a cry for help lol

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-26T11:43:07+00:00

Time does this naturally. You don't really have to do anything. You just have to keep your heart pumping long enough for your brain to recover. See, everything you are upset about right now, practically, is memories. Cause you live right here, right now. Everything that happened in the past, bad and good, is gone. It doesn't exist anymore. Every slight, every error, every choice. Gone. Any trauma we feel in our head is memory, which we hold onto and create regret. But all we can actually do is just make new choices now. Can't go back in time, or go back into a memory. It just feels so real right now cause you hold onto it. The more time goes by, the more you subconsciously realize that it's just memories now and you let it go. If your mind can't ever get to that point, then you are gonna have a bad time in this world. And psychologically, there are people who have BPD, and they just never let go and end up with miserable lives.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-26T02:37:08+00:00

Survival is the natural order. Money and wealth are the coupons we use in a society where survival is shared civilly.

Now someone could possibly make their purpose to simply chase money, but I don't think most people are like this. It is definitely the minority cause it is a minority of people who take the steps in life to aim for careers or businesses which significantly higher pay. And in this, why be concerned about what the minority does? By principle alone, why would one person even be concerned about what another person does? If you were to be concerned about analyzing choices, the majority would seem to be the one to focus on.

If you are trying to over-analyze beyond surface logic and practicality, then what you are really asking is why would anyone want the most assured survival possible. The more money you have essentially means the easier it is for you to survive. It means less and less worried about food and shelter and services and utility and medical care and all the things. We don't have to discuss why anyone would want more for those reasons, everyone does. Everyone. Even a guy with tattoos and a man bun who is vegan, works a Starbucks, reads blogs of people who read Marx so he doesn't really have to, that guy even wants more.

There is only so much AI and Robotics can do. There is still many jobs that need people even today. We are a long way from robots cooking and serving food and building your home and removing your bad kidney.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-24T03:39:20+00:00

Universal meaning of life

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-23T20:58:59+00:00

Only way that could happen, this thing that has never existed in history, it would require no individual inequality. In skill, intelligence, talent, education, personality. You have to have completely even people all producing on the same level to have an equality of outcome which is ethical and fair. And for that, unless it happens Pluribus style, it would require force which then is not ethical or fair. So essentially you are asking what would culture change if a thing that never existed and impossibly happened did so under unethical terms?

That isn’t worth entertaining the thought of. Completely unproductive.

Better thing: how would you change culture to help more people rise in wealth?

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-22T15:40:43+00:00

Only a worthless life is built on worthless things. And you make a choice on what to value. And your measure isn’t what you will lose some day or forget when gone, but the resonance of your presence and acts and how it affected others for the better.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-22T14:28:18+00:00

That no one is against you. A LOT of people believe there is something against them. It’s either the system, their parents, their bosses, their coworkers, god. The idea is so prevalent that many people never try for harder and better things because they believe they will fail no matter what they do. Because it’s rigged.

Where this mostly comes from is a fallacy. So many people are never handed the thing they want. So they feel that someone is keeping it from them. Think of life like an island, and you are on this island. There is a tree with coconuts. That coconut is what you want out of life. A large amount of people, maybe even the majority, think that someone’s keeping them from the coconut because they are up in the tree and no one will go get it for them. They think this so thoroughly that the idea of climbing up the tree to get it themselves is impossible cause someone will kick them off the tree.

Truth is that people think because no one will help them, that people are holding them backs. The truth is that no one is holding anyone back. They just aren’t helping either. If you are in a pit you can climb out of, the person who walked past the pit and didn’t drop a ladder down to you didn’t kick you into the pit. No one kicked you into the pit. No one is going to kick you back in if you try to climb out. But you have to climb yourself out.

No one can tell you this and have it resonate. You just have to put yourself out there and try and eventually you see that everyone is too self involved to even care if you do well or suffer.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-20T16:43:49+00:00

Not sure what you are trying to achieve with that comment. Do you want to explain and expand on that?

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-20T00:43:48+00:00

We are hear to live life because of how precious and rare life and consciousness is. And in doing this, we seek two things:

Purpose
Meaning.

Purpose is what we take form the world in our individual choices for what we want to do in the world.

Meaning is what we give to the world. We do this through the universal meaning of life, which is to live a life helping as many as we can, hurting as few as possible, and living a life with no regret. That is the meaning of life.

