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Crying is essentially an expression of helpless anger. You're faced with a situation where you have so much desire that it should be other than it actually is (anger), but at least as you perceive there is nothing that you can do about it (helplessness). This energy can be expressed in many ways. Crying is one valid way when there's really absolutely no other way. It's like a final resort. In practice, there are usually so many things that you can do about almost any negative situation before you conclude that there's nothing else to do but cry.

Actually if you read old religious scriptures, crying was a very normal thing to do. It was even looked at positively as a sign of humility and humanness and connection to God. Men were historically allowed to cry. It's really just a modern invention that prohibits men from crying, probably emerged after the industrial revolution where men are now supposed to be robots that perform tasks relentlessly without thinking or feeling or taking rest.

And by the way:

How about we contemplate the questions: What is crying? Why do we feel to cry? What purposes does it serve? What is the suggested stigma around male tears? Are crying and weakness closely related? If so, how?

Security updates are good. But I have noticed that they slow the system down if downloaded and installed through Windows Update or by installing a package. But if they're pre-installed into the Windows installation, they don't have such a bad side effect. I honestly don't understand the difference or why this happens, just something I've noticed.

The first thing I do after installing any Windows is disabling automatic updates (search for StopUpdates10 app), telemetry, and system restore. And I regularly clear cache and remove temp files using CCleaner. Doing all that, my PC performance doesn't change at all after any period of time. Of course, I also remove all Microsoft bloatware.

@Bobby_2021 Syria is shifting from being in a humiliating war state with Israel to a humiliating peace state. Like you said, being near Israel is a curse.

I would like to hear an explanation for Iran's interest in fighting Israel. I don't buy the idea of "resistance" or that this is a religious war even if it has some religious element to it. There are probably some political and economical reasons that most people are not aware of, including the ones that hate Iran. One of these reasons could be oil trade, and another could be the pilgrimage in Kuddus city (Jerusalem), which is important for the Shiite. Does anyone have a deeper insight into this?

@Etherial Cat Pretty accurate summary of the dating dilemma. But if we're speaking strictly from a sexual attraction lens, some girls find bad behavior to be sexually attractive and nice behavior to be simply boring or in some cases off-putting. I mean on the surface, at least, and from an instinctual point of view. This, in my opinion, seems like the equivalent of the Madonna-Whore complex, hence the reply. Bad and more generally socially unacceptable behavior seems to entice and excite some people, whether women or men, while conformity seems to have an opposite effect. This could be stemming from psychological wounds, or it might just be normal. Not everyone is the same and not everyone is compatible, like you said.

Dopamine Nation

Probably obvious, but I would say it's the attraction to the toxic bad boy and the inability to be attracted to the stable loving man aka the nice guy.

At no point in time something was ever yours (or anyone's) in the first place.

Unexpectedly, one of the biggest potential problems in the near future will be the newly freed prisoners. It's estimated that Sidnaya prison alone had nearly 300000 prisoners inside, and they were all freed unconditionally. Obviously, many of them were captured unjustly for political reasons, but also a big portion are dangerous criminals. This demographic change will likely destabilize the country further. So I wonder what precautions the new government is taking, if any. One of the biggest challenges in ruling is that you want to allow the most amount of freedom with the least amount of chaos. Syria under Assad was very strict and oppressive, however, there was order. The question now is how much freedom can the new government allow without sacrificing too much order?

@zurew When I say intuition, I don't mean a theoretical possibility. A theoretical possibility is more intellectual, such as the possibilities you've mentioned. That's not at all what I'm pointing to. I'm pointing to something rather simple and more basic than imagined, and in that light, logic or the intellect kind of stands in the way. The intellect is used to think in ways that hinder one's ability to see other possibilities that can be sitting right in front of you. So, when I say intuition, I don't mean a hypothetical outlandish theory that is theoretically possible (regardless of likelihood). Rather, I mean what comes to you directly in your own lived experience, your hunch, gut feeling, or your first impressions (primitive understanding so to speak). For example, what is your first intuition about the shape of the earth? The honest answer is flat earth. Now, whether that's factually correct or not, and how useful or helpful it is for navigating through life, is a different matter. The point is not to fantasize or create alien models of what reality might be. The point is the opposite of that. In other words, your direct lived experience. How do you feel as a first-person or a conscious living agent through this thing called life? Do you experience the earth as a round thing? Or as a "flat" surface? (I'm using quotations here to note that it's not technically flat even in direct experience, but just to simplify our conversation). All I'm saying is that if you apply the same thinking to solipsism, you might find out something of value in there, regardless of how technically/absolutely true or how useful or helpful it might be.

Assad's regime was mostly a realist. The opposition is divided into two main groups, one is racist and extremist religious jihadist, and the other is naïve and gullible optimists who think they've overthrown the tyrant and don't know the new potential tyrant in sight. There's also a minority of the opposition that is smart and realist, hopefully these will be able to control the jihadist and satisfy the promises they've made to the Syrian people. This minority is represented by a handful of people that turned against Assad's regime early on in the early days of the uprising. Assad was very difficult to manipulate by western actors, and by extension he was also difficult to negotiate with, whether with inner or outer actors. This new change will introduce a very different dynamic in how the area will be ruled or "dealt with". We cannot predict what is going to happen, hopefully for the better. But we should be extremely cautious about Israeli and Turkish expansions into Syrian lands. And also about the existence of Hezbollah and American bases in there. All of these issues need to be addressed and resolved by the international community or at least by close regional states like the gulf states. Trump doesn't care about the area except for the Israeli cause. He will definitely support Israel to further establish dominance in the middle east, and with Iran's proxies weakened and out of the pictures, this should be easy and met with minor resistance. However, if he went too far and let Israel take a lot of land, then things might get ugly again.