Alright my friend. Don’t be afraid to feel your feelings, we all have 'em. :)

Also just talking about your kinks and other things you’re ashamed of with people you trust is really helpful in clearing that. Shame will hold you back from being true to yourself, and it’s not worth it.

I used to be in this meme, now I read it and feel a certain sense of relief that I’m becoming a little bit more like the person I want to be.

If you want to talk about anything you’ve got people here who want to listen to you.

How do we encourage people to be true to themselves?

As long as she’s willing to put up with that nonsense I’d love to see her as president. But I can certainly imagine a person in her position not wanting to rock the boat and subject herself to that.

Agreed! I apologize, I didn’t mean “love” in the interpersonal relationship sense. I meant it more in The Beatles “All You Need is Love” sense.

I hate when people don’t realize love is powerful enough to make people question everything, including themselves.

Sometimes it’s just fun to write fanfic regardless of who you think is stronger. If the characters have strong motivations good stories are bound to unfold.

Ah… Yeah. Idk. If I was god I’d make it so anyone who wanted to find me could find me through any path regardless of where they started at. Assuming “god” exists and is at least that benevolent then there’s nothing to worry about regardless of your religion.

I think if god exists it would design a system that would lead you to it if you wanted to find it. In which case religion wouldn’t have to be the only way to find god.

But I suppose I should ask what do you mean by the “way to god”?

In my opinion the only god worth thinking about is one that is beyond human comprehension. Once you restrict a god to only only following human logic god ceases to be interesting.

I organized my manga collection alphabetically. Does that count?

Gotcha gotcha. In other words: us being monkeys generating random output is an unfalsifiable hypothesis, so saying “it’s true” is unscientific. Yes, it could be true if free will didn’t exist, but since that’s not something that can be proven we shouldn’t use it as the basis for how we view reality. Something like that?

I guess I don’t think I see how that contradicts the initial post, but maybe that’s just because I’m reading the post as saying the same thing as “leave enough hydrogen alone for long enough and eventually it starts thinking”

I don’t quite understand what you’re saying. You say “Hamlet was written with intention”, which in the case of that it was written by humans I agree with. But what about in the case of the monkeys?

We know Hamlet can be written with intention, but do the monkeys with typewriters imply that it needs to be or not to be? That is my question.

I have a salaried work from home job with no defined working hours. As long as the work gets done within SLAs the hours me and my team work are irrelevant.

Thinking about where I could be now if I had done something back then is always a sign that I’m falling into depression.

The only reason to think about your past is so you can use your experience to make decisions today that will impact your future. The past dead. Let it die and let go of it.

At some point God might say “I don’t know if I can make it better than this, but I’ll give it a try if you’ll help me out.”

That’s rough, buddy.

I’ve been thinking about this a bit more, and I realized that I talk to other people the way I talk to myself. This probably wouldn’t be a problem if I weren’t so critical of myself.

I think I need to not only put in the effort to reread the things I write when communicating with others, but also to just be kinder to myself in my internal monologue.

I spend too much time being frustrated inside my own head, and that makes it easy to use that same tone when I’m interacting with other people.

Thanks for sharing your advice. I think verbalizing my thoughts the way you suggested will be really helpful.