My Personal Pickup Openers
April 29, 2008 by roissy
A while ago, I brainstormed a list of indirect openers and conversation starters to use for cold approaches. Some of these are Roissy originals, some are reworkings of popular openers already in circulation in the pickup community. For a time, I actually kept this as a cheat sheet in my back pocket to assist during those rare moments my mind was a complete blank and I could think of nothing to say. I would guess I use “canned” openers on 10% of my approaches. I prefer situational openers, where I jive about whatever happens to be going on around us. But sometimes canned material is very helpful to ease the way for you to get out of a slump or as a temporary substitute for weak natural game.
Note: These are NOT “pickup lines”. They won’t make a girl automatically attracted to you, and they aren’t examples of direct game. They’re simply interesting or amusing things to talk about that get girls intrigued and invested in a conversation with you. They also raise your value by making you sound more interesting to girls than 99% of guys out there.
Most of the ones below fall under the category of opinion opener, which I’ve found are more effective as something you say right after you’ve broken the ice with a casual greeting.
The best way to use these lines is to anchor them to a back story, otherwise you risk sounding creepy if you crash a set blurting them out machine gun style. For instance, I might say “My buddy over there just broke up with his girlfriend and I’ve been spending the night consoling him. She was just way too jealous of him. Do you think guys or girls get jealous more easily?”
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1. How would you react if your boyfriend gave you an ultimatum?
2. Why do girls check out other girls more than they check out guys?
3. There are people who analyze walks and can tell what mood you’re in, what you’re thinking, and even what you do for a living.
- great for steering a conversation in many different directions.
4. You look like the type who would date a starving artist, but marry a doctor.
- this one has been very good to me because it is part opener, part neg.
5. Let’s say you were dating this guy for a while, fell in love with him, and found out months later that he was broke. Would you break up with him?
- also one of my favorites. anything that hints at the core nature of women elicits strong reactions.
6. Were you nervous the first time you tried on a bikini? My buddy said he was nervous when he first tried on a suit. -OR- My ex said she was nervous the first time she wore 5 inch stiletto heels.
- a conversation builder like this is highly context dependent. use with caution.
7. There was a study done recently that said that beautiful couples have more daughters and nerdy couples have more sons. Would you say your parents were beautiful or nerdy?
8. Who can keep a secret longer — guys or girls?
- simple. direct. easy to remember. make sure to anchor it if this is your opener.
9. Are the best lovers made or born?
- not recommended as an opener. better as banter material.
10. You guys are in the power position. Yeah, tight circle, backs to everyone, like a football huddle. No guy is gonna get through your defenses. But how would you stand if one of you… let’s say her (motion toward your target)… really wanted to be approached by a cool guy?
- if you like to approach sets boldly, this one is for you.
11. If a guy needs to buy some stylish clothes is it better for him to take along a girlfriend or a girl buddy for fashion tips? What about a gay friend?
12. Who has better fashion sense — girls or gay guys?
- any mention of the word “gay” is like the all-purpose social lubricant.
13. You look like the type of girl who would leave a club if another girl was wearing the same shirt.
- this one is a risky opener gambit. use on stuck up chicks who need to be brought down off their pedestals they have constructed on the backs of fawning betas.
14. I’ve read that men get more jealous from sexual infidelity and women get more jealous from love infidelity. Which one bothers you more?
- better in low key environments with smarter prospects. drunk club sluts won’t get what you’re saying.
15. Do you guys believe in reincarnation? If it were true, what kind of person do you think you’d be in your next life? You (point at potential cockblock)… you look like you’d be a CEO in your next life… and you (point at target), a ballet geek!
- now THIS is good for the clubs. it’s an opener that lets you yell above the noise, and it contains one of those key words - reincarnation - that instantly pricks a girl’s attention.
BONUS
This one is not an original by me but I have used it with great results. It’s an example of direct game.
You: [striding confidently into the set] Do you know why you girls suck?
Girls: [looking at each other incredulously, but expectantly]
You: Because I’ve been standing over there for ten minutes and you haven’t come over to say Hi. I mean, I can tell you’d like to, you keep giving me the eye.
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Try these at your leisure. Anyone scoring a lay off them will be written about in a later post on my blog, and your deeds will be sung by the bards for generations.
Looks like “What’s your sign?” just doesn’t cut the mustard any longer.
