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Well you are lost because you are associating yourself with the environment and circumstances. You are basically a pilot of a mecha. Thoughts are basically your ai remembering things with a lot of hallucinations. We are sent down to this planet to explore and mine for resources. Just focus on exploring, and the data that you collect will automatically be synced up to the super intelligence. That is your core job. You…
You could make a whole religion out of this idea.
I was a bit older, around 40 in my case. It was late 1980s, I had a house with a huge mortgage, and had a huge overdraft at the bank. In today's terms, I had something like debts of half a million or even more. And getting deeper and deeper into the red with every week that passed.
So I made the decision that I would sell our house, pay off as much of the debts as possible, and start again. Renting instead of owning a house. That was too much for my first wife. She couldn't stand the drop in prestige. Mind you, she hadn't felt like helping out by getting a job to make our task easier along the way.
Within 12 months, I was living a lot better with no money worries and with another partner who is now my second wife and we have been happy together for 35 years. We invested in rental properties and now own debt-free six houses including our own 3-bedroom top-storey apartment.
I was at a party, a lot of drinking was going on, and my best friend told me he had become a christian. I was shocked and angry, like I was about to lose my best friend. As I was bunkering down for the night on someone's sofa I found myself saying, "Jesus, if you are out there, will you come into my life?" My friend and I started going to church and have been now for 35 years. Neither of us cane from families who did…
The community-building/maintaining aspect of religion is actually appealing to me, as a non-believer. It has the potential to be very pro-social (when it realizes that you have to attract people now, not via religious fiat) at a time when everything else is just a trainwreck, societally-speaking
I just kept going, did what I needed to do, stopped doing unnecessary shit and hit the pavement running. I never had enough self consciousness to not believe in myself. It took a while. Day to day I worked as hard as I could then stopped after work hours and did little on the weekends (though I don't know how that would work these days, I was cold calling people). I ate as cheap and healthy as I could and exercised a…
To the OP: Love for a woman sorted me out fairly quickly in my mid 20'.
I just kept going, did what I needed to do, stopped doing unnecessary shit and hit the pavement running. I never had enough self consciousness to not believe in myself. It took a while. Day to day I worked as hard as I could then stopped after work hours and did little on the weekends (though I don't know how that would work these days, I was cold calling people). I ate as cheap and healthy as I could and exercised a…
What do you mean Internet was shit in early 2000'? I lost myself there many nights. To the OP: Love for a woman sorted me out fairly quickly in my mid 20'.
I should have said "MY" internet connection was shit. I thought that was easily implied. I had dial up over a shared phone line. Additionally I convinced myself that there was nothing of entertainment value on the internet so I could get my work done.
The biggest advice I could give is "there are no short cuts" and even if there are it takes way too long to find them. if you want more money work on getting a marketable skill. preferably something you don't mind doing. "life's a marathon not a sprint" so work at getting better at the skill everyday. It's not going to happen overnight but so what. it's not a competition.
> The biggest advice I could give is "there are no short cuts" and even if there are it takes way too long to find them. "In strategy, the longest way around is the shortest way home.” — B.H. Liddell Hart