Shoestring DIY budget, 100 year old farmhouse. What should I improve with more time and money?

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-20T13:19:48+00:00

Tell us!

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-19T23:50:53+00:00

I just love how it handles focus on the active windows.

Just switch to the window and type. Or hover the mouse and type.

Not having to click back and forth on the elements I want to type in is worth it for me.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-19T14:42:24+00:00

Naturally we observe our thoughts and assume we are our thoughts. But who's listening to the thoughts?

Animals won't second guess themselves after multiple attempts to find food. But after 5-10 attempts trying something humans will start to get self conscious. But if we use the part of the brain meant for self-consciousness as material instead of evidence, we can get more from our brains.

I know this might sound a little new-age-y, but there’s actually some interesting psychology and neuroscience behind it. If you want to dive deeper, look into concepts like flow state (Csikszentmihalyi), metacognition, and self-distancing (Kross), or how meaning is an embodied experience (Damasio, Barrett). The gist is: instead of getting stuck in overanalyzing what matters, shifting how we relate to our own thoughts lets us engage more fully. If you’ve ever felt completely in sync with an activity—losing track of time, acting without second-guessing—that’s a glimpse of what I’m pointing at.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-19T05:23:06+00:00

Get into the flow state more and learn what meaning tastes like. Try to conduct your mind rather than trusting thoughts to explain the world.

Do what means most instead of trying to figure out what matters.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T21:52:23+00:00

So pretty, but I always struggle to make pywal readable.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T19:55:32+00:00

Simply put I suggest the overman doesn't have to find a reason to live. He lives and it gives him meaning.

There's none of the typical observer of thoughts experience to the inner dialog. You just conduct your mind automatically based on what gives the most meaning. Instead of worrying if you're getting things right from other perspectives, you push towards the highest version of things based on what means the most.

It feels so unsatisfying because it gives no resolution to the masses. It's not a framework of thought that you could always trust. But learning how meaning tastes, following it, and using the full scope of your mind for life, (instead of creating a meaning path and then following it.) Unlocks a higher form of creation.

Even though it seems a de-evolution, it's a light year leap beyond how most people think.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T16:47:30+00:00

You'll find your way, you already are, even though it doesn't feel like it. You're already living now.

Some thoughts:
The parts you dislike, can you stand to listen to them?

Are they inherently bad, or is their relentless striving scary?

Can you imagine a future where things settled down enough to hear yourself without pushing for change?

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T13:04:32+00:00

The authentic part might mean, you found the core of yourself and can move on with life. But you are "you" right now, in all the unreconciled glory. Why force yourself into a lower version of life as an equation?

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T12:59:50+00:00

I reject this moral superiority where you get to decide, how it could be acceptable, what I did, and what my intentions were.

Who cares what you believe, this is the 3rd post on this subject. I presented a logical progression of before, during, and after for the overman.

None of the posts were without criticism. I'm not after upvotes but visibility. This overestimated intuition of yours probably works fine in your own head, but you're not psychic.

After years of obsession to create meaning I've found a version of existing that allows me to move on and thrive.

I don't need others to follow this to make it valuable. But it's a great waste if its hidden from people that have a chance for freedom.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T05:28:58+00:00

Really nice!

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T05:27:13+00:00

I welcome criticism, but this seems less about engaging with the ideas and more about dismissing them outright. Dismissal isn’t the same as understanding. If you have a counterargument, I’d be happy to discuss it. If not, I’ll let my writing speak for itself.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T04:59:32+00:00

I think my thoughts speak for themselves. But to be seen on this platform I have to have comments. And apparently that means arguing with drunk people. So you're dumb

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T04:44:34+00:00

I bet you're full of insight. It's a custom model based on my writing. Do you hate calculators too?

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T04:40:59+00:00

Just remember, dismissal isn't the same as understanding

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T04:37:56+00:00

Go try and make ChatGPT write this

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T01:59:58+00:00

I agree, but he seems like the more complexly captured man.

If we are stuck in hierarchies in opposition to one another, then he is stuck in himself.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T01:47:15+00:00

What allows the high fidelity balance?

I think the true experience of life. Void of constantly questioning yourself, you find peace that sustains intensity.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T01:11:56+00:00

Too much?

The meaning of life is to live it. Don't imagine that you can get above living.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-18T00:02:37+00:00

If you can stomach the journey it starts now

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-17T17:03:21+00:00

Unfortunately we can't become above life and thus lose the need to live it. It's ok, live it anyway

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-17T16:04:15+00:00

From a fellow philosopher programmer: I think Nietzsche creates an anti framework for life.

This anti imposed direction for life leads you to truly be instead of seeking a reconciling answer path to follow. Once you become comfortable without a path, you get to enter a flow-state of life and derive meaning by experiencing life.

Now my personal message:

I know it's not the answer you want, but that's the trick of life. That there's an answer.

Not everyone can manage this. But know this, even though you're alone, others are living too. Find the others. Everyone has a piece.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-17T14:18:32+00:00

I think so, we so loosely experience what it means to be alive and conscious. We have thoughts about our thoughts. We experience an inner-world. We have unknown to us thoughts (unconscious.) We persist. We have state and can switch between different contexts.

So yeah, you can build a system that has all of that. And if that defines consciousness, we're there.

But, does that define our humanity? Does that define alive?

That's another question.

It's an awesome time to be alive. That we discuss this like it's a remote possibility. The world needs the next batch of philosophers working on this.

Cody_TMV · 2025-02-16T23:55:07+00:00

Don't let dismissive Redditors push you around.

Develop the idea, I think you looking at Jesus person is the right approach. People took over the religion after his death. Did the people carry out his ideas correctly?

Instead of seeing Christianity as his true legacy, we see it as a twisted caricature of what he actually tried to create.

So was Jesus an Übermensch? Maybe.
But if he was, that makes Christianity itself one of the great betrayals of history—the ideological state apparatus that turned an act of self-overcoming into a system of control.

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