ArgumentativeMonotheist

@ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What does that word mean to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the feeeeeemales, lol. Anyway, do it casually and in earnest, like you’re just pointing something out (even if you don’t exactly know what has changed) instead of trying to ingratiate yourself with them (“did you do something to your hair? It looks great!”; “wow, your handwriting is lovely”; “damn, great X, it really compliments you”). Like, do it for good reasons and I’m sure you’ll be fine: spreading positivity and making those around you happier (without lying, ofc). And then continue the conversation.

  As a straight man married into a semi-matriarchy, who was also the man of the house since the age of 15 and has mostly female friends, I can confidently tell you a compliment or two will go very far with women in all age groups, and you should try sliding one early into every convo, and also to distract them if the convo gets too deep and into territories that are gonna start an argument if you remain truthful. I literally did this yesterday with my wife’s crazier aunt before the conversation went south: “damn, that eyeliner really make your eyes pop, I got a little lost there! Hehe”. And I managed to then change the topic, lol. My wife was sitting next to me and just texted me “👌”. Just for reference, the aunty is close to or 60 so yeah, boys will be boys and girls will be girls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  White Americans are just (usually) even more uncouth Europeans???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot of people who try to start a religion are seen as mentally ill. Like Jim Jones, David Koresh, the UFO guy, and L Ron Hubbard. Then could it be a safe bet that Jesus was mentally ill?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t start anything though, he was just a very vocal, very driven, very informed Jew. Then the Romans killed him and used his image for their own imperialistic objectives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a child prodigy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ambition” is often just a “bell curve meme” situation, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The bliss of satiating a deep hunger. Ass is life!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re here to serve. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats/let’s goooo on all accounts! 🎉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way I can scare myself into not using AI and actually using my brain?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A young American lady would say it’s “an ick”, is that enough? How can I respect you and trust your guidance if you’re just a parrot for an algorithm? 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think happens if I stop using AI for a month?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it for day to day stuff or for structuring essays/writing code? If it’s the former, then you can probably expect feeling the cognitive weight of thinking/researching. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna ask the simplest complex question ever. What is happiness, to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pleasure/ease is not happiness, as I have been a directionless, purposeless NEET with no responsibilities but enough disposable income to finance my hedonism, and a full-time worker, part-time student married man, and the former made me suicidal after a while. If you’re lucky enough that you can just basically live like a pig, rolling in your own filth and just chilling until death, then good for you (not you, OP, just the “global” you 😅) but I can’t.

  I’d say “the feeling/mental state resulting from realising you’re living according to your values (which involves identity and self esteem), balancing duty and pleasure/ease, in the momentary absence of great emotional pain/distress”. Or something like that. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think happens if I stop using AI for a month?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you use them for and how often?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever tell your son — assuming you had two sons — that you don’t need him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only someone really disturbed/immature/confused would do something like that. If it happened to you, I’m sorry, I empathise. Not having a decent father is almost a meme at this point with how common it is in some circles, but this goes way further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we have different definitions of “cramming down someone’s throat”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t feel like I’m cramming anything down anyone’s throat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so, are you gonna block me now or do you just want to continue getting whatever anger you have out of your system, safely against someone that’s not part of the in-group? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The people I “judge” (and I’m actually critical of ideas and values, and those can change and I’m all for that) don’t even care about morality or being a “good person” in general, as evidenced by my many convos here with some particular specimens, lol. Come on, man, if the glove doesn’t fit no one’s forcing you to wear it so what’s going on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know how the short-sighted, amoral, hedonistic and overall godless Westerners feel, I speak here because of it more than in spite of it. But if they cannot handle even some mention of the Creator here and there, the block option is always available. For the rest, who tolerate it because maybe they find something worthwhile there despite feeling annoyed, I’m more than willing to engage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re triggered by something that’s as common as saying “hello” in my circles. I would recommend you block me so you don’t have to suffer more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve spent more words than me talking about it here… And monotheism is the framework through which I understand existence, it’s at the core of my moral beliefs and otherwise and not just decoration, so it makes sense it would come up a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I am a person and it happens to me. But regardless, all I said was “I’m too monotheistic and… for .ml”, which is true, and it was a single phrase in a long-ass post so I don’t think I was being too whiney or idk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know they have their reasons, especially if they’re American because most big Trinitarian denominations would give Jesus an aneurysm, but that’s not me nor most people in the world who claim to be religious. And it is necessary, because Trinitarians think Jesus, a man, is also the Creator, and there’s also the Holy Spirit somewhere and that makes up their pantheon. And I just mentioned it because it’s true, because just by saying things like “oh thank God” people start getting uppity at times, nvm pointing things out while quoting the Qur’an or the Bible. It’s like you’ve forgotten where we are. You can tell me “just take the negativity and unnecessary hostility, it is what it is”, you can’t tell me it isn’t a thing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, because Lemmy in general and .ml like/have a good opinion of religious folk…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, fair and good definition but I really don’t think whatever .ml-vibed post or narrative that gains any traction, to the point of it being an integral part of the community’s ideology, upholds those tankie values. And, therefore, the reputation is unearned. And they may exist but I don’t interact much with those people because I’m a lil banned so I guess I don’t see all of their content, idk.

  And, circling back to OP’s case, I think the downvotes are a reaction to the narrative that “.ml is tankie” when they’re just anti-Western (like most of the world but that’s a different convo, they’re just anti-Western in Western online spaces), discarding the whole comment instead of “taking a side” because that would just give more weight to the narrative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one already but it’s not a person, ofc. And I don’t know who they is/are, but what I do know is that the claim that people who are anti-Western imperialism and reject Western narratives are just misguided/the enemy is the same as before and whatever name they give it, the narratives stay the same. It’s a ghost they fight, I haven’t seen anyone say or allude to supporting oppressive, imperialist, “commie/socialist” policies. Basically, I haven’t seen actual tankies, if the term means anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, I don’t know, I don’t speak for .ml. Cool username btw. ✌️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps, but I really don’t think that’s the take over there, I think they think you’re fighting strawmen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because what you meant is accurately understood as a false dichotomy coming from decades of Western propaganda and completely useless to whatever discussion you were having. Remember: tankie is the new commie, and you’re (most likely) just the new generation of imperialist Westerners because the show has to go on, they just changed the words a little while keeping the same narrative dynamics.

  And I’m too monotheistic and grounded in reality regarding current idpol Western nonsense for .ml, they downvote and ban me often so it’s not like I’m part of the in-group, I’m just a bit more aware than you, ig.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re all amoral, hedonistic, self-centered, sociopathic freaks. But then again, why wouldn’t they be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost certainly because of your upbringing, violet.