JosephKnecht

Replace dad with God and you have Truth. Notice how many times you said, "I" in your text. Attempt to rewrite everything without the I.

You need to grow your spirit a little bit more. Perhaps then you will learn what counts and what doesn't count. There are humans on the other side of your screen. You can meet them in person if you wish.

You must understand your personality traits. All of us are the best in the world at doing something, but the hardest part is realizing what is that thing. Your intuition should propel you in some direction in life. Maybe its creating art, maybe it is creating absurdity. You must learn what you want to create. Once you learn your direction and realize the things you want to create, you should strive in that direction. While striving in that direction, you should aim to push beyond your limits all the time. For example. If we suppose that you want to create surrealist art and you have some expertise in this area already, always try to push the boundary on what you think you are able to do. When you work on your passion and on the boundary of what is possible, you will enter a FLOW state. The FLOW is your place. Passion + pushing boundaries of possibilities take you to the FLOW. Once you are there, you just GO WITH THE FLOW.

You should be glad if they succeed. You still have lot of ego left in you if you wish for others to fail while you succeed. You succeed when we ALL succeed. You just received lots of advice from many different people.

Give advice when others ask for it. Don't give advice to people who don't ask for it. Give advice when others unwillingly suffer and you believe that your advice could help them out of their suffering.

To think, you must have ideas. Ideas are pointers to concepts in reality. Not to think, you must first have the concept of thinking. Direct consciousness is when you are able not to think without even having the concept of thinking. Direct consciousness is what IS when you have no ideas and concepts about what IS. Hope that makes sense

It is obligatory, but the process does not need to be rushed. You can climb at your own pace. There is nothing but the Self, so the Self has nothing else to focus on. Don't focus too much on the wording or the concepts. In the end, you have to see beyond them. Self-Actualization or Expansion are just words without essence if you don't understand their true meaning.

Keep practicing until the girls' acceptance or rejection of you has absolutely no effect on you. You must become grounded in your own self-worth. You must have confidence in yourself. Girls can smell insecurities from a mile away. They know a guy who is doing this for the first time and a guy who has done it many times before. As Leo said, you should not go straight for the number. You have to build rapport first. The girl has to feel your presence and connect with you before she feels comfortable giving you her number. Keep practicing. Practice makes perfect.

Sociology attempts to deconstruct Freud's super-ego. In that sense, its the science that is a precursor to enlightenment. Biology deconstructs the id. Psychology deconstructs the ego. Sociology deconstructs the super-ego.

You just need the support of enough green people to start the movement. The rest of the people will follow. Most edits and article entries on Wikipedia follow the Pareto Distribution (meaning a small number of participants edit the majority of all articles). Here is a video of the guy who supposedly edited 1/3 of all English articles.

Look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The needs on higher levels depend on achieving the lower level needs first. Look at spiral dynamics. To achieve the higher levels you need to go through the lower levels first. When you are building a pyramid, you must build it on the right foundation. Otherwise, when you get to the top, if your foundation is faulty, your life would collapse on itself.

It makes sense, but what is the alternative? The mind has to be filled with concepts. Language has to be imbued with concepts otherwise your words won't make sense. If there were no conceptual structures, no abstract concepts, no language, how can you ask if your ideas make sense? Everything is necessary to make sense of anything.

Money is just an abstraction of value. You spend money on the things that you value. Nobody can tell you what to value because values are subjective. The best way to use money is to find ways to help others.

After the 9/11 attacks, the US was enveloped in negative energy that had to be released into the world. Iraq was the country the US decided to release that negative energy onto. They chose Iraq most probably because of convenient economic, military, and political reasons.

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Metaphysically speaking, everything is God. FrankTheTank is also God. But as long as you are FrankTheTank, you are separate from God and do not command His Will. When FrankTheTank aims the barrel of his Tank at himself and destroys himself, he becomes Nothing, he becomes God. But when you become nothing, you no longer have a direct effect on reality. If previously your tank was able to shoot at others, now when you are nothing, you can no longer shoot at anyone. Thus, to affect reality you must be something and as long you are something, you are not God. Literally speaking, Leo is not God because he is Leo. Leo would be nothing without the Father(God), but the Father needs his son to co-create His kingdom.

Be careful what you wish for. The end of suffering is the end of it all. As long as there is duality, there will be suffering because suffering arises out of separation.

Bitcoin is not scalable. When a system acquires a large enough size, the system becomes harder to change. Bitcoin is currently a large system. Making large changes to its codebase becomes nearly impossible. It is much more likely that there will be another small, decentralized cryptocurrency that would eventually come to the market that will solve the scalability problem of bitcoin. When a system is small, it is easy to adjust.

Who is this "I" you are talking about?

Being awake doesn't end suffering. It only changes the perception of suffering.

Yoga will help you with your concentration. Also, you can start a short meditation practice. Start with 10 minutes of guided meditations. After few months, increase to 20 minutes.

Only the present defines you. The past defined your present. The present will define your future.

The inventor of Bitcoin solved a very hard technical problem. Bitcoin creates a decentralized system in which no third party can mediate your will. The technology behind bitcoin will be here for the next thousand years. The Bitcoin brand itself, I am not so sure.

Few more years of Trump and the USA will go from green to red.

It amazing to see that people that I admired in my childhood, now have become childish.