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in honor of v- @krzhang and @visakanv's requests: 100-tweet @threadapalooza of things that get me going IN DIFFERENT VOICES - i think voices would be unclear and hard to tell apart so ill just share one NOT my usual/default perspective on the thing that gets me going 1/100
sex. not my voice to start with this bc i'm deeply and throughly a christian piety educated boy and whenver americans are like 'oooohh yeaaaa im a sapiosexuelleeeee' i cringe with all my being
gendlin. i resent a person that convinced me nothing would change by me seeing/touchign him before he died. not my voice to wash dirty laundry in public. they were wrong and their rationality got over me. i can't let go
twitter - not for the usual reason: i love being a chef, in the kitchen ,more than eating the food. i like twitter because in getting to 5k followers im seeing how the food is made
friends - ive ignored this part of my life until super recently. it only started unlocking when i saw that socratic philosophers held friendship as the highest good. fucked, i know.
GOD. I don't talk about this which is OUT OF CHARACTER bc i talk about everything in twitter. i've been having spiritual experinces, im throughly confused, i dont know what to do with it.
@thlpr - it's amazing to build something you're proud of.
@ExGenesis - i count my blessings.
@reasonisfun @m_ashcroft i basically wanna @ the whole twitter crew. these people BREATHE LIFE INTO ME
weightlifting. it started more than half my life ago, it's still on-going. i realised it's actually just a sub set of the thing i care about.
tulpa possession - @nosilverv and the work we do here, obviously
The Good. This dovetails with god above. I've been getting this referent. i really really really care about things being good, for everyone. like, win-win-win multi-polar win situations and conditions and relations.
Not knowing what I'm talking about: when I speak from the edge of my knowledge. This feels like the only things worth saying, in retrospect all else is chaff. Silence-fillers.
@ribbonfarm and @meditationstuff's blog. Both of these have given me so so so so many maps.
Jane the virgin. I legit think this is one of the best series of all times. I love lead character female series. nOt sure why. Somethign something shadow.
Jordan Peterson. Love him or hate him his intention to tell the truth and the way he can share it is bar non.
@NeoSomaliana. She's still here but will be gone soon. She has access to powers that few will ever experience with all the confusion and problems that brings. Has been a light in the way.
Books. One of the best things my dad did for me as a kid was just have a library.
magic the gathering. I've had an ever deeper relationship with the game since i was 15. designing cards, playing vintage. it has soo much intellectual fodder. its like low on going thinking all the time when you play it. really pleasurable. also genuinely well designed
psychological entropy. this is almsot a cheat but i do think that i have run a plan of throwing myself into v hard situations and then having to make sense of the debris. this has been extreemely painful but has given me many gems i can share with others
speaking of which: mind unification. this is just awesome.
and on that: meditation. i am so insanely confused and thankful that a bunch of dude tons of years ago just discovered you can pay attention your way into not-suffering. absolutely extraordinary.
speaking of which: wisdom traditions. the depth of engagement with the world this people had floors me.
continental philsophy: heidegger, zizek. these people push my brain in just the right way.
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein. This book made me cry. This man was such an alien mind and she made me empathise.
speaking of crying - @QiaochuYuan and his apologia of crying. he's creating a new model for what being a man can be. crying is excellent too - feel bad, sob, feel good, things changed internally. 10/10 would recommend
competence. i really really really like competence. the domain doesn't matter. it has make me mistakenly think i've fell in love with people a bunch of times. oopse
GEB. This is like the best thing in teh sequences looool - hofstadter's mind is like a wormhole between fields and it perfectly instantiates in you the fake memory of being his mind
Populism. Sorry but true. Dovetails with the good above. Just want the best for all.
Thinking about adversariality. There's portions of the world that are deliberately kept hidden and you can only think your way into them. I find this very fun.
@owenbroadcast's threads. Just go read them loool
As per the above: making sense of '''trivial''' things. E.g.: https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1336234450280177664
Long threads. They push the right buttons. See the one we shall not talk about
making sense of a thing as another thing, more generally, tho loathe the word: 'sense-making' https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1338490364345376770
It really really gets me going https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1308417103482019855?s=20
Helping others and being COMPETENT while doing it https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1318925777094778880
Cuba.
To expand on the above: spiritually rich, materially poor. Incredible place overall, like transitioning to a different place, outside of neoliberal reality
Alex Jones. His mind works different, he's occupying a very special place in the world. He is fiery and coleric. gets me GOING https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1325899674516135937
Kanye, obviously. 'Going full Kanye' is a real referent. To this:
https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/life-spirit-distillation
https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/life-spirit-distillation
New balance shoes. Looooool i'm sorry for my materialism but shit is like WALKING ON CLOUDS
Project management: i LOVE setting things up so that one ends when the next one should begin. I timed a nap today so that when i woke up the relevant person would've responded and i could just keep working. Yes, im the perfect american portuguese culture chimera
At the risk of being 'the 30 year old traveleeerr': travelling. Actually genuinely earnestly good, low cost companies are based, this is just straightforwardly good.
Opportunism, as per - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/12/05/the-fine-art-of-opportunism/ - I hate doing and i LOVE impact. This squares taht circle for me.
Phenomenology: allows you to find what is truer than true in experience, the enduring patterns that each situation is only an instance of https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1322206004638109696
@0x49fa98 - his threads are magnificient.
