I have no routines and time flies for me. But it's not like I'm having "new" experiences each day, I simply have a lot of downtime between jobs and gig work. It does seem like no matter how much I do, I feel like I never have enough time but I think that's because I'm more conscious of my age and how little time I have left, like maybe 25 okay working years left.
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I don't want to go into the nitty gritty but I have my own business. I have a list of tasks in Clickup a mile long and yet I only get to 2-3 things max each day. I mean, I enjoy the heck out of what I do but it still blows me away how fast time is going by each day. I wake up at around 6-7, eat breakfast, get 1 thing done for work and when I look at the clock, it's almost time for lunch.
I get it believe me I do, I misconstrued what you said as you were trying to open a business I was curious what you were looking to get into.
I have a task list on my phone I am constantly adding to so that I can distribute those tasks which aren't personal to task lists on 3 different office computers at 3 different locations at the moment. It never ends, I remember once a while back I had completely cleared my lists other than some lingering stupid personal things. I honestly didn't know what to do with myself.
I don't mind it, I like getting things done but there are times I feel like life is just passing me by. Sometimes I feel like it's a problem that I don't mind it. Don't get me wrong I have my fun and enjoy things for sure but many a night I just hunker down in an office and look for things to get done.
But then again what am I supposed to do? What do people with no responsibilities do day to day? Wake up go to a cafe to sit there, go to the gym then go try to solicit friends and family to neglect their responsibilities to hang out with you?
What would you do with more free time that you don't do now?
Maybe you could get more involved in your church. Perhaps get into some kind of light missionary work or Christian charity. Both as a challenge to yourself and to make your life feel more meaningful.
Thank you brother I live a very good, happy and peaceful life that wasn't what I was saying at all. Right now I'm just kinda at a crossroads and work is part of that. I was just saying that I completely understand the concept of time moving fast being stuck to tasks. You're right though I do need to make a better effort of living towards more enrichment beyond just financial success, there are much more fulfilling endeavors on this earth. I've always thought of success and responsibility as a way to take care of the people I love so work has always been a good thing in my mind.....perhaps I need a better balance.
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I have found that when I have a lot of different things going on, time slows. I get to the end of 14 hours of non stop activity at the end of the day, and something I did that morning feels like it happened the day before. Something two days ago feels like a week ago.
On the other hand, I've had times where I was doing about the same thing everyday, and suddenly eight months had gone by.
I do think time speeds up as you get older, but the novelty vs routine factor is big for me.
On the other hand, I've had times where I was doing about the same thing everyday, and suddenly eight months had gone by.
I do think time speeds up as you get older, but the novelty vs routine factor is big for me.
I use to lay around and do nothing except pursue my hobbies. I miss those days. My motto was, "Ambition is for those who are too stupid to be lazy." Sure, I was often broke, but I learned to be comfortable with very little (a valuable skill unto itself). Now I am a task master running my own business and like Maddox is saying the time just flies by. The only reason I do this is because I am motivated by a certain type of "revenge" and to "prove people wrong." Money is nice to have and it is "fun" but it is often not worth the sacrafice of my time. I can never get my time back, but I can always make more money. The only question is, "How much is enough"?
Like Thomas said, this is partially a construct of aging but it is also is a by-product of being a busy, "responsible" adult. That is why, for me, my primary objective at this point in my life is to get back to my old life of "hanging out" except with more of a monk-mode spiritual component of productivity to the hang-session. This is why I will soon be moving off-grid into the wilderness of America, so I can reclaim my time by reentering a state of consciousness that is more akin to the innocence and elongated time of childhood where the process of living was more important than the product(s) it produced.
You see time passing through your kids. My oldest is almost the height of my wife. He could fit in my hand. When I look in the mirror I see the same dumbass as before.
Kids are how you waste your time. Giving them tools for them to face the world.
