mmKay

Plot twist: prices will increase but robots will take the jobs

@Leo Gura what's your go-to hot liquid to consume in these mugs?

Bump 🌹

@Tristan12 Thank you for taking the time and effort to share your situation. Many people are so helpless that they aren't even capable of remotely articulating their struggles or reaching out for help, so you've made a big first step. Give yourself adequate credit for that. First of all, I want to be completely transparent that I was very hesitant to engage with you. It's nothing personal, but I know you understand that your delicate situation makes it risky for anyone to publicly provide you with serious support. No one wants to be blamed for anything, and I’m sure you understand that. That being said, what tipped me over the edge was seeing the topics you cover on your YouTube channel in the context of what you're sharing with us here. It's absolutely obvious to me that your difficult situation has immense potential -- not just for personal evolution, transformation, and healing, but most importantly, for the impact you can have on others who are facing the same challenges as you are right now. Just imagine the magnitude of the difference you could make for people who are RIGHT NOW, at this very moment, going through something very similar to what you’re experiencing -- if you only manage to be strong enough to learn the powerful lessons locked behind this challenging chapter of your life. It’s almost poetic. That's why I’d like you to connect your current emotional suffering with the suffering of thousands of other people who are in your very shoes right now. Imagine the pain and suffering of those people who are wishing for someone like the wise and mature future you to help them out. I want to invite you to be strong -- not only for yourself, not only for everyone who has ever cared for you, not just for me (I’m sort of sticking my neck out here for you), but most of all, for all the people your story and service can impact throughout the rest of your long life. Of course, I have no idea if this aligns with the life purpose you’ve mentioned, but it’s what I intuit -- correct me if I’m wrong. If you got emotional at all reading any of this it's a good indicator on it being true, at least to a degree. Who knows? What if you deliberately incarnated into this very situation to work through these challenges, learn the lessons they hold, evolve, heal, and help others do the same? What if there’s no escape and you’ll continue facing exactly the same challenges for ever, until you fully embrace them and finally grow? (Just food for thought -- don’t take this too seriously.) One of the biggest lessons for you would be learning and understanding the mechanisms of how emotions work. This understanding will likely give you most of the results you’re looking for -- and it means understanding the mechanisms of your mind: how beliefs and thoughts work in an extremely practical and hands-on way. You’d learn how thoughts and beliefs generate emotional reactions and how, by playing with perspective, context, and belief, you can dissipate, heal, and embrace your emotional reactions and trauma, to the point where the suffering substantially alleviates and eventually disappears. The good thing about your situation is that your suffering is only emotional, which is generated by your own mind. If you were physically ill or chronically unwell, it would be a completely different story. With adequate support and guidance about how emotions work and how your mind operates, you can begin to untangle the poor mental habits you have accidentally let develop over time. The challenge with things like depression or negative thinking is that they’re self-fulfilling prophecies and self-reinforcing. At the end of this post I shared some relevant quotes that point this out . If you think and believe that there is no way to improve your situation, that literally becomes your reality, and nothing you try will work. If you truly believe a door is locked, you won’t even try to turn the doorknob -- or your mind will eloquently talk itself out of trying. Do you see? Being smart and thoughtful has its downside because your mind has the increased capacity of coming up with better negative arguments that sound very convincing and are well reasoned. But on the flip side, If you have a strong faith in that the door can be opened, you will not stop until you make it happen, even though you don't know how you will make it happen just yet. One common explanation for why someone is depressed is simply that they’ve accidentally developed a negative, pessimistic self-talk habit. Of course, it can be much more complex than that, but sometimes this is a big part of the issue. It’s almost like your mind follows the same tendency as physical muscles, and you’ve accidentally developed a poor posture that becomes your default. For example, imagine you’ve chronically stretched your neck to look upwards at the sky all the time, so now you’re constantly staring at the sun. Then you wonder--why do my eyes hurt? ( " I'm consistently thinking depressing, desperate, disempowering negative thoughts therefore I suffer " ) In terms of somewhat specifics of your situation, you’ve mentioned: intense emotional attachment to a girl (“heartbreak”--apparently the biggest struggle you’re facing now), feelings of inferiority because of a lack of experience with women, lifelong feelings of deep shame and abandonment, hypersensitivity to disapproval, anxious thought loops, overthinking, and a general feeling of hopelessness. All