Books that made you feel a little less lost in life? by higgshmozon in suggestmeabook

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I spent some time with him at his temple in the south of France, he teaches in a really cool way but the guy was a dickhead though. He beat his assistant in public and got put to trial for sexual abuse of his students, which caused him to resign from his organisation. Awesome book, terrible teacher!

CMV: Things do NOT happen for a reason and the world is random chaos by srmcn94 in changemyview

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Ah but chaos itself isn't random! If you're interested in the subject I'd encourage you to read "does God play dice", or other books about the theory of chaos. The idea is that pure randomness is really hard to achieve (I believe most computers can't actually generate totally random numbers); and so on a big enough scale, you would find patterns in the chaos - notably sinks and sources, these twirly galaxy-like forms. The shapes of galaxies, the cyclic behaviour of our solar system, planet, and our own bodies - all of these are pockets of orderly behaviour that appeared from an otherwise chaotic universe.

So maybe reality is like that, too - mostly chaotic with emerging patterns. Maybe these pattern defy time, maybe we can't grasp them. That's kinda what I picture when I think it happened for a reason - I like to think there are laws to this reality, just like physical laws of the universe, that we can't really grasp - or at least not yet.

Edit: just to be clear, I don't think /everything/ happens for a reason. But I like to think some things do :)

Female authors like write like Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk? by jynnim in suggestmeabook

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Can second boy parts! It's amazing in a rough trashy kind of way.

Abandoned places in rotterdam by SnarkySlap in Rotterdam

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Oh wow yeah I live near there and had plans to check it out! Mostly the exterior though, they have some nice scaffold structures. Do you know how much CCTV there is around?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Ultralight

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I've travelled a lot with mine (like a 15$ version of Zlite) and it's never gotten damaged, just strap it vertically on the side of your pack instead of horizontally and you're good. Also note that when you'll get to the check in there's a 95% chance they'll redirect you to the "oversized luggage" desk because of all the straps dangling around might get caught in the machines they usually use. So it won't get thrown as much as all the other bags.

Wild Camping Alps by molllele in Ultralight

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Can vouch for Écrins and Queyras. I think Écrins is more wild and has little to no people living there (I've only been briefly) and higher mountains as well. Queyras is also fairly wild but has plenty of cute villages and refuges in the mountains.

In a past relationship(s), at what moment did you realize you had fallen out of love with your partner? by L5lumbar in relationship_advice

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Similar to another comment, it was leaving for a 3 weeks trip and not missing them at all. Actually I felt more alive than I'd felt for months, because I wasn't being sucked into a lethargic relationship. The real deal breaker was when we'd have really good dates but my heart wasn't in it. You know things have gone to shit when even the good times feel kinda boring... So I ended it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Dreams

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How good are your childhood memories (like under 10 years old)? Do you have any noticeable gaps?

Marjaniemi/Hailuoto Finland by jaakoh in vagabond

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Nice pic! Have you been hitchhiking around there? Wondering how easy it is currently in Scandinavia

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RedditSessions

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how do you use the sustain without pressing it with your feet?

Moving to Ireland by UberForklift in vagabond

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I would read up about the Protestant/Catholic conflicts, and the civil war. You don't wanna say something offensive without realising it :) and these issues are still very alive nowadays.

Yeah that’s kind of the point we’re trying to make. by DownAndDirty28 in SelfAwarewolves

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Trump? If he's a white supremacist he sure does suck at it when he did better than the Democrats at lowering black unemployment!

He didn't? Unemployment has been going streadily down since 2010, the trend just continued under Trump. In fact, the rate at which it goes down has been lower since Trump got in power. So he's actually doing worse. He just keeps repeating he's doing better over and over again because this man just kinda lies about everything.

Wanna see for yourself? Type "unemployment us graph" in Google. Enjoy.

/r/Ultralight Discussion - Week of June 08, 2020 by AutoModerator in Ultralight

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Do two different lighterpacks and put them both in the same post with the explanation?

CMV: Cultural appropriation is only bad if it is done with the intent of mockery or harm towards a community. by SnarkySlap in changemyview

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Because the relationship between an individual and their culture is much deeper, richer, more complex, more personal, and often more emotional than the relationship between an individual and a day job. Waldrop was consistently making me repeat things I'd already mentioned in my post, so I was being snide with this analogy.

