Does anyone else ever feel like they've lost something?
96 2017-07-07 by Billsucksass
I don't mean this in an individual or material sense, so not your car keys or your best friend; I mean as a species, as a human being. I feel as though living this modern life has removed or hidden something primal and important; An aspect of our nature. I can never pinpoint what it is though, but it seems to be something valuable otherwise I wouldn't notice the loss of it.
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n/a mastigia 2017-07-07
I highly suggest playing outside. I think that thing you feel you are missing is still there, you just feel disconnected from it.
n/a DontTreadOnMe16 2017-07-07
Could also try hunting. Nothing more primal than taking another animal for the purpose of consumption.
Do you workout at all? That's a big one that can help. Humans weren't meant to sit behind a desk all day. So when people don't do any intense physical activity during the day, they have a ton of pent up energy that has no where to escape.
n/a mastigia 2017-07-07
I am not OP, but this is exactly what I am getting at. Hunting, fishing, hiking. Shoot, just go for a walk, take your dog if you have one. Even better, do it barefoot. There is like an shared intimacy with the world when you go barefoot that is hard to describe. It feels good.
I work out all the time, and I am a barefoot runner. Actually I am running home from work in about 5min here. It is like 115F outside haha, but I kinda trapped myself at work without a car. So I guess I am going to get to see what I am made of today.
n/a milykaimer 2017-07-07
Earthing. Connect to mother earth through the roots of our bodies: the sole/soul.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
I've got nothing against people who hunt, it's natural after all, but personally I'd only kill an animal if It was a survival situation (which I have done before in mock situations); Rather avoid it if I've got meat in the fridge.
I definitely feel it's something primal lost. I do work out, weight lifting, jogging through the woods and calisthenics 5 days a week.
n/a Rocksolid1111 2017-07-07
Do you camp in the woods? Unplug from electronics and camping for a night or two could get you back in tune with nature.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
I haven't got any friends that are into it. I went on my own early this year and It was ok, bit boring though. I spent most my time looking forward to sunset so I could light the huge fire I'd built and play with it lol.
I used to write when I was younger, 11/12/13/14, and I am thinking of picking it back up. My imagination is still working fine but I need to relearn the technical side as my writing ability decayed heavily over 10+ years of lazy typing. Maybe I'll try camping solo again and take some paper.
n/a treeslooklikelamb 2017-07-07
You need to get your hands on some psychedelics (shrooms or Lsd preferably) for your next trip outside.
It may be the best thing you'll ever do :)
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
I took shrooms and smoked weed on the same day once when I was younger. That was a good day. I had a Harry Potter trip which was fun to laugh about afterward.
n/a treeslooklikelamb 2017-07-07
Try it again, it'll be completely different with a new perspective
n/a kanye5150 2017-07-07
Take up golf, you can be outside in nature and hate it at the sametime....stupid trees.
n/a Iamamansass 2017-07-07
You're just looking for home. Get back to nature. From whence you came. Grow a tree. Meditate on it. Watch as it grows.
Watch the trees. Watch as the worship and dance. The history of mankind is akin to the history of the apple tree.
n/a milykaimer 2017-07-07
This guy gets it.
n/a ShoutDonutShop 2017-07-07
This guy plants.
n/a redditkeepsdeleting 2017-07-07
This sub kills me. It's like 3/4 political, and 1/4 weird pseudo-zen spiritualism. I just don't get it. What is it about hating the government and dark shadowy secrets that also turns folks into a hyperfractal quantum hologram hippie? Maybe I'm too old to get it.
Oh, and earthquake guy. Okay, so maybe 1/2 political to allow for solar conjecture and weather prediction. Good stuff there.
n/a MushroomCheck 2017-07-07
/r/shrooms
n/a CivilianConsumer 2017-07-07
What's your point with your complaint here? Are you upset the sub dabbles with more than one topic? Dislike the open discussion? I don't understand why this sub upsets you, If I didn't like some sub for whatever reason then I'd stop subscribing. No need to brush off or dismiss the content here.
n/a TheKillector 2017-07-07
He feels important doing that, like he matters.
n/a redditkeepsdeleting 2017-07-07
See my comment above, walnut. I explained my comment and stand by my clear lack of correlation between investigatable conspiracies and hologram demon aliens.
n/a TheKillector 2017-07-07
You brought up hologram demon aliens. Not me. I don't believe that. If there are aliens out there they probably look at us as primitive apes and have no intention of interacting with our species until we can go a few years without killing each other for b.s. reasons.
n/a LoganLinthicum 2017-07-07
Culture programs us to frame every issue as an Us vs Them slapfight. This programming is so effective that when someone is able to transcend it and share wisdom that is composed entirely of unifying love, those still in their cages are so startled that they can only react with fear, anger, derision.