Was today buying cement and some bricks i normally have them delivered its near my house and they dont charge anything. But I ordered a 30 tube and it was a 20 tube which was needed . And they didnt accept the return cause they said the 30 was a special order so now I only buy sand from them. Worse part is loading and unloading into my car. 7 bags of cement. And 12 bricks.
Anyway some young punks were in a depot store and they were talking to each other asking if it was the right cement. I pointed them to the right one. And told them to buy sand also. First time I bought cement I thought you only needed to add water. Loooll.
The russian complains there are ready made shit to which you only add water.
But I like to do it the old way.
I think sbout it as food. Cooked in the spot. Not already made and heated.
The plaster guy said obviously you should put cement cause its another layer of insulation against cold of infiltration.
Theres some much shit now. With different names and colors.
Anyway gonna buy some chairs from an embassy. To future furnishnent of the house. Its thonet. My wife found them. Lets ser if they fit. 5 thonet chairs 10 bricks and 7 bags of general cement. Lets go.
Yesterday we reinforced the ceilling with wood beams.
Its a really bad time for construction. Too much demand. Labor and materials too much expensive. You need to be there. Cause now the pressure of time is brutal on contractors. Income didnt follow inflation. And contractors are adapting.
Its shrinkflation adapted to construction.
The solutions are based on time. Not on merit. Everything needs to be checked. Unless you hire a gigant company. The small average ones are building for themselves.
Might write a datasheet. When I have time. The way you render windows its worth it to learn.
Kids are how you waste your time. Giving them tools for them to face the world.
Was today buying cement and some bricks i normally have them delivered its near my house and they dont charge anything. But I ordered a 30 tube and it was a 20 tube which was needed . And they didnt accept the return cause they said the 30 was a special order so now I only buy sand from them. Worse part is loading and unloading into my car. 7 bags of cement. And 12 bricks.
Anyway some young punks were in a depot store and they were talking to each other asking if it was the right cement. I pointed them to the right one. And told them to buy sand also. First time I bought cement I thought you only needed to add water. Loooll.
The russian complains there are ready made shit to which you only add water.
But I like to do it the old way.
I think sbout it as food. Cooked in the spot. Not already made and heated.
The plaster guy said obviously you should put cement cause its another layer of insulation against cold of infiltration.
Theres some much shit now. With different names and colors.
Anyway gonna buy some chairs from an embassy. To future furnishnent of the house. Its thonet. My wife found them. Lets ser if they fit. 5 thonet chairs 10 bricks and 7 bags of general cement. Lets go.
Yesterday we reinforced the ceilling with wood beams.
Its a really bad time for construction. Too much demand. Labor and materials too much expensive. You need to be there. Cause now the pressure of time is brutal on contractors. Income didnt follow inflation. And contractors are adapting.
Its shrinkflation adapted to construction.
The solutions are based on time. Not on merit. Everything needs to be checked. Unless you hire a gigant company. The small average ones are building for themselves.
Might write a datasheet. When I have time. The way you render windows its worth it to learn.
Seeing the word "agnostic" reminds me of something that's been on my mind.
Matthew 23:12 New Living Translation
"But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."I've been thinking that, despite being tagged as "Agnostic", TrainedLogosmotion and Australia Sucks are among the most exalted Christians among us due to their humility.
Consider this: if they were truly agnostic as their tags suggest, their actions would reveal negative outcomes, leading to darkness and emptiness. However, they produce good works that are only possible when one is in communion with God.
TrainedLogosmotion has made numerous posts extolling the virtues of celibacy and NoFap, while Australia Sucks consistently promotes the virtues of virginity and saving ourselves for marriage. Would an agnostic really think this way? I think not. Only someone with deep spirituality can think like this.
If they wanted to, they could choose tags like "Orthodox," "Protestant," "Catholic," "Other Christian," or something else. However, rather than declaring themselves as Christians and later failing to live up to the title, they choose to declare themselves as agnostic, yet still live as good Christians.
You think people who openly reject the divinity of Jesus are acting more like Christians than those who do believe in Him?
