Do you ever feel like fun times are fleeting?
Like going out with friends on a weekend or sleeping with a beautiful woman. Feels great in the moment but then the moment passes. You remember it but don’t derive the same pleasure from the memory. So what’s the point?
Sounds like maturity with an element of novel experiences fading. I realize in life that the grass is always greener where you water it.
Yeah I think I’m starting to mature. Still wanna enjoy life but focus more on the simple things.
You can always enjoy simple things. Just shift your perspective. If you plan to do it with somebody else, make sure it's someone who's challenging you in a good way.
Hard to find people like that. Nostr is refreshing because it has that but spending time with normies sometimes feels like fleeting moments.
So don't spend time with normies. There are more interesting people you can possibly say hi one time in this lifetime to worry you'll deplete all of them.
Alike minds are like magnets, they find each other at the right time.
Do you meet random people like this?
Yes, all the time. Especially when I'm in the flow state. That's the sweet spot. When I'm grumpy or too analytical I give out bad vibes and I mostly interact with cunts. I've learned that's 100% me.
The only way you'll believe it is by trying experiments yourself. When you're not attached to the outcome, life finds a way to pleasantly surprise you. It works both with people and things.
Go to a library without a title in mind. Just browse casually. Your eyes will land on some books you won't necessarily buy otherwise. Something will catch your interest. It might be a word, color or reference you remembered from a conversation with someone.
Letting go is the only continuum. Took me a lot of time to grasp this well enough.
Just time travel back and experience it over again, NBD, why you whining?
What?
The book in that first response literally has procedures but here I've had ChatGPT sum it up for you
And this is supposed to help me time travel? Do I try to relive old memories? 😂
I mean you're already doing that. You can go deeper into yourself and those memories and get to the sensory data hidden within your subconscious so you can literally feel it again. Like that's what PTSD is, just being trapped in the past. You can do it on purpose and experience that fantasic sex or good night out again if you wanted to. It's also super helpful for finding keys or whatever you might have lost during the debauchery. Depending on how flexible your mind is you could probably do more but I didn't get training on that.
Check out remote viewing it's super cool and fun! Joe McMoneagle was the US intelligence force's top remote viewer and his instructions are clear. Nothing waits in the aether to enslave or consume you or whatever else you might be afraid of don't worry 😁
I feel like that would just make me depressed to relive past experiences like that.
Do you have a link to the remote viewing thing?
I have the gateway experience files I can send you through your preferred method but the files are on the large size so need a Dropbox type thing. Time travel is a later session even past making friends as I recall, so you'll need to keep up a practice for a while to get decent results. That's what the CIA used as a basis for training their viewers. But there are a bunch of other types of procedures, for example a lot of the LSD experiments were around this. Fun fact, they found they could achieve the same statistically significant results just through breath work without the LSD. Are brains are magical. I'm currently in the weeds doing a deep dive research project on this which I'll be sharing on Nostr so stay tuned!
It doesn't have to be depressing, as Milton said the mind is its own place and can make a hell out of heaven or a heaven out of hell. For me it's not depressing because even tho I was trapped in dark memories for a while, now I can go back and visit dear friends who have passed. I can see the past without the depression I drowned in back then, if that makes sense? It helped me rightsize the anxiety in my life. You can also get glimpses of the future which provide me with tons of hope and inspiration.
"Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space." 🤣 Maybe sometimes they hide the truth in plane sight 😅 Quote from here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/remarks-by-director-kratsios-at-the-endless-frontiers-retreat/
I remember reading about this. And I'm still intrigued about your research essay🤔. Will you be posting it on #alexandria?
I will try? I'm still a bit confused about the different clients. I'm writing a book report up on habla.news on the Body Electric as kind of a prequel. What is involved in posting on Alexandria? I'm open to anything really if that's better!
I’d like to read that whenever you finish
we call that "impermanence"
its an interesting observation
look deep enough and you find that all experience is inherently dissatisfactory
Tolkien, classic writer about big adventure, never really went anywhere. He wrote about it.
