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Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by afarviral »

lakeshastina wrote: post #60

There are a few ways people take such a message - yes, life is precious, be conscious of what we invest our time in. This part makes sense. Yet, it is worth asking, what makes for a meaning life? What makes the 4000 weeks worth it? For some, they chase wealth, power, career success, get one's name recognized, etc - these are milestones to be achieved. Things to accomplish. Others will say, such accomplishments are no…

Im having a water-shed moment where I have, picked apart my life's most dissatisfying areas. I was stuck on productivity and outcomes, even for others (parents and partner), but now I can do as you suggest I think. The intrusive thought that yet another dissatisfying aspect of life will arrise may just be a toxic thought that I can manage, or the only next thing to productively address.

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Post by mrfumier »

Seems nice but I stopped at the first textbox. No, I won't waste my time scrolling tru a date picker while I could input the date numbers directly with my keyboard.

Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by hellotoby »

Once you can accept that your own life is insignificant and essentially meaningless, you can stop worrying about how many weeks, days, months or minutes you'll be here for and just appreciate the moment in which you are living. Perhaps you can even be grateful that you have lived at all.

Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by smallnix »

itsallinyahead wrote: post #80
localghost3000 wrote: post #3

I’m impressed by the beauty of this site and sophistication of the UI. However I _hate_ this type of messaging that does nothing for you except make your mental health worse. I don’t want to think about how many weeks of life I have left! Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully (which I assume is the intent of this site). You wanna zone out on YouTube? Go for it. Tha…

If you let the bad emotions and feelings do their business, instead of constantly trying to escape from them, you wouldn't be feeling this way. You, and many others in this modern world, remind of Dostoyevskian characters: neurotic, overly-emotional, busy buzzing around, the cause of all their own problems. No one can sit still in silence, alone with themselves -- they're always running away. There's always some emot…

Or consider this, a person that manages to take out a loan and then dies before repaying can cheat the bank.

Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

hellotoby wrote: post #93

Once you can accept that your own life is insignificant and essentially meaningless, you can stop worrying about how many weeks, days, months or minutes you'll be here for and just appreciate the moment in which you are living. Perhaps you can even be grateful that you have lived at all.

“How strange it is to be anything at all”

We get preoccupied with the minutiae of day to day life and forget that we didn’t even know we were dead before we were born, and we won’t even know we’re dead when we die. And here we are right now, perhaps only minutes, hours, or days before we go back to being dust.

I find it helpful to think about this when my partner gets yet another parking ticket, I feel directionless in my career, or it seems like my teenage children think I’m lame.

Things are fine. They’re actually great. They can get a lot worse. It is worse for many others. I’m very grateful for the cards I was dealt.

Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by mrfumier »

tarotuser wrote: post #19
kylecazar wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're supposed to pick when you were born, which allows you to "scroll on". But also on Android -- am I missing something or am I supposed to scroll backwards month by month to 1989?

On Android/Firefox, same issue. I just closed the site. There is 0% chance I would go month-by-month to anything before 2010. And I would still have 20 more years.

Closed the site as well. Horrible input field.

Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by hellotoby »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #95
hellotoby wrote: post #93

Once you can accept that your own life is insignificant and essentially meaningless, you can stop worrying about how many weeks, days, months or minutes you'll be here for and just appreciate the moment in which you are living. Perhaps you can even be grateful that you have lived at all.

“How strange it is to be anything at all” We get preoccupied with the minutiae of day to day life and forget that we didn’t even know we were dead before we were born, and we won’t even know we’re dead when we die. And here we are right now, perhaps only minutes, hours, or days before we go back to being dust. I find it helpful to think about this when my partner gets yet another parking ticket, I feel directionless…

I guess this is being downvoted because HN isn't really a place where existential nihilists hang out. But in all honesty, isn't it incredible that anything happens at all! That gives me more hope and encouragement than anything else!

Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by twelve40 »

kirso wrote: post #81
localghost3000 wrote: post #3

I’m impressed by the beauty of this site and sophistication of the UI. However I _hate_ this type of messaging that does nothing for you except make your mental health worse. I don’t want to think about how many weeks of life I have left! Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully (which I assume is the intent of this site). You wanna zone out on YouTube? Go for it. Tha…

The thing is, it can be both stress and revelation depending on how you look at it. Part of 4000 weeks is a chapter that is called "Cosmic insignificance therapy" which goes along the lines of nothing we do really matters in a grand scheme of things. Again, depending on how you see it - it can be both shackling but also liberating. The both of extremes of: - I want to put my head in the sand and ignore the reality (w…

now I really don't want to read it, sounds pretty depressing : (

Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by p1esk »

narrator wrote: post #85
lakeshastina wrote: post #60

There are a few ways people take such a message - yes, life is precious, be conscious of what we invest our time in. This part makes sense. Yet, it is worth asking, what makes for a meaning life? What makes the 4000 weeks worth it? For some, they chase wealth, power, career success, get one's name recognized, etc - these are milestones to be achieved. Things to accomplish. Others will say, such accomplishments are no…

One way to counteract fading memory of events is to sit down and write a few thousand word diary entry when something great happens. Describe the whole experience from start to finish in as much detail as possible. File it away with the time it happened and an appropriate title. I've done this for great experiences in my life. I go back and read them on a regular basis.

I did this for a few years and I’ve never read my diary since. I’m not sure I ever will, let alone anyone else. Thinking some more about it, it’s pretty clear I mostly did it for comments (livejournal.com).

Re: Four thousand weeks

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Post by audiodude »

mrfumier wrote: post #92

Seems nice but I stopped at the first textbox. No, I won't waste my time scrolling tru a date picker while I could input the date numbers directly with my keyboard.

You can click on an element of the date and type it directly.
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