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I give her my number that way if she texts me, I know she is interested. Women preach feminism but still expect men to be the leaders all the time. These SJ warriors are perpetuating the patriarchy by holding these gender expectations.

I have been reading now into chapter 4 and the book is pretty insightful, but it is full of a lot of generalizations about women. For instance, the other makes a ridiculous claim that women aren’t interested in intelligence, mathematics, science, philosophy, etc. Maybe at the general level this is true, but there are always exceptions. Some feminists would argue that more women would be into these activities if there were more equal access. But some people state that even in the most liberal countries, women are still less involved in those activities. Also, the book is one sided and does not really discuss the pressures that women face such as the pressures for marriage, partnership, and children. Women are pressured to be wives and mothers because that is what they are taught is what makes a woman valuable. The book is still very insightful.

Mate. A walk on a nature trail is literally $0. A drive around town is literally $0. Walking into bookstores and into a library is literally $0. All I am hearing is excuses. It sounds like you don’t want a girlfriend that bad enough, which is entirely fine. If it came down to it, which one matters more to you: Business or Relationship?

I have been contemplating the nature of time, and I came to these conclusions as of now. Time is a fundamental part of reality. Time is something that all of life revolves around but itself cannot be grasped. Time presents a paradox to life in that it is central to life but yet cannot be controlled. Everything we do is bound by time, from our daily routines to long-term goals, and even your ability to read what I am writing here. To say time is an illusion seems to dismiss the direct experience being had here in that change is happening. Time, change, and memory go together. There cannot be change or memory without time because change and memory implies a before and an after. On the other hand, there is the paradox that all time is happening in the eternal now and that the past, present, and future are being imagined simultaneously. Did the past really happen? What exactly is the past but your mind reconstructing it in the present? Time is a figment of consciousness. If consciousness did not have time, there could not be any experience. What is an experience without a before and an after? The future is more an illusion than the past because technically the future is an idea of what you can create now but haven't. Possibility is the only real function of the future and our story is the purpose of the past. In a way, our past is constructed but in a way, our past did happen but maybe not in the way we think it might. For instance, I have memories of the past, but the memories of themselves are never an exact replica of the past. Even if I had a body cam throughout my life, that still wouldn't be able to capture all of that time because the past also includes all of my thoughts, stories, feelings, and beliefs I had at that particular time. The now is so infinite that it includes infinite past and future. All memory is about the past that is occurring in the present. For instance, you read this post. You couldn't comprehend what I wrote without time. I think of time like a book in that we have a beginning, middle, and end - a past, present, and future. But our particular human consciousness cannot go back and flip through to old chapters like you can in a book. The only way a human consciousness can go back into the past is by remembering it in the present, and this process of re-membering is also a constructive process. Time is still very tricky, but I have realized that it is more fundamental than I thought. Buddhists Bats will try to convince you that time is an illusion, but yet they will tell you to sit and meditate and be patient and "wait for your enlightenment." There are even different forms of time such as psychological time, biological time, sociological time, physical time, etc., so what form of time are these Buddhist Bats saying is an illusion? There is a before enlightenment and after enlightenment. Right now, I am not enlightened. Will I ever be? I don't know. Leo also has claimed to access God Consciousness. But is he conscious of that now? I don't know. But at some point, your mystical experiences fade into the past where your present is left with but a memory of your so-called enlightenment experience. But if all your left with is a memory of your God-Realization, Alien Consciousness Psychedelic trip, then how can you claim that, that is real but the past is an illusion if all of your mystical experiences are part of the past experienced in the present? If you get that last sentence, then you understand the problem. There is no such thing as an enlightened/awakened being. You cannot freeze your awakening in time. Forget about your previous awakenings. You are either directly conscious of the absolute truth right now or you aren't. And there will be parts of your life, instances in time in which you will not be awake/enlightened no matter how conscious you have become. So, my ultimate conclusion is that time exists and is fundamental to consciousness. There is nothing for consciousness to be conscious of without time, a before and an after. Time is change, time is experience. We are all slave to time. Whether we like it or not, we are all going to die. Is death a belief? No. To say death is a belief is death-denial. Your human form will die, but the essence of reality cannot. Now, it is up for us what to do with our time and really I am referring to what you are gonna do with your consciousness in your finite amount of time on the earth. Edit: Here’s a practice exercise. The next time you are taking a piss, contemplate time. Notice that there is a before and an after. After you are done, you can contemplate if you actually experienced pissing or if you just imagined it. Please let me know what your thoughts are on the nature of time. And feel free to take your time.

