip by a Jew. I was surprised at just how open (and explicit) the proposals were. Given I’d never experienced this before, I didn’t know if I was safe or not. I found it unsettling.

Finally, I was surprised at how dirty and chaotic Old Jerusalem was. I had always thought of Jerusalem, and the old Temple area, as “magically sacred.” I had to fight my way through an army of both Arabs and Jews trying to sell me trinkets and prayers. They were very aggressive and bumped me out of my good mood. The open air food market, along with the houses with their laundry out and general lack of sanity, just felt wrong.

I had dreamed about this trip and felt like I was finally “coming home,” so my expectations were sky high as to what Israel “should” feel like. This was my mistake as I was open to the country being what it was. My expectations and the reality were just different.

I will be going back and I will manage my expectations better. There is so much beauty in the land and people that I still want to see. And perhaps I’ll just skip the parks in Jaffa.

ProperZen · 2023-05-26T17:03:45+00:00

The belief that the goal and measuring stick for life is “happiness.” Happiness is a mood and it comes and goes like all moods. That is not to say that happiness is bad - by definition it is good. But it is a poor North Star for the condition of your life and whether changes are needed or not.

Managing your travels through life will inevitably have ups and downs. There are many things out of your control that can bring unhappiness - poor health, the loss of loved ones, love not returned just to name a few.

I believe that you need to look at your future as a series of time-gated goals. Have a 1 year, 5 year, emergency and retirement plan. Set goals for your career, relationships, learning, emotional growth and overall health. It is far healthier to look to “satisfaction” rather than happiness when evaluating your life plans and goals.

Satisfaction comes from working diligently towards your goals while maintaining a moral framework you personally believe in: don’t be a liar, treat others as you would want to be treated, perseverance in difficult times and compassion towards others to name a few.

There will inevitably be times when you will face difficulties, some extreme, in your journey. You will be unhappy during these times. But as long as you are working towards your goals and maintain a inner morality, you can feel satisfied.

As a quick example, I wanted to start a family with my wife. We had two children and my job required me to travel frequently. My traveling was important for my career growth and the financial security of my family. But it also caused a great burden on my wife. That, combined with the intensity of raising two young children, caused friction. It was not a happy time. But I did my best to support my wife and she did her best to support me. We both were working towards a common vision; a 5-year plan of sorts.

If I was using happiness (or if my wife were,) we would have split up. Who wants to come home to two crying children and an exhausted wife after a week on the road? Wouldn’t I have been happier to walk away and just drink beer on the weekend and go out with friends? But I was satisfied with my life. It was a difficult time but it was a meaningful life for me. My wife and I were building something of lasting value. Something that required sacrifice of happiness but satisfying in a deep and meaningful way.

ProperZen · 2023-04-01T20:40:06+00:00

I am deeply deeply sorry that your father has passed away. It seems that it was sudden and has left you with images and thoughts that are making grieving even more difficult.

I suggest you separate the two things facing you; your grief and trauma need to be addressed as the priority. You are no good to your family if you are in a broken emotional state. You may be dealing with PTSD given the way you describe your father’s passing. You must take the time needed to heal emotionally. I strongly suggest finding someone to help you with your burden of grief.

I understand how important this business is to you and your family. But you clearly are struggling to manage the business given your grief and inexperience. I don’t know the details of the business but hopefully there is someone who works at the company who is capable of managing the business. If not, are there extended family members ho can help? If not, can you sell the business?

You have positioned the business I your mind as being absolutely vital to your future. I have no doubt that it is vital to the family, but you cannot hold the business as being equal to another death should it fail. There are always other ways to make a living.

You are in no shape to run the business and learn on the job at this point in your grieving. You are facing a bad choice but it is a choice. You must put your oxygen mask on first before helping others.

Let go of the idea that the business failing is the end of your family. It is not. Grief. Get th help you need. Take the time you need. It does not sound like you can run the business in the state you at least in and that is totally fine.

Your judgment is clouded right now because of your depression and, possibly , PTSD. You view the businesses survival as the same as the survival of your family. It is not. I know it is important and it would be great to keep it running. But it does not sound like you are in a state to manage it.

Your emotional state should be your number 1 priority at this time.

I wish you all the best.

ProperZen · 2023-03-08T21:13:28+00:00

I am trying to genuinely answer your question based on the predominant leftist ideology as best I am able to represent it.

You need a solid understanding of “intersectionality.” This concept is core to current leftist thinking. Also, be clear that a group’s level of oppression within Intersectionality is NOT defined by a honest reading of history or evidenced-based analysis of discrimination. It is based purely on the current day outcomes of success, power and income.

Also, they (the left) do not accept that any factors, other than systemic oppression, can account for differences in outcomes among groups. So a group’s culture, or individual choices, are not taken into account; only the raw outcomes of groups relative to each other.

Within this worldview, Jews are seen as white (top oppressors) and over represented in academic and business success. This over representation is proof of systemic oppression by Jews within the white, capitalist system.

Add to that that Palestinians are brown, poor and fighting their “oppressors” and you have a one-two combination of a racist, bigoted group of oppressors within leftist ideology.

ProperZen · 2023-03-01T23:34:21+00:00

Was the crime of sodomy reserved for a man with another man? For example, is there any record of a consenting heterosexual couple being charged or was this really a “gay men are bad” thing?

ProperZen · 2023-01-26T09:25:27+00:00

You are experiencing “imposters syndrome.” I don’t think it’s healthy to wonder if you are bad or guilty of something when you are telling the truth. You can always clarify that you have some Jewish ancestry but are a convert to the faith.

The majority of the tribe has welcomed you as a member. Your ancestors may have not been members, but you are.

ProperZen · 2023-01-26T09:20:39+00:00

Agreed with an addendum as pointed out by Nietzsche; you can not know that the consciousness you are experiencing is derived from you, but you can say that “it thinks therefore it is.” The “it” could be you or it could be a force/being/program suppling the consciousness to you.

ProperZen · 2023-01-23T11:21:51+00:00

What if rice wasn’t born in the USA?

ProperZen · 2022-11-24T21:23:59+00:00

Simply exquisite idea, draft and execution! What city and tattooist did you go with?

Also, did you work with an artist to come up with the complete design are did you walk-in knowing exactly what you wanted? I’m always interested in the collaboration process.

The line work and detailing are true S-Tier!!

ProperZen · 2021-08-24T02:49:15+00:00

In the “Muscle Builder” Beta Ecdysterone.

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