of these challenges can be worked through, and there are thousands of people who have overcome them. It doesn’t have to take an excessive amount of time or effort. Once you identify the few core underlying tendencies that are holding you back, you could possibly get back on your feet relatively soon. It doesn’t have to take years. Regarding psychedelics: I do not recommend taking an excessively large dose. It is bound to cause a strong ego backlash and potentially destabilize you by giving you a glimpse of an unsustainable state of consciousness. It’s unlikely to result in much permanent steady improvement, which is what you need right now. Also It may be challenging to face certain things psychedelics point out to you if you're not very proficcient at using your mind and coping with emotions, so ideally working on that first would prepare you. It doesn't have to cost thousands. Aren't mushrooms semi-legal or in a legal grayzone in Toronto and Vancouver? They're not the ideal substance in my opinion but better than nothing. ( I'm assuming you live in Canada by your profile ) One good thing psychedelics can do for your situation is to give you some distance from your mind and not identify yourself with the mind to a dysfunctional level. It can help you to go from living your mind in the first person perspective, to observing it from a more dettached third-person perspective. Psychedelics increase your level of consciousness and allow you to see that you are not your mind ( there is more to you than just that) and that just because thoughts occur in your mind’s eye or because the mental voice is speaking doesn’t mean they’re true or accurate -- or that you need to believe them or take them seriously. It's almost as though you were watching the television from a distance of 15 centimeters, and you were so caught up in it you truly believed that what's going on in the television is reallity. Whatever disgrace you saw there you would inmediately emotionally suffer in real life. But if you manage to step away from the television to a healthy distance of a meter and a half, you would be able to recognize what the television truly is, and you could detach your emotions from what you perceive from the television. You would gain a buffer between thoughts and emotions, where you get to question the validity of the thoughts that cause those emotional reactions. Emotions are ALLWAYS caused by beliefs, whether you're conscious of what those beliefs are or not . At an existential level, psychedelics might help you understand the nature of what you are. In a strange-loop paradoxical way, you both are and are not your mind. You are and are not your body. What you can identify with certainty is the silent observer of the mind and body -- pure awareness. In a way, this pure awareness is co-living in a single experience of existence together with the body and mind (which are almost separate entities). Sometimes, they are not aligned in interests or don’t entirely understand each other. Once you get clear about the body’s interests and the mind’s interests, you can begin to live in a more holistic way, learn to speak a common language between them, and stop sabotaging eachother. These different parts of you are ultimately looking out for themselves. Whatever apparent negative thing you’re experiencing actually has a positive intention behind it, though it may be too twisted to understand at first glance. For example: Your strong negative emotions are sending valuable information. Your limiting beliefs are trying to protect your self-esteem. Your neediness, obsession and oneitis with that woman is actually your biology hijacking your mind to maximize reproduction chances. ( Crush psychology) If I knew more specifics about your situation, I could point out clearer examples. Yeah, $30k in debt sucks. But on the other hand, it’s literally just the average student debt. It’s not the end of the world, and you can definitely get out of it. I don't know if you happen to have any prior work experience of skills, but you can start with less fulfilling less demanding jobs and build yourself up. (It would be useful if you shared more about this as well) Not being smooth with the ladies at age 24 is no big deal. You’d be surprised how much you can experience and learn in just a couple of months. There are 4.000.000.000 women on the planet. A good 10.000 that are potentially in your local arms reach, attractive, young, hot and single, almost desperate to meet a decent guy. Do you seriously think that NONE of them would want to be with you? Not even one? --- If you find any of this helpful, feel free to share more details here or PM me. I could potentially hear you out and offer you a degree of free help. I'm not a licensed professional but I've helped a few dozen people with very similar issues. DONT GIVE UP! Some quotes for emphasizing the catch 22 of the mind, thoughts and beliefs: Human beings act, think, and feel in accordance with what they believe to be true about themselves and their environment – Maxwell Maltz Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -- you're right - Henry Ford. You can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it. – Albert Einstein It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." – Epictetus . (( It's not the facts of a situation that matter, but the context and perspective which make sense of it )) You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."– Dan Millman

Two monitors is really just one long monitor split in half I's a longer monitor bad for your focus?

