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    Written by . Posted at 7:25 am on January 29th, 2008

    As usual I woke up today, a Manowar tune came playing in my head, I went and ate some meat for breakfast and sat down to my computer to do some work. Before that I wanted to do a little weight training (with push-ups, pull-ups). But I didn’t do that and sat in front of the monitor in hope that I’ll do something else. A couple minutes past and I noticed that I’m just sitting there. Sure I was browsing, reading something, but was that something that I really wanted to be doing at that moment? Hell no!

    So I noticed that I was thinking. Mainly thinking about what I should be doing instead of just doing. Of course this is not the first time this has happened to me so I knew what I should do. I immediately ceased thought, just cutting it mid-track and went after the thing I wanted to do.

    The thing you want to do, what you really should be doing is a PULL. It is a feeling mainly located in your heart. And you just follow that instead of thinking in your head.

     That’s all there is to it. I won’t write a long elaborate post on this subject because that’s all. Anything more I add will just distort the message. It’s so fucken simple! Jiddu Krishnamurti wrote like 500 books in his 80 year old life and all of them could be summarized with two words:

    Don’t think.

     He adviced that and yet he got things done, he wrote those 500 books…

    And I know it is hard. The tune that came to my mind when I woke up was Courage by Manowar. It was probably my subconscious communicating to me. Because it requires courage to stop thinking and to start following your feelings. You’re going against what you have been conditioned to do all your life.You need to trust this, I am trusting it more and more because I have never regretted once following this pull.

    So that’s it, just listen to Courage and stop thinking that much, you might get this awesome feeling of a pump I’m getting right now as I’m writing this. Enjoy:

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    61 comments.

    1. Anonymous

      It was probably my subconscious communicating to me
      The correct vernacular is unconscious.

      500 books..damn


    2. Why the hell did he write 500 books that make people think about stuff if his message was not to think? how did he write them while not thinking anyway? Hmmm… sounds fishy to me… probably another one hunting for money.


    3. Anonymous

      _Un_conscious is an adjective applied to living things, meaning they are asleep or knocked out or the like. _Sub_conscious is either:

      1) An adjective applied to actions or thoughts meaning their “owners” aren’t aware of them, or of initiating them.
      2) A noun, meaning the presumed mental “space” that does the initiating of subconscious actions and thoughts.

      Bruce Lee says “Don’t think, feel.” Moving words, but I what about those of us faced with externally imposed deadlines? I either think my way through writing 20 pages by this Saturday, or I feel my way out of college.


    4. Isn’t ‘unconscious’ when you’re knocked out and subconscious actual sub-conscious? Regardless… both terms are usually mixed in general use anyways…


    5. Unconscious is when you don’t respond physically to something, yet you are still alive, e.g. while you’re sleeping you’re unconscious. No idea about subconscious… I always thought of it as something to do with dreams and stuff.

      Now I’m waiting for the grammar nazi with a quote from Wikipedia to rape my post.


    6. Why the hell did he write 500 books that make people think about stuff if his message was not to think? how did he write them while not thinking anyway?‘re
      I know it’s irrational. This strangeness got me into studying this stuff. This obvious paradox is exactly why we don’t use this power in our every day life, we just doubt it, because it is not intuitive.
      It’s more like – you use thinking when you’re doing something, but thinking has absolutely no correspondence to the act of doing. Doing happens by itself. Thinking is a byproduct, not the doing itself. That’s why you can’t think yourself into doing something. When it seems like that happened, it’s just an illusion, a trick of the mind.

      Bruce Lee says “Don’t think, feel.” Moving words, but I what about those of us faced with externally imposed deadlines? I either think my way through writing 20 pages by this Saturday, or I feel my way out of college.
      You could also get a sudden flash of inspiration and write the whole thing in 15 minutes the day before. Happened to me many times.


    7. bigbossSNK

      “When it seems thinking lead to action, it’s just an illusion, a trick of the mind.”
      We already discussed this. Your notion isn’t just arbitrary, it’s medically incorrect. Instead of propagating half truths, read on basic neurology.

      “You could also get a sudden flash of inspiration and write the whole thing in 15 minutes the day before”
      The brain has been documented to work on problems even without you striving for it. When it makes the necessary connections you get that “flash of inspiration”. It works, but it isn’t as dependable as instructing your brain to work on a specific problem. The trick is to ficus, not fixate.


    8. bigboss why dont you make your own blog, you know it all prick!
      Your brain has been documented to be a piece of shit.


    9. Michal, don’t you listen to anything else besides Manowar?
      btw, it’s very Jedi-like thinking: “don’t think, only feel”
      but it’s not that easy, I don’t have the Force, and I don’t live in a movie.
      well, I don’t. Maybe you do.


