• slazer2au
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    222 months ago

    I am not going to have any meaningful impact on this world, so why bother giving it my all? Just take every day as it comes because in the end it doesn’t matter.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      I think of this often as it relates to the larger globe as a whole. Like, let it go and just be. Very freeing.

      But I can have an impact on your world or their world. On an individual level we can have huge impact on each other. Something kind I say to a stranger may be the thing they carry with them through their next hard times. Just like all the things that I carry with me that the giver has no idea about.

      This works for good and bad, btw, so I focus on how I can give it my all to the people in my neighborhood and have faith that the ripple effect from that will radiate outwards and onwards. Keeps me going.

  • snooggums
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    2 months ago

    Most nonverbal cues vary wildly between people and situations, which makes them useless when applied to strangers. Only focusing on the obvious ones is worth the time.

    Some obvious ones:

    • walking away to end a conversation
    • stepping back (wants space)
    • looking away and not responding (wants to be left alone)

    Some inconsistent ones I frequently hear stated as facts

    • crossing arms is being defensive (they could just be cold!)
    • looking away, but still talking, is showing disinterest (they might have difficulty with maintaining eye contact)
    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Years ago I read something online about “target fixation” which can occur when walking past someone. It’s basically that thing when you lock eyes with someone walking towards you and neither of you can decide which way to go?

      Anyway the thing I read said just look past the person, like just focus behind them and you can usually avoid this weird awkwardness. I’ve found it totally works!

      • snooggums
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        42 months ago

        There are tons of cues that work as long as they are about what the person wants to do and not about how they are feeling or what led up to the cue.

  • DreamButt
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    62 months ago

    You are the average of the five people closest to you

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      62 months ago

      Occam’s razor isn’t really a fact, it’s just a reasoning strategy. It doesn’t claim that the simplest explanation is true, just that when choosing between competing explanations that make identical predictions, the one that makes the fewest assumptions is preferable. But sometimes those additional assumptions are true, sometimes the simplest explanation is not the correct one, in which case Occam’s razor in fact takes you further from the truth.

      Still a very useful principle, but I wouldn’t really call it a fact.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          I would say no. Philosophy is, loosely speaking, a collection of useful techniques to turn facts into models. Though one could make the argument that “Cogito ergo sum” is a philosophical fact

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            my other reason was going to be Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

            but that has lost favor in recent years. I still feel it’s a very core ideal that can get you through hard times

  • cally [he/they]
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    12 months ago

    death is inevitable. means i can just enjoy life without worrying about truly permanent consequences (in case there are permanent consequences, i’ll just deal with them later)

  • @[email protected]
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    182 months ago

    Not a single fact, but reading about science and history makes me feel better about the state of the world whenever I’m feeling anxious.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    “You don’t have to live your life like everyone else if you don’t want to.”

    Thanks, 30-year-old me! 🥰

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    2 months ago

    From my favorite comic strip of all time: (i.e., the legendary “Pogo”) ❤️

    “Don’t take life so serious, son, it ain’t no-how permanent.”

  • Squigglez
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    72 months ago

    I still to this day think about the opening quote to this Watsky song , "Nothing matters, so it doesn’t matter if nothing matters. And while you be, be true. And if you won’t, fuck you. "

    Just thinking about that quote during times of stress eases my mind a little bit. Basically just a little more fancy version of “Why so serious? It ain’t that deep.” Lol