I wonder how home they hadn't done that sooner. It's common practice to have at least a single more expensive product to offer for the people that want to throw money at you

I love hearing about people's dreams, and this was a pretty fun read--though this probably doesn't belong in this subforum, lol. Now you’ve got me considering reading some erotic books for women. I like the idea of exploring y’all’s twisted imagination (just to broaden my psychological understanding, of course 😉). Since we’re in the politics subforum, here’s some food for thought about female psychology and seduction theory from pick-up, using a political analogy to possibly explain why these men are on your mind and why these sexual dreams happen: You may know the horseshoe theory, where the "Ʊ" shape shows that the extremes of the political spectrum are actually closer to each other rather than at opposite ends. Well, a similar pattern is true for the emotional spectrum ( for attraction ) -- Hate is at one end, and Love is at the other. It’s way easier to flip from love to hate (think breakups) and hate to love (heated argument into sex) than from indifference to love. (By love, I mean feelings of attraction and desire, not actual healthy real love, though it works to a degree.) The actual opposite of love isn’t hate -- it’s indifference. Notice that without strong emotions, whether negative or positive, these people barely cross your mind. The person doesn’t even exist for you. And by definition without strong emotions you are not attracted to them . So then, it’s actually beneficial (and I don't approove of this) to make a woman angry, irritated, or resentful, disagree with them a lot, or to get into heated arguments. It may look like the interaction is moving in the wrong direction, but it’s not. Strong emotions, especially a rollercoaster of both positive and negative feelings, can generate arousal and attraction. It's a tool for seduction. Matter of fact its common knowledge for PUAs ( and I don' aproove of it ) that many times even get on the radar of a very hot girl in ( specifically in clubs ) you have to get in her face or you will absolutely be ignored. It commands attention and possibly can make her reactive to you. It can absolutely fail in a terrible way though, but in terms of seduction its better than being ignored . Imagine this: if someone does or says something nasty to you, time goes by, and suddenly the person is on your mind all the time. You non-stop replay how they wronged you, imagine what you’d say to them, etc. If you were indifferent, you wouldn’t think about them at all. If someone is constantly on your mind, in a way, you obsess over them. And if you see them in person, you’ll react emotionally, recognizing them immediately--even in a room full of people. This also happens if you have a crush on them. Notice how this doesn’t occur with someone you feel indifferent about. So since you strongly disagree about many things these right wing men say, and maybe sort of dislike their actions, behaviors etc, combined with the fact that they have a degree of status, they are on your mind a lot. You think about them a lot . And then it's easy to flip from hate to love. Just food for thought and this is speaking in very broad terms, and I'm not saying I aproove of emotionally manipulating women to generate attraction, It's just a raw observation and I'm sharing the theory for possible better self-understanding.

Jeffrey Mishlove from New thinking allowed maybe would be fitting

We're all freaks in his eyes ( pun not intended )

The bottom line is that most jobs won't cut it in terms of alignment with " Truth " In the end you will have to carve out a path for yourself rather than working for the man if you really actually care. Working for someone else, aka outsourcing either sales, marketing or service delivery / product creation , almost garantees a degree of corruption. Becoming a conscious entrepreneur is the main way to be aligned with your own strenghts, values, pregerences, genetics, etc -- hence the Life Purpose Course Caring too much about Truthfulness when struggling to make end's meet is silly and not something to be that proud of. That's not the hill to die on https://www.actualized.org/insights/guerilla-business-advice

Charlie Goldsmith seems to be on to something. There is A LOT of positive subjective reports on his work. And he's a genine person overall

