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Not having a job is the least of your problems. Maybe the people in your life aren't people you should be opening up to. Are you sure you're depressed and not just being accurate about your situation? I'd be more worried if you weren't feeling down. Motivation is an issue of moving towards a goal, if you have no goal it makes sense you wouldn't be motivated. I don't have a goal of being a Nascar driver, so naturally I'm not motivated to become one. Procrastination can also be an issue of goals too. I think that people try to be a tyrant over themselves and procrastinating is the revenge of the inner slave. It's impossible to do something with will power alone long term, you have to want to do it. You say you were/are aimless like it's innate to your nature. Did you have no friends or family that saw you floundering? If you walk by a pool and see someone drowning and don't throw them a rope, you can hardly say they drowned all by themselves. That's a lot of time. What's your average day look like? Physical health is so underrated in society. Probably because you don't notice you have it until you lose it. Short term, literally do anything. You said you went to college. Did you get a degree? Most retail places will put you in entry management with a 4 year degree in just about anything, which, although is less than an ideal situation, can give you some half way decent income. What did you do before you took off 18 months? This is an abstract problem that is a way to procrastinate, imo, because it's the natural consequence of everything else working together. For example, worrying about how property taxes might change in the future on your house when you've yet to pour the foundation. What do you like to do? What are you good at doing? What are you interested in? Obviously you should make therapy a priority to work on underlying issues. I can't say whether or no you should work out that first or you can figure out career opportunities in tandem, but that panic you are feeling is a good thing. If you're in a burning building, you should panic so you get out. With all the sympathy in the world for your experience as a child, you need to be panicking. You should have been panicking decades ago. So, if I may be so bold I'll try to crank the panic up to 11. Imagine your life in 30 years if nothing changes. You wake up and your 70, what does your day to day look like? Imagine your day. Now imagine your tombstone after a long life of more of the same. What does your epitaph say? Edit: I forgot to add part two to the above. After you imagine your own personal hell, do the reverse and imagine what an ideal life could be, and your epitaph for that life.

Yeah, I listened by searching hashtags that were interesting and listening to all the material from that subject, then on to the next. I'd be interested depending on when it is. Edit: you know what, I've been thinking about it for a little bit and I think 5 episodes may be too much to have a meaningful discussion about. Also, a lot of the early ones are kind of self evident. It may just be my own limitations, but I'm not sure how much of a conversation can be had about DROs and the like. However, there are specific ones that could probably spark hours and hours of conversation like episode 7, much of the dream analysis, many of the early conversations especially with Greg, etc.

I agree, but I also see the two world wars in a positive context too. You can definitely have too much drive, especially if you are working in the wrong domain, and too much defence of the tribe, which is basically sharia. The wars culled the heard of the most aggressive individuals in the most aggressive cultures, namely Russia and Germany. I wouldn't say mass slaughter is or was desirable, but it may have been inevitable.

How do we assign responsibility in this though? They may have been trying to infect the US with their ideology but we still accepted it. For example, if someone convinces you that murder is great and you go out and kill someone, sure they have responsibility for putting that idea in you, but if you weren't at least a little receptive to it it wouldn't have taken root.

Reminds me of that Churchill quote that the next fascists will call themselves anti fascists.

I can see it both ways. Why do you think it is the worst thing that happened to US culture?

I've had some time to mull it over and I think that if there is any group of third worlders that could be assimilated it would be Latinos because they speak a European language, worship a European God, come from European styles of government, and genetically are 50-75% European. That doesn't mean that they should be allowed in, but that since US immigration policy is largely out of my control, so in the worst case they're ≈ brown Irish. If you're interested I made a blog post elaborating those points.

