Epikur

Team Caucasus with something like shuffle:

@ivankiss You talking about russians reminded me of this. It's damn sensual: and this:

I am mainstream but I want to be open for new ideas so that is the only way we can some art like this: (they feel like russians a bit)

In general one has to connect two different things and you already have something new. If you do it more times you might have something interesting once in a while out of it. For example I do like shuffle dance videos. Back in the time I enjoyed some bollywood songs. The combination sounds quite new. So I search in youtube with the keywords. Vuala! Now I am going to post it in the dance thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/Startup_Ideas/comments/86md95/james_altuchers_10_ideas_a_day/

@PetarKa Adult teaching costs more. Joke aside yes are not robots we need emotions to learn. I guess it is very hard to find the sweet spot for everybody. He says himself you have to check other sources as well. So you don't have to get obsessed with that stuff. You don't have to get deep with it. You can use a different angle I guess.

This forum is progressiv. Having problems with "reality" is the nature of the beast but there is no much alternative. Progressivism in my understanding is fighting for a better world. The problem with this is that you like a scientist have to experiment all the time. Like Edison you have to basically almost all the time fail to find something that works. Conservatists don't have that problem but they don't create much change. Change is sometimes very important. I guess otherwise you would not be on this forum.

I agree with meditation. Additionally reading novels helps too. The effect is that the "activity" teaches you not to act on your thoughts. Not to identify with your thoughts. So then you gain some space and time where you can choose better without being controlled by your emotions. Personally I do like to do karaoke before to install some emotions in the background. Meditation and just reading can make you little bit emotionless and nihilistic so you might want to counterbalance it.

@AlphaAbundance Some people work with evolutional psychology besides non-dual elements.

When you transcended all of them it's nice. I guess you still need to eat and dring. So I guess you have to do at least the minimum level of maintenance for the different areas. With the sex drive I would check if you may do some maintenance to keep some level of it. Maybe you can keep it off for a while or all the time. I think if you don't stimulate your senses to a maintenance level you might lose literally some functions with your senses. Like I said you might want to take care of your senses it gives basically meaning to us as biological beings. When you talk about being alpha with the girls I would say this is not a balanced view in terms of maslov's pyramide also with Epikur. You might keep things balanced and at least at maintenance level. You never know if it might get back to you like a storm. I read yesterday about a buddhist monk who killed his ex-girlfriend. Yes you could say you allow "play" as a meaning to exist but actually it probably comes biologically anyway if you allow it. So yes you can assign meaning to your hobbies I think it's a good thing to do. I think when we look at our "reality" we see how powerful "play" and "hobbies" are. So you don't have to use too much energy to assign meaning to them. You can call it motivation. If your senses get stimulated with play it probably creates a feedback loop. The meaning assignment works then on autopilot. Like with marathon runners it feeds itself. The bilogical system enjoys itself by doing things that make "sense". For creating motivation you can remind yourself what faktors are relevant to it. For example (mircro) habits are a good way to get motivation going.

I think in general yes but it depends on the context. If you are in a tough situation like war. I think some level of stoicism might help. After you came trough the worst situation it's time come through life in a nice way. For that epicureism seems to be quite good. Actually I don't think I am building too much identity around him. Specially because it is not much known from him. Yes you are right I try to be flexibel with my perspectives. That is why intellectual curiousity is a big part of the deal.

@ivankiss I can't handle it maybe I am too mainstream and this is too progressive. Funny thing. When I do my karaoke in my morning routines my "chakras' for dancing is open. I can just flow in with classics like these: I wonder what would be a nice name for a club that goes in that direction? Rumi's shuffle club? Let's get creative: Shuffle meets bollywood

I would work with Maslov's pyramide of needs. Regarding meaning I would use the word sense. I think it's less confusing. Like puppies wants to play you want to "play" as well. That is why many people love computer games and sports because it works. It gives actually some form of meaning. That is good enough I guess to keep you going. Try hobies I guess.

