RadicalEagle

At some point God might say "I don't know if I can make it better than this, but I'll give it a try if you'll help me out."

I like how practical your mom is lol

I got to visit Japan for vacation and there were so many moments where I felt like I was just in a familiar place because I had seen it so many times before in media.

I assume people feel the same way when they visit places like Los Angeles, Toronto, etc. Places we're all familiar with in some capacity even though we haven't been there. It's really fun to go out and explore the mundanity of places in person.

Yeah, I think a lot of modern Christians are unaware of how masochistic and sadistic they really are. They get so hung up on the idea that they have a "get out of jail free" card that it justifies all the rest of their behavior, even when that behavior is explicitly called out in their manual lol

I think you can "love" someone without tolerating their nonsense. It's all about being willing to find a consensual way of interacting. Theoretically it may be impossible, but we can still try.

I'm about to go through the Hyprland setup tutorial and I'm pumped af.

It's one of the things I love most about being alive. When I was a kid I loved reading the names and flavor text of Duel Masters cards. They always seemed pulled from the most weirdest corners of people's minds lol

My favorites were always the lovecraftian horrors that had really mundane descriptions.

That's rough, buddy.

Yeah, you'd need to be able to see Fallen Destiny in the background.

My theory is that people who are obsessed with aliens or the paranormal are just subconsciously struggling with the cognitive dissonance they feel about the relationship between their "self" and "other" people, or vise versa.

In order to answer the question "are we alone in the universe?" first you have to establish what it would mean to be "alone".

It comes down to existential fear. "What if there are other beings out there who are more capable than us and will treat us the way we treat beings who are less capable than ourselves?"

The only way to resolve that dissonance is to believe that despite our differences with aliens, we could come to understand each other and coexist peacefully. Of course that's a difficult conclusion to come to when the people experiencing this fear generally have a hard enough time accepting the differences between members of their own fuckin' species lol

I've been thinking about this a bit more, and I realized that I talk to other people the way I talk to myself. This probably wouldn't be a problem if I weren't so critical of myself.

I think I need to not only put in the effort to reread the things I write when communicating with others, but also to just be kinder to myself in my internal monologue.

I spend too much time being frustrated inside my own head, and that makes it easy to use that same tone when I'm interacting with other people.

Thanks for sharing your advice. I think verbalizing my thoughts the way you suggested will be really helpful.

Honestly, yeah sometimes. It's my emotional reflex to frustration that was programmed into me by my parents and I haven't done enough cognitive behavioral therapy to undo it.