This is only the ego speaking, like a dog snapping because you stepped on its tail. Don't be discouraged, just keep planting seeds. They'll bloom once the soil becomes more fertile. :)
n/a redditkeepsdeleting 2017-07-07
No, I'm saying I truly don't understand where some of what I term the hippie attitude comes from here. I'm all for open dialogue, and don't give a shit about upvotes or downvotes.
When one person starts talking about abductions, and then suddenly another person starts commenting about archons and demons and holographic dimensional aliens, it comes off as horrible discrediting for what would otherwise be a reasonable topic.
I've been seeing it more and more here lately, and I just don't get it. Go ahead and keep downvoting me for voicing my own thoughts, I can appreciate the irony.
n/a totally_not_a_pirate 2017-07-07
"And niggas always gotta high cap Showing all his boys how he shot 'em But real gangsta-ass niggas don't flex nuts 'Cause real gangsta-ass niggas know they got 'em"
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
Just fuck off man.
Nobody likes you here and nobody wants you. Go with your own; don't kill the vibe here.
n/a ApocalypseFatigue 2017-07-07
Sounds like your mindset is shitting in your experience but ok
n/a MassStockholmSyndrom 2017-07-07
You can plant all the trees you want, without others to enjoy them you are alone in the woods.
n/a Iamamansass 2017-07-07
Nah there's plenty to enjoy them still. I'm never alone.
n/a TheWiredWorld 2017-07-07
Same same same times a billion. The trees knows so much
n/a EightyNineMillion 2017-07-07
I go hiking and backpacking by myself for that exact reason. It's my alone time where I don't have to interact with people.
n/a MassStockholmSyndrom 2017-07-07
Yeah, me too. I was just trying to sound wise and philosophical tbo.
n/a xcalibre 2017-07-07
go camping, switch the phone off (but take it for emergencies) and spend a couple hours by the campfire before going to sleep
walk, enjoy nature
n/a polkadotgirl 2017-07-07
Yes there is an emptiness to life that I could only ever fill with God.
n/a 5word 2017-07-07
https://youtu.be/ztGzzvchcUQ?t=74
We lost communication with the people living in our neighborhoods, towns and cities. Cell phones and social media is replacing face-to-face communication which builds relationships. This is how poor people live in the hood, everyone knows everyone, if you run out of sugar or milk you can ask your neighbors, in rich communities most people probably don't even know their neighbors names. Society functions best when people interact and work together as one tribe or one people.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
Yeah I feel like the people In poor/rough areas are actually the ones with the most potential for ability and decency. Unfortunately the areas they live in are usually diseased, which stunts or eliminates this potential for most. Coming from one of these backgrounds I have always had more in common with the poor, homeless and broken.
n/a 5word 2017-07-07
Reminds me of the riots that happen when police unjustifiably shoot a black young man; they all know each other and can organize a response, even if it's not the best response that includes looting and setting things on fire, it's still a response of people working together against injustice which is rarely seen nowadays among the comfortable people who pissed off at the way things are but are only ever keyboard warriors.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
Yeah, there is a positive to be found there. People will say you're trying to justify looting but I get where you're coming from. Poor people tend to stick together. That's why gangs are so popular in rough areas, especially amongst youngsters. Gives an individual a sense of purpose. I definitely have a tribal mentality as opposed to a global one.
n/a TheWiredWorld 2017-07-07
In poor communities you can ask for sugar, but not in the hood. I grew up in the hood - they're savage and shouldn't be used as an example, whatsoever, as a model society.
n/a 5word 2017-07-07
You're discriminating, look how many random people are in the streets and no one is brawling or shooting at each other, sure there are gang wars but the average person is just like everyone else, they just want to be left alone to live in peace with their families.
n/a Jesuits_hate_spiders 2017-07-07
Most people have lost their connection to their soul being while conscious. This connection can always be restored and is only a matter of simply picking up the astral telephone. These phones are heavily present in nature. I recommend that a place with trees and a body of water should do it.
n/a Youwontsmokemypineal 2017-07-07
Can't forget psychedelics
n/a Jesuits_hate_spiders 2017-07-07
Some say that's cheating. I'm 50/50 about them unless other things have been learned and experienced.
n/a captainn_chunk 2017-07-07
Some also say that psychedelics were also used to help engineer the the evolution of the human mind.
n/a Jesuits_hate_spiders 2017-07-07
I consider psychedelics like game shark. The learned people behind the device and code know the meaning, but the users are just doing it for material means. Think about it.
n/a captainn_chunk 2017-07-07
"The learned people behind the device"
Have you ever taken any psychedelics? That's a very broad umbrella statement to make about them. Maybe LSD but mushrooms? No. They grow in nature. You can't design that.
And I say umbrella statement because the same can be said about all drugs (including tobacco and alcohol) and their users, whether they were bought at a pharmacy, on the corner or at your dealers house.
n/a Jesuits_hate_spiders 2017-07-07
A Creator designed that. You need look deeper.
n/a captainn_chunk 2017-07-07
Saying God designed anything is too easy of a way out of this argument.
n/a Jesuits_hate_spiders 2017-07-07
So is saying everything came from nothing.
n/a treeslooklikelamb 2017-07-07
Psychedelics are just tools. Your experience can be profound or just plain fun depending on what you want out of it.
n/a Jesuits_hate_spiders 2017-07-07
True. If I'm filled with anger and drink, what happens? If you need to ask, you are not ready to know.
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
Psychedelics only get you so far.
You have to put in the bulk of effort yourself if you want to astral travel without them.
n/a paulie_purr 2017-07-07
For all the good they have done and will do, technological advancements have really shifted things in some dark directions. Thousands of years of social and data processing have been rapidly altered in what, 20 plus years? Check out the posthuman condition if you haven't. This is a good place to start, and references some killer literature for good measure.
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo3769963.html
Maintaining our humanity in the face of change isn't really a new thing for the species, the trouble is adapting in purely beneficial ways in such a rapid span of time. There have been success stories as well as many casualties, and there will be plenty more.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
Alot of these success stories usually cause many casualties. The large corporate industries for example. Want cheap clothes in bulk? Sure, but we will exploit anyone who can't defend themselves and poison the earth in countries that won't stop us; Want cheap food and more than you need? Sure, but we will damage the nutrients and destroy the soil.
I think if you work against nature and equality you destroy everything around you.
n/a sersers 2017-07-07
Yeah, modern life has removed the sense of family and community.
n/a falconerhk 2017-07-07
It's removed the village mentality. That everyone has a place and a purpose. That people work together in common interests. Children get to be kids, the wisdom of elders is valuable, and the same sensibilities are accorded to the environment from whence everything is born.
n/a TheWiredWorld 2017-07-07
As Alchemy teaches, there is a duality to everything. EVERYTHING. Even alchemy. Elders don't always know valuable information, because a lot of elders refuse to accept progress.
On the macro-scale - we are purely where we are at because it was engineered to be that way. There is nothing organic about today or how we got here.
n/a falconerhk 2017-07-07
Modern humans are akin to a Cub Scout troop minding the firearms superstore over the weekend while the adults are away. Eventually the bullies tie up the geeks and artists so they don't get in the way of their mayhem. And if one of geeks or artists gets caught in the crossfire, well, it's a big-boy game, and you're not invited to play.
Elders may not possess anything beyond having attaining a higher level of understanding from enduring change, hardship, or simply being witness to events and consequences. I'm not "elder" yet, but as an older gen x member I grew up with no internet - not even voicemail or call waiting. I could take a shit or rub one out in peace. When work was over, there was time and a little bit of money for fun. No ubiquitous snooping, no midnight email, and if you wanted to meet people, you did it in meatspace.
I'm far from a Luddite. I've always made my living using technology - if the web collapsed today I'd have to find a new occupation. My point is that I have perspective and a tangible connection to a radically different way of living.
A sample of the events that have informed my own perspective:
I watched my parents and the rest of their chemically addled peers destroy everything decent their parents built in this country. I also watched as that generation turned a blind eye to systemic injustice or made it worse.
I remember Reagan gutting state mental institutions and the resulting homeless population. I watched him gut unions by firing the air traffic controllers.
I remember an entire generation of gay men die off while Reagan and the boomers passed moral judgements and wiped off toilet seats with antimicrobials in case a gay man had used it and left AIDS behind.
I saw the NEA gutted, which resulted in promising young artists reduced to pulling espresso shots for rich art collectors' lattes.
I watched Desert Storm on a new 24-hour news network called CNN. Every hour I saw through the camera on the tip of a smart bomb the last moments of ordinary people's lives.
I watched Clinton live on TV when he signed the crime bill, media consolidation, welfare reform, harsh sentencing, and his wife's infamous "predators brought to heel" speech.
I watched 9-11 live on TV and knew it was bullshit and stood in shock while millions of dumbfounded dipshits happily gave up their rights and freedoms to a silver spooned cowboy from Connecticut.
