WeirdGoesPro

We don’t really know if the friend was ok with it or not.

I can like them too, but I’m not going to do them any additional favors. It’s part of the cosmic balance.

As a metaphysics guy, my only question is “then what the fuck is yowling and scratching at my legs.”

Americans don’t consider Greece part of Europe. It’s part of history.

I meant our confusion about if science is real or whether minorities deserve basic rights, which seems to be afflicting about 50% of the population.

As an American, just wanted to say sorry for being the fucking worst right now. We’ve hurt ourselves in our confusion.

I definitely agree. I’m old enough to remember when Alex Jones just had his late night radio show in Austin, and he was actually kind of fun back then. It was all about the hollow moon, reptilians, and grey aliens hosting the Bohemian Grove parties. Once he got an internet channel, it was a whole different ballgame.

I miss the days of quaint kooks instead of dangerous kooks.

There is nothing wrong with having a dissenting conclusion from your own observations, but accepting some internet creators conclusions as your own without scrutiny is equally as bad or worse than accepting the government lies they say they are rejecting. If they applied the same skepticism to their fringe news sources, we’d be in a better place, I think.

I hate that the extreme polarity of things right now keeps us from having the important conversations surrounding the kernels of truth within people’s mistrust and dissatisfaction.

It is a fact that the government has made a habit of lying to people. It is a fact that the cover of medical experimentation has been used to justify atrocities against minorities within the last 100 years.

However, it is not true that @JoeTruth1488 on 4Chan is likely to have all the answers to a conspiracy in plain sight. It is not true that InfoWars is spitting facts while everyone else is out to get you.

I can understand the mistrust of the system, but I can’t understand the conclusion that some anonymous yahoo with no inside perspective somehow has the resources to have figured it all out.

In my opinion, addiction is a relationship. Sometimes it’s hot, sometimes it’s comfortable, sometimes it’s a nightmare. It all depends on the combination of influences involved.

So, yes, moderation works as long as circumstances allow for it. Depending on the addiction, the bad times can still be pretty manageable. Or not.

In the words of William S. Burroughs, there’s nothing recreational about heroin.

Not gonna sugar coat it, you need therapy, bad. Punishing yourself for something that happened when you were 6 is not normal or healthy. You wouldn’t punish another 6 year old today like that, so why do it to your inner child?

I wish you the best and hope you find peace, but get off the internet and go to a professional as soon as possible.

Basically, yes. Voting happens in churches, schools, and government buildings, which all have standard safety detectors. Furthermore, the fact voting is distributed across so many different kinds of locations means that it would be much harder for there to be a conspiracy to place faulty detectors in polling places.