I was in your shoes a couple of years ago. ChatGPT is the absolute best tool for learning the big picture of politics. This is all you need for someone in your shoes and mild level of interest. If you're at ground zero, absolutely pay much attention to any YT channels or media. ChatGPT is your bible. The big problem with understanding politics from scratch is all the bias and ideology and missinformation that comes from human minds. People with big followings will spew their ideology at you in the most assertive and confident tone, and if you sorta resonate with their vibes you will start getting sucked into their political orbit. ChatGPT provides real time UNBIASED, OBJECTIVE, ACCURRATE personalized feedback. It's was extremely difficult to understand anything at all from my absolute begginner POV. Everything was a sh*tshow. The only thing that saved me from going into rabbitholes and echo chambers was a solid epistemology backgrond from actualized.org Just ask it the questions that are the most burning for you ATM in politics -- ask it to make it simpler if its too complicated, and enjoy a clean source of practical political theory. Cleaner than from any human mind !

Don't fall into the trap of trying to be a saint if all you need is a paycheck at this point of your life -- this can potentially hinder and paralyze your development. Truth can be your longer term overarching big picture value. Survival is brutal. As long as your job gives you enough income and time to work on your larger LP, and it's not pure corrupton, then it's a green light. I definitely resonate with you not being able to stomach much grifiting, but then again, being alive requieres to engage in Survival, and Survival is by default dirty business. You won't get far in life acting like a delicate snowflake. A degree of thick skin is requiered It takes serious work, planning and strategizing to make a living in a honest truthful way. The default is to go with the flow of corruption. And that requieres bootstrapping yourself Some blue collar jobs are easily accesible with not much effort, can pay well and grifting is sort of optional ( 😉) Just wanted to share this alternative if you're not into someting technical like Coding It sounds like you would be miserable in a sales job unless you're selling a high quality product to people or businesess that really need it ( or ideally your own thing )

Dropping this here real quick just to get started with some momentum. I've been procrastinating on building my camper van for over 3 years now and that's getting ridiculous. Remember : it's the single most strategic structural life change I can do as an introvert. For an introvert it's the equivalent of becoming a turtle : you carry your home on your back and are free to retreat whenever you want. I'll add more details soon. - Brainstorm to do list for next post -

that last 100 mg ala round scared me off chelation. I was K.O for 3 weeks. I'll start building up on core 4 and do a 50 MG dmsa + ala round for 3 - 4 days, at least 3 times without serious side effects before I increse the dose by .25 ( as recommended by ACC , increasing dose too quickly is a rookie mistake. I knew this but I was reckless nevertheless)

Is Pseudo-Scholarly Ideological Sense-Making Rambling more accurate? Even Tom Bilyeu from Impact Theory interviewed this guy. Lately he's been platforming the very worst thinkers possible , and he claims Impact Theory is committed to an unbiased pursuit of the truth as his YT description says. I guess it's a hard rule that if you have a net worth of 100m+ you must have some serious epistemic blind spots ( Tom Bilyeu is pro Trump)

The technical definition of what Whaifallthist is doing is called rambling Props to his dedication though

have a look about this channel on Near death experiences, maybe this will give you some perspetive.

You called Rogan and Elon musk yellow. Has this changed?