I watched the march to war in Iraq and knew that was all bullshit, too. I watched the civilian body count grow from thousands to hundreds of thousands. I watched when they pulled Saddam out of a hole and I watched him swing at the end of a rope, the last few pennies of the $5 billion the US gave him years earlier clattering onto the floor.
I've also seen medical miracles become normal, and incredibly selfless acts of kindness and heroism.
For those in their 20's, living under a permanent microscope is their unimaginable normal. Every action can be recalled in HD to use against them for the rest of their lives, from their first login to their last. My 13 year-old has a phone and is already plugged into a very adult world. My wife and I can track everything he does.
Part of childhood is supposed to be the freedom to just "be" - without supervision. His normal is going to be even more fucked up than that of the 20-somethings reading this. I'm guessing that the childhood I described sounds either antique or unimaginable. In many ways it was worse. But in terms of intellectual and personal freedom, it's unimaginable that we've been reduced to interacting with an entertaining slave collar, a revolutionary new way of being alone.
Life itself is dangerous in big and small ways, but good judgement comes from experience, which comes from making bad judgements. Sometimes these bad judgements result in injury or death. Not all baby turtles make it to the sea. That's just part of the human condition.
Bringing this ramble back full circle, the village has a collective memory of skills, experiences, and perhaps most importantly, warnings that are lost. When young adults look around and wonder what's missing from their seeming full lives, a village would know what they seek and could help them find it, and in doing so, uphold the inherent humanity of everyone.
n/a AndoMacster 2017-07-07
Who engineered it?
n/a Spanner_Magnet 2017-07-07
Man was never meant to live with strangers.
n/a falconerhk 2017-07-07
Humans were never meant to be strangers to each other. Look at all of the dysfunction in the world that could be avoided if we brought people up with practical knowledge and benevolent mentoring in a community environment not tied to dogma or exoteric religion. People don't know how to be in relationships. How to assess their own needs and desires, and how to fulfill them in a manner that helps others meet their own. How to be parents - or even if one should be a parent in the first place. These are critical skills that teach humanity and empathy.
n/a jsstealthss 2017-07-07
Holidays feel much more neutered these days. I haven't seen a whiff of Christmas spirit in a long time. Such a coincidence that I started feeling this in the years following 9/11.
n/a daneelr_olivaw 2017-07-07
You should come to Poland for Christmas, you can still feel it's spirit there.
n/a jsstealthss 2017-07-07
Poland is one of the only places in Europe I would be willing to go to these days anyways, so why the heck not! Good to see there is still some sanity over there.
n/a LightBringerFlex 2017-07-07
It's not lost. It is caged up by the mind and must be unleashed.
n/a Manguru 2017-07-07
It's the love inside you that we lost, the love and innocence every child has, it brings immense happiness , the love some ' retarded ' children have and you always see them laughing and playing with no worries . Yeah we forgot all about it , we get perverted at a young age now, and its only getting worse.
n/a lord_empty 2017-07-07
A few weeks ago, I would have answered it was our hunter/warrior spirit being suppressed. But I've been researching the pineal for the past month and I have no fucking clue anymore...it opened a serious rabbit hole and made me question everything I thought previously. Terrifically unhelpful but tldr I feel you just don't know what it is either
n/a treeslooklikelamb 2017-07-07
Where are you at now?
n/a lord_empty 2017-07-07
I feel like I'm trying to put together puzzle pieces but someone threw the puzzle into a bath before I got it, so the pieces are all soft and squishy.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
Put them on a radiator.
n/a ABrilliantDisaster 2017-07-07
Yes. Very much. I mourn for all we've lost and how the children growing up now will never know those things. We don't know how to be human anymore. Humanity has no feet on the earth, they are no longer partakers of nature or get to learn all that stuff real humans learned from being a part of life's processes.
I wish kids climbed more trees now. I wish more kids got to bottle feed a calf or watch a wild deer sprint across a woodland glade or pick berries with their grandma.
n/a yourmomslefthand 2017-07-07
It's partially your pineal gland being classified and the controlled loss of your ability to control the frequencies and vibrations around you, call it tuning or telekinesis it goes by many names. We once had the ability to interact and control matter - something our distant ancestors had mastered, and something our puppet masters fear above all else - from what we watch to more importantly, what we eat, to vaccines you are asleep.... wake up
n/a douchetun 2017-07-07
THIS SO MUCH!!!!! My entire life I have felt like nothing is right. We are doing everything wrong. Why are we not having symbiotic relationships with other animals. I want to ride a fking bear or gigantic panther and make them my best friend.
n/a lalalola89 2017-07-07
Loll since I decided as at a young age that my favorite animal is the polar bear I've wanted one as a best friend and it genuinely pisses me off that I will probably never get the chance to make that happen.
n/a mtnrddt 2017-07-07
Joe Rogan talks about this a lot with some of his podcast guests and it really resonates with me.
