Vegetarianism

[Clinamenic]

Its like unlocking new lenses through which you can appreciate more and more aspects of our staggering complex world.

 

[Clinamenic]

For calculus in particular here is an example. Took me a while to understand the fundamental theorem of calculus, that the derivative of the indefinite integral of a function, is the function.

The derivative is pretty much the rate of change, as I understand it. If you plot x^2 you get concave exponential line, if you take the derivative of that, 2x, and plot that, you get a straight steep line. If you take the derivative of that, you get 2, which is a straight flat line if you plot it. If you take the derivative of that, you get 0, another flat line.

 

[Clinamenic]

I may have missed a couple constants that come from taking derivatives, but I'm not sure. Anyway, this is still just basic stuff. Still struggling with trig functions and many of the things predicated on trig functions.

 

[luka]

i';d personally recommend getting a job instead then you wont have to come up with these increasingly convoluted attempts to justify your idleness

 

[Clinamenic]

Also have a more difficult time understanding integrals. The pathway of operations I just did was the inverse pathway of integration.

But its becoming clearer and clearer just how useful these techniques are.

 

[luka]

what was really helpful for me was hospitality work. helped me get over my shyness or social anxiety as they call it today

 

[luka]

i would characterise what your doing as displacement activity.

 

[luka]

the world is urging you towards an initiation ceremony which you are refusing

 

[luka]

i was just the same i didnt want to do any of those things either, they were scary and i didnt feel i had any aptitude for them

 

[Clinamenic]

You're right. I should run for president.

 

[luka]

i just wanted to stay by myself and smoke some weed and be a 'genius'

 

[Clinamenic]

I don't need more money, is the thing, and I'd rather not sell my time unless I need more money in the foreseeable future.

The other side of this is that a low-expense lifestyle becomes necessary here, which suits my educational program fine.

 

[Clinamenic]

i just wanted to stay by myself and smoke some weed and be a 'genius'

You are, and in the daemonic sense of the term too.

 

[Clinamenic]

I can see how and why some humans have developed lifestyles wherein meditation is the primary activity.

 

[Clinamenic]

To sustain a waking, sober lucidity so marvelous and sublime as to render the pursuit of almost any desire inconsequential in comparison.

 

[luka]

my dad used to say to me luke your problem is your not motivated by money

 

[luka]

if your not sex crazed either then there is really almost nothing pushing you to go out and engage with the world.

 

[Clinamenic]

if your not sex crazed either then there is really almost nothing pushing you to go out and engage with the world.

Exactly.

 

[Clinamenic]

In my case, its mainly science and other ideas such as those encompassed by great works of art and religion.

 

[Clinamenic]

In my case, its mainly science and other ideas such as those encompassed by great works of art and religion.

Which, thanks to the internet, can be robustly appreciated remotely and for free.