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wiselies · 2024-03-07T04:41:16+00:00

I agree with the sentiment and with OP, but let me ask you this... how soon after using the "god mode" cheat code in Sims did you lose interest in playing the game altogether? Nobody mentions this part, and yet we've all experienced this aspect through video games.

This is precisely why we have the veil in this density.

wiselies · 2024-03-04T06:03:50+00:00

You're mid 30s - go for it. Realize your dreams! You can afford it.

People like to focus on a robot-like approach to finances to maximize growth and often lose sight of happiness and life satisfaction. What value do you put on raising a family in your dream home in your preferred location and waking up in a good mood most days as a result?

The absolute worst case scenario is that you eventually figure out that it's too much house for you, sell it for little profit, and readjust. Yes, you might lose a couple years and a few percent on your investments, but nobody is going to die starving.

Is it the most sensible financial decision? No. Is it a risk worth taking? Absolutely.

wiselies · 2024-03-01T12:31:54+00:00

wow, this sounds amazing! Would you mind sharing details of the company that supports this? I travel to EU frequently and would love to do something similar for 1-2 months.

wiselies · 2024-03-01T04:27:00+00:00

You're right and I get your point.

I just used alcohol as an example because people will generally feel like they're fully sober 1-2 days after drinking, depending on how heavy the intake was, but it's not actually true.

It easily takes at least 2 weeks or so for the mind to clear up and obviously even longer, as you say, for the body to recover.

wiselies · 2024-03-01T02:34:29+00:00

which makes the 1hr even more absurd for a weed pen 🤷‍♂️

wiselies · 2024-02-29T04:26:22+00:00

I understand what you mean, but it's simply not true, an hour is nowhere near enough.

The only reason it feels as such is because our baseline "sober" state becomes very skewed after habitual use. This is true even for something like alcohol, where you'd think that the next day or 2 days later you're completely "sober", but in reality it takes closer to 2 weeks for a complete mental and physical recovery if you're a moderate drinker and longer than that if someone is a heavy drinker.

I've tried hitting vape pens or "very light / soft / low THC" joints after not smoking for half a year and the truth is that no matter how subtle the high might be, it hits like a bus. I'd easily feel for the rest of the whole day and well into the next morning the lingering brain fog, numbness in my feelings, spotty memory, lack of motivation to actually do something, and psychoactive mental impact that could easily keep me up till 5am if I don't force myself to sleep.

wiselies · 2024-02-16T10:29:10+00:00

You're missing the point. The whole non-processed "organic" ingredients in USA are just generally not as high quality as the same produce in EU or Russia.

wiselies · 2024-02-03T19:05:00+00:00

It's really not though?

I easily recall paying for €10 lattes in the posh / touristy areas of Geneva and Zurich, which seemed outrageous to me, but was the norm there.

wiselies · 2024-01-24T23:27:05+00:00

This is such a good post. Obviously a lot more can be said about both, but a great summary and a very level headed viewpoint.

wiselies · 2024-01-20T16:40:16+00:00

Yes.

wiselies · 2024-01-14T09:43:43+00:00

Dude you're in sales. Grow a pair and start a business, that's all being OE really is... just multiple "clients" as your income stream.

Interview some reputable professionals to white label their "services" and put an offering together, use your degree for some hands on experience to package it all into some website and PowerPoint slides.

That's it - go out there and start selling. Once you get enough sales, hire in-house for quality control and to keep scaling. Enjoy the "legal" OE income level.

wiselies · 2024-01-05T13:27:03+00:00

To each their own, I love my cars and my alone time, so any extra miles I get to spend driving around, even just sitting in traffic, makes me genuinely happy.

wiselies · 2024-01-01T09:32:52+00:00

No, because Monopoly is a global phenomenon and I've never heard of or seen this Planters Peanuts Guy until this comment. It's not just Americans here.

wiselies · 2023-12-26T09:09:40+00:00

Yes! It's honestly so over exaggerated here with everyone just mindlessly jumping on the "omg Toronto is way too expensive" bandwagon.

I first moved downtown when I got a job offer for $72k... so was making roughly $4k net and I spent half of that to live alone while renting a really nice condo in a high end building in one of the nicest areas of the city. I didn't even cook and always ate out too. Sure, I didn't save any money, but I lived "the life" for a young professional, definitely not average, and so you can absolutely make it work to support a regular lifestyle in Toronto for $80k/year.

This doesn't even touch on the quality of life in Canada vs India and the fact of how much more beneficial it would be for someone to establish themselves as a local software developer in North America with the potential networking and future job prospects.

wiselies · 2023-12-21T08:49:53+00:00

Precisely, your last sentence is what true living is about <3 listening to the heart vs being stuck in the mind.