These are all good ideas, and the post is very creative, as always. However, unless you’re already tall and good looking (like Roissy), I’d recommend total simplicity for an opener, lest the rest of us get laughed at or ignored.
Like: “Where is the bathroom?” Then on the way back you can strike up a convo when she (predictably) says “Everything come out OK?”
“What time is it?” once worked for me before a concert on an older woman when I was 19. At break, she walked up and said “You’re the young gentleman who asked me for the time.” Sounds silly, but it worked. I was 19.
I personally prefer “Do you have a map? Because I keep on getting lost in your eyes.” But, I am a romantic like that.
I have a friend who strongly believes in the alias method from the clip you showed a few weeks back. He’s been known to go up to girl and say,
“Your hair looks shiny as shit”
Or
“Can you even read?”
I can’t even believe this works because this is how you eventually have to talk to women in DC. I’ll let you figure out who it is….
In a ’90s movie, “Singles,” a beta-engineer in his early-to-mid 20s approaches a decent-looking girl at a club, also about 23-25 years old, with something along these lines: “this place is full of phoniness and desperate people trying desperate lines to meet somebody. I have no line; just me, and I am attracted to you, and hope we could talk.”
I paraphrase this from distant memory, but the thrust of the scene was that the guy lays down his cards. She calls his game, so to speak — even though it wasn’t game since he was 100% earnest — by saying that his “lack of a line is a line.
The character was tall, but otherwise average-looking, did not project confidence, and was clearly out of his element at the club.
In the movioe, this worked. After her initial resistance, they did in fact get together. What are your thoughts about this kind of full disclosure approach?
I bet you dinner and a movie you wouldn’t go on a date with me.
Seinfeld episode. Todd Gack, and all that.
What are your thoughts about this kind of full disclosure approach?
PA, she was right, it is a line. I am assuming that he would use “full disclosure” more than once in his life, making it little different than “What’s your sign?”.
There is nothing particularly wrong with that kind of direct approach, but it is a line.
Personally, I think that kind of direct game would work best on that girl that is alone in the corner, sipping her drink. She is sitting there watching her girlfriend making out with some jock and she would love some attention.
“aerosolized rohypnol”
” For instance, I might say “My buddy over there just broke up with his girlfriend and I’ve been spending the night consoling him. She was just way too jealous of him”
Unless it’s true, why say it? Men need ice breakers, no question, but don’t lie. Even this little white lie is just plain bullshit. You don’t seem to be getting it.
d love to hear that my hair looks shiny as shit!!!
A guy came up to and told me my hair smelled nice.
At 2pm on a Sunday in a Barnes and Noble.
i got u beat… last week.. im at a private club (think cigars and manhattans… jazz music) when an ‘older’ gentleman, suit, frenxh cuffs, fendi rims, folds his newspaper; leans my way and asks if he may ask me a question… disclaming that he normally wouldnt be so forward, but that he just had to ask me….. ‘are you submissive’? (i almost snorted my dirty martini out my nose) wtf? (nothing venturd nthng gained i suppose) -i much rathr have heard my hair smells good… or looks shiny!!
I notice you like the modern version of palm-reading — talking about psych studies you know will interest girls, like the nerdy couples have more sons thing. It doesn’t even have to be a good study (in that case, it wasn’t), whatever piques her curiosity will do. Hell, I may even start to make shit up: “I heard about a study that said….” and fill in the blanks as needed.
It’s great to work these in after opening as well. I like finding out her digit ratio in a playful way because:
1) it tells me how girly vs. how aggressive she is right away
2) you get to demonstrate your expertise at something that interests her, and
3) you can use it as a physical compliance test. Stand shoulder-to-shoulder, and say “OK, hold out your hand like this,” with you right arm extended, your palm facing away, and your fingers rigid and close together.
If she’s on your left, aim your arm to your right, and see if she mimics this by moving her right arm to her right — that is, into your space, typically with her upper arm or shoulder touching your shoulder. See how long she leaves it there while you explain what to measure and what it means.
If she’s on your right, still extend your right arm, but this time straight ahead or to your left. Don’t tell her which arm to use — and see if she opts for her left arm (the one next to you). If so, she’s instinctively trying to get her extended arm close to yours.
