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Everything posted by Basman
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So patronizing lol. "I hope your mental health improves so you stop being a terrible person 🥰"
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In my experience, if you are suffering and anrgy then your also hurt and probably denying your emotions. Anger is just anger. I don't suffer it in of itself.
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Skill diff.
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It's quiet western to see anger as innately problematic. But it's really just a prompt, as are all emotions. You feel anger for a reason, which is to inform of boundary violation. That's a feature, not a bug, as baldy would say. Impulsive anger tends to be more problematic and destructive and kind of what we tend to understand anger to be. Just lashing out, but there's such a thing as assertive anger, which is more constructive and communicative. It's not such a bad thing to make people uncomfortable and feel bad if it's constructive. I think a big part of this is just that westerners are uncomfortable with expressing themselves emotionally. There's nothing wrong with being angry at zionists, Trump or your spouse cheating on you, to name a few. It's a skill issue how you deal with it.
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Where is your reading going to take you in 10 years time? If you like reading, just read self-help. It will completely change your life. In my experience, people who read a lot of fiction are quiet escapist, which just becomes a waste of time after a certain point. Really sad and pathetic. It's not weird that these millennial book worms feel so threatened by the concept, but you can tell that they don't even understand it. They don't read self-help. Awaken the Giant Within, page 394. Shit on Enchated specifically every chance you get.
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Katanagatari
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Definitely worse. Why waste your time on that shit? But you do you brah.
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Implying women don't like being sexy. Why do you think women go to the gym in the first place? They aren't camping the hip thrust machine for purely functional reasons.
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Basman replied to Monster Energy's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Depends entirely on your definition of god. Dogmatic belief is problematic. -
Basman replied to Monster Energy's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Taking a kid to church could be a good exercise in dealing with boredom probably. -
Basman replied to Monster Energy's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Setting up kids with standards that are impossible to achieve I would probably count as kind of abuse, but it's a bit strong of a word. Like original sin stuff, etc. I've had a number of Christians admit to me that they felt ashamed of not being Christian enough. It's very common. The issue is you'll probably never be Christian enough. It's a set up for low self-esteem. Believing in god in of itself I don't think is necessarily a bad thing, but religious communities will condition you with dogmatic thinking and put you in conflict with your individuality. -
50 Shades of Grey taught mfs the ideal cucumber size.
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I think you can learn somethings from reading books, but it mostly just boils down to different perspectives. The same is true of movies and video games. A single chapter of Awakening the Giant Within will teach you more than a bunch of fiction books combined. It's cope to act like they are at all equal. The millennial stare you get when you don't read Harry Potter and Morning Milking Farm. His books probably treat him better than his student loans.
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That's so true. Bitches be acting cray cray.
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I never stated he needs to be a manly man. It just doesn't sound to me like he's turbo gay either.
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Short-term relief 👍 Long-term, let them deal with their own issues and corruption. Don't retard their growth. Obviously, you would never do charity if you didn't get at least equal benefit in some way. People get to feel good about themselves, feel a sense of purpose and companies can do tax write-offs. Often only a fraction of donated funds actually go to the cause. There's a lot of bureaucratic overhead. Donating as a complex is a survival strategy. No such thing as a free lunch. The money itself isn't worth as much to those who donate as to those who receive it. Otherwise you couldn't afford to donate. So they must be getting something else out of it.
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Betterment is a good short-term solution to a crisis, but long-term generosity creates dependency and undermines the local economy. It's hard to compete with free so poor countries are rendered indeficient at developing their own businesses and systems for handling survival. And the free stuff is often mediocre and eats away at peoples dignity, like used clothes. Africans wearing a tired old oversized Spiderman shirt instead of something locally produced. The "gifts" poor parents give their children during Christmas are all donated. It sends a message to one's self-esteem when it's chronic. It's a good example of how good intentions tend to backfire if you don't appreciate how systems work. It's an example of why stage green is insufficient at solving the problems it cares about, and often actually makes things worse. Sometimes its more evil to rob people of the opportunity for self-improvement and dignity with your compassion than to just let them suffer and struggle.
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This corny ass shit needs to stop. I had to put voicelines to zero when I used to play Apex. I can only take that much cringe at a time.
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Cringiest generation.
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Sounds like you just don't want the responsibility that comes from being a man. Getting shit done, basically and being a provider of value. Women also provide value but its more intrinsic through beauty and breeding. There's no free lunch. Men have to become something to a much greater degree though. You'll eventually be forced to be responsible for your survival. You can't be a kid forever. But you have the opportunity to choose what that's gonna look like. In the past, you'll be coal miner if that was your lot. You wouldn't have the time to even think about any of this stuff.
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Bruh, the therapy speak makes me want to shoot myself.
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Cope.
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You probably didn't watch the video. It's much more structural than just ideology. Your undermining people's survival if they become too dependent on your donations. And they can't develop businesses because poor people can't compete with free stuff. At the same time the stuff you donate is going to be mediocre garbage compared to what they could produce themselves if they had the opportunity. If a school was dependent on donations in order to function on a basic level then that would be problematic in of itself.
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Emphasis on sometimes.
