Damn, had zero interest before but now I'm gonna go out of my way to actually buy his game
Question's been covered by others here, but I just wanna pitch in with I can't remeber names OR faces. Imagine how awful I feel when someone starts talking to me like they know me and I don't recofnize them at all lmao
Genuinely I can't even remember because growing up, my dad was that type of guy who took us kids to obligatorily "fun" things and without fail did or said something that would make it feel completely miserable, then get angry at us for not having enjoyed ourselves at the fun thing.
A couple of instances I remember in particular was when he took us to Hawaii (he wasn't rich, just wanted to look rich and was very good at avoiding debt collectors) and kept being an entitled shitbag to the poor staff which made me super uncomfortable the whole time, and the time he took us to a magic show in vegas and spent the whole time explaining the tricks when I didn't even fucking ask.
I now find it very difficult to find any "fun" things actually fun.
I've only ever grepped log files. 9 years into my career now so not sure which side of the spectrum I'm on (i'm definitely on the spectrum)
While not buddhist myself I have a lot of exposure to it in my life and from what I know this is the best answer in this thread atm. Thank you for the nuanced approach to their question. Especially important is your point about judgement; western society especially tends to think strongly in abrahamic terms like that when trying to understand other philosophies. I would also like to point out how important the first precept is for OP's question - that seems to be where the buddhist view regarding karma separates itself from, say, hinduism, where karma becomes the entire basis for the caste system and reinforces the very logical ends OP was wondering about. One simply uses it as an explanation while discouraging any judgement or negative action on the part of the practitioner, while the other built injustices into their class structure with "you earned it in your past life" as an excuse. OP's friend absolutely seems like the type that's just loosely using Buddhist ideas to justify what they want to do without understanding the source material...
Excellent answer and same. The other person could be Jesus himself and I'd still save my cats because I've dedicated myself to their care (I'm sure Jesus would understand), plus they are far too stupid to manage on their own whereas a theoretical other human would, realistically, at least stand a chance
I have one up one you: I'm 100% sure nobody will find me because I'm 100% sure nobody will look for me. So take that, I guess.
I was interviewing a couple of months ago, and one of the in-person technical interviews wanted me to write, on a whiteboard, a function that took in a timestamp and calculated the angle between the hands on a clock set to that time. After I did that they wanted me to reverse engineer the linux "tac" command for files of unknown size that I could not store the contents of locally, resulting in probably the most sinful piece of code I've ever written.
What really gets my goat about it, is that out of all my interviewing companies, they were by far at the bottom of the list, and was really only interviewing to get negotiating power. My company had worked pretty closely with them, so I was well aware of the poor treatment and absurdly high turnover rate, so they were really in no place to be picky. My top choice company's hardest question was one of those basic college programming math questions where the answer is "use the modulus operator".
I think another name for them are "shimeji". I remember you could get little anime characters that, depending on the settings, would infinitely cline themselves and sometimes kick your windows off the screen to close them lmao. They were so cute.
I stopped using glassdoor after they told me I had to do review of my company before I could look at any other company's reviews. Except I already had, when I joined. But that was longer than 1 year prior so I guess GD just assumed I had either quit or decided I hated the place? And the thing is, it's a small company. A single person reviewing it multiple times is going to skew the reviews, and when I thought about that then now there's no way I'm gonna trust any of the company reviews on there.
"Beep boop beep"??? "Boop boop bop"!!
Honestly, rather than a "yes" or "no" I'm just gonna say that I don't think anybody's given a clear enough definition of what would constitute a "soul" to even make the question mean anything.
Recent studies suggest that much of consciousness/information synthesis is not in the neurons themselves, but the electromagnetic fields that they generate. Is that a soul?
What about the gut microbiome and how much of an oversized effect it has on a person's day-to-day experience? If the soul is some manifestation of your non-physical existance, would it be affected by those very physical little buggers, since they can affect your mood so much?
Even if you go to the classic religious context about a conscious experience that exists after death, you still have to answer whether or not they can wander earth, or, as some christian denominations think, they're all in heaven, hell, or purgatory so you'll never ever need to care about a non-embodied soul on earth anyway.
Hey OP
BOO
Have a sweet dream in exchange for waking up to the harsh reality of an eviction notice. 10/10 would recommend
And then in their appeal, they decided it was a good idea to insult the mods.
Great job OP, really making yourself seem like an adult with that one.
Honestly, it wasn't a conscious decision, I just got tired of being angry. It's exhausting.
That's not to say I've forgiven any of them. Quite the opposite in fact: I've simply set a mental rule of "never accomodate them in any way" across the board so I don't have to expend any more emotional energy on it.
If i wasn't lazy I'd link that one XKCD with the line of people that are like "oh, x is just applied y!" "y is just applied z!" Until physics thinks they're on top but math is so far off the edge they can't even hear what's happening
The way you've phrased this sounds like this isn't just your default state throughout your life. Is there maybe a much larger stressor that's sapping your emotional energy and making your trigger shorter? If that's the case, resolving your feelings around that stressor would probably be most effective.
You could also just be exhausted or burnt out, at which point the only way you can actually make things better is by getting a proper break. Obviously some people's life circumstances don't really allow for that, so any small changes of getting help where you can is recommended.
I am polite, most of the time. Wouldn't really consider myself nice tho.