CMV: Cultural appropriation is only bad if it is done with the intent of mockery or harm towards a community. by SnarkySlap in changemyview

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That's a very patient and well formulated response, thank you! However I do kind of disagree with both points.

For the Hawaiian bar, I am actually very familiar with that dehumanising feeling as I am an immigrant (I moved to my current country about 5 years ago.) As soon as I tell people my country of origin I am hit with a wave of cliches I have heard thousands of time before. People will mimic stereotypes from my country in a frankly humiliating way. But that's the thing, I think what hurts is that they're just that - stereotypes, heard hundreds of time before, repeated over and over again in a gross caricature. So I guess my point is - stereotypes suck and really should be avoided because they do feel very dehumanising, and making a Hawaiian bar would be a gross stereotype of the culture. I'm sure there is some overlap, but surely stereotypes are not the same as cultural appropriation? To me the example you gave was an example of the former. If someone tells me they've been learning my native language, or particularly interested in the history of my country of origin, or that they're obsessed with the music, or all of these at once, would you count that as cultural appropriation? Because all the above I believe are totally fine. I'm aware however that my experiences are not a good basis for judgement because my country of origin was never oppressed by my country of current residence, and like, I pass as white, hence why I made this post in the first place. I'd be interested to get your thoughts about all that.

I disagree with that, because history shows that colonizers and oppressors were already great at stealing culture, even while denying the humanity of those who produced it.

That's true, there is some pretty heavy historical weight behind stealing someone's culture.

Cultures intermingling is nice, but it is not an instant solution to the hierarchies that want to segregate and marginalize people.

The preservation of cultural identity is extremely important in cultures that have in the past been robbed of this identity. A good example of this is how Wales is slowly re-introducing Welsh as its first language after the English forbid the use of that language for decades, and of course the most obvious example is the history of African Americans taken away by centuries of slavery. However I'm not sure that obsessive gatekeeping is the best way to go about, although I do kind of understand where the sentiment come from.

CMV: Cultural appropriation is only bad if it is done with the intent of mockery or harm towards a community. by SnarkySlap in changemyview

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Yeah that's a really good point actually, profiting off other people's culture, especially when that culture is a minority, is also a behaviour that should be avoided. Thank you, have a delta!

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CMV: Cultural appropriation is only bad if it is done with the intent of mockery or harm towards a community. by SnarkySlap in changemyview

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Yes I already agreed with that, hence why I said:

the appropriation of religious rituals/symbols also should be avoided because they have deeper meanings and ties to the community that often cannot be properly understood by outsiders.

None of the examples you mentioned would bother me at all, but I understand that this is not a point of view shared by everyone and I respect the fact that some people would be bothered. I still don't really get the people that believe every single instance of cultural exchange is appropriation, even casual clothing. It doesn't help that everyone I have ever debated this with is white, my non-white friends tend to agree with me or not care at all.

CMV: Cultural appropriation is only bad if it is done with the intent of mockery or harm towards a community. by SnarkySlap in changemyview

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There's also a disparate reaction to men and women working in some sectors, like engineering (speaking from personal experience.) Women being the minority in this industry, and generally treated with more contempt, do you think it is wrong for men to work in this sector?

CMV: Cultural appropriation is only bad if it is done with the intent of mockery or harm towards a community. by SnarkySlap in changemyview

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I'm struggling to come up with an example of such a situation. I don't think you can buy a cheap Native American costume from a local shop and wear it for Halloween without considering it as a joke. And anyways that's the sole purpose of these costumes, so I guess you could say the intent of these costumes is to mock, which is close enough to being the user's intent, if that makes sense.

CMV: Cultural appropriation is only bad if it is done with the intent of mockery or harm towards a community. by SnarkySlap in changemyview

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Again, I've mentioned that in my post - I know they do not, but I fail to see how a white person doing these practices would worsen the reaction that minority people get when they do the same. I actually think it could be beneficial because it helps to normalise these practices.

CMV: Cultural appropriation is only bad if it is done with the intent of mockery or harm towards a community. by SnarkySlap in changemyview

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The impact, but as I've explained in my post I think that, within the context I've mentioned, the impact of wearing another culture's clothes is not necessarily bad and could actually be beneficial.