    10. bigbossSNK

      “bigboss why don’t you make your own blog, you know it all prick!”
      Because that would be a waste of my precious time. This 5 minute endeavor on the other hand is like blitz chess. Beginners and masters are still at different leagues, but the disparity is more pronounced.

      “Your brain has been documented to be a piece of shit.”
      Is that your feeble attempt to attack my ego? Cause it’s gonna take a hella lot more than that bubba.


    11. The trick is to ficus, not fixate.
      Hate to be a hypocrite, but did you mean focus?
      Ficus is apparently some kind of tree.

      I’ve had that “Flash of inspiration” a couple of weeks ago. Got an entire 30 page assignment done in one night. Bah, I wish I could do that all the time.

      bigboss why dont you make your own blog, you know it all prick!
      No! let him stay! it’s fun to watch two people argue about over who’s right and who’s wrong!


    12. did i win?


    13. Manowar is awesome, it’s just, music. Alot of different kinds too.

      And why are we arguing if it’s unconcious or subconcious? Unconcoius is like.. asleep. Subconcious is like, your thinking, before you think. And after, and between each.


    14. What happened to sigvatr’s site and blog?


    15. mtwtf or bubba

      bigboss your overuse of large words and chess affliction tell me you have spent your life in a book. Guess what? Books are written by other men, try living more and reading less. You think you know alot? Thats great, but a homeless bum could probally manhandle your chess board up into your ass, so you keep thinking your great. I dont give a fuck about your ego.


    16. Hmmm…honestly bubba or mtwtf or however it is you are called, I doubt he’s the “reaction instead of action” type of person (at least not as you presume), but I sure am curious to know a bit about the private life of bigbossSNK. So…do you have a website or just gonna write a short biography here ? Both fits me well.

      And again…what happened to Sigvatr’s site? First the whole site was totally fucked up and the blog entries (at least the ones I knew about) and comments and all that gone, now its all gone.

      Oh yeah…and… what’s McLeods role in all this again? Didnt quite catch that.


    17. Who knows. Maybe someone revenge-hacked his site or something. I really wouldn’t be surprised after the sites he made.

      McLeod? I didn’t see what was so spectacular about him being in transhuman design, was he famous for something I’ve never heard of? he could be making the music for Link-Dead.


    18. ROFL. Just checked out electricretard.com, looks like his forums redirect you to christianforums.com

      haxx0rd


    19. ? is code for killed yourself.


    20. bigbossSNK

      “So…do you have a website or just gonna write a short biography here? Both fits me well.”
      I can see how you would be curious, but your request is one-sided.
      Let’s make this interesting. If you can find a logical or conceptual error in my writing (not something as trivial as grammar), effectively helping me achieve a greater correspondence rate to reality, I’ll give you quid pro guo.
      As a sign of good will, I’ll tell you I don’t have a website. Anything significant I have to say I share with my social circle, or friends in academia.


    21. Cosmin: what’s McLeods role in all this again?
      He’s a big friend of Sigvatr. He’s just criticizing what we do… good job:).

      Do a google search on bigbossSNK. I always have to know who I’m talking to. The internet is a tricky place cause any jackass can have his opinion, it’s a real democracy. So it’s good to gather your info.


    22. bigbossSNK

      “Do a google search on bigbossSNK.”
      By all means, search all you like. Gather any info you can.
      Hell, if you find even 1 conceptual flaw in my writing I’ll send you a full C.V.


    23. ” I always have to know who I’m talking to. The internet is a tricky place cause any jackass can have his opinion, it’s a real democracy. So it’s good to gather your info. ”

      shit


    24. bigbossSNK is a smart (ass), you won’t find any personal information of him out there. I looked one week ago :)

      “Hell, if you find even 1 conceptual flaw in my writing I’ll send you a full C.V.”
      That seems to be your main aim and the reason why many people may dislike you. But i like you anyway, you seem to have many useful information i don’t have and i could gather of it. You are not my wife, only a discussion partner, for luck :)


    25. Hehe, well what about this (and its not a grammar mistake, although you’ll deny it being a valid answer to your request): it’s “quid pro quo” and not “quid pro guo”, which may be considered a better link to reality, since the way you wrote it doesnt exist and mine does. Now how about that biography ?


    26. I think BigBossSNK is a reviewer of old retro games and some newer games, this could be the reason why he pads all his posts with useless words that just stray from the point, and overcomplicate things. Which is quite annoying when you’re trying to understand something like thinking and such.


    27. bigbossSNK

      “If you can find a logical or conceptual error in my writing (not something as trivial as grammar), I’ll give you quid pro guo.”
      “It’s “quid pro quo” and not “quid pro guo”
      This game isn’t won on trivial mistakes. Thus, my deliberate statement was that I am not about to give you anything for an error “as trivial as grammar”. A maiore ad minus, I would be in error were I to do so for spelling.


