I feel that 75% of social media posts, are other posts they share from either Twitter or instagram cherry picking a controversial topic with a reply they like, get a **** ton of karma and rewards, then feel completely validated at the end of the day With their 17k or so comments lololol
There was a survey which said that about 80% of Tweets come from about 20% of users. It's an echo chamber. Remember, these places are filled with bots.
This is why i deleted my reddit account though And as of yesterday a lot of sub redditor’s mods were trying to shut down other sub Reddit’s that spread misinformation only to be slapped in the face by Reddit by playing the “freedom” of speech card on them, basically reading their comments melting down as they implode on their on bliss on why reddit wasn’t on their side because they seem to “polarize” them, wtfffff
I honestly don’t remember what he looked like but he was mid 40’s, mid 50’s possibly lolol, people don’t like to small talk anymore, such a shame, I think that was the intent, they seemed bothered they were being talked to in the first place but who can tell nowadays anymore, hence why i just stick to myself, not quitting at all, just not starting conversations unless spoken too
I deleted my Reddit acount years ago. I never used it much, I just kept track of some subreddits and had them subbed for easy access. Reddit's a giant echo chamber anyhow. Most places tend to become like that as time goes on, but Reddit's become a place stuck around the early 10s. It's heavily centralised anyhow, it's not some free forum.
So I agree that in this unfair world there is such a thing as a lost case, but what you're describing isn't a lost case in the context of being able to enjoy life.
Eh, sure, such a person will be able to fill his life with various frivolities, but I truly doubt he'll ever have a normal one in the way most people define it.
I would argue that the most important thing anyone has is their health; talent and intellect are no guarantees for happiness, neither is physical beauty. I'm not discounting that those are powerful gifts but I've seen people implode who were more or less handed the world on a platter. I've seen people dealt all kinds of bad cards who responded with utter ferocity. They don't get to be Brad Pitt but they don't give a f*** because they build a meaningful life that transcends conventional limitations.
Sure, just because you have it all doesn't mean you'll use it effectively. Or because you got the short end of the stick you'll never amount to anything. But I'm talking about extreme cases. I know a woman who's had both throat and lung cancer. She looks fine, she's healthy and smart, all that. She's cheerful too. But, she's got a giant hole in her throat. She can barely talk. She breathes through it. She has to blow it, the way we'd do our nose, to catch her breath. She eats and you see the food move. It's franky nauseating. She's all alone and chances are she'll remain alone. She doesn't have a job and lives by the handicaped retirement fund. It's not like she lost an arm, something that can be ignored with time. It's an active problem that will always be so. She got dealt a bad hand and chances are her life will continute as is. So the problem here isn't that she's not as beautiful as Belluci or that she wasn't born a Princess. It's that even something as common as a relationship is now denied to her. These are the cases I'm talking about. She got dealt with cancer, others are born with mental and physical issues and so on. Some people's destiny is to lose and no amount of struggling forward will change that. You need a fighting chance to fight.
All pleasure is transient. All of it. Life is temporary and the biggest problem is the meaningless crap people place importance on. Every great spiritual tradition, every great philosophy, every major religion, agrees on this aspect of human nature. We chase illusions and make ourselves unhappy.
And I do think it's a presupposition failure to assume there is always a void that needs filling. That may be what advertisers would have us believe. Not everyone wants the same thing, but okay, maybe that's nitpicking.
I'm not talking about pleasure, but about fulfilment. You can always find things to do to pass the time. The problem is spending that time on meaningful acts, some of which are out of reach for certain people. Same way as it's always been. Even the simple things in life, like having a family or a job you love, are not available to everyone and that's what it comes down to.
Hard work beats talent. Hard work + talent is often unstoppable. But what we're discussing here is an overall, global resilience, that allows people to move from repeated failure to eventual improvement, which also involves trying many different approaches.
I'm not advocating someone with no tolerance for stress persist in combat sports, for instance. When I trained younger fighters they walked in all the same, ready to show what they could do. Some of them weren't cut out for getting punched in the face. No shame at all in that -- it's unnatural and unpleasant. You figure it out, you move on.
I honestly don't know if hard work beats talent. It depends. If talent sleeps, hard work gets ahead. But if talent is put to use, then you're done. Some people run faster, sketch better, think faster. Some can't run to save their lives, can't sketch at all, and can't solve a single equation. Most people are somewhere in the middle. No matter how much I practice, I'll never beat Karpov in chess. He's got raw talent that he's practiced rigorously. If he never focused on it, and I worked on it 24/7, I might have been able to snag a few games. But the cold hard truth of the matter is that some people are simply better. In one, two or more categories. Does that make them better people? That depends on each individual. But acts and stats speak for themselves.
What I'm saying is that if you've always dreamed of becoming an actor, but you're so awful at it that after years you can't get a monologue out, maybe try your hand at screenwriting. You don't need to jump ship and go become a waiter, but you should be able to move around, even in the same sphere of work.
I think some people need help, I think our current society has gone disastrously awry and makes it worse for young people who may be on shaky ground.
In life nothing is promised, failure comes to everyone. The challenge is how to train resilience and self-esteem into a generation of young men and women whose development has been distorted by a firehose of advertising, social media and pornography.
Exactly. Like I said before, this is uncharted ground. The newer generations were ushered into a digital world whose repercussions nobody in our sphere saw coming.
My master often says: "Men don't have to be beautiful, but they must be strong."
I would extend that to men and women. There's a fine line between healthy questioning and advocacy for a more egalitarian world, and continuously licking wounds raw until everyone is damaged all the time.
Sure, they don't have to, but it helps. Height, face, fame, everything. Nobody will take a shorty seriously if he gets angry, thus he's not able to assert his place in the room. We've all seen such cases in our lives. I think the problem is less so that we bend over backwards to accommodate everyone, and more that we pretend to do that, while in reality we don't. Life goes on as always. The fat ugly guy is still alone, it's just that the post the beautiful fit girl made on social media about body positivity got likes, and the fat ugly girl got a drunk pity **** from the school stud.
Anyway, this is wiiiillldllllyyyyy off-topic. We won't solve these problems in a Spider-Man thread.
Obviously.
Back on track, have I ever told you guys how much I hate Iron Boy Jr. and wish he got beaten to death by Stormin' Norman?
This thread is going to help a lot of financially poor, friendless, KHV, ugly, bald at 22, 5'5" guys that just came to talk about Strange messing up the multiverse. Good job guys.
I'm thankful someone recognises my efforts to help my fellow man. Truly, like Spider-Man, I am helping countless with my valuable insights into the human psyche. They should publish my blogposts in a book TBH. Thank you Clown, thank you for your recognition!
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