Bob Seeker

Blessed be you, Say I, who am Life. It is I who gave birth to you, As you have to Me. See Me in the sunrise, Feel Me in an orgasm, Know Me, as too good, Too good to possibly be bad. Fear and guilt are the only enemies of man. Extend to Me your hand, And see that I lift you.

I don’t understand, what does this passage refer to and where does it come from?

@OneHandClap Nice! I mean to go camping up there this summer. cheers!

@OneHandClap I mean bang bang sauce? it’s a little bit sweet and a little bit spicy. Cool! I’m living half with fam in Boston, half in Worcester. You?

@OneHandClap Mmh, I’m more like a sweet popcorners with every third one dipped in BamBam sauce.

@OneHandClap you don’t share my taste

I’m 23 and I was just sort of in your situation. So I got a construction job to save up some money and I’m planning on driving around the U.S. to scope out different lifestyles and things that people are doing with their lives for inspiration and so I can better decide. I’m going to do a series of roughly 1 month small bets on anything that I might conceivably want to do until I find my purpose direction. I’m currently experiencing a bout of meaninglessness but at least I’m taking action. I’m posting my journey on YT lol, if it interests u, link is in my signature below.

Meditation tends to be good for combating anxiety if you can get over initial hump of facing it head on. If it increases depersonalization feeling more maybe you should find help from someone who has more experience with similar thing. Good job asking for help, keep on asking and in different places too.

Ralston says in The Book of Not Knowing that boredom stems from loneliness. probably this loneliness fundamentally stems from the feeling of separateness. Having a relationship would probably only be a temporary fix, and then you’d need to distract yourself again.

Remember, You started it.

@Manusia awesome! Keep on working that emotionally difficult area even when it isn’t glamorous. I find this very useful. remember to pace yourself. Be realistic about how much you take at once. Patience is often very emotionally difficult. (Strange loop!)

I get afraid that I am overstimulating myself, and cheapening sex in my own mind, building unrealistic expectations of women, and distracting myself. I sometimes have free time to do something more important to me but watch porn and then don't do it. These things don't agree well with my values. I don't have women in my life and am not in a position to do pickup rn. I'm 23 and hustling for money, living with fam. I mean it seems so impossible to not watch porn/masturbate that it's not even worth fighting, but this is bugging me. It also helps me fall asleep if I do it at night, which is sometimes hard, anticipating another long day ahead. Any advice?

Same here, dood guy.@Guest

I just watched Free Solo. Inspires me to do something great.

Hey, there’s nothing wrong with being fat, or with being an addict, just like there’s nothing wrong with living broke. Just know that you CAN have money just like a fat person CAN lost weight. So look into it, Envision what it would be like to have more money and what would be possible. Don’t assume that you don’t want it just because it takes effort. Maybe you will choose to live Broke or maybe you will choose to earn more money. there’s also a third approach I see, which is that while you are living broke for 2 years or so you could put in the first 1000 hours of your passion work and maybe emerge with a viable life purpose skill that you can use to make money in an enjoyable way once you decide you want more money.

Thanks everyone for the awesome response. A lot of great stuff to consider here.

I honestly don’t understand this. I don’t see that I have an urge to have children, so I’m wondering what about it makes other people who are beyond blindly following norms want to have children. What makes you want to sacrifice so much for that?

Mastery in George Leonard's view is deliberate practice with feedback to hone and hone, always practicing at your edge to get to the next level. That's the 10,000 hours you want. Reading can be a form of practice if you are putting in effort to learn from the reading, but writing your own is the best type of practice. You will need to do some of both, but you want to focus on the creating part. The 10,000 hour rule is never going to be clean cut because of this. Think about how messy Leo's 10,000 hours is with all the research on YT he does. Do adds count? haha All the contemplating he probably does in the shower

https://youtu.be/gczC0Mzz4MM this is prob it

Give a more specific example, maybe relate it to a concrete aspect of life, that helps us connect to it.

According to research, those who have the best experience raising children are the ones who enjoy watching the child’s natural development unfold.

So how will we sign up?

Probably would be better off making your own music.

Well, good for you. I hope your mission can help other Christians grow in appreciation for other religious traditions and the true freedom that God grants us to do as we please, without fear of punishment or damnation. And can help them see the value in caring for our natural planet, recognizing its current predicament with climate change, pollution, etc.