I’m struggling to put my thoughts together about RFK Jr. and how to be actually holistically fair when judging politicians beyonds their politics ( I'm aware this is not very pragmatic and potentially naive). Honestly, thinking about politics feels like a waste of time for me at this stage of life, so here’s a raw take polished by ChatGPT: Some context: RFK Jr. is 70 years old—he’s at the tail end of his life. He’s not a highly developed person, psychologically or morally. He’s not particularly wise, but at least his intentions seem okay. He’s no saint, martyr, or even an above-average person. He’s just an average Joe—and even calling him “average” might be too kind. To be real, we’re talking about an old crusty dude in politics. And let’s face it: politics attracts a certain type of person—power-hungry people. That’s just the reality of the field. You don’t get into politics without some hunger for power. (Leo made a great post recently about this.) Expecting someone like RFK Jr. to have the emotional and cognitive rigor, the wisdom, and the moral strength to resist the path of least resistance of endorsing MAGA and joining Trump’s administration is just asking too much. He's definitely not a hollistic systems thinker. He’s not going to sit around thinking about the long-term wellbeing of society decades after he’s gone. That’s unrealistic. He's full of selfish BS as most of us are. We paint our selfish survival games in a light of someting noble to feel better about ourselves and about what we do. It's just chimp survival games in the end. We’re being unfair to him by judging him with such a big-picture, holistic perspective. RFK Jr. is just another chimp—like most of humanity. Holding him to some high standard of decency is a very tall order, especially for someone in his position. The reality is, this old crusty average Joe rationalized and deceived himself into thinking that joining and endorsing MAGA was a good idea. He probably thought, “This is my chance to get my foot in the door and do something positive.” To avoid cognitive dissonance or guilt, he backward-rationalized that MAGA isn’t so bad after all. His positions on vaccines—and probably other things—are completely bonkers. And yes, it’s absurd that he thinks he can achieve anything significant under Trump’s administration. Nothing will get done. In fact, things will probably get worse. But from his perspective, it made sense. Is he the absolute worst option? Sure, RFK Jr. is a damn bad pick when you look at the big picture. His ideas aren’t great, and his “good intentions” are questionable. But compared to some of the absolutely batshit people who could be in charge of the health department, he’s not the worst. At least his intention isn’t entirely terrible in contrast to how corrupt or malicious someone else might be. This situation is what you’d expect from someone of his character and circumstances. He’s at the end of his life, power-hungry ( understandable) , working in a field dominated by power-hungry people, and lacks the wisdom, foresight or maturity to understand the broader consequences of his actions. If you were in his shoes—70 years old, with limited time left, and a chance to play a game you find meanigful—what would you do? Would you have the drive and integrity to go solo, reject the path of least resistance of sideing with MAGA and backwards-rationalizing your behavior? It’s easy to say you’d resist, but most people wouldn’t. Conclusion: Analyzing RFK Jr. too holistically or from a big-picture perspective and holding him to an above average standard feels unfair. He’s not some saint or moral crusader. He’s a pertty flawed, naive old man who rationalized his way into believing he could do something good or entretaining or self-serving before he dies. Sure, we can see through the delusion and recognize the harm his actions cause, but expecting him to act like some highly developed, morally superior person is unreasonable. In the end, he’s just a old crusty average joe guy in politics doing what he thinks is right, even if it’s deeply flawed. That being said, who endorses Trump and MAGA is a good litmus test for integrity, but for cognitive and moral development its quite a low bar. Most people are selfish and self deceived so its not that hard to fall for MAGA. About RFK being oportunisting and sideing with trump, I dont know if that litmus test is 100% accurrate ( hear me out -- half baked analogy) A guy could be absolutely straight, not attracted to men at all whatsoever. 100% straight. If hes offered 5 million for sleeping with a guy and he accepts, does that mean that his true colors had allways been homo ( or bi ) ? Or that he's being oportunistic and doesn't value his integrity that high and has other priorities whether conscious or subconscious? An is it really that surprising that afterwards he rationalizeds to himself how this actually is good and fits with his character and values? Just food for thought on how to poke sideing with MAGA as a litmus test ( its an ccurrate judgement of character 99'99% of the times IMO)

I remember a video of RFK jr telling people to vote trump so that he can fight corrupt food industry big shots lmao

It's the things I've been wrong about episode I believe

https://oasis.decart.ai/introduction Dip your toes in the astral realm physics yourself! Press " try oasis"

Found a perfect example for this. The Astral realm has a degree of this, although there is some permanence.

