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@AbakpaJob Those are they because of Duck Tales and Stand By Me. Another random childhood fear along the same lines - quicksand, lava, and train tracks.

Looking back, what was your most overblown childhood fear and why was it either quicksand, the Bermuda Triangle, or leeches

@the_UrbanWolf @teachrobotslove Then you’re good, Friend, and you don’t need to worry about the post.

@TwentyF26459678 @teachrobotslove my relationship with god and my love with others is ongoing

There are so many people who try to fix themselves with therapy, running, yoga, EMDR, antidepressants, benzos, Adderall, cocaine, throwing themselves into work, traveling, moving to a different city, finding someone new to fall in love with, getting drunk every night, finding religion, starting up a business, finding their "purpose," praying to God, praying to the devil, embracing atheism and the relief of the nothing, going to AA and becoming sober, taking up a hobby like woodworking or fishing, committing to a morning routine, journaling, creative work, essential oils, eating "clean", injecting peptides, getting their tarot done, having lots of sex, chasing money, chasing oblivion. They will do anything to fix themselves except the one thing that will actually fix them: Which is to stop lying to yourself.

@Kleinebombe This was the plot of Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake - reading that book scared me into sincerely trying to be a better person in any and every instance. It was like 10 years of Buddhist practice in a few days.

@TwentyF26459678 That would be a nightmare!

What if we had to keep living the same life over and over again like groundhogs’ day until we got it right?

@Kleinebombe Similar to asking “how do you know you saw a ghost?” Or “how do you know you’re in love?” You don’t know until you’ve been there, and you can’t explain it except to other people who have also been there.

Picked up a book on past life regressions and I’m a little skeptical on the whole hypnosis process. Like how do you really know what you’re seeing is a past life and not just your imagination?

@supercollider_x No. We have most of them.

do we just have an extremely selfish generation who wants to live lavishly and comfortably, and doesn't really care if humanity continues or not?

@the_UrbanWolf @teachrobotslove I think the point of the post is highlighting the chase of those ideas, since the attainment implies one has healed or otherwise come to honest terms.

@teachrobotslove Why did you list the solution as the problem? Finding love and finding God are ways to make one comfortable to be themselves. In fact, many of the activities you listed allow people to become comfortable with who they are.

@teachrobotslove Amen. That’s why real guides and helpers aren’t marketable.

@vividvoid 😂😂😂 Best disclaimer I’ve ever seen

By the way, there *is* a 10x meditation-based productivity hack, but practicing it inalterably changes your psyche so that duty, family and treating other people well become your most important values. So don't fuck with karma yoga if you're just trying to hit your KPIs

@jzux 1. Identify area of life where you participate in fascism 2. Stop doing it as much as possible and brainstorm ways to make more things possible to abandon. 3.Repeat

i think a lot of Americans want to fight back but they don’t have a blueprint for what that looks like. can someone explain a few actionable steps the average American can take to fight against fascism in our country?

@jennifersrude I feel it’s tied to the time when caring about “organic” food for one labeled a science-denier. Probably started simmering around 2010 and got big 2018ish and forward, when the over-arching program became “hate everyone including yourself so you give up control.”

has a single person in the history of humankind ever once associated the love of nature with the right? Is that something that has ever happened literally once at all?

@justalexoki But… there’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be. It’s easy.

what if u made a really big mistake somewhere in the past and ur not where ur supposed to be

@vividvoid Preach.

It didn't register for me until today that the process of ego maturity for women is fraught with all kinds of challenges that men don't have true analogues for. Not in the maiden-mother-matriarch sense, but more in the difficulty facing shadow without hate. I think it's much harder for women to build a strong, self-critical ego structure that sees the weaknesses of their own sex without toppling over into individual self-hatred or culturally organized misogyny. This is partly because the maturity of femininity partially requires more contact with the social and superegoic than the maturity of masculinity, at least at some stages. And this is partly because there really just is a huge well of misogyny in culture - from both men and women - that is unique as a phenomenon. Misandry exists but it's not a true analog - that's a chimera of different resentments, envies and projections aimed at different groups of males, more differentiated by status. Misogyny has deep roots in the psyche via our relationship to our mothers at extremely young, primitive years. There is also an attachment component that is irreducible within our earliest, inner conception of "woman." It's an awful thing to have been insufficiently fathered but it's crippling to have been insufficiently mothered. Combine that with the natural prejudices of the animal brain toward strength and size, and misogyny simply has a much larger surface area in the collective consciousness. That makes it uniquely hazardous to try and avoid while coming to grips with a hard, realistic picture of maleness and femaleness as they actually are, not as we would like them to be. Of course men have our own unique struggles, but the path to a mature femininity seems to have many more psychological "near enemies" and emotional landmines that I hadn't considered until now. And the tendency to frame misogyny in moralizing terms that always victimizes women, rather than seeing women as full moral agents and patients who carry fully half of it in the collective unconscious, means you almost never see a realistic treatment of the issue written down anywhere. It's giving me a new appreciation for the difficulty of personal work and ego development that women face. Would love to hear from friends about their own observations here, on true differences between genders in the process of maturity.