You’re supposed to check the right hand, so if she has her left arm out and is on your right, just explain what to measure and what it means first, and then say, “Oh wait, it’s your right hand I need to see.” This again allows you to see how long she leaves her arm touching yours. If she sticks out her left arm and she’s on your left, that may be a sign that she’s not comfortable with touching yet.
If she has a girly digit ratio, phrase it as her being more feminine, suited to helping others, etc., rather than girly, likely to flake, and so on. If she has a masculine digit ratio, phrase it as her being more confident and assertive, suited to strong careers, rather than manly, too intense, and so on.
Also, be careful about using the word “testosterone” to describe a girl’s personality, re: digit ratio. If she has a masculine ratio, you have to zip over the T-word and emphasize confident and assertive. Then go to the tips you gave recently on gaming Type A girls, which she almost certainly is if she’s got a longer ring finger than index finger.
Is there anything you can say to a girl in a bar or club that isn’t a line? Girls know that if you’re a stranger talking to them, you’re probably interested in them physically. The only ones who don’t know that are the insecure sorta-smart girls who want to be respected for being smart and who delude themselves that the orbit of guys around them have no designs on them. So the difference between direct and indirect game is moot. Girls know you’re interested. The difference is whether you’re telling them something that they haven’t heard recently.
The full disclosure line is a line but not a bad one since it’s unlikely a girl hears it every time it goes out. The problem is that it’s hard to transition from it. What is the girl supposed to say? Being called on that being a line is probably the best response that the guy could get. I think more typically a girl would say “Thank you.” and then there’d be an awkward silence and then the girl would say, “I’ve got to go find my friends.”
I like Roissy’s opinion openers that have a strong observational component like the ones about reading people from the way they walk. Girls are better at reading body language and are often more adept at sussing things like that out, so they’ll have some interesting things to say. But if you’re a guy who studies pick-up, you’ve spent lots of time observing people so you can show off your expertise and impress the girls.
A lot of the standard chick crack opinion openers like jealous girlfriend or who lies more are off because guys don’t think like that. Guys don’t spend hours and hours rehashing their personal life with their friends, trying to read people’s motivations. And it’s just not masculine to be asking girls you don’t know for advice about something you should have handled yourself.
oh… thats it! he mustve looked at the ratio of my fingers and concluded im submisive…. lol
Is there anything you can say to a girl in a bar or club that isn’t a line?
It depends. Think about the guy in the bar that is talking to everyone. He is talking and joking with everyone around him, and some girl just strolls into his presence and now she is on the receiving end of his fun and witty banter.
Assuming that she likes fun and witty crap, she will likely stick around.
Also, think about Bartenders. Does the girl think that he is talking to her to pick her up. Should he ignore one of his customers? He talks to almost everyone.
This is why indirect game can be so effective. If you know what you are doing, it doesn’t really look like a typical pick-up at all.
i thought having your own blog is the best modern social lubricant?
Why do so many sanctimonious people come on here and declare Roissy “still doesn’t get” this or that based on how offended they get? The point of the lines are to get new booty, not please your particular personal sensibilities.
If the line works to that goal of new ass and gets results, then that’s all the “getting it” Roissy needs. End of story.
Oops, #20 Anonymous was me.
20 T
“If the line works to that goal of new ass and gets results, then that’s all the “getting it” Roissy needs. End of story.”
Oh right I forgot. Having integrity is a hindrance, when your motive is to use someone as a short term means to an end. Short term they can team up. He plays the “just broke up with my girlfriend” role, and he plays the arm chair psychologist. Perfect. WTF was I thinking?
Na-ny boo-boo 69/ Candy Cane
Stop using smiley faces at the end of your oh so sarcastic comments. What’s the point of changing your name if you’re going to keep writing exactly the same way. What a dumb cunt
You done good, Roissy. In a bar or club, everyone knows the game. Girls expect to be approached, know guys are fishing for conversation. Actually, in a bar, Barnes and Noble, or on the kickball field… it’s just the same.
23 Virgle
Sorry if I hurt your feelings.
I bet you dinner and a movie you wouldn’t go on a date with me.
clever, but half the point of being a pua is not paying for things. hell, the best pua’s don’t even have to buy drinks.
maybe roissy can spill on his ratio of paying : dutch : she pays, but i doubt the left hand coefficient is very high.
general rule #1 of dating: the more (and more often) you pay, the longer you’ll have to wait to hit it. that’s the main reason escort services are popular: they flip this rule on its head.
