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Here's an interesting article from just a few days back about a guy who has lived as a hermit in the wilds of Scotland for the past 40 years. He basically turned his back on society after he was randomly attacked and left in a coma, so he decided from then that he'd only ever live by his own rules: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59174870 If you're in the UK, you can watch the documentary on iPlayer (it's well worth a watch, he's a fascinating guy): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0011hp3/the-hermit-of-treig

read some philosophy

i'd start with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

I was like this a week ago, really angry at all the hive-mind attacks online and shouting etc. It helped to read a bit of sociology tbh, and kind of learn more about these weird ass reactions everyone's having. Some of the beneficial social functions of public condemnation, etc.

This article really helped me navigate the blame that you're seeing online everywhere. It's about how people start to see problems as things caused by amenable human action rather than fate, and how they then try to assign responsibility to some person/system/ideology etc. Pages 284-288 are especially interesting.

Anyways it just widened my perspective. Understanding why people do all this kind of helps to restore faith sometimes.

Not entirely. I gave this a mention on another thread somewhere, but in case anyone missed it, here's an interesting article from just a few days back about a guy who has lived as a hermit in the wilds of Scotland for the past 40 years. He basically turned his back on society after he was randomly attacked and left in a coma, so he decided from then that he'd only ever live by his own rules: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59174870 If you're in the UK, you can watch the documentary on iPlayer (it's well worth a watch, he's a fascinating guy): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0011hp3/the-hermit-of-treig

And this is why the soul re-incarnates.
Empowered by the knowledge they got when they "returned" to source, they thought to themselves that they now have the solution and infused with the "love" of source, they boldly came back.
Two things happen when they crossed the meat barrier into Humandom.
1: They lost their memories like the rest and become another "problem".
2: They retain "Fragments" of knowledge that creates more problem than it solves, because a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
  https://www.amazon.com/God-Guardian-Incarnation-Bracer-Jack-ebook/dp/B07SJ8TLV5/ref=sr_1_6?qid=1640730868&refinements=p_27%3ABracer+Jack&s=digital-text&sr=1-6&text=Bracer+Jack

Had a look at the site you suggested, Happy Abroad. Hope you realise it's a scam. Here are some not-so-flattering reviews: https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/happierabroad.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=popup

In short, thank you mods for deleting it.

Humanity is getting much worse. There are 3 factors. First, as someone else mentioned, modern technology like smartphones turns people into morons. This is particularly true for children. Second, modern culture is global and decaying. Decaying cultures produce culturally horrible people. This has always been true, but this is the first time that this is happening globally. And third, modern culture is highly dysgenic, causing a rapid decay of human genetics. I covered this here and Edward Dutton has collected the evidence to show this in this book.

Yea makes sense. I have two superiors too who are crazy and makes no sense, but still are not so bad at their job sometimes, at least there have knowledge mostly, would be anormal if they don't for how long they are in the field.

Well anyway I don't know, I am reading this : https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B005BRS8Z6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_1N4ZS6PWE87FF7NFFCEQ

It says that you shouldn't let someone else words and the poison with it, affects you, and same for your words but it's obviously not that easy.

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I wear this. Works like a charm.

Some people might think this is not appropriate for this sub. I am approving this for the following reasons:

• JP is a public figure, and therefore is a legitimate subject of debate.

• JP is not without his flaws, as there even exist entire books devoted to criticizing him.

• It is possible that we have a number of JP followers here, giving us great debate potential.

However, I am warning you. Anyone caught flaming or being uncivil will be given a ban of no less than 7 days.

This is a test of virtue. Will you be able to defend (or attack) something dear to you in a civil and constructive manner? Let's find out.

Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet

Not sure how it compares to other information available on him. I just remember him catching my attention after stumbling across a few of his poems and realizing "this guy gets it". There's also a documentary on him you can google. You can see the house he built out of stone on the coast. He had a dream life. Was thinking of visiting it some day.

It's in "songs of a dead dreamer" specifically in "Dreams for Insomniacs". I suggest buying this as it also has some interesting lectures and all the collections from grimscribe as well:

https://www.amazon.ca/Songs-Dreamer-Grimscribe-Thomas-Ligotti/dp/0143107763/ref=sr_1_1/136-9783240-3870807?ie=UTF8&qid=1517355157&sr=8-1&keywords=songs+of+a+dead+dreamer

Start picking up Comp Sci books like this one: Comp Sci Overview 12th Edi and start writing code (scripts, apps, etc) Python, Javascript, C#, or anything really. Also become familiar with the different programming paradigms and terms like floating point notation, variables, syntax and semantics. Also it doesn't hurt knowing the basics of how computers work. That will get your feet wet while you learn in school and hopefully you can start connecting the dots from there.

> "they're not as smart as us."

There's probably some truth to that part of the statement in most cases, using the human definition of smarts of course.

But, I think we tend to overestimate our own intelligence and underestimate the intelligence of other species. I think even in cases where you'd expect an enormous gap in intelligence, it's always smaller than we expect.

Did you know they've identified at least 10 different calls of prairie dogs? Prairie dogs!

These are large ground squirrels. They're rodents. But, they have a different call for human and human with gun! And, when they tested this, a guy walked by the prairie dog colony with a gun. They, of course, correctly gave the alarm call for "human with gun". They're never wrong about that.

More interestingly, when he went by some days later without the gun, they recognized a specific individual of another species and again gave the call "human with gun"!

There are so many great examples of animal intelligence both in formal research and in anecdotal observed cases such as The Parrot's Lament, which is the title story in a book of anecdotal stories of animal intelligence. It was written as a statement that we need to investigate this more, not as if anecdotes count as scientific evidence.

Dystopia: Four Stages of Hell - Nawar Alsaadi (Stage III and Stage IV are not for the faint of heart - the four stages can be bought separately as e-books)

In non-fiction, almost anything on the environment shows my reasons for hating our species. From my list, the one that makes the most sense here though is probably The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment – Paul R Ehrlich & Anne H. Ehrlich.