    28. Is there anything I could say that you would not try (maybe not intend, but still do so) to tear appart? 😉 A smart man once told me, at war it’s not about reaction, but about action. In the military when you get an order, you don’t question it, you just do it. THAT projected on our everyday lives would mean “stop complaining so much, start doing it.”

      Anyway, philosophy’s gone on long enough again, so I’ll go back to annoying Michal and bringing some life in here:
      When’s it coming out?`Oh, and btw, if you need another man to criticize what you guys do, count me in, I’ll be a McLeod too. And I’ll McLeodly criticze all you do to perfectness. And not just any kind of that, but Cosminian perfectness, a both shallow and deep completness which only the Gods of old could endure looking at without being forever lost in the joy of its beauty.

      Hmmm…SNK can come too.

      Oh yeah, before I forget… if anyone is interested in a very deep and forever-important book which may answer all your questions concerning society and systems in general (or maybe make them even more ununderstandable), read “The Trial” by Franz Kafka.


    29. “Let’s make this interesting. If you can find a logical or conceptual error in my writing (not something as trivial as grammar), effectively helping me achieve a greater correspondence rate to reality, I’ll give you quid pro guo.”

      That would be pretty pointless, because you probably wouldn’t admit that you’re so much as half-wrong anyways… especially the ‘achieve a greater correspondence rate to reality’ part would be something you could easily deny even if it were true. :p So… so much for that.


    30. Cosmin: read “The Trial” by Franz Kafka.
      Yeah read it. It’s some disturbing stuff. How do you break out of this system?:)


    31. bigbossSNK

      “Is there anything I could say that you would not try (maybe not intend, but still do so) to tear apart?”
      Yes, there is. So long as what you say is in 1:1 correspondence to physical reality, I will agree with you, or anyone else who makes such a claim.

      “You probably wouldn’t admit that you’re so much as half-wrong anyways”
      I’ve stated my claim clearly. Were I to be incongruent with that claim later on, I’d be wasting my time.


    32. Well the only way to live in peace is obviously to accept the system and be integrated. If one does not (as Joseph K), one will be automatically separated as a minority by the system. Because… if you dont belong to everybody, you belong to nobody. If you want to escape the actual system… where do you want to go to then? Humans are society-building, in groups living creatures (like ants, bees aso.), so a human being cannot exist without a group. Why should you want to exit a system that may be the only best choice? YOu wanna be an anarchist? or a minoritarian punk that only lives well between his kind? If you wanna take over the world, you have to fit in all systems at once. Accept everybody and everything as it is, and the world is yours. Then you dont have to escape from anything, because you belong to everything and nothing at the same time (as sad as it sounds…this is how corporations work and why they have so much succes everywhere in the world right now).


    33. Anonymous

      *cough*McDonalds*cough*

      *cough*bigboss is an attention whore.*cough*


    34. bigbossSNK

      “Well the only way to live in peace is obviously to accept the system and be integrated.”
      That’s not the only way to live in peace. Just the easiest, and it speaks volumes for Joseph K.’s adaptability that he couldn’t even do that (and yes, ultimately Kafka’s own maladaptive personality).
      Fiction operates under two major premises : situation study and character study. Joseph K. clearly lacks the tools that would allow him to manipulate the situation he is put in.
      As a side note, it’s always entertaining to put other character’s you ‘re familiar with in the same setting. For a quick laugh, what would Clint Eastwood (‘s film persona) do in the same situation?

      “*cough* bigboss is an attention whore. *cough*”
      Nah, it’s just Friday and I’ve got some time to kill until I head out.


    35. Ummm…in what situation?
      Well you both seem to have read the Trial, so I guess I can pick one of those for some fun…

      “Someone must have been telling lies about Clint E., for without having done anything truly wrong he was arrested.”
      Now, if E. woke up with a man standing besides him in his sleeping-room, I guess he would have probably said to himself(to use SNK’s analysis theory): “This funny looking cowboy is a stranger which I do not know and stands in my room without my permission.”, would have pulled a gun from underneath his pillow and BAM. Objections?


    36. bigbossSNK

      Well, what’s really entertaining about “what if” scenarios is that you can’t go wrong, so long as you “stay in character”. And that does sound like good old “Blondie” from them spaghetti westerns.
      Physical authority isn’t the only way to react of course. An intelligent enough character from a David Mamet script would be able to manipulate his social circle through information alone.
      K.’s inability to comprehend the situation he faces, and ultimately resolve it, is telling of his own shortcomings, which might be common for a lot of people, but not everyone.


    37. ” K.’s inability to comprehend the situation he faces, and ultimately resolve it, is telling of his own shortcomings, which might be common for a lot of people, but not everyone. ”

      eh i dont know what you guys are talking about but that ^^^
      sounded really smart.


