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You're just here for you. Be here for me when you have gone the distance. Until then use the 4000 weeks this life affords you for you alone. All else is trickery and sophistry. Be ruthlessly selfish. Don't let one person dare impinge on your sovereignty to go your way.

It's all love for me all the time. - In Japanese, Ai (愛) most commonly means "love" or "affection". It represents deep, often selfless, and enduring love, encompassing romantic love, love for family, or love for hobbies. It is distinct from koi (戀), which is more passionate or selfish romantic longing. Key Aspects of "Ai" (愛) in Japanese: Common Usage: Used in compounds like ren'ai (romantic love) or as a popular, often feminine, given name. Deep Love (愛 - Ai): Represents profound, caring affection (e.g., aijou - love/affection, aishiteru - I love you). Alternative Meanings: Depending on context, it can also mean "indigo" (藍). Cultural Context: While used for love, it is often considered a very strong, serious word, sometimes deemed too intense for everyday conversation compared to suki (like/love) .

Poached rat with a side of toast.

What good is it to know if you don't know you know. You might be delulu*. Epistemics is knowing you know not feeling you know. * "Delulu" is internet slang for "delusional," referring to someone holding unrealistic beliefs, fantasies, or romantic fantasies that are not based on reality. Originating in K-pop fandoms to describe obsessed fans, it is now used playfully by Gen Z/Alpha to describe having high, albeit unrealistic, self-confidence.

For me the world was made to keep me in captivity forever. It can serve a different purpose. Not by getting to know it but changing how I see it. If I do the latter, then doing the former is just extra credit. I already satisfied my responsibility be getting out of here alive.

Anyone catch a typo or maybe I'm wrong. In either case I disagree even if corrected. I have one responsibility. In the world it's good to understand others but ultimately for me a futile counter-productive, distracting and wasteful errand.

Inspired by Leo, I drafted the ACIM epistemic framework: Epistemic Humility - I don't know what anything means Epistemic Suspension - I am willing to set aside what I think this thing in front of me means Epistemic Responsibility - I am entrusted with a single choice of thought systems -either the world's or God's; And I accept that the world's thought system - and its relative epistemology - is meaningless and I choose to have God's be remembered. Epistemic Correction - I pause a moment in order that my misinterpretation be undone Epistemic Non-interference - I of myself refuse to manage, fix or manipulate perception Epistemic Vigilance - I check in with the mind for shifts in thought system Epistemic Trust - I accept the correction rather than seek the explanation Epistemic Minimalism - I accept what meaning is given me and only that Epistemic Immediacy - I accept truth is known directly not mentally inferred

My two cents. There are two kinds of “bad” in life: 1. The bad you forgive If you remember it and forgive it: The charge gradually fades. In time, you may even forget, because it no longer has any emotional claws. If you had forgotten it and then later forgive it (when it surfaces): The hidden pattern loses all power. What once shaped you unconsciously no longer runs your life. Forgiveness is what dissolves the hold. 2. The bad you don’t forgive If you remember it and don’t forgive it: The pain stays alive. It quietly taints your interpretations, reactions, and relationships. If you forget it but don’t forgive it: It doesn’t disappear. Instead it goes underground. It manifests as triggers, fears, defensiveness, or repeated patterns you don’t fully understand. Unforgiven pain doesn’t vanish. It waits and pounces unconsciously. If forgiving seems like an impossibility, real support such as therapy and honest dialogue, can help loosen what feels fixed. Without releasing resentment, lasting peace is very hard to access. Forgiveness frees you, not the other person. They still live with the consequences and if need be, pay the price that society demands. Forgiveness is what gets you out of jail not them. edit: Forgiveness is not an action, it is a thought. You let go the idea you are a victim who was harmed and is damaged.

"Self-deception transcends all your efforts at epistemic responsibility." - 1:51:43 Even a Jesus wants to live one more day.

Epistemology is the bridge from survival to truth, from meaninglessness to meaning. It's how to transition or first and foremost understand what it takes.

We have the ability to dim the awareness of God and concoct a life of fantasy. It's fun (until it is not) and we have mastered it. We will find true religion one day (see Leo's latest episode). How do I know that? Because the perceived universe MUST be finite. If it were infinite it would be God. Thus we all go home to God eventually.

We can always find people worse off. That is epistemically irresponsible. I am responsible for one person.

Just don't make it dead last on the list. Water cracks rock given time.

What I mean is, you will be dead so your desire for truth is squandered. There will always be some compromise. By eating food, you deny another food.