A friend of mine whose decisionmaking I respect a lot. Good balance of logic and empathy. He would be an awesome president and hed hate me for dumping that shitton of responsibility on him. Wouldnt want to be in his shoes. Also id miss him, but its for the best.

What do you mean by not having done enough with your life?

Do you mean that you have been a burden to others more than you gave back? Then its simple, try to do something that gives back. Do voluntary work at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter or something like that.

Do you mean you havent achieved something awesome that people will talk about for generations? Then you should accept that you probably wont. Most people live an “ordinary” life without major accomplishments.

Do you feel like your current life has no real meaning? Just living day by day, not much enjoyment? Try to change it, bit by bit. Make friends that you can enjoy time with. Find new hobbies. Maybe change jobs.

That may be the case. I will need to conduct my own research^^

• that sugary sweets make kids act “hyper”

Do you happen to have a source for that? Coz I have witnessed kids act like a horde of wild monkeys on crack right after eating dessert on multiple occasions.

You should post this in c/askScience

What I had in mind was stuff like people getting shot into space in sci-fi, stuff like that. Theyre usually shown to freeze in the matter of seconds. So I guess thats unrealistic, though its a little sad because that means its a much more painful death by suffocation

Interesting and does make sense. Where does this image of stuff freezing instantly as it “enters” space vacuum come from?

Usually you dont need 100% of the information to get across and also sgouldnt expect it. When you want to make a point, you dont need every tiny nuance stored in your mind for that. The 80% is what you actually want understood, the last 20% are negligible.

But yes, the concept is interesting and in some cases a conversation is interpreted wildly differently between people, especially when you dont know the other person very well (e.g. someone might be intimidated by a stranger talking to them interpreting what they say in a negative way while the other person is trying to be friendly and wouldnt know how it is percieved)

Probably something like the first 1-2 years of my life.
As long as I can remember Ive always had friends and my current best friends Ive had for the past 15-18 years, since school.
I know not everyone is this lucky and I am very grateful for how my life turned out.

Conservative mindset. They “want the good old times back”.
Things werent better, only your life was.

I see, thats actually good practice, just unusual. The “who” also sounds less odd.

Not a native speaker but the last one, using ‘it’ instead of ‘they’ would sound the most natural to me

Ask yourself: why do you want to have a good relationship with a person that doesnt seem to respect you at all? Just because of the blood in your veins, childhood trauma (probably caused by him), social pressure or is there a “valid” reason?

Ask yourself if having the relationship you are imagining is worth you putting in 10 or 100 times the amount of work he will, while still not being respected as a person.

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I think its like being anesthesized or a high dose of nitrous, consciousness slowly fades away, its a bit trippy, can be scary, and then youre gone. Depends on the circumstances though, some deaths are probably a lot quicker than others and you wouldnt feel a thing.

Its actually Bond Jamesbond

Thank you for this question and for being interested in there topics. It is very important that people think about and discuss such matters.

I love your example of Avatar, it is a very good one. I think, after watching Avatar a few times, the most important lesson there is not the fact that Aang came up with a way to defeat Ozai without killing him (so basically “theres always an other way”). It is kind of implied that it was a “better” way, but noone can really know for sure. Maybe killing him would have been better in the end. The real lesson, in my opinion, is that Aang kept thinking and brainstorming and wrecking his brain day and night trying to figure out whats right and whats wrong. He didnt simply accept the opinions others imposed on him, even though almost every person he respected had the same one. He needed to come up with an answer himself. I think if we keep thinking about our decisions and try to see things from different perspectives without blindly following narratives or popular opinions, thats worth a lot.

To one of your many questions, which was basically “does the end justify the means?”, youre not going to get a definite answer because noone knows and noone can know. Some people might pretend to, but they dont. It might apply in some cases but wont in others. And even if it seems reasonable in a scenario, you never know the real outcome. As an example, if you had a time machine, should you go back and kill Hitler as a Baby? Sure, you would stop him from starting WW2, but you would commit an objectively horrible crime in that moment. Also, what if 5000 years later that leads to the world ending? You never know.

All we can do is make as good a guess as we can about whether what we are doing is the right thing. If we keep thinking about our decisions and constantly update/re-evaluate our beliefs, we should be on the right path.

What the actual fuck. “keep your head in the sand”? This person is actually digging for answers to very difficult questions like how the Nazis became so obsessed and all you have to say is “just accept they were born evil. How could you even question that”? Thats fucking fascist propaganda right there. Youre the one with your head 10 feet deep in the sand.

Not sure what you mean. There are definitely homosexuals that show it openly and get into a kind of ‘role’, actively acting out the cliches, no need to deny that. I know many gay men and for most you wouldnt notice if you didnt know them, but some are very extravagant and thats their thing.

How would anyone know your sexual orientation if you dont specifically do things to show it?

Like, dont grab another mans/womans ass in public, dont talk about nice dicks/boobs you saw in a magazine. Dont act like what people generally associate with the other sex (this one might be difficult if your interests lie in those fields). I think homosexuals that stand out a lot are usually aware of it and like to act it out.