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On Deserving / Not Deserving
12/10/2019
We feel like we have to work for something to deserve it. If we haven't worked for something, we don't deserve it.
This logic leads us to going to the place where we cannot get what we want, so we can try to get it because we're not allowed to have what we want unless we also deserve it.
Example: Girls that sleep with guys who clearly do not want a relationship, hoping to get a relationship with them because they feel like they are not worth being in a relationship with — thus, needing to prove it by convincing the boy to settle down with them.
This mentality is flawed; you can't work for a good relationship, it just happens (and if you've resolved the internal problems that plague all people)... maybe that's why I hate work so much.
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A Typical Failed Startup Experience
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Judge Your Own Work
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The pursuit of happiness is nihilistic
A passive pursuit is not a pursuit at all.
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Elon Musk's Ideology
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Subject Object Illusion
Dualism is a lie.
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A Letter to Parents
Kids should learn to decide for themselves.
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Create Alone
Real creation that benefits humanity happens alone at first.
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The Ocean
An analogy for life.
Art is our portrayal of reality, of the patterns and symbols that govern our everyday lives.
"Without art, he insists, shirking no personal or collective horrors, we do not know ourselves or anyone else. Only art penetrates what pride, passion, intelligence and habit erect on all sides - the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which, without art, we can't receive. Proust calls these hints our "true impressions." The true impressions, our persistent intuitions, will, without art, be hidden from us and we will be left with nothing but a "terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life."[1]
[1]: —Saul Bellow, Nobel Laureate Speech, Source.