Damn, beat me to it!
GaMEChld
joined 1 year ago
I think Nate made a good point about people not understanding polls. 70% chance to win means Hillary would have won 70/100 elections, not win by 70-30. But many read 70% as some kind of guarantee.
If you want your life to change, you yourself must be open to change. Life itself is change. What exactly are you clinging so fiercely to? Misery? There's a reason they say misery loves company.
Don't aim for happy; aim for neutral, aim for peace, aim for not miserable. All of those are an infinite improvement.
That guy, Hugh Mann.
Ok, let me be fair and clarify my FFXIV story. Yes I did meet my SO in a video game, and that all does sound too good to be true. What I left out was the hard work getting myself into in therapy and on a path to meaningfully and deliberately work at being happy. By the time I met my girlfriend, I was already in a much better head space, and I was already trying to put myself out there to actively start dating.
Regarding your other comment about life that doesn't reproduce being not worth living, I don't buy that for a second. All life hits a dead end. All will need to contend with The Big Freeze, The Big Rip, or The Big Crunch.
Life is meaningful precisely because it is finite. Infinities are a dime a dozen. And infinities await us all.
I mean... That was Obama v McCain iirc. If it got anyone elected, it got Obama elected. Trump's victory can be attributed to the unmitigated disaster of a candidate that was Hillary Clinton. Who joked to coal miners in their town hall that she'd put them out of work. Hilarious.
Eventually I realized that life itself is a temporary problem in the grand scheme of infinities. That realization kept me alive long enough to develop more positive coping tools.
Thank you Spiderman!
Made a friend in Final Fantasy XIV, which then blossomed into more. She moved across the country to be with me. We are one of those super-affectionate-joined-at-the-hip couples.
Who would you say is worse? I'm not sharp on history and politics.
I wager Light is a metaphor for existence, and Darkness is a metaphor for non-existence.
The only thing that can fracture the two party system is ranked choice or alternative voting systems. FPTP guarantees two parties.