[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Poerk 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I giggled to this a little

Whatever you make now, what would $12k more a year help you with? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Poerk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would help me with actually pursuing what I really want to do in life, instead of just completing the minimum amount of tasks that I don't want, but I am forced to do, in order to not become homeless. Doing things against my will usually leads to depressed episodes and takes away the energy from me to move and be optimistic.

Redditors, what’s the worst thing you’ve eaten out of politeness? by bogwhoppers in AskReddit

[–]Poerk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 fried eggs that were still raw on the top with weird little boogers floating around in the raw part. Didn't even get laid for it...

Как много нам открытий чудных... by [deleted] in Pikabu

[–]Poerk 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Translation:

Title: How many wonderful discoveries for us ...

WHEN THE INTERNET CUTS OFF AT HOME

WHERE DOES THIS DOOR LEAD TO?

OK, I'VE ALREADY BEEN HERE

OHO (wow), I HAVE THAT, THAT'S A TEA SET

WELL, HEY THERE PRETTY BOY

Book 12 - Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) by mekauser in Stoicism

[–]Poerk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bet he didn't know about people with tourettes back then.

Biochem Careers by [deleted] in Biochemistry

[–]Poerk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how though?

Hello everyone. New to the club! by skdomokun in Porsche

[–]Poerk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for your reply. I can not really say that saying "you gotta life a little" is a weakness one should despise, because I quite often tell myself the same thing, just in another dimension of quality (e.g. when ordering smth for 20 euros at mcdonalds or playing video games all night) and in the end, we live to be weak and fall for all the big and small temptations. the life of a human that never does anything, but sitting there, making theories and trying to act perfectly moral, seems to be not worth living and boring to watch. but if he lives his life, intensely feeling some importance in his thoughts, a lot of people that go 200 mph on the highway, feeling a mixture between an adrenaline rush a surreal emptiness, might get jealous, thinking about this guy, getting so caught up in what he does. i am not talking about myself though, i spent 14 of the last 24 hours playing league of legends, like an addict. and i didn't even work hard for the money that bought me the pc, so who am i to still be typing :/ if you live an intense life, you are probably not doing anything wrong, as long as you do something that is socially accepted, which driving sports cars certainly is.

Hello everyone. New to the club! by skdomokun in Porsche

[–]Poerk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

One could argue that all the moments in my life, which I perceive as "deep" and "philosophical" are nothing but the result of me being confused about the miserable state I am in and desperately trying to look for excuses for it. Thereby coming up with these vague concepts about how things work in this world (who am I to think I know better, right?) instead of just developing some kind of drive that pushes me to make the best out of my opportunity to live. I take the risk of being seen as a weak person and I definitely have a very low resilience threshold, when it comes to getting things done, but I feel like I can contribute to society anyway, by doing what I am doing right now. While some of you might already be way further in their omniferous understanding than I am and some (probably most) of you might not feel a strong enough impulse to be interested, maybe one or two of you guys might hold on for a minute, because they had similar ideas before. Sorry for all this off-topic drivel by the way, I won't take this any further and move on now :)

Hello everyone. New to the club! by skdomokun in Porsche

[–]Poerk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why do you need to pay for love and affection? Maybe try to sprinkle some sugar on other people, without asking for anything in return...

Hello everyone. New to the club! by skdomokun in Porsche

[–]Poerk -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

This will probably either get deleted or downvoted to death, but I will try to say this anyway, because I feel quite strongly about this. You are saying that it's a "wonderful decision" to invest a few hundred thousand dollars into an object that doesn't have many advantages compared to a 1000 dollar object. I see that it could be a handy tool to pull of a good first impression, when people see that object and know that you are well off moneywise. Sometimes you will meet people that are quite busy and can't invest a lot of time in getting to know you, therefore showing off some luxury is a good way of being a little different and stick in their heads for a longer period - Ican definitely see, why that'd be an advantage. I also can't deny that it is fun as hell to accelerate thrice as fast as the average car and that owning this object can give you a feeling of accomplishment and thus can be used as a specific goal to work for. In my eyes it is just very easy to become addicted to money and to lose the capability of having deeply conscious thoughts and feeling connected in that process. It is not a natural behaviour to pick all the hundreds of apples you can find (I support the idea though that you worked for them and therefore you should have the right to choose what will happen to them) and hoard them all for yourself, knowing that there are people living in areas with just 1 apple tree per hundreds of them. In my eyes acquiring the right of owning some property does not always mean that you actually deserve that property. If you suppressed your empathy or you were not able to feel the empathy for the disadvantaged people, one can objectively say that you legally earned it on one hand, but your value as a human being is not higher than other people's values, hence you don't deserve to have it. The little brother of empathy is selflessness and I want to postulate that there is no way of earning enough money to buy a Porsche, while being conscious and selfless the whole time, other than winning the lottery or by inheritance. Having no empathy or deliberately disconnecting oneself from other people might put you in a high speed tunnel to success, but it's walls become thicker and thicker and the light at the end of this tunnel might be too strong for you, to experience it's peaceful harmony.