I love the show, but I also find it terrifying.

I can’t seem to identify what the difference is, but I have two camps of friends, those who love it and those who hate it. I know there’s a difference between their senses of humor, but I absolutely can’t identify specifically what it is.

Me surfing reddit and playing games on my phone while nursing a hangover. My wife is going to be home soon. Now I have the perfect explanation for why I did not do shit all day.

Do something pointless. Grab a sketchpad and a pack of pencils and draw. You can also do free writing, just start writing. If you feel the need to do something, do something.

I got a book on active imagination by Jung years ago, and I think there is merit to creating things for the sake of creation. It can be a reflective practice to figure out what unvoiced things are rattling around in your head, and it can loosen up the mind by occupying the hands.

Freud... no thank you

Taking time to think is not doing nothing. It is something I like to practice every once in a while. Those moments are too far apart these days, but I encourage everyone to find some rutine for doing nothing.

For me it is usually just laying down with purpose of doing nothing. What always happens is that a bunch of thoughts come, and I let them be and pass in their natural state.

I always feel refreshed and calm afterwards. Try once a week just shut off your computer, phone and tv. Make sure your house is clean, and you don't habe a bunch of things to do like laundry, groceries or whatever. Lay down somewhere comfortable. If you can lay in the sun it is to be prefered.

This time a year, i can truely recommend laying down infront of a fireplace and stare into the flames.

"Never trying never fails" by some unknown author.

The cost of housing in the past couple years in the US has made me think so much more about money and I hate it. But I need shelter. It isn't a rolex or a hundred dollar bottle of wine. It is basic security and comfort.

There's always security jobs. Get a night/graveyard shift and you'll make enough to get by without much to do

I've been looking into ketamine therapy. Are you doing it through one of the companies like mindbloom or private doc or?

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"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life "

This feels like it would be a good exercise to take time daily and recognize the separate "selves", how they represented throughout the day, and the feelings they cause.

Doesn't matter. You might actually have an insight into something important. I think you should develop that idea.

Hopefully doing nothing.

I was gonna ask to join along but I think I'll stay home instead.

Lol I'm less than a college freshman. In philosophy at least.

Ok. I understand.

But what you are writing is not philosophy or even about philosophy.

You say "something doesn't feel right" and it "just seems like the science of" something on which you can't put your finger. But it seems like something Russell said about the difference between science and philosophy.

There's nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't get us anywhere. It's the sort of thing one hears from college freshmen in a course of Introduction to Philosophy.

I, sort of, understand what you are aiming at. It is your responsibility to make it clear and argue for its correctness -- i.e., defend it.

That is western philosophy, probably since Thales, certainly since Socrates.

> attempt to determine who I am, why I am

self is such an interesting concept. There's self as in body, there's social self as in how you relate to others, there's emotional self as in how you feel, there's ego as in the part of your brain that gets all defensive and loves comparing, there's what budhists call true self as in nothing really at all,

I find Rick and Morty terrifying.

I've recently started ketamine therapy for TRD and have had the same experience. I used to be goal orientated in my personal and professional life. I've finally come to the realization after a few years of not having goals and beating myself up about it, that being content with what I have and not having any crazy goals is ok and can lead to a happy existence.

There is no such thing as nothing.

The word nothing has been corrupted to degrade leisure.

Where I grew up, Iowa. Nothing was associated with leisurely activities or anything that was identified as not real. What is not real? Anything associated with something the other person didn't like.

>Do you intend, further, that there is otherwise nothing new in philosophy since Aristotle?

There is "new" of course. But isn't it just "building" on Aristotle like science of his philosophy. Idk. I can't make the argument itself. Which is why I said "could" there be an argument. Maybe I should have said "could there be a good argument".

Something doesn't feel right about post ancient philosophy. Just seems like "the science of". Can't put my finger on it. In A history of Western Philosophy I remember Russell explaining the difference between science and philosophy. And post ancient philosophy just seems like what he described science as...

Quite right. Very good point.

I think it's about choosing to do nothing compared to having no motivation to do anything. I have very few interests and just find myself "wasting" away the days. It draines me even more than having a busy day, but I guess rather mentally thus physically.