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And of course the mysterious ending: Lynch had a way of bypassing the conscious mind and speaking directly to the sub-conscious and/or the super-conscious.

This was one of my favourite scenes in The Return. A beautiful depiction of evil.

Funnily enough, I’m a couple of months into a similar course. I don’t see why anyone would want to hire me though as AI can do basically everything I can do and much more quickly… I have heard from other people that demand for junior developers has decreased drastically because of this.

Looking forward to Trump-branded psychedelics like DMTrump and LSDonald.

I loved Twin Peaks, especially The Return. Lynch once said that "people never do things by themselves", that people are always being used by forces beyond themselves. The Return is a particularly vivid depiction of this. The line from the Upanishads which influenced Inland Empire - "We are like the dreamer, who dreams and then lives inside the dream, but who is the dreamer?" - also reappears in The Return. I feel grateful that someone like David Lynch was able to use cinema and television to convey spiritual insights. This website has some interesting analysis of Twin Peaks from a metaphysical perspective: https://unwrappingtheplastic.com/2018/07/17/the-end-of-time/.

Alcohol can make you more in tune with the subconscious, especially for people who are overly intellectual. It helped me heal the wounded lower part of myself.

I don't agree with this as Christianity was the Western equivalent of Buddhism. Nietzsche did argue that the internal logic of Christianity ultimately leads to nihilism, though... In our time, the East seems to be just as nihilistic as the West. Modern China is the living embodiment of the "Reign of Quantity".

Sorry to derail your thread but I wanted to ask: is it dangerous to take 5-MeO alone?

Obviously women.

I'm not saying they've made a conscious or theoretically-driven choice to be nihilistic. In the final phase of nihilistic dissolution of all values, even nihilism as an ideological instrument of subversion disintegrates. It's just an implicit and practical reality in everyday life.

All these problems are downstream of the nihilism of our generation.

I don't think it is surprising: it makes no sense to go through extreme material hardship in war just for the sake of material well-being back home. It only makes sense to die for something which transcends your individuality. "There is a field forever called England" or something like that. In most of Western Europe, only a quarter or less of the population is willing to die for their country. The number increases as one moves closer to Russia, for obvious reasons...

No… And most of the Western world now agrees with me. None of these countries offer anything worth dying for.

Truth is important because it is the nature of reality. If you are not living in accord with the truth, you are living in delusion and fantasy. Also, lies corrode the soul...