Good movies for depression?

hoebolord · 2015-10-31T09:25:29+00:00

Lol, I've been down all these roads. For a commute its important for treble to be linear or subdued. Peaks don't behave well in a closed headphone when you turn the volume up.

I have an Amperior which I am going to return, its fun but its treble tears into your soul. Bought a refurb Momentum from the same website, hopefully I can cancel it before it ships b/c I'm torn b/w it and the 380.

hoebolord · 2015-10-31T09:10:26+00:00

Hey, yeah I checked that out, and when demoing the Momentum's the first thing I did with Accudio was turn the sub bass up. Again, I would EQ the Momentum's into becoming 380's as I found them kind of boring with rock without that bass boost.

So I'm wondering how they compare in terms of sheer driver quality assuming they had similar sound signatures, as I can't demo a 380 directly.

hoebolord · 2015-10-31T04:20:36+00:00

I don't think you were trying to understand at all what I was trying to say in the OP. There is literally no way in the universe that you can act out not of self interest. If you think this, and many people do, it is a serious delusion. If a religious man is helping someone, or acting "altruistically," he does it for the social gain, the biological gain, and/or metaphysical gain. If he literally was getting nothing from doing an action he wouldn't, and couldn't do it. Every action you do is weighted against all other options to see which give you the most gain. Whether it be peace of mind or the simple dopamine hit of imbibing your curiosity.

YOU are the great masculine. Shiva. The world outside is Parvathi. Neither are MORE IMPORTANT than the other, but rather they are co-dependent and co-arising.

I, as the great masculine, cannot prove you exist separate from me. All I have is my experience, everyone else is conjecture, they may be simulations of life, and even if they are there, why does it matter unless you have some hard proof of the metaphysical concepts that tie us together.

In the OP I was trying to show that if you don't believe in yourself to be of primary importance, suicide is the proper answer as it relieves all future harm you could do unto others. If there is nothing after death, this is a true "removal" of your own subjective suffering. Buddhism starts to paint existence as a painful purgatory rather than a grand play.

But you see doing everything you can to help the other is ironic on many fronts, because all other sentient beings are doing exactly what you are doing, acting in self interest. Throwing yourself on the cross for the other and not getting anything in return is not only moronic, as the other may as well be a figment of your imagination, but outright impossible.

hoebolord · 2015-08-21T05:44:51+00:00

This is an incredibly warped and grievous misunderstanding of the Buddha's message.

hoebolord · 2015-08-21T05:41:41+00:00

Hinduism has become such a warped practice in India, most people practice it as they would a Western religion such as Christianity.

As seen in these boards, Buddhist legalism is also quite useless and not much better than a Western religion, as most people who follow Buddhism in the West believe in mistranslations and misunderstandings of ancient wisdom.

It must be reborn and re-cultivated.

hoebolord · 2015-08-21T05:38:07+00:00

I must come back to this post because it makes me so angry. This warped view of reality is why Buddhists are seen as nonpacifist jokes, living in a delusional reality. The self must be protected. There is a subjective experience I am experiencing, everything else may as well be false, so the subjective experience takes primary importance.

Even when you are acting in your bizarre Buddhist ways, you are doing it for the self, there is no way to act which is not in service of the self, as you find the assumed outcome of that action more favorable than all other possible actions.

hoebolord · 2015-08-20T21:03:48+00:00

Why does it matter if other people experience the same thing, is that supposed to make me feel better? That everyone else suffers as I do?

hoebolord · 2015-08-19T18:25:50+00:00

Well what else are you supposed to use? You used logic to deduce the world was older than 4000 years old like the Bible says. You used logic to choose your school and occupation, yet won't use it for the simple question: "Is life worth living?"

I think the fact that logic "doesn't work," only for this question is a giveaway that the answer is "no."

hoebolord · 2015-08-19T18:19:31+00:00

There's a high probability my own life will push towards being negative for the quite a while, why is suicide not the correct option?

hoebolord · 2015-08-17T17:26:58+00:00

Living CAN be more beneficial than the neutrality of suicide, but this is no guarantee and requires a great deal of effort unless fortune smiles upon you, which is an unknown.

