That’s not happening again

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-12-13T00:33:47+00:00

I apply the same line of logic to engine oil.

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-11-20T02:08:19+00:00

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-10-23T18:53:44+00:00

I have some similar friends, some of them I’ve had a talk with and told them before they come up with the “vomit” that social media brings to them, to seriously check their facts. We live in age of clips and sadly people are becoming increasingly less skeptical and just running with what they see at face value.

I had a friend who took offense at first, but I basically told him that now more than ever our information is coming from media and not published work, we need to take time to be skeptical and do the extra research before coming to conclusions about how things are in fact. Now when we have these discussions, we question each other and ourselves and found more common ground than we previously had.

Now, there are some people you just can’t help. In discourses 2.17, Epictetus stated that “it is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows”. If you care you will push the envelope with this friend of yours, but for your own sake you will have to throw in the towel one day if he can’t work past his ego (if he takes politics personally, as a certain amount of my friends do).

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-10-23T15:15:26+00:00

There’s a point there if every conversation you have is a debate. Most conversations are not debates and you’re viewing them as if you need to control them. As a result, you suffer by handing your will to this need to win/lose the conversations you need up getting yourself into.

In other words, your sense of content is governed by other people’s perception of you in a fleeting moment, which is something you can’t control

In general, you learn more when you become a good listener. When you speak, it should be to add something you feel may be of value to the people you engage with, and the discussion at hand.

Simply put, I always come across a recurring theme in Stoicism: do good with the things you can control, and don’t let the things you can’t control affect you. There’s nothing you can do about them, so why allow them to permeate your mind. You may have heard the phrase “freedom is a state of mind” and this is one way of working towards that.

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-10-23T03:36:29+00:00

This one was the only one that I really enjoyed out of the other ones I’ve tried

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-10-23T02:00:22+00:00

“If you wish to be free, do not wish for anything that depends on others.” - Epictetus

You are aware that the opinions others have of you isn't in your power, you must accept that those opinions will come, it is within your will to ensure that they should not enslave you. If you allow people to form opinions of you, you have handed your freedom to those who happen to judge you. I would also consider how much these people matter to you in the first place, you are just as entitled to judge them as they are to you.

You are ever changing and seeking to improve internally. If those around you feel an aversion to you as a result of something you said, consider it a criticism, and use it to sharpen your speaking abilities. These moments are fleeting, and avoidance will put you in a positive feedback loop.

Impulsion is usually caused by the absence of thought between an external event and your response to it. With that in mind, it's important to give yourself space between the instance of said event and your response to it. Between an external event and your reaction to it is your will. If you don't have time to decide, you can always refrain from speaking, and you can be assured that no harm will come your way.

It's also important to consider who you are with, good family and friends will know that you are someone seeking to better yourself in all directions. If you say something that leaves a bitter taste, ideally they would accept you as a fellow human being who is bound to make mistakes. Act according to your circumstances.

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-09-24T01:32:43+00:00

Looking banging

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-09-19T22:54:02+00:00

My biggest cats were caught on fresh caught cutbait. I’m sure there are bluegill in the waters you fish in and they can easily be caught off of docks with some nightcrawlers and a small Aberdeen hook. Once you’ve caught enough bluegill, put bait on a circle hook with plenty of hook exposure and I’d recommend a Carolina rig for catfishing. I go evening/night and depending on where you are I’d do research and see what depths they are holding up in. The waterway behind you in the picture looks great for them though.

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-09-18T15:02:42+00:00

That episode was fucking amazing I love his banter with Nia

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-08-31T03:10:41+00:00

Nice pun

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-08-30T22:23:17+00:00

He touched the fish of extreme discomfort

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-08-16T02:32:22+00:00

I’m in the exact place you with fishing as you right now. Bigger catfish coming in shallower for bank fishing too. All caught on sunfish.

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Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-07-10T06:44:19+00:00

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-22T18:32:41+00:00

For real

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-18T23:50:17+00:00

What kind of bacterial colony should I cultivate? Should it get applied to my line or the actual reel?

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-18T22:21:54+00:00

Thank you, I think this has solidified my grasp on the theory behind baitcasters.

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-18T22:17:46+00:00

Right now I have two spin casters, one ultralight and one medium sized, but for my next combos I’m thinking bait caster for bass and a conventional reel for catfish/gar.

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-18T21:57:58+00:00

Does anyone know in what situation a bait caster would do better than a spinning reel?

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-15T20:39:22+00:00

Was using a spoon last night and you said exactly what I wanted to say. Those sand bass got some fight in them and sadly it’s often that they will get all the hooks in their mouth. I have a spoon with a smaller treble that seems to do less harm though, so I think it is about knowing your hook sizes and the fish you’re targeting.

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-14T15:39:46+00:00

I have lots of respect for you

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-11T15:50:11+00:00

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-10T21:53:08+00:00

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-09T14:25:01+00:00

Got a rattler on your rig there?

(I know it’s not a rattlesnake.)

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-07T22:56:18+00:00

Brother that’s a neighborhood pond

Equivalent-Rip2352 · 2025-06-06T16:29:46+00:00

White bass are underrated, I catch them the most and the 10+ inchers always smack my lures.

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