What do you spend most of your day doing/thinking about outside of work and sleep? What kind of books do you read for pleasure? Something that helped me figure things out was to make a list of things I think I could be good at/enjoy doing/make some decent coin. Then start planning backwards. For example "I am 40 and just had my last child out of 4, how did I get here?" Working backwards 2 years between each child puts me at 32, another 2 years for courtship with future wife puts me at 30. In the time between 20 and 30 is for training to do something on that list and building traction in your chosen profession. You can start eliminating options based on criteria like how much you want to be involved with raising the children, how important is doing meaningful metaphysical work, the nap, helping others, self-aggrandizement. Those are just some categories I found helpful, ymmv. I would also highly, highly recommend getting a professional iq test and taking a big 5 personality test. The professional iq tests break down into several different categories and you may find your are strong in some and weak in others. Play to your strengths. I found out I was very high in verbal fluency but very low in motor function. Yet before that I was learning to become a programmer, job that requires little verbal skills and higher motor skills... Ideally you want to find something where you can be in the 90 percentile of the occupation so that you are better than almost everyone but still have something to strive for. Haven't done it but I've heard Dr Peterson talk about it. He mentioned that one part is imaging an optimal life 5, 10, 20 years in the future if you got your act together and did everything you needed to do. And another part was imagining where you would be 5, 10, 20 years from now if nothing changes and you give in to all your potential vices. This is not very good advice. College is not expensive if you go to community College first, maximize aid, grants, and scholarships, go to a school in state, and live at home/cheaply off campus. Debt is hardly the worst thing in the world, but it does suck, so make sure it's worth it.

The premium forums are beyond dead. Kind of a shame but can't really force people to post. But what do you mean by "streamline"? I've heard that said in positive and negative contexts.

I've heard Stefan say repeatedly that 30% of immigrants in the 19th century who came to America left. I was looking for a source but couldn't find any. Does anyone know where it is from?

You should probably read my second sentence since I already addressed your point. Unfortunately I don't live in a world of randian supermen. If the only thing you know about someone is that they're an atheist it probably means they're a socialist too. Socialism is immoral and I don't want to be associated with it. Therefore I don't want to be associated with atheism either. That is why it is relevant. I am not an atheist because it's more or less a political stance at this point, I just don't believe I a deity.

And that's not any random website, it's the American psychological association for Christ's sake.

Thought I'd share this gem I found on the apa website. tl;dr: All problems in the black community are caused by evil white racism. Blacks have no control over their actions and only act in response to whites. Africa was literally an peaceful parenting utopia before whites came and ruined it.

Why do how people think about me and what is true have to be mutually exclusive? Atheists tend to be rabid socialists with all the associated nastiness. I don't want to be painted with the same brush as them. I identify more with my ethics than my lack of a belief in a deity.

If you're going to be this much of an edge Lord you'd better learn to use the echoes correctly. They're supposed to imply jews like (((reporters))). Just putting the word jew with the echoes is improper form since you're not implying anything as you already named them. In your world whites have no agency. No, whites want to watch porn so they seek it out. They want to be told comfortable lies so they seek out msm. If whites didn't want to partake in whatever degeracy makes you want to clutch your pearls then they wouldn't do it. For instance, there is no amount of (((influence))) that could make you think rubbing the head of your penis with sand paper is beneficial. Hence, the merchant is only selling because the goy is buying. 3edgy 5me. Of course there's a lot of jews in education, media, banks, etc. Those all require high iqs to succeed and the average Jewish iq is 15 points above the average. But again, the merchant is only selling what the goy is willing to buy.

Muh Jewish problem is silly. The merchant might be selling but the goy is still buying. Also, jews aren't monolithic.

Okay, here's a few syllogisms. 1. The state is predicated on the initiation of force. 2. The initiation of force is evil. 3. Therefore the state is an evil institution. 1. The state is an evil institution. 2. Bankers profit based on people's response to government incentives. 3. Therefore bankers profit from an evil institution. 1. The state is an evil institution. 2. Lawyers give justifications to the legitimacy of state power. 3. Therefore lawyers justify an evil institution. 1. My children will have to live in the world that I'm affecting. 2. Choosing to be a banker/lawyer will affect the world negatively in the long term. 3. Therefore choosing to be a banker/lawyer is a violation of the nap of my future children. There are many other ways to make money and I'd also rather raise quality children than save up a lot of money to prepare for the fallout of a collapse that I'd be helping to orchestrate. Stock brokers aren't known for raising quality children, because of the demands of the job they end up being neglected, also a violation of the nap. Yes people are. They are being incentivized with tax programs like iras, 401ks, and inflation. And with this escape hatch talk, there's not going to be aglobal shtf scenario. Things will get bad in some places for a certain amount of time before normalizing. And those most effected will be those who dont have some kind of contingency in place. Just because communism is worse than cronyism doesn't mean that cronyism is good. That was my point. So is it better to get stabbed than to be shot? Is cronyism better than communism? How about neither. This is fantasy on your part. This will either never happen or the warning signs will be so obvious that you can easily leave where you are. Mad max is just a movie, not a prophecy. Sure, but again, its one thing to live in a society where slavery is permitted and another thing to profit from it. You can't help the society you are born into but that doesn't make participating in immorality any less immoral. There's no other prison I'd rather be in, but my preferred choice is to not be in any prison. Just because there are worse prisons doesn't make ours good. It's the same continuum. No it doesn't. That's just blaming the victim. Someone who is a murder for 12 seconds is characterized for the rest of his life as a murderer because any good that he might do is almost certainly outweighed by his evil. My point is that we characterize people by the evil that they do and that it takes a lot of good to outweigh a single evil act if it's possible at all. Can a murderer do enough good in the world to counter balance their ills? Maybe, but probably not, so it's better to not murder in the first place. Can a banker do enough good in the world to counter balance their ills? Maybe, but probably not, so it's better to not be a banker in the first place.

