Something Funny

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  4. Posted

    @Swarnim your point makes sense, but I am not sure if it is true. I am not giving up on myself, just trying to find a solution that works for me.

    2 hours ago, Swarnim said:

    However, you are not treating the problem, but only the symptoms.

    What if the root cause of a problem is me being alone all the time. Getting a dog would address it then.

    2 hours ago, Swarnim said:

    All you have done is raised the minimum effort in your day to day activities. You may be pumped up after getting a dog but after sometime you'll start to do the bare minimum again. Nothing can thrive by doing the bare minimum.

    But I don't think that I am going to be doing the bare minimum. I think I might finally start enjoying life.

    2 hours ago, Swarnim said:

    In my honest opinion, only if you are able to persist like this for a year, should you get a dog. I suffered with loneliness and depression for about 5 years before I had a breakthrough. It's hard man, but it's over when you give up.

    This approach of thinking that I should first prepare myself perfectly before I decide to do something has never worked for me. I would always end up just procrastinating away.

    On the other hand, jumping right into the thing that I want to do and dealing with challenges as they come has worked well several times in my life.

  6. Posted

    5 minutes ago, dudts said:

    Too risky for the dog.

    I am not risky for the dog. I would definitely take a good care of it. I know that you didn't mean it but it actually feels kind of insulting, tbh.

    7 minutes ago, dudts said:

    I am sure there are other ways of lessening loneliness: clubs, gyms, volunteering, events, etc.. So maybe start with that before committing to dog ownership.

    Another suggestion is to make "getting the dog"  a motivation for you to become more healthy and disciplined, it would be some sort of reward that you should only obtain after a couple of months of being consistent with following up on your goals for example (or whatever you'd like to expect from yourself; remember that improving takes time and do not overwhelm yourself with too ambitious goals, I suggest reading "atomic habits" and many of leo's old video are helpful in this endeavour )

    If I thought that any of that would work, I would be doing that instead. 

    8 minutes ago, dudts said:

    Also, if you feel you struggle with severe depression, maybe investing in therapy is a more secure and proven way to get out of it than investing in a dog.

    I already have a coach / therapist, I don't feel like those two things are mutually exclusive.

    Also, I am going to wait until our next session, before I make any decisions, because I want to talk with her about it.

  7. Posted

    47 minutes ago, dudts said:

    To be honest, if I were you, I'd make sure I could take care of myself properly before I committed to taking care of another being, which, as you mentioned, does require energy and resources, especially if it's a dog. (I do think cats are lower maintenance somehow.)

    Well, that's the point. I don't think I can take care of myself probably because it's just me. If I had somebody else to keep me company it would be totally different.

  8. Posted

    I struggle with loneliness and depression, and because of that I am not able to live the life I would like to live. I spend a lot of my days laying in bed and eating junk food, I have a hard time keeping my house clean, I am not able to stick to whatever goals I set for myself, I have no social life.

    Recently got this idea of getting myself a dog. And here is why I think it would help me deal with my issues:

    1) It would support me emotionally, preventing me from getting depressed and feeling lonely

    2) Taking care of someone else would motivate me, mobilize me to take action, work on improving my life, etc., etc.

    For example, I feel like I can tolerate living in a dirty house myself, but there is no way that I would ever allow my dog to live in a dirty house. I would also want to get a better career that is more flexible and pays more, so that I can take care of my dog better. And in general, I think that owning a dog would improve my whole lifestyle and make it much more healthy, grounded, and consistent.

    On the other hand, I feel like having a dog could hold me back in a lot of ways:

    - It will make it even harder for me to find time for going out and socializing
    - I will have less time for everything else, including developing new skills, starting a business, doing spirituality, etc., etc.
    - Taking care of a dog costs money, and I don't have that much money
    - Having a dog would make moving places much harder

    But then you could of course make an argument that I am not able to do any of these things anyway in the mental state I currently am, so it would be better for me to get a dog, which will help me pull myself together, even though on paper, taking care of a dog takes a lot of time and energy.

    Any thoughts?

  9. Posted

    I've watched the below video on Oil from Leo's blog:

    When talking about greener alternatives to Oil, the guy completely dismisses the nuclear power simply because "it will need a PR boost", according to his own words.

    How is that a valid argument? The narrator paints this dystopian "post order" future with oil shortages and climate change but says that nuclear energy won't be an option because...?

    To me, it looks like a great alternative to oil, gas, and coal. A nuclear power plan produces a shit tonn of energy, doesn't polute the environment or produce CO2, and isn't dependent on weather conditions (unlike solar or wind). It also doesn't require a super complicated supply chain, unlike oil or gas. Ability to produce energy locally, independent of the external political situation is a huge advantage, right?

