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My guess is that it's because you've adopted/identified with the famous self-help concept of 100% responsibility. So now, anything less than that feels like an insult to your identity. Solutions: Understand that it's unrealistic to expect 100% responsibility all the time, even from oneself. You'd have to be extremely neurotic and paranoid in order to execute that mission perfectly, and even then, you'd likely burn out soon. Understand that, sometimes, victim mentality doesn't come out of thin air. Consider that those who seem to have a victim's mentality might possibly be actual victims, which gets reflected onto their mindset. So, being and acting like victims is not completely their fault. And in this case, they might actually need actual help instead of victim-blaming.

Thank you! It seems my quick search was rather hasty. I should have looked beyond the first 20 results. Sorry for the misinformation, guys. Censor me lol.

The narcissist?! Some flat earthers will deny the round earth even if they saw it with their own eyes. They will say they're hallucinating a round earth, when it in fact is a disk. Or they will say NASA is using the fish eye effect on their subconscious mind. Or something like that.

Interesting point! I think there's a difference between discussing the flat earth theory as a neutral theory alone on its own, regardless of whether it's true or false, and between attaching all sorts of conspiracies to it. Then again, I guess it's not possible to make that distinction in practice because space agencies claim (confirm without a doubt) that the earth is round with their evidence being satellite images, landing on the moon, sending explorers into outer space, etc... So, for all that pile of evidence to be false, there must be something fishy about NASA and other agencies, which eventually leads to conspiracy theories

@Roy Do you know whether the censorship is limited to individual agencies/platforms or if governments have similar policies? I'm trying to understand what's happening, and my info is still not enough to make any conclusions.

The more important question is what's exactly surviving in each case?

@machiavelli Do you even know what God is?

Okay, this subforum is literally turning into shit.

What the fuck is happening with me?! Inexplicable shifts in consciousness, but not in a mystical way. I feel drained... I want to express myself without talking. I have nothing to say. What's going on?!

@integral I'm not sure if it's helpful at all, but maybe check out a movie called Nymphomaniac. I'd seen it 5-6 years ago and don't remember a lot of it. At the time I was deeply asleep and didn't gain any wisdom from it, but maybe you would.

He was trying to make pancakes but somehow fucked up and made that instead.

I wonder why, too. In Islam, he's also very tough and masculine, i.e. king figure, although asexual. In Christianity, he's male, i.e. father figure.

Boredom is caused by expectations. When we expect certain things to happen but they don't, or when we expect them to happen a certain "exciting" way, but they happen some other less desirable way, we tend to experience boredom. At the same time, our minds are conditioned to expect stimulations all the time. When we don't get enough of them, we tend to crave more. When we don't get more, we tend experience boredom. A detox could give some insight and clarity into this through direct experience and contemplation. But there's an important distinction here: Expectations = thoughts about the near future. More expectations = more boredom. Motivation = thoughts about the far future. Thoughts about the far future = vision. So if you want to motivate yourself, you need to have a vision.

Nice move by avoiding the conventional free will framing in the title. Anyway, knowledge is also an illusion.

@lmfao Thanks for the suggestion. To be clear, I'm not a book-worm, nowhere near it, but I do appreciate inputs from high quality thinkers such as yourself. Will definitely save that guy's name and check him out.

How do people actually believe that they know anything at all?! Even worse, how do they believe that they actually do anything at all?!

What is knowledge, anyway?

1984 has been on my list forever! I've always heard about how it's so ahead of its time. I think it's time I should give it a read.

And if I told you, would you believe me?

Hold on, I'll call my pal Kim instead and order him to do that. But wait, he's not a U.S. ally. Also, what others have said. Sorry, can't help you there.

There are so many great things to do with the human hands. Why waste them on posting lol?