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What is a personal rule that you live by? Why do you follow it? To get the ball rolling, one I created for myself some years ago is to assume that every person I meet disagrees with me on a topic that is very important to me. There are two advantages. First, when I find out that someone I know...

Hi everyone, first thread. :NikoSip: I'm at a point in my life where I've accepted I can't interact with people in the real world the way I'm supposed to. likely you know what I'm talking about, I can't relate to anyone, or have anything real that lasts. The most important thing in the world to...

I'm not sure I've ever written about DLE before, but I figured this would be a good place to write up a basic introductory guide- what DLE is, how I discovered it, and why I now use it as a guiding philosophy in all fields. DLE stands for "Direct Life Experience," and I present it as an...

Horrible fucking title, I'm bad at this. So, I've been told that I live like a monk, hermit, crusader, etc. They call it "hunger amidst plenty". Just recently, in philosophy class, we learnt the definition of "asceticism". I technically knew it, but my former classes had made it something so...

for the past few weeks or so i've been working on an ost for a project taking place in a closed shopping mall at the end of your life, clearly a good situation to produce some vaporwave. using this as a style marker But, for reasons my own. I'd much prefer composing my own melodies for the most...

This is an open question to all the creative people I know browse this site: how do you avoid distractions and stay productive? I'm not an artist, but I want to spend more of my time making things and less time sitting around doing nothing.

Hey all, I've been getting more into philosophy and trying to find the right one for me. I believe I have found my home in stoicism so I just wanted to create a thread to discuss it. I have started reading meditations and I love it. It is one of the best books I have ever read and it has really...

I'm so happy to have found this site, and I'm quite honestly humbled by how creative, open-minded, and cool the people on this forum are. I feel like I no-clipped through the globalhomo psyop of 2022 internet and landed into the cool room in the party. I'm not quite happy with my current...