    And, I think that its dangers are really overblown.

    There is also an issue of nuclear waste it generates, but it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me.

    Is there something that I am missing which makes nuclear energy not a viable option?

  14. Posted

    8 hours ago, meta_male said:

    Reminds me of how I once took a toast out the toaster with a knife. The look on my friend's faces was disturbing.

     

    7 hours ago, lostingenosmaze said:

    I did that multiple times to get my PopTarts out as a kid, without knowing about the heat coils but my utensils still manage to incidentally dodge them anyways. Thank Me (God)

    I actually did that once, and the knife touched the coils. But it just shorted, and the whole house went out of power. Nothing happened to me. I guess I got lucky, lol

  18. Posted

    @Lila9 maybe, and hopefully that's true.

    But how can we trust them and know if what they are saying is true? You've said it yourself that Israel's government is not perfect. What's stopping them from saying "there were terrorists there" every time they fuck up?

    Like in the case with the ambulance, Israel says there were terrorists in it, people on the ground say that they were just civilians. How do we know who is saying the truth?

    How would Israel even identify whether there are terrorists or not in the ambulance? 

  19. Posted · Edited by Something Funny

    @Lila9 lets say I agree with your premise. Israel is in a tough spot, surrounded by enemies, and has a right to defend itself.

    The question is, how legitimate are the methods that they are using. Mass bombing specifically.

    Please see below articles:

    https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20231103-french-institute-in-gaza-hit-by-israeli-strike-paris-demands-answers

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/middleeast/casualties-gazas-shifa-hospital-idf/index.html

    When people read those types of articles, it makes them question whether Israel actually does any kind of research and tries to target places where terrorists are or if they are just shelling everything randomly as an act of terror.

    As article about the French institute mentions, its location is a public knowledge precisely to prevent a bomb from being randomly bombed onto it. So how did it happen? Does Israel really check where they are firing before doing it?

    And it's not like those are very rare cases, those "mistakes" happen regularly from what I understand. So it makes you wonder if those are really mistakes or if it is just Israel's strategy to level Gaza with the ground.

     

  21. Posted

    @Sempiternity wow, that's really cool.

    What I struggle with is understanding the whole learning path. Like what skills do I need to have and how to learn them.

    - Do I need to learn how to draw?

    - Do I need to learn sketchting clothes on paper, or is there a digital spftware where it is done right now?

    - Do I need to learn 3d modeling in programs like Blender?

    - Do I need to learn how to sew / knit / chrochet by hand?

    - What about embroidery?

    - What about all sorts of fabrics, textiles, and dyes? Where do I learn about them (which are the best for what, how they are made, how they are produced, etc, etc).

    - What if I want to make shoes, how tf do I learn that?

    I have beem looking for some courses online but most of them are very unholistic and focus on some one little things, like "how to sew your own set of pants".

  23. Posted

    @Breakingthewall but according to @hundreth there are actual videos of that.

    It kind of makes sense that super gory videos aren't just available to everyone on youtube. Maybe if you did some mkre research you could find them?

    @hundreth if you could point out how people can find proof of what the below refers to, that would be helpful in my opinion.

    15 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

    Don't you understand that they said that about torturing children to justify killing thousands of Palestinian children? but then the images from the terrorists' cameras were shown, and well...there is neither torture nor murder of children.

     

  24. Posted

    Isn't it crazy?

    There are like 100 active members here and yet we don't seem to be able to have a civilized, respectful discussion here.

    Is this just human nature?

    If so, then how can we expect conflicts to stop happening in the real world when we can't even prevent a conflict from happening on an online forum where stakes are much lower.

    I have been personally guilty of this myself. I would get emotional and start arguing with person I disagree with. Not trying to learn or come to an agreement but trying to prove my point. I am also being disrespectful and overly agressive from time to time. Sometimes I dramatise things too much. Etc, etc.

    But is it really such a high standard to hold to be respectful of  a person you are talking to even if they opinion is different, or even if you thing that they are clearly wrong, or said something dumb?

    Wouldn't it be cool if everyone here behaved in a mature and respectful way, trying to learn from each other and help each other to grow and get closer to truth?

    This sounds really inspiring to me to be honest.

  25. Posted

    1 minute ago, hundreth said:

    Consider yourself fortunate not to have seen them. 

    that's beside the point though, no?

    I've actually went to the combat footage subreddit, typed hamas in the search bar, turned off the safe search, went to the very bottom of the posts, and then used browser search tool with words: torture, woman, women, prisoner, hostage.

    And I couldn't find a single torture video. I am not sure if they are getting deleted, but they are clearly harder to find than you make them out to be. So "living under the rock" description is not very fitting in my opinion.