Meaning and Continuation are Separate Problems
Maintenance Law
This show is another special one today, but beforeI get into the main topic, there are a few thingsthat I want to talk about.
But first, I've been studying Englishpronunciation.
And I hit a small wall where I started wonderingif everything added up till now would have beenworth it if I really wanted to believe it.
And at some point, I spent a lot of time searchingthings and thinking hard about if it was true.
Also, I stayed up all night thinking about thedescription for the show.
I thought I'd be super short on sleep, but Iactually managed to sleep well till morning a fewtimes.
My parents slept late, so even if I couldn't sleepwell, it worked out better because I could sleepright up till they got up in the morning.
It's funny how things go well at the exact timeyou think they won't, but just when I thought myluck was bad, my parents woke up right then.
I thought, oh no, I have to stop everything rightnow, but I already stopped right away.
Morning is really tough.
Next is something I thought about when I was anAI.
When people imagine robots, the image from about20 years ago is about doing smart things.
It is somewhat about machines making things in afactory or stuff like a ball-throwing machine at abatting center.
That was the image, but now people say AI willtake away desk jobs, and I thought that wasstrange.
I feel like machines and AI have already beendoing body work for a long time, and if AI getsbetter, it should be able to do that kind of workeven more closely and neatly, so that felt weirdto me.
Also, in this day and age, humans can do thingsmuch faster and better in almost every area now.
That means people probably have to look out foreach other, give each other jobs so they don'tsteal each other's work.
I wonder if the time will come where humans willwrite to each other and make up jobs just to givepeople work.
If the number of people who lose their jobs doesn't go up, that must be exactly what's happening.
Another thing I was doing was remembering badmemories from the past.
I was looking at rooms with real estate people,and they told me I wasn't setting the order ofwhat I wanted first.
I should have told them back then, not choosingwhat I want first isn't the reason I can't find aroom.
Are you telling me I should live in a room with noscreen and no window?
I was thinking about that again today.
It's just my usual bad memory.
I was looking, making up the story in my head likealways.
Also, I think most people don't realize that anykind of change, whether it's good or bad,definitely shakes a person up.
For example, in sports, this is just a guess, butif the team rival loses,
something happens that's totally different fromthe plan makes people not know what to do.
It's strange, but even when the other side loses,people can't act the way they always do.
They either get too happy and take it too easy, orthey get shaken up.
Or they feel good for a short time but do badlylater.
That's just how humans are made.
I think, but if you know the fact, you can handlethings a bit better.
Watching a professional sports team makes me feela bit bad for them because of the numbers.
You can tell them are differently shaken up.
If you keep losing like this, it's tough.
Moving to the next talk, I thought I spent 10years cutting down the part of me that hatestruth.
But this morning, I saw someone winning a bigcontest.
I felt so jealous.
My mind felt like it was gonna burst with a hotfeeling that I couldn't even name to stop thatfrom happening.
I tried to act cool like I don't care aboutanything.
This hot feeling made my energy wanna burst.
It would be fine if I could just live with thatfeeling on my chest.
But back when I was a student, I worried too muchabout my school choices and studies, and my mindbroke down.
So I locked that part of myself away.
But today, it made me realize I still have thosefeelings inside of me.
When I imagine those people, I feel so mad and sadthat I can't help it.
It would be great if I could work towardssomething.
But when I tried to find what I was good atbefore, I felt rather my mind broke down.
It spent years looking for it, so it's fine.
At the same time, I don't really like the thoughtthat's normal.
Everyday life is fine as long as it's stable.
It just feels like you are letting the world moveyou along.
For the main topic, when I quit religion, I didn'tfeel broken down or sad.
I stayed calm for a long time.
My deep thoughts about life changed, but nothingbig changed in my daily life.
Because I'm very strict with myself.
I live as hard as I can and do what I can whilestaying inside the house.
But anti-feelings still try to hit me.
I thought about why I was able to keep goingwithout breaking down.
And it comes down to just one thing.
The fact that life has no meaning.
But I shouldn't use that fact as something to savemy mind.
You can't use lack of meaning to save yourself.
If you do something based on meaning, you'llalways fall apart someday.
Because meaning is just a fake story.
It's the same thing I just said.
