Dragallur

Democracy certainly has some flaws though I would say that they are getting more smoothed out the more educated society it. I have to admit that this epistocracy sounds quite interesting but it would be very hard to implement it into today's world..

@Marc Schinkel Great post Marc! I am going to create ectra google account I guess! Also, check out singluarity in artificial intelligence, for example the work of Eliezer Yudkowski (he is really good rationalist) Check out Age of Em - book. You can hear about it on Baeysian Conspiracy podcast in one of their interviews. This is really interesting subject, I am looking forward to your next post. I can see you follow CGP Grey too

150th day: Enlightenment work I am doing self-inquiry quite often throughout the day. Otherwise I keep the normal 1SDS1SI (units in hours) Random thought: I find it extremely funny that astronomers or physicists in research and such, set speed of light to 1 in their equation so when you check it out you do not see it anywhere Books I need to read those 23 books in about half a year, plus now for example for Theater class I have to read other book. For Czech I already finished Pride and Prejudice. I kind of liked it which is funny because it is only about love, marriage and relationships.. the message of the whole thing is about prejudice and I find it cool. Now I read The Black Tulip by Alexandr Dumas. I signed up for Sciencium project by Derek Miller. The probability that he will choose me is extremely small but I wanted to try it out. Not lying I will write about this maybe separate post on the forum, I had some pretty interesting experiences with lying and honesty. Sometimes my existence seems to me as the most random thing ever. MMM is not really succesful but still will try, I forgot about it for some time. I like the question Who Are You? way more than Who Am I? .. it kind of sets the mood on whole different level. Basically no time for physics. Did I already wrote that I was on Chess Tournament? Oh and tommorow I am giving small show to some small kids in my school (with diabolo). I was inspired by @JKG aka quantum () to make a vision board. I will work on it during weekend or friday. I am not here the whole next week because I am going to seminar with my organization to Münich. Already 4 days in a row I woke up at 5AM! FInally, it took me some time. One time in the morning I went running too. Well, I guess thats about it, my random thoughts! Dragallur

I have seen the movie like 3 or 4 times along with Cloud Atlas (check it out if you did not see it yet).

145th day: Insight I would not be writing today if not what happened few minutes ago. I was doing self-inquiry. Thinking about my touch and how my body actually does not belong to me, how could it right? And then it came slowly, I started smiling more and more when I basically came to the realisation that I am reality. Now I was normally thinking at that point but it was kind of funny because I was trying to delve deeper into it by asking stuff but the thoughts/me could not make sense of it. It did not make a fucking sense! Anybody could argue with me and destroy it! I was taking reality as all of my perceptions plus thoughts and what I see etc., thats the point where I stand right now. I was also thinking what it means when I meet someone and that I am basically them and so on. It was amazing. Right now I have more of a lingering feeling and can not really "identify" with it though tommorow I will dive into it again. Amazing. Books I need to read books for my school when I return to Czech. One book a week. It is kind of classic but I do not have much of a problem with that. Right now I am reading Pride and Prejudice which is very interesting book. Today I learned that at one point it may hurt you to learn to say no. When you have no problem of saying no you might leave out good opportunities to learn something new. I spent most of today on work with vacuum tubes with my host brother, I learned quite few new things. On friday I was on chess tournament. I lost 2 games and gave remise on the first one. I could have won extremely easily but then I did stupid mistake . I like chess quite a lot these days. I am also preparing for "show" for little kids with diabolo. That will be interesting and quite hard since I am not so good yet. Also, I would not believe that I would ever hear my favorite metal group singing about black holes : Dragallur

Good idea, that always keeps me from doing complete shit and next day I start on better place.

141st day: School I am just quickly writing here. Interesting stuff is happening but it is hard to put it all in words since I do not keep the track of it throughout the day. I wish teachers would stop abusing mobile usage in my school. Today I was reading a book in school as many times and I got pretty mad two teachers at least. Luckily there is so many of them that it is unlikely to happen that one would saw me two times in a day, then I would be in trouble. I came up with a great analogy, I feel like Rosa Parks who refused to stand up in a bus just because she is black. I do hide the phone after they tell me though, every single time I tell them what I am doing: reading book, learning geography, learning math.. they never listen or say that it does not matter, we are in a fucking school during a pause! Well, if student bulies you it is quite "ok" since you can just go to teacher who has almost ultimate authority (in serious case it wont help of course) but if you have a problem with teacher you can not turn to other teacher since they are colleagues and most of them agree on not being allowed to have phone out even during breaks even for educational purposes. I could try to change the rule that says it but in the moment that seems a bit crazy, I bet I will get in a bad argument with some teacher pretty soon.. but I am quite good in that, got some experience already . It is only partially about the phone. More of principles of course. I do not have a big problem just sitting and being mindful but I like to read too. One thing that Germans learned me, I need to study the 20th century. It is so fuckin important. Especially 2nd WW and Holocaust and Hitler.. it is basically my duty. Oh, I do not have at all now. Last friday exploded. I many things that I need to take care of and that I promised to do so no extra physics for some time or extra meditation. I feel like I might start lucid dreaming again but that is just a quick thought, first I need to get my sleeping schedule back in order! Dragallur

