Thanks, my lizard brain is already making these decisions by default, but your words validate my behavior.

All I will say is be sure to take your vitamin d in the cold months

I would do X too if I was in the same situation, with the same genes, and the same upbringing, and same circumstances, and same influences, and same traumas, and same biases.

You couldn’t have changed your behavior if you tried

I’ll bite, what does it say about me?

Behavior dictates the outward expression of inner motives.

Correct, but you can’t control your motives as much as you like. Think as much as you want about this.

To assume that everyone would make the same choices, when presented with the same opportunities, is simply not congruent to the patterns of human behavior that we see in reality, regardless of era or culture.

Show me what patterns you’ve seen, but from my personal experience and reflection, this is incorrect. We can’t control the opportunities, and we can’t control our motives, hence we can’t control our behavior. You will do what you were gonna do.

Excellent point!

Polish your mirror and look deep, you are the universe as am I, as was Gandhi and as is Putin, capable of all good and all evil, all shaped by life like a rock shaped by a river. The rock has no choice but to take that shape. The rock is special but no more so than any other rock, so don’t assume you’d do any different if you were in their situation.

If you dig up a skeleton, can you tell if that person was evil or charitable in his lifetime? We’re all merely copies of each other and are equally capable of all the good and all the bad in the world depending on our individual circumstances and upbringings. Nothing is black and white and everything is gray. You’d be Putin too if you were in his shoes.

Hello from a fellow anxious being. I have a lot of notes about anxiety. It is who we are or have become in response to the world. Anxiety is only trying to tell us that everything is important, make sure we didn’t forget anything. Yes, it can drive us insane, and yes, there can be mental breakdown following anxiety overload, but it is still just our constant reminder to keep our eyes and ears open at all times. The simple idea that in any sport you must always keep your eyes on the ball and finer details of the game. Anxiety is strength not weakness.

I will add this - release your anxiety by loosening your body (esp the hyper activity in the frontal lobes of your brain & temple/jaw areas), once you know it’s a mental state, you say come to here and now, & now it’s party time or whatever you want.

Man can be free only when and if he’s able to rise above his insecurities

This quarter’s top line might not be looking great, so gotta improve the bottom line to impress the Wall Street analysts.

Yep, ASD. We are intelligent. We are perfectionists. We take our sweet time to learn about the world around us. Once we’ve learnt about something, we are quite sure of it, & hence we’re strongly opinioniated on things we know. Stupidity, and not being able to see things correctly may even ‘trigger’ us, & hence we can come across as arrogant. We can see the forest for the trees, but we lose our minds because the rest of the world only sees the trees for the trees.

You sound like someone on the ASD spectrum - honest, principled, not confirming to social norms, overthinking. You had to mask to survive, yes, so obviously there is a facade, but that don’t make you a thief. You are thoughtful & intelligent, & capable of using logic to steer the conversation, but that don’t make you manipulative. You are honest man with morals, how can you not be kind? Why don’t you consider yourself a nice person?

Everything disappears. What remains is that I am the universe, as are you, as are my cats, and everyone else, all alike, all a version of each other, all one, all with just a momentary lifetime of consciousness, some lucky not being bombed. But most live it being consumed by the dance of work & money & religion & relationships & fashion & pop culture & all of the social dogmas like any of that is what life is all about. When I focus & connect with my humanity, I see that none of it is real, all of it is made up, socially agreed upon, maybe even legally encoded depending on situation. The only thing real is here & now. And what we truly yearn is each other’s company, ie. to ‘connect with the universe’.

Creative people in the Reddit/Lemmy village are the geeks & intellectuals

Somewhere along the way, I learned that for a village to thrive, the creative people (the artisans, the musicians etc) must move in first, they form the roots, then the rest of the village follows them.

The creative people moved from Digg to Reddit. That’s what made Reddit Reddit, not the brand, or the UI, or some genius exec.

The creative people have mass migrated to Lemmy, & hence Lemmy will thrive. How do you know - see where og memes originate. Genius is not the domain of AI, & hence Reddit is Deaddit. We’re now just waiting for the rest to follow.

Aw don’t be sorry, their loss really. It’s wild how free I feel, no alarms, no schedules, no daily anxiety, my time is mine & at every moment I’m free to do whatever I want, I wish everyone could feel this way