Basman

To add on my previous comment, sensory awareness can't tell you why something happened, only that it happened in your direct consciousness. You can't understand the world by relying purely on senses, which is why reasoning among other things are so valuable to humanity. Senses are limited. We can't see all colors that possibly exist for example. To us, those colors might as well not be real but that doesn't mean that they aren't there. Its just that our ability to observe reality is limited relative to its totality.

Phenomena isn't limited to your senses or direct awareness in my opinion.

I've read that about 40% of men have reproduced throughout human history compared to 90% of women. The numbers might not be accurate but I think it is likely that more women have added to the human gene pool overall than men. That is just the asymmetry between men and women. Men have to work a lot harder for sex in most cases. That said, we probably live in one of the most abundant times of our life. If you want heaps of sex, I can't think of better period in human history. You just got to prioritize it, which most guys probably don't really do.

This is a great article about nofap and how it actually hurts people to believe in nofap and porn and masturbation as being bad. Worth reading. It also provides an alternative to how to deal with porn and masturbation instead of strict abstinence. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/07/nofap-masturbation-reddit-forum-suicide.html

The distress you feel over your "lust" seems to be due to how you perceive it rather than it actually negatively effecting your life. You probably running on an ideology that is antithetical to human nature. See, your an animal. You are literally bred to be horny and want sex. Its how humans have survived for thousands of years. "Lust" is part of who you are. In my experience with nofap, it just adds more stress to your life as you fret over something that doesn't really matter.

Ok. Thanks.

What underlying attitude do you need exactly?

I think you misunderstood me here. I was implying that it was normal to not always be in a positive mood and that its unhealthy to expect otherwise. I agree this whole topic has to do with expectations.

I believe that there is a degree of utilitarianism in our culture, especially in the self-help sphere, I.E. maximizing pleasure, minimizing pain. We have this pervasive attitude of focusing on the things we want for ourselves (success, bliss, etc.), which is necessarily the case for a niche that is about improving/changing ones circumstances. It is human nature to want good things and avoid pain. Expecting yourself to constantly feel good is unrealistic and your going to feel bad at times. That is normal and there is nothing inherently wrong with negative emotions. In my experience, mindfully experiencing the emotions depersonalizes them to a certain degree and makes it such that you take an experience less personally, if that makes sense. In my opinion, however, the general mood of your life should be positive or at least neutral as opposed to in pain.

My understanding is there is a general agreement that the future job market will be increasingly smaller and more fluid with time due to automation. There will be an increasing demand on people to adapt and be creative to meet demand. Our current economic system is dependent on people buying stuff with the money earned from work but if no one has work then no one has the money to buy stuff. Eventually this system will no longer be sufficient as is without adapting. The aftermath of that might be very positive, a kind of post-scarcity society for example but it is hard to predict the what exactly. The process to get there however, within our life times, will probably be awkward and wrought with difficulty. It probably has to get worse before it gets better in my opinion. When it is no longer possible to ignore the problem of a stagnating economy is when we'll we'll try something else. Humans are bad at proactively finding solutions to systemic problem in my opinion and only change when they can no longer ignore the pain so to speak. It has to become a little bit too late before you'll see change, which is the idea behind accelerationism more or less (plus increasing the intensity of the problem to make it happen faster). The silver lining though is that when job security is zilch in our future job market with automation then there is no longer an incentive to pick job security over passion, especially if the only way to have "job security" is by being world class at a niche (which is when passion becomes essential). I've heard talk of perhaps temporarily halting AI development to give society time to adjust to the changes at one point but I don't know how wise that would be. It would also probably be difficult to pull of with competing interests.

Seems like meat vs vegan diets sparks so much debate because of people different world views that inform their diets in the first place. Its not crazy to think that different diets work for different people. Vegans in particular need to chill out. Its pretty clear that humans are omnivores and benefit from a variety of different foods, both animal and plant based. It is just that the path of least resistance for many people is a relatively unhealthy diet of processed foods.

Why is exactly is a carnivore diet seemingly so good for people with health issues? Is it because it is easier to digest?

You don't know that. Your fear mongering. I like this immune system analogy though not sure how true it is in the real world.

Satanic rituals don't guarantee success. Just do both. See what happens. Even if you have a girlfriend you can still grow socially, you will just have to switch targets from dating to friendship or something like that.

I feel like these two assassination attempts are unique to Trump due to his inflammatory rhetoric. I don't see it becoming the norm across the board for politics.