#26 johnny five
clever, but half the point of being a pua is not paying for things. hell, the best pua’s don’t even have to buy drinks.
maybe roissy can spill on his ratio of paying : dutch : she pays, but i doubt the left hand coefficient is very high.
Not buying drinks for a woman you’ve just met in a bar is one thing, but most women will be put off if a man doesn’t pay when they’re on an actual date. The important thing is that they offer to pay, with the (correct) expectation that the man will turn them down. Then they’ll usually offer to get the tip or to pay for drinks at the next place you go. Roissy may have posted about this at some point.
It’s actually a pretty good litmus test: If they don’t offer to pay at all, you can safely write them off as selfish and not worth pursuing for anything meaningful, giving you license to pump and dump without remorse.
I thought opinion openers were lame, but these are actually lines I could see myself using - I’m sure I’ve said shit along these lines before, although when already in conversation, not as an opener. Thanks Roissy!
I chalk this up to the low average IQ of the PUA community, although it’s probably still higher than average.
“giving you license to pump and dump without remorse.”
Great. You made my day.
As usual I will regurgitate the words of Tyler Durden on natural game:
All lines for a real man are a sign of weak inner game. I like salad was proven an effective opener by Tyler and Tim usually just introduces himself to open. The reason for this is that what you actually say doesn’t matter because 99% of the time the girl will forget the opener seconds into the conversation. What matters is your body language. Escalation, a clowser, makes.
http://blog.realsocialdynamics.com/
If the line works to that goal of new ass and gets results, then that’s all the “getting it” Roissy needs. End of story.
You’re trying to logically argue with a typical woman. Some women understand that it’s what gets the job done in the least painful way that counts — but most don’t. For them, respecting other people’s feelings trumps everything else.
The only ones who don’t know that are the insecure sorta-smart girls
Females who are not insecure and are unmistakably smart make up about one-sixth of one percent of the female population.
I never tire of hearing this line: “Only insecure girls….”
C’mon people, all girls are insecure.
If the line works to that goal of new ass and gets results, then that’s all the “getting it” Roissy needs. End of story.
You’re trying to logically argue with a typical woman. Some women understand that it’s what gets the job done in the least painful way that counts — but most don’t. For them, respecting other people’s feelings trumps everything else.
The only ones who don’t know that are the insecure sorta-smart girls
Females who are not insecure and are unmistakably smart make up about one-sixth of one percent of the female population.
I never tire of hearing this line: “Only insecure girls….”
C’mon people, all girls are insecure.
Also a real man knows what he has to say is important and doesn’t think that he is imposing on strangers or wasting their time when he stops them. As for the direct opener that PA mentions it was also used in a beautiful mind and it is what is RSD calls sexual state projection.
Oh man i really like “starving artist.”
Also, why are posters on this website so incredibly misogynistic, treating attraction as an us versus them game is supposedly harmful to your game because the self is always shining through (except maybe in the case of one night stands, but even then you probably aren’t living to your potential by constantly going around full of negativity).
I anticipate the response to be as follows:
Blah, blah, blah, gnxp says this (albeit a legitimate set of data perverted for the sake of argument). YOU ARE ONLY DEFENDING WOMEN BECAUSE YOU ARE BETA! If it were a man you wouldn’t care.
In fact this criticism might be true, but if you spout of something like this then I request an analogous analogy about men.
More to the point though, I notice really annoying trends on this site to extrapolate the views of female posters on this website to the general female population. In fact this is probably inaccurate because the correct extrapolation would be to both men and women who simply feel threatened by this.
“C’mon people, all girls are insecure.”
Correction, most people are insecure.
35 Poseur
“why are posters on this website so incredibly misogynistic, treating attraction as an us versus them game is supposedly harmful to your game”
Judging from the majority of posters on this site, one would believe the entirety of birth, death, and everything in between were game.
31 Anon
“Some women understand that it’s what gets the job done in the least painful way that counts — but most don’t. ”
The LEAST painful way? You’re joking I hope. Good grief, I’m nearly speechless. Is minimizing pain the best we can hope for? Or just the best we can hope for if we happen to be unfortunate enough to cross paths with the likes of you? Most of us ideally are striving for actual happiness if that isn’t too much to imagine.
