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07-19-2022, 04:04 PM | #61 |
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ok now I gotta do it
when yougottadoit you gottadoit |
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07-20-2022, 05:32 PM | #62 |
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07-23-2022, 05:47 AM | #63 | |||
Socialphobic
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I guess I was just speaking from my own experience and from what I’ve observed around me - a lot of the people I see (and me as well) seem to be motivated at our most basic level by the need to be accepted and loved by others - and often a pretty small, select group of others (and in the worst of all cases, a need to be loved by just one person. That’s the worst motivation out there because it’s so often unrequited) Quote:
And my suspicion is that even people who seem to be all about other things - over achievement in business or academia or whatever other professional career…are also deep down just trying to make themselves attractive and in search of love. It’s that Richard Dawkins type idea that we’re just genetic information that is looking to combine with other genetic information and continue on in the world. We’re driven like all animals to eat, mate and reproduce - we’ve just evolved to be animals with a complex social structure, so the mating and reproducing part has a few more details to it than it does for say, goldfish. Quote:
I’m quite wary of love as a motivation. I know as a parent the love I have for my children causes me to hyper focus on them and think only of their wellbeing - as opposed to considering the wellbeing of my community and of community members who need help. I’m hopelessly self-sacrificial and one-eyed when it comes to my kids. If it kept them warm, I would steal the fur coat off a defenseless old person so one of my kids could wear it. It’s sort of an awful thing, to love someone I’m reading Love in the Time of Cholera at the moment. I don’t know why I haven’t read it before. But it’s a much better description of how much like an illness, love can be. And what a burden it can become Not warm and fluffy Savage, relentless, discriminating, other-ing, ruthless love A very basic thing |
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07-23-2022, 08:31 AM | #64 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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you see it all around you? you mean on television? because i thought you only hang out with your kids and companion. enjoy that book, btw. it's a good one. i remember reading it on summer vacation in high school because i was only staying at my father's house.
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07-23-2022, 09:09 AM | #65 |
Socialphobic
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100 years of Solitude is my favourite book of all time. Don’t know why I never read this one. I think I conflated it with an Isabella Allende book I started and found a bit hard going, and then avoided it mistakenly
I’m not here much anymore so don’t know where you would gather enough information about me to know anything about my life but no, not from television |
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07-23-2022, 11:39 AM | #66 | |
Janis Jopleybird
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In a car wreck, do u think u could lift a car off your kid and drop it on the other driver who's halfway through their windshield and bleeding out and it wasn't actually their fault |
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07-26-2022, 12:40 AM | #67 |
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There are definitely no universals and the desire to please parents or live up to expectations is a massive motivation I agree…
I think overachievers or highly successful people tend to be drawn toward each other and that creates competition with peers as well - even with less successful people a lot of motivation comes from keeping up with the joneses. I guess my working hypothesis is underlying all these social motivations is a biological system supporting survival of the fittest, similar to all our other animal brethren So, the approval of parents, the desire to attract a fit and attractive mate, the compulsion we feel to keep up with our peers, would have some kind of analogues in say, chimpanzee social hierarchy…and in the same way we would identify the purpose of that hierarchy as facilitating the survival of the fittest, our own social structures (and the meaning and purpose we project on to them) essentially do the same. |
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07-26-2022, 12:45 AM | #68 |
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The car scenario sounds difficult. In the sense the car is heavy and I’m approaching my mid 40s and am no longer super strong. In terms of dropping on the other driver to let my kid live, that would not be difficult at all
So bad. I know it’s bad, to so strongly prefer my kids just because they’re mine. But I do. I’ve been a slave to my biology since I first became pregnant. |
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07-26-2022, 10:34 PM | #69 |
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Bring on the heat death of the universe. Why would you want everything to be enshrined in all of eternity forever
The answer is inward. Objective reality could not give less of a shit about meaning |
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07-27-2022, 09:55 AM | #70 | |
Janis Jopleybird
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Don't parents gain some sort of emergency super-strength when their child is threatened and they're able to lift cars or like rip off an attacker's arm? What the fuck is the point if not This is why people seeking immortality have clearly not thought things through. Oh cool, I've been alive for billions of years and all the stars have burned out and the universe is unrecognizable and devoid of literally all other life but here I am on a barren rock, yeah this is so fucking cool. Can't wait until all other matter has diffused into component parts and swallowed by black holes and then the black holes burn out and I'm the last object in the universe. Use your fucking head |
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07-29-2022, 12:23 PM | #71 |
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Use your fucking head |
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07-31-2022, 06:20 PM | #72 |
Minion of Satan
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*Expansion of universe overpowers atomic bonds and rips every particle apart*
*No free energy is left for anything to happen at all* Me: "Finally some peace and quiet." |
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07-31-2022, 06:27 PM | #73 |
Minion of Satan
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So, like, if I have total immortality that allows me to survive even heat death, that means I don't need to eat, right? Which means that all my bodily processes, like the synapses firing in my brain, aren't being fuelled by anything in the environment, because there's no free energy in the environment for me to use. So, me being immortal means that I just generate the energy I use from nothing and am essentially a perpetual motion machine that breaks the second law of thermodynamics. Which means that I am probably giving off some energy to the environment, which means that so long as I exist (and I will exist for eternity, as I am immortal), there is energy being used to do work on the environment. Which means that so long as I exist, heat death cannot happen and I am effectively preventing the end of the universe.
