lyth
@lyth@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I did something really terrible when I was 6 years old. Is it normal I still feel bad even though I'm trying to do good and redeem myself? 2 days ago:
- Six-year-olds have very little agency over their minds and so little understanding of the world that IMO it’s not really worth it to view them as “guilty” of things.
- I don’t know whether this is a useful way of thinking about things for you, but most of the matter in your body has been replaced with new matter since you were six years old. I expect most of the way you think and the things you know have been replaced since then, and how your cognition works on a very basic level has changed. Like, if you’re over age 27 you have a developed prefrontal cortex that wasn’t all there before. You’ve changed enough that you could safely regard yourself as a different person in a material sense, and a much better person. Sometimes when I remember something terrible I’ve done ages ago, the way I’ll think of it is that I can destroy that other version of me by becoming a different, better person.
- You could see life-changing benefits by seeking therapy resources like DBT and CBT. Web searching these can lead you to free video resources that you could listen to while doing whatever else you do with your day.
- Comment on does captain Picard snore in Star Trek tng? 4 weeks ago:
Probably not. I found a website that has TNG episode transcripts and I did a web search within it by putting “site:chakoteya.net/NextGen/ snoring” into duckduckgo. It only reports Wesley snoring in “Evolution” and Worf snoring in “Redemption: Part 2”. Searching for the keyword “snore” gave no useful results.
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 2 months ago:
Ex-Catholic here, standard response where I’m from would be “No, our God is the only god and trying to contact any spirits beside the Holy Spirit just opens you up to all the evil out there”.
My understanding is that Abrahamic religions are universally monotheistic and have been since the Babylonian Exile got rid of the henotheistic aspect of Yahwism. Expect to get a lot of pretty convoluted reasoning if you ask a Catholic whether having three persons in the trinity is the same thing as polytheism.
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- Comment on What good thing just happened in your life? 5 months ago:
I got stoned in VRChat for the first time, not too long after getting my first VR headset. As a furry who’s very interested in screwing with my sense of self, this was a really big deal to me in a way I can’t easily explain.
- Comment on Would I get banned here for being over active? I got banned from reddit because they thought I was a bot. And don't want to repeat the same mistake here. Thank you ahead of time. 9 months ago:
We can have this talk if you ever pass Kolanaki’s comment total
- Comment on How might a public flogging of an authoritarian ruler in 2024 impact the world? 1 year ago:
Besides the immediate threat of mass rioting and an armed resistance no matter who you’re flogging, public torture as entertainment is a very, very bad precedent to set, and only serves to build up a culture of antipathy. Imagine how the wider justice system would change once that’s normalized.
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 1 year ago:
Congratulations, you’ve invented the Martingale betting system and are well on your way to becoming an adept probability theorist
The short answer is that casinos account for this by changing the profit returns and the odds of making a profit at all so that catastrophic losses are much more likely
- Comment on Why not just let people use opioids? It's cheap. People like it. Arguably healthier than weed, alcohol or tobacco. Addiction isn't an issue if you can stay supplied. 1 year ago:
Check this fella’s post history. Pretty sure this is a serial baitposter
- Comment on What the Hell Happened to my Cookies? 1 year ago:
