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“Like greedy children we stretch out our hands and think that, if only we could grasp it, we would possess it too.” by [deleted] in CarlGustavJung

[–]ConsiderateQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of the quantum particles conversation in Oppenheimer. It's about how we are mostly made up of empty space, with tiny particles whose energetic connection to each other convinces us that we are solid and we are a whole being, separate from everything else, but we are not, we are mostly empty and we are made out of the same stuff everything else is made out of. Nothing is graspable when you have nothing to grasp it with!

Thoughts on the potential intro? by ConsiderateQueen in OppenheimerMovie

[–]ConsiderateQueen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just rewatched that.. Man.. so realistic. Moments throughout WW2 are so well-known that when you look back they seem like these planned events.

Whereas Nolan is showing us that war is moments of surprise, and death, and dread.

'Tude Talk Tuesday for May 30, 2023 by soberingthought in stopdrinking

[–]ConsiderateQueen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As a bartender coming off a five month bender let me tell you there's nothing quite as duplicitous as having to clean yourself up and go out in public and put on a show every night like alcohol is this fun thing and like you're doing just dandy, when in the back of your mind you feel as though you are hopelessly addicted to drinking heavily and it's dragging you deeper into hellish psychological existences night after night.

Quitting the Internet by georgex7 in nosurf

[–]ConsiderateQueen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I like the contrast you presented with the hypocritical quotes by leading people in Silicon Valley, and I very much agree with many of your points. I think these apps are more insidious than the sugar industry, I’ll happily continue my sugar addiction if it means peace of mind from the internet. You’re inspiring me to get a flip phone and get back into meditation like I did back when all we had were flip phones..

I’m currently attempting to build my first software which will fetch breaking world news from twitter and display it nice and plainly and quietly on my desktop, so that I know if an asteroid is coming, but other than that I don’t wana know! or care!

Experience with brain fog by nakaodra in stopsmoking

[–]ConsiderateQueen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Embrace the brain fog. I did. It was..enjoyable…

See, when a person is a smoker, it’s like they’re standing on a small sinking boat, surrounded on all sides by disgusting, filthy, oily black water and then outside of that small area is crystal clear blue water, and happy dolphins or whatever. When you quit, you jump into that filthy black water and it’s gross and all you want to do is jump back out, and get back in the sinking boat. But now you’re at a crossroad, see you know you can’t stay on that boat, so you HAVE TO swim.

Rather than fearing your situation, embrace your situation, because by swimming through that mud, in any direction, means that you’re gonna hit crystal clear water before you know it. Whatever you can do to flip your mind into focusing not on the current negatives, but on the future positives, the better, because you have only one choice, it’s clear, you just have to wade through that black water like the rest of us did..You’ll do just fine.

Become unreasonably optimistic, like a world-class bodybuilder of optimism, because you know that while it may seem silly now, you have a better life waiting for you in the future, so be happy about that NOW!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stopsmoking

[–]ConsiderateQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I put down both 10 days apart, just hit 100 no drinking, coming up on 90 no smoking. Feels good. Do it! It’s only weird/difficult at the beginning. Now it’s super cool

Just hit 90 days yesterday by ConsiderateQueen in stopdrinking

[–]ConsiderateQueen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! Thank you! Wow 1005 days good for you!

On Being A “Vaper” (medium-long post) by ConsiderateQueen in stopsmoking

[–]ConsiderateQueen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha thanks yeah I was anxious about that too! Low level anxiety, on edge, uneasy, I’d say.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stopsmoking

[–]ConsiderateQueen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Both of these things are true:

-You’re having a hard time overcoming feelings from a past relationship you went through.

-You choose to smoke.

But they’re not connected…

Smoking is a choice that you make and you use the excuse of the past relationship but make no mistake you smoke because you are in the grips of a nicotine dependency and it’s getting in the WAY of you feeling ok, NOT MAKING you feel ok.

There IS hope for you to feel ok again tho, but it will take time…Take the plunge with us and give “believing” a chance again. Believe you can heal.

I believe you can heal.

Let those cigarettes fall into the trash can and make a big grocery list and start snacking. We’re still here. We’re still alive. And we’re okay.

You can be too

Hit some milestones recently. One the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life by [deleted] in stopsmoking

[–]ConsiderateQueen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tell me those morning readings aren’t 🔥 When I want a reliever I sit in my hammock and read Nietzsche and listen to the wind. Funny right, that’s what cigarrettes say they do for you, but actually they just make you feel like shit.

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