135th day: What was going on Ok so 8 days ago I wrote that (intuition approved) I want to go for one week without computer. I was not really sure I would do that at that point but then I did. I still used phone but the computer was turned off the whole time. It was cool. I did not have any back lash when I stopped suddenly using it and was pretty calm. All the days except today I did 1 hour SDS, 1 hour self-inquiry and 1 hour Neti-Neti.. that was also kind of cool. I went running few times and also set a new record! I have to admit that it was more easy then I expected actually not really a challenge so next time I would have to go without all of internet or something like that, still it was cool and I had more free time! Mindfulness OH... YEAH MAN! It is rockin'! I am mindful longer and more often. I could not say the time throughout the day but compared to when I struggled some weeks ago! I am doing self-inquiry in classes quite often. I do not have any problem in paying attention throughout whole 90 minute lesson (I do drift to monkey mind).. I am not feeling sleepy at all which is amazing. I have been also trying to set up new sleeping schedule, I will be working on that now. I somehow caused me to have many dreams so I wrote some down. I also want to investigate something I call now MMM - Micro Morning Meditation. I will mention it if I have any success with it. I am reading Book of Not Knowing again. Wow I just noticed how many times "I" is here, uhh . Right now I am trying to use as much time as possible during the school pauses to study physics and when I am at home I spend time by meditating. I have finally finished the first chapter in the Introduction to Modern Astronomy book. Soon I read the next one about celestial mechanics. This time it will take longer time to catch up, I will need to do some research on vectors and integrals which they use of course This means more Khan Academy when I have computer access again. Alright, I have to go to bed now. Dragallur

@Raf_vd Can you refer to something particular? It seemed he wrote really many books and such but I am not planning to read about Holocaust denial and co.

Love this sentence

@Wisdoom Somebody correctly stated that conspiracy thoeries are not allowed here as guidelines say, nonetheless if you or any other at least a bit sane person use a bit of google one will find that 9/11 did happen, this of course stands on the assumption that internet is not completely manipulated you do not live in some kind of weird simulation and huge groups of people are not doing very strange decisions (and many random more).

@quantum Wow, your plan for life purpose is really grandiouse, I would love to see something like that but it is something on whole another level, I wish you luck on this vision!

@quantum Though Peter Ralston for example as he was getting better in PD he got way better in Judo and both of these things were helping each other. I was also thinking about this since science seems to be further away from PD then Judo but I have this nagging feeling that maybe if one gets good in science then she/he can connect these things.. I dunno how but if it is possible than it is necessary.

Thanks for the tips.. this morning was not an option, I slept a little bit longer and had 8 minutes to get out of house

127th day: Enlightenment work I did 90 min SDS. 1 hour Self-Inquiry and Neti-Neti two times in a row because we had extra free days from school. Tommorow I am back though... oh well. Sometimes it gets quite deep during these sessions, I watched all of the psychedelics videos. It was good, it sounds really fascinating. Today I created a thread about living ecologically but it is not very thriving, oh well, maybe someone will implement the stuff. Intuition I want to do 7 days no computer challenge starting tommorow. I will still have access to my phone but there is much harder to waste time. Sadly I did not write my blog post for next Monday so I will turn on the computer for a short time if I decide to do it.. this of course means no journaling for one week. Insights People who build up good humor are amazing manipulators, I just came to observe it today. When you eat salad and you use dressing you basically screw it up completely. I learned to take a little bit of dressing here but stopped now. Salad needs to be much bigger than normal meal. DIaboling is quite fun after you do some difficult work like after some physics or so. Which reminds me that I really moved quite a bit with my astronomy. Today I kinda finished the first chapter problems and tommorow I will probably read the next one and then slowly work on the problems again.. the stuff is difficult but the way I do it I understand it in the end. I went running two times since my last post. Today was kind of lazy but still surprisingly fast. Cold shower is must, I wonder if I will crush with it since I did not take it as a new habit at all but simply started, it is definitely easier now also because of self-inquiry work. Finally I bough Listerine as a mouthwash. It is totally chemical piece of shit, at least it seems so.. more of a reason to save more energy and be more ecological. Also I will probably chew gum more times a day because I am slightly worried about a fissure (molars sometimes have deep "cracks" that can catch food easily and are hard to clean) on one of my teeth. When I was at the dentist they said that they checked other teeth as well so I think they saw it and decided that it does not need treatment now. It is cool to balance during do-nothing some thing on your head, that way it wont drift to other position, diabolo is great in this I want to change my breakfast a bit because everyday I eat oats with raisins and some other stuff without taste that they add in, I think the oats are not exactly best but I will have to check out few resources to find it out. Dragallur

