YappyMonotheist

But people get paid per hour?

Min wage, of course, like any other entry job. Not that I think it’s “enough” or that they’re properly compensated for their contribution, because the profit is almost always split amongst those who have never worked for it, but in Western Europe it’s a “livable wage”, IME. For instance, you can rent a studio apartment in the center of Marseille for about 500 euro, and min wage is like 1400 for 35h/week. With the “prime d’activité”, which is some money the government can give you for having a job, you can get an extra 250-100 euro. It’s manageable (without kids ofc)

The amoral West has to cannibalize itself if it cannot feed on the rest of world as easily, and it won’t be long until we’re back in the “white on white wars” days. Ofc, everyone else will suffer but that’s just life, I guess.

It’s like being a heartless enslaver is in their cultural DNA or something…

Extremely, I don’t even waste time complaining about things (usually, lol) that can’t be changed because that’s time I could spend enjoying other parts of life! I have clothes mostly just so I’m not naked outside, and I’ve only actually put any thought into it when it comes to my work clothes (I kinda miss the days I could wear the same thing every day because I was in the army and it was mandatory, why don’t we have uniforms as civilians?!). I don’t even argue with people IRL: I say something as nicely as possible to allow the person to accept what I’m saying, and if they don’t seem to get it I just state things plainly (“this is what I’m gonna do, this is what you can or cannot do regarding this, this is what I can offer to compensate if it makes you feel better, and such is life”). I only have, uhh, friendly and purely intellectual arguments with my fellow lemmings! 😅

As a married man to a very girly girl, this makes me basically an alien to my wife, being on the opposite end of this (and other) spectrums. She often jokes that she “found” me in the woods or “rescued” me, and since I often wear things until the holes are larger than the fabric and drink water straight from the tap no glass, she might have a point! She’s also the only one who I actually argue with, for obvious reasons. 😬

And he’s just a disembodied string of characters forever stuck on Lemmy? I guess it’s better than Hell. 🥲

Women are not as reckless, less confrontational and more socially conscious (if not due to morals, at least because of the fear of being ostracized). Also, they’re generally incapable of engaging in violent crime competently, for obvious biological reasons, so I guess they also have less motivation to try if it ever crosses their minds.

Nah, my wife will have to handle my loss, God willing. I’ve seen how grandmas and grandpas react to the passing of their better halves, women seem to handle it better. 🤷‍♂️

A tiny bit of self deprecation and many compliments and good vibes first to set an environment of trust, I guess? I just talk to people, and wherever I go I end up being part of the group of gossipy girlies, lol. I don’t mind, and my wife doesn’t either. 😅

Yapping/gossiping/interrogating people lovingly, and it hits all the spots: it’s information-heavy, gives me a socialization dose and it strengthens relationships. 👍

What’s there to say about it? Being with someone, your best friend and also your (perhaps fundamentally somewhat incomprehensible) better half completes you. Not just emotionally speaking, but also ideologically and psychologically. Passively and actively, being with someone who you know cares deeply about you and wants you around for as long as possible makes you change for the better. Sometimes, that means just learning that women and men are different, and that you two are different, and that your preferences and annoyances are not universal and then you learn that many times people have compromised to make you happy and as such, you have to do it as well. Sometimes, it means reassessing your entire worldview and coming to terms with some psychological problems you didn’t know you had but need to be addressed and treated.

Basically, romantic love is not just sweet and, to the vast majority of people, necessary for eudaimonia, but it’s also a conduit for personal growth, a development you can’t really have elsewhere, you kinda gotta share your life with someone in that capacity to make it happen.

PS: and oh yeah, on some level you kinda have to be different, mainly so you don’t have the same blind spots. Everyone is incomplete (in many ways), it’s better to be with someone who fills many gaps.

I just moved to a new country but I already have a friendly relationship with neighbours on both sides, one being a family of 4, and the other is an old widow. All pretty lovely. ❤️👍

Anilingus boomed after that Jhene Aiko song, lol. Western culture is overly sexual (expansive in superficiality, deep in hedonism, nothing new: Red light district in the Netherlands, Berlin is like the Mecca for hellish hedonism including a lot of poop play, etc etc.), by their standards the rest of the world is prudish and stuck-up. 🤷‍♂️

“Apolitical”, especially when you remember it’s just an extension of one’s ethics, means one of two things: they’re a shallow, pig-like person who simply doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to even think about anything that goes beyond “do X to get money to pay for Doritos and Buzzballs/cocaine and hookers”; or they’re actually just evil but need to hide it for obvious reasons. Never met any other case.

Not really but this one time, a long time ago when I was a preteen, I was on holiday with the fam and I kinda snuck into the kitchen and started yapping with the cooks (I have that ADHD 👍). Anyway, it was two ladies and one dude and the dude was talking about how he’s gonna be a dad and he’s so happy and the lady next to him had a big pregnant belly so I congratulated them both (“of course that’s his partner, that’s just how it is”- my kid brain). She wasn’t pregnant, nor was she his partner, and at least both ladies laughed… I apologised, went back to ask for pancakes, and went back to my mom feeling very embarrassed. 🫣😅

If you don’t know who you are, who you want to be and what you’re meant to do here, how can you ever be satisfied? How can you know your reaching authentic, meaningful goals? 🤔

Great question!

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Don’t forget that if Israel, the Western expansionist colony in West Asia, did not exist then it would just be created, lol. They’re all in agreement about major stuff, it’s just small things like timing and optics that they disagree on, sometimes.

No, he’s mentally ill and somewhat stupid/unserious and has been done dirty by Ashkenazi Jews by his own admission (doctors and lawyers) so he has a bit of a hate boner against them. Any member of the American and Israeli army is way more morally reprehensible and more of “a Nazi” (unless you only consider the lives of Western and Eastern Europeans important, ofc) than a cuckoo artist known for saying wild shit even before his menty b.

I guess people are extremely uninformed still even when this could all be cleared up by a quick NT refresher and a 5-min Wikipedia dive, lol, but: he didn’t “start” anything more than something close to a revivalist movement, as he was just a very vocal, very driven, very well-read and deep Jew. Then the Romans killed him and used his image for their own imperialistic objectives, establishing a new polytheistic religion with a “man-god” at its core (Jesus didn’t even want to be called “good”! All men of understanding know only the Father is truly good, everyone else has a bit of darkness and light in them), basically culturally appropriating Judaism and turning it into something bizarre and nonsensical (sorry to all my Trinitarian homies here). And the US, the new Rome, and every other Western empire in between has done the same.