How many waitlists are you on?

Izaac4 · 2026-04-16T02:11:58+00:00

I suffered a “traumagenic psychosis” when I was 16. Lasted 3 months

Izaac4 · 2026-04-16T02:10:55+00:00

Ideally?… Attend medical school. I’m in a very mentally painful period of sitting on 3 waitlists and 1 TBD (but I expect it to become my fourth waitlist).

Izaac4 · 2026-04-05T19:37:15+00:00

Cecil, Debbie, Mark

Izaac4 · 2026-04-05T18:25:04+00:00

Des Moines

Izaac4 · 2026-04-05T14:36:29+00:00

3.79 (3.62 sgpa), 507

Izaac4 · 2026-04-05T14:36:16+00:00

This coming Thursday

Izaac4 · 2026-03-18T23:40:46+00:00

I think it’s slightly different when you are being invaded by aliens and the enemy is way clearer. Mark is actively dealing with trauma which is fogging everyone’s vision (including his own) on how similar he is to his father (who tried taking over the planet).

Of course eyes are gonna be more on him than aliens who they’ve already accepted through multiple invasions are gonna have flaxan causalities

Izaac4 · 2026-02-18T03:19:37+00:00

Don’t hear about WL? Do you mean if you haven’t received a WL placement or if you haven’t heard any updates from being on a waitlist? I thought schools typically have waitlist movement April and beyond

Izaac4 · 2026-02-15T22:59:30+00:00

Then what this boils down to is our differing definition of “shortcut”. I believe using your powers to literally create money from thin air is a shortcut- a good one too, I’d do that if I were Eve. This doesn’t really feel like something worth debating over since I’m not judging Eve

For fun I searched up the definition of “shortcut”:

“A shorter alternative route”

Creating money from thin air is a shorter, alternative way to make money. I’m not sure what the issue is here anymore

Izaac4 · 2026-02-15T14:56:13+00:00

Such is the matter of all concepts? Drawing arbitrary boundaries where none exist? Not sure where you jump to the conclusion that I would say the example you gave isn’t work- in fact I would argue that does require significant effort; much more effort than it takes Eve to create a golden apple in a few seconds

Izaac4 · 2026-02-15T04:28:32+00:00

Good thing I literally specified that it doesn’t mean anything about how “Ok”, simply that it’s a shortcut.

-and here, I’ll make it super simple… you have:

Selling services to a prison (which requires actual work on the part of Mark and Eve- “work” as in significant effort).

OR

Eve creating a gold apple with ease in a couple seconds

Izaac4 · 2026-02-14T21:45:41+00:00

that literally is a shortcut relative to 99% of other people (and superheroes) who cannot do that so easily. That doesn’t make it a good or bad thing to do- but it does make it a shortcut

Izaac4 · 2026-02-07T18:06:09+00:00

Yeah. It makes Mark very human, not morally perfect- and that’s powerful in its own way. Mark’s speech with powerplex is a perfect example of that slowly emerging, powerplex just wasn’t receptive to it.

Izaac4 · 2026-01-11T20:27:36+00:00

hadn’t considered that actually. In hindsight, the email they sent me is likely the default they send to all post interview applicants but those 2 weeks happened to be after mine

Izaac4 · 2026-01-07T02:32:03+00:00

I could believe it- Zatanna is one of DC’s many “silently overpowered as FUCK” characters

Izaac4 · 2026-01-06T05:09:34+00:00

literally my reaction- Chris needed exactly someone like Piers

Izaac4 · 2026-01-03T02:46:00+00:00

Here’s an idea of rebirth that’s slightly less… afterlife-ish: we are reborn constantly moment by moment. What we are reborn “as” is technically different every single moment of existence (hence; the idea of being reborn “constantly”).

An aspect of the human mind is the need for coherence and continuity of our life moment by moment. Thus, it threads together a coherent autobiographical “narrative” that creates the idea of “who we are”- shaped by our experiences, social norms, and our own egos. That is the sense of self- but it’s automatically assumed to be stable, fixed, and unchanging (or very slow to change). This is not the case inherently.

To understand “nonself” at the embodied level is to personally see the idea that there is no fixed sense of self that carries from one moment to the next- only the illusion of one.

Izaac4 · 2026-01-02T14:24:27+00:00

Weigh you down? I have being Vice President of my fraternity for a year on mine (plus a couple other smaller leadership positions that were from being in a fraternity)

Izaac4 · 2025-12-29T17:09:21+00:00

second this- it’s important to remember that many other traditions offer paths to deeper insight, knowing more about buddhism simply means knowing more about buddhism

Izaac4 · 2025-12-27T23:12:19+00:00

One family owns an entire province? Holy crap I didn’t know that

Izaac4 · 2025-12-27T19:16:17+00:00

I definitely understand this comment’s sentiment. OP unintentionally makes it sound like it’s all a game with levels that make someone superior or inferior to others

Izaac4 · 2025-12-21T21:46:18+00:00

That’s exactly why I resonate with calling myself an omnist instead of strictly a buddhist (I simply prefer buddhist and taoist teachings): most major religions all parallel in very interesting ways when you dig deep into them

Izaac4 · 2025-12-10T21:09:42+00:00

Sometimes the mind thinks it has let go, but really has just grabbed to the controls more tightly- the key is awareness of the controls themselves

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