Survival is too easy now. It's more difficult to feel fulfilled/happy/content and we focus on things that aren't problems.
Not trying to pat my own back, but try doing some things that are hard. I started climbing mountains and running marathons just to feel the physical challenge and overcome my limitations. Makes me feel that happiness and fulfillment.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
I agree with researchers who believe we will become less intelligent as time goes on now. Before we advanced mentally to survive in harsh environments and deal with threats that our bodies alone couldn't overcome. Now everything is done for us we just have to do a job, which for most, is pretty repetitive and mundane.
It can be hard to pat your own back perhaps that should be your next challenge.
I suppose weight lifting and cardio are my current challenges...Especially cardio. 12 years of smoking and no cardio is hard to bounce back from.
n/a mtnrddt 2017-07-07
Good point, I probably should.
Exercise is awesome. I'm a recovering smoker as well. Smoked while doing cardio for a while. Quit and shaved almost 2 minutes off my mile! But... just binge smoked for 2 days and feeling pretty gross.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
Lol I am at that exact stage. I have been doing weights for a while but the cardio idea is new. I was smoking a few weeks ago and I looked at the ashtray and just thought "Man that looks fucking horrible". Then I started thinking about the fact that stuff was raping my lungs. I'm brought a Vap and started jogging. God, 5 minutes of jogging and I feel like I am going to die. Haven't cut down much yet but hopefully soon.
Don't go to the Darkside lol. I gave up smoking for a month a few years ago. It became so easy after the first 2 weeks. I really should have stuck with it but I lost my resolve and decided I would rather smoke than be healthy. Priorities have changed now.
n/a mtnrddt 2017-07-07
I want to do weights. Otherwise I fear I'll eternally be skinny-fat. I'm doing HIIT and when I can do basic body weight stuff I'm going to figure out how to lift weights. Jogging gets easier. It really does. You can do it!
I am glad I felt so gross after smoking. Had "that" friend in town... the one who inspires my vices. But I got a vape too! It works so well.
I wish you much success.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
If you have never done heavy weights before, and you do them properly, you will gain and progress really fast at first. Unless you're a hard gainer ofc.
I hope it gets easier it's the worst exercise I have to do lol. At least the burn on weights is concentrated pain. When I jog I feel it everywhere (which means it is working though).
Good luck to you too.
n/a mtnrddt 2017-07-07
Hahaha sounds like I will need it, I'm gonna take this advice and take the plunge.
Thanks.
n/a SlipperySkeet 2017-07-07
The ancient mysteries. We have lost our culture and have amnesia as a species. Look to Graham Hancock for what has been forgotten materially. Spiritually, look to freemasonry texts to recount the myths that pervaded all cultures. Bill Cooper does an excellent job in recounting the mysteries in his " Mystery Babylon " series.
Even the Mesoamericans had a flood myth and a virgin-birth Jesus type character later murdered by evil priests. Our past is hidden from us to diminish our agency.
n/a Tormundsmonster 2017-07-07
I was ready to write a response to the OP but you sir/madam have hit it on the head.
OP find your family unit (blood or otherwise) and cherish them. You will feel fulfilled the more you are able to spread kindness and generosity, and your family is the easiest start.
I was lost for a very very long time and have found the more have I have given myself (thoughts, love and time) the fuller I felt (happy with life).
For everything you do remind yourself of this:
-Give love as often and as much as you can -Your opinion matters, no matter what anyone might say -Work hard in whatever you may do -Don't forget that you are valuable!! -Someone cares about you (biological or friends)
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
I'm pretty isolated in life so not an option. I never felt a kinship with my blood relatives anyway so that wouldn't be what I am missing. I feel like I have a piece of myself missing, I attribute this to the farm-cattle-like world we live in. Alas, I cannot pin point it. It isn't as simple as walking through the woods. It feels like I am living the wrong life.
Glad stuff worked out for you though.
n/a iwishiwasameme 2017-07-07
I have found it. I have felt the absence and captured it.
I don't even want to jynxx it, but I am proud to share the word to those here. I have tapped back into that wild creativity and the intelligent collective that can come from it. Passion and adventure. Creativity repurposing trails and triumphs.
I look out at this rancid world and the mess that must be overcome. Now I look out with eagerness. I look out at the community I weave and I am a part in already.
