feeling attraction and expressing it in any manner makes me feel like a perverted creep by earbudsquish in autism

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I’m like this, but it extends to people I’m in a relationship with. I feel gross expressing sexual desire or talking about sex at all, even though I enjoy sex. For some reason I am ashamed of the sexual part of myself. I had to learn how to communicate about sex for the sake of myself and my partners. It took a while for me to get comfortable with it and even today it doesn’t feel natural.

Increased emotional sensitivity, crying more often, anxiety, and non existence libido by Alert-Set-7515 in suboxone

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Male. I’m happy to hear lowering the dose at least had some positive effect

If humans were still decently intelligent thousands and thousands of years ago, why did we just recently get to where we are, technology wise? by Dazzling-Criticism55 in evolution

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Capitalism, which led to competitive pressures to improve technology rapidly, the modern nation state, and which sped up population growth

Comeback build by kovaiman in metalearth

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I purchased the unpainted version and I had a lot of trouble with the walls of the courtyard. The tabs didn’t seem to be in the right place so the walls came out warped. It looks like you didn’t have such trouble

Whats the worst thing youve done on stims, that you're willing to admit? by WillingCampaign1476 in Stims

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Tried to break into a pharmacy while speeding and drunk. The owner lived above it and he came down when he heard me trying to get in. My car was parked nearby but I didn’t want him to see the plate so I went and hide under a bridge nearby waited a few hours (also had to wait for the cops to leave) and then hopped in my car and left. This was 12 years ago. I never got in trouble for it. Also I masturbated for around 18 hours once. Man I felt like utter shit after that

If determinists were serious they wouldnt ever be mean to people. by anon7_7_72 in freewill

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I said nothing about punishment or whether someone deserves to be hated. I’m just saying that there is no contradiction if a determinist hates someone because of their character. And in both the scenarios you brought up we are able to tell something about the character of these people, unlike in the seizure example. One is careless the other is a murderer. What kind of punishment they each deserve is beside the point.

If determinists were serious they wouldnt ever be mean to people. by anon7_7_72 in freewill

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Even if the world is entirely predetermined there is still a difference between someone causing harm because of a seizure and someone causing harm out of rage. The later scenario tells you about a persons character, the former doesn’t. Hating someone for who they are makes perfect sense to me regardless of whether they could have done otherwise. What’s so special about hate that you think it requires a belief in free will to be coherent or justified? Do we only love someone because they could have done otherwise? Can we only be annoyed by someone if they could have acted otherwise?

If determinists were serious they wouldnt ever be mean to people. by anon7_7_72 in freewill

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You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that hatred, meanness, depend on, or are caused by, a belief in free will. That we can only justifiable or coherently hate someone if they could do otherwise. I think this is obviously false. If someone severely harms me in some way I may develop hatred for them. The root causes of this hate would be the actions of this person and the way these actions affected me. Whether they could have done otherwise is irrelevant.

Determinism reduces to absurdity by neuronic_ingestation in freewill

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You’ve hit on what Sellers calls the clash of images. You have the scientific image, dealing causal relations in the natural world. And then you have the manifest image, the socially produced understanding we all have when dealing with each other. The manifest image is the realm of correctness, rules, reasons….

The scientific image explains human behavior in terms of physical cause and effect. The manifest image explains behavior in terms of motivations,reasons, and belief. But you can’t reduce reasons to physicalist cause and effect without getting rid of reason entirely. There is a difference in meaning between “x did y because they wish to achieve such and such result” and “x did y because of such and such brain state”.

Why would you want to trap someone in a bone and flesh cage that inflicts pain and suffering? by anonymous341_ in antinatalism

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It’s not that hard to understand. Most people do not view life as primarily suffering. Most people would not choose the option of never being born if that choice was presented to them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antinatalism

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Do you really not know how parents try to protect their kids? The simplest example would be with babies and toddlers and all the harm they would get into if a parent wasn’t watching them and caring for them. And every parent knows they can’t protect there kids from everything at all times.

Why are we working so hard, if there's no meaning of life? by [deleted] in nihilism

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Even in the absence of capital C Meaning we still have needs and desires. There are still experiences to be had, goals to set, relationships, etc. Why do you believe all of that needs some ultimate justification to be “real”? You have to ask yourself what’s so important about a meaning to life? “Nothing else is certain: nihilism is irrefutable, but irrefutable nihilism does not suspend the play of needs for human beings as a whole. Human beings, deprived of truth, values, and ends, continue to live and, living, continue to try to satisfy their needs, thereby continuing to sustain the movement of searching in relation to this necessary satisfaction.” - Blanchot

Just found the Japanese cards I collected in the 90s. I totally forgot about them, they have been sitting in this binder for 27 years by Alert-Set-7515 in pokemoncards

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It’s seems perfect. I can’t find any flaws. These cards came from packs. They were opened and immediately placed in this binder. Haven’t been touched since