“The universe is the answer; the hard part is figuring out what the question is.”
I don’t know what the question is, but I do know what the answer is.
Positief / Vooruitkijken / Tree / love yourself / no worry / zelfvertrouwen brein / NSV
Proud of the monkey.
What is happening in your body all at once
Just think about what is happening in your body all at once. Your knee is repairing itself. Two thoughts are arguing in the corner. Your feelings are pacing back and forth. Your ankle is stretching.
All of this is happening at the same time. Right now. How could your body possibly explain this?
Here comes a cunning old fox around the corner: the cunning fox called consciousness.
A body moves from one energy state to another energy state.
On Sunday, I think about all the energy states I have been through that week.
By cycling through them, I learned from them and dealt with them. You’ll find texts here that reflect my past energy states — some unstable, some stable. Writing is one of the things that helps me deal with them.
Curiosity is never punished. Suppressing curiosity is punished.
All sides of me
Explaining what consciousness is, is like explaining what a human is in one sentence. It’s not one thing, it’s multiple things at the same time. Like light that shines from multiple directions, from multiple perspectives.
What something is is never just one thing. It depends on how you look at it. If you see things in their movement, you see something different than people who only listen to what somebody has to say. Yet, both perspectives co-exist at the same time. So what something is, is never one-dimensional. It exists in all dimensions.
How to travel through dimensions
First, you have to understand what something is. Something is itself, but it is also how you look at it. You need an anchor, like movement. When we are all watching the same soccer game, one person is watching the best player, another is seeing the flow of the game back and forth, and somebody else may be focused on the score. Yet, we are all talking about the same game (the thing that is).
So what something is, in a way, exists — but in another way, reality exists only in relative terms. And when this universe started, there were no relative terms to describe it. At the beginning, there was no movement. And there was no best player.
Connection is the key that always works
Once, I had pain in my body. I didn’t dare to go there.
One day I decided it was enough. I went to feel it. I traveled to the inside of my knee. There, I felt the sensation. This was everything I had been afraid of all that time. All I had to do was feel with my knee.
Thinking is done with your whole body, not just with your head.
"I already didn’t need words for this."
Thinking is a style.
Written something every day
I want to have written something every day. Because I like doing it. Making something. I don’t want to explain why I like it, because it just is. It feels like I have to justify myself. This is how science feels to me: as if there always has to be an explanation for everything.
The explanation is that I just enjoy doing it, I like doing it, and that’s the whole explanation. As soon as I have to explain why I like making something, why it gives me a certain feeling, it doesn’t work for me anymore. Then it becomes ‘a thing’, and I don’t want it to be ‘a thing’.
Even when someone says, “I always like doodling on paper,” that’s already too much for me, because then it’s ‘a thing’. To have an opinion about it is to think about it, and thinking about it is exactly what I don’t do when I’m creating. Both in science and in the rest of the world, there are people who only have opinions about things or try to explain why things work the way they do, but that’s not how the world works for me at all.
If I say, “I just do it,” that’s as close as I can get to what I mean. As if I were just playing football in a square. This text, for example: no matter what you think of it, I haven’t thought for a second about what I’m typing right now. The words just come and keep coming. Maybe I’ll shuffle a few things around here and there – and then that voice pops up again: “Is this good enough? Are you wandering too far? The soul is going out of your story.”
Fuck off.
"Thoughts happen in the background.
Let them drift off now and then."
When you look at a thought, it's like blowing on it.
And then it drifts left or right.
You can also put a bubble in it.
Just try it.
For example, maybe thoughts are made of the same stuff as quantum.
I Am Here to Sell You a Different Perspective on Life
Religion is the process of understanding that everything is perfect and exactly how it should be.
That doesn’t mean you can’t change things.
Let me elaborate with an example.
My uncle wasn’t feeling well. Something was wrong with his lungs. He went to the doctor, and the doctor told him he had COPD. From a medical perspective, this is an irregularity within the body.
But my uncle also used to smoke and work with paint. From a religious perspective, this is not an irregularity or something that proves the system isn’t functioning perfectly.
Both the medical view and the religious view can fully coexist—they emphasize different things.
Religion is, contrary to how it is often portrayed, extremely hardcore, with one hundred percent ownership of all your actions. So in the example of my uncle, religion would say: Why are you at the doctor’s office? You smoked and worked with paint. Your body is actually one hundred percent healthy. We should give your body a sticker for how well it’s functioning. But yes, you are going to die soon.
From a day-to-day psychological perspective, think about how big the shift is when you start to perceive that everything that should be here right now is here—including your pain, your anxiety, your self-doubt, down to every cell. The difference is enormous.
Learn Deep Learning and Think Multidimensionally — Without a Computer
Let’s take the simple sum:
1 + 1
From a mathematical perspective, the answer is 2.
But from other dimensions of thinking, this answer may not hold.
1. Identity Dimension
The left 1 is not the same as the right 1.
They exist in different positions, contexts, or even moments in time.
So when you use these 1s in another equation, information is lost — their uniqueness is ignored.
2. Shape Dimension
If you look only at the shapes of the symbols — the “1”s and the “+” — there is no inherent question or operation.
They are just forms, not functions.
Without interpretation, there is no sum.
3. Object Dimension
Now imagine 1 + 1 as real-world objects — say, apples.
You quickly run into deeper questions:
- Which apple are we starting with?
- Are the apples truly identical?
- Can two unique apples ever be summed as “2 apples” without losing their individuality?
In this dimension, context matters.
“1 + 1” is not just a number — it’s a story, a relationship, a transformation.
*On this website, you’ll see how knowledge really evolves over time. It’s not linear. It’s about making bold statements, saying things that aren’t true, trying new things. It’s about making a lot of mistakes. It’s about saying something and then having to correct yourself.
Don’t be afraid to try things you’re unsure of. To say things that might not be true. To speak from your own opinion. That’s the fastest and best way to learn.
If you’re someone who storms out of the gates pretending to know—
I know you don’t know.