Comments by "Deus Ex Homeboy" (@DeusExHomeboy) on "Diet Science: Techniques to Boost Your Willpower and Self-Control | Sylvia Tara | Big Think" video.
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I understand the appeal to money, but I also must acknowledge that the
majority of people, or let's say money itself, will never make up for
the inherent characteristics, lack of knowledge, unresolved issues.
Sometimes, to me money, and the pursuit of it in the highest manner,
seems like the ultimate escape from the other less obvious problems, no?
It's like a grander form of all the other small antics we take on to
often confront the important things or actions in life; by building side
quests to avoid the main quest, in a way.
Money solves problems, but only the problems the system of money itself planted into human existence, but being able to buy better pot or food for animals or a better computer is also tempting, but the "Far" reaching consequences of participation are what work as deterrents, too. Seeing too far into my actions makes me almost do nothing but hoard knowledge lol, because the world outside is relatively more ignorant and very often works against the well-being of the organism. I could literally live on nothing but decent temperature, balanced food, cats, pot, a source of information (my pc in this case), some external sources of perspective (friends, random run-ins when i go out, other animals), and that's all I need to solve my own problems, and find comfort in the future, and the infinity of life lol (since it can re-emerge anytime the conditions are right, even after total extinction).
A little long but that's how the feels are rolling right now.
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I can't exactly say I'm enjoying it, but where I have reached in my understanding of the universe and the life within it, in contrast to all the humans before us, gives me a vague guarantee that it will all be ok, as an organism bound to evolution, and the need to move away from our violent/negative instincts(which inevitably deteriorates standards of living) which had a purpose when civilization did not exist, and now we're just in the phase where those behaviors and beliefs slowly get rooted out by something like an "anthropomorphized natural selection". With the development in AI and our ability to intervene into the genetics of an organism, there'll come a time when we can just identify and weed out all the pedophile, religious fanaticism, greed, jealousy, etc sustaining gene/traits, before the human is even born lol; You could say that is a place where I find solace.
I also have some understanding of hormones and diet, where I smoke a lot of pot, fap, as well at eat decent amounts of sugars, and some minor exercise to keep my body from losing form to our, present, unnatural environment; this makes it almost impossible for me to feel too down, I should get some more vitamin B12 tho.
Most people's existential suffering stems from things they don't know, rather than the things they don't have. I haven't quite understood it yet, but homo sapiens seem to have, through evolution, "had their reins of a pre-directed life loosened", where most humans suffer identity crises, go through neurosis, misconceptions about the world, etc. It's like this specie is almost free to roam and be what it can or wants to be, be it a furry other-kin asexual hipster, or a badass leather wearing chopper riding bike ganging man, to a gimp, or a rogue samurai bandit. It's easier to be a guy who just sits in his room going through the world thanks to the invention of the apes before him, i really need to find a job tho, so that's something I'll have to sort out unfortunately (or it could be good, the problem is the people, more than the task/job tbh, and it feels like people want to be that way, because it's so fucking easy to not be, or it seems, I don't think I can ever really see like the mind of another person or animal, but I can get close, maybe real close).
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