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@Stahesh the purpose of life is to live, but the meaning of life is whatever you want to give it.

It's like a painting of your favorite song. The artist may have inspired by something specific or not when they created it, but you, as the consumer of the art, create your own meaning.

Searching for meaning outside of yourself is like asking other people what your favorite ice cream flavor should be.

@ButtWorldsMan @Mike_Microwave Yes, during a short-term debt cycle, the FED really only lowers rates during recession, so normies think that interest rates ALWAYS follow economic cycles, because they usually do.

The exception is the long-term debt cycle or a monetary reset, or simply stagflation. This is when the government is in too much debt and has to reset the monetary system.

This is when you want "real assets", government manipulation notwithstanding.

@ButtWorldsMan @Mike_Microwave because stock prices are based on earnings (profits), which are going DOWN even as stock PRICE is going up due to TINA.

Eventually the bond market will break or the commodities market will, and then the stock market will crash down to Earth and many flips shall be had.

stocks are attractive when interest rates are low. The only thing holding stocks up is TINA due to government bullshit.

@Mike_Microwave @ButtWorldsMan Yes, you are correct. Even so-called "value" stocks and defensive stocks are overvalued due to TINA (there is no alternative) thanks to the government manipulating commodities while crashing bonds due to their overspending.

@ButtWorldsMan @Mike_Microwave Why the focus on VDC? What is it about Consumer Staples that interests you?

After Skool made a video that perfectly articulates existentialist philosophy (including Nietzsche who is often falsely portrayed as a Nihilist). Very cool, and it's animated only about 10 minutes long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CbBgcpz3b0

@ButtWorldsMan @Mike_Microwave @mrhorsetwat Correct. There are always political power struggles within the executives of major companies, but they just want to make money at the end of the day.

@Mike_Microwave @ButtWorldsMan @mrhorsetwat It's because the mafia is motivated by money, not politics. Politics involves manipulation and irrational emotion.

money is simple and clean. You can understand and compromise with someone who is interested in money. you can't compromise with someone who is acting out of emotional morals or politics.

@theFlow No.

Good video from Mark Manson about how to use the power of simple habits to improve your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXWpilGpyg

I woke up and my thumb was broken. I can only assume I did something epic in my dreams.

@No3D thanks. No need to be starstruck though. I'm a nobody on the asshole of the internet.

@SpurgAnon @obihahn They kidnapped the homeless to begin their FBI brainwashing in order to become the next batch of mass shooters.

@white_male @ButtWorldsMan nobody's self interest is morally superior to anyone else's self interest, and everything ultimately boils down to power.

When we can't sit down and talk and decide who's right, we kill each other to decide who's left.

@PordanJeterson @VooDooMedic Everyone is this way, it's human nature. It takes a big brain to abstract and consider someone else's world view without superimposing your own and assuming what's good for you is good for everyone.

@ButtWorldsMan why can't the people who want to be taken care of by the government be allowed to do so while not involving everyone else who wants to be left alone?

Obviously some people want/need to be taken care of and are willing to give up their freedom, and they should be allowed to do so.

I don't want to "force" freedom on anyone, but I don't want them to force their system on me either.

@white_male @ButtWorldsMan no, it's not "good enough for the common good" just because it benefits 51% of people. This is why democracies fail. The 51% learn they can prey on the 49% and it ends in war and collapse.

Also, although I don't know your politics, based on your name you're probably pro white people, but according to polls, white nationalists are a minority, thus the "will of the people" has triumphed, and you lose.

See how this works?