Bobby_2021

Israel has valid reasons for occupation far surpassing the 1967 borders.

It is best to not have an opinion on how others conduct themselves. Do not give advice unless they ask for it.

Man, sorry to tell you that your supreme creativity is struggling to find expression in you. It will make you into a mess if you do not let it express itself. The most creative writers are often psychologically insane. That is a feature, not a bug. If your intellect is not handled properly, it will be more of a hinderance that a gift. You need to learn to use it more strategically and plan to use it well just like you plan in the middle game. That is all true. But I do not have enough of an experience to guide you since I have many of the struggles that you mentioned. As a casual advice, I may suggest you get a tech job or coding, and you can build off from there. The market is not the most forgiving nowadays, but that is something to look into.

Making a living from chess tournaments is an eternal struggle. You are subjecting yourself to the most mental torture that humans can go possibly through and the only way you can make a living is if you manage to win all the time. Imagine you promising your kids some toys and the only way you can afford them is if you beat some child prodigy who has been trained by world class coaches. I am not rated but I have defeated guys in the 1500 FIDE range. I plan to improve in chess side as my hobby. I will play real tournaments occasionally. For me it is more about creativity and the exploration of chess itself that matters more. Hooking up chess to survival will ruin the beauty of it. You might not be able to leverage your full IQ to play chess because pressures from life might impacting your performance. All my pro chess player friends are struggling and going on the tutoring route. They tech academics like math, science and also chess to make ends meet. You have an IQ of 130. So perhaps you can quickly learn stuff. So maybe you should get a job in tech or coding that could easily pay off your bills and you might even be able to work remotely. You do not need college for that. Companies these days are hiring on the basis of skill. There are plenty of options out there for someone of your intellectual caliber.

I think God which is absolute infinity cannot possibly miss out on life. That's is why God creates finite being so that God can feel what it is like to miss out. So you can definitely miss out on life, especially through no fault of your own. That's just life. And that is by design. God wants to distract itself from the humongous infinity that is itself.

What exactly is meant by missing out on life? Is it something objective? What are the degrees to which you can miss out on life? Do you miss out on life by being born in the wrong place or in the wrong body? What exactly is life and what is it meant to be? Please share your thoughts. I may update the thread as I find more musings on this topic?

This is the best approach. Act like you believe what they say. Say Thank you Jesus. Or whatever their religion is. Say things that they want to hear. This requires a lot of development from you of course. But this works so well because the blue mind doesn't think too deeply. Just say whatever their religion is the best religion and keep peace. This is best short term approach. The long term approach is to slowly work to move out.

Do you think the *primary* reason for instability in the middle East is US and their invasions, toppling of democratically elected governments, bombings etc? --- I used to support Israel in the beginning. You can't use hamas bombings as an excuse to bomb even more people including children. I mean, you can't keep on bombing them indefinitely. The Backlash against Israel has nothing to do with Anti Semitism. It's not so hard to see who did more bombings. Just don't bomb people. Okay.

So True. I was so scared out of my ass to play chess, but once I started winning even moderate number of times, it has become an addiction instead of fearing it.

Think about this if you want to complicate this a little more. Is it possible that you missed out on life, which thinking that you lived life to the fullest? What if you think if you missed out on life, while in reality you did not miss out. The whole concept of missing out is a bunch of bullshit. I say you lived a pretty good life if you did not go out of your way to create bullshit for yourself. Life is a journey of exploration. You only learn more and more. Missing out is a negative or scarcity-based concept overall. Even if you wasted your whole life, it is probably not worth it to think that you have missed out on life.

That definitely true that animals with primitive emotions doesn't experience this at all. The notion of missing out is a pretty loaded one with lots of linguistic baggage behind it.

In the Israel-Gaza war thread, someone mentioned that it is absurd to expect to have peace when you cannot even have peace on this forum. That is pretty deep if you think about it. When the most conscious individuals of a society cannot come together to have peace, on a random online forum, then that really tells you about the less developed state of the world. Conflict will always exist within humanity. I do not think it is going to transcend conflict as a whole. Conflict on the outside is always the reflection of the conflict on the inside. If you are conflicted within yourself you are going to seek conflict in the outer world, unconsciously. People are in conflict with themselves because of their rotten psychology. They are too immature, developmentally. As long as you operate in the domain of concepts and language, there will always be conflicts within you. That is just a function of language and constructs in general which needs conflicts and dualities to make sense. Only proper emotional mastery can get you out of the mind-numbing conflict that you experience.

AI can aid you in helping with understanding. But is there any state of mind you could be in where you can make use of AI, even better and faster. Even if everyone has access to AI chatbots, not all of them are going to understand everything is it not?

