Thanks for clarifying.

So what are you saying? The trans state of mind is less biological impulse and more societal pressure?

What’s not true? And what is true instead?

I would think the core difference is how testosterone and estrogen affect us differently.

Testosterone makes people more physically aggressive, meatheads if you will. Estrogen makes people more mentally aggressive, intellectuals if you will. (Note that by aggressive I mean dominant and engaging in form of activeness rather than purely violent.)

So when puberty kicks in, usually, boys get much more physical and girls less as they are more attuned to the dangers involved. This leads to a somewhat natural separation between the two.

The meatheads are far more likely to do dumb shit than the intellectuals, but the intellectuals are also far more likely to distance themselves from the meatheads due to that dumb shit. Which is why, in my momentary opinion, the sensible thing to do is to more closely manage the levels of testosterone and estrogen levels where they are more moderately balanced so as there will be no need for either fear or exclusion due to our differences.

It’s connected to many different things, but mainly it’s drought. They really don’t have water, very close to a country-ending disaster. All other stuff are putting pressure on their ability to gain water from outside sources. And without water, a lot of industries can’t function, hence a spiralling free fall towards collapse.

Water is the new oil. Time to stock up!

They saw what’s happening up east.

Because Republicans vs Democrats has almost reached North Korea vs South Korea status. Republicans want their “democratic” glorious leader and Democrats want profits. And neither care about the people.

Are you still you or is the bed AI taking over?

Don’t really know what to say… The internal policies were bound to catch up to the external ones.

I mean, work life and home life often end up mixing together even for the most professional of individuals, let alone for the current US administration that loves to shit where it eats.

Burn down lake Tahoe then.

Hold up. I just skimmed an article yesterday saying the Supreme Court gave the go ahead for the deportation of 250000 Venezuelans.

Can anyone clarify what’s what?

Dunno current status, but a few years back Croatia was a popular place to visit. I don’t have the details, but it was recommended to me at the time by multiple parties of the reasonable cost range.

As other comments have said, “Altruism is the concern for the well-being of others, independently of personal benefit or reciprocity.” To be true to the definition, one wouldn’t seek worth from altruistic actions. If one did however, that’s called being a calculating person.

Anyway, altruism rarely is seen positively in the real world because there’s no worth to be found beyond the deed itself.

That happens because it’s a social act. People who don’t want to, but have to due to some sort of obligation or as an indirect action towards achieving something else.

Activism is a chore they have to do, so without people in charge sincere in what they do and aware of this type of obligation, any attempt at serious activism will end up half-baked and likely to do more harm than good.

It’s tough to find people who do something for the sake of it and not as a springboard meant to pursue other interests.

Your brain be wildin’. I suggest seeking professional help if it ever happens a second time in a short period of time. Small chance it might be an early symptom of a stroke or dementia.

Message brought to you courtesy of WebMD. It’s cancer! 👍

Great speech, really, but why aren’t you getting it? It’s not about you or me or the commenter i started the chain with. This was their comment:

… do people actually do that? As in, is strong jealousy really a thing?

I’d like to believe that each of us builds their life into the exact thing they need, so swapping places with anyone else would be terribly uncomfortable. So I can’t relate as to why anyone would ever be jealous i guess haha

Are you and all the people up voting that comment really unable to grasp that there are people who actually do that? That strong jealousy really is a thing?

You kept deviating with your own sad stories, hope and self-control and get out from the bad environment.

But this is about them, the people that get left behind, that don’t crawl out and escape, that don’t get to build their lives into the exact thing they need. So that swapping places with literally anyone else would be fucking awesome to them.

That’s why I said you’re sitting on a high horse, you can’t seem to relate to them.

God job on making it out though. Though they might have moments of jealousy, I’m sure most of the people that couldn’t do the same are proud and thankful you can be an example to them. (Not sarcasm, if you’re interpreting that way. You only saw those earlier examples and seemed deadset on them being the only kind there is.)

You don’t seem to understand. There is no country on this planet that doesn’t have at least one abnormal living environment within. And the people living in such types of environment don’t have the luxury of entertaining your kind of psychological snobbism/elitism.

You talk of ideals, not reality. From the role of an observer, not a participant. Your advice is superficial nonsense from a position of safety and comfort.

I mean, what planet have you been living on until now?

An average person doesn’t mechanically compartmentalize emotions and puts them aside because they aren’t “productive solutions”.

It’s good for you that you’ve managed this kind of selfcontrol in order to improve your life. But that’s because you’ve numbed down the things that do you harm.

A person that isn’t depressed doesn’t have that kind of ‘benefit’. Emotions run freely and wild without fear. And cause all kinds of trouble.

Lovers being jealous of outside attention to the point of madness.

Siblings being jealous of biased parental love to end up estranged.

Children in patched up clothes on the streets begging or on the fields working - being jealous of children dressed in brand new school uniforms and going to school together.

Any person in a hospital bed with a terminal illness watching through the window the world living a life they can’t have.

And so many other examples…

Productive solutions don’t mean shit when it comes to strong emotions and jealousy can be very strong at times. Strong enough to murder even. I mean forget about the world-ending news regurgitation, at the local level where the average person lives, jealousy is high up in ranking as a reason for commiting crimes.

Pardon me, but you sound very privileged here, in the spiritual sense of “stop being poor” or “just don’t be depressed” etc.

If that was your intention, you’ve succeeded admirably.