@jmrphy - i equal parts respect and admire the thing he is putting together
"shaka lion" as in the words "shaka lion" idk it just sounds really good
writing, obviously. and from v early on too, there's a pic of me being like 5 and intensely staring at something i had written. long time ago
my dogs. there's a black one and a brown one and one always wants to be outside and the other always wants to be inside AND they both always want to be together. i use this as an analogy a lot.
clippy! i think it just looks nice, idc what people say
black mirror - it's dark, it's gritty, it makes you feel bad. it's like the only thing i watch that makes me actively feel bad.
my followers: im thankful for each and every person that looked at this pile of verbal diarrhea and was like 'shit, i want more of that' straight into my veins
GETTING GOING -there's some sort of loop i can get into where i get excited about being excited and it just compounds. i think children are a lot like this. in this and many other senses i am a child https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1327544168667897856
CHILDREN. I remember being one. having no power SUCKED. i think there's a general stockholm syndrome going on with post-children adults. It's too bad to face. Like freud and rampant viennese sexual abuse
EXPLODING. physically. Sprinting, jumping, you call it. I actually have type 2x or whatever muscle fibers which make me good at exploding
ugandan knuckles. obviously. it's so retarded that you can't help but equal parts pity and love him so anything he/i say is fine. the safety necessary.
memes. they're funny, they connect people, they're, other than MCU and american politics, the only shared culture we have left https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1339361955501535233
bitcoin. whatever comes of it im already quite impressed by what has transpired. upped my estimate of what a single person/group can do (tho napoleon has set the bar high)
napoleon's tumb. it's really really really beautiful. whatever you think of the french (gay etc) the absolute adoration transparent in this building is contagious. it's just really really good
paris might have fallen as cultural center but it still has at least one completely humbling place https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1207594146577428481?s=20
being humbled is great. it keeps you in check, you realise you exist not for yourself. i like being small. i get going with my ego being put in check.
on the other other hand: improvement. i really like everything, including myself, getting better.
perspectival expansion. i just made that up. but seeing shit through other people's eyes. lots of foreigners moving to lisbon and it's really interesting to note through their eyes what i can't note via my
the past: somehow i feel more connected to it than the present. like i think i'd vibe more with francisco suarez than with my neighbour. not sure if that speaks ill of him or of me.
the crypto company i used to work at: incredible combination of good hearts and big brains. i hope they succeed. it was one of the most exciting experiences ive had because
BEING IN A TEAM IS AMAZING. a team is its own entity that you are merely a part of and this can also seen when you are
DANCING in CLUBS. i've spent sooo much time doing this, i'd love to have a running tally. soo much time. it's connective, it's fun, it's bonding. it's slightly dangerous and it's exciting
women. hard to speak fully about this but i rreally really really like them. i've found great things, horrible things, nothing i can't forgive. i feel like i feel new-born love for them
speaking of which NEWBORN LOVE (agape) and @nickcammarata for popularizing it. i admire a SHIT TON his feels good maximization endeavors and hope to hell he succeeds
love - the eros kind, hisotircally, a lot
love - the agape kind, future-ly, hopefully
making up new words. dovetails with the chef thing above. i want to be a creator and not a consumer
CREATING. Marx said you're alienated when you produce FOR SOMEONE ELSE. i've been trying to design my life to produce WHAT I WANT and make money doing that
making money: i really really enjoy it. ever since reading this essay: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/. i love selling services, products, raising it from investors. it's great -
seduction. as per above. raising money is a seduction game and those, well played, are intensely connecting. i like it, a lot.
this thread right here: as the thread goes by i see how parts of my personality/mind are implicated in and implicated by and involved into one another. this is making me excited
power: i love udnerstanding it, seeing where i dont have it (historically: money, law, social) and then figuring it out and reclaiming it
sovereignity: my word for a particular way of relating to yourself. being in control, not in a controlling manner, but in a 'not disregulated and out of control manner'
THE SUN. I fucking love it. I do all i can to get at least 30 min sunlight each day. It just makes everything better.
THE BEACH. it's perfect: sun + waves. what more could you want
THE OCEAN. where i experienced nonduality for the first time. where i surfed. what i hear at night.
Travelling down the coast of portugal. This is about as much fun as you can have for free. You camp on some deserted beach and do exactly all you could want. it's perfect.
squatting. i really really really enjoy it. the whole motion. feels like body was built for it
being on the floor, in all sorts of ways. it's just physically very pleasurable. smt smth grounding but idk. it just feels RIGHT
movement culture by Ido Portal. did a week intensive. he's clearly creating somethign NEW. he's an entrepreneur. he fucks with mcgregor. he has an israelite af atitude. i like the guy
soccer - for many years this was a huge spike in my mind bc all portuguese guys did it but me. 2 years ago learned it and started mastering it. it's very good. continuous thinking if you're doing it right
tyler the craetor - dude is hilarious, a whole ass inspiration, genuine feeling he just does what he wants, and that's that
chakras. people have told me i'm a fire whatever, and SOMETHING happened that people have descriebd as me accessing the root chakra. things changed for the better ad the first theme mentioned in this thread
death. sorta. its bad. but as bad as things can get i get hope from the thought that there's a limit to how bad they can get
the mind. i don't understand it, but i'm throughly thankful and impressed by it. how does it generate so much content? who knows
the number 5. not sure why this number specifically, but it speaks to me. noting a trend that i DONT KNOW why most things that get me going get me going
shilling small twitter accounts. i like to make early correct bets. seen a few go from under 100 to nearly 5k real fast and always makes me happy af
peter thiel. literal philosopher king. sorta doing what i want to do (without the fear of being scapegoated part)
dreams. they have seemingly changed the trajectory of my life a few times
therapy or rather, focusing. it has brought more riches than i could ever hope to contemplate, especially in the form of on-going, ever further disclosing self-
transformation.