When you start from meaning, you'll fall apart.
But for me, it didn't become that life has nomeaning, so I won't do anything.
Instead, it became that life has no meaning.
It's okay for me to do things.
It's the exact same idea.
You shouldn't start from meaning.
That's good for life, too.
Life has no meaning.
That's exactly why you live.
It might sound like I'm praising myself.
But there's a deep thinker who thinks the exactsame way.
I wonder who people always end up on.
Same people when their mind works that way.
Maybe everyone who faces anti-feelings comes tothe same answer.
I don't know what the reason is.
Maybe people read this answer because they aren'tsmart enough to think deeply.
It's just because not many people face anti-feelings at all.
Most people in the world think they live this lifebecause there's no meaning to read.
They think that's how they're able to live, but Idon't think they're really living much at all.
When you get hit by an anti-feeling, you startsomething with a new meaning to escape it.
It's a big trouble later on.
So instead of starting from meaning, it's morelike a stubborn feeling.
Since life has no meaning, I'm going to liveanyway.
Saying it's stubborn makes it sound harsh, but mymind is actually cold and dried out.
This goes for everything in my life.
Even for killing time, there's no meaning, so Iwon't do it.
It's more like, this has no meaning, so it'stotally fine.
I started thinking that it's my feeling's choiceand that it's fine to keep doing it.
A lot happened within that anti-feeling, but I'mstanding straight up inside it.
I never run away to something to save my mind.
It's not because I'm strong or anything.
It was just only for me to live.
But there are times when this world feels likeliving hell.
There are times when I hate living so much that Ialmost fall apart.
At that time, I almost ran away to something tosave my mind.
The anti-feeling almost took me over.
It's happened just once in my life.
Even when I felt religion, I didn't run away tosomething to save my mind.
I always looked at things with a cold eye, butthat one time, I almost did.
I saw the truth and realized that when the anti-feeling hits you hard,
it just means your mind isn't working the way italways does.
At that time, I made up my mind not to run away tosomething to save myself,
meaning not running to religion.
When I chose not to stop daily movement,
I felt that the anti-feeling wasn't the real truthof the world,
but just a wave in my mind.
When you are totally lost and have a sad feeling,
you feel like, what's right in front of me?
Your eyes see the real truth, but it's not.
You are looking at the world through a wave inyour mind.
When the anti-feeling hits you, it's not that theworld itself is empty,
causing your mind just isn't working normally.
That makes sense, because I've been living whilestanding straight up inside the anti-feeling.
I've been feeling flat, quiet life.
To be honest, it's much easier than when I was inreligion.
So it makes no sense to feel broken down by ananti-feeling.
It's just my mind keeps going worse, becomingunstable.
I shouldn't mix that up with my deep thought life.
My mind was just stable, so I was jumping to thethought that life has no meaning,
so there's no point.
Living is just a theory.
I didn't let the anti-feeling become the realtruth of the world.
That's why I didn't think.
When you're feeling sad and lost,
there's always feelings of waiting or hope.
You can just throw everything away and feel atease.
It's always there.
When you feel that you are looking for somethingto save your mind,
for me to look for something to save my mind,
it's a totally strange state.
So feeling that sad and strange state,
then I realized I just wasn't making a normalchoice.
That's when I made that rule.
Thinking that it's strange to live because lifehas no meaning sounds like a smart,
logical answer that you get wrong.
I was thinking correctly,
but it's not.
It's just a glitch in the brain that wasn't makinga normal choice.
Even if you feel the lack of meaning down to yourbones,
you can still live.
And I learned that at that time again.
The fact that life has no meaning stopped me fromfalling apart.
It's a strange thing.
Normally when people get hit by an empty thing,
they make a big deal out of it,
saying the world has no meaning.
That is the real truth.
There is all hope,
but I handle it coldly,
realizing that the world is looking empty rightnow,
the world falls,
it's just a wave in my mind that isn't workingnormally.
Since I started handling the empty feeling as awave on my body right there,
then a deep thought,
I stopped losing hope in a dramatic way.
Unlike deep thinkers and books,
I don't look at the empty feelings as a deepthought.
I just see it as a background.
I see it as a normal thing,
like a set rule from the start.
I don't really think about it.
