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Learned helplessness

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Photograph of emotions By Callum Skelton Learned helplessness | Monday – December 1, 2025 In modern times people are affected by learned helplessness and this basically means that their willpower has been hijacked, or I guess another way to put it is this: modern societies are very adept at sapping people of their willpower, and as I've covered in my posts on weight loss , things and procedures that are easy and should be easy have been made very difficult. What civilization or really what culture in human history has had problems with obesity and people being overly fat? None that I can think of; this is an entirely recent and invented problem and many people will die and suffer because of it. There are of course many other aspects of life that seem impossible because of the modern world: these can include natural and also easy things or things that should be easy such as family creation, a topic I recently covered . If you seek to move in a certain direction in the modern world, ...
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Personal Note XVIII

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Yahweh in  (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush Should you create a family? Sunday – November 30, 2025 First and foremost, whether or not you should create a family is entirely up to you and I do not intend to tell you or anyone else how to live your life, but I do want to just offer some advice. Creating a family is expensive and if you're young and have no strong social safety nets and you lack a job and/or good education, then creating a family, especially introducing children to the world, will likely crash whatever economy you have. See, there are good and responsible ways to create a family, so that you and your family can suffer less. The world is not a nice place and the material domain is very much not a nice place , certainly not for kids. Yes, in the distant past when the economic infrastructure relied less on human will and input and more on nature, you could be basically more reckless when you created a family, but in this world that's just not a wise proposition....
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Life in the city

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Photograph of Utrecht By Tanya Prodaan Life in the city | Saturday – November 29, 2025 One of the greatest aberrations in the modern world is the city, especially large cities. Indeed, for most of human history man lived close to nature and this closeness to the creation also provided comfort, wisdom, and insight, all of which have been weakened or replaced in the modern world. To live in a city surrounded by strangers is one of the most unnatural things a man can possibly do, and this unnatural lifestyle is evident in how men that live in big cities—away from the closeness to the Earth on the countryside or really in nature—act because these modern and cosmopolitan men are crude and very hard in their hearts, because they lack the closeness to the creation, to the community, and to humanity. What happens when you live in a big city is that the human infrastructure and the materialistic phase and rhythm replaces the natural flow of the creation and as a result you become completel...
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Personal Note XVII

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Yahweh in  (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush My views on sleep | Friday – November 28, 2025 Yes, I believe that sleep, from a purely material point of view, is important and it does seem to me that most people in the modern world lack enough sleep and even if they receive enough sleep they more often than not are not receiving good sleep. I do believe that it is true to say that people who sleep poorly live shorter lives and end up developing major diseases earlier. I do also believe that it is true to say that most people that live past the age of 100 age more slowly, which is something that can be achieved, at least partially, by receiving enough sleep. Of course, I recognize that most people are trying to navigate the material domain, practically a minefield, and that the pressure of performing, against the whole world these days, often means for many people that they end up not receiving enough sleep. Of course, sleep in and of itself is a profoundly material need: your body...
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