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“it’s not that deep” it’s not that shallow. now what
my mind every other day🧁😿
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I genuinely need to kill myself
David Shrigley (British, 1968) - Untitled (I No Longer...) (2015)
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When life feels like this
can someone remove my curse
hello is anyone there
Göttlin, Germany by Tommy Kah
me: *forgets friends birthdays*
me: *confuses memories*
me: *forgets own middle name*
me, also: hey did you know that all pennies minted prior to 1982 are pure copper pennies and not copper plated and are technically actually worth 2 cents
“I’m not stupid. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
-Calvin and Hobbes
Grace is one of the most classic things to fall from
That and the monkey barrrsssss
sick day.. feels like summer
Understanding Versus Emotions
Understanding fails in three common ways.
First, people often treat the situation as if simply saying phrases like "this is just causality" or "this is not personal" will make a difference. However, nothing really changes because the core issues remain the same. As a result, the nervous system continues to produce the same outcomes, showing that just repeating the right words isn't enough to create real change.
Second, it overestimates the reach of cognition. Under stress, the cortical layer drops out. The insight is simply not available when it’s needed. So the place where suffering peaks is exactly where the “adequate idea” cannot operate.
Third, it ignores environmental problems. In a setting that repeatedly reduces your power to act, understanding does not remove the reduction. It only prevents you from adding confusion on top of it. The primary loss remains.
So what does Spinoza’s understanding actually do, if it doesn’t dissolve the problem? It removes illusion about the problem. It stops you from thinking “I shouldn’t feel this,” “I’m weak,” “this is random,” “if I just think correctly it will stop.” Instead, you see that this is a lawful output of a constrained system. That matters, but it is not relief in the full sense. It is clarity without guarantee of change.
In modern terms, you could say that insight can alter the model, but behavior changes only when the model meets new data under tolerable conditions. Without that, the organism keeps executing what it already learned.
So the real limit of Spinoza here is not that he is wrong. It’s that his solution scales with something he does not control, your actual power to act within your conditions.
existing in this world as a deeply sensitive person geninuely feels like being sanded down into nothing