@Candy most people seek to minimize pain rather than seek pleasure. That’s why people are often scared to approach. They are avoiding pain to the ego rather than seeking the pleasure that could come from sex.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1090275.ece
37 Poseur
“They are avoiding pain to the ego rather than seeking the pleasure that could come from sex.”
There is a much greater happiness that can come from sex, but seldom does, which is why it never really satisfies the deeper joy that we know we know we’re capable of experiencing. The only way to experience deeper joy and fulfillment is to drop the ego altogether. Therein lies the problem Dropping one’s ego feels like death, and it is a kind of death, but a good one. I doubt that makes sense, but I try. Seeking merely pleasure is cheap by comparison.
Candy I see you’ve been dipping into the Eckhart Tolle koolaid.
39 Eckhart Tolle? I wiki’d him….German…hmmm. Checked him out on Youtube. What comes to mind? The strange glint German’s have in their eyes. My uncle who lived in Germany noticed this. My sources are many, but have never read the Power of Now. Have you?
pithy quote du jour
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them.
We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.
And some people still wonder why some are afraid
when they are told they are loved.
Yes I have and your words sound like a direct quote from his book. Although, I have a somewhat different thought on pleasure, but we don’t need to turn everything into a ten page debate so I’ll leave it at that.
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I can almost hear a pin drop over here. Hope must be on vacation or Candy creeped her out. Oh go ahead and tell me what your different thought on pleasure is. I’ll accept the Spark Notes. If you read the Power of Now, we may actually be aligned in some way. A roissy’s first just about. Like my new name?
“A roissy’s first just about.” What is meant by this statement.
But ok I’ll bite.
“There is a much greater happiness that can come from sex, but seldom does, which is why it never really satisfies the deeper joy that we know we know we’re capable of experiencing. The only way to experience deeper joy and fulfillment is to drop the ego altogether. Therein lies the problem Dropping one’s ego feels like death, and it is a kind of death, but a good one. I doubt that makes sense, but I try. Seeking merely pleasure is cheap by comparison.”
You’re paragraph is a request for everyone to seek Buddhist style salvation. This concept is rather arcane and hard to believe for most Westerners. However, there is now emerging science to support the power of being in the now and meditation and zen as a means of relieving stress. Death of the ego is exactly that. However this concept is intrinsically related to pick up. A lot of people get into pick up because they have their story. Their girlfriend cheated on them with the Pita Pit guy. Their female friends all just want to be friends. Some candy wrapper (oh the irony) identity that they have adopted. Below that lies their core. The way they were before social conditioning made them fear approaching, or made them afraid of the kino escalation so crucial to a successful connection with a female. Whether it be a one night stand or a long term relationship the core of pick up is not accumulating more wrappers to hide your former uncool identity, but it is to take off the candy wrapper of the stifled identity. Some of the lines may work, but the lines were doing very little of the work. A woman may be intrigued by an intellectually vexing question, but it will just land you as a friend. It is not enough to be interesting, you must know how to connect with human beings. We could break this down to a micro level, but it is pointless for our purposes. That’s why you don’t like this site Candy. It explains why things work at a basic level, but you extrapolate it to assume that is how these men conduct their pick ups. The actual in field process is organic.
The death you speak of is what Fight Club was about. Destruction of the ego destruction of identity.
Pleasure is a good thing to seek, but it should not be the only thing you seek. However, you won’t find that deep inner fulfillment from the love of another (which is I think what you were suggesting). A real man picks up women as a byproduct of his overflowing bucket of value. There is no hole in the bucket, but he does not seek to fill the bucket either. The bucket is overflowing with value. That value will attract women of high value into your life.
What about the false time constraint? Don’t you use those, as advocated by Style?
What about the false time constraint?
i use false time constraints when i approach from a distance. if i’m standing near her talking with my buddies i’ll just turn to the side and act as if i’m including her in my scintillating conversation. obviously, in the latter situation a false time constraint is not needed, as i was in the vicinity to begin with.
word from the field is that girls are beginning to hear the exact same phrasings of false time contraints from guys hitting on them. FTCs may be played out in their current forms, so it’s wise to come up with a few different ways to say the same thing.
Roissy. Awesome stuff.
With false time constraints, I’ve discovered that its helpful to use body language (ie. Rocking in and out of set) to indicate that you could leave at anytime. Plus it has the advantage of never losing it’s effectiveness.