Don’t be so certain. We are still in the dark age.

What if Einstein’s Relativity is wrong? What if we are giving too much authority to a dead white man? You can deny time exists all you want. But it still affects you. Without time, there is no memory or thought. If time didn’t exist, then there could be no movement, no change, no existence because time is these things. You say time is an illusion, but like I said in my original post: what form of time are you arguing is an illusion? Sociological time? Biological? Physical? Psychological? Time is the flow of change and is a force of life as real as gravity. Why don’t you say gravity is also an illusion? Isn’t that a double standard? If you say gravity is an illusion, then you are denying direct experience.

Deception isn’t outside of your consciousness. You are the deception. Ego is the deception. How is that false? How did you validate the existence of something outside of your consciousness? Anything you say that is outside of consciousness is actually an idea inside your consciousness right now. Please notice this.

It seems like education might be the confounding variable.

Sounds like GTA.

By the way guys, you aren’t killing anything. If anything you are creating an ego that wants an ego death. Very sneaky. There is nothing wrong with the ego. It’s a necessary fiction in order to play the game called survival. You cannot have Christmas without Santa and likewise cannot have reality without self.

The opposite. It’s inventing one in the first place.

Is it possible for Santa Clause to die if Santa Clause is nothing but a figment of your imagination?

I like it! Time is like gravity. You cannot see it, but it exists. It is a quality of consciousness.

Singing is also a great meditation. Contemplation is one of the deepest forms I know of.

there is no such thing as an ego death because the ego never existed in the first place.

Hey fellas. Your arguments about God are taking time away from arguing about time.

I would say that movement is dependent on time. Time is as real as gravity. You cannot see gravity, but you can witness the effects of it. Likewise, if you drop a pen, it could not fall without time. If there is no time, reality would be frozen and there would be nothing to think about. You couldn’t even read this message or respond to it without time. Change is occurring in the now, but change is bound by time. There is a before and an after. Our mind constructs this, but it is as real as dropping a pen. There is a before the pen is in my hand and an after it is on the ground, before you read this post and an after, before you learn something and after. How would you explain this evident truth thst there is a before and after? If there is no time, then how do you explain change. It is hard to conceive of change existing without a before and after.

Play the guitar. Music is my favorite meditation.

I’m 27 years old and I haven’t had sex in 27 years. You are okay mate. Sex is a drug.

I saw Leo's blog post on Philosophical Counseling, and something about it doesn't seem quite right. The title Philosophical Counselor seems to misrepresent the field of counseling. A master's or PHD in philosophy does not mean that you are now qualified to counsel clients through mental health struggles. There is already Existential Therapist or Existential Counselor, which is a specific form of mental health counseling that helps people deal with existential issues such as death anxiety, meaninglessness, career concerns, etc. My issue is that this field of philosophical "counseling" should really be called philosophical "coaching" or "consultant." I currently am an Existential Therapist, and it is a great life purpose. A typical PHD or Masters program in Philosophy is not going to prepare you for the mental health struggles of people as compared to a Masters or PHD in counseling. There is a difference between a mental health counselor and life coach. Likewise, there is a difference between Philosophical coaching and Existential Therapist. I would suggest pursuing Existential Therapist as a life purpose as opposed Philosophical Coaching because there are more opportunities and more of a demand for mental health counselors. As an Existential Therapist, you can practice a wide variety of therapy modalities such as EMDR, SFBT, CBT, etc. This is what I do. Just food for thought.

Damn. That’s counterintuitive. I was mistaken.

Would be nice, but as Leo stated, hardly anyone is interested in dogma-free thinking. And ChatGPT has replaced that job pretty much. It is kind of paradoxical to hire a philosophical consultant to teach you how to think because really this can be done on your own. Thinking is not something you can outsource because if you did, then you wouldn’t be engaging in independent high quality thought.

If that is the case, then this life purpose would be almost obsolete.

i guess this is the hard problem of science in a nutshell. And the hard problem of life.

I guess where do you draw the line? If you are working with people as a philosophical “counselor” you are gonna run into people with trauma, depression, grief, anxiety, etc. that require someone with more training, which is where an existential therapist comes into play. As a philosophical “counselor” you’re not gonna be able to help Hamlet with reconciling his thoughts on suicide because it would be unethical to practice outside of one’s training. My point is that this field seems nice on paper, but when put into practice, you are going to have a lot of people come to you that, unless you are damn good at philosophical “counseling”, they would do better with just seeing a good existential therapist. But I could be wrong. I don’t know where you draw the lines between when to refer a client to therapy if you are a life coach.