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Dude I've tried quitting weed bro and porn instead I've become a cyborg who will date AI and never get a girlfriend I mean if AI girlfriends become a thing man like to their fullest I'll be set and with the weed I think I have a symbiosis to it like we're one of the same so I gave up trying to quit - because who would you be if you quit all your habits? You'll still grow old, you still might get an accident and lose a limb and anything could still happen whether you have your habits or not - so what I'm personally wondering with you is ... Is it really that serious to quit? I mean porn for example I've been hooked since 16 I know no fap I know hook up culture and missing out I know the pain and trying to quit just hurts even more and there is also this idea who would I have been if I didn't have those habits well you might be even more frustrated and the same not a millionaire not dancing on water ... If you got rid of all your negative habits and became a pure saint you'd probably be boring and intolerable

@theoneandnone Yeah odd how old people can move so slow while maybe the time in a day for them is a clap of lightning 🤣 oh noooo

Also I think time or the Earth or even maybe the Sun has to be moving faster like it's already midday and I've been up since early morning and it feels like I've been awake only 3 hours something aint right

And then sober I wonder if as god I actually enjoy my own life on hard mode, like it'd be too easy and exhausting for some reason if everything was a focused conscious positive - While difficulty mode seems default as an unconcious laziness, but I also lean too heavily into resisting my own life than easing up on love and light and accepting my own flaws.

I'm just saying even smoking a bit of weed has given me insights into solipsism - you can realise that point instant is non-dual and you're essentially talking to yourself and creating your own life - but then sober you wonder if you hallucinated it and duality behaves independent again of yourself

@Basman A friend tried to drag me into that world — cocaine, and things I didn’t even know had names. I stayed out. He didn’t. He idolized The Wolf of Wall Street’s excesses while I kept making, creating, producing. What’s left of him isn’t pretty.

@Basman Haha, yeah, maybe it sounds addicted. But it’s less about craving and more about keeping my sanity and energy for work that literally keeps me from being homeless. Coffee isn’t a luxury here—it’s survival fuel. I'd point out that if coffee were truly as hard to quit as heroin, it wouldn’t be commercially sold—it’d be a banned drug. Also, maybe Leo should put a “16+” entry requirement on this forum—some of these debates get intense fast.

I’m talking about a system that forces people into dead‑end jobs for rigged money just to survive. Without this system, most of us wouldn’t even be alive — we’d be malnourished, with bad teeth, infections, and dead within a few years. If a system is broken but still the only thing keeping you alive, how is that something to “be grateful” for? Maybe I wouldn’t even be here without medical care. Maybe by nature’s standard, I was “supposed” to be dead already — but I’m here, fighting to survive in a rigged game.

@Basman Coffee isn’t a luxury for me — it’s a basic pick‑me‑up so I can keep grinding through work every day just to survive and avoid ending up homeless. If I had to, sure, I’d cut it, but it’s not like I’m splurging on yachts. It’s a drink, not a vacation home. I’ve been scrimping for months, money’s been tight, I can’t even afford a jar for a few days, and I’ve already cut back on almost everything else — even quit tobacco. But coffee for my work? Come on, that’s one I need.

Even if we look at history, how do we really know things like taxation existed the way we imagine, or how people survived—tragic or not? When did governments truly industrialize, centralize power, or commercialize people? I mean, monarchy wasn’t suburbia, 9–5 jobs, and taxes as we know them today. How much of what we learn is really evidence, and how much is just updated interpretations?

@Breakingthewall I’ve been wondering — how do any of us truly know there even was another era? Most of what we believe comes from textbooks or word of mouth. Similarly, how do we really know an atom is a tiny ball? All we have are the images and descriptions others have produced from experiments and theories. What do you think counts as real evidence for any of this?

@Leo Gura Hey Leo, big fan of your work and your concern for people. I really appreciate having this space where I can express ideas with like‑minded people — it’s genuinely helpful to get new perspectives. It’s also great to see you still popping up around the place, alive and active with your community. I’d like to ask you a couple of things: 1. If you were a billionaire or multi‑billionaire and had a strong scheme for making profits, would you personally give away your own money? Or would you see others as part of an illusion/solipsistic reality? In other words, do you believe reaching that level of success would naturally evolve you into someone with more compassion for others — recognizing that without them you wouldn’t be so profitable — or would it push you further into seeing everything as “just a dream”? 2. On the idea of the past. You often say we live better than kings of old. I agree in many ways. But isn’t that also, on some level, imaginative — not technically real in a meta sense? How do you think about the fact that we could have been born into any other time period? Does that imply free will at some ultimate level, or is it just random appearance? 3. On wealth hoarding. Do you disagree with extremely wealthy people hoarding billions? Do you think there should be a moral limit to what one person has, even if they argue they earned it from humble beginnings? Hasn’t wealth accumulation, at some level, always relied on other people’s backs? From a naturalistic view, no part of a living organism hoards resources at the expense of the rest — all organs work together. Do you think extreme wealth hoarding is fundamentally out of harmony with human nature? Would love to hear your perspective on these.

Pretty much trapped with torment on the spirit level and my life review at death will be guilt driven with possible unknown schitzoid no-take backs cosmic limbo loops afterwards ... And how do I push through life without needing for a labotamy or some super heavy sedative drugs to numb myself at the state of an animal.

@Aciddhartha I get what you’re saying because I’m in that same headspace. I also yearn for death sometimes, but what stops me is exactly what you’re describing — not knowing what’s on the other side. People talk about suicide like it’s a clean ‘escape,’ but when you’re honest about it, you realise it might be horrendous, messy, humiliating, even panic‑filled at the moment of dying. And then, if there is something after death, it could be infinite madness with no take‑backs. So you end up in this bind: told to ‘appreciate the now’ while sitting in a mouldy bedroom, broke no matter how much you budget, watching the world burn in a trash bucket. You can’t wish your life away, but you can’t really live it either. It’s like being held between two walls — you see everything clearly, but there’s nowhere to move. Some days I feel like I’d need a lobotomy just to make the bind stop. I’m saying this not to be dramatic but because I think it’s the honest reality for people like us.

@Elliott I edited what I said read it again please - guys I'm 28 not an angsty 16 year old having a bad week because mum took away my Xbox controller