5905 STOP WHINING!

Why are we here? I missed the highest possible calling in my life. It felt like a destiny. My subconscious tried to tell me using terror, feelings of impending doom, inspiration, synchronicity & old memories & I failed to listen. Help? What are your thoughts on the classical cynic school? Pros cons on that type of asceticism? Can you justify Jesus as a gate keeper of jungian collective unconsciousness? What's the proper balance of personal ambition (that is virtuous), and family life (including waged and home work for the family)? How would ancapistan build mUh rOaDz? 🧐 #checkmate How can therapy help you change that damn profile pic bro. At times it seems philosophical thought is a form of neuroticism. Neuroticism is built into nature. It’s that part of a living organism that realizes if it doesn’t engage in a consciousness that connects itself to survival followed by precise behavior to assure that survival, it will perish. Thought that goes beyond that is mostly superfluous. But with exception it leads to discovery and invention, some of which can become a means of exchange. This further assuring one’s survival. Whether this thought leads to great truth, or if it’s ever in our scope to comprehend truth, vs. “truths”, is yet to be seen. We always seem aware we can deduce more, and believe despite the jarring solitude of our life filled planet in a barren universe, everything is in our environment and minds to solve all our problems beyond the marvel of us existing in the first place. I’m sure AI will give us the tools to see ourselves and beyond ourselves. It seems our belief there is more is always proving “itself”. The next few decades will be profound in that regard. Is it completely unreasonable if I keep falling or getting involved with women already in relationships? on my mind it makes some sense that the most interesting and attractive women are "taken"... apparently bored and unfaithful, but taken in the end. Maybe after a certain age ppl just cling to loveless relationships. Maybe when I turn 40 they will all be divorced and I will be like 'Pass, it turns out I liked you better when you were just a fling' What is the philosophy of the song ‘The Logical Song’ by SuperTramp? (Lyrics follow): ‘When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible Logical, oh, responsible, practical Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical There are times when all the world's asleep The questions run too deep For such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned? I know it sounds absurd Please tell me who I am I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable Oh, take, take, take it, yeah But at night, when all the world's asleep The questions run so deep For such a simple man Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me) Please tell me what we've learned? (Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd (Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am Who I am, who I am, who I am What is your best advise on how to talk to small children about "defoo:ed" grand parents and aunts? My kids (2 an 4) have had a relationship with my parents and my sister before I finally quit contact with them this year, after they tried to actively ruin my marriage. The kids have happy and fun memories of my family members, and occasionally say that they miss them and want to visit them - although it becomes less and less frequent as time goes. Once, during the first month of quit contact, I over-heard my 4 year-old playing with two stuffed animals, pretending that they were grandma and grandpa... and that they were dead. She was very neutral, and matter-of-fact in the tone of her voice. No hint of sadness or distress. I have explained to my kids that my family have done bad things in a manner that I think is understandable for their age, without trying to take away the fun memories they have. I usually will say something like "I understand that you miss Grandma. But she was not very nice to me when I was a child like you, and she made me feel really bad by not listening to me when I was sad", or "I know Auntie was really fun to play with, but Auntie is jealous, and have tried to destroy my relationship with dad". And sometimes I will just acknowledge their feelings, and not say anything more. "I understand that you miss Grandma and Grandpa, how does it feel to miss them?" How do I best balance this? I don't want to put too much focus on it, or transfer my feelings onto my kids... but I also thinks it's really important that they fully understand why we don't see my family anymore. And of course why I was not a