Bascally the idea behind it is that Alpha Men have shit to do…they dont have time to listen to shit about shoes or unicorn rraces.
tsm #28 I chalk this up to the low average IQ of the PUA community, although it’s probably still higher than average.
you have managed
(1) a complete non sequitur
(2) two utterly self-contradictory statements, and
(3) a ‘this’ with no discernible referent
all in the space of 1.5 lines, perhaps the best trifecta of idiocy i’ve ever seen in writing. congratulations; that’s not easy.
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anonymous #31 Some women understand that it’s what gets the job done in the least painful way that counts — but most don’t. For them, respecting other people’s feelings trumps everything else.
but only inasmuch as other people’s feelings = other women’s feelings.
What about nonverbal? I’d be surprised if you couldn’t get a girl to approach you by looking at her the right way. You know what I mean right?
48 johnny five
“For them, respecting other people’s feelings trumps everything else. but only inasmuch as other people’s feelings = other women’s feelings.”
Women would be 100 times smarter to assume guys do NOT respect their feelings. Most guys would find the entire concept laughable and completely illogical. Because there are so few guys even capable of making any kind of cognitive association between “feelings” and “respect” it’s much more likely to be a correct assumption. What usually happens instead is just the opposite. They trust that a guy respects their feelings until proven otherwise and then cry wolf. There are an awful lot of women playing victim to guys. I was one of them. Did you notice I use the word guys instead of men. That’s the difference. There are lots of guys out there, but few real men.
44 Poseur
Warning; my brain is on mercury detox today, so am experiencing brain fog. Will do my best to respond. Ahem..
A roissy’s first is just that I am *sob* very misunderstood here. I would put a smiley face, but like Virgl I do find them irritating. Am using japanese emoticon instead. (n_n)
“You’re paragraph is a request for everyone to seek Buddhist style salvation”
I think I know what you’re trying to say but “Buddhist style salvation” does not compute. Do not think we need saving per se. Bottom line; awareness is the key…waking up if you will, transforming to a more expanded self…a truer self, a more joyful, deeper self, an involved responsible self, a more integrated self, a more self directed self, a less egoistic self, a happier and most importantly freer self, a more evolved and consciously self-ish self.
You know; arcane, esoteric stuff like that. People here and everywhere often use words like “arcane” and “esoteric” as a put down. Not that you in particular are. As if what the masses of humanity knows is the only thing worth knowing. Arcane and esoteric knowledge is easily accessible but few are attracted to it. That does not make it less valuable, but more valuable in my opinion. One thing my mama taught me; it’s O.K. to be different.
I think the bottom line is also this; women want to be respected. To respect a feminine woman in particular is to respect her feelings. I know this is the most obnoxious and trite advice given to men. I’m quite sure they are sick to death of hearing it. I think they take it as advising them to be submissive pansies in a state of constant deference to their feelings. That is not true at all. You can respect and yet NOT defer. Likewise a woman can respect a man’s thinking and intelligence without always agreeing with it.
And since we all have aspects of feminine and masculine within us, roles can switch back and forth, but one will predominate depending on gender. It takes a higher form of intelligence to navigate and enlarge (oh the irony) a loving relationship between a man and women. Love is a most complex, dynamic, and subtle thing; something which I personally have very little positive experience in, and volumes of negative experience.
“A real man picks up women as a byproduct of his overflowing bucket of value.”
This statement intrigued and tweaked me. I may not understand exactly what you mean, but I took it as “overflowing egoism”, or “overflowing self image”. As a human being; love is the highest value. As an animal, sex is the highest value. As a God, prayer is the highest value.
Really Confectionery Delight… give me a little bit more credit than that. To hint at value as being overflowing egoism is a contradiction to the first paragraph of thought. For all of the above you listed, at its core living a good life is the highest value. Giving value, is bringing the party, being true to your intentions, being unstifled, being in your own reality. It might sound like egoism, but it is only egoism if you become narcissistic about it. Though I’m sure by modern psychological standards anyone that tries to accomplish anything is narcissistic. There is a difference between self esteem and ego. Value is self esteem. Once you have true self esteem and have cut away the ego you have a cup overflowing with value. Anyway this is all getting too new agey for this blog and if you don’t really understand what’s going on here then just forget it, it doesn’t really matter, to each his own. Whatever works for you, I’m not making any claim to bringing some ultimate enlightenment to the table. I do however request that you do not outright dismiss in a narcissistic way, where your ego cannot handle the existence of an alternative viewpoint on life that may be better than your own.