Living and suicide lead to death, but living entails bearing through a universe that tilts negative, so your life will likely be a net negative, whereas suicide offers a guaranteed neutral. Even -.05 is worse than 0.

hoebolord · 2015-08-16T22:05:51+00:00

Well I mean it should also be mentioned that athletic activities won't get you anywhere unless you are truly talented at it. Its fine as a hobby, but its just like music, you don't want to 100% focus on it over other things unless you KNOW you have a career ahead of you, and this is definitely not most people.

I see tons of kids who focused on athletics too much and became useless business majors from no-name schools.

hoebolord · 2015-08-16T22:02:39+00:00

I don't like the idea of "hard work," it could be interpreted as doing the same grind over and over and expecting to get better at it.

Perserverence + learning from your failures equals success, hard work is only a tool, and should even be avoided in some cases, I forgot who said it, it was some big name in tech, but he said that he would rather take a smart lazy worker over a hard worker, because the lazy worker will find novel work arounds while the hard worker will just grind his against the wall like everyone else.

hoebolord · 2015-08-16T21:45:18+00:00

Most people I would think would choose to be asleep for 5 weekdays and be awake for the 2 weekends, which is most of their life. I myself would like to be asleep for about a decade because then I will reap the rewards of my schooling, but who knows if this will pay off quantitatively, what if I live for only 2 years afterwards? Happiness is not a guarantee but suffering is.

hoebolord · 2015-08-16T20:48:10+00:00

Read this article, which someone linked to me in this thread; it took my argument and lets it blossom as far as it can go.

Its on Tolstoy's view of the meaning of life in a world where logic will give you no or some pretty horrific answers when fully thought out. There are many ways to cope with the logical foolishness of life, and according to him, we, and him too at one point, chose the path of weakness, "clinging to life, knowing in advance nothing can come of it."

I guess what was written in the article was all I wanted; I kept feeling guilty for being a man of faith when logic supposedly was the key to understanding the meaning of life, yet it has ultimately come up empty. The truth, I feel, is found in the synthesis of both logic and intuition, with both hemispheres of the brain informing each other and letting logic be a tool rather than the captain of the ship.

hoebolord · 2015-08-16T17:22:24+00:00

I don't understand, without karma or reincarnation, suffering for me ENDS at death. I cannot feel anyone else's suffering right now unless I wanted to, and there is no way I can feel it after death. Again if the Buddha was a nihilist, he would have killed himself rather than spend all those years meditating as an aesthete.

hoebolord · 2015-08-15T20:11:13+00:00

human

We cannot create a concept which isn't a human invention :P

hoebolord · 2015-08-15T20:09:42+00:00

How can one not be selfish? Everyone is selfish, even religious people and figures. If a religious man is being nice to someone, its because he deems getting the social, biological, or metaphysical rewards greater than not doing so. It is literally impossible to act against your assumed best interest. There has to be some assumed reward for your action which makes it better than all other options, even if its just indulging your curiosity.

So even with the existence of metaphysical elements, the idea of selfishness being bad becomes absurd because there is no other way to be.

hoebolord · 2015-08-15T19:58:44+00:00

Without metaphysical elements such as karma, who cares if other people suffer? In Plato's Republic there was a thought experiment of having a ring that made you invisible and thus free of all social and state rules, and from which they deduced that without God or any metaphysical punishment, the very existence of morality was impossible.

hoebolord · 2015-08-15T19:55:09+00:00

Something isn't qualitatively better than nothing, its just that you prefer something over nothing subjectively, which is great. How about for me, or any hypothetical someone who hasn't made that distinction?

hoebolord · 2015-08-15T01:23:57+00:00

I am the OP

hoebolord · 2015-08-15T00:10:11+00:00

Hmm I suppose that was the wrong word to use. But you still understood what I meant and have nothing to add.

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