(02-07-2017 09:03 AM)pirate Wrote: I've never been one to suffer approach anxiety, "social consequences/hierarchy" is something I simply do not recognize. Instead, I'm struggling with something else: cognitive dissonance.
I've always been a very honest, straightforward person. I'm a tremendously bad liar/pretender, thus I generally do not attempt these. It's not all bad, sometimes brutal honesty can provoke or make laugh just as well.
Okay, "know thyself" is a good start. But remember it's called "brutal honesty" or "honesty to a fault" for a
reason. In social situations people almost never "tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God." Does that mean that they're a bad person, or you're a bad person? No. It's just the completely normal way humans operate.
Quote:The dissonance I'm describing is this: I have zero interest in hanging out in bars and talking to random people, including young women. They have absolutely nothing that I want, aside from pussies. It's not a great way to be, but that is simply the hand I've been dealt and I have to work with it.
Red pill truth: Nobody gives a shit what you want, or what you do or don't have interest in doing. That's the reality of being a man. Women don't
owe you a thing.
"I was dealt a bad hand" is a copout, dude. In psychology they call it an "alloplastic defense mechanism" - it means one who attempts to blame the world, or God, or fate, or the government, or feminism, or...for their problems. It is a copout because it is an easy excuse to avoid doing the one thing that is both most difficult and most productive, looking at the one thing you can control - you.
Quote:Some women respond well to my advances
Good...
Quote:but a few seconds into the approach I start getting this from my scumbag brain:
"She might be uninteresting but she is probably not a moron. She can see you're not the type of guy that hangs out in bars and talks to women for fun"
"look at you, you shmuck, all dressed up to come and pretend you're interested in being someone's clown"
Whether she senses these things or not it fucks up my approach and makes me feel like a phony.
Aarrrgh. Why do you presume to know what any girl is thinking about you at any time? Are you a mind reader? A psychic? Are you Miss Cleo at the psychic hotline?
"Assume the sale." Your "scumbag brain" is just fucking pissed that you're attempting to change yourself. That's the way it usually goes when you attempt to do something different than you've always done, your scumbag brain will fight back. "You're being a phony! Oh my God everyone can tell. What are you doing? Can't you see that you're a fake..."
This is
completely normal. It's almost like your little beeping neural network has a vested interest in remaining the way it's wired, and it's trying to fight back. It happens to everybody - if self-behavior modification were easy then everyone would do it. Clearly it isn't.
It sounds like your brain is blowing you out long before she does. If she's going to do it, let her do it. But these thoughts are just doing the work for her, which is a sure way to lose.
Quote:I am now thirty years old and I no longer enjoy getting drunk. Sitting alone in a bar looking for women to approach makes me feel like an impostor and a phoney.
It's not that I feel that there is anything morally wrong with okes doing this. It completely natural and predictable for a young man to present himself and search for sex; I cannot understand why the current culture would shame him for that.
It is simply that this is not something I enjoy doing- pretending to be this socially suave gent hanging in bars and having conversations with several different (equally uninteresting women). My brain wreaks havoc on me when I do things not in keeping with my values, almost worse than a hangover.
Again, your brain is just pissed that you've discovered that your "values" are likely a big load of BS. Instead of moping about how all women are so tedious and uninteresting, maybe ask yourself why you find them uninteresting? They're women - what exactly are you expecting? Not everyone in the world is an astrophysicist or philosopher, and that's completely fine. Some women are smarter than others, others less so.
There's nothing about a hairdresser you're talking to in a bar that you can find interesting? Really? Nothing at all?
If you're finding the conversations you're having with them tedious this is the guess I would hazard: for the most part they're not actually tedious people. It probably just means you're running bad game; you're being reactive and not proactive. You wanna go somewhere interesting? You have to take her there.
Quote:The solution? Here are some I've tried, or which I think will be presented here:
1) "Just be more social, cultivate an interest in people." NO. The average woman works a deadbeat job, has no creative or intellectual ambitions and spends all their time watching series or their cellphone screens. (I'm not hating on women here- men are the same, if not worse with sport, porn, cars) I am not interested, and never will be.
2) "Just fuck hookers then". I've gone this route, but it's not very fulfilling. First, fucking with a condom is about 1/3 as pleasurable as without. I'd rather fuck a 5 raw than a 9 with a condom. Second, there is something you can feel in a woman's body when she wants your cock. It is incredibly arousing.
3) "Just learn daygame then". The only people that daygame in my country are beggars, hookers and scamsters. Johannesburg was at some time the murder capital of the world, there is simply not the trust to even entertain a stranger for a few seconds.
You use "extreme qualifier" words like "only" and "always" and "never" and "zero interest" etc. a lot. Have you noticed that?
The reason that I ask is that they're words that don't really have a lot of relevance to the real world.
Quote:If there is a God, he has a wicked sense of humor. I have a very fat cock and a sex drive that is insatiable, yet he has cursed me with this misanthropic demeanor that renders me virtually impotent.
No one has cursed you with anything. It is a construction in your mind.
Quote:The time for me to learn game and enjoy a sexlife is growing short. "Why didn't you learn it earlier?" Ironically, sleeping with a escort the first time was what finally convinced me there is no other option than to learn game. I'd always been thinking "bah, I can always sleep with a hot escort"; this mental safety net has prevented me from taking game and the learning thereof seriously.
You are 30. If all goes well, you have an entire lifetime of great sex and relationships still ahead. But it sounds like this sort of self-absorbed cerebral overthinking mindset is absolutely fuckin' killing you.