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I don't understand why some people get caught up in the ''meaningless'' of life. I have been through a phase of nihilism myself when i was younger but it didn't last a while. Why would i need some sort of Absolute meaning? To me life is inherently meaningful without the need to construct any meaning whatsoever. Not the other way around. I can wake up in the morning with the hope of living well another day. I don't need much more than that to keep on living. And What is the problem of constructing your own meanings? Why the need of some absolute meaning making figure? I don't get it. If we are to say that life is meaningless then please tell me how life would it be if it was actually meaningful? I want to know the contrast.

I know very little about Nietzsche's work. But his work is highly valued by our culture. Why is that? Why did Nietzsche's ideas became so famous and why is he considered a great philosopher? If you have studied his work, let me know.

@DocWatts Thank you. Great analysis!!

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@diamondpenguin It's not worth more than the world. At least for me.

@Mason Riggle Nope. I didn't glimpse anything. I literally became fuc*king infinite.

@Gesundheit2 Yes but where intrinsic motivation comes from? It also comes from a part of your brain.

It's not just a matter of content. It's more about how much aware are you of the content. When you take a psychedelic or have a mystical experience then you finally realize that consiousness has many qualities to it no matter what the content is. You become more and more conscious of things without any content changing. I would describe Consciousness like a glass window that it usually very dirty and you can't see very accurately from it. When you clean it, you see crystal clear. That sense of having a crystal clear perception of reality is really addicting for me because it happens so rarely..

When i took 2 tabs of LSD 3 years ago then suddenly I became Infinite. Ultimately we are an infinite being.

@vindicated erudite I think they are the same meaning that an orgasm is an orgasm. The brain does not see a difference between real sex or imaginary sex. There is a part of the brain that does not distinguish those things. This is why sometimes when you're half asleep and half awake your brain confuses imagination with reality.

@Michael569 It's incredible how intelligent the human body is. It has all these mechanisms built-in. It's amazing. Yes some downregulation happens for our benefit for sure. They call it tolerance i think.

@Nahm Yes but motivation is needed. The only reason why Leo uploads a video is because of the reward he will get afterwards. The only reason i am eating food is because of the reward afterwards. If sex for example didn't have a reward nobody would bother going through the struggle to mate. Motivation and reward goe hand-in-hand and are necessary for survival i think. They are physically hardwired/ built-in into us.

Because others are you and their suffering is your suffering. Also you must be 1 in 1 million of people and even rarer than that to be able to meditate 24/7 in a cave. Ramana Maharshis are super super super super rare.

@Breakingthewall Why do you find the emptiness terrifying?

@ROOBIO The only way to overcome your fear of something, is by actually doing that thing you fear. There is no magic solutions around this. It's about action and not mental masturbation when it comes to fear. If you trust yourself then do it. If not then better wait.

@Vision You are fine.

Apparently PsychedSubstance has been suffering from some very mild low Testosterone symptoms that may have been caused by his Kratom abuse over the years. He is not considering stopping the Kratom because that would him make him miserable & unproductive for weeks. He checked his testosterone levels and they were all within the ''normal'' range, although to the very low side. He is now injecting testosterone prescribed by his doctor. These doctors are really funny because some will prescribe you with testosterone while others won't even if you give them the same blood tests. Anyways the problem i have with this is the following : I think he is just creating another problem to solve a problem. His problem is probably the Kratom and not the low T. He is influencing other people with the mentality ''if i have low T, then i guess i need to inject some testosterone''. And i believe he hasn't thought through for all the possible consequences and pitfalls especially when he is much older. I have been involved with steroids and powerlifting and i have experience with this new trend of trt. Basically trt (testosterone replacement therapy) is very new. We don't even 100 year old studies on this stuff. We don't know how it can affect your prostate and etc when you are old. This new trend i am talking about is this myth that if you are over 40 or have low T, then immediately you should do yourself a favor and inject oil to your buttocks for the rest of your life. Maybe you have seen some doctors from trt clinics advising you this kind of stuff because they profit from this. This is absurd. Of course there are many people who would benefit from injecting testosterone BUT i see more and more people taking it for no good reason like PsychedSubstance. I believe PsychedSubtance has been heavily influenced by another heavy steroid user and Stage Orange youtuber over the last few weeks, More Plates More Dates his name is.

@Michael569 The deep sameness is that drugs and porn both raise your dopamine. I am saying this because from what i know, if your brain produces tons and tons of dopamine then eventually you get depleted of dopamine and this can cause motivation issues. I don't know the deeper mechanics of it. But i have noticed this. You take tons of drugs or watch tons of porn, and then it seems your brain doesn't have enough dopamine and you struggle to find the motivation to do the things you would normally do. I remember when one time i went on a porn-binge and masturbated two days in a row for countless times. After than 2-day binge, i couldn't work 100% as i used to. I could only work like 1/3 of the amount. Didn't have enough of the neurotransmitters or whatever to keep on pushing. It took 3 days for my motivation levels to recover. This really made me quit watching porn. I don't experience the damage to the perception as other people do. But i definitely experience the motivation loss.

The woman in this video claims to be a neuroscientist and says that if you watch Porn with duration and especially with intensity then your brain is being damaged. This is really scary stuff. But why would the brain damage itself anytime it gets some intense or long-duration pleasure? This makes no sense. And what about when having sex? What if i am having sex all the time with hot prostitutes? Won't that damage the brain the same way as porn? And what about if i am taking a psychedelic and experience intense pleasure? Won't that damage my brain also? Also, is this damage reversible? I see drug addicts who have been doing hardcore drugs for more than 30 years who still have the motivation to wake up in the morning and go to the bathroom. So i suppose that damage is reversible somewhat. I don't really know. I am not a neuroscient. It seems that there is some healing for sure though. Because she also said. Maybe someone who is knowledgable about this thing can enligthten me somehow. Those neural circuits that being fried, are they somehow being healed later?

Some idiots obsess over iq like it is the universal measure of intelligence. Funny.

I believe psychopathy is on a range and not something binary. Some people have more of it. But when it comes to acquiring billions and billions of dollars, do you have to be a psychopath in order to make it to the top? I am not talking about millions of dollars. I am pretty sure you can become a millionaire without being a psychopath but when it comes to billions of dollars, i believe only the most cruel, cold and vicious people make it up there. You have to stomp on a lot of bodies and not really care too much about all of the bottom of the pyramid. It's like you have to be extremely vicious to be a warlord at the time of Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. Both of these were ruthless mass murderers. You couldn't become Genghis Khan by being someone like Jesus or the Buddha. If the current billionaires were more loving and caring then i guess the current situation in this planet would be a lot better for all of us. Any thoughts?

@IAmReallyImportant Most people with high IQ work for someone with an average IQ. Not the other way around.

@Parththakkar12 Being a psychopath doesn't hinder your capacity of being a good marketer. Just the opposite. Being high on a psychopathy scale makes everything easier for you. Jeff Bezos is a good example of someone with high psychopathy.

@IAmReallyImportant Yea sure buddy.

@aurum Good points.