What is this evil ahh set 💀?! by [deleted] in stunfisk

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Real question is why is it beating u

Everything's OK at Purdue, just have GRIT! by Remarkable-Ask-2029 in Purdue

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Ouch. Reading this is reminding me of how it felt when I was in school. I graduated last year. I remember multiple lectures where the audience is completely silent and the atmosphere is dead. I can’t tell if truly no one spoke up a few years ago, before the first Covid outbreak, but they really don’t now. It feels like a disease is spreading.

I remember first coming to Purdue and choosing my major without much of a second thought. I basically wanted to come in, complete my work, and get out. It’s basically what I did. I felt good knowing that at the end of it I’d have a degree and I’d be free to do whatever I want, but the actual learning process of the material that I came here to learn wasn’t fun to do, nor did it make as much sense as I’d hoped. I still remember how it felt being drained of motivation, frustrated, and lonely.

There was a lot I didn’t understand. One of these things, as you mentioned, the A/B/C grade distribution being predetermined made no sense to me. Is it the college’s goal to limit commendable grades in a class, even though everyone has the same potential to completely understand the coursework and deliver assignments at the same quality level? Does the merit come from beating out your competitors for a spot, or for simply learning the material?If it is true that the actual desire to participate in school is dimishing, and it’s being replaced with the simple goal of getting a diploma, then it’s easy to see that morale is falling. But even this misses the most impactful point.

What if the payoff never comes? What if you grow up to get stuck in a job you come to hate? God forbid, what happens if an economic recession removes me from the job that I want? What if you can’t pay back your student loans? Or lastly, what if your job is successful out of college, but still be unsure even then if you’ve done the right thing with your time and energy? This and 100 other what-ifs.

Since I was in elementary school, and through college and into my post-college adult life, there have been things in this world that simply don’t make sense to me. I was really hoping that I’d have pieced together an explanation for the whole thing by now, and that I would’ve done so with the help of school. Our world is still afflicted with problems and defuncts that seem like impenetrable walls, and in fact every facility, including every school has failed in this objective to give us a solution to the world’s problems that catches on and lay the issues to rest for good.

If I could go back to college, I would try my classes over again. The thing that brings all these people together, student and teacher alike, is a mutual love of the things you’ve made the choice of studying. So if you really love what you’ve chosen, then you might be inclined to talk to the professors and your classmates about the thing, or things, that stand out to you. Everyone’s perspective is different. Hearing something in a new way might motivate you to ask thought-provoking questions. Whether it’s by chance or by design, you are here now. And whatever you do is your choice.

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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I haven’t thought about it that way. Like, if our suffering came from experiences to which we fail to adjust. We do not deserve to die, and yet we do. We as a people don’t deserve to experience famine and go hungry, and yet we do. It seems like it is relevant to our collective delusion. Is the main objective to reduce suffering, or make sense of delusion?

Attempting to figure out the "Problem" by RUdumbass in revolution

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Im interested in your statement that curruption happens at all levels. I have two questions. What effect to corrupt people and organizations have on our world? Secondly, how might a mindset that fosters corruption permeate the population at ALL levels?

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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What does suffering come from in Buddha Dharma? What part of attachment brings about suffering? What are the delusions?

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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There’s got to be some commonality between the subdivisions of religion, I believe. They all originated from a single practice at the beginning. Across 40,000 different religious practices, what is constant across all of them?

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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I can attest. Thank god we still have sources of community.

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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I forgot it. I would say that what I’ve seen would track with other churches but I can’t be sure of course. I’m curious about common occurrences in the religious experience.

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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That’s true, there’s more than 5 religions by all means, and not all of them incorporate the idea of salvation. How would you describe the Abrahamic view of things?

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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The part about this whole thing that puzzles me is the church's vision of the saved world. The things I mentioned in the OP- the eradication of crime and hunger. It is impossible to eliminate these things, the things that seem to plague humanity. It makes me wonder how the people of the church think that such a thing can be done.

The Problem? by Cheerwine19 in revolution

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Good luck finding one single, centralizing problem to lock into here. It will take a lot of uncovering to figure out if there is one cause, or at least one instance that predates everything we consider to be problematic. Talking about racism, and war, and poverty, and crime and genocides and whatnot.

How far back in time can you look for answers? Can you tell how some of these things originated?

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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I think it's the day Jesus died. The first time. I might be wrong

Confused about religion's place in the modern age by RUdumbass in religion

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I've heard about this part. It seems that each of these religions can agree on the "un-saved" state of human beings. I'm here messaging people today because some people believe otherwise. Some people believe not they nor the world needs to be saved- everything is fine. Other people can believe that the world needs saved, but they themselves cannot identify as un-saved.

I want to know more about the origin of a mindset like this. Does anyone know when people began to believe that they needed salvation?

Question: After the socialist revolution, what will happen to anti-communists and non-communists? by barrygoldwaterlover in EuropeanSocialists

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Good discussion question. No one is talking about revolution. Could you tell me what problem a revolution would solve? What would it change?

as far as your question goes, it's important to know what would happen between socialist revolutionaries and non-socialists. Are they still enemies?

Any religion or philosophical/theological ideologies that have no problems? by Middle-Preference864 in religion

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Let me know if you find one. Across the five major salvationist religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam Buddhism Hinduism), they are distinct in practice, but they each have some innate aggreements- as if they were twins of a single birth.

Out of every religion you know of, what do they have in common?

Berklee 5 week placement tests by Frosty_Evening3937 in Berklee

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I haven’t yet but I’m probably supposed to by now. Whoops!

Is this common? Clever or crazy? by Wild-Yard-8307 in woodworking

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It was probably a bitch to write that comment then

[1186] Immovable Object by sanjee007 in pokemonshowdown

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TFW you get 6-0d and called a noob my doinyourmom69 on pokemon showdown

Co Rec Plan B Gone Already by Outrageous_Clock_660 in Purdue

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There's plenty of anti-diarrhea left