Roland Daher

Most probably, Twitter won't die. And we will all have to reflect honestly around our tolerance to inefficiency.

"Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness. Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings. They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing. And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving…. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day." - DFW

Seeing a lot of people reposting this video. Some are confused why the other sex is reacting the way they are to the video. Simple model: Men - I think therefore I am. Women - I am therefore I feel. Women don’t understand why men think about the Roman Empire because they don’t appreciate that a man centers his beliefs and values as his mental point of origin, not himself. (Values maxxing leads him to the dream that is Rome) Men don’t understand why woman are not thinking of the Roman Empire or confused why they are confused that men do because they don’t appreciate that a woman centers herself as her mental point of origin not any kind of belief or value. (Any action a woman takes is the right action because she is right) Eg. This conversation is about values and identity. Men are confused women don’t act from values, and women are confused that men don’t act from themself. (This is incidentally why narcissists appeal to women) Men place the most generative values as his mental origin point. Women place themselves. The strategies are complimentary. Because family + reproduction require both sexes these viewpoints create a dynamic but generative equilibrium point.

Stoicism and all until there are only 30 seconds left in the final, and the opponents are awarded a free kick or a corner kick.

Folks that complain consume about 20x the energy of those that just get sh*t done Simplify the team for 2H'2023

We had a productive meeting with congressional leaders yesterday. I'm confident that we'll get to an agreement on the budget, and America will not default. Every leader in the room understands the consequences if we fail to pay our bills.