who here is satisfied and reaching goals and is happy?

eduardo-crispino

Alot of the algorithm on youtube and forum
threads and twitter stuff is people crying about stuff like racial stuff, political stuff, le collapse stuff, le end times stuff, etc.

ive made improvements and accomplished things like becoming proficient in my career and having energy and overcoming challenges that amaze me when i reflect on them

i still have gotten in arguments and moods yet i often smile immediately after and make up , and the worst case is a couple days of being angsty instead of indefinite resentment. this is a significant positive change.

during covid lockdowns etc i followed all these narratives and even got pretty ill for a time, and it could have been dark but i somehow convinced myself i was better . before that i also went through something and before that also. but somehow i changed my mind and somehow convinced myself to enjoy and appreciate life. alot of that had to do with stuff i learned off rpf and the bioenergetic sphere.

i am aware of narratives now and although i educate myself on various topics i dont really go deep into existential holes about .

i think rpf IS an awesome community with so many amazing posters, theres many users from there who posted really informative interesting stuff. reading stuff from there actually helped me so much.

gg12

@eduardo-crispino dang I wish I had read insights from such people. Im still stuck in my ways but your story suonds hopeful. It really is easy to get all doom and gloom.

eduardo-crispino

@gg12 you got it brosef. you are healthy and chad. all rpf thread still up to read. and members joining here now such as @Zachs

I suggest considering dancing at proms

gg12

@eduardo-crispino Nice virtue signal but im a incel fr man. Cant you tell by the bladee pfp. Im still going to the Prom though just with my friends. Going to make the most of it.

eduardo-crispino

@gg12 I suggest not calling yourself an incel and also suggest not characterizing positive suggestions as virtue signal. dancing IS fun when feeling optimal. but also is not fun when suboptimal. to be optimal accept you are optimal

I suggest not identifying personally with cultural icon
they have their own lives and either

1.) doom in realness to idealistic notion (which seems cool but is actually GAY and SUBOPTIMAL)

2.) profit off continuation of "idealist" notion which they themselves have abandoned in personal life

second case all fans who are true believers end up suckers
first case all fans who are true believers end up worse off than even doom idealism of the artist if they follow influence

eduardo-crispino

@gg12 optimal blades song Youtube Video

The internet and life in general is what you make of it. I have often suggested to young people who feel helpless and hopeless to just unplug and get back in natural as in nature. Everything about modern life especially for todays youth is so unnatural and so fake, its amazing that people can still succeed in this culture.

The only thing you can control is your thoughts and emotions and you own situation. Its as simple as changing the narrative. You are not a helpless bystander in your own life, you are the writer and director, if something sucks, change. Change yourself, everyone has the capacity for change. For most this is the hardest thing to understand.

Any way personally my life is not perfect, but im pretty damn satisfied and definitely happy.

Rah1woot

I think Peating changed for me from a method of "feeling OK" (vs. feeling straight up bad often) to a method of feeling great when I started including weekly beef liver slices.

idealistic

Read V. I. Lenin's "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism". Or just watch the Cockshott video on the same:

Youtube Video

Ray Peat Said:

 One of Lenin's best pieces of writing was explaining essentially that the concept of materialism in the West is pure idealism, absolutely the negation of materialism in Lenin's sense.

 Lenin said knowledge is composed of memory, but the memories are recordings of experience, and experience is always new.

 The source of experience is matter, and so matter is only what is potential to be experienced.

 So materialism means looking to the future and the possibilities of experience, where the genetics and reductionists try to base their rationalism on an organization of existing knowledge, pre-existing ideas, and breaking those down into logical, computable units and so on.

 The essence of Lenin's type of materialism is essentially identifying it with the life process, the process of being conscious and having new experience is the process of interacting with the material world.

 So this is the same idea as Aristotle's prima matter, the pure potential out of which everything arises.

 Yep, creative potential.