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Cake day: July 10th, 2023






  • Giving up isn’t so bad, but for myself I limit how much social media and news I consume and do my best to plan life ahead for any upcoming tragedies when I do get my periodic doses.

    Not much we can do about the truly terrible things happening, but we can make existence a little less shitty around ourselves.

    You and I are not the center of the universe, it’s okay to just exist.



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    Watch my life and when I want it generate a new movie with a change in trajectory. Basically “the what if machine” from futurama

    Won $10,000,000 tomorrow An alien stopped by The basics!







  • Not everyone does, I’ve had a lot of conversations with a lot of people on this topic.

    People’s thought processes range from monologue to dialog to narration to silence to images to raw concepts without form.

    I personally do not have a constantly running monologue, but rather have relatively short bursts of thought interspersed with long periods of silence.



  • Investors, and not just mega corporations, local investors are a major issue.

    We have collectively come to understand the idea that you can get free money by buying houses and renting them out. If you talk to any lay person and ask them how they’d spend a million dollars the most common answer seems to be “buy property”

    Our issue is in our collective minds, but the inertia of the idea means it will probably never be fixed unless there’s a catastrophe


  • Same, what a challenging but worthwhile journey.

    Growing up in the clutches of devout religious thinking had such a profoundly negative impact on my mental health and view of the world in general that relinquishing it was one of the most refreshing and revitalizing experiences of my life.

    Religion teaches you that this life is only important as a stepping stone to eternity, that leads to some incredibly short sighted and unhealthy living. Accepting that this life is actually important for its own sake instead of as some sort of twisted game from some random deity helped me begin to make choices that objectively did more for humanity and myself.

    Religion teaches you that evidence and logic are not routes to “truth” but feelings, faith, and obedience are. Untangling that mess was tough, as a result for decades now every single thought and belief has been in question. The pain of being so wrong but so convinced I was right has led to a bit of an issue allowing myself to believe anything

    Religion is one of the largest stains on our species. I don’t blame religious people, they’re victims, but by george do I hate that we have perpetuated such tragic belief systems.