It might be a strange struggling world, but I see amazing change and I create change each day. I welcome the future now.
n/a PBandJwithmilk21615 2017-07-07
You wanna know what is is, the world is deceived and to believe there is no God or Jesus Christ, thats what your missing, Jesus said I am the Light of life. He said come to me all you who are weary, and I will give you rest. Jesus brings people back to life spiritually because none of this life would be possible without God.
n/a NakedAndBehindYou 2017-07-07
Warren Farrell, in his book Why Men Are The Way They Are, mentions that one of the reasons modern men are discontent is that we live in peaceful times. He claims that men are evolutionary programmed to engage in physical conflicts (with fists, not bullets) and that failure to do so is one reason we feel unfulfilled.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
I will give that a read when my I finish the books I am on now. Sounds interesting. I have always felt a kinship with medieval periods and especially the warfare. Imagine being on a battleground where a large portion of the fighting is accomplished in close quarters. The terror a newcomer must feel. I remember the thrill I used to get fighting when I was a teenager. Truly makes you feel alive in a way no organized sparring can.
Does he just limit it to fists or is it close quarters in general?
n/a Chalcosoma-atlas 2017-07-07
It's very common for people on the edge of 'waking up' to feel incomplete like this. The feeling comes from the mind, which is separate from your consciousness. Most people exist almost entirely within the mind. They tend to be guided by emotions and seek happiness externally. They self-anesthetize to avoid looking at shame and other repressed issues. If you watch a lot of tv, play a lot of video games, obsess over exercise, smoke a lot of weed, or anything similar, you're probably in this trap.
Western cultures in particular are prone to 'sleeping.' Our society encourages personal isolation and reflexive thought over intuition, which keeps many of us trapped like children in a self-centered universe. That little ache you're feeling will never go away as long as you are trapped within your mind and cut off from larger existence.
There are lots of ways to wake up. Buddhism is a little dense and religious for my taste, but that's what it's made to do. Hallucinogens will get you there but usually don't last long. I used neither. I read a lot of Jung, went out into nature, and started paying attention to the way my mind and thoughts worked. After a while, I grew distant enough from the whole process that I took the step back into simple consciousness. It's a beautiful moment. You come to understand that the only way to stop feeling dissatisfied is to stop seeking satisfaction. Shame disappears. You move through the world in a different way.
That's what worked for me, anyways. I'm not sure it's the answer for everyone. Whatever you can do to get in touch with your community or nature will likely help. I hope you find a solution. :)
n/a 420illad 2017-07-07
"Those only are happy who have their mind fixed on some other pursuit than their own happiness"
John Stuart Mill
n/a douguncensored 2017-07-07
Indoor domestication + debt slavery is a helluva combo. Add to it the fact that we've been gifted a social and economic wasteland in which our cultural and religious connections to our ancestors have been intentionally severed and you've got a recipe for widespread anxiety, isolation, and unrest.
The only thing that really inspires me anymore is my belief that one day it will all fall apart.
n/a oiusejfoe 2017-07-07
Sprawl and multiculturalism are probably the most to blame.
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
The second has nothing to do with anything and even if so its impact is minimal.
n/a oiusejfoe 2017-07-07
Social science doesn't agree with you. Multiculturalism reduces a sense of community and social trust.
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
That is due to how the elite structure it.
They create inferior classes and that causes divisions.
n/a oiusejfoe 2017-07-07
The elite didn't structure it, but they use it to their advantage. That's why they push multiculturalism--it's a biological weapon.
"the length of a conflict and its casualty rate is 25 percent higher in areas where an ethnicity is divided by a national border as opposed to areas where ethnicities have a united homeland"
Races simply are inferior at different things. We're all inferior to west Africans at sprinting. Asians and whites have the highest IQs. If you don't think genetics plays a role in behavior then you have a lot of reading to do. We also seeks out friends and spouses who are genetically similar to ourselves.
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
Ok I see you're retarded.
n/a oiusejfoe 2017-07-07
I've only stated facts. You've done nothing of the sort except expressed outrage. You'll have to do better than that.
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
They aren't facts. That's why I called you retarded.
You think they're facts without researching hard enough.
n/a oiusejfoe 2017-07-07
Sorry, but you are an absolute moron who is a bit too confident with your idiocy. Those are facts:
http://i0.wp.com/thealternativehypothesis.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/iq5.jpg?resize=580%2C381
https://jaymans.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/sat-race-income-1995.png
Don't believe it? Read this: http://quillette.com/2017/06/02/getting-voxed-charles-murray-ideology-science-iq/
Wow, so diverse: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e0/91/a9/e091a9f7f1f17474d52ad9921dfaff3d.jpg
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=1023122
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/we-choose-friends-who-are-genetically-similar-us-180952050/
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
Lots of bullshit sources.
