Food for thought over the weekend: What is the cause of human suffering?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

Greed. That's all. Nothing deeper than that.

Why are there so many people who are lonely?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

I dunno. I have the unenviable conundrum of being an extrovert with social anxiety. I need to be around people, but I'm afraid of once again being ignored or rejected or told I'm annoying.

Phones and internet are causing unforeseen socal problems in community creating families who set ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

Before this, people watched television at the dinner table and before that they read books. If one doesn't want to engage, one won't.

Can we quite the “White Privilege” nonsense?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

I've thought about this for a while and I think the crux of the objection to being told one has 'white privelige' lies in the interpretation of the word 'privelige' itself. All too often it's associated with life being handed to one on a silver platter. So one then thinks that they're being told that their lives are a walk in the park and they should shut up and never complain because someone somewhere has it worse. That's where the whole 'I'm literally starving, where's that white privilege you keep banging on about' response comes from. I think we should work on changing the connotations of the word. Stop associating it with the easy life.

Is normativity a valid point of reference for backing arguments?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

I'm not sure I understand what you're driving at.

Could you love a child conceived out of rape?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

I'd abort it. It's not a baby, it's not even a foetus. It's biological garbage left by other biological garbage.

Hello, I'm new here.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

I just got Dxed with hypermobility. I'm so sorry about your doc. Did he/she suggest anything or just freak out about painkillers?

If you have been called out for mansplaining or microaggressions, if you resist calling people by ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 23, 2018:

Sure I'll try to use correct pronouns, and I avoid the term 'snowflake' because I'm fucking sick of it but this whole microaggressions thing and folks putting the onus for their happiness on others reminds me far too much of my abusive narcissistic mother. It was everyone else's responsibility to keep her happy and absolutely everything offended her or was a personal attack. I walked on eggshells for 25 years. I'm done.

You gotta laugh.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

LOL. So much LOL. All the LOL.

Can we quite the “White Privilege” nonsense?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

Sure our lives aren't as bad as those of racial minorities, but not by much.

'The Trump administration has been castigated at the United Nations in Geneva for consciously ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

This is probably *why* the US backed out of this council. 45 took his ball and went home like the child he mentally is.

Remake The Last Jedi

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

Oh for fuck's sake, these people need to get over themselves and maybe spend that ten bucks on some fucking soap.

Famous sex robot can now refuse sex if she’s not in the mood | SYFY WIRE

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

When a robot says no, you really should re-evaluate your life.

I lived in North Carolina and Minnesota.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

Depends on what part of MN. In the cities, folks are like that. In Duluth, they're almost *too* friendly. I lived there for 15 years. Now I'm in Tacoma WA and it's basically Duluth without the shitty 9-month 70- below winters.

Ghosts And Demons That Visit You at Night Could Be Explained by Science

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

It's sad that there are people in the narcolepsy support group I'm in still believe in this nonsense *despite knowing what sleep paralysis and hypnogogic hallucinations are.* RRRRRRRRRGH

What would you think if a religious person said they did not believe in magic ?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

I'd think they were doing a bit better than the ones who do believe in magic.

You've been assigned the task of modifying the physical characteristics of human beings.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

No nipples on men. They're pointless. I'd also do away with oestrus as we know it. I'm sure I can think of a better way to signal female fertility than something that involves pain and bleeding every month.

Shawshank Redemption. My favorite movie. What's yours?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

The Dark Crystal. Not for any high-falutin message (I'll reserve that honour for my second-favourite, Contact), but for the sheer artistry. Every second of that film was *crafted.*. Save for some of the scenery, everything was made from scratch. It was an endeavour that will probably never be matched.

What is your greatest skill ?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

Annoying people.

I just viewed what was you greatest skill.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

Functioning with narcolepsy. I have no marriage, no children, no degree, no career. Nothing most people would consider 'success' or 'achievement.' I really feel living with this disease is enough of an obstacle to overcome. It gets me down that there are people who feel otherwise.

Is traveling and being exposed to other people and cultures important and why?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 22, 2018:

Travel is not a bad thing but until it ceases being prohibitively expensive it's a privilege and a luxury, and cannot be a necessity. Sure there are ways of doing so that appear inexpensive but it all adds up to a total that most people, especially Americans, can't afford.

"Trigger warnings," "Safe Spaces," "Snowflakes," and other current buzz-word criticisms of the ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 21, 2018:

I don't know, but she's bloody delusional.

The Sheeple are everywhere! LOL!

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 21, 2018:

I read that as god swill.

Poet = fake Dreamer = lazy ass who lacks ambition socialist = broke and cheap, and quits or gets ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 21, 2018:

Can I get some vinaigrette for this word salad?

Trump's space force, a good idea or just his latest attempt to build brownie points and create ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 21, 2018:

Can we send him into space? I'm sure there's an old Mercury rocket they can dust off, right? Cram a Soyuz capsule on it and he'll feel right at home!

