• lohky@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    "Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on.

    Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy."

    Yup.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Is the truly intelligent thing not to be to recognise when things are out of your control and put them out of your mind

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      Depends on the reaching of the action, even if the event was out of their control but going to impact them, say an invasion or war breaking out at their location it’d be warranted. However in a general sense I agree, it causes undue stress if there’s nothing directly they can change.

      People thinking like that is how we get some people fighting for rights, the current fight may not directly impact them but they can see how it’ll impact things in the near future when more rights are changed. I mostly agree with not adding undue stress but sometimes it can be difficult to know when it’s undue or warranted because it can happen quickly once the ball starts rolling.

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        3 days ago

        Putting things out of your mind doesn’t mean you can’t take action though

        If the only reasonable thing I can do to make a change to a situation is to cast a vote there’s no point worrying about it until I actually have the opportunity to do that

        • orbitz@lemmy.ca
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          I see what you’re saying, when you said put it out of your mind it more sounded like forget about it, which isn’t helpful when people see a problem, but you have to know what you can reasonably impact. There is usually more that can be done but time and money are limited. Many people don’t have the time to campaign for ideas which in itself is an issue with the way things are run in my opinion.

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            2 days ago

            I do find it crazy that despite all the technological advancement to save everyone time we just ended up spending all that free time working

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Some days it feels like it would be easier to take a ball peen hammer to my prefrontal cortex than deal with the rest of my species.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      Dunno about that, plenty of dumb successful people out there, this world ain’t a fair one.

  • vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Satisfaction is the result, while happiness is a process.

    Happiness is a state of bliss, while satisfaction is a state of contentment.

  • Howdy@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Smart enough to realize everything is shit is a real debilitating condition and honestly, one doesn’t haven’t to be very smart to realize that.