I look up Charles Murray and I find he is a biased douchebag who cherrypicks results, more than a scientist. Anyone who states that economic status has a minimal impact on one's position in the future is talk out of their ass and a bootlicker for the elite.
He can suck Kissinger's dick somewhere else. You can too whilst you're at it, useless Eater.
n/a oiusejfoe 2017-07-07
Sorry no, that's heresay that's been disproven. Read the "Getting Voxed" link. Also give this a listen: https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/forbidden-knowledge
No one has said that. Reality includes all sorts of variables. You're trying to suppress variables because of feelings.
Why is it so hard for you to accept the truth?
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
Sam Harris is another psuedointellectual.
I don't take people who cite these conservative Hasbara thinktank losers seriously. Piss off.
n/a oiusejfoe 2017-07-07
I'm open minded. Post a link that disproves anything I've linked to.
It's probably more productive than getting frustrated and calling me names.
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
"You're proving my point. They're culturally-incompatible ingrates who don't care about free speech. But hey, it's more Irish than the Irish to not drink Guinness, protest free speech, and cut the clits off of little girls.
Why are you even asking this if it doesn't matter? You're hedging.
Stop being such a pussy and acknowledge that you will have failed your country if it's nothing but brown-skined, brown-eyed, brown-haired muslims. That's not Ireland, that's a shithole that's part of the Muslim world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_world
Oh weird, it's like the opposite of this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where-to-be-born_Index#2013_rankings
Seriously, stop being such a fucking cuck. I'm on the left, but I understand that demographics is destiny. You gain nothing by displacing Irish people."
You're not open minded for shit. Don't try and play that game.
I don't need to post links. Sam Harris disproves himself with his half truth garbage; the guy thinks its a great idea to bomb Middle Eastern children whilst claiming his people have a moral highground, and you're telling me I should bother with scrub-tier intellectuals like him.
Chomsky DESTROYED him; I don't need to take Harris seriously. The fact that you do proves you just like confirmation bias.
n/a oiusejfoe 2017-07-07
Of course I am. What else would explain overcoming the indoctrination of diversity being good?
You are an absolute fucking moron who has only heard this second hand. In context, this was about a preemptive strike to a nuclear ICBM.
That's ok, Harris didn't author anything I referred you to.
Except I'm the only one here posting facts you ingrate. You have posted absolutely nothing to contradict me. You have nothing but your outrage because you have no data.
n/a CelineHagbard 2017-07-07
Removed. Rule 4.
n/a CelineHagbard 2017-07-07
Removed. Rule 4.
n/a wildfireonvenus 2017-07-07
It's God.
n/a thakiddd 2017-07-07
Yup God.
n/a sugarleaf 2017-07-07
A friend at Occupy told me I was on a path in previous lives, and that I'm looking to find that path again.
n/a swordofdamocles42 2017-07-07
yes we used to be super agile and strong like people who Parkour.
they don't teach us to train our body like we should.
parkour and calisthenics should be taught to all youngster. but we can't have a population of fit strong people everywhere. how could they control us.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
This is why I have dove headfirst into fitness. Hopefully I will manage to ditch the smoking soon. I have already begun to remove junk food from my life. I've never been the type to gain a lot of bodyweight from bad foods but it still must screw me inside.
I honestly feel like physical progression may hold some answers for me. It's less about vanity and more about the feeling I will get from knowing I can run a distance and not get out of breath. That I can vault fences and climb walls effortlessly etc... I think once I reach a good place I will be closer to finding myself (so to speak)
n/a ReptilianDystopia 2017-07-07
Getting into calisthenics. Still can't do a damn pullup though.
n/a swordofdamocles42 2017-07-07
you soon will
its amazing how quick the progresion goes from zero to being the strongest person you know
n/a AndoMacster 2017-07-07
Go surfing..You'll rediscover a connection to nature
n/a sock_lover 2017-07-07
You forgot that you are God/existance itself.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
What do you love about socks?
n/a sock_lover 2017-07-07
The same thing you love about sucking ass I guess: the warmth and comfort. These people telling you to walk in nature, plant a tree, take drugs or whatever are just giving you ways to remember who you are.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
No lol, Bill is (or was) the owner/mod of ATS. I am claiming he sucks ass because I made this reddit account after he banned me from ATS for showing some minor evidence of ATS Mod shilling.
Also I am not sure how comforting and warm sucking ass is. Maybe for the recipient.
