Real 😂 Sometimes silence is just “brain buffering,” not a mood. Quick check-in + no assumptions saves everyone a lot of stress.
I found out if I really focus on my breathing I can stop thinking for a short while and often practice that.
When I try that, music starts playing in my head. There’s never any quiet there.
Then she asks him if he’d still love her if she was an amoeba.
That’s when you know she’s a keeper.
I would have to leave out of fear… I don’t think I know how to take care of an amoeba, and the last thing I want to do is accidentally breathe you in or something 😔
I’m usually thinking about minotaurs or hoagie sandwiches.
Dragons or how quickly I’d die in event of a revolutionary/civil war.
You can multitask by thinking about how quickly you would you die in a civil war fought with dragons.
You’re a goddamn genius
They can’t. They’re self obsessed and project their thoughts about themselves onto men, claiming men are simple yet failing to understand them. If they were quiet it would be because they’re angry, so he has to be angry. They see themselves reflected in others, they don’t see the other. It’s why women have to conform into a homogeneous identity so they can understand each other by being each other.
You could’ve said “I’m an incel” in just three words instead of this whole paragraph.
That isn’t as fun though.
Source for your study?
Can’t get a date can you?
I’m whatever you need me to be to avoid the truth.
You’re not a victim, there is no truth other than what you make for yourself and your life.
Your negative feelings, outlook and ruminations are all your own and only your own. Actually growing up and being a man means accepting that you can shape your life any way you want and the reason you’re unhappy is because you’re holding onto it for some reason, usually because you desperately want someone to recognize how unhappy you are.
Nobody is coming man. You gotta do this on your own. You’re never going to get the recognition and compassion you wish you had, at least not from other miserable people on the internet who also are just desperately seeking validation for their sadness.
Is this your diary entry or something?
That’s a terrible comeback.
Oh right, so you do realise that you sound like a pathetic incel. At least you’ve got that going for you.
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If you can’t hear criticism without needing to hide behind dismissive personal insults, then that’s just your damage to manage.
You’re the one complaining about criticism. You made an utterly moronic sexist comment were called out on your utterly moronic sexist comment and then started whining.
Is moronic your favorite word?
Average Lemmy user:
Average .world user for sure, they almost as bad as .ml at this point
I’m sorry your youth was tough on you and that you accidentally discovered the internet just amplifies whatever you’re feeling until it takes away your happiness and hope entirely.
I promise if you get better at talking to people and listening broadly, you will have better experiences in the future and you will feel very, very silly that you ever held these thoughts, much less shared them with the world. Trust me, your future doesn’t have to be alone and angry.
The alternative is not good. You only get once chance at all this, don’t ruin it by letting the thoughts, words and rantings of other angry people take away your free will.
What are you on about? My life is awesome.
Yah, you sound so balanced and happy bro. I wish I was as satisfied with life as you. 🙄
Normalize having absurd and weird conversations between loved ones.
100x this.
I don’t know about everyone, but I find that these types of conversations can be stimulating/interesting
Normalize to just be quiet sometimes between loved ones.
Sure, if that’s what y’all want! Ideally that’s ironed out before long-term commitments like marriage.
How is that dumb?! Can you explain how bike tires are made then? Yeah, that’s what I thought!!
They extrude the rubber into a tube then melt the ends together and valve into the side.
I’m sorry I’m going to need a 15-minute video with lots of cheesy very unfunny jokes.
100%. When my wife asks me this question, I always ask…“are you sure you want to know?”.
Once it was the astronomical odds of reincarnation if bacteria was a factor when reincarnating. The math just isn’t there and your odds of coming back as a human would be older than the universe.
She rarely asks me this ever now lol.
It’s a quick reset, though. You’ll get back to human eventually unless you end up as one of those immortal trees or something.
Whoops, now I’m a fungal colony / gestalt consciousness… untill the planet I’m on gets killed by its star?
Is that how you… achieve, or totally avoid samsara?
Task failed successfully?
I hope after this I’m always born as anything but a human.
