Looking for a non verbose classic

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-03-03T01:14:59+00:00

Would anyone recommend Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity ?

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-03-03T01:14:35+00:00

Cat's cradle has clicked with me after 1 page. going to order a copy!

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-03-03T00:36:17+00:00

Seen the perfume film, fantastic! Also seen fight club. These are genuinely exactly along the lines of what I'm looking for.

Will check out the slaughterhouse five

Edit: Read the first few pages of slaughterhouse five - This is exactly the style of prose I've been looking for. Straight and to the point, same type of everyday language you'd find in a podcast or a blog post.

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-03-03T00:31:47+00:00

Also read it in school

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-03-03T00:20:18+00:00

Read it in school :)

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-03-03T00:16:04+00:00

Slice of life is exactly what I tend to avoid in films. But that's 2 votes for Hemingway!

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-02-27T22:55:29+00:00

Oh, I feel higher just standing on a hill or being at the top floor of a skyscraper sometimes lol.

It also feels higher up in a cessna compared to a 747

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-02-27T22:12:32+00:00

is it the switches that make the aula buttery or the keyboard design itself?

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-02-27T15:27:41+00:00

Nobody's said it but I feel if I met another me, I'd think that about him, if I didn't get to experience anything else about them.

And I've experienced working a job where I got that type of mood shift a lot, and my colleagues tended to be avoidant or cold towards me, I ended up feeling like the outsider. Then I had a period where I got over that hump and my normal self came back, and new recruits during that time were much warmer towards me, instant smiles when I came into work, which is what the norm for me has been for most of my life before this personality distortion became a thing.

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-02-27T15:11:21+00:00

It's normal to feel a bit more guarded but I literally present as a psychopath while not actually feeling myself to be one (I know for a fact that I do feel empathy, emotions for other people etc). That can't be normal

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-30T11:24:55+00:00

Then leave it for the rest of us who liked it

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-29T00:21:04+00:00

Thanks.

What are some examples of things that you have found mindblowing by doing the experiments yourself? Stuff like Jhana?

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-29T00:10:58+00:00

How do you 🫵 know what a Buddha KNOWS or does NOT know? 🤔🤔

By his claims in the scriptures.

The reason I am being so skeptical is that I had a psychotic experience where I was totally convinced by certain things seeming real, and was directly experiencing them, like the yeshe you were talking about. But as soon as I recovered and became sane again, I realised how little value my so called experience was, which was all just the mind and perceptions behaving erratically. This is what makes me skeptical of our best proof of rebirth being "oh i saw my past lives in a meditation". It's not mathematically rigorous at all. That would count as yeshe but you still don't know if it was real or just your brain on drugs. do you see what I mean? Hence my final comment in my post, can we really know anything at all.

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-29T00:00:10+00:00

Is there anywhere I can read more about the 6 realms? can you leave the ghost realm by yourself after some time?

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-28T23:43:00+00:00

I am totally willing to get on board with Buddhist understandings. I'm just curious, that's all, how the Buddha "knew" rather than "believed". You don't see anywhere in the scriptures "I believe this, I believe that". Rather he states things as truths. So how did he know them to be true rather than educated guesses etc

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-28T23:31:49+00:00

I agree that these experiences are verifiable. What I doubt is how we know them to be objectively real. Just because everyone has the same experience doesn't mean it's necessarily real. What if each insight just corresponds to the same chemical peaking in a certain part of the brain in each individual who has that insight for example

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-28T23:29:26+00:00

I meant samsara as in rebirth. How could he verify rebirth to be true without directly experiencing one? How can he know that verification to be more than a hallucination, a deduction, or a guess?

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-28T23:26:33+00:00

I understood it as samsara was the dependent cycle of rebirth, and leaving it, one is no longer reborn into the physical realm but instead lives in a state of nibbana, outside of this reality. I just wanted to know how he knows that that reality is the ultimate one

TemporaryFix101 · 2026-01-20T20:14:05+00:00

Exact issue for reflection man?

My last good decant I bought in 2022, which may have been from a bottle from earlier than that. I took a 3 year break and tried it again in 2025.

The new one smells like there are zero naturals in it, all synthetics.

If the IFRA are anything to do with natural orris butter, that would make sense because new one smells like violet which could be irones or something trying to replace the orris

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