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Post #45: Intellect The intellect is a tool which can be used to get you closer to or further away from truth.
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Post #44: Seriousness You’re not going to stumble your way to freedom. This works requires a sense of seriousness. Now, when you’re finished you can fool around as much as you want, but don’t get ahead of yourself.
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Post #43: Happening It's happening, it's really happening.
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Post #42: Express yourself You’re an artist, express your unique experience.
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Post #41: Rubber meets the road I feel like I have now have a solid understanding of how to live the good life. The following period of my life will be dedicated to practicing my philosophy.
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Post #39: Figuring it out Advice to my younger (and present) self: It’s okay that you don’t have it all figured out, pretty much no one around you has (especially at your age group) even though they act like they do Just another one of our collective illusions. PS: Having it figuret out isn't about having a big fancy house
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Post #38: Behind mental bars I’m imprisoned by and within my own mind. I’m not going to escape by accident. It wasn’t designed to be easy.
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Post #37: Mind The mind is on my mind.
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“Be open-minded, but not so much so that your brains fall out.” - Groucho Marx
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Post #36: Predicament The more I learn, the more i realize the depth of my predicament. I'm tempted to pity myself, but I try to have compassion instead. It seems that compassion, in large part, is having a non-judgemental understanding of the depth of someone's predicament.
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Post# 35: Think again If you think you understand the mind, you don't understand the mind. If you think you've outsmarted the mind, the mind has outsmarted you.
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Post #34: Buckle up I may have come a long way, but I still have a long way to go...
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Post #33: Social circle I want to find people in real life who are sincerely interested in understanding the mind. I have a hard time seeing myself spending significant amount of time with anyone without this commitment. For me this is a prerequisite for for close friendship and romantic relationship, which explains why I spend so much time alone. As to where I will find such people remains an open question, for now... "I'm not anti-social, I'm anti-stupid" "It is better to be alone than in bad company" - George Washington "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with" - Jim Rohn
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Post #32: Forum I'm going to rethink my relationship to and expectations from this forum
