Carl-Richard

If you see something that other people don't usually see, it can be labelled as a hallucination. Essentially, society dictates what is a hallucination or not.

Addictions are compensations for a lack.

My model is: more developed = more meaning and being.

Feeling like you're dying inside a university lecture is pretty horrible

Gary Weber once said that non-duality has to be better than sex, or else nobody would be meditating

If you're doing what you're meant to be doing (e.g. as a person in terms of life purpose, or as an organism in terms of healthy behaviors), and you have the right support around you and you've had time to build up momentum, things that look hard actually become not hard at all. I don't find going to the gym to be hard. I've been doing it for so long that I find it harder to not go to the gym. Of course, adapting to something new can be hard, but once you've adapted to it, it's just normal.

It's fun chasing death, but when death is chasing you, shit gets real ☺️

@mmKay ?

Is Leo a geek or a chad?

So again, if you're authentically a geek and want to not be a geek, you would then be driven by external forces, which is a higher likelihood of failure, and then nobody would appreciate you. Andrew Tate was never a geek. He is authentically a "chad". He played Chess when he was 5, sure, but I remember he had some non-geek reasoning for why he started kickboxing. Will to power? I just see two happy guys who like podcasting ?

You were sort of inching yourself towards this point yourself, but I don't see how geeks and nerds are necessarily anti-action, or people who are doing nothing in the world. That would rather be stoners, gamers and losers. Like you say with Hegel, reaching the top even in an intellectual field necessarily involves taking some real world actions to further your own interests. And if you are a geek or a nerd, you're better off being authentic to that if you want to be a man of action in any fashion, rather than letting outside forces dictate you (which is inherently less motivating and a high predictor of failure and misery, and thus no action, i.e. you become a loser).

Just wait until you die while sitting in an university lecture trying to listen to what the teacher is saying ?

I literally cannot understand what you're saying.

It's my Meshuggah fixation again, but damn, the tempo at which they played this song was absolutely perfect.

I've had that thought. But do you ever get sad that you'll miss the experience of the Sun devouring the Earth 5 billion years from now? FOMO isn't always a negative It would be interesting, but then you would get used to the new world very fast and it would all seem like normal to you.

You're saying this at the cusp of the AI revolution

The type of solipsism I'm talking about is an abhorration of idealism. It's quite literally like confusing a single atom with the entirity of the universe. Of a tormented mind, maybe; of a confused mind looking for answers, maybe; of a curious mind trying to make sense of itself, certainly.

Solipsist*

You didn't miss anything here

Yes... just like direct experience is a concept. This is another case of "other people don't exist lol, yet I'm choosing to act a certain way towards them". You gotta work on becoming consistent in your communication.

@Razard86 "Direct experience" can be misleading. Consider the concept of "pure knowing": pure knowing is beyond any thing that is known. Being identified with pure knowing, beyond any thing, any ego, any limited identity, any thought or perception, is what it's about.

Very based.

I was going to write "Wim Hoffing it" but it slipped my mind (and fell into yours apparently)

This is what I meant by my dorky distinction between "newly awake" and "more awake". The newly awake gets their feet wet and screams "OH IT'S COOOLD!", "Guys-guys-guys, I just got my feet wet, and its fucking COLD, guys!", "FUCK!". The more awake person is ice bathing silently

There are no others, yet you choose to be arrogant towards them. Because you're interacting with humans while alleging that you're acting in their best interest by being their teacher, a person who is supposed to help them, yet you're being excessively arrogant and hostile, which comes off as repulsive and hurtful to most people, which is not in their best interest, which does not help them. Yes, I know you like to wiggle yourself out from having to answer a simple question by watering down the concept. You did it with rape, you did it with gaslighting. There are truly no limits to your genius Let me remind you that you did make a thread saying you would work on becoming more kind (unless I interpreted it completely wrong). What do you think about actually going through with that? It seems like Leo of all people managed to do it to some degree, so maybe there is hope for you too.