murm

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by murm 4mo ago
Yes, but couldn't you then apply the same materialistic approach also to pain for example and explain it away as just some brain activity? Yet people live as if the experience of pain is real and modify their behaviour to avoid it. No
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by murm 4mo ago
I ate mushrooms 10 years ago and it made me realize how little humans really know about existence, despite how confidently some people assert that there's no god. I didn't directly communicate with god or anything, but in some way
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by murm 5mo ago
There's also the 1,5h documentary Rise of the Warrior Apes which is sort of a "prequel" to Chimp Empire. It was filmed over a period of 20 years in the same location and documents how the researches originally came upon this
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by murm 7mo ago
Well, the Hebrew word for adversary or opponent is satan. Regardless of whether you actually believe in satan or god(s), I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to point out that there are lots of adversarial things happening in
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by murm 11mo ago
Make a habit of spotting things in your life that you can say you are grateful for. A lot of good things in life are taken for granted and you only realize you had them when you lose them. It takes some practice and effort to start noticing
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by murm 2y ago
To me, it's his position that makes those words seem more credible. Once you hit the peak and have everything one could dream of you lose your illusions and realize that the craving still goes on and it's much more wise to just co
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by murm 3y ago
Well, you could just escape the situation and switch jobs but there are so many poor leaders out there that this same problem is probably going to manifest itself in your life again in some form, sooner or later. I would say it's more
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by murm 4y ago
When I hit my own rock bottom a couple of years ago I stumbled upon Jordan Peterson's lectures about meaning and the bible. It helped my rational mind understand and accept that the rational mind isn't the be-all and end-all and t
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by murm 5y ago
I've found that for me the only way to get rid of this kind of addiction is to make it impossible to engage. Any "softer" approaches will eventually fail. I had a bad habit of checking all kinds of unimportant stuff in bed ju
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by murm 5y ago
I don't know the answer to your question, but I think this[0] video might help to visualize the mind-boggling scale of the world (in the video you can substitute dollars with human beings). And it's only one billion visualized so
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by murm 5y ago
Understanding probabilities intuitively
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by murm 5y ago
I find it peculiar that disregarding the context (hacker news) and just focusing strictly on the content of your message I wouldn't be able to figure out which side you're supposed to be on. I could as well be reading this in one
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by murm 5y ago
It's hard to say anything without knowing your situation in detail, but to me you sound more like you're just deeply lost rather than your life is messed up beyond repair. If you really focus and put your heart, soul and effort in
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by murm 5y ago
Really good heaphones. It's been years since I bought them and I'm still amazed almost daily just how good music can sound. I'll admit that the cost upfront was not exactly cheap, but if you divide the price by the useful lif
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by murm 5y ago
> And how exactly would non-linguistic animals suddenly gain linguistic ability? They better hope everyone around them is tripping on the perfect dose too otherwise they’re just gonna perceive it as meaningless babblimg I don't thin
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by murm 5y ago
I think this video[0] fits nicely to your situation. JL Collins lays out how to invest for your retirement using index funds, explained in simple and commonsensical terms. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71ibcZAX3I
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by murm 5y ago
Maybe try it once and see what happens? It probably turns out to be a lot less scarier than you think
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by murm 5y ago
I've found that the stick only works when starting from a lowly place to get up to speed. Envy, resentment, anger etc. are very draining and unstable sources of motivation and it's hard to build a long-term strategy upon them. At
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by murm 5y ago
How essential the banking apps are in your everyday life? If you don't need them to be available all the time, maybe you could store your iPhone somewhere behind a time lock and schedule specific times when you deal with your banking n
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by murm 5y ago
I bought a dumb phone. Now it's impossible to waste time on the phone (only calls and sms). The transition period was brutal, though.
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by murm 5y ago
After being stuck for years in my life, what helped me, to speak metaphorically: I believe everyone has a barrel right in front of them that's full of all kinds of things they're trying to avoid acknowledging: harsh truths about t
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by murm 5y ago
I just ignore it. Nature is thrifty in all its actions, so this current madness will eventually come to an end too. I like the attitude of Charlie Munger, and whenever I feel like my head is starting to spin too fast I think about the wise
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by murm 5y ago
When the only tool you know is a hammer you tend to just go around smashing things
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by murm 6y ago
Someone who's ignorant does not realize it because realizing it would mean that they're not ignorant anymore.
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by murm 6y ago
I think it's useful to maintain a discipline of mental hygiene and to isolate yourself from the constant flood of news, good and bad. If you get too focused on the success stories you'll be constantly worrying about whether you&#x
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by murm 6y ago
Bob Seger - Shakedown
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by murm 6y ago
I don't think life is meaningless, I just think existence as a human being is ultimately so overwhelmingly sad that it's enough to turn anyone nihilistic. The proper way is to accept the sad state of affairs voluntarily and then t
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by murm 6y ago
My experiences have been either alone or with good friends at home settings, in a small intimate club with pleasurable company, and at a rave with lots of unknown people. Always with proper spacing between experiences (usually a year). Dose
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by murm 6y ago
Interesting. For me, MDMA comeup is 45 minutes of restlessness and agitation. I'm not sure how I would be able to tolerate that if I'm already at a point where a medical intervention is needed to calm me down. Though the actual ef
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by murm 6y ago
> This is particularly true when the people whom you criticize are manifestly doing quite well in general compared to you. In these cases someone might be doing hundred things right in their life and the one mistake is what catches all t

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