bonfire #1 - 1/19/20

- expression of emotion
    -  myhf -> current generation in adolescence has issues showing
       appreciation by accident, how is this possible
    - people thinking about not being appreciated by others, multiple situations
    - 1. people actually don't care | 2. people don't know how to show it | 3. people
          forget to show it | 4. maybe, just maybe people accidentally show that they
          don't care, which is what this entire thought is deriving from | 5. blocking out
          everyone who cares afterwards, when they actually do
    - when you're expressing yourself to others, the only way you know if you're doing
      something right if by feedback
    - > would admiration fall under appreciation
          - in a negative way envy can come from admiration, and envy is not always
            a good thing
        - > don't people enjoy others being envious of them
             - positive reinforcement causes people who DO enjoy it to keep making
               other people envious, negative energy

- bad parenting
      - "coming to the conclusion that it's going to be our generation that finally
         obtains the ability to universally (locally to the western hemisphere) connect
         with our children using perspective"
      - "previous bloodlines in time have failed to perceive situations with the mindset
        of 'i was a kid like you once'"
      - duke -> despite this there's no way adults forget everything right?
      - conclude = knowing that parents in generation have perspective from both
        100%, as they were once kids as well, it still seems like they only show it from
         themselves

- vs. vs. romantic relationships (unbalanced vs. balanced)
     - duke -> if it's one sided or balanced it's smooth sailing, but for the former only for the
                    person that cares more and abuses it
     - "whoever cares less in a relationship controls it"
     - people sometimes try to change this dynamic forcefully (if the other person is abusing it) by caring less, hoping the
        other person will start to care more
     - most of the time this results in constant flunctuations (changes going down) until they
       both hit the floor, and the relationship ends :(
     - > what if the person who cares less, cares enough for the other person to never want
          to lower || being content
     - this would mean the person who cares less now never has a reason to fight back
     - duke -> "if no one's even pushing the limits for abuse to be displayed, how would you
                      even know who cares more? you wouldn't so there's no problem"
                     "it's basically equal, this concept isn't impossible"
     - conclude - all's just for smooth sailing's sake

- humanity hive mind
     - duke -> collective conscious -> "technology advancing at such a fast rate that we
                    might as well call ourselves a hivemind, we can transfer messages so fast
                    that global decisions can be made in under 24 hours. insane
                    "occasionally disagreements do not mean it's not a hivemind."

- time spent in microwave and temperature of food
     - linear not scaling
     - it increases by the way
     - at the same rate

- identity's purpose >
    - duke has always called myhf myhf, because the majority of what he witnessed myhf
      do was when he knew him as myhf, even though he learned the chris name pretty early
      on. because of this, he keeps attributing the myhf name to things that chris does
      regardless, having no plans to change the way he refers to him.

- duke's free will thoughts
       - everyone has basic natural impulses, like "i'm hungry, i'm thirsty, etc." when
         someone has an idea and builds off it and shares it with someone else and it expands
         further. where is the original idea coming from?
        - figuring out where exactly original thoughts are coming from would support true
          free will
        - > a need to process information and surroundings
        - > future and all to come

- why do we procrastinate/waste time
      - myhf -> "people procrastine not because they have to, but because they know they
                     can"
      - cba (can't be asked) everything makes it so that you really don't care so time can
        pass easily

- being selfish to group is less beneficial
      - duke -> "individual is part of the group, selfishness harms the group but benefits the
                      individual sometimes the individual realize that fucking the group for
                     individual gain endsup fucking themselves but most often than not the
                      individual dies before the group is impacted, therefore the individual does not
                      stop the selfish behavior. what is the counter"
                  - "what is the counter for the group" to prevent being affected by the individual?"
                  - example, global warming, overpopulation (semi)

- self interest talk pt. 1
       - coming from ethical egoism
            -  duke -> Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought
               to act in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims
               that people can only act in their self-interest.

- consistency vs. persistency
    - > "consistency is more valuable than persistency?"
    - pretty sure that these two aren't even comparable
    - duke -> "neither are indicative of performance, you can be consistently shit or you can
                    be persistent and not get anything done"

- self diagnosed
    - duke -> "people are sad and more vocal about it | not caring about being happy saves
                    a lot of this useless effort"
    - >  "the immense amount of information gen z is getting a young age contributes to them
           thinking they're fucked but they're just retarded hehe"
           - too much media being given to current generation is fucking things up

- talking about time pt. 1 (relating to free will)
     - duke -> "if we're perceiving time and we exist then we exist in the terms in which we
                      perceive it (time) as. there are still things about time that we can't perceive
     - this can relate to free will because it talks about how we're perceiving what we are
     - since time is a human concept, it supports indication that the perception is within
       ourselves and not by any external means
     - time = perceiving there's a universal direction in events (?)
     - duke -> "without time nothing would exist"
     - > when focusing on something that isn't at all related to time time can pass at an
           incomprehensible rate
           - if something's incomprehensible at that point than how can we even talk about
             anything
     - > humans only care about time so much because we have proof of other lifeforms
           living longer than us lol

- insecurites
     - duke -> "when getting shit on for the smallest things you do and become even more
                     even more insecure from that, which leads some people to never try ever
                     never again."
     - delusion causes people not to be insecure ok sure