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"Before Enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water".
What
Solipsism is correct.
Not to be afraid of taking the road less traveled by. It is not going to be easy, but needs to be done.
News == entertainment. Originally by Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews Although I have slightly different takes from his and the level of avoiding the news might be different too, but the core idea that I follow these days is there. I used to think following the news was a mix of my duty as a citizen and important for my life, personal and professional. Now I believe it's quite the opposite, I be…
Nothing (or nearly nothing) is black and white. It's shades of gray. Understand where _this thing_ is at on the spectrum.
IDK dude, some things seem black and white. The Holocaust, for example.
Still, doesn't seem worth it. I say, using a computer, my entirely lively hood being based on computers.
Solipsism is correct.
God's not real. We're just apes whose ancestors caught a lucky break when an asteroid flattened the dinosaurs 60 million years ago. We shouldn't even be here.
That said I've come around to the usefulness of deification of ideals and the idea that not every moment should be lived in object-space, but also in drama-space.