JosephKnecht

Truth: Nothing Forever Happening

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Who is John Galt? We can't just all run onto an island and wait for the destruction of society. We have to actively participate in its construction and destruction. You are already part of the process, that is inescapable. You can only choose what to construct and what to deconstruct.

Do not take it personally. He is only speaking to his own projections. When he calls you selfish, he is calling himself selfish, because selfishness is part of what he is. Also, self-esteem cannot be attacked because all self-esteem comes from the self. He might be attacking something else, but you have to evaluate what that is?

About 7 years ago, I fell into a tourist trap in Budapest Hungary. Together with a friend of mine, we were visiting Budapest for a weekend trip. Late Friday evening, after drinking in some bars we decided to go to a strip club. We got into a cab and told the taxi driver to take us to the best strip club in town. We were half-drunk at this point. We get to the strip club, and the place was literally underground. There were very few customers and the place looked very shady. They give us a menu of drinks, but without any prices. We order whiskey or something like that. After 10 minutes or so, my intuition told me that there is something wrong here, so we ask for the bill since we wanted to leave. They bring us the bill, and it turns out the price of the drink we ordered is about 400 euros. (Keep in mind that that is probably the average monthly salary in Hungary at that point.) We argued with the waiters, they called the bouncers. It wasn't pretty. Eventually, the bouncers escorted us to a near ATM to take out money to pay them. It turns out that the max amount you can take at the ATM was 400 euros, otherwise they would have charged more. The scam involved the taxi driver who gets paid a commission for tourists that he brings. Apparently, the prices of drinks were written near the entrance of the club with very small letters to circumvent local laws if the police get involved. So if you are going to Eastern Europe, watch out... https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/eastern-europe/hungary/budapest-bar-scams

The vault already exists... You just have to look within...

@flowboy <= this guy has some good advice. Ignore the advice of all responses from the girls. A girl doesn't know what she wants, she only thinks she knows what she wants. Even if you give her what she thinks she wants, she won't be happy. Because she does not know what she wants. Asking for things is what they call a "shit test" to see how desperate you are. And you smell desperate. To get a girl, first, you must not need a girl.

Psychedelics make spiritual teachers obsolete. If they didn't oppose them, they would be out of a job

You don't need to become more selfish. You need to build your self-esteem. How to build self-esteem... 1. Disregard others. Only you can give yourself self-esteem. 2. Find something you enjoy doing or something you want to be better at. 3. Work daily at that thing. 4. Notice the progress you are making. Notice how you are getting better. Do not quit. 5. After perfecting that thing, gain esteem from the new better version of yourself. Only you can give yourself self-esteem. That "something" can be a hobby, skill, work, job, relationship, or whatever else you want.

Women have strong intuition. They can sense your boundaries(or lack thereof) and can use emotions to manipulate you. Once they know your weakness, you are fucked. Their ego will exploit your weakness to do their bidding. It sounds like your wife has you around her little finger. She has sensed that you are putting her on a pedestal (maybe because of low self-esteem) and she feels she can do whatever she wants with you. Just remember, when she does whatever she wants, she loses respect for you. You are not supposed to succumb to her emotional tantrums. As a man, you should be a solid as a rock and cut your hair the way you want. Keep in mind that she is this way due to her dysfunctional family history and she doesn't know any better. In order to improve, she needs to do lots of work on self-improvement.

Open relationships require a lot of emotional maturity. If both people are not emotionally mature, it will lead to problems down the road. I live in the Netherlands, and open-type relationships are fairly common here. For some people, they end badly, but for others, they work like a charm. In order for these types of relationships to work, you have to be completely honest with yourself. If you have any personal insecurities (thinking that you are not good enough, etc), eventually this will lead to jealousy and problems. If you are happy when your partner shares his body with another person because his happiness translates into your happiness, then you will be fine. Also, your partner has to be happy for you when you do the same. You have to decide what works best for you.

Reality is a dance between the world and Nothingness. Escaping Nothingness gives you the world. Escaping the world gives you Nothingness. Whatever you do, you must find joy in the dance.

Look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs. You need to fulfill the basic needs before you can actualize yourself. Take care of your life, career, and family first. You are young, you have a long life ahead of you.

The law of attraction states that your belief in positive experiences attracts positive experiences. However, you are not aware of all of your beliefs. Usually, underneath all of your beliefs, there lies one unquestioned belief that you have about Reality. This is an axiomatic belief that is assumed as True. If that belief is negative, it prevents the LOA to manifest positive experiences no matter how much you wish for them. So you must question all your beliefs.

Find Joy in the NOW! You have to construct a healthy self before you deconstruct it with spirituality. Focus on your self-development until you you are happy with the person you will become. Enlightenment is not going anywhere. But first, get the basics right.

With Trump, it's all about appearances. Look at how he tries to create the appearance of the White House in his last press conference, as if, he is still in power. Most of the people in the background are stooges. They also have planted interviewers to ask "Mr.President" some "questions". I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

Wealth should be capped at 1 billion. Once someone becomes a billionaire, we should throw a party and name a train station after them. They have won capitalism. Everything over the billion of wealth then should go into the name of the employees that made someone a billionaire.

Then real estate won't be very real. It makes sense that Elon sold all his houses. Houses might collapse, but Dogecoin will exist even on the moon. And nobody can take his Doge. If you are smart, you want to own assets that are non-destructive.

All value is subjective. In your example, the value was created by Roger Federer and not by you. In your example, you are talking about unrealized value because you have not sold your shirt, so you should not be taxed at all. If you sell the shirt, I think you should pay VAT. Why you shouldn't be taxed for unrealized gains? Imagine, that tomorrow Federer rapes someone and nobody wants to even hear the name, Federer. Then the value of the shirt goes from $100 million to $10 dollars. Imagine that you were forced to pay %10 tax at the valuation of $100 million. Where will you get the money?

@cookiemonster @Batman How can anyone take anything seriously when the CookieMonster is arguing with Batman about the seriousness of life and death?

His primary motivation for curing Covid was to get re-elected. His response was not balanced. You can't elect a buffoon to run the country because when shit hits the fan, a buffoon is clueless on what to do. Trump and the people who put in charge around him are all buffoons. From the highest perspective, he was elected to protect American hegemony from the rise of the East. People thought that only a great Ego such as Trump can protect America from the inevitable decline.

Buddy, you are the Source. To achieve detachment, you have to destroy the desire to destroy. Try meditation instead of Violent films.

Maybe it's a little bit arrogant, ignorant, and delusional to believe that 90% of the people are arrogant, ignorant, and delusional. Would you say so?

@iboughtleosbooklist At 1:46:30 Leo talks about the hardest insight that he had to accept, and that is the fact that You don't exist. You were simply a figment in his imagination? Ask yourself, is that True in your Experience? What is True in your direct experience? The problem with listening to Leo is that you acquire a lot of beliefs, but all beliefs are false. In essence, everything that Leo has ever said that You don't have a direct experience of is False. Try this: Imagine Leo telling you that he is real, that he was lying about everything the whole time, there is no God, no Truth, no Goodness. Imagine the opposite of everything he has ever said... What will then be True in your direct experience?