Not only are humans born helpless and remain dependent on caregivers for an enormous extended maturation period - often mothers would not survive childbirth without assistance. Being human is fundamentally rooted in community values, empathy, kindness, sharing, cooperation, generous credit. Any ideology that vilifies these realities is an antihuman perversion, a sickness.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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If your ball is too big for your mouth, it's not yours. ...oh wait this is not my teaching, this is Dog of Wisdom's.
Jokes aside, be extremely careful towards people:
- who treat the dubious as certain
- who insist after hearing a clear "no"
- who assume you're ignorant so they can voice advice or even interfere on what you're doing
Those people usually cause more harm than good, regardless of their "intentions".
The people you find unlikeable for no apparent reason are not always flawed.
Sometimes other events have crushed their self esteem so thoroughly that they have lost faith in themselves.
You have no responsibility to fix them. You probably can't even if you tried.
But it doesn't hurt to be kind to them.
My teaching is simple - learn all you can. Share it with everyone you can.
Everyone has a right to all information sources, the right to skepticism, the right to error, and the right to dissent in all nonviolent forms aka the right to offend others. No one has a right to impinge the rights of another.
If it can be done today, it cannot be done tomorrow.
I'm going to try my damnedest to internalize this.
There is more than one answer because at different sizes things behave differently.
Every disagreement is a matter of understanding
Eat a serving of carrots everyday, five servings a week reduce chances of cancer by 20% across the board
Life has no inherent value. Only rich life has value
Dont carrots have a lot of sugar tho?
Literally doesn't matter. It comes with fiber... Don't even worry about it
What are you going to eat instead? There's no staple food that isn't primarily starch
I'd skip carrots and go with lentils. Carbs but also 25-30% protein, and good fiber.
Lentils are fine, but carrots greatly reduce the chances of cancer. This isn't a negotiation, just eat the damn carrots lol
Yes sir/madam/non specified. I put some in my lentils
Yes, good girl/boy. 20% reduction in cancer with five servings a week. Cooking it is just fine
I'm proud of you, you're doing well. You're doing it, you can cook the carrots. However you want it, I just want you to be better protected against cancer
I got in an argument over this sentence yesterday, but I think it aplies here: Perfect is the enemy of good. Carrots are fine, lentils are fine, and there's always something better probably.
Keep in mind that sugars in fruit are a lot different than the highly processed sweeteners added to our foods.
It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes. ~ Tom Robbins
Think globally, act locally. Someone sent me a meme the other day about how everything is connected and so even if you're just in your own corner pulling at the little threads, you're helping to unravel the whole cloth (in terms of the awful capitalist hellscape we live in). Appreciated that one.
Also, just like, try to be nice, idk man it can't be that hard. Make eye contact (as best as you feel comfortable doing so). Smile at people. You don't know what shit they've been going through.
You have to start somewhere.
Donβt let humble beginnings discourage you. Strive for improvement, but always cherish the position where you currently are.
Price of perfection is infinite.
Donβt settle for low quality trash, but donβt get lost chasing perfection either.
Some Truths
- Life sucks sometimes.Β
- When it suckβs itβs usually because you want things to be different then they are.Β
- Thereβs a way to fix that.Β
- You can fix it by paying attention to your head and not letting the more dickish thoughts get the better of you.Β
It doesn't take all kinds, we just have all kinds.
Also: Too bad ignorance isn't painful.
The thought process that owns almost everyone, and that is central to our problems, globally, is thinking that some things should not exist. This causes, internally, big feels of violation, which are almost inevitably projected outwards in a way that disempowers the person feeling violated.
For example, thinking that totalitarianism shouldn't exist, or sexism, or racism - but these are all normal human activities that will repeat, regardless of how unhealthy they are. Accepting that they exist allows you to approach them honestly.
The real question is whether or not you'll respond, and if you do, what that form that response will take. But to do that effectively, one must fully accept that the thing exists, and/by processing the feelings that that entails.
once you're not fighting it's existence, you can respond naturally to it, and fluidly adapt to it.