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Obviously muscles help a ton. It's what I did when I got bullied. But martial arts like wrestling or boxing would tackle that problem more effectively.

@Enlightement @trenton thanks for the tips Yeah it's just really hard for me to trust somebody that they won't hurt my feelings. The girl was really into me and I would have talked to the girl about it but I had immense fear that she would tell other people about what I wanted to tell her privately because that kinda happened before or that if I fell for her in a relationship that she would be abusive and that I wouldn't have the strength to get out of there. And so I stopped the feelings I had for her. I hurt myself so much with this (and her as well of course because she didn't know what was going on which hurt me as well because it hurts me to hurt her). Another girl had interest in me recently. She basically threw herself at me for me to take her. But I couldn't do it. The thought of deeply connecting with someone makes me want to throw up. I don't know how to recover from this.

I lied about my feelings for a person for a long time. I felt strong love but repressed it. What does this do to you? How does it damage the relationship towards that person? It might have caused some strong anxiety attacks and depression in me.

As long as something is there you will just use the other ones more instead in my experience.

I blocked Video Games, Social Media, put a timer on YouTube for 30min and also blocked the forum for most of the day because I am very easily distracted and indulging in these distractions makes me extremely numb, unable to think clearly, unproductive, uncreative, ... The only thing I left out was Spotify because I thought its just music its not a big deal. Wrong! Blocking music is such a game changer for me. It has all the downsides that the other things I listed have. Maybe not to the same extend but if I listen to it for hours every day the downsides will be as drastic as the other distractions. In the last few days my productivity has gone up, my creativity increased and I got the voice in my head back. I literally lost the voice in my head because I was so numb.

I can't really relate to that. I have a playlist on Spotify called concentration music with very soft, light, intelligent instrumental music and I found that this kind of music really puts me into a creative mood. I am thinking of downloading some of that for this specific purpose although idk if I will then also use it as a distraction will see.

Yeah that was actually pretty cool it's just but its the wrong way I attained it. It's like solving the problem of noice pollution by making yourself deaf.

Reverse Hack Squats are great.

Then we need an AI which whole purpose is to hold possibilities for humans to destroy AI. It doenst even need to be the most advanced because destroying AI is easier then protecting it. If the other AI attacks it it needs mechanisms like warnings if the possibilities of successfully destroying AI get lower.

My first thought with AI was that we need AI angels that are specifically designed to protect us and they always must be the most developed to ensure our safety. The problem is that protecting humans is a lot tougher then attacking them. So yeah every country will have a weapon comparible to an atomic bomb right now in their hands and perhaps in the same way this will force freedom. How hard is it to turn down the internet though? Maybe we can put a bomb next to the server and distribute many remote detonator so if it goes to shit we have the option to easily stop the AI.

Congrats for being open minded and brave enough to come to these realizations about yourself. I have a question though. The process of physically changing to another gender is connected to a lot of surgery and lifelong medication and therefore health risks/problems. Of course you know that. I am not anti trans at all but you should ask yourself if this is all worthed or if it is possible for you to change your lifestyle/ look "naturally“ in such a way that makes you happy. For example my social group is a leftist theatre group. The majority of the members are girls. We have a few guys that wear make up, run cropped.. stuff like that. Girls are SUPER supportive of that kind of stuff here. I also love to integrate feminine qualities which is one of the reasons why I choose this place as my social group. So if you want to have only or mostly female friends, act feminine, wear make up, .. stuff like that you can totally find social groups that deeply support you in that you don’t have to be trans for that. Of course if you still want to be trans despite that that’s cool too I don’t want to discourage that.

She just says she likes to use different pronouns. She doesn't say that she would do physical operations or something like this. Just see if you like her as a person and don't think about how she wants to be called. It's like you want to use a fork but the fork you have in your hand is actually called spoon so you look for a fork which is called fork. See how stupid this is? The pronoun is not the actual thing.

I am doing full body 2x a week to keep my muscles. It works great. I will experiment with 1x a week training to see if I can still keep my muscles this way. A typical workout looks something like this: Cardio worth 100 Kcal a lot of lower body stretching - 3 sets of deep squats - 2 sets of seated leg curls - 2 sets of chest press - 3 superset of lateral raises and bicep curls - 2 sets of overhead triceps extensions - 2 sets of face pulls - 3 sets single leg calf raises - 3 - 5 sets of pull ups randomly sprinkled in there between sets 1- 10 sets of hanging 10-15min sweating in the sauna

I meant the Pastor.

No they could have protested or bullied that individual in a million ways and probably got great support by the majority of the population.

France people seem a lot more social and friendly. Well people from all countries seem to be more social and friendly then German people. French sounds beautiful while German doesn't sound as good but it is a very intelligent language and people often phrase words from it to exactly describe what they feel or think, like Hintergedanke, Heimweh, .. When I was in French I saw a lot of green bushes and trees. From what I have seen it's a very beautiful country probably more beautiful then Germany.

Of course. People are selfless for selfish reasons. Nothing wrong about it. You don't break that paradox by recognizing it. I think everybody acts exactly perfectly according to who he is. So an empathetic person will act more empathetic than a person who isn't. Idk what you are trying to say. Do you think a person who acts ethical is a person who would allow himself everything, who has no sympathy for anything so is not emotionally bounded to anything but now decides to act in certain ethical ways? It's ethical because it isn't forced by anything. But if it isn't forced by anything why would he do it? If he has no moral obligation or sympathy how would he come to the idea to act ethical? I told you because it makes me happy.

I compared their weight. Of course that not all actual meat mass but it's a rough estimation of what you are getting. For the meat of one blue whale you need about 800000 shrimps. We sometimes compare the sentience of living beings to estimate how ethical it is to kill them. The more sentient a being is the less ethical it is to kill it. But weight is an important factor as well. Its quantity x quality. Shrimps would pretty much have zero sentience in order to be more ethical to kill compared to Wales because you need 800000 of them to get the same meat (I am not including other environmental factors) For chickens to cows its like 1:500 as well its crazy. Are there some seriously dumb and fat animals? Maybe crocodiles?

It will make me happier. Being egoistic doesn't make you happy. No I don't want to be hit because it hurts to be hit. Empathy. Hurting them hurts me as well. I know that I cause a lot of suffering just to meet my survival needs. But you can go about it in complete ignorance or you can do some changes about your lifestyle. Being vegetarian and minimalistic for example are changes that cause relatively low effort for me but have a big impact.

General reduction of suffering and maximization of general wellbeing. In the realization that animals are in many important ways similar to us. So if don't want to be harmed it would be a double standard to do it to animals.

I am vegetarian for ethical reasons. I meant ethics as an intellectual pursuit but I asked the question not for the purpose of using it for something.

Wtf, No! ? Its just intellectual interest.

@Basman agreed!

I am not sure if humans are the most sentient creatures on earth. I think an octopus could be more sentient but I am not sure. I think you can translate sentience into 'how conscious are you?' You can't get more meta then that.

I think taking sentience as the primary factor is pretty unbiased. If you find an octopus ugly, doenst matter it’s very sentient and therefore of ethical importance.