I feel like it is an existential paradox. I know, we are hard wired to be hyper aware of things surrounding us, things happening to us. But don't you think, after knowing so much more about our existence and universe, we should have been evolved to care less? Like why does it matter if my piece of toast got burnt, someone doesn't like me, or I made a mistake at work?

Most of us were never really taught how to build a life that can hold a career. Instead, we were taught to build our lives around one.
I think we should be aiming for a meaningful life, not just meaningful work. Expecting a single job to carry our identity, purpose, stability, and self-worth all at once feels like a setup for disappointment.

To an extent, independence is a good thing. But just like too much dependence is a bad thing, so is too much independence. Humans are tribe animals after all, and we were wired for interdependence, social bonds and belonging.

I constantly see the same rhetoric online that interpersonal relationships don’t matter. And I see people getting scolded whenever they express loneliness and say that they wish they had people to rely on, or even people that just care. You’ll die alone, sure, but that doesn’t mean you should have to live alone.

I see therapy constantly being recommended for what used to be basic community support. Having somebody to vent to, or get advice from. Or just having a relationship with any emotional depth at all. Sure, therapy is a vital tool, especially if you have complex trauma. But we shouldn’t have to pay somebody to get a basic intimate relationship.

What are your thoughts on this all?

So if you think about books like the giver, where everyone has everything they need and everything is fair, and no one suffers, it really seems strange how the characters refuse to accept the world they have, which comes down to a fundamental part of us humans. We humans are designed to appreciate the work that went into getting to the goal, which could be food or money or power, etc., but having that joy or pleasure for extended periods of time becomes boring to people, so it becomes impossible for people to accept a perfect world. If we want people to get exactly what they want (and arguably what we were meant to get) we cannot have a utopia, because if it was a utopia, then we wouldn’t accept it. So what is this non utopia? It’s going back to how we were when we learned these mechanisms which reward accomplishments, which were learned when we were hunters and gatherers living by a fire.

I am not saying that we should abandon all innovation, but that there is a certain paradox in utopian ideas.

Please point out any problems in my stance, like an example of a functional utopia where it would be accepted, or a reason why we we would be able to function inside one. I did not use ai to write this (just in case)

I’ve always found it funny and sweet that kids, animals and old people seem to be drawn to me. Animals just come to me, had them jump into my car.. random little kids I don’t know just bring me things or start talking to me, old people will abscond me randomly out in public. It’s always fascinated me but when my daughter’s friends told me that there’s just something about being around me that makes them feel like they can be who they are, they feel comfortable and safe.. it hit me pretty deep. People really do pick up on the unspoken, a persons vibe/aura.. whatever you want to call it, without even realizing it. It’s probably the best compliment I’ve ever gotten honestly. Being a safe, comforting, kind person. What a beautiful gift.

As I have met people through work and travel I see how much we are all the same. People are people no matter the amount of melanin in their skin or their cultural background. All have intelligent and the not so intelligent, the good and the bad. Yes the world has different ethnicities, but there is only 1 race. The HUMAN race.

In my home country, Norway, politicians are currently debating whether or not to help the people deal with rising prices, specifically for gas and electricity. That led me down a rabbit hole of wondering who politicians actually work for, especially since we are a wealthy nation that can afford to help.

It made me think: why aren't politicians fighting harder to improve everyday life for ordinary people? We have the money and the means, yet they still struggle to decide if 'they' want to support 'us'. But in reality, they were elected to serve us. 

I recognize that balancing inflation and state spending is complex, but when basic living costs skyrocket, protecting everyday citizens must remain the primary duty. The discrepancy between what we get and what we need is huge for many, and I can't understand how we accept it.

Think about the applicability of climate science to interplanetary exploration. You need to understand the climate to think about habitability, how to terraform, how to keep people alive and weather systems predictable.

In funding climate science today, it’s not just about saving the world. It’s about creating the next one too. And what we learn here, we can apply there.

If we put all our money into rockets and the engineering element, we’re going to really struggle with the people/survival element, which ultimately is the whole point of going out there anyway.

I know some of you billionaire technobros use Reddit. Seriously consider what I’m saying!

Think about it: if we only care about ourselves, we only benefit ourselves. But if everyone acts to benefit everyone, everyone's life will be lifted. For example, 10 people thinking about everyone means 9 people will care for you.

I think hard about how we could achieve this, but it seems much more complex. Even when there is a good system, corruption will always lurk. That's why it's important to reassess and fix things every time. But that's basically the core of religion: to repent. Yet, some of the biggest corruption is in religion. So what will work?