You are mixing things up a bit. Are they extolling the Christian virtues because they think that helps them attain the Kingdom of Heaven, or are they hoping to maximize worldly benefits? I would rather say it's the latter.
One can see that fornication or masturbation lead to greater misery without any spiritual insight. In fact, there are statistical studies out there showing marriages where the man and wife came in as virgins are much more successful, and likelihood of divorce increases with number of premarital sexual partners. Other studies have shown that Christians have generally higher life satisfaction and happiness than the non-religious. Also, is it not obvious by simple observation that perversions like sodomy or transsexualism destroy people?
We don't know what God's relationship is with our agnostic members. Perhaps He has enlightened them, but perhaps they came to those conclusions simply by reason alone. Though even in that case, you are right that ultimately all knowledge comes from God.
Here's my problem: it is true that non-believers can live seemingly more righteous lives than even believers. But their self-righteousness, no matter how good it seems to men, is nothing but filthy rags to God and it will not avail them on the day of judgement. On the flip side, believers, insofar as they are true believers, are open and honest in that they are sinners who have wronged God, forfeiting their self-righteousness. The greatest of all commandments is to love the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength. If someone is not doing this commandment, then how can they be said to be righteous? Sometimes it seems that people take for granted that belief in the True God is a moral imperative.
TrainedLogosmotion made those posts while he was still trying to live a life aligned with Orthodoxy. It seems like towards the end of his posting career here he did fall into the "darkness and emptiness" since he left here with a parting middle finger by changing his post signature to say "Wake up. It's all an Jewish psyop" and setting his avatar to the cover of a book written by an author who has made his name on attacking the reliability of the New Testament. It's pretty similar to what happened with jaguarcat who seemed to have been a cradle Orthodox since he seems to have indicated being Russian before his prolonged meltdown. He got temp banned at least once for being super inflammatory - came back and and instead of taking heed to what he was doing, actually doubled down and started promoting Paganism and talking about how Christianity has weakened the European races. From my perspective as a guy who can't look into their hearts and can only go by what they were writing on here, it seems like they had their struggles and was fighting them (something that TrainedLogosMotion wrote in more detail about) but then ultimately succumbed to the forces that were attacking them. The end result of this was definitely not any sort of good work (leaving aside the issue of whether "good works" by itself is evidence of communion with God).
Australia Sucks promotes chasity not out of a sense of virtue but because he lusts over young, virgin feminine women and he wants more of them to increase his chances of bagging one of them so he can impregnate her while avoiding having to spend too much time with his family. Notice that he only promotes chasity for women but not for men. I wouldn't even say his motivation for why he promotes the things he does is virtuous in a secular sense since it's entirely based on satisfying his own desires rather than out of higher principles. It's pretty much just the old secular red pill stuff that hasn't been the focus of this community since the early to mid 2010s.
Those are very good points.
Maybe I feel bad that my personal beliefs and viewpoints align most with the agnostic members of the forum. I really wish they were Christians so that I don't feel as bad for agreeing with them.
When TrainedLogosmotion said that he had struggled with whoredom all through his 20s in red light districts around the world, and is still forever tempted by Satan even through thoughts of apostasy just to break this one vow with God, I totally relate with him. I've often thought of going to "massage parlors" after years of not going there, but this contradicts the Christian tenets of self-denial and morality.
When TrainedLogosmotion, despite being formerly a great Christian, finally fell away after around two years of baptism, I felt demoralized by this. I'm now also at two years after my baptism, the exact same timeframe as TrainedLogosmotion. If he, as someone who is a much greater Christian than me, can still fall away, this is much harder for me as someone who was never a good Christian to begin with.
When Australia Sucks loves beautiful young women and is willing to do whatever it takes to find them, I relate to him and hope to do the same.
Maybe I was hoping to be able to do what I want and be free of the constraints of Christianity, but as long as I do good works and be a good person, it will be all right.
What you can't see is the end of the road for these men and other nonbelievers. They're all miserable wretches in the end. Seen it countless times.