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What clicked and made you have a different mindset? How long did it take to start changing and how long was the transformation? Did it last or is it an ongoing back and forth between your old self? I want to know your transformation and success.

Any kind of change, big or small. Anything from weight loss, world view, personality shift, major life change, single change like stopped smoking or drinking soda to starting exercising or going back to school. I want to hear how people's life were a bit or a lot better through reading and your progress.

TIA ๐Ÿ™

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[โ€“] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My view is simple enough. I want humanity free from bad things. Kurt's view is that people should be forced against their will to endure the bad. Which one is treating people like infants?

Me: bad things are bad, I am trying to remove bad things. Enjoy the world where you have everything all of the time. Where you can explore, create, procreate, screw, drink, and the only freedom you lose is one you never had to begin with. The freedom to break stuff.

Kurt: no, you must toil despite it being not required. Work shall set you free. Humans should work a job that they hate because it gives them selfworth.

How did that work out for Cambodia?

[โ€“] theluddite@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your total unwillingness to critically engage with what you do for a living continues to say more about you than it does about Vonnegut.

[โ€“] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes of course it is my fault and we should all just blindly follow what a hack writer had to say.

I know what I am doing and what I am about.

[โ€“] theluddite@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This is galaxies away from a good faith argument. You don't seem like a dumb person, so you're either engaging in bad faith for reasons all your own, or you're so defensive about any criticism directed towards your work that you don't realize how silly you're being. Either way, I think this is the end of the line for us. Hope you have a pleasant rest of your Sunday. I unfortunately have to keep working for a bit but will be done soon. Cheers!