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  • As someone who due to dealing with chronic pain and having to pick my grooming battles often looks like the most neckbearded, “tips fedora” ass reddit mod MF that ever lived. I can imagine at least a little bit.

    Like I’m not out here neglecting basic hygiene which is a step up from some of the people I’ve met. But shaving is definitely the first thing that gets dropped when my pain starts flaring up and then I start looking more and more like the kind of person that’s had a few too many “actually she’s a 3,000 year old vampire so it’s fine,” conversations.




  • Of course. Because if you stray from The Path™ then that all-loving God will forsake you to an eternity of suffering in the fiery pits of Hell. Don’t worry about how that entirely contradicts the characterization of God as all-loving. Or how God being all-knowing means that he already not only knows beforehand that you’re going to stray, but also knows exactly what he could hypothetically have put in front of you to cause you to willingly choose his path. But punishes you anyway because Free Will is important to him or something. And yet it’s your fault for failing his tests of you.




  • What they’re saying best I can decipher is that seeing that bolt of lightning or that arc from a wire isn’t you setting the “electricity” itself. It’s you seeing something that it’s doing. Like the arc is a shadow puppet and “electricity” as they define it is the hand casting the shadow.

    What they essentially want is for you to be able to take a picture of a lightning bolt and zoom in to see the individual electrons moving through the air. Fundamentally entirely misunderstanding how science says electricity works.


  • “That’s not you observing electricity, that’s just seeing something electricity does heathen.”

    Those guys probably.

    Their argument seems to be that since you can’t actually see it, as in you can’t pump electricity into a clear pipe and see flowing through the pipe like water. That “science” must just be lying to you.




  • Shitty people don’t tend to genuinely question whether or not they’re shitty. You may be “involuntarily celibate,” but you’re not an “Incel” in the way most people online mean. Those people generally hate women and blame them for their loneliness. You not wanting to be the kind of person that drags others down to feel superior already makes you a much better person than that.


  • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldToxic empathy...?
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    6 months ago

    It absolutely can be if you let it get out of control. I still struggle with it in fact. It can cause emotional burnout, wreck your mental health, things like that. To be fair, even the “good” version of this gets weaponized to ignore causes that someone might not want to care about without “being a bad person” all the time. Think the “I have to prioritize my own mental health” types who only seem to have energy for issues that directly affect them. Again having limited emotional energy isn’t the issue, being disingenuous about it is.

    But that’s not what this freak is talking about. What this freak is talking about amounts to “Empathy is reserved for the in-group. If it impedes our efforts or contradicts our dogma, then it’s toxic empathy,” basically.