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@theralkia Hands down my favorite book of the Bible. You get some strange looks telling people that when they ask tho

Heading to the bookstore so I can buy a Bible to read The Book of Job Few

@DeanAbbott Good rule of thumb is to have as many litterboxes in the home as cats you have +1!

Thinking I'm going to get a cat at the first opportunity. You guys have any cat advice?

@theralkia Do you think there's a differentiator between "God is my safety net" and "Whatever happens to me is God's will"? Wondering whether they are truly one and the same or if one may be more mature than the other

How to know if your chakras are balanced: Root: you viscerally feel that God is your safety net; your feet are magnetically drawn to the ground with each step Sacral: you don’t punishment yourself for an occasional day of hedonism and you’re effortlessly creative Solar plexus: you don’t desire money or power and you know that what is meant for you will come; any lapses in career or finances are met with faith Heart: you love unconditionally, you forgive those who betray you but still hold boundaries, you trust your intuition and follow it fearlessly Throat: you know what you want to say and say it, you know who you are and you know when you aren’t being yourself; your voice is clear Third eye: you see the truth in whatever way is native to you (synchronicity, visions, felt knowing) and follow it as your GPS Crown: you see the purpose and meaning in everything, you see how everything in the outer world exists to guide you to the embodiment of your highest self

@theralkia They even named the book after the guy, he's that cool!

Job from the book of Job is a legend

@PAHoyeck Ignorance tbh

Does anybody have a good theory for why we're still doing philosophy even after Douglas Adams figured out the meaning of life?

@Hitchslap1 For example, consider the word "Gaol". While it may be difficult to process intuitively, one might have heard the word before in a story, book, or videogame, and looked it up to find that it is really just an alternative spelling of jail. The test here does not account for this

@Hitchslap1 It may be a good correlatory exercise but this could very well be due to familiarity with the words (which would be due to more frequent reading/reading at a higher level as resultant from IQ) rather than explicit verbal and linguistic intelligences.

You can literally test someone’s IQ in 90 seconds by asking them to pronounce 50 words. The more they get correct, the higher their IQ.

@archibaldxiv Monk or Artificer, for sure

really curious what class everyone would consider themselves on this side of twitter

@DoctorPerin Good transference; allows the patient to tap into the father image

Such macho therapists. What is the correlation between facial hair and good therapy?

@PAHoyeck What about Nude?

My top Radiohead Songs: Let Down Karma Police No Surprises Everything In Its Right Place How to Disappear Completely Idioteque Pyramid Song Where I End and You Begin Weird Fishes All I Need Reckoner Videotape Bloom Lotus Flower True Love Waits

Is there a good German word for the soul-crushing sadness you feel when listening to these albums?

@DoctorPerin But Doctor, the pills make the good numbers go up and the bad numbers go down so therefore we have to throw all of our money at it (and nothing else)

I’ve worked in hospitals that handed out SSRI prescriptions like a PEZ dispenser and have a few soapboxes about prescriptions without plans to de-prescribe and diagnoses without plans to de-diagnose… but I blame the systems that incentivize it (insurance) more than psychiatrists

I need to get this sponsorship money, I’ll write up a COSTCO psychosexual stage

@Thomasdelvasto_ Centerpiece of my childhood

an important thing to know about me is that I grew up obsessively reading fantasy and sci fi

@theralkia A lot of undergratuate psych is focused on cognitive models. Most education on even Freud is taught in a rudimentary (and VERY opinionated) manner. Most of the great thinkers of the field in the past have been forgotten, and most professors I know sneer at psychoanalysis.

One time I was chatting up a girl at the bar and she was a psych major so I pulled up a picture of Jung and asked her who it is, she said Freud and I left the bar instantly Psych majors literally don’t know anything

@Thomasdelvasto_ I think a lot of people get the "Oh God I'm not allowed to do that!" impulse that prevents nearly everyone from doing so, and thus all of that food goes to waste.

help me resolve an internal moral dilemma you're at a work event. there are over 20 full pizzas left. ppl have had 2.5+ hrs to get pizza, and it's past the scheduled end time is it ok to grab a full pizza to take home as you leave?

@lapislagoons People find you scary?

I would really like to understand why everyone finds me so scary

@gregthesorcerer Someone enchanted the archmage's walking stick with drain mana while he was visiting our institution to lecture. I knew the guy who did it and we never saw him again after this.

What was “The Incident” at your Mages Guild?

I’ve been swimming in a world without language

@Thomasdelvasto_ @ThymeToBeBorn Is this a QOTSA reference

@ThymeToBeBorn better living through chemistry!

My mom has no useable insurance so my husband ran her prescription himself and ordered her new glasses. I got her on a low dose estrogen patch and progesterone pill. Now 30 years of insomnia and hot flashes and daily weeping fits are gone.

@Thomasdelvasto_ Personally, I've always felt that my own, or yours, or anyone else's certainty is unnecessary for peace about the nature of the afterlife. The Lord will place souls where He deems them fit to be, and in His choosing to do so, isn't that already the best possible option?

I genuinely cannot grasp the worldview that eternal torment must be true for life to be meaningful