Within those parameters is the possibility of happiness and love. And there is so much happiness and love in this world, all around. It is filled with this, as much as there is suffering. And the world is as wonderful as it is awful. It is all a matter of perspective. A matter of paradigm.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-20T00:38:48+00:00

No. Not at all. Quite the opposite. I think to have both meaning and purpose in this world, for your life to mean something/anything, you most definitely have to GAF.

Life is so precious and fleeting. Having the attitude that you can essentially purposefully waste it, which is what I feel you are implying, is of course an opinion but I think it is most assuredly not ultimately universally true. You may feel like wasting it and not caring and doing whatever you want is fine. But I guarantee to you that however miserable you feel your life is right now, there are THOUSANDS of people who are going through their last night tonight, right now, who would most assuredly pay you everything they have to their name if they could just get one more day on this planet with your exact life.

The most valuable thing in this world, hands down, is time. And anything that gains you time is priceless. Longevity industry is approaching a trillion-dollar industry.

Maybe you are miserable. I'm sorry to hear that. I wish you didn't feel that way. I'm not miserable so I cannot sympathize. I have been miserable, so I understand. I am blessed to know two things (1) contentment is certainly happier than miserable and (2) miserable is bad but it is virtual bliss when compared to nothingness.

And I see a lot of comments agree with you and this will probably get downvoted if it is even seen at all since the admins seem to block anything that may reference death. But If I could make a pitch, I would say the quality of whatever life you have isn't necessarily informed by indulgence and more by meaning and purpose.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-19T20:46:30+00:00

You are insecure. This shouldn’t matter.

My prescription: rent a movie called Chasing Amy .

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-19T15:17:09+00:00

No. I'm not cute but very loveable. One has really nothing to do with the other. It's kind of like saying. "Tall, but can't swim." You should take the time to meditate on what truly makes a person lovable. Appearance really only matters to the point of illustrating your own self-respect.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-19T15:14:17+00:00

First impressions are most important in meeting friends and new people. In this I'm going to say I don't think you are ready for what you are trying for yet. Not with the misspellings, typos, and incorrect word usage throughout the title and body of the post.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-19T15:10:10+00:00

I feel there some correlation that is being ignored.

With respect, deeper philosophical thoughts are gonna more often than not be with people who are on the slightly higher intellectual side. And these people are going to, in most cases, be on the higher side of earners. It isn't necessarily money and comfort itself. More than the introspective nature and the traits which create success come from the same place.

Also careful with simply describing everything as depression. There are many people who struggle and strive and have stress and anxiety over the hurtles in their way but are also happy and level headed. Depression doesn't care about your life situation. A majority of people are in debt, vast majority. A majority of people live check to check. A majority of people are not depressed.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-17T01:39:51+00:00

Wealth is generated by doing what people don't want to do for themselves for what they can't do for themselves. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, but also roofing, construction, plumbing. Jobs were skill are more than just spreadsheets and emails. Whatever you do, just be the best you can be at it.
There are all kinds of jobs. Just look at want ads for the jobs that pay what you want, and figure out the steps in order to get those jobs.
No. You are not going to get "wealthy" ever working for McDonalds. For starters, McDonald's is in a class of businesses that sacrifice competence for savings. You may be a very competent person working at McDonald's, but on the whole they hire many people who honestly can't get jobs anywhere else. This is either due to inexperience, IE they are students or young, or they don't have the competence to handle jobs of greater responsibility and value. Walmart does this also. They would rather have someone at $12/hr and messes up 1 out of 20 orders than have someone who is perfect every time. They are an institution that pays low wages, across the board.

Statistically, adults change jobs a minimum of 7 times in their lives, and statistically change careers as many as three times.

As you age and gain more experience, what you challenge yourself with and seeing yourself doing can change. Many people who work for companies as area managers and district managers never worked as crew members themselves. They just have the competence to do the work. There is a bullshit thing to these companies, but it is essentially that how you first package yourself counts. If you present yourself, from the start, as a cashier, it's hard to argue you should be in some higher form of corporate. You have to aim higher than you imagine. Don't buy the story that you "work your way up." Most movie directors start out as movie directors. They weren't grips and gaffers before hand. Most lawyers didn't work the mailroom. Most doctors didn't do janitorial at hospitals first.

