when I can figure it out, I don’t see a problem doing this
I don’t see a need either.
Watever tho, I’ll do as deemed. (Again the magic of tone is invisible here. I’m not annoyed tbc, the exact opposite — indifference [I guess that’s not the opposite either, middle path].)
(It is the opposite of emotion tho.)
if you want a general ability to move posts and stuff, I think you should probably ask the community, just IMO. I’m kind of reluctant to do anything admin-wise without a community mandate, given the state of how whiny things have been lately.
But if you just want some posts moved out of the LC thread to here, thats probably ok. But again idk, maybe people get pissed about that.
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sure
Opportunities to throttle the ego are gifts.
I’m drawn to mma bc it’s a battle of spirit animals, that’s why you can sense the shift in a fight. It’s when one shows their dominance, as in nature. If possible, lesser dude would bow down but they have to play out the string to get paid. Question then become whether to go out on their shield (and perhaps luck a decisive blow of their own) or tuck tale and pseudo-run.
Math is at the center of everything, one cannot see the future just assign probabilities.
Whether one can see the past is more of an open question. Most likely it’s the same dynamic where the signs are similary there too, shrouded, but inversed.
These takes aren’t hot enough.
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Plain sandwiches are pious.
I heard a professor respond to a student claiming “math isn’t real why should I care about it” with a great response:
“No, math isn’t real. It’s simply a method of describing reality.”
That hit me hard and totally changed how I felt about math.
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NFL playoffs (including the Big Game) are extremely overrated. It’s just another week in an elimination pool.
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Now that’s a hot take!
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It’s crazy when you start thinking about the world being the equivalent of the Serengeti. We’re all different animals, that’s what that personality test was about. I’m a believer in it bc it’s something I’d already noticed intuitively (they’re being X kinds of people/personalities — race be damned) before being (re)exposed to the subject a few weeks back.
Some (most) animals can’t gauge themselves well so the test only serves as a crude guide (I’m assuming). I really only looked at my results and then my wife’s when we had her take the test and it’s just so. Bounced to a few other variants too.
So anyway, when you’re thinking about all of us being animals and a X can only really explain being a X to another X, and then I see the lion/cops/Y chilling on the side of the freeway as all dem gazelles just pass on by.
The poor and minorities are the elderly, easy, usual marks; the ones clearly breaking the law are the injured.
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I’m now seeing why some people are the way they are more.
Only group that kind of confounded me. The enlightened (sometimes) assholes basically.
Bad day today where my daughter told me she’s cutting off all communication with me.
That’ll test you the whole dying to yourself thing. If you guys knew how persecuted and alone I was until I found my wife it would startle you. I’m thankful for it. She just needs to walk her own path and I hope one day she has some kind of interest in a relationship. At the same time, it’s kind of ‘get behind me satan’ right now too. Like she just wants to use me otherwise, I know who she is. She calls me by my first name, it’s wicked.
I’ve done what I can do.
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Like, of course I don’t want to talk about that side of my life. There’s so much.
I’m coming out the other side tho. I’ve made peace with what I can with her and mostly all other grievances have been cleared.
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Whenever I see someone talk about being indifferent or ambivalent I can’t help but think of this scene in this terrible movie:
I equally feel bad for her. At some point I hope she strives for improvement instead of self-pity.
Man, you guys just have no idea the additional layers. I shouldn’t have gone there bc you have no idea the full picture. The additional layers of dysfunction generationally on both sides and then environmentally. This is where I just can’t care about others’ judgement of me.
I was emailing with risky but then we were both going too deep and I think I hurt more than I helped. Or I offended. I try so hard to walk the line but I’m learning it’s all futile. I feel like Job, the thing I feared most has come upon me. At the same time, it’s liberating bc I can only control what I can and all consuming fear is just a self-made-prison.
Keeping these posts, delving into it even tho it’s just a fraction and I know my image will suffer, etc. It’s all good for me.
That’s largely been the issue.
She’s created a fable of who I am so as to play the victim with everyone else in her world (including the therapist my ex set her up with). It went bad one day when the therapist asked if I would be willing to go in and talk with her and my ex (daughter not there), I turned the situation around by speaking the truth and being me (I had my daughter every weekend from the time we split when she was two).
Therapist then realizes issue is mom (without ever circling back to recuperate my image), mom catches wind, wants to change therapist (who’s now the only person my daughter ‘loves’) and everything spirals from there. She’s never accepted me as her dad from the time of like nine (as ex had been pushing every new guy along the way as superman to my lex luther, including second guy she divorced who she had my daughter identify as daddy). Only reason I divorced my ex was bc I could ‘see the future’ and knew it wasn’t going to work, ergo divorce while my daughter is still young and avoid the impact. Instead, new guy is daddy, replacing me, and divorce still occurs.
Sucks man. My daughter is obsessed with getting approval from a mom who’s indifferent to her and is only obsessed with getting the next Chad. I think my daughter subconsiously tries to get her mom to love her now by acting as mannish as possible (she even shaves her head and quasi-identifies as a boy despite having boyfriends). She was always naturally feminine but my ex would only put her in wrestling or other male sports, despite me urging her to be in team sports with other girls for obvious benefits.
Oh well. This is why things can only matter so much for me.
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My mom would side with her as they bashed me, just as my parents always threatened me with military school despite being a good kid with great grades.
I’m really lightness surrounded by dark. My second daughter who I raised solo has turned out fantastic and I couldn’t be prouder. My son is exactly like me and same story. I’m hoping we’ve got a Mike Meyers situation where he always talks about his dad priming him for success. Great kid and they both have great hearts.
Oldest does too but she’s letting her no be no right now. Sorry for the biblical references but they just come to me. I only went to church for a short period but I have a strong memory and recall.
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