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A house by the lake and early retirement are the only goals I've yet to achieve. Ones I've already acomplished include getting fit, getting a girlfriend, house, pickup truck and being self-employed.

Your body is paralyzed for the most of the time you sleep so that you don't physically act out your dreams, so probably not.

This is exactly the kind of work I do for living. Not garage door trim but "where do I even call and ask" type of work. Unfortunelately I don't live in the US.

I can give you one tip however: aluminium can be cut with woodworking tools so if you have a mitre saw and a drill you could probably buy, cut and install the trim yourself.

There are multiple schools and apartment buildings for example that would lack heating, running water and sewers were my contribution to be removed from them.

I don’t believe in it in the traditional sense, but I do have a feeling that there’s something deeply mysterious about our minds and consciousness. I wouldn’t claim with absolute certainty that death is the end of experience.

Take general anesthesia, for example - it’s one of the closest things to dying that we can experience and still return from. What does it feel like? Nothing. By definition, it cannot be experienced. You might have been under for ten hours, but from your perspective, you simply go from feeling drowsy to waking up in another room, with no sense of time having passed in between. You can only experience being, not not-being.

Who’s to say something similar doesn’t happen when you die? Your experience could simply continue elsewhere. Whether it happens instantly or after a ten-thousand-year gap is irrelevant - because from the standpoint of your subjective experience, it would feel instantaneous. We could take this even further and consider the possibility that consciousness is something universal - something we merely tap into rather than generate individually. In that case, who’s to say you weren’t “born” this morning into this already existing body, complete with prior memories of a past life, simply continuing from where “someone else” left off?

I tried looking it up but only found TikTok links, so whatever it means shall remain a mystery. Suffice it to say, though, that the term is probably about 14 hours old.

Eh.. If I need to pretend to be something I'm not just to be "accepted" then I'll rather not be. In most cases when people are changing their behavior to meet the expectations of others it's actually their own imagined expectations they're trying to meet rather than that of other people. As long as you're not causing harm to anyone, most simply don't care if you're a bit weird.

No wonder I feel like such an outsider here. I've been on youtube for almost two decades and there's not a single channel I follow mentioned here in this thread.

EDIT: Well there was one match: Primitive Technology

That's crazy. How are they keeping up with news about Trump and Musk then?

No, I'd be extremely suspicious of such person.

Some people just have hate in their hearts and they will use any physical differences to lump people together.

Being skeptical of people looking different from you used to serve a purpose in our history. It no longer does but the bias can still be found in our biology. It's not that some "just are hateful people" - it's that they're human.