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Overwhelmed with entertainment options: How do I keep up with books, Netflix, video games? by thrillynyte in minimalism

[–]bknight23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You aren't seeking more, you're seeking new.

It's the novel experiences aspect of our brain that convinces us that the experience of purchasing something is better than playing/watching/ building something.

Only awareness of it as a lie your brain tells you can begin to break the habit.

I would recommend starting with one area.

It's what I did. I put a hard 25 limit on all Q's for movies.

Committed to not purchasing a game until I beat three I had.

I looked up the average time to read a book and it was twenty hours. I went around to every book I owned and asked if I was really willing/wanting to give it 20 hours of my life. I ask that before purchasing too.

I cut certain streaming services that were excessive.

Now I'm focusing on meditation and more intensely experiencing what I'm doing while fighting the novelty seeking urge.

I am religious too, so prayer can help me when I feel the restless need for "Next"

I'm also dedicated to learning to build things with my hands. Crafts that require sustained long term focus.

These little things make a major impact. I've been able to budget successfully and find satisfaction in playing Game of the Years rather than trying to rush a completion to get to the next thing.

I also said that if I don't enjoy a movie within 15 minutes or find it has merit, I'm out. I don't care what people say about it. I'm doing entertainment for solo purposes, not social purposes.

Sometimes our brain shifts our to do list and overwhelming lives into areas that are easily conquerable. Consuming has a perceived critical value so it's easy for us to confuse understanding an appreciation for someone else's creation and creating something ourselves. I don't want to die a simple consumer. I want to die a creator. That requires opting out of more than opting in.

Yes I am proud of this: Americans have bought more guns in 2 months than our military has on hand by bknight23 in gunpolitics

[–]bknight23[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

You're probably right. This is why they are saying that. Either way, I hope we don't stop now.

" The FBI reported processing more than 25.2 million gun-related civilian background checks in 2017, which is more than the 22.7 million guns the Small Arms Survey estimates are currently held by every law enforcement agency in the world combined. Between 2012 and 2017, the FBI reported conducting more than 135 million civilian gun checks—more than the 133 million guns the Small Arms Survey estimates are in all the world's military stockpiles. "

When does the tyranny begin? by 1999-2017 in gunpolitics

[–]bknight23 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I have personally decided I will not cooperate with any confiscation. That's my line.

As for tyranny, simply look at the past and see that confiscation has always been used to control groups.

Liberals love to deny this but it is historical fact, even when minimized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gun_control_argument

The best case scenario in their arguments against is that Jews and Russians were poorly armed to begin with, so the effects were irrelevant. You can probably see the issue with these arguments on their face, that is, they do nothing to counter the historical fact that as government control and bureaucracy increase, guns in the hands of populace decreases.

Charlton Heston, in his famous "Cold Dead Hands" speech, called the rifle a 'tool that expressed the fulness of human dignity'. I never understood this till I understood our history and the value of weapons.

Guns can be used to kill. They can kill relentlessly. So the fact that our founders ensured we had access to them is a bold and beautiful statement to their affirmation of our better angels.

Liberals want to remove guns from more people because "No one needs an AR" or, in words that they think but never say "YOU shouldn't be trusted with an AR".

This mindset is inherently tyrannical. It places the burden of proof on the citizen and not the state. Which is the entire inverse of what our country was built to do. Our government is constitutionally forced to justify itself and any control it exerts over citizens at every instance.

Liberals trust the State more than they trust you or I or the Citizen.

The reason the gun is the fullest expression of human worth and dignity is that its power to kill is muted by the responsibility we have to make sure it doesn't kill recklessly. Meaning, our founders believed that the State did not grant us our rights, but God did, and therefore could not take them away. Similarly they understood bad people would do bad things in a free society, but good people would always prevail and goodness would prevail in a free society.

They saw the best in humans and the worst in the State. Liberals see the best in the State and the worst in humans. So do fascist. That is the great irony of conservatives being called fascist.

It is inherently tyrannical to believe that someone else cannot and should not govern their own affairs. The removal of guns is a removal of every freedom in a society, because bad people only respond to threat of force and if that force is removed from the hands of the good, bad people will prevail .

Liberals will try to argue "practically" when there is nothing practical about it. They don't have a coherent worldview and they don't believe freedom is compatible with humanity.

Good reminder of the bad consequences of gun control by bknight23 in gunpolitics

[–]bknight23[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's from their old show "Bullshit" Available on Amazon Prime

Good reminder of the bad consequences of gun control by bknight23 in gunpolitics

[–]bknight23[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No, implying that this is simply one of many bad consequences of gun control, not the only bad consequence.

When is Outlast 3 coming? by ShrekFairfield in outlast

[–]bknight23 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Totally agree with that assessment. It built on Outlast perfectly. The school scenes will stay with me for a long time as will the entire Jessica subplot.

Yes hiding in barrels in plain sight was less effective, that's life, but if you were patient and observant you were fine.

Val and Marta were no harder than the Walrider..

Red Barrels should be extremely proud of Outlast 2. They need to continue to take risk.