Gesundheit

@Someone here

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@Hulia No arguments here ?

Thanks for sharing, man. Very insightful and true ime, even though my experience is shy in comparison.

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@Javfly33 There's no sexual value unless there's a market. Market means a social circle that you constantly hang around. When there's no market, it's called interest level. Although, the interest level concept still remains within markets. With each one girl, you will be perceived differently. Each girl has different values. The more your characteristics align with her values, the higher interest levels she will have for you. If a girl highly values tall muscular men, and you are one, she will have high interest in you regardless of all your other characteristics. But if you're short or lean, no matter how much money or status or charisma or anything else you have, she won't have interest in you. She might sleep with you for the money or whatever, but she won't find you sexy. But in reality, it's not that simple, because most women don't just value one or two things. Most women value a bunch of characteristics that unless you meet quite some of them, you won't be interesting to them. So, ideally, work on raising your values in all possible directions. Be fit, kinda muscular, charismatic, confident, develop status, etc... Learn everything you can. Develop yourself to the best of your capabilities. Then you will have higher chances of matching up with the girls you find the hottest.

Quite the opposite, actually.

Then you must have a big fat ego.

Live your life right now, and worry about the afterlife when it comes.

Tomorrow is the last exam for this semester. I did terribly so far, passing one test out of four. Yeah, but actually I don't really care. I'm only still studying cuz of my parents. My identity is tied to them, so I'm compromising my authentic self for them. If I was completely authentic, I would simply join the army or become a crazy person that works almost anything at all except something that requires an intellectual effort. I didn't really choose the path of academia. I never even once found intellectual work exciting or even interesting. The only reason I studied and was good at it was because I was really afraid of my parents' judgement and disappointment in me. That fear motivated me for 12 years, in which I felt extremely terrible everytime I studied or did an exam. It was such a struggle for me. I had suffered for 12 fucking years for them. Let alone the existential crisis I'd gone through shortly after that. And up until now, all of my problems always stemmed from that BS, especially my addictions, cuz in fact they're nothing but some fucking coping mechanisms for the type of lifestyle I currently have. When I started university, my authentic self began to come into light. I started discovering my true self slowly. I had to burn my old fake identity, and suffer too much for it, but now I know exactly who I am and what I want. Studying is just not my thing. And to become a doctor... LMAO! I'm the opposite of that. I don't really care about the well-being of others human devils. Most humans I would rather see dead or in pain than to help them heal or live longer. The army is a good place for me. Not because I'm physically strong, I'm not. But I can easily be. My current lifestyle is not designed to make my body strong. I seriously just want to drop everything and join the army. It is the most healthiest way of living life. I have all of life figured out. There's nothing more for me to learn or understand. Cuz there's actually no such thing as learning or understanding. I've lost my mind, and I don't want it back. I don't want to think a single serious thought anymore. Let people do the thinking, and I'll do the doing. I'm just waiting for my parents to die or to be okay with me dying. I really don't mind dying for myself. I only mind if they suffer from my death. My mom has always been overprotective to the point where it's suffocating. She's extremely fearful. When I was a kid, if I disappeared for a few hours, she would become paranoid and think that I was kidnapped, she thought everyone envied her for having me, and many other stupid things that she feared for. She would call and gather everyone to search for me. I don't resonate with all that BS. But for her sake, I'm sharing some of her fears, just to keep her suffering to a minimum, even though I'm quite sure she'll always be suffering regardless of anything. She's just the kind of person that's never content. None of what I'm saying here is because I hate her per se. I don't really "hate" anyone. I don't spend my energy on hating, and she's my mom after all, but I honestly prefer her dead right now. If she's dead, my dad won't probably care about me as much. He's a lazy jackass, like me. He doesn't give two flying fucks for almost anything, except his own BS, which I don't resonate with, either. Both of them buy into the BS of status and hierarchy, but my dad less. They think that money and status are the best things in life. That's why they pushed me into school and college and all that BS in the first place. Doctors make good money and have high status. But what my stupid parents don't really understand is that they're completely delusional and disconnected from reality. I don't hate money, actually quite the opposite. I would do things they wouldn't for money. For example, I once worked in newspapers delivery and never really cared. But for them it was a big deal. How could I do such a thing?! Well, if you're poor, there's no wrong job. I only worked there because they weren't able to provide. The ego they're maintaining won't solve poverty. The circumstances in my country are hard to describe, so I won't go into that. But the bottom-line is that my parents are so delusional and out of touch with reality, and they want me to be like them, a robot. The best route for survival in this country is the army. You can actually thrive in there, even though the economy is collapsing more and more everyday. But my parents will do anything to avoid the army, cuz they're afraid of death. Well, how can you ever live if you fear death? You won't! You will only live a half-life, worrying all the time and limiting yourself and all that BS. So the army for me is route #1. Route #2 is moving out of the country at all costs, even if it means becoming fucking homeless, which I personally don't believe will ever be the case as long as you're willing to put in the effort to make it work. I would work in marine corps and travel the world if it's possible. I would work at a Mac-fucking-Donald's. I would mop the floor or do whatever shit. I don't care how much money I would be making. See, money is never the point. Living this fucking life, is. My parents don't see that. They only think about the future and never live life. Well, enjoy your hell. I'll be out soon. I will graduate from college and join the army asap. The degree will give me a rank advantage as in immediately being promoted to a moderate rank. So I will actually benefit from it. Otherwise, I don't have any interest in the degree.