    38. The book handles of guilt as the ultimate solution for the continuation of a trial, and as long as K doesnt admit his guilt (he keeps saying he has done nothing wrong), the trial goes on. I doubt its a shortcoming, after which he handles.
      If you see it in a religious way, the Bible for example would say that ALL humans are guilty (Adam and Eve) and only be admitting and living with this guilt they can go to heaven.
      I think the book is, as I already said before, about fitting into a system to be able to happily live in it. If society, religion or whatever else.


    39. bigbossSNK

      “K. keeps saying he has done nothing wrong. I doubt K’s non admittance of guilt is a shortcoming”
      K’s shortcoming is shortsightedness. He fails to see the bigger picture. Whether he committed a crime or not is secondary when the prosecutors don’t present physical evidence of the crime. Such prosecution is arbitrary, and if K. had stood up for logic and reason instead of whining over his innocence, he would have been an inspiration. As is, his “death” was for nothing.

      “the Bible would say that ALL humans are guilty”
      The Bible is an ignorant book written by farmers and fishermen more than 2 thousand years ago. Our understanding has surpassed that of our ancestors in every aspect.

      “I think the book is about fitting into a system to be able to happily live in it”
      To which I say, a common man conforms to the system. An exceptional man makes the system conform to him.


    40. “The Bible is an ignorant book written by farmers and fishermen more than 2 thousand years ago.”

      I’m no religious man, rather an agnostic, but only because you dont accept a religion as yours doesnt mean you have to insult that in which other people believe.


    41. bigbossSNK

      As my wording isn’t abusive, those who agree with the idea cannot legitimately feel insulted. Most Christians accept the fact that the Bible is riddled with inaccuracies, and don’t feel threatened by this truth.
      If a small portion of Christians (the zealots) fail to think rationally or are uninformed, censoring the truth in order to please them isn’t a forfeit I am willing to endure.


    42. i know everybody here is interested in what i do when i wake up so ill tell you.

      i wake up at around 5-6 in the morning.
      the amount of sleep i get is around 4-5 hours and it is sleeping pill+drugs+ alcohal induced so i feel kind of groggy but of course i am happy to be alive because i love myself. I almost always wake up to a new song in my head that my mind created and contemplate the horrors that my dreams….i sometimes play whatever instrument i have and bury the tune into my head so i never forget it. I go and pet my dogs for a few minutes let them outside, drink an energy drink, eat a freuit, pre heat my oven for some real food like chicken nuggets and fries and shrimps ect, go on the computer and check all the important things like my myspace and my deviant art account…. run back down stairs, let my dogs in, put food in the oven, have another drink, soemtimes a swig of whiskey or go in the garage and smoke a couple bongs ect. Then i feed my dogs, eat my food and scan through the newspaper. then im ready to start my day.


    43. Anonymous

      what do you do during the day?


    44. MekanikDestructiwKommando

      Damn, you’re self-aware. Excellent.


    45. MekanikDestructiwKommando

      [quote]
      # Cosmin Says:
      January 29th, 2008 at 10:56 am

      Why the hell did he write 500 books that make people think about stuff if his message was not to think? how did he write them while not thinking anyway? Hmmm… sounds fishy to me… probably another one hunting for money.[/quote]
      Probably because learned this truth, felt the pull / compellation to share it. People rejected him when he said “Don’t think”, because it was so contrary to their (thinking) mentality. So he wrote books that were for people who “thinked”, so that they could learn how to “not think”.


    46. MekanikDestructiwKommando : oh yes exactly. If it would be obvious or intuitive what to do be fulfilled and happy everybody would be fulfilled and happy! But that’s not the case. The answer must be something simple and completely counter-intuitive.


    47. rocrooks@aol.com

      “what do you do during the day?”

      support the revolution!!!


    48. bigbossSNK

      “The answer must be something simple and completely counter-intuitive.”
      Yes, it’s called critical examination of what your current social and personal status are, and then custom tailoring that to what you want to achieve.
      Which includes “stop thinking”, but only for some people and only for a limited amount of time.
      Or you can “stop thinking” invariably, relying on some sort of autopilot that leaves things to chance.
      Whatever floats your boat.


    49. bigbossSNK

      “support the revolution!!!”
      Rock on, brotha


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    58. That post reminds me of the book ‘the power of now’ by Echart Tolle. All he talks about in that book is about being in the present and not thinking (or the PULL as you would say). In summary; most people create problems (and are less productive), when they are NOT in the present, that is thinking about the past or future. Right NOW, there is no problems (except if you are in some acute physical pain of some kind..). By reading the book, even though he’s a bit ‘spiritual’ at times, he convinces you with his ideas. I wont elaborate on the ides but a it’s a nice read. Have a great day!


    59. Anonymouse

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