Should Trump get the Nobel Prize?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 20, 2018:

Whatever for?

"Virtually all (cisgender) heterosexuals excluded trans folks from their dating pool: only 1.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 20, 2018:

So it's only straight women who aren't required to even come near anyone they don't want to? Guess the rest of us better just 'lie back and think of England.'

Any non-homosapien genderfluids out there?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 20, 2018:

...non homo sapien? I think we're all humans here. Is this some kind of otherkin thing?

So.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 20, 2018:

It's pretty much everywhere. Can't say about lesbian dating sites as I've never found one, but if they exist it's probably there, too.

Have you ever felt hatred towards the human species?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 20, 2018:

Sometimes, yes.

How many of you have contacted a senator or representative regarding any of the issues we have ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 19, 2018:

They've literally said they aren't listening and don't care.

Agnostic Cruise?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 19, 2018:

I'd love to, but I wouldn't be able to afford it.

It's 8:30am and I've already had my fifth cup of coffee. I can see noises.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 19, 2018:

Have a few more--then you can smell time! ?

Generations ----- 1. Which named generation do you most identify as your own?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 19, 2018:

I'm very GenX. I was born in 1974 and I remember the 80s. I found out pretty early on that jobs don't just grow on trees, that University can put a person in insurmountable debt, and that ends rarely meet. Less depressingly I can chart all this technological progress within my lifetime, as I remember the when push button phones, answering machines, and microwave ovens were new things, and the evolution of mobile phones and video games.

Let's talk about the easily offended.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 18, 2018:

I often think we're getting offended by maybe not 'the wrong things' but definitely quite often by things that cannot be changed quickly, if at all. There's a lot of demanding instant change of human nature, which just doesn't happen in reality. Then there are people who seem to hunt for offence in everything and it becomes a 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' situation, hurting the very cause they're fighting for. Personally, if someone uses the word 'microaggressions' sincerely I take whatever else they say with several grains of salt.

"We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 18, 2018:

I dunno, I've seen a lot of people who are downright proud of their small minds.

Voting.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 18, 2018:

And vote for an actual candidate. No more of this writing-in of memes bullshit.

What quote or saying do you find overused and/or complete BS?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 18, 2018:

'You can't love someone if you don't love yourself.' Bullshit. I love other people all the time, including loving them enough to let them go. This tired aphorism is just a slap in the face to people with mental illnesses, especially depression.

I lived a life full of people.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 18, 2018:

Mine changes in that regard when I move to new places, too. For the first 25 years of my life, I was very isolated. I wasn't allowed to leave the house on my own save for school or work. I could go places with my brother, but he was always a severe introvert and thus never wanted to go anywhere. The house was in an exceedingly difficult to find location, and in the days before GPS it was more trouble than it was worth for anyone to drive there. I scarcely had any social contact and, as an extrovert that nearly drove me mad. When I moved to Minnesota I scarcely knew anyone and had to go through what was essentially a second adolescence, learning a lot of things I had no opportunity to learn before, in a short period of time. I lived there for 15 years and gathered quite a circle of friends, but I had to leave Minnesota as I knew one more 70-below winter would land me in a psych ward. I'm in Washington state, now, and have been for three years. I'm starting over again with expanding my social circle, and it's been difficult, but at least it's going a lot more quickly this time. I'm not sure where I'm going with this other than to share my story. ?

I was asked last night when I lost my mother.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 18, 2018:

I'm with you. These euphemisms serve no purpose other than to really annoy. I especially hate 'so and so passed.'. Passed what? A test? The beans? Me on the highway? What is so horrible about just saying someone died?

Hey, you never know!! Hee, hee, hee!!

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 18, 2018:

Oh, I wish.

Have you ever been awakened by a dream and been either sweating, laughing, or crying from the ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 17, 2018:

Had one where I thought I destroyed the universe. I woke up sweating, with my heart racing.

Are Whites responsible for closure of this space?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 17, 2018:

Oh, probably. If nothing else, because capitalism destroys pretty much everything.

Aliens are often portrayed as being anthropomorphic which is highly unlikely given that on earth ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 17, 2018:

They might look like this. https://goo.gl/images/J6zpiJ

One sad thing for me about there not being God is, I will never know why the answer to the Big ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 17, 2018:

It's proof there's something fundamentally wrong with the universe, innit?

Who has/had the best singing voice of all-time? My vote goes to Whitney Houston.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 16, 2018:

Male:. Michael Crawford. His range is phenomenal. Female: Linda Ronstadt. It's just beautiful to listen to.

When i was a little girl i had a crush on Captian Kirk.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 16, 2018:

Sisko. Fight me. ?

What do you wear to sleep?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 15, 2018:

Short and a tank top. Unless it's really warm.

