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"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with
Hey op thanks for fundamentally rearranging my molecules in some helpful way this fine evening
“being kind takes zero effort” Lies.
Being kind takes enormous effort. Being kind means humbling yourself- it means saying no to your pride- it means forgiving someone instantly- it means putting someone convenience over your own for some time- it means acting as if the universe doesn’t revolve around you. Being kind is hard. Being kind is not butterflies and sickly sweet, half-witted compliments. It’s work. It’s serving others. It’s being silent when you don’t want to. It’s being honest. It’s being gentle. It’s being true even if the other person disagrees. Being kind is one of the hardest things a person can do and we need more of it.
For anyone who argues "how can I trust the Bible? It has too many authors." Warrior cats has one main author and at least 5 co-authors all working together and still can't stay consistent. The Bible had about 40 authors in the span of about 1500 years and still manages to be consistent. Calling out the Bible for how many authors it has is not the gotcha you think it is
Excellent additions and corrections! Thank you
a lot of loving and being loved by people is recognizing when they're sincerely trying to help or comfort you even if their words are clunky and unhelpful at best and holding onto the sentiment that they are trying to reach for you at all. and a lot of the time that has to be enough because it's all you're going to get
Sure, you know how to self-flagellate, but do you know how to apologize? Saying "I'm a stupid idiot" is not the same thing as saying "I did something wrong."
People who want an apology pretty much never want to hear "I'm a stupid idiot." If someone is actually trying to get you to say you're a stupid idiot, it's not because it will make up for a mistake you made or harm you caused. It's because they want you to feel like a stupid idiot. People who care about you do not want you to feel like a stupid idiot and it hurts them when they see you putting yourself down in their name.
You can begin this process at any time, regardless of how old you have become.
"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit
You shouldn’t date or become serious friends/partners with someone if you can’t stomach the thought of being stuck in a car or train with them for 16 hours.
Here’s my logic:
You should be able to work together to solve unexpected problems like fixing a flat tire or getting lost in an unfamiliar station
You should feel comfortable and safe enough around this person that you can sit in comfortable silence
You should be able to keep each other interested and deal with each others boredom in a healthy way
If you’re gonna form a long term partnership with someone you should probably be able to tolerate each other while locked in a small box for a few hours
These tags are hilarious even though I don’t think you intended them to be.
*pulls European closer* The most populous countries in the world are China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil in that order, with these seven nations alone making up 48.16% of the world population. You may note with the aid of a map that many of these nations are quite large, and would take several days of travel to go across either in cars or on boats. Almost half of the world's population lives in places where you can travel in a cramped vehicle for days and still be within the country. Your worldview is limited and Europe is a tiny outlier in travel time and standards for international relations.
you can and will become the opposite of your parents. i believe in you
the other day i was discussing films with a fairly new friend and he remarked that even when i dislike something, i take the time to understand and explain why. this is something i spent years trying to deliberately cultivate, specifically because i inherited an insufferable sense of assertive superiority from my dad. i hated it in him and i eventually realised that i hated it in myself as well. my friend didn't know any of this when he commented on it. the more i think about it, the more i realise how much it meant to me that i could be described like that. i won.
Do you know why God decided snakes should have no arms and no legs? To remind us the enemy has been dis-armed and de-feeted!
I don't think people really understand what homeopathic means. It does not mean natural medicine. It does not mean traditional medicine.
Homeopathy is based on two ideas:
Like treats like. Homeopathy teaches that an illness can be treated by taking something that causes the same or similar symptoms. One of the biggest examples is treating digestive issues and diarrhea with arsenic. (Not a joke, look it up.)
The more diluted something is, the stronger it will be as a medicine. Calling homeopathic "treatments" water isn't an exaggeration or mockery, it is the literal truth. Homeopathic "medicine" is so diluted that it almost never contains any trace amounts of whatever supposedly has the medicinal properties. It is literal water except when it's not diluted enough, then it's deadly poison.
Both of these ideas are complete and utter nonsense when you think about them for even a moment and the fact that homeopathy has such a chokehold on the American public is from a combination of the lack of faith in the American healthcare system and the anti-intectualism so common in American society where asking questions or doubting something or thinking are so strongly discouraged.
