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I've had a cool little win today. I am selling my old bed on an online marketplace, and I've found the buyer. After talking to them for a while and showing them pictures they've tried to negotiate the price down (just by like 10-15 dollars). I was really tempted to agree and be done with it, and really dreaded to say no, but I did. I said no even though it was super scary. Not because of the money but just to push myself out of the comfort zone and stop being such a people pleaser all the time. And they've agreed to the original price, lol.

21.04.25 Care tasks: - washed the dishes - did some laundry - took out the garbage - washed two pairs of shoes Movement: - Got back to working out. Went to a park a did a small calisthenics circuit. Other nice things: - Almost finished reading "how to keep the house while drowning" - Drank coffee in the morning and read a book - Went outside - Played dota, but managed to not get stuck playing games all day. Review and thoughts A first nice day after a few tough ones. I woke up relatively early and was in a good enough mood to start doing things. I made myself some coffee and instead of staring at a laptop decided to read a book. It felt nice. I would take breaks from reading and wash dishes / load them into the washing machine. Plus doing laundry. Then I went outside and worked out. I decided to start really slow and focus on just doing something to get started. ! I think coffee can be really helpful, although I am not 100% sure how much of my good mood was due to other stuff.

More like a female opposite of Leo. A tik toker vs a guy who makes 3 hour long youtube videos.

https://www.boredpanda.com/human-vs-bird-vision/ I've read the article about bird vision that Leo has shared and I think it's wrong about birds not being able to see reflections in the mirror. I am pretty sure that at the very least parrots can see reflections in the mirror, which is why they might sometime attack it or try to socialize with the reflection. Other sources on the internet seem to agree with me.

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@Leo Gura what about soviet movies?

It's interesting that he isn't siding with Trump on this issue. At least in this video, he appears much more sane and honest than most conservatives.

The last few days were okay. Not amazingly productive, but I wasn't completely checked out either. I was able to maintain a clean and functioning kitchen, at least as far as dishes are concerned. I was making myself coffee everyday in the morning since Monday and it feels like a nice cool ritual. One of those classic fancy things that adults do, haha. I wasn't able to exercise, aside from riding a bike to work. I've finished reading the book and started reading a new one, a novel this time. But I feel like I will need to keep coming back to it, to fully integrate everything. A few important insights: 1. The bike I am currently using is in dire need of maintenance. I have a second one which has a flat tire and which I've been meaning to fix up for the last six months at least. I kept procrastinating on it, and feeling anxious about it until today I've finally fiven myself permission to just go to the service once I get a paycheck in may and get it done there. This is actually something I got from the book. I am not currently at the stage where I am able to do it all by myself and it's okay to get help, and I should be able to afford it. 2. I got inspired and started watching crash course world history a few weeks ago. I actually finished it but then decided to start watching season 2, which is just talking about different concepts like war and disease in the abstract instead of linear history. And I've started feeling a lot of resistance towards it and haven't gotten back to it for at least a week. I was feeling bad about it this entire time, until today at night I've realised that this is just not something I am interested in right now and that's okay, lol Now I actually feel motivated again to start watching something else.

Why should anyone bother investing their time to respond to you if you are too lazy to even write your own argument? What's even the point of threads like this? Do you want us to copy paste your copy pasted wall of text to chat gpt and then copy paste its response back to you? This is so dumb.

Lets post here all the policies, decisions, and actions taken over the next 4 years by Trump and his office. I think this could be really interesting to look back at in the future. Please do not just post Trump blabbing about things, this thread is for things that are actually being acted on / implemented.

What's the point of having AI shit this out? Esoecially since it sound like youbare using chat got. Do you feel the need for a "Yes" man to tell you how right you are and how much of a deep thinker you are? Lmao

I think more people should talk about this. Everybody is freaking out about tariffs but this is actually insane if you think about it. They are just grabbing people with little to no research, no trial, and deporting them to a foreign country to be imprisoned for life, probably (or die much sooner).And its not even doing it to people who migrated from Salvador. I've just read a news story about a guy from VENEZUELA who was waiting for the court to clear his asylum claim, but was sent to El Salvador, without any trial: How does this make any sense? Imagine committing no crime and then being sent to a prison in a foreign country that you have nothing to do with, for life, basically. This is so messed up. This is just a complete disregard for the rule of law and any idea of human rights. This is something that some 3rd world African country would do. How is it possible that the US just plunged to that kind of level of development just because of the change in president? Shouldn't there be more checks and balances to prevent this kind of stuff no matter how retarded the president is?

