Oatmeal Agitante

Hmm maybe the übermensch ideal resonates more with me than the salvation ideal, because I've had to save myself through health hacking.

"God, save me" [misery continues] "OK well I guess I'll ask Google"

The disposition to continually try new things, refusal to give up, and luck are what is "saving" me

And the patience one learns while debugging code.

I've found suffering to be physiological in nature and hardly ever mental, so spirituality can't offer any Weird Tricks.

This is probably because underlying brain inflammation prevents rituals or practices from successfully stimulating my vagus nerve.

So from my perspective it seems like everyone else is wireheading themselves and I can't get high on their drug.

Best mental lessons: don't develop Stockholm syndrome with suffering, don't make your suffering worse by multiplying it in your mind.