Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.
I guess, if loneliness and lack of human experience/maturity is like heroin, ChatGPT is like methadone? So I’m glad overall that these lost souls, unprepared for life, have found some solace in the machine but idk, seems like something an actual functioning society would take care of, the whole raising people to be people kind of thing, and this is a bandaid and an analgesic that will only help compound the problems in the long run.
All true! Like Jay from RLM said: “they’re vehicles for awesome soundtracks”. And very interesting visuals too, at least in the first two movies, the third one felt a bit repetitive and too “videogamey” IMO. 👍
Every Tron movie has flopped and they still reboot it every so many years so who knows? 😅
“So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.” - great reminder for anxious people but also for everyone in general, over worrying is not only a bad time but also wasteful and unproductive
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money” - anti-capitalist/greediness statement that is the basis for any actual prosocial society
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” - a reminder to approach everyone with love and patience, and not just because it’s the right thing to do but because, if you want to change their mind, you’re gonna have to go softly and wisely (this includes MAGA!)
All from the big J of Nazareth, of course.
It’s a product of their inherent selfishness and sociopathy. They don’t care about others, they care about themselves and they want to be protected when they inevitably rape and/or murder someone. Same thing happens in powerful circles in the West (remember Epstein and everyone before him?). This wouldn’t work for society, we actually need people who “love their neighbour as much as they love themselves”… but we’re at a high point for vanity and self-centeredness so it’s gonna take at least a couple hundred years in the West to veer into that direction, probably.
Just be funny, enjoyable to be around and not an emotional mess, lol. It works for men of all heights and attractiveness levels, myself included!
He he he, these American demons are funny. Well, I’m sure he can explain that one to God when he meets Him. 🙃
My wife is anxious and the way that she’s described it is something like having a barrage of irrational worries one cannot feasibly think their way out of or compartmentalize (even if they know they’re completely irrational or the odds are extremely low).
"And on I read, until the day was gone.
And I sat in regret of all the things I’ve done.
For all that I’ve blessed, and all that I’ve wronged.
In dreams until my death I will wander on."
Audioslave, Like A Stone.
When it’s irrelevant with regards to external reality, has no negative consequences, and it’s done for the sake of my peace of mind/happiness. Lying has a time and a place, it’s just a very very small one.
Most of Africa? Latin America? Amidst instability, coups, war and famine too. Also, are those rates accounting for everyone or locals only (when Western countries already have, almost uniquely, a very diverse ethnocultural mix)? All I know, before even getting into data and spreadsheets, is that in both Western countries I’ve lived in, France and the UK, the majority of young families I saw outside were brown and black, and my white friends even in their 30s are mostly unmarried and childless. I really don’t think you can live in a multicultural city in the West and tell me your experience is different in earnest (bet you hear a lot of Spanish in many big cities in the US, for instance).
A country or even a civilization can disappear simply because its mentality pushed it that way, like it has happened many times before, and it’s alright, at least compared to what you’re proposing. I’d rather my society disappeared than prolong its life unnaturally and immorally by legalizing rape and slavery for half the population. And let’s not forget, a solution to this inversion of priorities exists, it just requires a proper, prosocial ideology and its slow, gradual adoption… what you’re suggesting is way worse than the “problem”.
It is indeed her problem, I don’t see how “and that’s why they have to be coerced to breed/raped!” follows. 🤷♂️
To add to your argument (that it’s a matter of ideology more so than material conditions), let’s not forget immigrants from collectivist societies breed more regardless of socioeconomic status in the West.
It’s not that essential, my only real duty is to be righteous, do good and avoid evil, that sort of thing. Not engaging with parenthood, something that is basically the most important and prosocial thing the vast majority of people will be able to do, can be a very lazy, immature, self-centered thing to do (can be, because for some it’s the result of pain and trauma) but it does not constitute evil. I don’t believe anyone has the right to force me to breed, just like I don’t believe anyone has the right to throw me into the meatgrinder to be pawns in the game of geopolitics, both are certainly more evil than not breeding and not fighting, whatever reasons one might have.
I agree that in the West people are individualistic consumerists and everything pertaining to family and childrearing is often overlooked, but no long-lasting feasible solution to this inversion of priorities could come from what you’re suggesting. Nevermind the fact that men who agreed to coerce/rape and women who’ve been coerced/raped probably won’t make the best of parents, it would just be compound trauma weighing on the child. Only a gradual change of mentality can result in what you expect would happen… you didn’t consider the psychological consequences of your idea or simply understand humanity deeply enough to believe it could work, that somehow these women would be happy and not suicidally depressed. I don’t even necessarily think you’re misguided, but you’re certainly a bit blind (respectfully).
Okay, maybe, but how could that be implemented without a lot of coercion or just straight up rape? And would they just have to choose between being destitute or breeding even if they don’t want to? Idk man, seems like an awfully inhuman measure to implement. I’d rather think about a way to force deadbeat dads (and moms, ofc) who moved irresponsibly to be present and positive influences in their children’s lives…
My best thinking has always taken place at night, but I don’t know why. Maybe one of these nights I’ll understand. 😅
People like to celebrate stuff and rituals, and they like having excuses/reasons to make a day all for themselves. Now, because I have always been an old grumpy man I don’t partake (my wife always makes it special regardless though) but I find it cute to a certain degree so I can’t be too much of a hater. 🤷♂️
How do you always have the worst takes? It’s almost impressive.
I wouldn’t mind the mice but songbirds? Too artistic to be sacrificed for my fat cat’s potential enjoyment, sorry. 🤷♂️