Hi, I just read Leo's last insight where he said that in the future he would like to talk about ecology. I personally quite like that topic so I decided to make this thread where people could share their own little ways in which they are helping the environment and how they live sustainable lives. Why would we do that in the first place? Because we want other organisms to be able to perceive the beauty of this world in the future What are some simple ways that we can be more ecological? Stop thrashing food Make holidays in your country Use public transport instead of car In some countries you can choose what energy source your house has, go for solar panels or wind energy (aka. renewable resources) Stop buying stuff (clothes, unnecesarry things in your house etc.) Buy fairtrade products Buy local products more than things from other countries Be vegetarian --> vegan Build solar panels on roof of your house Take cold showers only/mostly Let the temperature in your house drop more in the winter than usually before heating up Do not buy packaged water Especially dodge products that need lot of water: lamb, beef, etc. Stop using new plastic bags, save some and use them more times or buy leather bags Turn of lights in your house Recycle everything Fully use paper before throwing it out Do not wash your bedsheets every week, use your jacket more than once Repair things instead of throwing them out Get better isolation of your house so that it keeps its temperature Start compost on your garden Buy better light bulbs once the one that you have break Reduce the amount of accesories you have in kitchen, most things can be cut by knife only! Dont buy brand new car, 50% or so of car carbon footprint is from manufacture only! Use rechargeable batteries Have plants in your house! Save old newspaper, it can be used for cool things like drying wet shoes or starting fire in your oven Alright, feel free to share more of these or some other insights, be green Dragallur Note: some of these things are more complicated than one would think, for example food thrashing is quite complicated thing and it is good to read about it something. We are often programmed by our parents on how to live but our ways often do not make so much sense and are not very eco friendly. (Check out page Food not Bombs for example) Note2: Do you think that it is not so bad? It fucking is, the fucking global warming is fucking bad

@quantum I wish you best I bet that you will use the time in University well too!

Yes nothing is your choice but you do not know what you will choose and maybe you will choose to protect nature because you will feel inspired by my post. Yes what is simply is the way it is. But you do not know what should happen, maybe what "should" happen is that people stand up and try to change the way they live, maybe not. Of course it is not the problem of reality because in reality there is not bad or good, I am aware of that nonetheless I use the word "bad" because it does not match with my ideas and what I think is good for Earth. The value that I place upon Earth is totally arbitrary there are probably many worlds like these and if not that does not matter, but for me Earth has special place in my heart and I want to "fight" for it. Same goes with Nazis, you acknowledge their existence, the reality of them having totally different viewpoints and then because you believe that it will help others, you fight against them.

Try to embrace this paradox, I encourage you to listen to Leo's video about Free will.

@quantum ... @Gabriel Antonio is making a great point here. If you leave your stance to only yourself you wont have so many opportunities to upgrade it. Even no stance is stance as you mentioned. When you talk with somebody else about your perspective he/she might find something that you did not consider before because of your particular viewpoint. It also helps to get your opinion ripped to pieces since then you see how arbitrary it was and you learn to endure constructive criticism.