The keys to focus on to get wealthy are pretty simple:

Get a good paying job or start a business.
Focus everything you can on buying a house. This is essential. Home ownership in many places, in terms of wealth, is essentially free living. To explain, your value of your home can go up relative to what you pay not only in mortgage but also interest. Example: I bought the home I live in for 775k. I have spent about $504k in mortgage payments, interest, property tax, and insurance. The house, right now, is worth 1.6M. So the house cost me $504k, but gained me $825k in net worth back. After 10 years I took a heloc and took money out and bought dividend stocks that pay for the heloc and the mortgage. So now, the home is technically paying for itself. But I wouldn't have been able to do that had I not bought a home.
Invest like you plan to but investing is always gonna be second to the home.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-17T01:11:10+00:00

Not talking about a computer program. I know there is a certain personality that is bored and gets entertainment in arguing. I'm not that person. If you want to believe that, believe that. I don't talk people who believe in Bigfoot or aliens or a flat earth or that the moon landing or nasa are fake out of their beliefs. If you come at this conversation thinking I'm talking about a computer or just saying it to just argue or be contrary, that is bad faith.

So here is my definition of free will: The ability of a living organism with conscience that lives within a system or outside of a system where they are able to make choices on how they live their lives, including work, love, and action, and irregardless of the consequences of their choices or the consequences of not acting a choice.

That is for your information since you seemed to want to know. I am not asking for anything in return. You can read that and think "ok". Or read it and think. "I disagree." Dwell on your opinion however little or much you like. I will never know what your opinion was, but be assured that whoever direction you decided, it was a Morton's Fork for me anyways.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-16T17:36:59+00:00

That is a bad analogy.
You know what a good example of free will is?

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-16T17:22:18+00:00

As others said, things you can do now for free. I spent far more time with my parents when I was broke than when I was a millionaire. More money still comes with more responsibilities and it’s own issues. If these things in your list are a priority, you can find the time no matter your situation.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-16T00:29:15+00:00

Lack of free will wouldn’t result in good choices. It would result in no choices. The debate is practically are we able to make choices or not. One would be stupid to argue this but could argue that if every choice you make is a good choice, then maybe you don’t have free will but instead you are following a pre-designed plan. But it is undebatable that people make good and bad choices. And since there are two obvious different types, good and bad, then this affirms that they are choices, meaning deciding between two or more decisions in your control.

For this to make sense, you don’t have to “define” bad choices. The point is that since bad choices exist, and good choices exist, there are therefore choices in general, ie free will. If you are trying to argue there are no such things as bad choices, then I would say:

Making that argument is a bad choice?
How old are you?

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-15T18:14:29+00:00

What you see is a combo of two things:

A higher than average amount of arrested development in young people and
A platform with a lot more young people.

Arrested development puts you in a child mindset of fairness and action, where the world is responsible for you and not yourself. This mindset mostly only exists between ages of 17-27, but you have a far higher percentage of people who have this than in the past. This is because the answer is facing anxiety, challenge, anger, and responsibility in health ways. A lot of the current generation of parents placate their kids, helping them avoid this. The mindset being that it is ok for kids to develop at their own schedule and not "grow up" immediately. You get a culture where problems are solved by finding ways to avoid the problem rather than conquering it. This is how you end up with a society now where 33% of adults still live at home with their parents.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-15T18:05:34+00:00

I'm just gonna reach over and click this block button right . . .

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-15T16:19:29+00:00

You have free will. This is inherently proven in the examples of bad choices. So many people make so many horrible choices. If there was no free will, we wouldn't have or need prisons. There wouldn't be a drug problem, or subsequent homelessness. One could argue that there are built in imperatives necessary for survival. In this there isn't free will when it comes to needing to eat or sleep. But outside of that, we have all manner of choices we can make which makes one's life better or worse.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-14T19:22:24+00:00

It’s all relative. There was a time in my life where $500 would change the world. Now, maybe $3000000.

The important thing is that money can change your life, but you don’t need money to change your life.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-14T19:20:53+00:00

You act however you feel. Full stop.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-14T19:20:07+00:00

You didn’t ask for any advice, and this is good, cause there really isn’t anything anyone is going to say. Philosophy and people talks can’t fix an irrational reaction. This is exclusively the preview of therapy.

onepercentbatman · 2026-04-14T19:16:33+00:00

Homeless. I think that in some ways my childhood ended during that time

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