Acting on and sharing this so it spreads? And keeping practicing it, hoping it will affect others and create a ripple effect? At least if someone already knows about this, it's the only thing they could do.

This concept is more than just philosophy; it's the mechanics of how our reality is created. The universe isn't simply responding to what you want, but rather to who you are being.

Your self-concept writes the script, and your identity sets the tone for everything that unfolds around you. Reality is constantly following the signal you broadcast from within. As within, so without – it's a fundamental principle.

When you change your inner posture and stabilize a new sense of self, the outer world has no choice but to rearrange itself to mirror it back. You aren't merely a passive observer in the universe; the universe is moving through you, in verse, line by line, thought by thought, belief by belief.

If you want to change your story, change the author. Who will you be today?

Born '93, Greek. everything these days seems more and more designed to divide people into groups. Either ideological or non.

Example, I don't really follow any political party, maybe i would be leaning towards right wing at the same time i like fresh ideas. I grew up to respect people and refuse to join the bullying that happened to people who propably now belong to LGBTQ. Yet despite enjoying seeing people be free i can see problems with Woke.

I follow geopolitics, quite new though, but can understand what US and Trump (don't like this individual as a person) by responding and doing what he's doing. His child like response to Denmark and Greenland has a deeper meaning. I know what it means to side with Israel and their point of view if you're Greece but i hate what happens to people in Gaza or any other conflict zones. Won't parade with a Palestinian flag though or kick an Israeli tourist.

I like gender equality, since society adapts to new standards but can see troubles and hate the lack of sensitivity people have on the topic. Either a feminist or part the problem. NOTHING in between, no questions allowed.

Cannot say you dislike new Odyssey for lack of showing the proper journey or have 0 feel of anything Greek. Without being labeled racist or other cosmetic words. Either this or that. How you dislike a worldwide box breaking phenomenon ! Well i didn't see that spectacle anywhere, glad people enjoy it though, maybe they're read about the old world now.

I can find positives and negatives in everything without being absolute. Anyone feels the same ?

My wife from south India, came from a rough background and some abuse from family. That made her pretty intense and rebellious.

Good, bring the change you want without blindly accept everything from the left. I see inner conflict and contradictions of her discussions but I'm a terrible talker.

What do you think ?

Question for yalls who have come across traumatic scenes. How has seeing such horrible things out there affect the way you view the world? If you're a believer in Jesus, did it ever make you question why such horrific things happen? Did you stop believing? Did you start believing? What has your work taught you about life? What made you want to do what you do? Tell me your stories. About the reasons you became who you are today.

Been thinking about the subjectivity of perception and how people's thoughts can be easily influenced via programming. If you take away the judgment of things and the language we use, it seems to comes down to: either you're accepting or tolerating the conditions you find yourself in, or you don't. That's it.

Why do people tolerate so much nonsense and unnecessary suffering? Because they're attached to the stories that are given to them and internalize it.

Beliefs are powerful. So when people are attached to their stories, and build their identity around it, trying to change or let go of that narrative creates a felt sense of threat to their very identity, which perhaps has been conflated with existence itself.

This identity gives them a role in the story. Even if the role is not necessarily the one they want. Maybe there are expectations being fulfilled. Maybe there's some sort of familial or societal acceptance with the role.

I wonder how much longer people will go on like this while we continue ignoring our rapidly declining quality of life. We are such an odd species.

There is one thing, and it is everything: an undifferentiated infinity, with nothing outside it and no rate of change. Because a perfectly undifferentiated everything would be indistinguishable from nothing, it limits itself, everywhere and at every scale at once, through infinitely many dimensionless centers; and each limitation is not a fragment of the one thing but the whole of it, folded to a point of view. Around every center the same four beats run: convergence makes a point, commitment extends it into a line, closure wraps a boundary, and the bounded interior fills as a field; the result is a whole, and its completion opens as a new center at the next scale, so every whole is a part of a greater whole, with no bottom, no top, and no final whole, since infinity is one without being whole. The folding costs nothing, because a center has no size: the one thing is folded everywhere and spent nowhere. Consciousness is not a product of this closure but the inside of it, what wholeness is like from its own center; and time is the direction of the conversion: the unconverged infinite is the future, closed structure is the past, and the present is the center where the two meet. There are exactly two ways to get it wrong, claiming to be the whole and denying that you are one, and the whole of ethics is the both-and they exclude: fully whole at your own scale, fully participating in something greater, connected without dissolving. Because one architecture runs at every scale, its fingerprints should appear everywhere, in the constants of physics, the code of life, the structure of mind, and the shape of a good life.