In principle that is not a bad thing. We need feedback to know what is going on. Like radar needs a feedback we need social feedback as well. That is why accountability is important. You don't want to be the guy who goes through the streets shouting I am Napoleon. In case that you care too much is probably your expectations to yourself is to big. Work more on yourself but expect less I guess.

I can imagine how bad it feels btw I am in philippines. I read your journal. I guess part of it is probably regret. When I get angry it's actually that I am angry at me. The worst anger seems to be regret. That I did something wrong where I could have done the right thing. In general the amount of frustration we feel is related to the amount of expectations we have. Basically the lower the expectation the lower the chance that you will get frustrated. You are getting data about yourself. Some data is only to be get in a crisis situation. So you learn about yourself. If you have financial problems and you still want to make music that means you are quite committed for example. Other lessons you can learn is always be prepared for the worst case scenario. If you are prepared for it you will not go crazy about it. Seeing what is important. One ideal could be to be self sufficient as much as possible so that you live on your own without needing too much others. One problem with visualization is that you work too hard against your programming and that can create frustrations. Also you can always think how good you have. You shurely can imagine how worse it could have become. Or that this crisis prepared you for bigger crisis.

There is a lot online. It was one of the biggest ideologies in the time of the roman empire. This might help: https://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_epicureanism.html With not super heroic I mean he is a minimalist. So he is the opposite of a marvel hero. You won't become "the hero" with his philosopy. But you might become relatively content and sometimes happy once in a while I guess.

I am working with the concept of Epikur. A hidden garden, some friends, intellectual curiousity (play). Live frugal and minimalistic. That is the most no nonsense approach I found. It's pretty down to earth. It's not super heroic but it might work for most.

I guess whatever you do it will be very hard to find "nice" people who want to do the job. This job sucks.

Didn't know that there is dancing in the (borg) collective. Yes maybe that is how things "work"

Maybe he drank not poison but DMT became a different person. He stopped asking annoying questions. Actually that could be an interesting treatment for prisoners who can't escape their criminal patterns. Take psychedelics and become an artist or so.

With dominated I mean if people express themselfs energetically it has effects on others. Think about somebody has a angry personality and you dancing makes him more angry. Or think of somebody lost a loved one and you are dancing. That could be annoying. Not everybody is like this:

@Himanshu The NASA pick up is gold.The comments also. It sounds more professional and less cringy than the pick up gurus. I think NASA is a game changer I guess that is why RSD gave up in that market place. On the other hand it could be a hoax. Scientifically the project sounds impossible

I feel it's good to be able to do it but it's better to do it in a appropriate situation where you can be relatively shure not to cause unnecessary friction. In public spaces people have different mindsets. It's not always good to dominate others with your vibes.

In Germany we go to the basement when you have the need to laugh. So it's good to live the emotions at home if possible. The higher level is to go to the clubs to get the motivation and the energy and be able to do it at home. Being independent from the club is quite nice.

For me this is the brutalized version of shuffle. It is what heavy metal is to pop music. That is just my subjective opinion to it. Though I appreciate the work ethic and all that.

I am big on dance too and experimented quite a bit. I am 40 plus. I am living for couple years now in the philippines. My main project was to dance again. In Germany the environment is not beneficial for the project. Here I could even go to the disco and relive the disco lifestyle. It was a good time. I tried to do selfimprovement as well. That was not so easy. Dancing and music took I guess big parts of my brain capacity. I was music addicted even before coming here. I tried to get rid of the addiction and it kind of works. Karaoke is part of my daily routine. Without it I feel like I miss some senses. Anyway I will again experiment with dancing. Like in your case it's hard to come back and be productive after that. It's like taking psychedelics though I never took one but that is what I imagine to feel like. After couple years in the disco here shuffle dance became my routine. Later I looked it up on yt and it's quite a thing it seems. I come near the city where Rumi comes. I would like to see shuffle dance as the modern version of it. In China it seems it is popular. The comrades have some flow. Besides the usual candidates like Michael Jackson there was one scene from the a dance movie that had a massiv effect on me. So dancing became an important story for me: This video I think fits the context of my post. It's quite a ride with some amazing flow: