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that's because quite often it isn't?
it's a fact some people (successful people mostly) refuse to accept that so much of our lives come down to things utterly outside our control, like sure you may be born smart, but if you're also born depressed that there is a massive obsticle to overcome in utilising an attribute that by all accounts should make you successful in life
life was simpler back when we could say that guy is just an asshole/crazy/retard/whatever but the more we learn about ourselves the more we see free will and self determination is just one small factor among may that determine the outcome of your life
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DARKSEID IS
you're projecting a hell of a lot of your own feelings about the topic on to other peoples posts if that's genuinely what you were getting from that discussion earlier
e: i agree with the last part of this post though
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You should have sympathy for people with problems. You definitely should have sympathy for people with problems you've suffered from in the past. All you're really doing when you hate on them is hate on your old self. And that's no good for anyone.
you get a pass.
quite often it really is and people will use X factor in their life as an excuse for not doing Y
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"You are outed as an otaku"
"You are tone deaf at karaoke"
"You're confessed to by someone of the same gender"
I'm not referring specifically to this conversation
There just seems to be a growing movement towards never blaming a person for anything
if they're a murderer, there's something wrong with their brain that they'd even consider doing it. If they are an asshole, same thing. There's an assumption that everyone's default state is good person you should like and any deviation from that is no fault of the individual
Are you that hyper-religious guy I worked with a couple years ago?
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Something something gastric bypass
it stopped, i am trying to get it back now
perhaps
sometimes
but mostly people touting the mantra of personal responsibility above all else are out of touch, privileged and utterly unable to comprehend the problems they have opinions on
that's why i have very little time for the attitude as a whole, held as it is mostly by people who don't understand because they don't want to understand
not everything in life is as simple as "you will succeed if you try hard enough" that's bullshit we feed to pre-teens to prevent them from getting disillusioned with the state of the world and the simple fact the universe is not fair or equal
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I'm not hating on anyone. I'm saying it's hard to me to feel bad about someone who complains about something while not taking any of the necessary steps to fix the thing they complaining about. If you're trying, fair fucks.
Jesus, the way you're talking is as if I insist fat people shouldn't make eye contact with me or something.
For reference, I'm still a really big guy and still in the progress of losing weight. I won't be happy with my body till I lose another 100lbs, but I'm working at it slowly and steadily!
except, ya know, I'm not applying that to everything
I'm talking about weight, which is relatively controllable (I say relatively because it's never going to be an exact, down to the pound thing)
anno 2070?
jesus last time i took that online the game lasted13 hours
and none of us managed to build the final structures
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And I wasn't even talking about weight, let alone like bootstrapping out of poverty
no, anno online.
Abolish the time system.
This is the post I saw. Looked pretty cold to me.
Though, in this analogy, the machine is always broken to some degree.
I am lucky to only have started severe issues in early 20s, as I think being an adult made it easier to deal with. Would have really messed me up if I had the same symptoms ten years earlier.
I might go back and try again at some point.
Neither was I, that's just one of many aspects of life in which the myth of complete and total personal responsibility comes into play.
It's kind of like, ok hypothetical skinny guy who used to be 300 lbs, weight loss worked for you, and that's fantastic! I'm happy for you, but your personal experience does not apply to everyone. Everyone is not you in the specific time and space you occupy that allowed the chain of events that led to your success to occur. Not everyone has your upbringing, your personality, your life experience, your resources, your brain chemistry or the million and one other factors that contributed to your success. It will be harder for some people than it was for you, it will be easier for some people than it was for you.
"I did it so you can too!" is not an unbreakable law of physics, it isn't a universal constant. It's not the speed of light. It's bullshit. It's a self-masturbatory fantasy people engage in to elevate themselves above others.
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My number 1 regret with Crohns is not having taken more medication when I was younger. I got by without much medication, but the damage done could have been mitigated a lot.
Oh, and not using a washlet. That's what we call them in Japan. Like a bidet built into the toilet, but for your bum. They are absolutely essential for anyone with bowel disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washlet
ahhhhh Japanese toilet technology
one of the areas in which i really envy your part of the world Posh
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it had more buttons than the tv remote
It sucked when I was younger, especially in high school. Kids were not very understanding when you were having to go to the washroom and have an uncontrolled bout of diarhea. And trying to catch up when you missed nearly an entire week sucked.
Funny, I feel the same way about my beetus. I hear stories of kids and teens completely failing to control their sugar levels. My favourite is of one boy who chugged Lucozade on the school bus and than immediately stabbed himself with his insulin.
no one will be permitted to use it but me
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Will you install a rectinal scan to keep out intruders?
during summer, it was just uncomfortable
in any case, the effect is that many toilets come with a variable-pressure hose that you can use for the same effect as the washlet. But also to clean the place.
One example here, hanging at the back: