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One of the strangest things about being human is realizing that there is always more. More things to learn…more ideas to think about… more books to read…more people to listen to…and more ways to spend your time. At first this seems exciting because it means life is full of possibilities. But after a while…all those possibilities can become overwhelming. Instead of feeling free..you start feeling lost. If you spend enough time exploring your own mind…you begin to notice that it never seems to end. One thought leads to another…which leads to another…and before you know it you’ve spent hours.. days thinking about the same subject from different angles. Your imagination also has no clear limit because there are always more possibilities..more questions..and more ways to look at something. You could spend your entire life exploring a single idea and still never reach the end of it. The same is true when it comes to knowledge. Every subject branches into more subjects. You have physics..biology..chemistry..psychology..sociology.. anthropology..history..economics..and hundreds of others. Then each of those has its own smaller areas that people dedicate their entire lives to studying. No matter how much you learn.. there is always another topic waiting for your attention. The internet makes this even more obvious. There are endless communities..ideologies..lifestyles and belief systems. You could spend years following New Age spirituality..veganism.. the black pill community…NoFap..pickup culture.. politics.. or any number of other movements. Each one claims to have figured something important out. You could easily spend your whole life deeply involved in one community without ever seriously looking into the others. Language itself is endless. Every word is explained using other words.. and those words are explained with even more words. If you’re curious enough you can keep digging forever. Every answer creates another question. The same problem shows up with books..podcasts..YouTube videos..and courses. There are millions of them covering every topic imaginable: philosophy..science..psychology..spirituality..art.. healthcare..self-improvement..religion..business..politics..and much more. You start asking yourself questions like: Which books should I read? Which YouTube channels are actually worth watching? Which subjects matter the most? What should I learn first? Eventually all these choices become exhausting.. You might spend ten years studying spirituality only to wonder if you should have spent that time learning psychology or science instead. Or you could become an expert in politics and later wish you had focused on your health..relationships or creativity. Every choice closes the door on thousands of other possibilities and there is no way to know for certain whether you picked the best one. The same thing happens in everyday life. Right now you could go to the gym..meditate..read a book.. watch a documentary..improve your English or any language..call a friend.. work on a project..hit on some girls …etc .There are countless ways to spend the next hour and every option has a good argument behind it. The difficult part is that there is no perfect formula for deciding what you should do. What seems like the best choice depends on what you value. Do you want happiness? Knowledge? Success? Peace of mind? Health? Wisdom? Even the way you decide what’s important depends on beliefs that could always be questioned. This can leave you feeling confused an and uncertainor even depressed. It can seem like no matter what you choose you’re missing out on something else. But maybe the point isn’t to find the one perfect path. Maybe the reason life feels so overwhelming is because reality offers more than any one person could ever experience. No matter what you choose there will always be other interesting paths you never get to explore. Once you understand that the pressure begins to ease. The confusion doesn’t disappear but you stop expecting yourself to figure everything out. You accept that no one can experience everything or learn everything or make the perfect decision every time. All you can do is choose a direction ..knowing that countless other possibilities will always exist .and that’s simply part of being alive.

This is not a scientific term . It’s not meant as a technical definition or a rigid category but just a practical way of grouping common habits that many people feel like to consume time in without adding much long-term value.

People who are not so developed and wise .the average Joe you meet on the street .

It’s only after you waste so much time and energy being engaged in these habits like Scrolling social media feeds without a clear purpose…And Comparing and measuring yourself against others instead of living your own live.. . And Overthinking and over analyzing endlessly instead of deciding and acting. And especially Arguing and especially online debates that rarely change anyone’s mind. And doomscrolling constantly checking notifications on email or even this forum. Also being obsessed with knowledge and constantly jumping from one video to a book to a post etc …I say only after you are consumed in these things and exhausted were you able to step back and see that that very lifestyle is what is making you miserable. So yes the average person doesn’t see this complexity taxing until he’s already stuck in it and unable to unplug from it .

There isn’t really any contradiction between what I’m saying and what you’re saying . The average person is caught up in endless pursuits..believing they’re making progress without realizing they’re trapped in the endless maze of modern life. Escaping that mindset requires a level of awareness and wisdom that most people never develop. The ability to step back and see the bigger picture of how dysfunctional many aspects of the modern world have become is indeed for advanced people.Many people are absorbed in online communities..internet slang..and constant debates and experiencing stress and anxiety without recognizing that these environments may be contributing to those feelings.