How can you remember who you are if you have never known?
n/a sock_lover 2017-07-07
Who is it that have never known? Who/what are you referring to?
n/a 1tepa1 2017-07-07
You dont know who you really are, that is what you have lost. The psychological sense of self is hollow and unsatisfying.
n/a datwayAlgerian 2017-07-07
Spirituality is what we're missing. All sorts of facts are hidden by our government about the pineal gland. Once we understand the pineal gland and embrace it full of the love; is the day ALL the government corruption and shitty evil stuff comes to and end. Once we awake our thoughts and actions are far beyond the grasp of a few elitists, and that is what there most scared of.
n/a Ottertude 2017-07-07
Move to the country. Eat a lot of peaches. Try to find Jesus, on your own 😀
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
I found Jesus once. My life seemed to pan out the same. Ofc I could have avoided huge disasters because I found Jesus, or maybe there were no disasters to avoid in the first place.
n/a waverlyposter 2017-07-07
n/a keelling 2017-07-07
Yes, I feel it. Its the loss of self ownership .
n/a Junkie_Monkie 2017-07-07
Sounds like you're talking about magic - or at least the magic the ancient world seems to have had or just by coincidence all believed in and practiced. We have three parts - Mind, Body, Spirit. We call it our subconscious when something happens and our mind didn't do it. But it's our spirit. Get in touch with your spirit. Go outside, close your eyes and imagine all the energy, particles, waves, etc that is surrounding you. Then inhale, but don't just inhale into your lugs, inhale with every particle in your body and focus on pulling everything into you. breathe in the universe. let it flow through you.
Just know, your mind, body, and spirit all grow like a plant. Try and grow towards the light, not towards the darkness.
Say what you will about this. But the truth about the world is simple. God exists, an so does the devil. We have an elite that worships evil because the truth is when you pray to the devil he answers back - but it's twisted lies given to foolish people who seek power in a world that is but a blink of the eye. But God answers too! And his word isn't twisted, it's given to you the way you need it. The trick is, figuring out how to listen to what he says.
"Ask and you shall receive" as the old line goes.
In conclusion - Be kind, when kindness flows from you, it must also flow back to you.
n/a meta4one 2017-07-07
There's a grand deception being perpetrated on the human race to create the idea of separation a nun connectivity to each other and nature . what's you feel that you're missing is interconnectivity to nature and each other, your brothers and sisters around the world, through love. Sounds like some hippie shit then it is but the more you read and learn the more you'll find this to be the truth.
n/a AndoMacster 2017-07-07
We are currently at the apex of a scientific revolution that is reflected in today's materialistic secularism, but mankind has already started to make the first few steps on the age long transition towards spiritual enlightenment and living more harmonically with nature
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
We already were living with nature, we did a 180 turn and went the other way.
What steps have we made towards living with nature? Industrial waste and pollution?
n/a milykaimer 2017-07-07
This guy gets it.
n/a redditkeepsdeleting 2017-07-07
This sub kills me. It's like 3/4 political, and 1/4 weird pseudo-zen spiritualism. I just don't get it. What is it about hating the government and dark shadowy secrets that also turns folks into a hyperfractal quantum hologram hippie? Maybe I'm too old to get it.
Oh, and earthquake guy. Okay, so maybe 1/2 political to allow for solar conjecture and weather prediction. Good stuff there.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
I agree with researchers who believe we will become less intelligent as time goes on now. Before we advanced mentally to survive in harsh environments and deal with threats that our bodies alone couldn't overcome. Now everything is done for us we just have to do a job, which for most, is pretty repetitive and mundane.
It can be hard to pat your own back perhaps that should be your next challenge.
I suppose weight lifting and cardio are my current challenges...Especially cardio. 12 years of smoking and no cardio is hard to bounce back from.
n/a Billsucksass 2017-07-07
Lol I am at that exact stage. I have been doing weights for a while but the cardio idea is new. I was smoking a few weeks ago and I looked at the ashtray and just thought "Man that looks fucking horrible". Then I started thinking about the fact that stuff was raping my lungs. I'm brought a Vap and started jogging. God, 5 minutes of jogging and I feel like I am going to die. Haven't cut down much yet but hopefully soon.
Don't go to the Darkside lol. I gave up smoking for a month a few years ago. It became so easy after the first 2 weeks. I really should have stuck with it but I lost my resolve and decided I would rather smoke than be healthy. Priorities have changed now.
n/a MassStockholmSyndrom 2017-07-07
You can plant all the trees you want, without others to enjoy them you are alone in the woods.
n/a xcalibre 2017-07-07
go camping, switch the phone off (but take it for emergencies) and spend a couple hours by the campfire before going to sleep
walk, enjoy nature