@Someone here lol

Cute.

From the Buddhist perspective.

The club is growing.

@Girzo Progress does not happen by manipulating the external world. Rather, it happens by changing your relationship to it. You can fly to the moon and feel lighter, but don't fool yourself into thinking that have actually lost weight. You will know when you come back to the earth.

Stop using psychedelics. The real work happens in the real world.

Arbitrary.

@Yahya Let's assume that it's true that the Quran is free from errors. What's the connection between that assumption and the claim that Islam comes from Allah?

I think it's both. Or more precisely, I think all humans are corrupt regardless of circumstances. It's just different degrees of corruption. Because law/artificial order is unsustainable, and it ultimately begs for corruption/chaos.

I thought you were asking about absolute truth, and in absolute truth science doesn't exist (it only exists in the mind), so of course it's BS (and also absolutely true, depending on how you look at it). There's nothing wrong per se with using BS technology. I know that sex is an illusion, and I allow myself to enjoy it. It doesn't matter the label BS, because it's just a judgement. I'm specifically using this judgement here because I've noticed some sort of attachment on your side, so I wanted to poke at that. That's all. Other than that, I'm an almost graduated college student. Of course I don't think so, because better vs. worse is a duality. Relatively speaking, what religion provides, science cannot. And vice-versa. You said that religious people are generally happier than atheists, so that's one example of how religion is better than science. After all, we all want to be happy, right? However, it seems that you're valuing the materialist paradigm over happiness (at least in this particular conversation), so of course to you science will seem better than religion. If you want to manipulate the material world, probably science is the best way to do that. But what is the value in manipulating the material world? Does it really mean anything other than what you project onto it? Notice that for someone who values happiness over manipulation, religion is better.

@Someone here Nothing is ever justified enough. Science is actually BS, but people think otherwise because they're stuck at the materialist paradigm. There's no way to prove that science is actually true, no fucking way. Evidence/testability is just a belief, no matter how you slice it. All mind constructs are beliefs about and projections onto reality. Even if you do the same experiment with 100% success rate, you can't possibly know if it will still work in the next minute. So you just take it on faith that it will. We don't fucking know, but we like to think that we do.

This question itself is invalid. Leave absolute truth out of the equation, cuz absolute truth does not obey validity, rather it's the other way around. Truth in this context means relative truth. In absolute truth, all relative truths are valid, at least to some degree. So, blind faith and empiricism are not really that much different. They're both partial truths that have pros and cons. The value we get from blind faith cannot be gotten out of empiricism, and vice-versa. Each has its own unique variety of values, which are not to say they're necessarily mutually exclusive, cuz they can intersect. But like you said, the similarities and differences kinda collapse. The important thing to remember here is that whatever humans do or subscribe to, it's always because it provides certain survival value to them. And most survival value is determined by the ego-mind, and the ego is maintained by fear. So, if you want to really understand why people behave the way they do, it's most accurate to study them according to values and then relate that to fear. What survival values does religion provide for people that they cling to it so much? That's a good question to contemplate.

You can try minimalism. The less stuff you have to deal with, the less time you will be invested in thinking, and the less clouded by thoughts your mind becomes. All of which add up to increased awareness & clarity. Meditation also works great for me, especially when practiced for long enough. Ideally, two hours a day. Solo retreats are an option to consider if you haven't yet had the chance to experience what a no-mind state feels like.