Have you read Atlas Shrugged?
Are you ethnic?
I get that all the time…and it usually ends up with me talking for them for at least 1-2 minutes because I’m not and then I have to explain why.
Don’t I know you from somewhere?
I get that one alot as well (and have actually used it!). Easy to deliver and you spend at least a couple of moments to talk about where you’re from people you know…
52 Poseur
“where your ego cannot handle the existence of an alternative viewpoint on life that may be better than your own.”
My word! May be better than my own? How is that possible? LOL I did say I may not understand what you meant. My current worldview where romantic relationships are concerned is, alas, somewhat tainted by most recent relationship debacle that has left me heavily scarred. One that I’m practically forbidden to discuss as others (as well as myself actually) are sick of hearing about it.
Suffice it to say, we are both on the leading edge of thought–in some areas at least. One wants to at least fake humbleness when needed. Haha. I would certainly love to meet a man with high value as you describe as “…bringing the party, being true to your intentions, being unstifled, being in your own reality”, but right now would not know what to do with one. I don’t have much to offer of value myself at this time, except Platonic love and friendship in abundance–something I value and enjoy with both sexes of course, and my daughter.
It’s been a long time, but I did read Atlas Shrugged. Would have to look at the Spark Notes on that one. I definitely would not describe myself as an Ayn Rand fan, though my brother is. Did you like the book? If so, what did you like or not? What have you read that inspires you? Short answers accepted and yes, I’m New Agey in a lot of ways, and quite trashy in many others. Am a big South Park fan. Fuck is one of my favorite words, and I love nothing more lustful sex…for where it takes me.
Candy Cane the world view part wasn’t directed at you.
“I don’t have much to offer of value myself at this time, except Platonic love and friendship…”
“Fuck is one of my favorite words, and I love nothing more lustful sex…for where it takes me.”
“I would certainly love to meet a man…”
These three statements confuse me? Will you have sex with a man as I described above, or are you jaded right now and won’t have sex, but would love to be friends with such a man? Answer this one for yourself and the man shall come. There are plenty of divorced dads on the pick up forum I frequent where we seek self-actualization goals like that. You should enjoy your experiences more with less regret, even if they are fleeting (easier said than done I know).
I enjoyed the book. There is a lot of controversy behind it, but suffice it to say it kept me entertained.
What I liked about it was Francisco D’Anconia’s speech about women and value http://rahmisari.com/2008/03/11/francisco-d%E2%80%99anconia%E2%80%99s-speech-sex-and-morality/
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Yes, I completely misunderstood your worldview statement. Have been a bit edgy for awhile now.
I bookmarked the link and will print and read it soon. Looks like heady, interesting stuff. My three statements were not meant to confuse, but to point out the contradictory/paradoxical elements of my current state/personality.
“Will you have sex with a man as I described above” NO
“or are you jaded right now and won’t have sex” YES
“but would love to be friends with such a man? ” YES
“You should enjoy your experiences more with less regret, even if they are fleeting (easier said than done I know).”
Key word “should”? I don’t want to have sex at all right now, though I get offers. Sex is never casual to me, and I don’t feel deprived not having sex in general. For me, sex is a want, not a need. When younger (teens) I happily pursued many fleeting encounters, and am glad I took the opportunity to do that.
Now I require trust and mutual intentions first and foremost. I only want to have sex with a man I would want to be in love with, and in order to know if I want to be in love with him, I have to know him before sex, because after sex I won’t be thinking so clearly. I’ve learned the hard way.
Poseur. On Francisco’s speech:
“Well, the man who despises himself tries to gain self- esteem from sexual adventures–which can’t be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man’s sense of his own value.””
Another way of putting it; Sex CAN be an expression of a man’s self worth OR narcissistic supply.
This reminds me of “Sex is not the roots, but the bloom of love.”
I know a man who fits this description to a “T”. He uses sexual conquests to bolster his sagging self image and feel no remorse in dumping women when his goal is achieved. It’s a continuous cycle between excessive deflation and inflation of his ego.