I've actually been interested in analyzing similar things, particularly psychological and computational resilience in my case. I've heard of, for examples, situations where people who are running or training for athletic events can hit 'the wall' where they're jogging along, everything goes slack, they fall flat on their face and need to be rushed to the hospital for broken bones and stitches - ie. they hit a hard limit in some particular cycle that their body needs to power that activity. Typically it seems like the body has so many overflow cycles that a person can do a fair amount of difficult work, have a crap diet that's significantly vitamin-deficient, and get by for quite a long time never even worrying about supplementation if they don't have any sort of neurological issues that would be exacerbated relatively early into that.Fanman wrote: ↑September 24th, 2020, 9:58 am Having been a theist for most of my life, then around 5 years ago becoming agnostic. I can say without doubt, that anywhere or anything in which I perceived God, can be explained by how I interpreted things. For example, when I was young, I was pretty good at football. Some of things I used to pull-off, caused me to believe that God had blessed me with an innate ability for the game, as I never used to practice that much. But that opinion, whether there was any truth to it or not, is my interpretation. I could not observe any empirical “thing” outside of myself and point to an unequivocal basis for that interpretation.
What I've found with the limits of human psychological and motivational endurance - it seems like a lot in our lives is underwritten by our sex drives - ie. some kind of engagement or sublimation of that process keeps us 'in the black' and if we get pushed too hard too fast or lose hope in our objectives at the sexual level then we can start drifting into the red and feel like we're racking up damage. It makes sense - we're biological organisms with biological purposes that we're largely, as far as we do society, yoking and transforming for alternate purposes like building careers, companies, inventing things, making art, etc.. It's also really coming to hit me just how much people do need encouragement or faith that if they're doing their best and doing good work that the system they're in will acknowledge them favorably, when that process breaks down society starts breaking down and people start falling into less helpful coping mechanisms and even atavism and shadow.