NewKidOnTheBlock

I think there are certain traits such as modesty and general inteligence which, if you aren't raised to have both in sufficient ammounts, you'll be the exact target audience for gambling. There are some statistics that support your claim that rates of gambling have increased over the last years and decades, but I'd guess it has more to do with the increased availability, not really due to change of culture or human nature

You should understand that the Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory, you know. Better way to phrase that question would be: is diversity and multiculturalism a threat or a good thing? Well, depends, are you a nazi? There's an entire philosophical way of looking at reality that would claim that it is a bad thing

There is no telling what is going to happen, actually. Given enough time and enough carelessness, A.I. might just exterminate our asses, i.e. everyone, there's up to 20% possibility that's going to happen. In the short to medium term it might reinforce the current wealth inequality even further, but to think you can control and make an aliance with something vastly superior to you is just wishfull thinking

Yeah man I hear you. I wish I was thinking the way you've described

Realistically, working out for health is not very motivating. And nobody actually works out for health. You gotta have some other goals such as beauty, strength etc. otherwise it is never going to stick or you're always just half ass it, so it'll end up not helping you too much, imo

I dissagree vehemently. Please continue lurking in the shadows and just laugh at us all

Oh really? That's an interesting correlation which I ought to look into more. I'm definitely gonna think of this post tomorow morning as I'll be sitting at my desk, sipping on some delicious Wagie-o Americano

I've got the similiar sort of thing with coffee, because I have it internally linked with the feelings of comfort, warmth and this sort of cozy happiness. I think that's the case for you and cigarettes. It's probably all just conditioning which just became etched into our minds over time by advertisements and people around us

This is all true and there are no solutions to this, because this is just the way humanity is. Knowing this, you only really have 2 best possible options: you can either leverage your unfairly inherited abilities and circumstances - along with shitload of luck - to achieve success in life. Or - in case you don't have any abilities/aren't lucky and/or you just don't care - you can just sort of thread along in life, contributing very little or nothing to this society. Noted, in case you pick the first option, you will still be - directly or indirectly - stomping on the heads of those below you on the socio economic ladder your entire life (which is always the case whoever you are, but especially so if you're successfull). I naturally lean towards to second option due to my temperament and life circumstances - working as little as possible, only to mantain my health and grow my finances. Have a 2 room appartment which I'll never rent out. I plan on having no kids. Etc. etc. A life of minimalism

That's crazy. 4 years only? This world is a joke

@ivankiss Bro you are not some badass and protecting a lolcow doesn't make you a good person

What in the Alabama is this thread about Actualized at it's finest, trully

I mean like, both of these responses are valid, but kinda miss the point of what I was trying to get at. Which is that ambition only has meaning within the confines of society, and all the money you'll ever make and all the stuff you'll ever create is only usefull as long as people continue going to their jobs, providing services and creating goods. This is kind of a common sense but if you're the type of individual that is hyperfocused on your goals and ambitions, you'll forget this and take it for granted. People working jobs = your lifestyle

All people from that other forum are complete lolcows, not worth paying even a second of serious attention to, other than for pure entertainment purposes. Although to be frank, it's the kind of entertainment for a more refined tastes, that's for sure

People on this forum have a very infantile view of regular jobs. Probably cause they are only looking at it from an individual perspective. However, even then, remember that all these people are collectivelly and directly responsible for YOUR quality of life as well. Without all these "slaves", you'd become a slave to nature, having to fend for yourself, for literaly everything. Stone Age style

Nothing for me. I'm perfect. Things can (and will) only go downhill from there

Yeah there is reason to be poor whatsoever, other than probably 10k of them I have realized lately btw that absolute majority of people's ambitons could be ended if someone just gave them a million or 2 dollars. I bet most people here are like that as well, including you lol

This is all true, mind and body always naturally find their ways to cope, forget, shift attention to something else and generally survive. But the default state is always lack of some sorts or pain, which then needs to be taken care off. That is one of the main factors fueling my belief in philosophical blackpill. LOL

I also live a pretty easy life materially speaking, compared to other countries, but my point was that life sucks in general. No matter which way you look at it. You don't even have to compare your life to the worst existence has to offer. Althought I do think it can get pretty tolerable once you get majority of your needs met, and also better moments definitely do stand out in the sea of shittiness

My experience of life is that life mostly sucks. Sucks ass, in fact, therefore is it any wonder that we attribute these qualities of wonder, excitement and curiousity to children, a group of beings that haven't experienced anything yet

I used to think the same, but actually it wasn't harder to survive 100s of years ago in pure economic terms (I'm not talking about overall living standards), it was actually easier. Don't get fooled by all the technologies we have, we can't afford shit nowadays. The only times that were economically worse off than the times we're living in, would probably be the Great Depression.

That's BS. You don't really actually control your life. I know that stating this on a self improvement forum makes me look like a sore thumb, but it's true. Lol

It probably is for many people. Maybe most people. I don't know. But I think it's not for me, and I think most people are just conditioned to want it. You could be commited to your partner and commited to raising children even without getting married. Many things we think we want are really just slowly massaged into our heads since we're born, without us realizing. I don't know, I kind of feel like it's not my choice to make whether I go out this world alone. People make it seem like everything is your responsibility and in your control, but some people are more suited for long term relationships and having kids than others, people's brains are wired differently. I don't personally feel like I am really suited for that, so yeah my opinions could change and how I view things could change of course. And I'm not saying your reason isn't valid. But the fact is, whether I change my views or not, me not really being up to the task mentally will most likely never change. Much like this economy and other factors. Like, these are probably constants, not variables. If they really do want the children more, I don't really understand why, since they are the ones bearing the brunt of all the suffering that comes from bringing the child to this world, child rearing and all that other stuff. Yet they are the ones who want it more? It's very ironic, but could be true. I do. Can't really help it, it's just how this world functions makes me this way

Yeah I would say that's what I think. Otherwise people wouldn't be making so much fuss about this whole marriage ordeal. But it clearly serves an important social function (as a show that it is), and it is a goal to be checked off of many people's life goals, especially for women apparently since it's mostly them who put this stuff on the pedestal. Dude you know how many kids are still being born? There are and always will be plenty of fools having children they can't actually afford (and might never be able too), us not contributing to this mess of an experiment we call a society changes absolutely nothing. Lmao

It's not an accident that you feel an urge to share your goals to others. All goals exist within society. If they didn't, they'd be utterly devoid of any meaning. And most of them could not even exist in the first place. So it's not about whether telling them matters or not. It's all about what kind of people you are talking to