NathanTheAsian
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Going to the gym on an already bad day and then your warmup weight starts to feel heavy
Things That Irritate You in Life
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Periods of even more present and more easily triggered anxiety.
Having rather vivid and disturbing nightmares.
IBS flare-ups.
The fact I keep making the same mistakes (i.e. getting into doomscrolling negative and worrying news) again and again. I guess it's good I more quickly stopped it this time, but still, it shouldn't have occurred to begin with.
Having rather vivid and disturbing nightmares.
IBS flare-ups.
The fact I keep making the same mistakes (i.e. getting into doomscrolling negative and worrying news) again and again. I guess it's good I more quickly stopped it this time, but still, it shouldn't have occurred to begin with.
When I make mistakes while trying to learn a language I feel like it’s over and end up being too afraid to practice. It’s a bit dangerous considering that this is a skill essential for my survival.
I strongly agree with and relate to you on this one, people in this day and age are frankly harder to deal with given the variables within our world today. Adding to that, one thing that really irritates me and this is becoming all too common is people who are simultaneously pissy and tuned out, especially when you are interacting with them.
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My god, one thing that irritates me and sets me off is people and institutions that put too many eggs in the basket of pragmatism and are critical of and dismissive towards idealism while also pitying it and casting doubt on it. Honestly I see pure pragmatism as lacking vision and lacking imagination. Morally, as a big picture thinker, I have a difficult time passively accepting the status quo or things as they are in any context or realm and frankly, I have an imperative to question things, be pugnacious, and be an iconoclast or a whistle blower and I view anyone that isn't like me in that regard as a coward, as someone living in a bubble (or an ivory tower), or as someone drinking the poison of tribalism and group-think or even as someone that simply isn't intelligent. As an excerpt from the second edition of my book says, "Continuing down the current path, maintaining the status quo as if the status quo will get us anywhere meaningful or transformative, is blindly idealistic and, frankly, negligent." That said, as Austrian psychiatrist and holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl stated in one of his speeches, "Idealists are the real realists." I very strongly and wholeheartedly agree with him! I believe idealism and pragmatism both have their place, but either one by itself is going to be insufficient and anemic, they have to be synergistic reminiscent of the philosophical concept of yin-yang. I think people and institutions in this day and age are overly pragmatic to our detriment.
Here is an interesting article about this matter but too bad it has a paywall.
Why idealists might be the real realists
Here is an interesting article about this matter but too bad it has a paywall.
Why idealists might be the real realists
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One thing I have realised....
I recall I got a book I saw at school as a young child a while back; Mike Wilks' Ultimate Alphabet; published in 1986. It is a picturebook consisting of 26 paintings; one for each letter of the English alphabet. And contained in those paintings; anywhere from 30 to 1,230 words; every conceivable animal, object, mythical deity, or occupation, for that letter which the word began.
And of course Mike wouldn't have had any internet back then - so for research he had to make do with visual encyclopaedias and written dictionaries; the latter to determine which books may be included; the former to determine what they looked like.
And even more intriguingly; many of the words there are no longer in common use. That is, if all of them are even annotated... the book of annotations was published twice; but since the second publication many letters have been addressed to Mike that they had found even more words! So the list may never be complete.
But that being said, I found that many of those such words were so obscure that Google and especially ChatGPT were no help. Wiktionary helped a little bit.
And so it was this book that lead me into a search for more information about much everything.
And since then the Internet Archive became my second Google; my go-to place for real research to be done. And what I found is that it is often more comprehensive in whatever than Google - books with biases of either side or little to no bias at all.
But Google of course works differently than this. Most of the websites for animals given are the same with whatever is searched up, and they are about as comprehensive. And Google of course is more aggressive in selling products of most kinds.
But the thing is... most people today know about as much as what they find from a quick search on Google. They don't put in extra research - it is serial writing that gets big SEO - and I think of serial writing and AI quite like the 'junk food' of the writing space. There are definitely words there... but whether they actually convey an awful lot is questionable.
And this surface-level information is what our populaces thrive off. This is how they make informed decisions, which can extend to ideology or political parties. It's hardly informing... and I do think there are some people who don't know very much about anything at all.
My God, one thing that irritates me is when people accuse me (and others) of having a victim mentality. Honestly, I believe that the victim mentality is overperscribed and when people accuse others (myself included) of having that, I find it to be dismissive, I find it to be abrasive and condescending, and frankly I am tired of it! People that make such accusations often lack empathy and are not great at putting themselves in other people's shoes and are often perpetrators of toxic positivity (something else I absolutely cannot stand). I cannot stress enough, the victim mentality is overperscribed! I am not saying it doesn't exist, but it is overperscribed!
My therapist is on the same page as me with it, she also thinks that the victims mentality is overperscribed. As hard as it was to watch, here is a video that gave me insights into the matter and I felt validated by it in some ways;
My therapist is on the same page as me with it, she also thinks that the victims mentality is overperscribed. As hard as it was to watch, here is a video that gave me insights into the matter and I felt validated by it in some ways;
I could relate because whenever I want to vent I end up second guessing myself since I am afraid of being slapped with the “victim complex” label and nit being listened.
Sure I have many things to be thankful compared to many people around the world. But I am not the cynical-yet-naive self-doubting klutz that I am because I one day woke up and thought “hrmm, yea these would be nice character quirks” and became one. It was all out of my reach.
I am glad you understand. I am not at all saying I have nothing to be thankful for. I do have a fair amount to be thankful for and express gratitude towards. The reality is that I have dealt with my share of hardship, adversity, and trauma including things that were frankly done to me. Sometimes pity parties, b*tch sessions, and "woe is me" rants are justified and are a part of the healing process. Let me tell you, the worst thing you can do is hold in and suppress or repress your thoughts and emotions, especially when they are causing you distress. I had to learn this important lesson the hard way. What is also important is making sure that you don't reinforce these things, and that is a tough tightrope to walk, it is a balancing act that I am still learning proficiency at... Good luck man!
Strathmorezoo
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Spooky I said exactly the same thing on the thread personal rules you live by. I am glad that someone thinks the same way
It's a dog whistle they think lets them pretend they're not racist.
To be honest, these days it is just as likely to be a dog whistle which they think lets them pretend they aren't homophobic, transphobic, ableist or a range of other things
although the term originally referred to an awareness of racial issues, I've seen it being misapplied by all sorts of bigots in recent years, even in contexts where race is uninvolved.
To be honest, these days it is just as likely to be a dog whistle which they think lets them pretend they aren't homophobic, transphobic, ableist or a range of other things
It is used a bit more as an umbrella term these days, but those people are always racist, too
Lycaon
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Yea, there's a lot of crappy "anti-woke" content farms on YT that try to hide the fact that they're just bigots by calling media "woke", and blaming it all on the left. They also constantly milk topics in a desperate attempt to get views, with very clickbaity titles and thumbnails.
For example, there was this guy back in October who threw a fit over Mario's new voice actor, Kevin Afghani, merely because he had he/him pronouns in his Twitter bio, and he flipped out about it because he thinks it's a "push from the left". Ah yes, Kevin is "woke" because he wants to let people know the pronouns he's comfortable with.
For example, there was this guy back in October who threw a fit over Mario's new voice actor, Kevin Afghani, merely because he had he/him pronouns in his Twitter bio, and he flipped out about it because he thinks it's a "push from the left". Ah yes, Kevin is "woke" because he wants to let people know the pronouns he's comfortable with.
Nile Hippo Expert
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Twitter's name getting changed to X really really irritates me. I could see a name change coming, but they can certainly give it a better name than X.
You can blame Elon for that...