531–540 of 602 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice! is there some purpose like career advancement or is it simply about pleasure and learning a new culture?
Just found it interesting to be honest. I might move there for a short time just to experience it, but I wouldn't plan to live there for the long term.
For me, a major part of ADHD management consists of forcing myself to do something, multiple times a day. It's work, learning, chores-like tasks, sport, hygiene, regular sleep, cold morning shower, unprocessed food preparation - pretty much everything that isn't immediately pleasurable. I'm "unhappy" multiple times a day when I start doing something that doesn't usually have to be done right away. But it's often a ch…
Same same. I think I'm a highly functional adha person due to my mom being a very responsible person and also I started taking Ritalin 12 years ago. I'm always wandering how it feels for normal people who get there shit done without any meds. I also want to do fire because all those responsibilities and the fighting feels exchausting.
My perspective is that once I took a step back and really looked, I noticed almost nobody is getting ANY shit done, and perhaps that’s OK. I was just holding myself to unreasonable standards of what “shit done” is that I don’t hold other people to and that was the root cause of my exhaustion. Society progressing is really just a series of extremely tiny things with the occasional rare major event pushed up to human population scale, something that one individual can’t compete against without burning out.
I'm not saying there are absolutely no people out there who are actually getting shit done and making it look easy, and somehow never burning out, but they are by far the exception and in no way "normal" people (and in many cases they are ticking time bombs, but the fallout may be well hidden)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a problem with secular psychologists offering help to people in need? People that have gone through horrible circumstances can, and often do, benefit greatly from the moral certainty that religion provides.
Which morality is that? Individuals love to look at individual bits of morality in said books in a choose your own adventure exploration. As much as the moral certainty says be nice to others, it will also contain many bits that are highly questionable and would deeply conflict with others views. In general secular psychologists don't come with the violent historical baggage that religions do.
Who cares? It gets drug addicts clean and criminals reformed.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean from a purely evolutionary perspective, the point of life is to pass on your genes to your offspring, so having kids would be winning at this game we call life…
so life’s greatest winner is genghis khan
wait for the scientist who'll start printing soldier clones of himself
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One constant teaching was that Christianity is not a religion. But about forming a relationship with God through Christ. How can one even begin to attempt that task if one truly doubts that God exists? Also, is believing a God of some sort not exactly what a religion is?
Religion is a set of rules and traditions. Perform 50 hail marries. Light 50 candles. Only eat X on whatever day. A relationship is trying to understand God. What he means. How you can serve him. What kind of life Christ lived. How to live as an example to others. Everyone has doubts. Most of my teachers would talk about times that they struggled. It takes a lot of faith to believe that there is an all powerful God.…
Who revealed themselves directly only before the enlightenment, and thereafter must be experienced only in ones mind, testimony from those long dead, or by the evidence of supposed creation.
For youtube specifically, I found this great snippet for ublock origin. It removes (almost) all recommendations in youtube, which makes it much easier to quit after just one video: www.youtube.com###secondary www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"] #primary www.youtube.com##.ytp-show-tiles.ytp-endscreen-paginate.videowall-endscreen.ytp-player-content.html5-endscreen Source: https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-a…
The firefox/chrome extension Unhook provides these features as well, and gives you fine-grained controls over most of the addictive features on YouTube.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So, if I show up at work and open Hacker News or Tweetdeck, there's a not-so-insignificant chance that I'll find myself distracted one way or another for the rest of the day. However, if I stick to a set schedule, there's a good chance that I have a productive day Do you think this is mediated by your mental state, instead of directly causal? I noticed this for myself: I was recently diagnosed with a CFS-like issue…
> Do you think this is mediated by your mental state, instead of directly causal? It’s causal. I’ve found that my productivity level is relatively constant when I maintain a routine. The quality of my work may change depending on other factors, but I still make meaningful progress. However, if I break my routine by checking social media early on in the day, there’s a good chance that my productivity will subsequently…
Sure of course, I'm quite clear on what was going on in my case, but I was wondering how broad the dynamic might be. Thanks for your thoughts!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
so life’s greatest winner is genghis khan
Do you have an alternative "point of life"? Is it career? If so, that's pretty depressing. Happiness is a superficial emotion. If your loved one was "happy" spending his entire life playing fortnight in his parent's basement, would you be sad for him? Charity? I don't know. Never found a meaning as compelling as having children.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, I used to be an atheist. Like, going to Richard Dawkins on campus, sneering at how stupid Christians were rolling my eyes at every little thing atheist. For a good ten to fifteen years. Then I realized it was terrible for my mental health and just got over myself and adopted more of a Pascal’s Wager outlook. Like, I frankly don’t give a damn about the truth or falsity of religion anymore. That’s not the point…
It seems like you've really loaded up the term "atheist" here with a lot of negative connotation. It's unfortunate, but a lot of people seem to think this way. Truth is, everyone in the world is an atheist if you just take the word at its basic definition of "a lack of belief in a god or god(s)". That is, there are surely gods you've never even heard of and so you lack belief in them. The way you feel about those unk…
The “atheist community” (and it was oddly enough a real thing for awhile, with atheist church and everything! Look up Oasis on YouTube). It attracted people who were hedonistic and amoral and, in retrospect, went down in flames about how you’d have expected.
I’m not just some isolated Christian who has never met an atheist deriding them as some sort of bogeyman, I was friends with people in Poly Quads and met spouses who were bullied by their SO into being swingers, then watched 50 year olds behave like teenagers with all the consummate drama as well.
Once we had kids we totally removed ourselves from that situation and it fell apart a few years later, after the leader (who was originally a Christian pastor, I might add) got #metoo’ed for (surprise surprise) having sex with half the women in the organization.