Nilsi

Better yet, set up your own private parking company. These types of companies are the most genius. 99% of people are too busy to sue you for a 70$ fine anyways and those who do, you just offer to drop the fine. Many will just not pay and you can not really do anything about that, because you know your business is shady — so, you just set up a debt collection business and scare people into paying. Even if there is some social justice warrior that takes you all the way to court (that is, if you actually do something legitimately criminal, which odds are you aren’t), you as a person will walk away from this undamaged, your company will pay a fine and worst case you can just trash the company and create another one. I know people that have become multimillionaires doing something similiar to this. Just a quick lesson in political realism, dont be mad.

The only long term solution is to make enough money to not have to freak out over some stupid parking ticket.

Nietzsche and Hegel (not because I‘m particularly keen on Hegel, but his ideas still deeply permeate all philosophical discourse and you can not really get around him). I could pick their brains for days on end. It would also be super interesting to ask for their take on contemporary philosophical problems (gender, existential risk, AI, etc.). Hitler would also be very intriguing, but I suspect he would be mostly hot air, without much substance.

Reality is INFINITE, so even though this perspective is perfectly legitimate and intrinsically consistent, it is still merely a perspective. This is the same trap Schopenhauer got stuck in and was eventually overcome by Nietzsche and later lucidly communicated by Deleuze in his classic „Nietzsche and Philosophy“ (in case you want to consult someone who „gets it“).

Ughh, same. We once went on a class trip to rome and these suckers fucked up my ankle so bad, that I had to cut away the ping-pong-ball-sized lump with a knife to even fit in my shoes.

This seems to be the crux of it. You‘re clearly acting out some classic eastern spiritual mumbo jumbo („action and desire is the root of suffering,“ „life is an illusion and participating in it is evil,“ etc.) - you even mentioned JK as your „guru“… So basically you‘re projecting your shadow into Leo and picking a fight with him, now that he’s at a low point, because deep down it bothers you that other people, who are not as „virtuous“ as you, are more successful and happy. Just drop your caveman philosophy and all will be good.

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Classic. Their new stuff is pretty good as well.

I look silly in coats. You have to be very tall and massive to pull this off (e.g. Tristan Tate). I tend to stick to the "law of thirds" - even when it comes to jackets and stuff, I dont like anything below hip length.

Because society doesnt pressure you into being successful — by most peoples standards you are „successful,“ if you have a shitty 9 to 5 job, an ugly girlfriend with no personality, equally ugly and uninteresting kids and a shitty house that comes with a lifelong debt. Now granted, you could do even worse, but being a soulless spineless cuck is bad enough. True success is very rare and requires HUGE effort over years and decades. Dont worry about having „wasted time“ - just focus on creating a positive vision for your life and doing something that gets you closer to that everyday.

It's not about what you think. You are either a winner or a loser and by default everyone is a loser. Now the question is, are you OK wasting your life, or do you want to make something out of yourself?

If anything, I would take Nietzsche as a proxy for stage CORAL: post-metaphysical spirituality, return to the body, new POWERGODS (TIER 2 is supposed to mimic TIER 1, so YELLOW = BEIGE, TURQUOISE = PURPLE, CORAL = RED). This (like TURQOISE) is such a vague concept that you can project virtually anything into it.

Are you OK with never experiencing life as a winner?

I recently bought this Armani „micro-perforated lambskin nappa leather“ jacket and I LOVE it. I started wearing the same outfit to work everyday à la Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.: Black Margiela Sneakers, black Dolce & Gabbana suit pants, black Sunspell t-shirt (the one James Bond wore in Casino Royale) and said jacket. I look and feel like a spy (a massively hot one)

Oof, I was wearing the exact same stuff back when I was living in the Alps. Patagonia Fleece, Levi’s Jeans, New Balance Runners.

Tate did it, Jay-Z did it, Goggins did it. Listen to them.

I have never been in any social milieu where there wasn't at least 1 person interested in deep existential conversation - whether it be school, university, work. Just be authentically you and you will find these people. Also, learn to develop and appreciate other modes of interaction. An obvious one is interacting with the opposite sex. There will never be a shortage of attractive girls/guys, you can shoot your shot with and have engaging and meaningful interactions with. As far as academic responsibilities go, interacting with others and working towards a common goal is another skillset you have to learn and master. I don't have much advice, besides just opening yourself up to these experiences and learning to be social, extroverted and rewarding to be around. If other people enjoy your company, you will inevitably enjoy theirs as well.

God can imagine being immortal for some time and then simply forget/imagine something else.

Nuts.

Rob Swire is such a great vocalist, unfortunately I can't warm up to Pendulums aesthetic. He has some amazing performances on Deadmau5's production though.

Do you think there is some synergistic satisfier that would allow you to integrate this mode of being, or are they polymorphic and mutually exclusive?

As far as some people being way more developed than others - that much should be obvious. When I look at myself, it’s not environmental pressures that allow me to develop faster and further than is usual, but my capacity for abstraction and imagination. It‘s almost as with AI, in that the development exponentiates itself, the further it goes. So what these „meta-models“ are meassuring is basically the capacity to develop/evolve? - the more developed you are, the easier it is to develop in all other areas and to develop further evolvability? And the ultimate development is purely formless consciousness that can take any form whatsoever?

They probably do. So these models somehow meassure a „meta-complexity,“ within which the development of different „lines“ can vary greatly. If that‘s true, it basically means that an „intellectual“ is necessarily more developed than a hunter or a dancer or a salesman - because the intellectual engages in „higher“ faculties (dialectic, multiple paradigms, etc.). I guess that‘s fair, but it‘s probably what Nora Bateson was criticizing.