Basically if you are bored you aren't paying enough attention. He felt he paid enough attention that his short daily walk on the same path each day was an adventure.
Don't hunt for wild new experiences, really soak up the experience you are having now.
Epicureanism is an adjacent philosophy.
So enjoying the moment by finding pleasure in the things around you
Perhaps the point is that the only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.
Are you saying it’s my judgment that doesn’t allow me to just enjoy a good time and move on?
All times are good times if you set your standard to be "worst possible torture in some 3rd world prison for the rest of your life with no hope of escape".
The judgement of what is a good time versus what is not a good time is the flower versus the weed.
If one were to fall in love with even the mundane and approach everything they see with childlike wonder and appreciation, there would be no weeds. Every moment would be a flower.
Tried to zap you but it didn’t work
Theory of diminishing returns. When you're young and everything you do is for the first time it's all exciting, but the 100th or 500th time you do something it's not as cool.
I'm always moving the goal post in my own mind and desire to do something new or more meaningful. Not that it's a bad thing but I have to remind myself it's ok to chill and be content.
I was thinking about this
nope still fun 🚫nihilism
What are your thoughts?
I choose life. the struggles and the pleasures, I will enjoy it all.
I need to build more tolerance for discomfort. By the way, what client are you using? Your profile doesn’t have any relays connected and I’m confused how you’re able to even reply to me lol
I've been using primal. do I need to connect to some relays?
Yes. Without relays, people may not see your notes.
Go to settings > network > reset relays.
Or you can just add the most popular relays:
wss://relay.damus.io
wss://nos.lol
wss://relay.primal.net
wss://relay.nostr.band
wss://wot.utxo.one
wss://sendit.nosflare.com
Staying in the present, in the moment helps. Helps to enjoy anything I find. Even doing nothing and just relaxing
I’m a bit of an over thinker. Paranoid bitcoin psychopath here 🙋♂️
When you feel your mind going into the future, try and realize it and come back to the present. That’s where the enjoyment is. A bit like when you lift, feels much better when you’re in the present rather than starting to think about what you have to do afterwards
I think about the future a lot because it’s the only way I feel like I can prepare myself for what is to come. It’s what helped me get into bitcoin and I feel like I need to be constantly diligent in this regard. Obviously this is resulting in negative outcomes so I guess a balance is needed.
You don’t need to think about that while you’re having fun with your friends or on a date. Like you said, balance
All things are fleeting, each moment comes and goes like the tides, same with feelings and emotions. I find it enough to observe each moment, good or bad and be grateful to experience it. As to the point, I think that when age has made me old and weak I want the memories to comfort me, good and bad. If I experience nothing, what will I think at the end?
Great point about memories. Some of the most fun I have is just spending time with my old buddies reminiscing about our high school days.
The wife won't allow me to sleep with beautiful women anymore, but I regularly indulge in the rest of life's pleasures.
Finding purpose is more important, Bitcoin has given me that for the last few years.
Look forward, not back.
I’m in this temporary transitionary period with my life/career so I guess that’s why I’m feeling like this.
I was in transition before Bitcoin, I was getting really bored with investing. Covid came along and I was forced to pivot.
Best thing that ever happened.
You have to be ready to see opportunity.
I think it's partially generational. Things like porn addiction, fiat-based capitalism, and processed foods are preventing people from accumulating the resources needed to live fulfilling lives. Young adults aren't dating as much or having as many (if any) kids, people are having more and more difficulty creating generational wealth, and the fiat food and medical industries work in cahoots and have become dedicated to gaining profit over ensuring the health of their consumers.
Great points. I think digital screens are overstimulating and creating problems that people aren’t aware of.
Not sure if this helps, but consider: All of existence is now. Past and future are just memory and imagination. Pleasure is naturally fleeting, so grasping onto it naturally causes suffering. Not that you shouldn’t plan for the future or remember the past. Just also practice your attention on the present. That sense of existence is always waiting for you right now.
