Max_V

@JosephKnecht I appreciate the sentiment, but that doesn’t leave me with much. I still haven’t gotten any further.

@JosephKnecht With that you speak of the capacity of being willing to do the (difficult) work to actualize potential? Also, could you explain to me why you think that and how you’ve come to that conclusion?

Hi everyone, Yesterday I took my first dose of L-theanine which was one pill that contained 100 mgs. I mainly did this because I got diagnosed with ADD as a child, and recently with ASD as well. There are multiple manifestations that these alterations of brain and nervous-system types emit on my daily life, but the most prominent one is a huge lack concentration/scattered mind and a general sense of bodily stress/anxiety. This deeply bothers me because the type of work and study I do would benefit a lot from me having a crisp and sharp cognition. So anyway, I noticed very quickly a certain calm coming over me. It was odd though, the baseline bodily stress and anxiety left, but the unresolved psychological stress and it's concequences I could still feel. This was in a general sense really amazing as it allowed me to calmly think and contemplate. But then after a couple of hours, I started experience a sensation of deep angst and panic throughout my body. The same kind I would get if I were to drink a big cup of black coffee (I'm very sensitive to caffeine). It is still very early in my experimentation with this substance as I have now only taken it twice though had the same result on both days, I'm also going through a big psychological shift that could perhaps have a relation to this panic in my body. All in all, there is still some observation I have to do. So tomorrow and the day after I'm not taking it, and then after that I'll try again so that afterwards I might be able to postulate if L-Theanine is really to blame or if it comes from a different source. Also, I read somewhere that one could have a genetic mutation that could make it so that L-Theanine has the opposite effect than it normally has on most people. This mutation was also mostly found amongst those that have AD(H)D as well. It is called MTHFR. Perhaps this could be the case with me? I don't know, never got tested. I was wondering if there are some people here that have experience with Nootropics, and might have suggestions and/or advice for what I could do or try concerning my cognitive state. It feels deeply heartbreaking to want to do so much, but be limited by how my brain and body functions. I want to learn and help the world so bad. I really hope there is a way for me to fix this, or make it more bearable and have less impact. Anyway, thanks for reading this all the way through. All the best, Max_V

@JayG84 who says that you need to practice in order to become good at something?

You sound like you mainly watched him back in the day, and not recently. His views change a lot. Although I agree that I sense some part of him liking dunking on people

@Roy agreed. Although he does seem to have intellectual openness to some extent. He comes across different and somewhat more aware than most other streamers/content creators. Might be that he is very thorough in thinking through everything, instead of mindlessly aping the status quo. Although he does do that, he seems less constricted in that trap than most.

@Carl-Richard I love Destiny personally, and have been wondering a lot where he would mainly fall on the spiral. He exhibits a lot of yellow abilities in the sense that he can jump paradigms and openly question a topic, although not always, there are things he seems to be closedminded to. This is what makes it difficult to judge. Also he’s a self-proclaimed materialist/physicalist which from what I’ve heard is very orange. What do you think?

@Villager Albert Could you give me an example of white tea? I cut out bread completely because it made me feel very heavy, but no similar effect of anxiety and those panicky sensations I think that is what this gene does. Instead of generating more of the 'good' brain waves and less of the 'bad' as everyone describes the characteristic of L-theanine, it does the opposite. But again, no idea if I have that or not.

@Carl-Richard I love Dr K. a lot, awesome person. I had the idea to help twitch streamers since I noticed many having mental health issues, but I never felt equipped enough to take that on. I’m so happy this new channel is able to help the streamers I’ve loved for so many years.

After a lot of thought during my teens and now early twenties I came to the conclusion that I have deep interest in the study of Philosophy, and so plan to visit schools, become more informed, and if everything affirms my existing interest I will apply and hopefully eventually enroll. In this thread I want to discuss with likeminded individuals, and perhaps people who are currently doing the study or have completed it, the field of Philosophy itself, and what it is like to pursue it academically. My first question to people who have in some way been involved, what are your thoughts on the major and what has your experience been like? Regards, Max

@Leo Gura Just so we are on the same page, when you say don’t pursue academically you mean studying past a bachelors? I know thought in the way it is used in contemporary philosophy won’t get me to Truth. But that’s not why I want to study it, Truth is something I will pursue during my life, regardless if I study or not. I mainly want to study philosophy to get a grasp of how through the ages a whole lot of different people have been thinking about problems and how they go about solving them. Learning to a wide range of perspectives and way of thought is important to me. Also, I think going to school again is something that’d help with my overal development. Being around people again, grounding myself in the person I want to be and expressing myself that way is where I need growth. @supremeyingyang Money/income is not a reason why I would study something. Although I have heared there are plenty of jobs that benefit from a philosophy major, in the end I want to study it for my development, I am setting my sights on making money on my own. @Adam M I’m not going to school to get learn more about self-actualization. That is something I can do on my own. I want to learn how to debate, write, discuss, and integrate multiple perspectives of thought.

