MuadDib

What if I make it cold. Like really cold. Like really really cold. Like as cold as is inetellectually possible. Would all matter emit and absorb light then? What about a black hole? I watched a movie and the main actors said that light never leaves gargantua. I mean sure its not a real place but I really FEEL like the concept has a ring to it. All this just sounds like a really fluffed up way of saying that incredible complexity emerged from nothing and arranged itself into words on a screen and there is no intelligence at play in any of it. Its just random. So either intelligence doesn't exist or it's involved in everything pal ... explain me where I'm wrong

The analogy of music beautifully illustrates the concept of holism and the environment dancing with each organism as it fluctuates through random mutations. You seem to obfuscate this point, however. We can say with mathematical precision that the flagellum of the bacteria developing randomly is like saying that if a drumstick started falling in a growing forest, and nobody was around to hear it, Bill Burr definitely attended a Meshuggah concert. https://youtu.be/HS9_p7zNASQ?si=jpKyyPQuXxy8aAO5

True evolution is, after all, just a concept in the mind ... an intelligent mind, mind you. The map is never the territory.

Don't kid yourself, it takes intelligence to sort a deck of cards or instruct a dumb computer to do it. Why do you call the computer dumb after all? Why can't the computer do it without instruction? The goal of evolution then is to increase the likelihood of reproduction.

Things have been going really well for me lately and I can't take it anymore. I eat right, exercise, get enough sleep, have a job, and some friends. I laugh like every day and feel like I have a purpose here on earth that I believe in. I accept all my insufficiencies in the sense that I don't let them detract from my own feelings of self-worth, but I still actively work to improve on them. I am motivated as fuck, like I have boundless energy and don't have enough hours in the day to spend it all, so each new day I wake up buzzing. I am super successful with women, I treat them right, with the right amount of wrong, and my dick has honestly never been wetter. I focus easily, and I'm content with life and my place in it, I occasionally receive deep and profound spiritual insights that are radically changing my perspective on reality but it's usually welcome and only seems to get better overall. Here's the thing, whenever I hop on my computer (holy shit can you imagine being born like 100 years ago, no electricity in most places, wow!) and I log online (again, holy shit the internet, what a time to be alive!) to look for information on how to turn my life around I am just bamboozled with optimistic insights, courses, books, videos, and forums (Like this one!!) where people just want to help me get better all the time. And I mean I get it, a part of humanity is fundamentally shitty like everyone just wants to survive and get theirs, but I can't help but feel a genuine underlying goodness is at play everywhere I look. I want to get to a place of catatonic depression and anxiety. Like, despair with life. Like, I want my teeth to be rotting and in excruciating pain because I can't summon the enthusiasm to get up and brush my teeth after eating sugary, fatty, processed foods all day. You know? I know it's out there and I'm reaching for a lot, but I honestly think I can do it. I believe in myself in spite of how difficult it is to be negative in today's world. Holy shit, have you heard about AI? Wow, I might not even have to work soon and get free money. Anyway, here's what I found to start getting on track. Again, I can't tell if he's genuinely seriously trying to help me, or if he's just another scammer trying to make me feel better and awesome. There are some good takeaways to implement though. as with most things. I'd appreciate input from the heavy sufferers out there. I don't mind putting in consistent effort over long periods of time if required, I don't just want quick solutions if that's all you're offering. Thanks in advance! <3

F2p UIM takes 100,000 hours to complete. *cracks knuckles* https://youtu.be/s7Tc71R2OU4?si=LPBlwwNryaTQvptj

@sholomar Yeah, there seems to be an underbelly of heavy suffering in spiritual communities as people who are in those dorsal vagal states may be driven to seek solutions outside the mainstream. (Speaking from experience) Having spiritual insights, moments of ease and connection that comes from merging with a community can then be easily hikacked by egoic/survival drives and lead to all kinds of traps. I think a distinction needs to be made between having a calm and present nervous system and having states of high consciousness. Breathwork, body work, trauma release, diet, psychedellic experiences, meditation, yoga, sauna, icebaths, psychological and philosophical insight can impact both. It would be a mistake to assume that 'well adjusted' people are advanced spiritually, just because they're chill.

@ivankiss Been there done that, donated $600k to charity when I was 21 and walked across Australia. @Spiritual Warrior Yeah, there is a strong bias towards negativity that seems to be ingrained into the himan psyche. If 99 things are going well for you and 1 thing is going poorly its almost natural to focus in on that one negative thing. Reminds me of an old sadhguru talk I listened to many years ago:

I hope you don't mind me commenting, but a part of me yearns for the Epicurean bro life as well as the Thoreau solitude and minimalism. https://youtu.be/Kg_47J6sy3A?si=ZBgfNN3YUBxWZGFr

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Randomness is probably just a human mental construction that is projected onto an underlying reality that has nothing to do with randomness. Like that random number 1-10 you chose.

I have the sense that people understand that, however in the context of the flagellum even when you consider the universe being 13 billion years old the odds of something so complex spontaneously developing in a lower life form is still astronomically low. 70ish parts, coming together in the perfect sequence, and if even one of them is missing nothing functions? Nah man. People struggle to understand big numbers. One example is 52! ... the number of times a deck of cards needs to be shuffled to obtain every unique sequence is more than the total number of atoms in the known universe. If each shuffle took a few seconds ... well thats a lot more than 13 billion years. And this is just a deck of 52 cards we're talking about, not 70ish AFTER the friggen bacteria has come into being mind you. Its like saying, damn, how did that guy walk to Gargantua? Everest is a cakewalk by comparison. This is how it was explained to me at least. Im just a layman. Throwing that out as a disclaimer.

It's dark satire to spark contemplation y'all. I'm thinking of developing a substance use problem and adopting the materialist paradigm in one fell swoop. Happiness and misery blended to perfection.

Efficient UIM maxing guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dJR3Ry44t1QNpVqQ8GOjXsrzAY_I8Nzu3lsW1gtriL4/edit#heading=h.x6nslywu9gpt This game mode is fun, so much strategy and planning are needed for everything.

A rats perspective

Zezima

Hiq love between us is speech and breath. loving you is a long river running

Sorry to read this. I was reminded of this segment of a podcast I listened to a while back, Jocko talks about the patterns he recognized while going through the grief process multiple times after losing friends in the military. Having some awareness of what's happening to you, and what to expect can make the process a little smoother to get through. Timestamped: In the early stages, distractions are probably the best thing for you. Movies are great for that.

Fairy Tale Endings

Interesting take. Tate's charity is a cherry on a pile of dogshit.

@StarStruck People are attracted to survival value, but it's an incomplete truth. Humans are sometimes willing to die for love, for their children, for their fellow human beings, and even for animals. Would you say this is "nice"? "Self-sacrificing"? It's important to be clear about what you're talking about because in this sense "nice" people are the most powerful people on the planet and casually move mountains while spinning the earth on their fingertips. "Niceness" as a trauma response and a defense mechanism is something different though, and this is indeed a turn-off. In the same way that a bully who puts on a facade of strength and power is a turn-off. The latter is more attractive in terms of survival value, and might even be attractive to another person's trauma, but isn't what you want to be aiming for if you want to maximize your impact and power.