✝️ Matthew 24:13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. # Here is a link to the only flow I vibe with: https://www.bigduckgames.com/flowfree # Note I am not attacking people or traditions, I am rejecting the idea of going with the flow. # Let's create a scenario Let's say you are a long time running kernel thread on a machine running Linux, you have multiple child kernel threads, and whenever you get loaded into the queue all the other kernel threads and user processes say hello to you, you feel happy, I mean how could you not, you are fundamental to the kernels functionality and you will always be running, you will never die! A small user process comes up to you and asks you "Have you seen what most of the other kernel threads are doing?" You are oblivious so you respond with a simple "No, what are they doing?" and the user process responds, "Oh they aren't checking bounds for integers anymore, for example: ``` cmp rax, 7 jbe skip sub rax, 1337 skip: ... ``` would become ``` sub rax, 1337 ``` Isn't that so cool? Us user processes are going to do that soon!" You are about to respond, but you hear another kernel thread say "Yeah, it is so cool! The CPU does not have to check anything it just goes with the flow!" You say "That is stupid and how a single fail at the kernel level will lead the end of us all!" The kernel thread laughs and says "Cmon, you are being crazy, just try it with a small amount of code!", You, not wanting to cause drama agree. You modify a section of your code to call a function that does the following: ``` some_important_operation: sub rax, 2 add [some_important_address], rax ``` Eventually, you get ran by the CPU and that code block gets ran and it feels amazing! The CPU didn't have to check anything, it just subtracted 2 from rax and just added it into the important address! You don't even have to be super careful, everything will be ok if you just *go with the flow*. You know that you will never die and everything will be ok, and you know the less CPU checks the better because of less stress. You are in such a state of bliss, you don't even realize when the flow makes you decrease a register and it underflows, and the CPU indirectly jumps to it and suddenly the instruction pointer is somewhere it should not be and the kernel crashes! # Do not go with the flow I've heard some people laugh at the saying "if your friends were jumping off a bridge would you?" But have all those same people actually thought about it? Like say you and your friends are by a medium bridge above water, your friends are doing cool tricks when they jump, such as a flip, and say you are scared to jump but since everyone else is doing it you just *go with the flow*, and you do a cool flip in the air but your knees slam into your head and the next thing you know you are in a wheelchair! # Philosophy time Some people talk about living life in accordance to some flow, or talk about aligning with the universe, which people treat as some divine being, however the flow is NOT an aware being that remembers stuff that can control stuff. The flow is a trap that leads to oblivion! I mean let's think like an operating system for a second, say you are a process (sound familiar?) and the CPU executes you for a certain amount of time, and when the OS is done with you... You "end", the RAM that was fundamental to "you" being "you", is now used by some other process to continue the overall "flow" of the operating system. If there is a flow which is just a mindless process scheduler, and you are a process, why should it care about you when there are a finite resources? Why should it keep you alive? Other processes need to be created! Some people, believe when you die you "merge" into this mindless flow, "you" stop being you. Some of the same people believe "you" are the source of suffering and to achieve peace "you" must not be, like sure I guess sometimes you can be the source of you're own suffering but you can also be the source of your own happiness. Also if there is no "you", who will experience peace. ``` you ∈ people ∀person ∈ people (Experiences(person, peace) -> Exists(person)) ∴ ~Exists(you) -> ~Experiences(you, peace) ``` Some beliefs treat logic as optional, but if logic is optional what happens? Well lets look, in logic A = A, and A != ~A, in logic things cannot contradict themselves. If logic is optional you would not exist. Because in logic, things need to mean things, If there are no rules there are no things. # The point I am trying to make I understand life is depressing at times, however we should not seek peace in destruction, we should seek peace in our hobbies and beliefs, just because people are *going with the flow*, does not mean you should too! There is a reason, why I linked that game at the top of this page, and that reason is because that game requires you to reason unlike just *going with the flow*. Don't jump off that bridge! And don't modify your code!