waheed

Nothing was said and nothing was heard, nothing written or read either.

It depends, your health goes down, if you work really hard at and are lucky you can decline the rate at which it goes down, which is good. Regarding understanding, it's a constant learning, each life stage is different so you become a different person, the person in his 20s has no Idea what 40s are like, similarly for 30s, even someone is 45 won't know what 50s is about. Life makes you learn, like it makes you learn now in whatever age you are. Everyone learns in some way. And there is no clever way to somehow future proof life, not even enlightenment. Enlightened or not, we are just a "something" in this life, while we are alive.

To be honest, life is living itself, i'm just reacting mostly and in some rare moments i do appear and notice whats going on, but i don't have any desires in those moments.

It doesn't change once you start believing it. It's not something we discover out there, it's a model we apply and all models are reductive at minimum and can be completely off the point in worst cases. It's a more deliberate way of crystalizing the self and then living as that.

Lucky you, the default place of no beliefs is the right place to be in. This allows for surrender to happen on its own, when one is faced with reality of possible ending of life.

I have been through a possible life ending situation an year ago. Nothing could comfort me in terms of beliefs, what helped was basically some understanding that i'm not here to start with, and it's an ongoing story that keep telling/creating myself. Reality of death is difficult and you have to surrender and go through it.

This forum should be called solipsism intensive. I mean every second post is about it. And i'm not sure if they are talking about the same thing.

you can start with a simpler question, what really happens when you are in deep sleep? it happens everyday(almost).

I appreciate your perspective, however you need to see that making sense of what we are experiencing works through beliefs and concepts. Belief is a concept held to be true and once something is held to be true it's real. Experience is lightening fast, its something we internalized and automated, however that doesn't change the fact that beliefs and concepts are what make our reality. There is no objective reality completely free from concepts and beliefs. This doesn't mean there is nothing out there. It means that this life is a function of concepts and without beliefs and concepts reality is meaningless or inaccessible to this life. You need to see this in your experience to a certain extent. Try to imagine that you have no concepts or beliefs, what would you see outside, what would be your objective reality? Offcourse you can't imagine it, it's impossible, everything you may be able to come up with will be conceptual, So don't undermine concepts and beliefs, They are building blocks of this life, they make our reality and they also give us power to construct or look at it differently.

I agree, the only downside of OneNote is proprietary file format, I haven't researched it but i'm sure a solution could be found to convert it into a format accessible by LLMs if someone needs it in future. I love simplicity of OneNote.

I second that, it's about the sub-culture you are involved with. I found so many profound people on hiking trails.

We exist at a very specific configuration of reality, that involves configuration of material, time and other aspects. I mean there could be beings at a different time scale and different material scale which we wouldn't be aware of at all. For example if you see a plant growing in fast forward it's moving too but in a different time scale, with plants we have a very basic configuration difference, But there are similar infinite material, time and other configurations where infinitely many beings are there, but they are not so to speak in the same reality that we are. So in that sense aliens are a fantasy not reality, and channeling them, is getting creative with the that fantasy so in a way it's fascinating. What else we could have done to handle this cosmic loneliness!!

I'm not solipsistic, at the moment it's impossible for me to fixate on some single belief that can define my reality. The thing is that language is a part of what mind can do and formulate, But it's not the thing, it's developed fairly recently in human evolution, if you don't attach concepts to everything so quickly and see things for themselves as much as possible, you may see that language is the product of some thing much more immense. Reality is not merely language and concepts it's a moving thing so believing and fixing on something, and then perceiving reality with those beliefs makes our reality the way it is. If someone is solipsistic it's because they chose those beliefs and related reality for themselves. When you understand that choosing a belief is primary in making your reality you will have as little beliefs as possible. Solipsism is just another belief, it's not the real thing.

@Madhur If you are serious about your own work, i mean truly serious and want to make it happen you should do it with the job. You are in your early 20s, this is the time to grind not to look for easy stuff. who is stopping you from starting your thing while doing the job? Okay you may take 18 months instead of the 6 but, first this is practical, second your finances are covered which ensures your needs and you have money to spend on yourself and your business, third you'll be sure that you are not kidding yourself and you will have time to gauge your risk apetite. And most importantly you have a huge incentive to keep working hard, because once you make it happen you can allow yourself the luxury of quitting job. Infact you can quit job at any level you feel comfortable, right now you don't have clear idea, so get clear idea and quit. Or maybe take it to 30% of your job earning and quit or any other comfortable level. Usually it's easier to tolerate office nonsense once you have your own thing going, at whatever level it is. Also I like to point out that, Job is a completely viable option. Usually people who complain about jobs have other issues, around discipline, following routine or mostly social or emotional issues. These issues will emerge in your own work too, you need to improve on those emotional, social and communication skills. By the way, no advise is an alternative to an actual experience of establishing your thing and quitting job. And also don't read too much into some of wage slavery nonsense that Leo has spread, there is no slavery it's living. Don't destroy a very viable form of living option based on someone Ideas. I like most of what Leo posted but some of the stuff regarding wage slavery is not useful, it's something that people like to read and listen too, since it speaks to their complaining and nagging self, but it's not correct. Few pointers: 1. Majority rely of jobs to make a living. 2. Not everyone can have a business of there own, why? It's numerically impossible. Can you imagine a world where everyone is working for himself? Just think about it, it's a stupid idea. It will require a new kind of world, at the moment it's just a concept in someone's head. 3. Value is inversely proportional to abundance, whatever that becomes common place looses value. This shows that only few would have access to true value or we may have to create a new world.

I had a similar feeling from a while back, i didn't think there is some exact disorder, but i felt there there is a dysfunction of some sort. But this forum is a mixed bag like any other, there are all sorts of people here and one general tendency cannot be applied to all. Some are clearly very happy it's not difficult to see, others are at different degrees of misery, and some subtle narcissists could also be seen in political discussions. These are all judgements i know, the point is that there is no single reason or disorder that people are here, these are different kinds of people with different kinds of evolving reasons that are constantly interacting with their lives and their world, Tomorrow you can decide to quit the forum and it won't change a thing, It's just that you'll be disowning a part of you.