gym/being active

No kizzy

I try to live my life as if karma is real, but I see so many examples of karma not leveling out in this life that it can be difficult to believe in it sometimes.

I think karma can be impactful when people have a capacity for regret. Say a person really f***s someone over or makes a series of bad mistakes and they can't let it go. That can turn curdle into self-hatred and influence some incredibly destructive thought patterns.

Semen retention

Accomplish something for the day no matter how small

the easiest way to find happiness isn't to find more s*** that makes you happy, but instead to cut out the s*** that doesn't make you happy

Doing something physically exhausting you get an endorphin rush and you feel pretty good after. That’s why I workout everyday. It keeps me grounded.

merely a convenient lie you tell yourself for precisely the reason you described

make time for your passions

Yeah bc when I die my soul goes to heaven foh

Tre flip switch flip nosemanny nollie flip back tail nollie crook bs bigspin

Understand that happiness is fleeting and learn to be content.

no tricks just set goals and take it one day at a time

what the hell are you talking about?

What do you mean "a lie"?

What was I lying about in my first post?

Be you

for me personally

im grateful for what i have cause a lot of people be waking up to bombs and s*** and don't know when their next meal is, etc

its the little s*** that adds up to the greater picture

i cherish the moments that may seem small but actually make me happy (being with friends, family, creative outlets, gym, etc)

when im trippin bout something or tryna make a tough decision or something goes wrong i tell myself "this s*** not gone matter in 200 years" and that usually helps lol

Lmao he was really like

you say "life" is meaningless. on what basis?

then, you say "life is meaningless" implies "the pressure of daily struggle is off". how does that follow?

it seems to me that viewing your existence as this ephemeral, undirected thing imposes MORE pressure on you to optimize your time. hence the endless demand for individuals to "live every day like its your last", "create your own meaning", "exist in the now", etc. etc.

i'd imagine that, to a person staring down an eternity of oblivion, the fragile few decades of your existence are invaluable- they're quite literally all you have.

post on ktt2

What do you not understand from my original comment stop trying to be fancy in here

Life is meaningless bc it literally has no purpose. You show up here bc two animals f***ed and around 90 years later you die. Billions of people before you. Billions after.

And realizing that death is the ultimate freedom makes it easier to live day to day bc whenever you catch yourself stressing over something as simple as making a fool of yourself during a public presentation you step outside, look at the sky and realize "I'm stressed bc I've put this pressure on myself but life is just what it is and when I die none of this will matter anyway"

It gives you a positive push to purse what you think you need like kissing that girl you have a crush on bc you won't fear embarrassment.
But if you have the right understanding of this idea (which I don't think you do) it is not CREATING any pressure. Bc the point is... there's no such thing as living life to the fullest. In just 500 years we will all be dead with nothing left of us. So why stress? Why be sad?

and you're the same poster who just made the free will thread? might want to add some originality to your beliefs my friend.

and on second thought, I think the question of meaning as it relates to pressure is pretty subjective. I can respect that you feel differently, and don't think it's worth arguing about.

anyways, I could meander around asking questions, but it really comes down to the following controversy. you implicitly assume (just like in the other thread) a physicalist metaphysics in which the self is an emergent property of a particular pattern of subatomic particles, doomed to obey physical law until it dissolves into an entropic goo. that sort of thing.

in reality, a far more robust metaphysics is one that takes consciousness (the phenomenal kind, not the uniquely human kind) as the fundamental "stuff" that makes up reality, and views sentient life as a dissociation of that universal phenomenality. this would not deny any scientific findings, but solves intractable problems of philosophy while having significant implications for the so-called "meaning of life".

now, you don't have to agree with that view (even though you should because it's an improvement.. ), but the fact that you rely on so many tenuous and unproven assumptions to make hand-wavy claims about the universe is a problem.