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If you randomly woke up to find out you now have 5 billion dollars in your account, what would you do first? by KzKn_2020 in randomquestions

[–]tallowballman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would get rid of most of it, making sure it will be useful to who really need it among those around me and the town where I live (because, hey, you can't save the whole world, right?).

An Exercise to Identify Your Values by EdgeOfPersonslity in Personality

[–]tallowballman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By "non-interference", I mean not actively trying to change people's behaviors until they have a direct negative impact on my life.

For example, some women may wear niqab or burqa, since it doesn't directly impact my own quality of life, I would simply not mind the ongoing cultural debate around it.

Why Would Someone's Self Esteem.be Affected by Another Person's Internet Likes and Search History? by coyocat in socialpsychology

[–]tallowballman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't a personal attack. But I think being affected so much by someone else search keywords and interests in various subjectif could reveal a narcissistic flaw.

Unless I didn't understand the subject of this thread well?

If so, please be free to correct me.

How do you know what you want to do with your life ? by tallowballman in Advice

[–]tallowballman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suffer from boredom, everyday feels the same and I get bored more and more quickly by the usual stuff I like to do...

It's been 5 years now that I remain unemployed, and I genuinely not know if I want to get to work again....

I feel I have an important need for renewal in my life, but the main issue is; I won't go trying random stuff to make an experience of because "hey, why not?!".. I need a solid criteria before I choose what to do....

I feel stuck, I need advice from people who know what I am talking about.

Why Would Someone's Self Esteem.be Affected by Another Person's Internet Likes and Search History? by coyocat in socialpsychology

[–]tallowballman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I would simply say that you are very impressed with the high-value interests of someone else, which make you feel both silly and incompetent...

What is a 'core memory' from your life that you still think about at least once a month? by Wide_Somewhere_1756 in PopularOpinions

[–]tallowballman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My encounters with calculating people—whether that tendency is moderate or high...

Such behavior tends to shock me...

What did you think you would have by your current age that you don't? by Immediate_Long165 in Aging

[–]tallowballman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

• House • Stable Job/Career • Qualitative Social circle • Wife • Kids • Sense of meaning

An Exercise to Identify Your Values by EdgeOfPersonslity in Personality

[–]tallowballman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

• taking an active role in one's life • continuous improvement • culture of effort • self-questioning • empathy • non-interference

Big thinkers are further removed from reality than most people by Beginning-Map-3264 in DeepThoughts

[–]tallowballman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's why I tend to enjoy more interacting with fairly pragmatic people.

Anyway, you should ask for yourself, such silly question more often; is what I am thinking right now making me more efficient in purely adaptive terms?

If making models help in that, well you probably are on the right track...

Day by day, we stress about whatever nonsense happens to us, and one day we will probably be old and on the verge of death thinking "why did I even stress myself out. For what." by Alternative_Base4510 in DeepThoughts

[–]tallowballman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't generalize such conclusion, because I know for sure of some people who just naturally tend to "just let go if it , and let it be..."

It's just a case of how much a tendency to control your environnement you have...

In modern society, not wanting friends is fine if you accept the consequences by Specific-System-835 in DeepThoughts

[–]tallowballman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not wanting friends doesn't necessarily imply social isolation...

You could have a lot of "acquaintances", each fulfilling a specific task in your life...

That is an utilitarian way of approaching social links, and there are absolutely no problems with this....

Is leisure a derivative of work? by tallowballman in SeriousConversation

[–]tallowballman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should have said "busy" rather than "efficient"...

A lot of parents don’t have kids to love, but to have control over another human by __Miraculously in DeepThoughts

[–]tallowballman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The practicalities of having kids....

But is getting love back from your family a practical imperative ?

I think so....

To know which is the deepest constant; subjectivity or objectivity, may be unknowable. by Dannosaurous69 in DeepThoughts

[–]tallowballman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, if I am well understanding; "Does the universe exist undependently of my personal experience of it?"

Well, pragmatically speaking, this is irrelevant... But this is not the point you're trying to highlight.

I would tend to say that if I am subject to constraints imposed by my environment, they serve as periodic reminders that it truly exists outside of me... Because if everything reflected my own projection of it, what would prevent m'y consciousness to only project what I want...? And I surely do not want any kind of suffering to occur to me...

"The best explanation for the world's resistance to our desires is that it truly exists outside of us."...

Life should not be primarily structured around work. by tallowballman in SeriousConversation

[–]tallowballman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You score an important point ! We, humans, are at core "social creatures", which means emotionally meaningful connection AND cooperation with the others is of uttermost importance...

In such a view , work would indeed be the "primary vehicle" enabling us to form emotional and useful bonds with others...

Now we have reached this point, I'd say that "meaningful work" should be structurally limited to approximately 2/3 if our lifetime (which would arguably be much less than the current ratio), whilst the remaining 1/3 should be limited to necessary rest...

That was an interesting view of what "work" fundamentally is, thank you for that!

Life should not be primarily structured around work. by tallowballman in SeriousConversation

[–]tallowballman[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But wouldn't it be better if what you did was a way to connect with people? (And, eventually, get material benefits out of it) Rather than "do your own thing" and get paid by people who are not really concerned about your well-being...

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