What is life?
• Dostoevsky: It’s hell.
• Socrates: It’s a test.
• Aristotle: It’s the mind.
• Nietzsche: It’s power.
• Freud: It’s death.
• Marx: It’s the idea.
• Picasso: It’s art.
• Gandhi: It’s love.
• Schopenhauer: It’s suffering.
• Bertrand Russell: It’s competition.
• Steve Jobs: It’s faith.
• Einstein: It’s knowledge.
• Stephen Hawking: It’s hope.
• Kafka: It’s just the beginning.
Each one must therefore give life a meaning according to how you one perceive.
Western civilization has collapsed before.
But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did eventually come all the way back.
It just took one thousand years.
How to respect YOURSELF
• Stop begging people. [Muslim 1053a]
• Think before you talk. [Bukhari 6478]
• Let people think what they want. [88:22]
• Speak to Allah before you speak to people. [40:60]
• Hide your sins. [Bukhari 6069]
• Arrive on time. Leave on time. [4:103]
Realizing a 30 year mortgage doesn’t actually mean 30 years:
- 1 extra monthly payment per year can cut 5 years off
- 2 extra payments per year can cut about 8 years off
- 3 extra payments per year can cut about 11 years off
Bank won't tell you this
rough timeline of elite vs lower class, from cat's understanding
for a moment in 1900s, we formed a large middle class for first time in humanity, but thats now exponentially stripping away, the tiktok generation will be completely controlled, they wont know how to do anything
Sky full of stars.
Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.
Someone could go to school for 4 years and study aerospace engineering, then get a PhD with a dissertation related to orbital mechanics, and some instagram influencer who watched a youtube video will be like "actually that guy is wrong" on a topic related to space travel and people will believe them.
I'm not sure how we got here, but I hope we go back to a society where credibility is earned with rigorous training in the associated field, not by a popularity contest.
The biggest flex in life is literally just not having to work
Nobody really cares how big your house is, what watch you wear, or what kind of car you drive
Nothing makes people more jealous than someone with a mysterious source of income who lives life on their own terms