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  • yetAnotherUser@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSelf Acceptance [Rule]
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    25 days ago

    I’d say you can fix that by realizing that the world was already on fire anyway and that there’s no time like today to start appreciating yourself. Once you do, you’ll find more inner strength to survive and help others survive in this burning world, and you’ll almost certainly find way more inner strength than what you might be expecting.

    The world will keep burning, but unfortunately there is no time to cry about it. What we must do now is grab the fire extinguishers and get ready for a hell of a ride. We need people with resolve, self-confidence and determination, and feeling good about yourself definitely helps with that.

    P.S.: hope this comment was at all helpful and that it didn’t just sound like a bunch of bland words to you!






  • Not sure if this is the right place for questioning philosophical theories, but I have a few questions about this one.

    • The sentence is “I think, therefore I am”. What if we don’t think? Let’s imagine, for example, that there is a god or gods, that are the only beings capable of thinking, and that everyone just recieves those thoughts from the god(s), just gets them delivered right to the brain. In that situation, we wouldn’t be capable of thinking, would we? (iirc this was one of the main critics to Descartes’s chain of to thought. In this situation, I think the sentence could be generalised to remain valid.)
    • The sentence is “I think, therefore I am” (or if we generalise it to remain valid due to the previous point, “if something thinks, it exists”). Why can’t it be “I eat therefore I am”, or “I breathe, therefore I am”? What makes thinking more valid than any other action we can do when trying to prove our existence? How is thinking capable of proving our existence at all if nothing else is said to be capable? In fact, what shows that thinking can prove someone’s existence? (this one feels like a reworded common critic, although I’m not sure)

    I would like to invite anyone to comment/evaluate/counter/correct what I wrote here (just pls don’t attack me (>~<), attack the content instead). I know I could just research these things on my own, but I have a bit of trouble understanding the formal language that is used by specialists when discussing this type of problems, and I find it likely that others feel the same, so it felt cooler to talk about it here.

    P.S.: it’s kinda sad that this theory doesn’t quite prove the existence of our brainrot homies :3












  • I think I sort of understand what they meant when they talked about narratives, although I interpret it as being extremely naïve. Sure, it’s true that people often only defend one narrative because it’s the only one they know, and haven’t been exposed to other ones (or at least in a way where they actually thought critically about it and haven’t just refuted the “new” perspective on first sight). But it’s extremely unrealistic to think that people will change their opinion due to a couple of comments on the Internet (specially when people have joked for years that disscussions on the Internet never go anywhere). Not just that, but by saying that you want people to be able to voice other narratives and not specifying if those include things like hate speech (even if you thought of not including those), you’re scaring the shit out of marginalized communities that use the platform, which get a lot of hate every day and just want places in the Internet where they can chill and not have to worry about that sort of stuff. I honestly think that there is a misunderstanding of what the admins meant with that, I think that they don’t really intend to endanger their marginalized users (although I could just be interpreting this wrongly, you never know)… But even if they wanted to, it wouldn’t really matter for us, as it would just make the job harder for the 196 mods, who, expectably, will keep on moderating as they always did, keeping TERFs, homophobes and other haters away from this lovely community (, right? riiiiiight???).

    …and I would just say this if LW admins weren’t so open to federating with Meta products. Even if we ignore how shitty Meta is as a company, federating with them would bring very little advantages to the table (like, idk, being able to follow some friends and family, and some famous people, and talking with them to some capacity without a Meta account, but still having to follow Meta’s ToS obviously), but lots of disadvantages instead (not much more adhesion to the Fediverse because people will keep on using Meta’s products anyways; possible “embrace, extend, extinguish” from Meta, which could really damage the Fediverse; Meta possibly involving themselves in some of the Fediverse projects, which could result in them “steering the wheel” as they see fit; and most importantly, spreading the Fediverse’s moderation resources thin, due to a way larger influx of users and Meta’s shitty moderation). I’m not mad by people who want to federate with Meta, as it sounds really cool to federate with a bunch more people and present to them the wonderful world of the Fediverse. I’m just a bit let down because those people won’t realize that things will barely be as cool as they sound once they try federating with Meta.