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oh my goodness that is a worst case scenario

both of your scenario's work in my opinion (i did mean worst though sorry)

I am fairly religious, I actually started going to my local church because one of my old teachers was the video production director, and I wanted to know more about photography/videography, I’ve been on the video production team for about 3 years now.

I'm sympathetic towards some religious teachings specially when they're trying to nail some big life understanding using somewhat human reason (eg detachment and wisdom as a way to avoid the illusions and impermanence of this world) or when they say something that catch my curiosity (eg "in the beginning it was logos, then the logos was with god then logos was god" I'm like so logos was before god, or god was before logos since the logos had a beginning but god doesnt?). I just like it when humans try to find the big truth of this universe and I think most religious approaches try to do that in some way or another. I absolutely don't go well with fanatical people tho I just keep avoiding the topic like a plague and agreeing with everything they say till they go way or I can get out.

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I am very strong in my faith as a Christian. It's is often thought that faith and reason cannot go hand and had, but I argue otherwise. The way I see it, logical reasoning gives me more assurance of my faith than any other worldview.

It doesn’t matter on what other people say or think or have opinions on. Focus on you, not the majority/average of your personality. Every person is different. I personally do not think that changing your lifestyle/something that describes a big part of you just because a rumor/opinion is a good idea, what do YOU think? Not the other people.

I completely agree most people say either only religion or only science but I think the best way is to do both

I grew up religious but once I got to make up my own mind I found that I’m definitely a atheist and hold resentment towards religion so I’m unusually of against it

I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian home. My mother was a Covenant Christian and my step-dad was Catholic. I stopped going to church a few years after they divorced. Some crap was happening with the pastor of my mother's church and he was getting kicked out of the Covenant Church and all the messiness of the congregation being split over following him to a new church or stay where they were. My mother stopped bringing me to church so I didn't witness the politics in the church. Through the rest of my younger years, into my early 20s, I began to learn about my native heritage on my father's side. Due to certain personal experiences in a different church setting, I lost all faith in organized religion. However, I am incredibly spiritual. I may be agnostic, but I don't find myself atheist... So I guess what it boils down to is, at what point do you consider your belief and practice religion vs spirituality?

Atheist. Remember being brought to church when I was 8 and thinking this is stupid asl no way people believe this

Strong Christian Beliefs. Bible is source and Jesus is the only Way.

I don't think I completely understand what mental organization is but I'll try: You are making new tracks whatever direction your life is going (and sometimes tracks align with what we want personally sometimes they don't). You're not a thing following a track, never was, more like you are a track maker inside a bigger thing. You can only have proof of tracks if you look back (to past) but you cannot see any tracks if you look forward (future) but you might project them (mind) but they don't exist yet and if you ignore the big thing you're in while doing track projection you might bump into things (obstacles). Most of us only have a limited view of the big thing (because is too big, too complex) so bumping into things is absolutely normal don't worry

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I was very addicted to playing games, many hours a day everyday, non stop, enjoyed it too much since a kid. When adult I understood I was doing it as a form of escapism too a way to cope with reality. I quit games once I realized how ephemeral a human existence is (too quick really we can no longer be alive tomorrow or today best case scenario a couple of years) and spending time thinking about things and looking for answers for real life and how reality (might) works while being alive is actually quite more fufilling for me. So curiosity? I think curiosity had freed me.

Feels like a comment written by me. I am going through exactly this for quite some time now. Smoking, always ordering take-outs...I just need to be better and try to stop myself from doing this.

Yes smoking, and video games especially if something comes up and I don’t want to focus on it

Yeah... focusing is a true pain isnt it? I also enjoy writing, but i never manage to get a lot if work done... So what i decided to do is to let my body "choose" when it wants to write And when i want to do something, it tends to do it. And then when my body stops, i stop pushing. And then as it goes on, the time of my body wanting to write increases. And this has increased my length and quality of writing for sure. (Dunno if thats the case for you, but hope it helps)

hey! It really helps me to visualize the end result I want to achieve and make my way to it in small pieces, reminding myself that it doesn't have to be perfect right away and that progress&consistency are the key. I also take short breaks whenever I feel like everything is getting overwhelming and I try to keep my mind in one place when it's time to work/write. Also, it helps to be aware of the reason I was distracted in the first place and try to resolve it.

Hi I just accepted that my work flows better in "bursts" (that applies to writting too) not much in consistence. If something is keeping me from doing what I'm suppose to be doing I accept stop what I am doing and coming up with a solution become the new thing (problem solving). If I can't focus while I'm writting I just ask "Why I can't focus?!?!" Then I try to answer that the most honest way I can it might be because I'm out of juice my energy levels are abismal or maybe something in me is focusing on something else then I need to deal with that or maybe I'm just out of ideas then I start to look "where do creativity comes from?" and see if there are any ways to apply whatever info I found that seems plausible to help myself and so on. When I think something is "not good enough" I try to improve my skills and understanding on the subject if I'm still blocked because of that I just plainly cheat by looking what others have done and apply something similar. The way I see it in writting we usually don't get stuck in the entire process more like some parts here and there and whatever you use to get unstuck on those parts holds better than stop the entire flow of the work (like a entire waterflow getting stuck into a tube due to dust)

It might sound a little odd, but I find that I can’t focus on writing if I think of it going from the beginning to the end. What works best for me is deciding what I want as a whole and then just writing small portions out of order, then organizing it and filling in the gaps. Doesn’t work for everyone, but it works for me.

I also cannot concentrate and I constantly fail in my exams due to lack of concentration. I want a solution.

To Soul: perhaps it has to do by watching to much short video format media. Regain concentration by seeing less short/fast forms of social media and daily training your attention spam by doing brain exercises to increase focus duration.