I refuse to have children in response to what I see with my own eyes. No thanks to my parents for making me exist.
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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Glad I'm not the only person who resents their parents for making them
Moved out to the country, gardened, raised animals, breathed clean air and listened to the wind.
I find peace in learning and doing things well that, even if the system disintegrates, need to be done to move forward.
I dream about moving out OF the country.
Weed and booze
I've cut down dramatically on the booze, increased the weed and feel a lot better. You can smoke so much more if you don't drink, it's awesome
Mostly, self-destructive coping skills, just not very well in general
I go to asklemmy threads and try to sneak my message by their partisan hack, censorship/ban-happy mods by leaving subtle jabs like this one:
I focus on what tasks I have to get done today and do them. Then I doomscroll.
Drugs, lots and lots of tender loving illigeal drugs
Weed.
Eventually it stops working. I've been blowing through ounces faster than I ever have, feel like I barely get high anymore
Yeah that's the dopamine receptors burning out alright
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i cry a lot and smoke a lot of weed lol
Pretty easily.
I live my life and care about the people around me. I ignore things I can’t affect.
The sky is not falling. The ground is right here and things are generally OK for most people.
volunteer, support local, and play music
Spread awareness, break all the little rules you can, scatter seeds of all kinds across town, refuse to recognize the dollar, point high powered laser pointers at private jets taking off, make up your own gender unique to you and dont respond to bigots who dont use it to refer to you, shit in the driveway of the CEO of your company (especially if you are the CEO), become ungovernable. The social contract is shattered, you owe nothing to them.
One of these is potentially dangerous to others, and how do you not "recognize" your currency? Do you pay for food and utilities with wolfskin and eggs?
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Try really hard to ignore all evidence against the afterlife.
I wish so hard that I could believe. Just lie to myself forever, When you die it's not like you find out...
In a universe where efverythingf is forever, energy and matter just take new forms never truly destroyed...
Why the fuck is conciousness the exception
Edit: That's a serious question, and the only answer I can think of is "It isn't, we just don't know how to find conciousness when it leaves the body. Much as ancient main did not know of radiation nor how to find it, so he believed radioactive springs were cursed or blessed."
Your lizard brain is wired to avoid death, but non-existence shouldn't be scary. You've already done it for possibly an infinite amount of time.
I basically stopped participating. I work in a government position that is stable and pandemic-proof. I will never be able to buy a house so I don't even consider that. I live where I don't need a car. Basically, my needs are met and capitalism didn't work for me, ever.
I don't. We don't. Best we'll ever be able to do is keep the future generations in mind as the ship continues sinking. Remember overgrowth got us here and degrowth is possible--Hope must stay everpresent on the horizon of possibilities
I feed and drug the dog, which reminds me to take my antidepressants and another pill which I have to take with food, and so I eat breakfast. I meme with my friends online. I compartmentalize the fuck out of life. I go to therapy. I give myself treats. I wrap the dog's pills in a hip-and-joint soft treat so he'll take them without me shoving them down his throat. I remind myself that I almost-own a condo, so I'm doing better that a lot of millennials.
I think about how much worse it would be if I was in another paradigm where even expressing such an opinion would get me punished, jailed, or killed, then go on with my day.