Seth MacFarlane’s Extremely Unfunny Joke Leads to Cyberbullying – ReadWrite

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 15, 2018:

Oh for fuck's sake, why do people still kiss MacFarlane's ass? He hasn't been funny in years, but he keeps getting more and more full of himself. ?

Flirting. If you are single, how far do you go?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 15, 2018:

I'm so bad at it that I don't even try.

During times of great hardship, the believers have their books, their houses of worship and their ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 15, 2018:

I turn to other people. If I withdraw I just ruminate and make it worse for myself. If I know them well enough, I'll talk the problem through with them. If not, I'll ask for distractions. Failing that, I go to the gym and lift really heavy with loud music in my earbuds or get on a treadmill and turn it up as fast as I can go and run until I can't any more. Granted, it caused a bit if a scene the last time I ran off a panic attack because I started crying. Turned out the workout room wasn't as empty as I thought that day. ?

Do you like to dance ?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 15, 2018:

Freeform dancing, yes. Choreographed dancing... I've been known to fall over. They ask me what I'm doing, I say I have no idea, they then realise that's not a flippant answer, I literally cannot make my body do what my brain has learnt.

I've discovered/concluded that I really can't stand baby talk in a relationship.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 15, 2018:

I only talk that way to animals. You know, there's the 'cat voice' and the 'dog voice' and they both involve a kind of 'Ooza floofy doofy schmoople blerble meeble fleep' kind of babble. With people, I'll often use a squeaky voice for comedic effect, but at least I use real words with it! ?

Pride.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 14, 2018:

Hear, hear!

In honor of Father's Day coming on Sunday in the U.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 14, 2018:

'I'm going to take a shower.' 'Be sure to put it back when you're done.'

How do you keep picking yourself back up when it seems that the world, universe, human kind, or ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 14, 2018:

Sheer bloody-mindedness. I won't give them or it the satisfaction of having beaten down another human being. It takes a while sometimes, but I do get back up.

Let's talk pet peeves! Here are my BIG ones! ---People who talk on their cell phones while ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 14, 2018:

Drivers who don't use their headlights. Drivers who don't observe safe follow distance. Drivers who hang out in my goddamn blind spot. People who mumble when they know that I'm hard of hearing. Groups that insist on going three abreast at a snail's pace in a walkway. I'm sure there are more. ?

After reading the responses for some posts, I surmise some of the negative ones are coming from ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 14, 2018:

LOL. Oh, and also LOL.

Ever read someone's long posting and think, "There's 3 goddamn minutes of my life I'll never get ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 14, 2018:

Every time I accidentally click on some conservative screed or anti-science drivel.

Does anyone else have a hard time with fiction?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 14, 2018:

Nope. I read fiction and non-fiction. I write fiction. I see nothing wrong with exercising the imagination, and can't relate to people who refuse to do so.

Do you like being outside?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 13, 2018:

I like the outside but it doesn't like me. I sunburn way too easily. ?

Calling people?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 13, 2018:

No. If I phone someone, it's because I want to talk to them. If I don't want to, I don't phone them. I'd rather get whatever business it is done than pay phone tag with their voice mail.

I NEED to share what I am thinking right now but it is harsh and irrational.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 13, 2018:

I wish I could help, but I'm in a very similar boat. I am so sorry about your family. Human beings can be so cruel, sometimes.

A lot of posts include video links "that are not available" don't know if this is because of ...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 13, 2018:

Most likely copyright.

This is a rant based on a large number of posts bemoaning bad online dating experiences, lousy dates...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 13, 2018:

I know my view on this is quite different to most, seeing as how one of the reasons I'm here is to see if I can start a relationship with a woman. I am nervous about personal info mainly because I'm no oil painting and I've no idea if I'm as fat as the photos of me that don't make it here seem to indicate or not. I have to admit I have a touch of sympathy for people who fudge such details online--they might, like me, be hoping their minds can impress potential partners enough to make up for their looks. I often feel that my mind is all I have going for me, and my substandard looks are a detriment. People don't often like to advertise their flaws.

What benefit do you bring to the group when you hang out with friends?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 12, 2018:

Uhm... I... don't know. Erh... a willingness to look up the answer to the inevitable random questions that come up? Oh, and I'm usually the one who drives us to wherever we're going... Iiiiieeeee... I got nothin.

How would you describe yourself ?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 12, 2018:

Small and squishy? I dunno.

Hot Button Question 3

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 12, 2018:

I think capitalism is inherently broken, but we haven't yet come up with something that can viably replace it.

SHOUT OUT! HOW MANY K-6s in the house? I'm one... Are you? ;) ???

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 12, 2018:

Now that I know what it means, I'd have to say I'm damn near a 6. 5.75 or something. I've had sex with men and it's done nothing for me. The only thing that stops me being a full 6 is there are some fellas out there who I *really* like to look at/listen to. ?

