What's your bucket list?

Look I'm only responding because I'd like to see if there is an efficient way to help. I don't get the opportunity to challenge myself in this way IRL. It really beats me up to see people not in control of their faculties or operating as they should. I mean responding to a stranger on reddit who, like you say, can't be proven to be one way or the other is its own kind of irrational or crazy, especially when I have better things to do, but it really makes me upset to see that someone or something is not operating as it should.

I mean off the bat, if you have to say to everyone you tell your theories to to "hear me out," don't you think that's a problem? Why do you think some ideas get notoriety and support, while yours don't? It's just a big conspiracy? What would be the point of that? Why do you have to make a "you against the world," scenario? Who the hell would benefit from that being reality? It is much much easier to contradict and deconstruct and negate something, than bring yourself to understand how complicated things are constructed. You can't really prove me wrong there, because if you disagree you're proving me right.

I mean what would really change if instead people agreed with you and not Einstein? How often can the average person apply Einstein's principles to real life? If you agree it's not often at all, then why does the principle exist--to torment you and your attempt to come to a deeper understanding? I mean ignoring that much of our technology, your computer and ability to respond to what I said, is based on an enormous amount of understanding and reality of physics, who would benefit from lying about physics? If it didn't work, how would you apply this misunderstanding of physics properly?

And you should try to think seriously about what is so important about knowing what's "really real" if in the hypothetical you are some how correct. Do you need to live your daily life knowing your right? Does it even need to be though about if the answer is no? It seems like you are currently at least supported from total instability by a short hand safety net--acknowledging a mental illness... It wouldn't hurt to have another short-hand mechanism for coping--realizing even if you are right it doesn't matter and you can put it aside until you get everything else in your life settled. Does that make sense?

Often times, when a person makes grandiose challenges on how things operate, they just don't understand how they operate. A long time ago I was the same way, which is another reason I sympathize. It's so much easier to give up bearing this cross, and after you put it down for a while, you start to see how much life does actually makes sense... otherwise you'll spend the rest of your life going in circles, down rabbit holes that just lead to nowhere. I mean save yourself the trouble and just trust in the unfathomable amount of people who constructed how much knowledge we have today--you can't contradict all of them because you're not the only person who has ever thought this way, and you won't be the last, and yet these opinions don't stand the test of time. Seriously think why that is without a knee jerk reaction of "because you can't prove it isn't," that can't be your answer to everything even if it is true--if nothing else because it just simply doesn't matter most of the time.

Either way, it's good you acknowledge in some form that you have a problem (even if we disagree on its classification) because maybe you'll one day see how your misinterpretation is problematic as well.

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