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@AsafTheMagniv thanks for your advice my friend. I was just expressing something I notice with the modern world that almost everyone in today’s society is stuck in . I’m not personally overwhelmed by it because I’m able to take a meta picture and realize what is going on . And I wanted to express my observations. thank you for the practical steps you listed .

Was my love life written by you… or by someone with a strange sense of humor? 😅

Being okay with dying reflects maturity and wisdom and lack of attachments . But “wanting to die “ reflects suffering and misery. I don’t want to die .

Man I’m only 30 and im already getting sick and tired of carrying my bag of flesh and bones already . Lmao. you are 48 and you look like an elderly grandpa already lol . Stress makes age faster .

There is no contradiction between the ultimate answer is unknowable or incomprehensible (which it is ) and that still we can approach more and more accurate understanding of reality which is NOT just beliefs taken on blind faith like religious dogma. Knowledge is possible even relatively speaking . Even the notion of there not being a separate self was introduced to you at some late point in your life . Even the idea that reading and thinking and learning should be dropped was acquired by learning and reading about it . Again I don’t disagree that in the most absolute sense we don’t know shit but at the relative level knowledge is possible. Look at something like AI. Who would design AI..Elon Musk or Tony Parsons ?

@Breakingthewall is suffering funny though?

Not to realize you are god but to remember that you are god . For me it’s not in the future as discovery . It’s a remembrance found in the past . Do you think it’s hard to remember that you are god ?

I don’t remember where I read the factoid but they say the body keeps building and growing and getting stronger increasingly up to 40 yo(granted that you take care of your health ). And then past 40 your body begins to weaken and decompose and starts reversing and slowing down and basically starts deteriorating and aging . Not sure if it’s true .

To me there is no openness from your side to genuinely understand these perspective. You’re coming off as a debunker. I hope I’m wrong here . We can agree to disagree .

I don’t understand. I tried tho.

That definition doesn’t seem to hold in all cases. There are clear counterexamples where people knowingly pursue what harms them rather than what is good for them. For example someone struggling with addiction may continue using a substance despite understanding its destructive effects. A person who self harms may intentionally inflict pain on himself like suicidal people and a masochist derives satisfaction from experiencing pain .

You can’t say reality is intelligent but it doesn’t plan anything out in the same breath.

@Breakingthewall is the notion of “bad “ or “wrong “ or “evil” subjective or objective ? Relative or absolute ?

Who am I to say that I know my son getting cancer is actually a bad thing in the grand scheme of things? yes the emotional system of a healthy person will feel sorrow and agony if his son passed away ..its denial of human nature to not feel anything unless you are able to expand your consciousness into seeing things from a different perspective other than viewing it as a negative to your ego. you speak a lot about reality being coherent inevitable relationships that occur because of perfect intelligence ..god (or the ultimate self) does things out of infinite wisdom. Nothing is ever a mistake . God sees infinite moves ahead in the chess game before moving a piece..whereas a human being only can see three moves ahead . If you were able to see the full picture you would understand that literally even your son dying of cancer is not a mistake . Grieve All you want ..grieve till the end of time ..it won’t change anything. So why not just accept that your ego doesn’t run the show ..but god does ..and then surrender to god and let him do with you whatever he wants ? god doesn’t have bias . But ego has . Your son dying of cancer is somehow bad and wrong but you stepping on ants everyday and killing them is somehow collateral damage for god ? Either both are good or both are bad . “Denying the Human nature “? Yup exactly. Transcend the illusion of being just a human who wants to survive and reproduce and not feel pain and not die ..maybe you are something more ?

30 . I’m getting old .lol

Pain is real . Pain is unpleasant sensation experienced in the body or emotionally . There is no escaping it unless you are fortunate enough. suffering is just low consciousness and a result of a undisciplined mind. Unless you are in pain then all suffering is imaginary and conceptual and self made and unnecessary. I’m not going to try to force people to realize this . It’s a communication problem I hope someone as conscious as Peter Ralston can communicate more effectively in his book . I’m going considering buying the book on Amazon.

Do you think it’s hard to remember that you are god ?

Thanks.

I disagree .