Giving value is a cheat code You can be morally a scum But if you give enough value — people will bear with you People will IDEALISE you They will overlook your flaws You will still be a scum. A single good deed, or 1000 good deeds, don’t wash out a bad one, not …
Category: Lifestyle
Modes of Having
PAINFUL NOT-HAVING < HAVING = NOT NEEDING (not not-having, not needing) < NOT NEEDING and NOT HAVING and LOVING < NOT NEEDING and HAVING and LOVING PAINFUL NOT-HAVING When you NEED something and don’t have it — it is painful. If you truly need it — then it’s literally painful. It makes your life …
LOVE Saying “I WAS WRONG”
What if you were paid for each time you found you were wrong? e.g. $1000 for finding something you were wrong about. another $1000 for finding something else you were wrong about. imagine you fell in love with saying “I WAS WRONG” Can you imagine this making your life better? Your model of reality …
Winning The Game of Life-Living
There’s life living There’s being human There are different dimensions to being human, different dimensions to life living, different dimensions to existing I believe potential is to be realized And I do believe it is innate to attempt to realize that potential I believe we are born with an innate desire to live, to …
True Growth vs False Enhancement vs Cynicism
You’re ugly and imperfect and ordinary There exist better being than you Their mere existence threatens you. Don’t deny it because it’s not a subject for a dispute. If they join your environment — they join ABOVE YOU in the hierarchy — therefore you get demoted in the hierarchy. Therefore you lose (that collectively we …
Strawman Yourself
You can straw-man yourself Straw man fallacy is giving an impression of refuting an argument — rather than actually addressing it. Straw man fallacy is an excellent way of deceiving others or oneself It’s because we often confuse the thing with it’s appearance Furthermore few things in this world are clear and plain …
Weakness Transcends the Weak and Corrupts the Whole
The moment we permit weakness — in ourselves OR others — we open the gate for degeneration and withering “Oh but isn’t weakness human?”, you might ask Weakness isn’t human To fail is human, yes To stay weak isn’t human To stay weak is to die To live is human To die is to …
Your Own Growth is a Burden
I wrote that attachment alone is holding you back I wrote that bad luck is great Those two together result in: You become attached to your great fortunes and advantages — and then you fear losing them — and then those are holding you back It really is so that things you own end …
It Really Is ONLY What You DO
It’s really what you do, not what you have, not what you are… You have infinitely many possibilities. INFINITELY MANY The problem is not with not having options, not having possibilities, not having opportunities, not having this, not having that… The problem is with WILLING The problem is with CHOOSING The problem is with …
No Virtue In a Vacuum
There’s the “negative” It affects you. It affects you, more or less, In a sense something is only “negative” IF it affects you, and only as negative as much it affects you E.g. there’s something horrible happening out there somewhere in the world — but it doesn’t affect you, you’re not aware of it, …