Peeps, I need to stress this. If it has a basis in actual chemistry, if it is an actual traditional medicine passed down through your culture, if it doesn't fit the two requirements listed above, then it is not homeopathy. It might be mislabeled that way, but homeopathy has a very specific definition and it's right fucking there.
Homeopathy is not traditional medicine. It has literally no basis in any ancient culture. It is not Native American or Chinese or Indian or anything else people claim. The ancient Greeks, Romans, or Egyptians did not practice it.
Homeopathy was invented by an old white German dude in the late 18th century and literally means "-like suffering", as in something that causes similar/like symptoms to the illness will be able to cure it. It was based off of entirely bullshit and nonsense reasoning combined with (honestly pretty reasonable) distrust of available medicine at the time. It has absolutely no scientific or cultural basis, it is just a placebo made up by some random guy that somehow become popular more than a hundred years later even though we have actual medicine and things like vaccines now.
When you associate traditional medicine with the term homeopathy, you are just making a mockery of the work our ancestors put into their centuries if not millennia of trial and error to develop things that could help illnesses when they weren't even able to see the causes of those illnesses. It also muddles already muddled conversations about a very dangerous pseudoscience that is getting people, especially ill people and children, killed.
not sorry but i would rather every porn actress and prostitute that enjoys what they do have to get a new job than one single person be trafficked or raped again and i will never change my mind
my (very white, very middle european, very protestant christian, very sixty-year old) father just dropped an inshallah in casual conversation. without precedent or without any acknowledgement. "inshallah they will send us a new internet router" he said. didn't even stutter. what did he mean by this.
Hello, I'm an Arab Christian! I can't not reblog this and add my commentary 👀
We also use Allah (God), insha' allah (God willing), masha' allah (God bless), elhamdu-lillah (thank God), halal (good /moral), haram (bad /immoral /taboo), assalamu alaikom (peace be upon you), etc because the Arabic language isn't exclusive to Islam.
Although, there are very few but very specific phrases when they're said in Arabic, it easily identifies Arab Christians from Arab Muslims. Which people who don't speak Arabic don't know about unless they're heavily invested in the Arab Christian culture, or are really close friends with an Arab Christian. Otherwise be confident that every Arabic translation you see on Google translate and every Arabic teacher that teaches you Arabic both cater to Islam by default, specifically when using religious terminology.
For example, "rab el-aalameen" (Lord of the worlds) is only used by Muslims, we Christians don't really use it. Or "malakout essamawat" (Kingdom of Heaven) is exclusively used by Christians, Muslims never use it.
Also we call Jesus يسوع (Yassou'a), meanwhile Muslims call Jesus عيسى (Issa).
Other than that, Arabic can be spoken by anyone of any religious beliefs or lack there of, not just by Muslims.
W old man for not associating the Arabic language with Islam. I approve of white people and non-Arabs in general using Arabic words, we younger Arabs do the same with English since some English words don't exist in Arabic 🤝🏻
friendly reminder Arab Christians predate Arab Muslims. This is beautiful
Always a little discomforting when you have a minor complaint about something, and then people will defend that thing in a way that indicates deep troubles within.
"Ugh, it's annoying when people are really drunk on the bus."
"Oh, so you think people with substance abuse issues should just be banned from society? They should be locked up and executed?"
"Uhhh, no. I think that being annoyed sometimes is part of life and am capable of just sitting on the bus and being mildly annoyed. Do... you think that people who annoy you should be banned from society and executed?"
otherwise interesting post ruined by the bold insistence that you can never accidentally abuse someone & that all abusive people are self-aware evil masterminds
I don't think my parents are aware that what they did was abuse. in fact I think one of the reasons they abused me was because they lacked the self-awareness, introspection, and education needed to realize what they were doing counted as abuse. if they did have more self awareness &etc, they would have likely stopped. it is not productive to insist they woke up in the mornings with the intent to psychologically torture a kid for no reason, when that is self-evidently not the case or within their motivations.
I'm speaking annecdotally here but I think many cases of abuse are like this. I think when reckoning with the reality of how abuse functions in our society, you must come to terms with the mundanity of it including the fact that abusive people are primed to overlook the harm of their own actions through the shield of mundanity and (lack of) intent.
i have suffered less than christ but have complained way more abt it
