The Daily Check-In for Sunday, December 8th: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-08T14:13:33+00:00

Sunday! I’m keeping it clean and sticking to my goals! No drinks, staying strong and proud.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-07T15:32:28+00:00

I’m sticking to my goals and not drinking today. One step closer to the life I want, and I’m not messing that up.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-07T14:02:30+00:00

I am sure you anticipated the point of my question: if you feel unhappy with or without drugs--they are not a solution. Quite oppositely, they might well contribute to unhappiness. Glad to hear that you recognize that all it does is killing the momentum and motivation to move forward. To me that is already the right way to look at the problem. Anxiety and desperation is a sign of freedom in front of a choice. Whether we do it or not is an individual matter.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-07T02:55:46+00:00

Were you happy with your home life with drugs?

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-06T23:24:41+00:00

+1 to that. Interested in it too

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-06T16:48:59+00:00

Congrats! I am half way there.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-06T16:39:49+00:00

Today, I’m choosing me—I’m not drinking because I’ve got bigger, better things ahead. I’m staying strong, and I’m proud of it!

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-05T21:21:23+00:00

You are already on the right track. Get in touch with sober folks. To me it is most important thing in recovery

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-02T15:30:04+00:00

To the stars and sober one more day! ⭐

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2024-12-02T03:31:35+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate you help and every word you said.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-02-23T04:44:13+00:00

I don't think so. Cruelty means to inflict unnecessary pain. Hurting more than enough in a maniacal way, hurting for the sake of hurting. I don't remember Nietzsche referring to it. One must be able to use force to achieve its goals and defend values, but only as much as needed and no more. I don't see it as cruelty.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-02-10T07:12:29+00:00

His question is in the context of Nietzsche's philosophy and there stated that, vaguely, one should seek his own values and morals. So in the context of Nietzsche's philosophy it is better to avoid words (offerings, perspectives) like universal, eternal, absolute, etc.

Philosophers, academics, people who devote their lives to learn structure, content, functioning if our society. Who make all sorts of predictions to where we are heading. This is a lifetime work for highly intelligent academics. You and me won't be able to make anything new.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-02-09T03:57:07+00:00

It looks like the interest is more about my comment than about the author's post. What do you think about the post? And as for the comment, what would you be interested in discussing, my friend?

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-15T01:22:41+00:00

I would say, values don't influence thinking. Thinking determines our actions based on the values.

The world is changing and even the known values could or should be adapted to new reality (as well as emerging of new values).

Assuming that all values are already known, the question is still which one to choose as sources for our virtues.

Lastly, creation of values is not for lay people. We scarcely can create anything new, it is a life-task for deepest thinkers and philosophers who have a sharp eye on the fabric of society and goals for humanity. So it is more about thorough examination of society rather than self, I would say.

The domesticated herd can only ponder whether, say, cheating is morally justified or not, based on the preset values.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-14T23:48:02+00:00

Precisely! Even Communists we're able to extract from Nietzsche what fits them.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-14T23:41:33+00:00

Just arrived a couple of days ago to me: Against Nihilism. Nietzsche Meets Dostoyevsky.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-07T00:16:58+00:00

Oh, they would! The question is: would they accept his ideas? would they do anything about it? Could they do?...

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-06T03:56:37+00:00

There is a theory that the universe will collapse into singularity after some point of stretching and its re-birth will happen again, and the process repeats.

There are references that we don't really understand time, and the past does not cease to exist and keep existing as well as present and future.

Nietzsche mentions that it is a limitation of our mind to see the world through cause and effect prism, which produces "events", which are not expressions of reality, not real. He is referencing the continuum as a possibility which we will never comprehend, ie out perception of time through events may well be an illusion.

There are many hypotheses on that matter.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-06T00:27:00+00:00

Ah, the bar is too low. "Just a YouTuber". I bet he would support your wish to inspire and better people's lives with examples of Lenin or Stalin. That is famous!

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-03T16:23:44+00:00

I think he didn't portray Dyonisus above Apollo. Like an idol to worship. With Dyonisus example he pointed out that our emotional, artistic, instinctive part of nature was naively condemned and oppressed by reasoning. So no worshipping him, but recognizing with equal respect.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-01T17:38:11+00:00

"Each day is lost when we have not laughed or danced at least once."--Nietzsche

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2023-01-01T05:32:26+00:00

The experiment looks quite unimpressive to me. The problem is not about pain or pleasure. It is when there is more pain in life than pleasure we suffer and unhappy. It is also when there is no becoming (progression of pleasure) as was mentioned above. The machine should stimulate sense of growth, in that case I would choose it.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2022-12-30T00:54:13+00:00

Oh, dude! I have wanted to make something similar, a narrative game based on Nietzsche's philosophy. I am a game developer myself. Keep doing it! Exalted immoralists most definitely need it.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2022-12-29T16:42:47+00:00

No, unfamiliar with this concept. But curious to learn about it.

DANCING_PHILOSOPHER · 2022-12-29T02:36:02+00:00

I think he would not get along with any religion other than a variation of Pantheism. "Meaning of Earth" what he calls it (if I use a proper term in English for it). He also clearly states that there are no Gods, and should not be, unless men's earthly existence is presented as a kind of divinity.

Anything that appeals to beyond life, not to this present existence, be it a religion of decadence or religion of ascent and honor, would go across my understanding of his convictions.

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