Wow that brings me back. Spooner was one of the first things I read that started me on my current path. I thought I'd try to be a really edgy contrarian and write an essay for history class just to mess with the teacher. This was one of the sources I found. Turned out to be a rabbit hole with no bottom yet in sight.

Does the first amendment allow for pornography? Meh, probably, the constitution is designed to restrain the power of government, not be an exhaustive list of rights granted to the public, but who cares. I never signed that social contract so I don't respect it as legitimate. That said, virtue only exists in the face of abstaining from vice--there'd be no such thing as sobriety if alcohol wasn't cheaply available at every corner store. So I'd say it's probably a net benefit. Virtue has to be difficult to obtain. It's not a virtue to abstain from rubbing the head of your penis with sand paper, but now it can be legitimately claimed that chastity is a virtue with the ease of access to virtually unlimited hd porn and the prevalence/normalization of hookup culture.

Henderyjem doth protest too much, methinks. Personally, I don't think men and women can be friends in a meaningful way. One or the other tends to be friend zoned and that's a really shitty position to be in.

No, the farmers are presumably under some kind of compulsion to continue farming. A better example would be a concentration camp guard. Sure maybe you could be a "good" guard at the end of the day you are serving an evil system. I don't recognize the moral authority of the law so why should I spend all my time entangled in it? Seeing that the vast majority of people in prisons are there for victimless drug crimes I'd say that there is no such thing as a good prison guard in the same way there's no such thing as a good concentration camp guard. Yes but what matters is the circumstances themselves. Current circumstances in regards to banking and lawyering is that the government creates a market for their services at the end of a gun. Very few would need at lawyer if the laws weren't 3 billion pages of self referential jargon. Very few would put their money in the stock market or a bank if inflation wasn't eating away their savings. No one is forcing people to buy your writing, and that's the difference. And compared to getting shot, getting stabbed is great. What's wrong with it is that it will be my children and grandchildren who have to pay the tab with interest if I decide to make a quick buck now. Just because the government is robbing people doesn't mean I should tacitly condone it. Who cares if it's the best we have, that doesn't mean I should be a party to it. This is not a good thing. I don't care about the good things bankers do. They are more than outweighed by the bad. If someone spends 12 seconds of their life murdering and 80 years not murdering, which part are they better characterized by?

Shock of all shocks, lefties are emotional retards!

This is the most concerning bit in my opinion.

I have, I found it to be by and large a waste of time and money because I simply can't remember enough of what happened during my childhood, say before the age of 10-12.

21. Definitely true. I appreciate it and will look into it. Fair enough, but I don't think this Genie can be put back in the bottle. By that same token, might as well go work for the irs, no? If I define something as evil, or perpetuating evil then how can I possibly take part in it with a clean conscience? I'm sure there'd be some kind of system in place for confining murderers and rapists in ancapistan but that doesn't mean I should become a prison guard today. Likewise, lawyers and banking today have nothing to do with what it could be in a system free from coercion. Those who thrive now are those that thrive under the current circumstances. Banking is especially pernicious because it is predicated on fractional reserve lending and the losses are socialized while profits are privatized. I doubt I could look at myself in the mirror and say "yes, I am a banker, I do a lot of good in the world."