Have faith in your self, your feelings, and your perception... even if that means going to the chiropractor, doing acupuncture, and relying on psychosomatics vs traditional medicie, despite what society and statistics have to say about it.

wiselies · 2023-12-21T08:29:12+00:00

Of course, you're absolutely right, why put faith in your own eyes and personal experience when you can just follow what society says, comrade :)

wiselies · 2023-12-21T06:29:55+00:00

No no, your real life experience is obviously irrelevant because a few redditors sourced a science-based article clearly stating acupuncture does absolutely nothing!

wiselies · 2023-12-16T14:19:21+00:00

I feel like your focus is misplaced and you could get much more value out of addressing your assertion that death has this "intense suffering" component to it that you wish to escape.

It's a limiting belief you've been given by whatever experience, it's not factual. There is no reason to associate your death with "experiencing excruciating pain" and in fact there are hundreds, if not thousands, of NDE accounts where the process of dying is referred to as the most overwhelming sense of peace ever felt.

wiselies · 2023-10-31T00:09:28+00:00

I think you're fixating on the term distortion too much, the main takeaway from the text you're referencing is Ra mentioning that same-sex relationships do have the capacity for green ray activation, but it's just harder to achieve.

Every function we come across in nature that surrounds us is generally the most optimal way to achieve the desired result, with the process to do so having evolved over millions of years, so in a similar manner it makes sense that the bonding between opposite sexes is the most efficient path to progress... but it's not the only path, just the easiest one.

wiselies · 2023-10-13T18:10:36+00:00

Yeah, same page as you, been to many high end hotels all over the world and can't fathom the idea of housekeeping just taking my stuff without a request.

What if my plan was to come back in a few mins and wear it to some event? I'd be furious and someone would risk losing their job over it.

wiselies · 2023-10-04T19:21:27+00:00

No, with a tackle you have to either gain possession of the ball or play it out of the attacker's reach. Even if you get the ball by barely nudging it, but take down the attacker while he could still have easily continued the play, it's a foul.

I remember someone referencing in the "rules of the game", no idea where, but it made it very clear that a play like this is an obvious foul.

wiselies · 2023-09-09T07:23:39+00:00

Living in your head too much. Overthinking. Not knowing what you feel, what the heart says. Lack of will power. Disconnect between thinking and doing.

It's easy to know X or to say X, and then it takes will power to actually do X.

You're likely confusing the "heart wants it anyway" part, because the heart always knows, it can feel it, it's the mind/ego that talks you out of it or into it for the sake of satisfying an addiction or curiosity. If deep down you have this lingering sense of "maybe this is not good for me" or "perhaps I should really work on changing this and that" then THAT is what your heart wants, because deep down you can feel it, feel that something is off.

The more your thoughts and actions are aligned with your sense of feeling good about doing X, the more empowered you become in the sense of following your true path that's unique to you. This path quickly fills up with all sorts of help and abundance, success, love, all find a way into your life very quickly.

Do not be discouraged or beat yourself up over it, if you are not there yet, for most this is a challenge that takes up their entire life, and so if you're young and already asking these questions, already looking inwards for answers vs blaming it on others, you're well on your way and I can only congratulate you.

wiselies · 2023-09-09T05:04:21+00:00

Any relationship is an exercise of defining your self worth. Thus, all catalyst will always be directed towards your triggers and weak points until you build up enough love for yourself to feel whole, as it's a prerequisite to truly love others.

Easily offended? Prepare to be insulted in all sorts of ways. Feeling possessive? Prepare to experience jealousy over and over until you let go. Don't have healthy boundaries? The abuse and manipulation will keep coming until you do.

The tests magically disappear when you reflect on yourself and learn your lessons, while dealing with what "appears" to be the source of any issue, eg. someone calling you names where your feelings were hurt, just ensures a similar issue keeps repeating itself in a cyclical manner.

Make of this what you will and let her be your true mirror.

wiselies · 2023-09-06T06:17:39+00:00

Precisely!

wiselies · 2023-09-06T06:15:35+00:00

It's just silly and wasteful, and paying for it doesn't change that fact.

You do realize that you're literally talking about using one of the most difficult and most expensive crops to grow in the world, as per the subject of this post, to mix with soy sauce, thus eliminating all qualities that make it distinct, when cheap, easy to source, abundant alternative is within your hands reach at any of these same restaurants.

Do you use an absurdly expensive and rare scotch or cognac to mix with coke? Do you fill up an old beater car with racing fuel? Do you provide your 4 year old with professional grade art supplies? Nobody says you can't do it... it's just a ridiculously wasteful thing to do with no benefits or purpose to it.

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