Let's take something definite like chess or cycling or trees. How do you approach that thing to understand it more and more. Is they are formula for increasing your understanding? How do you systematically increase your understanding of something extremely complicated like chess? One way is to jump into the it and experience it to the maximum and make sense of it as you go. But what should be the balance on contemplating and action/experience?

IQ of >=130 (which is mostly genetics) and work your ass off.

Existentially speaking, you cannot miss out on life since life is infinity, and you are exploring all possibilities in life. It is impossible to miss out on life. But as far as an individual ego is concerned, it can miss out on life on factors that are outside of its control. Maybe being born with shitty genetics or being born in a war-torn part of the world with poor opportunities or severely traumatic childhoods. I am just asking in general. Is it possible to miss out on life, either way? But it is not that simple, isn't it? How do you figure out what you really want to do? There are many things that you think you want to do has pretty bad consequences in your life. Those kids who play video games and being reddit mods online could be well wasting their precious teenage and 20s. But they have a difficulty in figuring out what exactly what they really want. They are deluded. So essentially, it is just about not caring. If you think you are missing out on life, you are and if you do not, you are not.

> Living in maximum engagement with reality is somewhat stressful and joyful. It is half joy and half stress that comes from engagement with reality and some amount of suffering. > Not engaging with reality would relieve you of some suffering but reality will eventually demand more engagement from you. Does stress and suffering mean that you are missing out on life? What does engagement with reality even gets you? And is it worth suffering for?

Let's go deeper. Many people do all this and never make any progress at all. Why? Being stuck in a rating range is surprisingly common in chess. They play chess their whole lives and be stuck under 1700 or some under 2100. What could be the reason? They do above and beyond all that you have mentioned. All these are good points. 1. Progress. 2. frequent feedback 3. doubling down on weak points Making even more finer distinctions within a domain. At one point the distinction becomes so smooth that it becomes impossible to find proper words in the English language. Then you have to make up your own web of constructs and personal labels or assign feelings for such distinctions. You might simply feel that you are in the "right" grip by feeling it. The definition of understanding is a declarative or implicit one. The problem is to quantify and somehow understand understanding itself. But understanding itself is not vague. Some people understand reality or a finite aspect better than other people. It is a simple fact. I was wondering what exactly is what differentiates them. Genetic ability plays into this but there is more to that.

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To improve understanding fast: Full immersion in the thing that you are trying to gain experience in. Position yourself so that you can get more experience of that thing. Fear is falsehood and antithetical to Truth, experience and understanding. Fear is an immersion inhibitor. Label and compress things that you already know. Having a label means fast retrieval. You need to have a good memory. Sensitivity and compassion help you to immerse in something faster. Zoom into the thing and make finer distinctions of what you are learning more of. Also, it is better to be in touch with improving something for an extended period of time, if you want to improve at it. Have the right Expectations. This is cruical.

Deep point. It is a grave mistake to jump into theory first when you are learning something new. Agreed. Labelling things immensely affects the speed at which you are able to retrieve information. Full immersion in something is such as amazing concept. Due to suppressed fear, I have observed that I am unable to fully immerse my self in something. That could add up to something. There has to be.

I do not want to quantify or measure the understanding for the sake of comparison. But if you believe that understanding can be improved, then there are people with lower level of understanding of life in general or some niche aspect of life. And there are people who understand reality better than others. Magnus definitely had a better understanding of chess than Fischer for various reasons. The question is why do Magnus has a better understanding of chess? If you are saying ability, then there are certainly many people with the same level of ability compared to Magnus in this world. There has to be some meta level technique that magnus had used, on top of his exceptional genetics which had led to his higher understanding of chess. It could be that: He had less fear that others. He had more experience in chess than others. Others could not immerse in chess as much as Magnus. Messi with respect to football is another example. How come the understanding of Messi is so higher than others? What technique did he use? ----------------------------------------------------- Again, it cannot be entirely genetics. There are many people with exceptional genetics in this world. But some men are able to dominate others so ruthlessly. How come some people possess God level understanding of something. They were closer to the Truth in some way. What is that?

? There are infinite number of rooms in the hotel. Can every room be occupied? ?

Gender is the sex of class of organisms, it's a social construction as much as sex is. Male and female refers to the sex of all animals. Man and woman is the male and female sex of humans. Cows and bulls are male and female sex of cattle. There is not that much of a difference between sex and gender. It refers to the same thing. Even I used to believe that sex and gender was fundamentally different. That's the lie purported by the gender ideology folks. Sex and biology is a social construct as much as gender is. Thet don't understand the nature of constructions.

There are a lot of lies surrounding this conflict which is what makes it complicated.