@GodOfIceNifl @chilledspectre Right. Maybe she’s just mimic-adjacent. Like, grow up.

@chilledspectre sees person who's clearly unwell mentally "must be a mimic" we are genuinely regressing to the dark ages

that’s a mimic. you aren’t supposed to communicate with them

@GeoRebekah Also some of us DO have nature superpowers.

Can we stop using the tired trope of how people living outside of cities are all farmers, ranchers, and self-sufficient wisemen living a "different way of life,” as if it’s some pastoral paradise where people are in touch with nature. Rural people work mostly in healthcare, education and retail. They buy cheap shit from Walmart like everybody else. They buy oversized pickup trucks that they’ll never need. They spend most of their time inside in the air conditioning. They tend to be poorer and have less education, but that doesn’t mean they have special nature superpowers.

@teachrobotslove I’ve never thought of the symbol of the cross that way before in this context. Thanks for sharing!

I have pondered on Jesus Christ for the last 6 months because it seemed many of the most intelligent people I admired were believers. The biggest growth hack I've ever utilized when trying to learn things is, "Just because you don't immediately understand something, doesn't mean you should dismiss it. Try to figure out what you're not seeing." So I did. I kept trying. Anyway, it hit me a while back while I was sitting in traffic, after months of trying to tease out the question of Jesus. It was a huge, gnostic flood of epiphanies that immediately made me start weeping. It hit me so suddenly that I'm still trying to parse it into words without sounding like a schizo. But it's something like: On every level of reality, from the personal to the global, we need to be able to move on from our mistakes. It is integral to our survival. Yet justice must also be served. We know on an instinctual level that blood is the cost of an error. And that price was paid, forever and ever, on a cross that extended in all four directions, past and future, fact and fiction, regenerating eternally, healing all wounds. We've all seen what happens when people believe in justice, but not forgiveness. And we've all seen what happens to those who believe in forgiveness, but not justice. I don't think it is*believing* in Jesus that is the most important thing. It is accepting and holding these two ideas in tandem and adapting it as a way of being.

@saintsoftness It was Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy that first helped me reflect on the notion that it was not only possible, but already in the works.

I'm sorry I'm depressed, I just did NOT bet on the total American collapse of respect for all humane and humanistic knowledge and literacy in my lifetime. Retrospectively, I should have, but I was under the naive impression people cared more. Even here. I know, I know.

@renegademormon @SketchesbyBoze I don’t know. I think I got excited/felt safe to share in that people who actually have read the thing would understand. It’s desperately Winston behavior, now that I’ve said as much. Don’t get up - I’m sure I know how to rat-mask myself. 😆

@TwentyF26459678 @SketchesbyBoze Why are you bringing it up here when someone has done exactly the opposite, recognizing that the tweet they quoted is essentially proposing the destruction of a word which was a fetish for a Party operative in the book?

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it ... By the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now.” — George Orwell, 1984

@Mac_The_Jazz It’s probably great for basic security purposes. Not a lot of masses trekking the desert on foot with pitchforks these days

Forgive me for being ignorant. But why are the data centers being built in the desert if water is such a concern?

@redditfartporn Because people who pride themselves on their intelligence tend to fall into the “science and evidence” group so they need a way to justify their feelings. Just like religious people fall back on faith, the IQ obsessed mist fall back on numbers (even if they aren’t real.)

Why do ppl act like iq is a real thing & that intelligence is quantifiable at all