JosephKnecht

The website is nice, artsy, and creative. I like it. The stories are also deep, personal, and authentic. You seem to have lots of creativity and it shows. You also mentioned Leo in both stories so that is a plus. Keep up the good work.

It is legal. You are free to give credit to whoever you want. What you are trying to do is to use the reputation of others to build up your name. This is also legal but not highly ethical.

You should educate yourself and acquire marketable skills. The more skills you have, the more complex problems you can solve, and the more money you can earn. Everybody can sell products on craigslist, but not everyone can fly rockets into space like Elon Musk. My suggestion: find something you want to learn about. Educate yourself and become an educated 18-year-old.

You can't rationalize attraction. While you are explaining to them, you are trying to rationalize attraction. Attraction works on a subconscious level. When you desire a woman, you are attracted by her presence, but you don't understand the reason for the attraction. Attraction comes first, rationalization of the attraction comes after the fact. Maybe you are blind to the challenges women face... As a man, it is your duty to approach, to improve, to learn, and to grow. You can take your pick among all the women and approach and date whomever you want. As a girl, socially you are only allowed to accept and submit to the attention of the guys who showed interested in you. Therefore, you have less choice. If you were born again, would you rather be born a man or a woman?

It is possible. You can create robots/automation that produce material abundance so that the base needs of the world are satisfied. Once that is achieved, we can all just sit around and read Shakespeare.

Apparently, the first date went well. There is Part 2...

Level of difficulty: Impossible. Years of practice, dedication, trial and error, self-doubt, doubt of others just to arrive at Nothing. You have to lose yourself completely. You have to become aware of how you are deceiving yourself. You can't trust anyone, not even yourself. But lucky for you, the possible is in the impossible.

I guess they make their Life Purpose to become monks. So their life purpose becomes to seek that which could not be found. You can't skip stages, but you can increase your pace and go through a stage faster than otherwise. Sometimes the easiest way to let go of desires is to exhaust your desire. Once you have beheld everything that you desire in this world, maybe you too can go to the mountains and become a Monk.

Yes. You should create a life purpose for your life. You can't make quantum jumps on the spiral so you have to take your time with your progression. Determine what are your passions and skills, decide where you would want to be 5-10 years from now, and work on that goal. In the meantime, do your meditations and try to grow your spirit as much as you can. Enjoy the journey to the destination and don't just seek the destination.

Yes. You have to create a purpose for your life. Otherwise, you will just meander aimlessly.

You have had many lives. The purpose of all lives is to eventually get to enlightenment. If you can't get enlightened in your current life, you can create another life purpose for yourself. In the end, it doesn't matter. There is only one destination, but you chose the path on how to get there.

There is a 100% chance. There is nothing else that God could be.

The first time is never the best time. Use the first experience to test the waters. Always start with a small dose in the beginning and increase on the second and third time. Do you live in the Netherlands? I think I have seen these chocolate bars. Usually, when the psychedelics are infused with the food they are fairly weak. Since you are a beginner, it might be a good start for you. Enjoy!

This guy said it best:

Instead of thinking about what you should get from the system, try to think about what you can give to the system. Happiness comes from giving, not from taking.

@Identity Are you willing to let go of your identity?

"I know that I know nothing" - Socrates That is true knowledge.

If looks didn't matter, then where would you look? Physical appearance is there to grab your attention. All beauty is internal and subjective but is projected into an external object outside ourselves. It is projected into the external body of a man/woman and we find it beautiful because we have forgotten our internal beauty. In an attempt to recollect our internal beauty, we try to possess the external beauty of someone else. Looks matter, because if it didn't, there won't be any physical matter. Looks matter because physical reality must reproduce itself, and through reproduction, it must increase its realization of beauty.

You are 19. You still have a lot to construct before you deconstruct. I would suggest that you work more on self-imporvement in the aspects where you are lacking. Social anxiety, friendship, relationships, etc. There is time for everything. You should become well-rounded in all aspects of life.

@BipolarGrowth The title of this thread is the definition of Bipolar disorder. Bipolar Growth indeed. Watched the video. The amount of projection was unbearable. You don't need to change your appearance to be accepted by anyone. You are already perfect.

You can't become financially independent because you will depend on maintaining the current financial system. What you actually mean is that you want security so that you can pursue other passions. The sense of security comes from within, and that is where you have to find it. They are polar opposites. Start first with learning more about the ego. Study psychology, philosophy, sociology, etc. Find out what is wrong with the current programming before you re-programm yourself.

This guy has made a formula for finding The One. There is Hope for everyone.

You can't eradicate or kill the ego. The ego is what you are. What you want to do is transcend the ego. You want to rise above yourself. From high above you want to see your true Self. Once you see above the ego, you will love the ego since it was the ego that enabled you to rise. It was the ego that placed impossible traps for itself just so that one day you can rise above it. Yes. Ego is necessary. Accept it. Transcend it.

I've had similar problems when I was young too. Nowadays I just assume all the girls are into me. Problem solved. So, always assume the girl is into you.

It seems that you have achieved some spiritual growth in the past year. When we experience sudden growth, we tend to look back at our past self as inferior to the present self. In a sense, to grow means to rise above your past and that is what you've achieved. But when you grow, you might see yourself at a higher elevation than the others. You might judge others for working for money or doing mundane daily tasks just to survive. But remember, everyone has their own path in life and some people enjoy sitting behind a computer for 8 hours. In fact, you used to be one of those people. So don't judge others, and above all don't judge yourself for who you used to be. Now that you have grown, your passions have changed. And your problem is that you have lost the passion of your past. But if you lost your passion, was it really your true passion? Try to find new passions... Something that makes you excited to wake up every morning. Only you can find your true passion. We are all looking for our North Star, but sometimes we mix the North with the South and we go in the wrong directions. What is your North Star?