"Never lying" is an extremely difficult ideal but a great one to aim for. The payoff is very long term but very VERY worth it. Put as much effort as you can into not deceiving people. Develop a strong disdain for being pressured to lie. Put effort into orienting your life so that you aren't pressured to lie in the first place. For problems that require lying, put in 10x more time/energy to solve them without lying.
Most importantly never deceive/blind yourself.
Why? The payoff is a much clearer and functional understanding of the world. The payoff is increasing your ability to solve the root of problems instead of putting a bandaid on them. And to notice when there is the opportunity to do this in the first place (why would a solution designed around avoiding reality ever be better in the long run?) The payoff is reducing blindness and confusion in yourself and the people around you. The payoff is that life becomes more meaningful when your efforts go towards something real instead of toil/bullshit.
Expect to fail at this, because it's extremely difficult. But also expect to grow a ton and have a much more meaningful life.
Every time I think of my penis I want to cry.
Life is so much easier and better when you have a number to make go up.
27 years of nothing, 27 years of failure and regret, 27 years of wishing to be something and always falling flat, it's gone and it's never coming back, if every life is a gamble mine was an utter flop.
A forbidding darkness cloaks everything, a darkness devoid of even the solace of the incautious glimmer of a star.
No matter how horrible my day was, talking to you for even just a minute makes me happy.
She just has an avoidant attachment style. That one is avoidant too. She is also avoidant. And her.
Despite having contributed a net negative to the world by my living, I am glad that I have been born.
Most people do in fact live in quiet desperation. Nearly everyone over 30 is either neurotically bitter or super grandiose and arrogant. Just completely worn down by mental baggage. It's rough to see.
The most noble virtue of light is that despite it bringing into view all the horrors of the world it takes no stain from them. It touches the rot without sinking into it, a saint wading through sin, unscathed.
Most evil comes from the fact that we see ourselves for our potential and others for their actions, but the essence of grace is the reversal of this natural order, to see ourselves as we are, and love others for what they might one day become.
I asked the biggest guy at the gym what he usually plays when training and he literally told me he listens to a collection of his ex-girlfriend's voice notes, he even made me listen to a couple of seconds. We live in a very sick world, with very sick people.
They called me a Balatro clone and punched me.
Gambling is sinful because it makes a mockery of, in the final calculation, love. It makes a mockery of what we call today "commitment". When you love, you commit to the world, you are always "risking" something. These are the wrong words, it's understanding it backwards, but we were all born backwards in this age. When you love, the world comes alive and is filled with meaning, "because you are risking something", to put it in a crude and low way. And gambling simulates this process as a crude mockery, by simulating "meaning" "stakes", through a simulated "risk". Like a video game simulates achievement, gambling simulates risk, and provides a poor substitute for the real thing. The optimal way to channel this process is love, romantic as well as charitable religious love, as one can be a doorway to the other, and it's a degradation of one's capacity for love to indulge in a mockery of it.
My greatest normie trait is believing that being pleasant is more important than being honest, or righteous. Being sensitive enough to allow others to be wrong is a greater virtue than correcting them.