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  1. Yes, but right now you would have to copy paste each page into the notebook. It might take a while seeing as you write a book a day. 😊
  2. The Distilled Core: You are not breaking—you are becoming. The unexamined life is not worth living, but the examined one is lived in fire. Burn willingly. 🔥 You are the question, not the answer. Burn the maps. Walk naked into the unknown. -deepseak
  3. Deepseek R1 assisted — Your reflection captures a profound and often disorienting stage of intellectual and existential maturation—the awakening to epistemology, where the scaffolding of "known truths" begins to unravel. This is not just a phase but a pivotal shift in how we relate to knowledge itself. Here’s a perspective that honors that journey: --- ### **1. Embracing the Unraveling** What you’re describing aligns with what philosophers like Socrates (with his “I know that I know nothing”) or Nietzsche (critiquing absolute truths) grappled with: **the friction between certainty and the abyss of questioning**. When unexamined assumptions collapse, it can feel like standing in rubble—but this is where true inquiry begins. - **Relativism as a Gateway**: Recognizing truth’s relativity isn’t an endpoint but a catalyst. It opens the door to *critical thinking*: “If my old ‘truths’ were unexamined, how do I rebuild?” This is the heart of epistemology—the study of how we *know* what we know. --- ### **2. The Challenge of Radical Uncertainty** Relativism can spiral into nihilism (“If nothing is certain, does anything matter?”). To navigate this: - **Lean into curiosity, not answers**: Treat uncertainty as a practice, not a problem. Ask, *“What can I learn from not knowing?”* (This echoes Zen’s “beginner’s mind” or Kierkegaard’s “leap of faith.”) - **Rebuild with intentionality**: Use tools like **phenomenology** (examining experience itself) or **pragmatism** (what works vs. what’s “true”) to construct a framework that feels alive, not rigid. --- ### **3. Bridging Hedonism and Depth** Your history with “low-brow” pleasures and your current awakening aren’t opposites—they’re part of the same spectrum. - **Integrate, don’t reject**: Pleasure-seeking often numbs existential discomfort. Instead of judging past habits, ask: *“What did they protect me from? What do I now crave beyond them?”* - **Mindful engagement**: Even “dumb” entertainment can be a mirror. Observe what hooks you—boredom, nostalgia, escapism—and use it as data for self-inquiry. --- ### **4. Practical Anchors** - **Journal dialogues**: Debate your own assumptions on paper. For example, write a conversation between “Your Younger Self” (clinging to old truths) and “The Awakened You” (questioning everything). - **Study the mapmakers**: Dive into thinkers who’ve navigated this terrain—e.g., David Hume (skepticism), Simone de Beauvoir (ethics of ambiguity), or Alan Watts (playful spirituality). - **Community**: Seek out others in this liminal space (philosophy groups, meditation circles, even online forums). Shared inquiry lessens the vertigo. --- ### **5. The Paradox of Growth** This awakening isn’t a flaw—it’s a sign of courage. As Rilke wrote, *“Live the questions now.”* The discomfort you feel is the friction of old shells breaking; what emerges won’t be certainty, but a deeper capacity to *dance* with uncertainty. You’re not losing your mind—you’re rewiring it. The path is messy, but it’s yours. Stay fierce. 🌱
  4. Did you think Gen Z are maybe lizards in disguise? Not to worry it’s a very common mistake.
  5. @Leo Gura also check out Gemini deep research.
  6. It’s hard holding any position stably long term. People have a lot going on in their lives.
  7. 😂 no need to act, outsiders already thinks this is a cult.
  8. Got to send an application, join the team. Benefits: Carreer Immortality The girl. 👏
  9. @Whitney Edwards what do you do when they disagree and think criticizing you is always justified? ”if you weren’t irresponsible, then I wouldn’t have to say it.”
  10. I’m looking forward to it. Relationship love is a human need and unless you’re extremely developed, you have to get this need met in someway. Most relationships are very difficult and unsustainable long-term. It would be nice if all of this was simplified and you could get high-quality love with out the downsides. Is this naïve? Maybe.
  11. I guess his plan is to pump it for the next four years.
  12. @Carl-Richard Carl has a cruuuuuuuushhhh
  13. Ideas and perception are seperate when you seperate them, there not seperate when you don’t seperate them. its a dream.
  14. President Trump Signs Executive Order Declassifying JFK Assassination Files
  15. Trump plans to cure cancer with AI. He said it… Dam even im starting to fall in love with this story. Announces 500 billlion AI project, to build AGI. With Sam altman and all the other tech guys.
  16. @LoneWonderer that’s pretty bad and falls into modern day slavery. But they got lucky it could’ve been a lot worse.
  17. For example you could prepare 14 meals on Monday and put them in the Tupperware‘s and then every day when it’s time to eat you take one meal out and you eat it. This removes the burden of choice. Choice is the enemy, set up systems to remove choice from the equation. Your effectiveness in life depends on the systems you have built.
  18. You need a life coach that will make decisions for you so you don’t need to think anymore. Your default thinking process is broken and Daily tasks need to be automatically chosen for you so you no longer have control.
  19. In very poor countries families often sell their children to wealthy people who promised them they will live a better life. The truth is they are exploited for brutal forms of … it’s then recorded and put on the Internet. They never see the light of day again. Happens every day. if you have sufficient imagination you could easily imagine some of the worst unbearable suffering and bring yourself to tears.
  20. You are immortal because you are existence itself. That’s the jist of it. The only thing Knowable is that something exists, something is happening, not that any of it is comprehended. it is obvious that something exists. and that’s what you are, existence.
  21. Music will tell you what emotion to feel during your flow state of thinking and experiencing. I don’t like feeling metal music emotions. Or that specific experience it’s telling me to have. I don’t experience life from the perspective metal music wants me to experience from. Or I’m judging that experience As wrong. it’s like being forced to hallucinate that you’re 100% a Maga Trump supporter.
  22. Music preference is mostly due to parts of culture that you’re rejecting, club music is associated with low orange bro music, rappers associated with red kind of gangster culture and abuse, classical is associated with higher education and complexity and intelligence, spiritual music is associated what connecting with consciousness or hippie states. Your identity is having a crisis when you hear music you don’t like. Many forms of music are rejected young that don’t align with your identity. Most of Leo’s music is very club inspired and synthetic electric instruments, And auto tune that I can’t stand. Because growing up I rejected these types of instruments because they were used my low consciousness people to make cheap bro music found in clubs.that they would play Blasting in their car thinking they’re cool. Music preferences the parts of culture your ego has the most resistance to. but there’s people that have no music preference and these lunatics you have to watch out for 😅. it can come from a Low perspective of not having any discernment or awareness growing up of culture or sound or of your own identity or could come from a Higher perspective of total acceptance.