Big progress was made today. And I say today and not tonight because It happened in the morning after i had been awake for hours. I had 4 out of body experiences in a row, in a time span of about of an hour and a half , all on the way INTO sleep instead of coming out of sleep like I have usually done. WOAH! These have been the most vivid and realistic yet. I've learned and enjoyed so much ! I woke up around 7:30 AM and did house chores. 9 AM came and I felt a little tired and decided to lay down in bed, without the intention of falling asleep. I put on my overhead earplugs and eye mask. I was having a pretty clear mind and could imagine and think pretty clearly for my standard, so the intention was to enjoy that as I lay in bed. As I was thinking with my eyes closed, I was imagining and seeing things more and more vividly and what usually are just simple short thoughts and mental pictures, started becoming a burst of multiple Microsleep's. AND IT WAS IN ONE OF THOSE BRIEF MOMENTARY MICROSLEEP bursts that I realized that I was not in the " real physical world" but I was in an Imaginary world " , I inmediately became lucid and took controll over my body - Comment : It's absolutely essential to have a couple of goals when you get in the phase, or otherwise you will get lost in random stuff and lose consciousness and fall asleep. You must remain intentful and on the go. What naturally comes to me is my desire to interact with girls, which is very rewarding and authentic for me at this point. OBE #1 - I appeared into a house party at late night. There was a lot of people. I saw a girl I know from sight. She's extremely cute. I grabbed her by the hand, pulled her into me, looked her into her eyes and smiled. She gave me the biggest anime eyes and smiled back. I didn't want to rush having sex this time. I wanted to explore the interaction and realm more. By now I know having sex is prone to getting me out the phase because it's such a strong experience. I took off her top and we made out a lot. It felt very realistic both in feeling and sight. Something that's obvious but not so obvious is that for sex to happen I need to get hard, otherwise we are just grinding on eachother, so of course it won't happen until I'm excited. I didn't think it mattered in that realm but it does. There was a different girl close to us but she was with a guy. I reached out with my hand regardless and she smiled but she didn't join us. I'll try that one next time. We walked around the house and we walked towards a dark room. I told her I cant go there or I will dissapear. We turned around. She left me for a second. I said that if she wants to leave she's free to go. She said she doesn't want to leave me as she went to the turntable to put in a new CD. As I turned my back again to see her everything went black and I " woke up " A big insight I've had is that geometry is non-euclidean in that realm.If you look forward at a wall. Turn around 360 degrees and look again at the same wall, It won't neccesary be the same again. You can create a new reallity as the edges of your vision go into nothingness ( you may have a field of view of 200º horizontally at a time and 100º vertically , so you dont capture a full 360 of everything at once, therefore there are blind spots. as you look away and into these blindspots, a new reallity can generate ) Another take away is that consistency is not as consistent as in the physical world. If you try to go trhough a wall or a window, and it doesnt work the first time, it doesn't mean that if you try again it won't work. That one was mindblowing. It was just an assumption I was carrying from the " real world ". OBE#2 happened right after the first one. As I woke up, Inmediately tried to roll out of my body. I was in my room. It was very dim and dark. Darkness makes me get kicked out so I set the intention of making it bright as I touched and palpaped my body to make sensations more vivid. It worked. I wanted to get out of my room through my window. The mosquito net didnt let me ( again ) . I tried again. Nothing. I tried again, this time I went through! Haha! What a funny logic. I was in my garden and I started flying. Initially I knew the area ( my neighbourhood ) but eventually everything was different ( non-euclidean geometry was sick here ). I jumped on top of my house, and on the other side was a 300 meter fall down!!!! I was scared but I jumped anyways. If I didn't manage to calm myself down I'd get kicked out. I started fluing at a speed of 200km/h or so. It was amazing. I could see everything and feel the cold wind through my body. I was flying around the town looking for a woman but all the houses were empty. I realized I need to consistently check for my entire body . Sometimes I get kicked out for aparently no reason but that this time as I was flying 200km/h, I looked down and my legs were tied up in a pretzel. OFC! I had just jumped from 300 meters high lol. It was okay until I had noticed it. So making sure my entire " suble body " is doing fine is important I guess OBE #3 was more of a dream didn't go entirely lucid. I exit my body but sort of lost consciousness and was just going on autopilot. I was fighting a skunk that was running around my room with a shovel. I accidentally picked it up with it, flipped it into the air and it landed on me. that " woke me up ". There was one more, but I dont remember right now. These memories sometimes fade if you dont write them down inmediately, and later throughout the day they hit you out of nowhere. I want to try to astral project inside the astral projection. I forgot to try that. Or as I feel I'm fading out, close my eyes and try to teleport somewhere. Or Imagining that protective bubble I was talking about , or " rooting down " or holding onto objects . I want to try again. I'll keep y'all updated.