I don't know if life or existence works the way as Bobby is proposing, I am only at a point of skepticism and not knowing since I have not directly experienced the Truth in it's full depth. But, I get the hunch that life is way too infinite and open to be closed down to only having one certain way, and one 'prophet' or teacher. I intuit that life is unconditionally loving, whilst this religion is not. There is probably much wisdom in christianity, but for me personally, the way it has been tainted and corrupted after all the years of passing it down to new generation outweighs the benefts it might otherwise confer. I wish him all the best on his journey. If this is what works for him, I hope it serves him the way he wants it to.

I just came out of my teens, turned 20 the 27th of december. Recently I've gotten a lot more interested in politics, and would like to learn more. What are good resources to get a fundamental understanding of the terminology used and it's basic concepts that apply internationally?

If you replace all the "You are..." with "It appears to me that you are....", your comment would be easier to take seriously. Are you certain of your claims?

Lately I have been very interested in this topic, and now wish to discuss it with you. What are the existential differences between a person who has 'genius intelligence' and a person who has average or below average intelligence? Is it something in their bodies, their brains, whatever, that allows them to have this capacity, or is caused by something entirely different? Also, I'm not only talking about intelligence as in IQ, I also mean all the other ways intelligence manifests itself. Can one become more infinitely intelligent in all ways or are there certain boundaries and limitations one is born with? How does this work? Interested in what you guys think and have discovered.

@28 cm unbuffed Damn, that's actually exactly what I'm going for, holistically developed and intelligent. I should really read up on him, huh. Thanks for the reference! This is what got me interested in Ido Portal. If you don't know him, he is basically someone who studies movement as their life's work. Ido uses a lot of different perspectives and approaches to movement in order to get it as a whole and use it to develop an understand of life itself.

@Raptorsin7 Mixed reasons but these are the primary two. 1) I am fascinated by the complex workings of it and the way it manifests. After watching Leo's video on Intelligence, I realized for anything to exist it has to be intelligent. So, I want to know how it works. 2) During my childhood I got signals that if you're smart, you are worthy as a person. As I still did not get to the bottom of this and feel worthless day to day, I'm sure this is a factor in it aswell.

@28 cm unbuffed Mhh, that's my thought too. Existence seems way too intelligent to have brains that are limited in their capacity for intelligence. About braingames though, I've heard Jordan Peterson talk about that there was research with brain training that revealed that your brain gets better at that certain type of game, and the process that that game requires, but in the end does not affect fluid intelligence.

@Raptorsin7 Good comparison. Actually, a pc is just an attempt to recreate a human being in some way. Which is completely crazy when you think about it. All the different parts of the computer can relate to different parts of our bodies in their function. Talking about how problem solving happens physiologically, what do the genes actually limit? I don't know anything about neurology so if you do, please enlighten me, lol.

@Raptorsin7 Mhh, ok, if that is your definition, then what do those genes actually limit? Your ability to improve at problem solving?

@Raptorsin7 But what do those genes actually limit?

I am having really big existential fear. My entire body is reacting like it's going to die. I intuit it's about death I'm resisting. I don't know what to do. Please help. I don't know what to do. I feel so alone and deeply afraid

@karkaore Me, Max, is in constant flux, never the same. thus being this static thing that I have always thought myself to be is a lie.

It feels like there is tons of energy moving in my stomach and heart area. Can this physically harm my body? Is this part of some transition? How should I approach this? @Leo Gura

I just did some self-reflection. What I saw is that my mind is trying to process insights and realizations it cannot metabolize. My existence is a lie and made up. I have always been here and will never leave. My love is the only thing I can ever rely on. Everything else is in constant flux. The line between insane and sane is arbitrary and abstract and does not actually exist. All judgement we make about a certain state is just that, a judgement. The being that underlies it is forever the same. While my mind processes these truths, I guess I will just distract myself as much as necessary to make it bearable.