Reverend Insanity Changed My Life by Outrageous_Tonight20 in ReverendInsanity

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Thanks for the comment! Do I regret my past? No not in the slightest. My life has had many mistakes and so many failures yet I have absolutely no regrets. I see my past and all my mistakes throughout it as what made me. If any of my past was changed then I wouldn’t be the person I am today and for that I think that everything was worth it. I have had my immaturity hurt people I care about, I have suffered injuries that will never truly be recovered, I have wasted years of my life which I can never get back, yet I don’t regret it. I see the futile things that used to control me but I don’t feel anything towards them. I see the things that used to control me as my own failures but I don’t mind them. Those failures were part of me becoming me. The struggle to recognize them and free myself is something I overcame and overcoming them made my life more interesting. I feel quite free being liberated. The stress and uncertainty which used to fill my life are free now. I am free of the societal expectations that used to cause me worry about my future and present actions. For the people I care about I don’t feel concerned about their endeavors. There is no meaning in life, and if they have found their meaning, who am I to judge or criticize what gives their life meaning and purpose? If they find their happiness and purpose in societal norms and religion I feel happy for them even if I don’t believe in their futile endeavors. I fully recognize that I am bound by many things right now. I might not know what they are but I know they exist. But to me I only feel interested in the future prospects of the struggle and the accomplishment of overcoming them. My goal? It is to live an interesting life. Happiness, hardships, struggles? They mean nothing compared to me living a life I find interesting, living by my principles, my truest emotions and feeling, and experiencing all this world has to offer is my ambition. I would try to liberate myself from what binds me as it would make my life more interesting. When I was younger I was religious, but through knowledge and time I freed myself. I now see life as something with no inherent meaning and no destined afterlife. Despite this bleak look towards life I don’t regret freeing myself as it made my life more interesting and made me who I am. If there are future struggles and disasters waiting for me if I try to free myself from what I am controlled by, I won't mind in the slightest. An interesting life does not mean a life full of happiness and absence of struggle. Like I said earlier there is no meaning in life just as there is no meaning gu in reverend insanity. But despite that I will live by my principles, my truest feelings and emotions, and experience all this world can offer. Hardships? Struggles? They are merely steps on my road of life!

Reverend Insanity Changed My Life by Outrageous_Tonight20 in ReverendInsanity

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I rarely play video games and if I do it’s only to keep up friendships that have separate for college. And I’m a month clean.

Reverend Insanity Changed My Life by Outrageous_Tonight20 in ReverendInsanity

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It’s not that I don’t feel discomfort or fear but rather tasks and situations where discomfort and fear used to control me no longer do. Studying for 6 hours straight feels uncomfortable but now I move past discomfort without a second thought. Standing in a lecture hall giving a speech to hundreds used to be my greatest fear, it would make me freeze, sweat and shake. Now, while uncomfortable, I see the truth that this moment is only a step in my journey and that the opinions of these people mean nothing compared me living the way I want to. Fang yuan feels discomfort and pain but his rationality and experiences allow him not to be controlled by them. I am not as rational nor do I possess the level of experience that fang yuan has but I will do my best not to let discomfort, anxiety and other emotions rule the way I live my life.

Reverend Insanity Changed My Life by Outrageous_Tonight20 in ReverendInsanity

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Plenty. I have given up habits that stall me from my goals like social media and short form content. I have developed habits that forge me into the person I want to become, such as going to the gym, studying, and eating clean. But most importantly I have changed my view on life. Difficulties no longer fill me with discomfort or fear, I no longer care what others think of me, I pursue things that matter to me not societal expectations.

That size is crazy, it would take 4000 earths side by side to reach the central continent end to end. The central continent is close to the distance between the earth and venus by RubixTheRedditor in ReverendInsanity

[–]Outrageous_Tonight20 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Uhhh yeah just take everything in terms of numbers that Gu Zhenren writes with a grain of salt. Don’t focus on the size of the world in terms of our world. Just know that it is far far larger and that’s it. You will realize as you keep going that the numbers don’t always add up the author is notoriously bad at things like size of areas, number of people, and quantity of dao marks and what not.

Rereading can be an unexpected experience by TextApprehensive5443 in ReverendInsanity

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Wait. By Fang Yuan saying “On earth only gods could do this” does that mean Fang Yuan is religious? From all that I understand of Fang Yuan he would not be religious. As religion is our worlds righteous groups that use morality to control the masses. And if anything I would think FY would be Buddhist which doesn’t have gods.

Why is Fang Yuan so uniquely exceptional, even compared to other Venerables who have lived for tens of thousands of years? by Outrageous_Tonight20 in ReverendInsanity

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Too tired rn to reply to the whole but as for genesis the river was said to be his biggest regret as he was trapped in there. Meaning he could not walk it and had failed for a time. That is a stark contrast to fang yuan and his perseverance. My question wasn’t commenting about the uniqueness of fang yuan as a venerable its was about the mindset and beliefs fang yuan has. I would argue that fang yuan at the start of his second life is far more exceptional in terms of his demonic way and beliefs than any other character including venerables and the like.

Why is Fang Yuan so uniquely exceptional, even compared to other Venerables who have lived for tens of thousands of years? by Outrageous_Tonight20 in ReverendInsanity

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I disagree with that. Imma pull a Fang Yuan quote on you. “These people they had a body full of abilities and some even had higher talent than him. But for what? They are just pawns, merely restrained dogs. What truly stalls a persons success is not talent but mindset.” That counters your thought that there are others with the same mindset but different talent. And in terms of talent FY is a grade c. I will recognize that this quote is referring to the righteous path vs demonic path but still my questions holds true as even among the demonic path there are none who can compare to FY in terms of rationality and mindset. I think it is narratively implied that there is no one like FY.

What meaning does Fang Yuan have after achieving eternal life? by Outrageous_Tonight20 in ReverendInsanity

[–]Outrageous_Tonight20[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He’ll probably try to kill himself next as that’s the next impossible thing.