I like that though

I like Mildred. Such a shame that names go ‘out of date’.

I think names would actually be more meaningful if people picked their own.

I remember as a kid in my area this game was called Toilets.

If you got caught you were a toilet and had to stand with your arm out until someone pushed on it and said ‘flush.’

I miss the toilet game haha

I don’t look for things to be either angry or grateful about I just get on with life. I respect that gratitude works for you. Personally I find forcing gratitude just drains me. I find I do best just accepting that sometimes I’m angry or stressed and that those are signs telling me something.

I don’t own a gun. I’m from a country where it’s not an option. To assume makes an ASS out of u and me.

Your point is bullshit. Not all people are good. Rapists exist. Serial killers exist. I’d like some options if I ever ran into one.

Guns would at least cause some difficulty oppressing people.

I’m a nihilist. I wasn’t thinking of God.

IDK. I respect that gratitude works for others. I personally am not a fan because I feel we have the normal range of emotions for a good reason.

For example: Anger motivates us to leave an exploitative job or an abusive relationship. Gratitude might very well keep someone in that relationship or in a job where they end up herniating a disk…because instead of being angry enough to leave they tell themselves ‘I’m so lucky! Other people have it worse!’

^probably this.

You make it sound like some poor hardworking exploited person built the earth themselves out of some sort of clay and handed it to me for free.

I find gratitude incredibly draining because it’s artificial and also it seems oddly guilt based. I would rather frame things as giving myself credit. I got tasks done. I showed self discipline. Gratitude implies I was handed something on a plate.

I think maybe there’s a reason we’re not grateful. Maybe we need those emotions to motivate us.

I don’t think if I were grateful I’d bother finishing up my scifi novel or many other projects.

I get that it’s a bit inappropriate to be flippant and make jokes but if I worried about this every time I saw a headline about it I’d die from my adrenal glands exploding and melting a hole through the back of my computer chair.

sings Descending…unrelenting…beauty of annihilation…

Oopsie poopsie.

What in the name of diarrhea is this? Someone please just explain like I’m a complete idiot

Then why are teenage girls far more likely to die from pregnancy than adult women who finished growing???

I have a fairly hefty ridge of bone there. Not a lot of sound conduction possible.

I like the idea but they just don’t work on me. I seem to have super dense and thick bone around my inner ear. The sound just doesn’t conduct.

Hmm good point.