Not to be pedantic but an attempted assassination is not the same as being assassinated. If trump was successfully assassinated it would be huge news. But yeah, I think people would eventually get used to assassinations if it became the norm, like with school shootings.

Had crazy experience when reading this book on the train once. For a brief moment, parts of the text seemingly pooped out making the shape of a fetus. Probably just early, I don't know.

Got fucked by a flesh eating virus one day and today I'm missing bits of my calf muscle, hamstring area and glutes (on my left leg). The back of my knee is hollow. I can walk and function fine but my left leg is obviously significantly weaker than my non-mutilated leg. As a result, I tend to experience a lot of tightness and fatigue in that leg that I don't experience with my healthy right leg. Any advice for dealing with this health wise? Workouts? stretching? massage? I don't know. Right now I'm healthy and young but I'm worried that when I get older that my weak leg will suffer from knee issues. Whenever I put weight on my weak leg in a squat position for instance, I can feel the muscle right above my knee compressing down on it in a way that feels uncomfortable. It doesn't feel right. If I walk or cycle a lot in a period I can feel my weak leg becoming tense and uncomfortable and it becomes painful to run. Thank god that I don't have a physical life purpose or that I'm a woman.

I don't think prostitution is inherently unethical assuming it is wholly consensual and safe. The government shouldn't stipulate how legal adults have sex between each other within the realm of consent and that extends to prostitution in my opinion. I do think prostitution is degrading however. You are selling something that is to many very intimate and personal, although I also think that can be subjective and that the degradation can be a feature in certain ways. However, I can see prostitution being unethical in the context of poverty when there is a lack of choice as being a prostitute is degrading and exposes you to risks of violence and coercion among other unlike regular jobs. There's a social cost to being a sex worker and when there is a lack of freedom to choose between prostitution and a regular decently paying job due to poverty, prostitution as a job is less than perfectly ethical (because of the risks and social costs). I guess you could argue how much of that degradation is cultural but prostitutes are either way apparently more exposed to violence, harassment and have unequal access to education opportunities, among various things (According to this survey: https://prostitutionresearch.com/quick-facts/). I believe that sex-work can have consequences for your life unlike regular jobs and it is therefor important to ensure that it at least happens ethically (wholly within the realm of consent with the agency to choose a different career independently from poverty). It is a high bar admittedly. I think the challenge of unethical prostitution is worth tackling but simply banning sex-work as a whole doesn't work. It just goes underground and results in sex workers then having no official channel for protection and recourse. And I don't believe many people in power are strangers to prostitution themselves when all is said and done.

Take my opinion with a grain of salt as I'm only in the first semester of a philosophy degree, but I don't think you need to go to university to learn philosophy. Uni teaches you western academic philosophy specifically, which is a particular style of philosophy. If you want to do philosophy, you don't have to adopt the academic style unless you want to work within academia. You'll probably find the material insightful but it is not strictly speaking necessary. None of our textbooks are unique to uni and can be bought regularly.

It is really just a minority that are these loud extremists that won't give an inch in a debate. It is in part a consequence of social media optimizing for emotionally engaging content. Because the environment has become so dominated by a minority of extremist opinions that no one wants to voice their own opinions that are outside of certain ideological camps. Nobody wants to deal with crazy. The current media environment is unsafe for open discussion in certain contexts.

I'm sorry if I came off as disrespectful. That was not my intent. But your opening statement was itself inflammatory in my opinion and comes of as condescending, generalizing and presumptive ("why men have this toxic attitude?") without really building your case. It is not a mistake that people disagree strongly with you.

Very first thing you should do is destroy your rope and note and any other suicide tools you have. Suicide is usually done on impulse, so get rid of the means first.

I'm starting see a pattern of people thinking that sex and feelings are separate. That you can love somebody and bang someone else without it destroying the relationship, but being a part of it. The idea that sex and feelings are separate is wrong because it doesn't consider other peoples boundaries and feelings. It doesn't matter what you think but what they think when it comes to boundaries, at least if you aim to be a mature and loving partner.

If sex is just about pleasure and context for when you have sex doesn't matter, then why is rape wrong? It is just sex, no? It feels good, no? We not only criminalize rape but are disgusted by it and demonize rapists as a society. Sex is a deeply personal thing to us, wrought with boundaries that cannot simple be transgressed willy-nilly. Also, what evidence is there that men are more jealous over their love interests?