#mental experiment

[ris-n]

The dilemma of two button

A small mental experiment. Let's imagine that every person on the planet who is able to make decisions at one moment found himself in a locked room with two buttons. Blue and red. To exit, you must press one of the buttons.

Clicking on the buttons leads to the following actions: 1) If the majority of people (at least 50.1%) participating in this experiment choose the blue button, then everything will remain as it was, people will disperse and continue to live their lives as if nothing had happened. 2) If most people choose the red button, then everyone who chooses the red button will remain alive, and everyone who chooses the blue button will die.

You don't have the opportunity to communicate with other people and come up with a common solution. You don't know how the majority will vote.

Which button will you choose?

[blinday]

Ok I think I made up a way to get myself more hyped to clean my room. Just, imagine it's not mine. If I wanted to make someone I love happy by cleaning their room I would do it without complaint, and be very proud. So, I just have to mentally disattach myself from my...self. and try. Boom.

But I'll have to guinea pig this on myself bc I don't know if there's anyone who has tried it before. Imma give updates once I try.

If you try before that update, pls tag or dm me I so wanna know if it works for other ppl.

[oh-moan]

passing. everything’s simply passing through us. nothing’s certain. nothing’s permanent. just brief moments in-between the great Outside - the grand scheme of things. nothing’s given. most of the things happening to us are random. what if we never achieve what we so badly want to achieve? what if we die empty, broken-hearted, not having achieved anything we wanted? what would that make you? what would I be if nothing happened? what would I be if I never got to experience what I so badly want to experience?

[worstandthebeth-blog]

32 Flavors - Ani DiFranco "I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some" Some days it is difficult to understand how little people can ever real know about you... That even those closest will never know the entirety of your amazing being. On negative days it can be extremely depressing, lonely even. On positive days, which outnumber the negative moments and are increasingly more frequent, I relish in all that I am and have done. I try to live my life as a role model for my own self. Obviously there are things I can do better but it is a continual process. I think Matthew Mcconaughey spoke about this idea in an acceptance speech at a recent awards show - that he envisions his future, more awesome self giving him pep talks about keeping up the good work. "...and god help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash" As I have gotten older the amount of bitterness in the world has surprised me. Naivete? I am always chugging along on one project or adventure, seeking out new challenges and experiences. Sometimes it seems to actually piss people off that I have not and am not following a prescribed trajectory for my life. That I won't be beaten down to the doldrums of an ordinary life. " I'm not trying to give my life meaning by demeaning you..." The word extraordinary means unusual, remarkable. It literally looks like "extra"+" ordinary " = more of ordinariness. Maybe an extraordinary life is just one in which we find rapture in our very existence. Appreciate the feel of soil on our toes and the wind stroking our cheeks. Wonder at the space between navel and back without fretting about the shape and texture in between. If we rambled aloud more often I think the world would be a better place... We could hear each other think and learn patterns of thought that we otherwise may not be able to follow. Each of us is a compass, our needles point in varying directions. If we all learned to look around the map we are on from a different perspectives we might have a far better understanding of where we are and be less lonely in the process. " And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head..."

[boejackson-blog]

Day 1.

Was not as hard as I thought it would be. Only got asked to smoke once. Got some shit for denying, no big deal. 

What had me strugglin' all day long was how damn congested I am/have been. It's one of those won't stop running kind of runny noses. Made me start to think about giving up during my workout and just lightin' up. Then I hit the sauna and the thoughts disappeared. When on a run then I felt great. 

Barely did any hw, which would be my only negative of the day. But its hard to clear up a cloudy mind. Gonna go sip some nyquil, crash, wake up early, go the library, read, then go apply for some jobs. One day at a time

Jackson