Nilsi

I like it. Sounds exactly like what I'd imagine your favorite album to sound

Everyone will fall into this trap at some point in their journey. Good on you, for recognizing it so early. I would challenge the idea that you have to "evolve yourself towards Godhood" though. What are you really saying? Is that not just a different way of saying "you have to slowly get rid of the ego." This is why I like Nietzsche so much, because he will tell you it's all about affirming life, as it is; coming face to face with the eternal tragedy of life and saying yes to it nonetheless; that the true nature of infinity is finitude; that the one is the many... You seem very sincere. I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for sooner or later, if you keep going like that.

Work?

Are you familiar with Transactional analysis. I'm currently doing a sales bootcamp and the guy taught me this model - and its such a fucking game changer! This guy has absolutely mastered this tool and is playing people like a fiddle, it's such a pleasure to watch. This is the guy. Absolute madman.

I had no choice - we stayed at a giant campsite in Italy, with loads of students from all over Europe. Naturally, I wanted to make a good impression on the ladies, so I had to get rid of that motherfucker and patch it up. I ended up not scoring any chick that night and got so drunk, I was running around butt naked, throwing up all over our bungalow. The next day we went to the Vatican and my hungover ass had to look at Michelangelo paintings for 3 hours, whilst having to use up all my energy to hold back from puking in the Sistine Chapel. So, yeah, I still cherish that scar.

Sales! Just go to some shitty call center selling some shitty product no one wants and ask to work on commission only - nothing in the universe will sort you out faster than this.

Great, thanks!

Also, finding out about the law of attraction and using it to buy some weed is the biggest lol ever

Of course it works. This comes down to a discussion of values, because whatever your organism values, it pursues (which is why you need to meet your base desires for this to be really potent and why Napoleon Hill explicitly wrote a chapter on sexual transmutation in the seminal work on the law of attraction „Think and Grow Rich“). When you have a concrete vision of what you want to achieve i.e. what it is you „value,“ your organism will unconsciously organize it‘s behavior in such a way as to optimize for the fulfillment of that particular desire. This is the non-woo-woo explanation of this. Of course everything being a dream, it’s not hard to see why meditating on a certain vision will likely cause the dream to unfold correspondingly.

Good! Although I prefer taking a hammer and putting that sucker down in one felt swoop.

They are living in a moral (and legal) framework that is still pretty much based upon a monotheistic God; the intrinsic sin and inappropriateness of anything lesser than this God; and the Hegelian redemption arc, of becoming increasingly aware of this injustice and sin and internalizing all of it (until you eventually reach some absolute unity and perfection). You might think we live in an age predominantly influenced by secularism and pluralism, but that’s a way more shallow level of programming than the 2000 years of Christianity that have shaped the entire substrate of society, on which all this modern liberalism has been built.

Working in sales, I’ve realized that all this stuff basically boils down to making other people feel comfortable — so my question to you is, how do you make others feel comfortable, while still maintaining enough emotional distance yourself to effectively steer the interaction towards a particular outcome?

You might appreciate this.

Of course you will realize „the truth of non-duality“ more easily in a social system that was designed to do just that. But who says you should value „the truth of non-duality“ over say „the truth of plurality?“ The only reason you value „the truth of non-duality,“ is because you’re already living it to some extend. And the only reason you’re living it, is because you grew up in a social system that has been profoundly shaped by Christian and Hegelian ideals. So there is nothing truly „universal“ about this kind of spirituality, other than the fact that we live in an age that has been shaped by certain corresponding idea(l)s. I would argue that true spirituality doesn’t start before you do not break out of this conditioning and evaluate everything from scratch (as do the high points of postmodernism).

Interesting. I’ll just do the cycling thingy. Thanks a lot. I also love Kefir and consume it daily. Does that have to go as well?

What do you think about Schmachtenberger‘s new “Qualia Synbiotic“ product? I don’t have any underlying condition, but I heard many places that probiotics and fermented foods are great for gut brain health. Would you recommend taking this stuff preemptively?

This guy is such a hilariously bad actor.

His most famous work is literally called „difference and repetition,“ so duhhhh. To me Deleuze is the ultimate formulation of postmodern metaphysics - ABSOLUTE PLURALITY. I don’t even know what Spinoza is about, I’ll be honest.

Talk to the people here. If you have some creative outlet, in which you can express these struggles more implicitly, that would be absolutely fantastic. Apart from that: suck it up and be proud of keeping your spirits high and moving forward despite the ENORMOUS responsibility that you are burdened with.

Even that is just a perspective. Check out Gilles Deleuze, he will show you a reality that is fundamentally constituted of different essences. Absolute Plurality.

Most likely outcome from how you talk is you’ll eventually tell this to the wrong person and end up in a psych ward — and no one will ever see who was „right.“ Don‘t bother other people with this, the odds someone you know will understand what you’re going through is virtually nonexistent. This will only create more problems for you.

I just googled what a Bugatti lease costs per month and it’s 56.000€ pahahaha The point still stands though.

If I were to drive with a taxi to work (6km per drive) and back, I would pay 50€ a day (I’ve tested this). That‘s > 1000€ a month (excluding all the other occasions on which I might need a ride). I could lease a Porsche for that price. Now imagine someone living in the suburbs, having to drive 10/20/50km to work. They might as well buy a Bugatti.