Nak Khid

I recommend you buy a book on "emotional intelligence " What is happening here with "yes" and "no" is nothing more than people changing their intentions from moment to moment in inconsistent ways depending on the person and circumstances. You are coming over to this philosophy forum which has many abstract conversations about paradoxes and people like to write things like up = down, you = god, happy = sad" this is just semantics, words games and if you take these games too seriously it will cause a state of confusion which can lead to mental illness. You were headed to the bathroom and asked somebody leaving the bathroom not to close the door but instead they closed it. Does this means when you ask a person to do one thing they will always do the opposite? No. I recommend you don't try to turn particular incidents with particular people into extreme philosophical issues. That will drive you crazy. You are in rehab and might be feeling powerless and feel even more powerless when you ask somebody to keep a door open and then they don't. Is everybody who you request do something going to not do it because you requested it? Does yes = no. No, yes means yes and no means no. A person you are dealing with might change their mind or choose to defy tour request. Or they might not have heard your request. Suppose the person heard you make the request and choose to defy you and do the opposite. Please do not turn that into some kind of rule about the universe. Some of the things people say in this forum are simply mental masturbation, They are things that if you tried to apply it to your life would drove you crazy. Abstract Philosophy is a luxury for when you are well. What you need now is to try to understand psychology and understand people's behavior and be able to react to it or not react to it in a practical effective way not one out of desperation and confusion. And if you can't understand a person's behavior just let it go. People act irrationally and badly all the time. But other people act kindly and helpful. Yet many people are a mix of both. The key is to become emotionally intelligent of other people's behavior, how to react or not react in a practical way and if they misbehave be able to let it go sometimes and deal with it effectively when the situation call for it. You may not have these interpersonal skills but if you find some people or books who are good at interacting with people and learn from this it will give you more stability and less confusion. But if you go to "big" philosophical discussions it will probably lead to more confusion and suffering because even the best minds go around in circles with questions that can never be answered. Deal with the small things first

Free will is the most pointless of pointless topics to discuss in my opinion

Lack of love is indifference Hate is an energy

For alcohol?

Psychol Sci. 2010 Apr; 21(4): 499–504. Published online 2010 Mar 9. doi: 10.1177/0956797610364751 Motivating Goal-Directed Behavior Through Introspective Self-Talk: The Role of the Interrogative Form of Simple Future Tense Ibrahim Senay,1 Dolores Albarracín,1 and Kenji Noguchi2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626423/

Positive Affirmations - The Tricks of Using Affirmations to Transform Your Life 340,089 views •Feb 14, 2014 Leo you have this 2014 video talking about positive affirmations being effective. Here you talk about repeating a simple positive affirmation over and over again for 5 minutes a day How much have you been doing this up to the present time and in the months and years following 2014? Looking at a goal that is realistically attainable do you still think this technique is as effective as you did when you made this video and continue to use it on a daily basis?

we have free will predeterminism is false

Self-Enquiry & Mindfulness Meditation ~ Shinzen Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i288Lnb7NOk

Yahya, what are your interests?

seriously?

If Donald Trump starting saying "I am God" would it be a good thing?

I f you have no free will how would you have the ability to surrender or not surrender?

please name one practical benefit of adopting the the belief that there is no free will

You don't understand how evolution works. It operates randomly as do many mutations. What survives is simply whatever randomly happens to be better suited to arbitrary conditions. You can come up for an explanation anything you want that does not mean it is truthful or that a truthful explanation even exists. Explanations are mental constructs, abstractions Nature doesn't create anything. It is creation and creation does not operate by use of explanation. it's a process

that's where the similarity ends

The problem is you can take the above says what ever is being talked about is "relative", copy and paste the above to "debunk" any thread. "worst" is obviously hyperbole

sounds suspiciously similar to "everything happens for a reason" (EHR Lite) check out this fascinating article in another thread and read the complete article by clicking the link there >>

It depends on if there are terms in different languages equivalent to OMG that are as popular Similarly "Jesus" is sometimes exclaimed "Jesus" can also be used in place of OMG

Right, everything has about 5 or 6 paths

I disagree life unfolds in a state of random chaos then we adapt to it and label the adaptation as "reason"

@Extreme can you lighten up a bit you are being an extremist. People claim "everything happens for a reason" all the time but never get called out for it Obviously many things occur without explanation yet people keep saying "everything happens for a reason" as if "the universe" is a being intentionally giving them a message of some sort in the form of a pigeon dropping You haven't even told us yet if you believe everything happens for a reason, I must have hit a nerve

Finding that there is no free will would be completely impractical

Biden or Bloomberg are more moderate than Sanders Trump was elected either the masses now want Trump Lite or a bigger change The primary election begins early next year, with the start of the Iowa first-in-the-nation caucuses on Feb. 3, 2020. Super Tuesday is March 3rd

LET GO

thank you you are now awakened