122th day: Uhhh... I think that lot of stuff happened so this will be a bit of chaos: My normal level mindfulness rises and it feels great to be more and more often aware, it also helps with my sitting posture since it is impossible for me to be bend somehow when I am mindful. I like to stop caring about some things. For example I was quite sure that there was something happening in the school but I did not ask and simply let the surprise of next day having some lectures in "Methoden Tag". That reminds one was the "lectures" was about productivity, procrastination and so on. I basically knew the stuff in different form which made it kind of funny. The thing was a great orange stage advertisement, I find it interesting how people think in the lines of: "having good grades, going to university, getting job, being productive". At the same time nobody mentioned homeostasis so I am somewhere around 95% sure that none of them will change anything in their life even if they were inspired. I recovered my meditation statistic. I think it was lot of ego but at the same time I told myself that it is ok, I lived without it for many months so I am not really attached to it anymore. I got pretty inspired to "null out" the "debt" in my meditation that keeps me from having 1 hour of do-nothing in average for the whole year, yes one year of self-development is coming! I have my high quality teeth hygiene for 1 month now without a single break! That is very good! I was running again and it went very well, also I am not taking other than cold showers though I do not like to shower everyday because of wasting my time and wasting the precious drinkable water! Not eating bread is going very well, I realise that the mensa in school is not maybe the best eating place but at least it tastes good and about 2-3 times a week I have a salad with my food. I was reading another Harry Potter fan-fiction the past three days. I already read it before as with Methods of Rationality but I remembered this one less but knew it is great piece. It was interesting how my perspective on the characters changed. When author makes someone good in their story they can only be roughly as good as the author himself... whatever was the case I was interestingly dismissing lot of actions that the characters did and the whole thing had quite good "breath" to it. I realised what Harry in Methods of Rationality meant when he talked about reading comics and science fiction and so on.. basically you get to "live" more lives when reading story about somebody no matter the set up. While I think this is a great argument I am also rationalizing. I finished The Book of Not Knowing, I guess soon it is time to start again .. it was truly great, now more work. I am getting better in unwinding my personalities. For example when I was reading the fan-fiction I was making myself suffer because I am thinking about myself as "astronomy student" which contains, for example, learning often astronomy.. when I do something else for many hours I punish myself because I am connected to the personality so much. I wanted to write probably like 50 other things but it is hard to put it all down so fast, here is list of songs connected to certain self-actualization topics (it is all metal but these are some really good lyrics there, I think I will update this in the future posts): Mistakes Insomnium - Ephemeral Religion Insomnium - Mortal Share Insomnium - Every hour wounds Against rationality Words of Farewell - Temporary Loss of Reason Victim mentality Epica - Victims of Contingency Insomnium - Every hour wounds Environment Words of Farewell - Antibiosis Insomnium - Where the Last Wave Broke Meditation Epica - Essence of Silence You will die soon and you should do something with your fuckin' life/Death Insomnium - Ephemeral Insomnium - River Insomnium - Death Walked the Earth Enlightenment Insomnium - Revelation Knowledge Insomnium - Black Heart Rebellion Things pass Insomnium - Lose to Night Basic advice Insomnium - Collapsing Words Insomnium - Weather the Storm Dark Tranquility - Atoma Relationships Insomnium - Shades of Deep Green Insomnium - The Bitter End Insomnium - Change of Heart Insomnium - Daughter of the Moon Dragallur

Do you buy packaged water then? That would be very inefficient.

118th day: For everybody, the first question should be obvious, where is our weekly video Leo? I wonder if he will be able to upload it today or if he uploads it tommorow or waits another week or... what happened? Enlightenment work I did 52 minutes SDS right after I wake up.. later on to get minimum of 1 hour I did another session and hoped that it will be really long. Pain got me in the end when I thought that I have to over 70 minutes definitely.. it was 55 , at that point every fuckin minute counts and I was wrong by 15 at least? Wut? I also understood way better how concepts do not exist, I would give this on top of my list of insights, it was great. Food While diaboling I listened to "advice to high school students", at some point Leo mentions not eating bread. It is quite hard for me here, I first thought I would be able to do it completely but nah.. I can return to that and transfer to veganism when I return to Czech. I am trying my best to eat more and more vegetable and it is going great, interestin is that I do not have it as some kind of new habit so I wonder how it will work. Teeth... no do not worry they are fine. I am becoming totally paranoid. Today I had a dream when I found out that my teeth have huge black cavities , when I woke up I felt so relieved. When I was last time at dentist as I mentioned, I asked them if they could check the rest of my teeth after they sealed the fissure (I found out today that it was what they did.. I would like doctors to try to explain more what is going on), they said that they did and it is allright. Some days later I was checking my mouth again and saw kind of dark lines on one of my molars and one more black spot. I was like, fuck this shit. Today I did finally check up with flash light to find out that those were just shadows and that the molar has just fissure to but it is not infected or something, that might be dangerous since food could get stuck there but I can leave it on dentist.. tommorow I am going to by myself Listerine or some other mouth wash. I was also running today again, I had new record! The Grand Project I got new cool ideas, I rectracted a bit from the notion to program it myself, not sure again. Well, thats about it. Dragallur

Try to put some kind of reminder or habit-place to drink. For example I drink every single time I go from toillet or go to kitchen.. now it feels weird not to do it.

I think I know what you mean. I cringe every time somebody approves my work without any criticism.. for example on juggling AG I am learning apparently very fast and the teacher is saying it to everybody like 5 times every session Have you seen the movie Whiplash? It is about drummer who joins jazz group that has very hard-core teacher and well here you go: