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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

    in General Banter

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    32 minutes ago, coax said:

    This isn't directly an observation about the outside world but hope it fits (pointless),
    Cause I'm having a bit of an existential crisis. I feel I have become more and more disillusioned with everything. I hardly listen to music any more, movies don't have the same effect, all the magic and mystery is gone.

    I feel like part of it is knowing more about science stuff, even though it sounds lame. It's the bad part of reductionism. When I see all thoughts and emotions as physical processes they lose their power.

    I guess it's also part of getting older, nothing is new as much any more. It's impossible to listen to a track and have this deep fascination with it, but at the same time I have a much easier time picking out what it's doing and why I like it. All I want to do is program and do archiving stuff, and sort of librarian type of shit. But regardless anything I think and experience becomes a smaller and smaller part of the whole, and so each thing loses its impact compared to years before. And it comes at a time when I'm way more technically equipped to do stuff. I have a lot of practice in several areas but the drive to use them is fading a bit. I still want to learn but yeah, it's a weird vibe right now. 

    Also disillusioned with the drama and culture stuff. It all seems so arbitrary and un-thoughtful what people get angry about. I can't connect to anything much because I always think up alternative interpretations of things. I listen to a right wing guy complain about onlyfans for example, and I just think about how exaggerated and stupid the whole sexuality thing is. And then there's the fighting over status of art products, whether it's which games are good or which music or movies are good, to the point where I just don't engage in culture discussion at all and just decide for myself what I like. There's still insights to be had from others but it's like, after 15 years of this kind of thing idk... I have been living in a bubble for over 2 years, by my own choice, and not discussed or read much online and only done what I'm interested in but that gets old too. The problem is I'm not even 40 and I'm supposed to live like this for god knows how many more years?

    This is gonna sound super dramatic but if I died tomorrow I wouldn't mind, Like I seriously cannot see what I'm supposed to do for even another decade that will somehow feel new or fascinating in some way

    </14 year old whiny rant>

    Have you tried drugs?

     

    In seriousness, existential crises happen. They pass. But it usually requires work to shift it. I recommend therapy (with a good therapist), or making changes in your life; meet new people, move, challenge yourself to learn a new skill. Good luck with it. 

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    How does the World view America these days?

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    21 minutes ago, cyanobacteria said:

    this is a useless sentence containing no information.  you think your "it" is so valuable and self evident that you can write it using merely the word "it".  think again.  if you want your ideas to be read by someone else they have to first be written.  this post is garbage

    Ok. What I mean to say is:

    You are very close minded

    You are very tribal 

    You are a mere product of your culture and nothing more 

    You are not a deep thinker

    You are not a compassionate person 

    You live in a safety bubble

    You have very little life experience and you express no desire to expand upon that 

    You are your own worst enemy 

    You're unaware of your own ignorance

     

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    How does the World view America these days?

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by Thu Zaw

    To clarify:

    My mother is English

    My father is Australian 

    I hold nationality of both, but don't recognize myself as either.

    I was born in the UK. At age:

    18 months: my family moved to Netherlands (3.5yrs)

    Age 5: My family moved to TX (3.5yrs) - local elementary schools

    Age 8: My family moved to Myanmar (1yr) - American International School

    Age 9: My family moved to Pakistan (2yrs) - American International School

    Age 12: My family moved to UK - British Schools

     

    I did not so much as visit UK between age 1-12. I didn't not grow up around British family or culture. I visited Aus a handful of times whilst living in Asia, but I've never lived there.  Instead my friends, teachers, community have been and are from every corner of the planet. I moved to France last year. 

     

    I have no national or cultural identity. Countries and nationalities are a "social construct" (for want of a better term), and they're certainly not static in their cultural identity or existence.

    My view of the world comes from having no allegiance to any country, nationality, religion, political viewpoint, and it's not hindered by cultural bias or ignorance of life outside of my legal nationality. I'm culture-less. I've spoken with an English accent and an American accent at various points of my life. 

    I have experienced the complexity and nuance of cultures, and know not to paint all people of any nationality, religion, political standpoint with a single brush.

    It's because of my variety of experience and lack of cultural identity that I can more objectively analyse cultures that don't match my legal status. I treat people as individuals with life experience different to my own and other people in my life.

    I'm more forgiving of viewpoints that might not be acceptable in other cultures I'm familiar with. I understand full well the effect that cultural indoctrination during childhood forms how people view and engage with the world around them, their identity and pack allegiance.

    I see beyond culture and seek to connect with the humanity in people that we all share. That's the only way we can resolve conflict that arises as a result of cultural difference.  Compassion; even for those we disagree with. 

    We need to find compassion for people whose lives have been different to our own, and understand how their experience has shaped how they understand the world around them. 

    Then we can start to have a conversation. The first step comes with softening our own ego.

     

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    How does the World view America these days?

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    1 minute ago, cyanobacteria said:

    fuck immigrants lets build a wall black people dont deserve government handouts healthcare is a privilege you have to earn not a right the homeless need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps aid for natural disasters is just government handouts we don't need to care about climate change it's a hoax vaccines are a hoax

    does any of this sound reasonable? i think you need to maybe know something about what youre talking about before you talk my frenchman.  ever been to the US?

    I lived in TX for 3.5yrs and was in the US education system for 8yrs.

    I'm not French.

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    How does the World view America these days?

    in General Banter

    Posted

    On 5/20/2021 at 9:46 PM, ignatius said:

    they want their own politically gerrymandered state of conservatives.  the rural people think somehow they're held captive by liberals even though they have their own representatives etc. 

    some people would carve up the country by red vs blue districts. seems a bit.. idk.. crazy. 

    there are plenty of big wide open low population density places in america where you can avoid human beings or whatever the goal is. 

    these people are coocoo. 

    Sounds like civil war chatter.

    America's headed that way unless y'all learn how to listen to points of view you don't agree with, rather than just slandering the speaker.

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    Coronavirus COVID-19

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    Posted · Edited by Thu Zaw

    6 hours ago, BCM said:

    sorry lads, look I'm really not an anti vaxxer or anything. I believe in them as a general rule, and would advocate for children getting the usual measles, mumps, rubella etc vaccine. I realise the hypocrisy of my position, as I do indeed take over the counter medicines - paracetamol, aspirin, cough medicine etc - without thinking twice. they could be putting anything into that shit...

    but still, but still... this particular vaccine, this particular pandemic. it's a fucking odd one you've got to admit. this whole fucking thing - it's like, bit sus innit. isn't it? maybe it's just me but fucking hell boys, like what the fuck.

    Echoing @fxbip, this is the first major pandemic of any kind the West had really had to deal with in most people's lifetime alive today. 

    Most people in the West have had supremely cushy, free lives up to now. Suddenly they've had a level of insecurity thrust upon them that they've never had to consider or deal with.

    And it's come at a time of tense politics in many countries, where the left and right have been sailing further away from each other, and every facet of life seems to be becoming a polarised issue.

    This has affected how the discussion of tackling the virus has manifested. Question about the 

    - severity of the virus 

    - efficacy of masks and social distancing 

    - wearing of masks 

    - the efficacy or trustworthyness of the vaccine

     

    all these points have become politically polarised, which has really hindered reasonable and fact-based discussion of how to tackle it. People have chosen their stance on the above points based largely upon whether they and their peers are left or right wing. 

    Both extremes of the political spectrum have become more skeptical of scientific fact and reason when it doesn't support their ideological viewpoints, which is really unhelpful. Truth goes out the window in favour of ideology.

    Basically, people in the West are suddenly confronted by having to consider others in their community for the first time in their lives, and the change of lifestyle and sudden removal of the freedoms they've enjoyed (taken for granted) all their lives is too much to bear, and someone must be blamed for it.

    Self-responsibility and adaptability to new scenarios is something people in the West haven't had to deal with much in their lives and they're scared. 

     

     

     

     

     

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    websites

    in General Banter

    Posted

    2 hours ago, chenGOD said:

    How are you going to have. Bosnia but not Herzegovina...

    I've found when you put it "Bosnia" it takes it as "Bosnia & Herzegovina". Same for "At Kitts and Nevis" - only requires "At Kitts", and "Trinidad And Tobago" only requires "Trinidad".

    What Happened To Underworld?

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Thu Zaw

    23 minutes ago, Himelstein said:

    https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Trip-Hop-Test-Part-One/release/1266687
     

    Wasn’t sure if anyone had posted about this, but it’s got an awesome Underworld track on it, where they go by Lemon Interrupt- Minneapolis. This is one of my favorite albums of all time.

    I feel like I totally had this CD, but that's not how I remember the cover

     

    Edit: Had to look it up. This is the CD I had. Same vibes.

    https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Journey/release/76270

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