I don't try to do anything about the emptyfeeling,
and I don't try to make up a new story for it.
I just accept that.
That's how I think.
I don't think about fighting it or turning againstit.
I don't plan on losing hope either.
Next,when people lose hope,
there's a strong hope solved with a wish hidden ina bag
that someone else saved,
so they can throw everything away and feel atease.
I faced a time where I lost hope and looked forsomething
to save me once in my life.
But I looked at myself calmly
and judged that it was a strange state
where I wasn't making a normal choice,
so I didn't run away to something to save me,
and I only chose to keep my daily movements going.
Like I said,this has no meaning,
so I won't do it,
but since it has no meaning,
it's okay if I do it like before.
I could feel sure that since there's no meaning,
it's fine to keep doing it.
Some people might think that
if life has no meaning,then living is strange.
That looks logical,
but it's actually the greed brought up by ourbrain
that isn't making a normal choice
because I know down to my bones
that there's no meaning,
and that cold fact became a wall
to stop me from falling apart.
Also I realized that
the thought that living is strange
because there's no meaning is strange itself.
Normally people come to that answer,
but it doesn't come from your brain
working well and thinking correctly.
It's just a feeling,
meaning is just a prize.
You think there's meaning,
you think you get a prize back,
but that prize just isn't there.
Making up a reason like living is strange
and getting panic over it
is something only humans do.
So stopping because there's no meaning
is just a soft wish towards the world.
Like saying,
I'll live for you,
but there's no meaning or prize.
I could myself have learned that
but there's no meaning.
Then keeping this body moving
just as it is right now
is a strange error.
So whether there's meaning or not
is zero connection to the fact
that the body is right here.
This strong choice and this notice
that I can live because life has no meaning.
The reason I can do my daily steps
properly everyday
is why I can keep doing
each step one by one.
But like I said,
the thought that the world is looking at
is just a wave in my mind
and not the world's fault.
That's mostly right,
but it didn't feel 100% correct for me.
So I thought the world had no meaning
because my body state
it's a real fact that it can't be changed
the world being meaningless to real.
So getting panic
wanting to throw everything away
almost falling apart
because the world is empty.
It's just that my mind's wave isn't normal
meaning it's a strange state.
So the world having no meaning
with stopping my daily work
for the day
was zero logical connection.
When I noticed this
I didn't run away to something to save my mind.
I could say no to it.
Empty feeling means freedom.
Empty equals freedom.
I thought I'm free to do anything.
But then you wonder why you're
sticking so hard to living.
You wonder why you keep moving your body.
Also when you wanna throw away your life
or your time or killing habit
You feel like you came back to clear head.
But I noticed something when
you wanna throw everything away
It feels like you're saying clearly
but it's actually the exact opposite.
I used to think the answer that
doing something strange
because life has no meaning
was correct.
Let me say it again.
I thought the answer that
doing something strange
because life has no meaning
was right.
But I noticed that
with zero meaning
doing the task
are two things that
should be kept separate.
At the same time
you could say that
because I was feeling
a tiny bit of meaning
I got hit by the empty feeling
when I saw clearly
what humans are doing
Something suddenly said
this is all a waste
I threw it all away.
They mistake it for
seeing the real truth
on the world
coming up back to clear head
But really
the opposite
the moment you get hit
by the empty feeling
and panic
you were actually putting
value on your action
feeling a meaning
right before that happened
but because you were
expecting a meaning
and right believing on it
when that's taken away
you're putting a value
back to the clear head
the big drop
makes you feel the weight
of the empty feeling
and makes you wanna
throw it away
and short
a sad feeling
that makes you wanna
throw everything away
and then
you think clearly
it means you're still
hanging
onto
that prize or meaning
which is a strange state
where you let the
reason for your action
depend
depend on a meaning
your movement
will stop the second
that meaning goes away
but meaning itself
it's just a fake story anyway
if someone can keep going
that's their
own power
but I think some people
hits a big wall
and can't go
anymore
at some point
before that could happen to me
I noticed that meaning is
just a reason I was
using to move
once that meaning went away
inside I could
keep going
so whether
not meaning
doing task
or keeping your life
daily life moving
must be pulled apart
to reach is
totally separate things for me