If a single celled organism successfully divides, is it dead? Wouldn’t a single cell eventually grow into a colony of clones, copying itself indefinitely until some random mutation or outside force prevents it from reproducing? Where would it be considered appropriate for us to consider a single celled organism dead?
When it dies. Clones are individuals, with individual rights that are the same as any other individual. #clonerights #clonesarepeopletoo #justpassionateforafriend
If cells never died the universe would be nothing but solid amoeba.
I mean, being a tree isn’t that bad
It is in this boomer run, fuck the environment world.
Unless you’re a Bradford Pear. 🤮
Imagine rolling tardigrade.
Two things:
First, mathematically, It’s sort of a moot concern. Reincarnation comes with the framework that lives are the universe experiencing itself. So There’s no “loss” in going between species as “you” will actually incarnate as everything and everyone once in non-linear time on the backend making “time” immaterial. I am you and you are me. We are all one existence. So you have time.
Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it’s not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn’t usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It’s usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.
I am you and you are me.
Second, that reincarnation frameworks usually also include a structure where it’s not random what you reincarnate as next time around. Karma doesn’t usually boot people back down to bacterium right after human. It’s usually more of a leveling up in order to experience deeper and more meaningful lifetimes. But YMMV.
That sounds extraordinarily arbitrary. Who decides what counts as a “level up”? Does that mean if you start as a bacteria you’re stuck like that for a few thousand or million cycles? How would you earn enough karma points to level up from being a bacteria? What counts as “deeper and more meaningful lifetimes” if you are a bacteria?
Apologies, I totally missed the most essential part of this all:
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
Who decides what counts as a “level up”?
Well, you do, ultimately. Remember, you’re talking about a system where there is agency between lifetimes as well. I’m not familiar enough with non-human karmic mechanics to definitively tell you, but in most systems it’s that you a “burning off” the karma of being en evil asshole by being demoted from human to less sentient lifeforms. So sending Hitler or Cecil Rhodes or Andrew Jackson would then indeed spend 40,000 lifetimes being killed over and over again before getting back in the running to have a central nervous system.
Exactly and the math doesn’t give this theory a chance really, unless humans create the sentience. Coming back as “anything” would now include the bacteria and whatever else from other planets. Which even doubled, you would have to wait until entire universes recycle.
Does “waiting” have any meaning in this metaphysics? Arguably not.
Depends on the definition of “soul”. Too small a vessel and stuff.
That would imply that bacteria have souls which means that I’m committing genocide each time I’m cleaning my toilet. I always assumed that you could only reincarnate into creatures complex enough to actually have sentience.
Edit: Also a fun fact is that if you count all human beings that have ever lived in the entire human history it would still not be close enough to the number of bacteria that live in or on a single human being (roughly 117 billion humans compared to around 20 to 30 trillion bacteria).
Isn’t there a sect that kinda believes exactly this?
Jainism believes this. Their monks carry little brooms around to sweep ahead of them so they won’t crush any insects by stepping on them.
If you aren’t willing to engage with your partner about their weird little interests, don’t expect them to engage with you about yours. This goes for all genders.
Healthy relationships are about sharing all the odd things going in your head with someone receptive to and interested in those odd things.
This is called knowing somebody and it really feels like it’s an utterly lost concept now. It’s no wonder people are abandoning relationships right now, people never talk about the rewards, only made-up problems and conflicts get circulated.
There are tons of social situations where I’m quiet because the conversation spawned a really crazy thought that I need to explore in my own head, and I don’t know everone else well enough to share it openly. I’m glad I do when people are this judgy.
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This is an astoundingly perfect reference, bravo
I stood in one place for 3 hours while they meditated and stopped thinking so the time would go by quickly until they were done and we could go for lunch. Not sure what they were trying to accomplish in that time.
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Because some women love calling men dumb or stupid online and then wonder why boys become incel/redpill men in the future.
I’m not saying that many men online aren’t doing the same to women. I’m just tired, as a man, to go online and see memes diminishing men, and when I try to address it, nobody seems to care.
The same women that mock men for refusing to go to the doctor are the same women that mock men when they get sick.
They start with a conclusion (“men bad!”) and back-solve.
