Once you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

I'm in Sri Lanka, having the time of my life. Ella is mind-bendingly, life re-evaluatingly beautiful.

Great, nature and its games will have that effect on you! Make sure you take the train (haha) and enjoy the landscape slowly with lots of pictures and video.

I'm in Northern Ireland. It's cold outside. Having time in my life. Back to work.

Hello everyone and happy new year.

I know that there are a lot of very clever people here and thought that this might be an interesting video for some of you to dissect. I have no idea what they are talking about really and it might be a scam but again I don't know anything about quantum mechanics or physics really. Obviously there are immediate red flags because they are asking for money but if you can ignore that for a moment I think the content is watchable.

Yes, I can see that they have a history of believing in and endorsing various conspiracy theories - make of that what you will.

There is an official debunking thread to post in:

/official-outer-limits-debunking-thread

Ben Goertzel, on pleasure and pain.
https://youtu.be/11VpXSUQXNw

Back working in the office. Re-evaluating, contemplating, working, observing, thinking, working. See you on the flip side.

I currently work in an office. My last job was also in an office.

My lost job consisted of a toxic work enviroment, with the most ****tiest people I have come across.
I thought I had it good.

I was wrong.

All my life I've had strict managers, and you could lump in teachers as well which made me hold my views. I believed managers needed to be outright stern and stretch the limits of fairness to get respect.

My current manager is so nice, that there is reverse psychology going on. You dont have to be a douchebag to manage people or get their respect. I dont confuse his kindness for weakness.

I'm not naive though and I'm prepared to get blindsided by a walloping any day. But I can't complain.

Anyway, from those two samples, environments differ greatly. If your job is making you miserable, find a new one.

It's not even that. I enjoy my repetitive work it can be interesting at times. It's that I have no good stories to tell.

Ok, maybe I went off on a tangent. But you need to start by leaving the house, obviously other than going to work.
You don't need stories to tell. Just go forth into the unknown and try to make it back in one piece.

Perhaps start with the gym. Then maybe learn to drive a motorbike. From there, bring it with you on a ferry to France. Do something like that. Or something totally different even.

I sold most of my BAC Stock. I made 137% on the initial investment. I am now even more of a sponge on society than previously. I'll smoke a Churchill size cigar tomorrow in celebration.

And now I'm in some silly year-long 2018 stock picking contest over in BFI. I predict I'll stomp the competition. God helped me pick the stocks. That's how this Free Will thing washes out. So its a lock.

Phobias have recently (last ten years?) increased exponentially. This is quite a medical phenomena and I predict it will soon reach pandemic proportions. Is the WHO tracking this dangerous medical trend? Anyway, with what I read in the media, phobias may, in fact, be reaching a transphobic state even as I write this.

If you win, I'll buy you a beer next time you are in Vegas.

If you lose, I'll buy you a beer next time you are in Vegas.

Sometimes I put on reading glasses when talking to people. I like to see if they can tell they look blurry to me.


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I read several book covers today.


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I enjoy turkey sandwiches. Swimming is my favourite past time, was there at the pool the other day.

God loves America.

I don't know why I drag myself into these comments because I feel that I'm either talking to a 5 year old or I'm talking like a 5 year old.

Yes I do leave the house and not just for work. I go places like any normal average Joe does.

Yes I go swimming often which provides me with physical activity on a regular bases.

I'll pass on the motorbike.

Is there any credo that teaches that one should strive to disassociate luck and happiness entirely?

Stoicism

Then stop complaining.

"God is in control" is a credo which rejects luck and ascribes happiness to somehow acting like God is in control.

Have I blasphemed?

I'm not sure it's possible for a tautology to be blasphemous.

It all started in 1776 and it is still going strong. In the UK, God only saves the Queen; in America, God saves everyone.

Looking forward to this. May make a trip soon depending on personal matters and commitments. Will PM etc., when hammer hits the anvil.