ArgumentativeMonotheist

Il me manque juste le portugais… mais j’écoute beaucoup de bossa alors j’y suis presque! 😅

That’s fantastic, and perhaps you don’t need to but it can certainly help. And I’m sorry for your repeated losses in the span of a decade, truly.

Maybe there’s more to us than the vessels. Why is there something instead of nothing anyway? Hehe.

And that’s pretty cool, the whole talking to gravestones thing. Maybe they’re not listening but it definitely helps you think, and thinking about death keeps you both grounded and gives you a better perspective on things at least (time is running out for you and everyone you love, try to make it count and get in the f’ing robot, Shinji!). I’m sure that, whether living or ‘dead’, any good parent would want their kid to think clearly and appreciate life. 😊

So, evidently and before anything, this only truly affects those who have good enough relationships with their parents to grieve their loss. Some were mistreated and didn’t create strong enough links, that eventually practically vanished altogether and so didn’t suffer the passing of their parents as much/at all. I guess a silver lining of childhood trauma and distance is that at least you won’t miss one/both parents.

I read somewhere that grief is the truest expression of love and, yeah, sure. How will I deal with my dear mom’s passing, even as a quite emotionally independent guy who advises his mom more than the other way around? How can any? You just live, and remember that your mom would’ve much rather you did something good with your life than drown in tears and despair, and you keep going. You talk about it with close ones when you’re feeling sad (my mom for instance will tear up talking about her parents). Finally, and this is gonna be a tad unsavoury for the Westerner lemmy majority: you believe in God, that this whole thing wasn’t all for nothing and that God will take good care of his (mostly observational experiment?) subjects, and so you’ll meet again cause who mourns a troublemaker that even God in all His mercy rejected? And that keeps you going for yet another day. Who knows, maybe it’s true? 🤷😅 I believe so, lol, and certainly am on Voltaire’s side of the “religion question”.

I assume it’s not as appealing to propagandists because accounts cannot accumulate “people love my takes so believe in what I’m saying” points. But I really don’t know much about the fediverse/Lemmy…

Rocky ended at Rocky. Even Rocky 2, the second best movie if you’re judging its qualities with the same ruler Rocky’s measured, feels off compared to the original. Rocky is a love story/character study with a little bit of boxing at the beginning and at the end, whilst the rest are boxing movies primarily/solely.

Also, while everyone knows Terminator ended with T2, did you know Kung Fu Panda also ended with KFP2? 🙏

Well, I’m jealous of you too, then! 😅

And I like the rain. 😁

Just let society decay without doing and saying anything. “We don’t judge”, “everyone’s free to do whatever they want!”, right? That’s the Western way.

IIRC it starts at 4 so you definitely make the cut. I’m jelly! 🤷😅

Mmm.

• Drank a sip of sewer water as a dare as a kid, contracted some form of stomach issue and ended up having uncontrollable diarrhea for about 3 days. This required a hospital stay and diapers…
• Drank milk straight out of the udder (have a pic to prove it too). I don’t find it that disgusting per se but I guess I had to mention it still.
• Didn’t shower for two weeks of arduous physical work because I was in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere with no running water nor hot water. You just had to bathe in the river basically.

I think calling it “survival reflexes” alters the truth of the matter. After all, other people live without being paranoid/aggressive/excessively fearful just fine. Better, actually. And this is coming from someone that used to consider some of my more unsavoury behaviour as “survival reflexes”…

Why don’t you just at least tell us what it’s about in the comment section here? We can’t judge like this.

I mean, it’s not like we know who you are IRL, what exactly is the problem? Also, why can’t it comfortably be a permanent digital footprint? Have you been posting things that reasonable people would side eye you for?

I trigger trolls/stubborn children online, usually with ridicule, and I follow it up with a moral lesson. Besides that, I’m extra silly around my wife, and try to put her in funky situations (random “hey, it’s my wife’s bday, she would really love it if y’all sang for her”, dancing on the street to the beat of the ambulance, nothing too crazy). I’m pretty free and she ‘tries to fit in’, so it’s always fun, at least for me (hehehe).

“This Hitler guy needs to get his shit together, come on!”

No, friend, those people are forged by life, not bred. But if we all had a higher floor (ideologically - ethically), some of us could reach higher ceilings.

Autocracy is convenient when the leader is wise and just. Sadly, even if we found one, they’re not genetic traits. Democracy is convenient in any other case, but it’s harder to properly implement compared to autocracy.

Of course! Mark 10:18. One must remember Jesus was a miraculous prophet of God (not dissimilar to Moses, but his birth was more “special”, more akin that of Isaac), a monotheist that constantly referenced “the law and the prophets” (several callbacks to Solomon in particular whom I also hold in high regard, primarily because of Ecclesiastes) and how he wasn’t here to break the law but to enforce it… he wasn’t followed because he wasn’t a “Jew” and it was a new and revolutionary religion he had established, he was followed because he WAS one and remembered/knew what it meant to be one in earnest. What Rome/Paulian tradition did afterwards with the image of Jesus, the creation of a entirely separate dogma in which ‘God’ is actually a pantheon and also partly FLESH AND BONE/anthropomorphic (following their pagan/polytheistic traditions, and because if not the empire might be reticent to accept such drastic changes), is something else.

There’s no “perfect” man, not even the prophets can be with all their God-given information and their great character, as no man is omniscient nor fully in control of themselves. And Jesus goes even harder, saying he’s not even “good”, because such a strict category only belongs to God. We can only be “good enough”, and that’s for God to decide.

If they care for you and love you back, that shouldn’t be a problem, right? Life is, and I’m quoting Solomon here, ultimately meaningless/vain/empty/vapor, what better life could we have than to love and be loved? Not everyone is a prophet/disease curing scientist/victorious revolutionary, the rest of us can focus on just enjoying our lives wisely (fearing God and keeping his commandments = being a good person in earnest), loving and being loved, as it fills us way better than food and shopping can.