I'm pretty much the guy who's still shopping when the store is supposed to be closing, preventing all the staff from being able to just go home. |
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08-01-2022, 12:45 AM | #74 |
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If nothing lasts, should I still follow the serving suggestion and garnish these instant noodles with butter and corn? |
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08-01-2022, 10:54 AM | #75 |
Minion of Satan
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08-02-2022, 07:01 PM | #76 | |
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NOT TODAY SATAN |
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08-03-2022, 06:17 AM | #77 |
Socialphobic
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Yeah I feel this for sure. Most recently in relation to Cinnamon Bun flavoured Oreos
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08-03-2022, 06:20 AM | #78 |
Socialphobic
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Apparently a serving is three Oreos. I dunno I mean it sounds reasonable enough
But nothing goes better with Oreos than shame. So like my kids say, I just gotta “full send” |
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08-04-2022, 05:32 PM | #79 |
Virgo
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whip your kids into 3 oreo submission
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08-07-2022, 08:26 AM | #80 |
Braindead
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why is this happening?
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08-07-2022, 12:57 PM | #81 |
Minion of Satan
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sounds like someone listened to 33 a few 2 many times
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08-09-2022, 05:02 PM | #82 |
Ownz
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Hello everyone!
When I was fifteen, I tried to commit suicide due to my pessimistic nihilism, general teenage things, and the overwhelming feeling that I was going to be alone forever, as well as my own insignificance. Many years on from that, I realise now that the loneliness of life is not something to be inherently depressed about. I took to viewing my own life as a road/path, one that I walk alone towards the unpredictable end of this wee little journey. Other people have their own paths, and sometimes theirs intersect with yours, and for a certain period, you walk together. Then, their path diverts, and they move on, apart from you, perhaps temporarily, often forever. It was important, and helpful, for me to be thankful to have known these people for as long as I did. It has helped me to better cope with the deaths of family and friends in my life, as well as incentivise me to cherish time spent with people that I might otherwise take for granted. In the end, your path will reach its stop. In a flash you might recall what you did, who you did it with, where you did it, how much joy, how much sorrow it brought you, and then that's it. It's done. Time to rest. The risk is to look back on your life and think of it as a waste. I am of the view that, if you are enjoying yourself, you are not wasting your time. You may not be furthering long-term goals in the moment, but you had a good time, so don't beat yourself up about it. When you are proactive and you do make it through ordeals through some degree of graft, that's even greater, you've done something - take some time to savour the fact that you've done something. I could get angry at myself "wasting every night of my early teens" spacing out to Age of Innocence or Machina II Try every night, getting no schoolwork done, crying my eyes out every time I heard Behold! The Night Mare because I had to help dirt over my gran's grave, but I was having a moment to myself that was either important or some degree of fun. Equally, when I passed my GCSEs at that age, or later got through to university, through hard work, I felt elated. As long as you're not hurting anyone, don't let anyone put you down or make you feel bad for enjoying yourself. I don't know who this is addressed to, so I'm just gonna hope one of you is called Craig. Keep walking your path Craig. |
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08-09-2022, 06:13 PM | #83 |
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