SHOUT OUT! HOW MANY K-6s in the house? I'm one... Are you? ;) ???

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 12, 2018:

I'd have to probably say no, seeing as how I've no idea what that means.

Can you develop diabetes if you eat Ramen noodles everyday for 20 years?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 12, 2018:

If it makes one gain enough weight, probably.

What is your love language?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 12, 2018:

Mine is gibberish.

People are already torching things they shouldn't with Elon Musk's flamethrowers

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 11, 2018:

Let's see how many people torch the snow off their driveway come winter. ?

Wants a girlfriend. Also wants State sponsored torture for sexually active women. : IncelTears

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 11, 2018:

I was hoping that guy was a troll but... nope. Some people just should no longer exist.

Pictures missing

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 11, 2018:

I hate most pics of myself. Also, I'm not looking for someone of the opposite sex.

Hey singles, are you comfortable going to a nice restaurant or a movie/play alone?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 10, 2018:

I've gone to movies alone, but I find going to plays or restaurants alone is too depressing for me. I know how to enjoy my own company and bla bla bla, but it doesn't always work.

Love this!

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 10, 2018:

I like this story. ?

Does anybody else hate using public bathrooms as well as other people’s bathrooms?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 10, 2018:

Nope. That's what the immune system is for.

Is Herr Trump a Good Role Model For Kids?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 10, 2018:

He's a great example of how *not* to do pretty much anything.

Ok kinda old and lame but it made me laugh.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 10, 2018:

A group of neutrinos walk into a bar. The barkeep says, 'Hey, we're closed.'. The neutrinos answer, 'We're just passing through.' I'll go get a day job, now, so y'all can tell me not to quit it.

We all know washing our hand's help prevent the spread of germs.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 10, 2018:

Yes. That's why the 'M' in MRSA stands for 'multiple,' now, instead of just 'methicillin.'

Anyone else like the movie LUCY, with Scarlet Johansson and Morgan Freeman?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 10, 2018:

I liked this film despite the fact that the brain percentage idea has been debunked. It was an engaging story anyway.

Do You know Your Ancestry?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

No idea. 23 And Me says, essentially, 'British, maybe Irish... fuckin I dunno, white?'

Pick a door, any door, I pick Camelot.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

TARDIS, of course!

I’ve never exercised in my life, not for the sake of it anyway.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

Eh. I pop in my earbuds when I'm at the gym and this don't have to hear the fitness cultists reciting their macronutrient liturgies or whatever. ?

Do you agree with this statement?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

This meme is incredibly facile.

Help! My socialist worldview is trembling.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

Shhh! Not so loud, you'll attract Rand cultists!

I catch myself watching shows like Ghost Adventures way too much.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

I probably would. It sounds like fun.

Do telemarketers have a soul?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

Telemarketers have very little soul. If you have a complete soulectomy you work in collections.

I'll start this by isshing a warning.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 9, 2018:

Trumplethinskin is my favourite, but usually I just call him 45.

"There is no robust evidence to support homeopathy which is at best a placebo and a misuse of scarce...

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Homeopathy is just water. Fucking water.

I was ambushed again on my morning walk in the woods.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Blimey. Sounds like everywhere in Tacoma. In a queue, at the bus stop, *everywhere.* I think it's literally the only time I'm glad I'm hard of hearing. All I hear is 'mrrmrrmrrmrrmrr' and I just smile and not.

So I read something somewhere that "Are you having a good day?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

I agree that the first one is a loaded question. But 'How's your day going,' is open-ended enough in my opinion.

Ok, I admit to being a spelling and diction Nazi.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

You aren't alone as far as I'm concerned. I was an English major. It still bothers me that a lot of sites stick in extra punctuation when I try to enter two spaces after a colon or a full stop!

I have a lot of pain in my back from past surgeries.

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

I hearya, I have lumbar scoliosis and it's getting painful. Nothing OTC works and I don't want opiates. I'm trying physical therapy, next. If that works, I'll let folks know.

Anyone seen Annihilation?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Everywhere I go to try to buy it on Blu-ray or DVD it's sold out. Guess that speaks well of it, but it's a bit frustrating for me. ?

If had to eliminate one of these from the sweets in your living area, which one would it be?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Take the brownies. Fudge gives me a migraine. ?

What About Mandatory Mental Health Classes in Schools?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

I like this idea.

Should schools have a Mandatory Life Skills Class?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

We used to. There was Home Ec where male and female students learnt cooking and sewing, and Consumer Ec where we learnt budgeting, balancing accounts, etc.

What do you think of this 50s poster damning rock n roll?

memorylikeasieve comments on Jun 8, 2018:

'hypnotic voodoo rhythm.'. Sounds kinda racist.