Unless he is already dead.

I actually didn't notice that, even though I watched the video after reading your comment. To me it seems like they are worried about other people / public health but they see the issue as "the evil government and corporations are trying to poison people and make money". I didn't notice them saying things like: "i don't care if other people die from covid, I want my freedom" or whatever. They actually think that vaccines are bad for society at large, and that covid is actually not deadly, and blah, blah, blah.

@Leo Gura can clarify this point from the "Top Proofs For The Existence Of God" more or is it something that requires me to have an awakening to understand? Why does God have to " be maintaining your sanity right now" as opposed to you just having a functioning brain (even if we assume that it was designed by God) that is sane by default until it gets broken? Why did you make an emphasis on active maintenance? And by insanity, do you mean people that are traditionally considered insane or do you mean some crazy levels of insanity that most people have no clue about? Also, why did you find it important to highlight this specific point? Wouldn't this be the case for everything else as well, like your heart beating, your cells functioning properly, etc.? Do you just consider it interesting to think about or is there some special significance / uniqueness when it comes to sanity? Finally, when you are talking about demons and unicorns, and saying that they are as real as horses because it's all consciousness, do you mean that you are currently imagining horses to be real, but you could have as well been imagining demons to be real, or unicorns since fundamentally it is all consciousness? Or are you saying that there are literally demons in this reality, currently, that my mind is already imagining, just like there are horses? And that God is actively protecting me from those demons / keeping me sane?

Inspired by the Leo's video, I've made two posts on reddit. One on a Christian subreddit and another one on atheist subreddit. I've asked christians why do they assume that scriptures are true and atheists whether they are willing to admit that they don't actually know if God exists and that they belief that God doesn't exist is not so different from theists believing that God exists. And I've actually god some interesting responses on the christian subreddit, with some people admitting that yes, this is an assumption and that we don't really know. Some people saying that they've been questioning their faith and christian dogma. Some referring to direct experiences. Also, notably everyone was nice and polite. From atheists I just got a bunch of ridicule and straw-man responses like "Why don't I start questioning whether spider man is real", immediately conflating my position with defending religion, and banning my post for proselytizing, lol. Even though I did my best to not make any statements about whether God exists or not, just questioned the automatic assumption that he doesn't and posed a purely philosophical question. I find this really interesting because I expected to get the opposite reaction. I guess this could be due to the fact that many christians on reddit are actually closer to stage green christians than to maga conservative christians. And atheists are mostly stage orange materialists, who don't even care about existential questions of philosophy much.

This is a quote from a christian who claims to have had a direct experience of God and give it as a reason as to why he is Christian. Is this him just mixing his pre-existing ideas of christianity with mystical experience and deluding himself or can you have an actual "Christianity themed" awakening? If it is possible, do you take it for what it is because direct experience is king or do you tell yourself that your mind is playing tricks on you because you know (lets say from watching Leo's videos) that awakening should be something more than you just meeting a spirit of Yeshua? If this were you, how would you know if your experience was real and you are not deluding yourself? Direct experience is the only way to know if God exists and to understand God, but everyone's experience is different so how can you be sure if yours is the true one?

@Paradoxed so during the trip you don't remember that you took the drugs and are not able to have an awareness of "okay, I am high now, I might be seeing crazy shit"?

@Leo Gura i see. Yeah, they sound sketchy, and not just in terms of being bad for your health but also because you might do something crazy and get into serious trouble that way.

Because you think they are too dangerous / sketchy or because you don't think there will be much value in it? Or both?

Most posts are just "religion is bad", "look how dumb those christians are", etc.

@Leo Gura Lol

@Leo Gura thank you

Ok Yes, I agree.

@Leo Gura but you don't have to permanently install it anywhere which is really the only option if you are renting an apartment. Not just because you might not be allowed to but also in case you need to move in the future.