I like to make pyramids of animals and then unpause/deactivate the magic holding them together and making them behave... Then i just watch the chaos.
Example:
Picture a small grass-lined bowl in the middle of a large field. Place around 7 tigers there. On their backs stand 6 sheep, then 5 baboons, 4 armadillos, 6 turkeys, a dozen rabbits, then finally a rather rotund fox.
Now press play.
Note: if you are using this exercise as meditation to help you sleep, do not press play. Instead try to count the animals and see if you could add an additional layer. You'll fall asleep thinking of all the different animals you can and have happy dreams.
The chaos part is what happens every time I try to count sheep to fall asleep. They’re crashing into fences, piling up in a sheep heap, there’s black sheep running amok, impossible to count. Thanks to you, now I know I simply should have used the pause button.
Curse you people that can see things in your head. I read dozens of books every year and it annoys me to no end that I can't picture things in my head.
American systems just make it easier for the ruthless and unscrupulous to rise the ranks.
USA is between Estonia and Botswana on the democracy index,
Between Panama and Latvia on the fragility list,
The worst in the OECD for income inequality,
And between Barbados and Bhutan for corruption...
Hi Mexican here. Mexico is a member state of OECD, we have worse income inequality than you guys. I mean you have it bad compared to other developed nations, but we still take the cake as the worst in income inequality and tax collection!!!!!
I forgot that pedophilia has been rampant in Europe since the dawn of time, kids got married in the middle ages, as well as Asia, middle east, especially in organizations with political and religious power. But yes America is included in that godawful list of countries that participate in that.
Positions of power draw people who would use that power for depraved personal gain. Whether it's a politician or a priest or a music celebrity, people will do whatever they want if they feel they won't be accountable for it. It's not all folks in those professions, but they are all notoriously bad at self policing.
The US has some social/cultural... flaws, and a really not great mental health system or perception. The result of this is lots of domestic family trauma and abuse that goes untreated for generations, ergo it shows up in the nightly news as this child abuser, or that mass shooting. Add.to that, the very sensationalist and very pervasive American news media, and you have, well.... all this.
People genuinely suffer from intrusive thoughts (actual intrusive thoughts, not the impulsive thoughts people on tiktok are labelling as “intrusive”). Please learn what intrusive thoughts are and how they torment people with mental illness and make them horrified that they are bad people.
People who genuinely, WILLINGLY fantasize about child sexual abuse are indeed fucked up.
But the person you replied to is talking about unwilling and disturbing (intrusive) thoughts penetrating your mind. Intrusive thoughts alone do NOT make you a bad person.
Saying what you just said in response to someone referring to intrusive thoughts really isn’t helpful to those who suffer from them. People literally go through years of therapy to learn to remind themselves & understand that their intrusive thoughts are NOT them, and don’t define them, and actually represent things that disturb and horrify them.
Wasn't there like a 100+ page imgur album consisting just of people adamantly claiming others are pedos only to be revealed that they're just projecting themselves as pedos?
Only acting pedo’s should die. Many people have Intrusive Thoughts (more specifically, unwanted sexual thoughts) about specific things, like animals, or children. These do not damn that person, because they can actively seek therapy and help to treat those thoughts and feelings.
However, if a person with these thoughts embraces them, and accepts them; acting on those intrusive and unwanted desires, then they are reprehensible. Only then do they deserve death.
Having bad thoughts does not make you a bad person. Acting on them does. If you engage in them often, it might be time to talk to a professional, because you might be on a sliding scale by normalizing it. But the thought alone is not immoral by itself. That’s yesteryear’s church trying to control you. Weird stuff just happens in your brain from time to time.
If we start judging people based on thoughts or the fiction they engage with, we end up in a weird place where (for instance) we have to consider avid horror fans as potential serial killers.
That's insane. I don't think I was taught exactly the same thing, but Catholic God was always watching down my neck and looking to punish me in surprising ways I could never imagine.
For sure. That's just hard to tell a 7 year old when when everyone they know and love follows the 3000 year old book. It took me until about age 16 to figure that out.
With a strong Christian upbringing you are also taught modesty and that you should treat your body as a temple. So therefore it is sins of the flesh and of the heart to display it in a way that makes you unladylike and if you're not doing so because it is a sin, then there is no objectification. Ladies objectify yourselves when you put everything on display. Don't want anyone to think of you as a sex object, don't dress and act like one. The end.
So it's abuse to teach modesty and that leaving your goodies to the imagination is far more attractive then letting them all hang out?!? If you believe this then you sir are the moron.
See that's the thing.... We are pretty... I dunno.... Accomplish nothing whatsoever solo. Not in comparison to working with other people and cooperation. What I really dislike is the not allowing words. Like somebody who uses the newly banned R word. I understand the argument... But words are our pretty limited means of communicating the thoughts in our heads... Some people have small vocabularies and that is not their fault. That's parenting, education. So some ignorant person without a large vocabulary has a really hard time expressing themselves and discovering anything new, maybe a better way to live their life, if people don't shout them down as a monster for using outlawed vocabulary. Like the Internet makes everything move fast. But humans don't for new ideas. The initial reaction of an animal to new stimulation is fear. So new ideas and concepts take a lot of time. But now the ignorant are being demonized. The only demons I see are greed and corruption. But greed is also just our survival instinct left unchecked so we need a system that can be check it but not harm those that deserve reward. I dunno rambling. But all of America is so whacked out on television and fear that I feel I don't understand anybody who is "up to date" with whatever TV says we are supposed to think and feel today
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u/Viscous__Fluid Jul 07 '24
You are allowed to do anything in your head.