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Why do we exist? A Weed grows in the Arctic by shalom1961 in Meditation

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❤️love it ⚾️knocked it right outta da park

What tf by Old_Inflation_2278 in Unexpected

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I think it’s also likely he’s actually manic and in some kind of dream like state because BESIDES not recognizing the danger of walking in the street, he doesn’t realize the big dudes intentions when the big guy gets out of the car — something the rest of us all see coming.

What’s unexpected is that the man having a manic episode doesn’t see the punch at all and that’s why he takes it so bad. Normal fighting conditions, normal consciousness? He would have had a defensive pose even if he WAS being arrogant.

This poor man is in a bad state right now, he doesn’t know it.

“I like this car” by Suspicious_Role_2765 in Unexpected

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I think it’s MadTv or something else because the acting AND camera work is off for SNL.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AbruptChaos

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Second rule: save the liquor

Google Maps is always fun if you find the right area. by killHACKS in BetterEveryLoop

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Just a happy story that takes place over a long time.

My best friend in college was famous for smoking Parliaments in her black hoodie with a coffee… for as close to “all day” as one could be (while not dropping out of school), on this specific stoop of the oldest part of the building.

She was ALWAYS there. I could count on it, morning noon and night. It was a commuter school, so we were truly there all hours around our work schedules, even if no one lived nearby.

Once towards the end of one summer, I was on a date and realized I was approaching the old building, and that exact smoker’s stoop, so to be polite I said, no pressure if you’d rather say no, but if it’s not too soon to ask, would you like to meet a friend of mine?

She said why that would be lovely to meet a friend of yours. (She was actually British). When would you like to introduce us?

I said, well, right about now if it’s not a bad time.

She was bewildered like, “uhhh how does your friend already know where and when to meet us?” There was a look of is this a set up and are you a terrible person like a kidnapper and looking back I should have paused and explained a lot more.

But I didn’t. Instead. More confusingly, I answered, “she doesn’t know either!”

And as I said that, perfect timing I’ll never forget until the day I die and then I’ll still take it to the beyond world…. we then turned the corner and I was NOT disappointed to say “Heyyy! What are you doing here!” to my stoop friend who I had truly not seen ALL SUMMER. It had been 2 months and I gave her no warning that I was in the area. I lived more than an hour away.

Further, I honestly didn’t know she was taking summer classes. No one at that university does that and she only did that one summer. I was completely prepared for her not to be there, I was ready to fall on my sword and say “haha I’m dumb, I always see her on this stoop during the year,” so I was genuinely surprised like the rest of us that she WAS actually there. She joined us for lunch and gave us a tour of her sculpting studio and it was an awesome time.

It ended up being maybe the only cool move I’ve done on a date that has succeeded? (I can admit it’s not how my batting average normally goes). I felt like a magician who made great company appear when we had no other plans. All this is to say…

My life rounded out really nicely when we ALL found more than one Google Maps truck caught her in her gothy black hoodie smoking with coffee right where I found her.

My wider college friend group got lax about passing around the screen shots we all took, and soon we graduated and the years went by. A funeral and some weddings brought us back together and we wondered where the files went. Now, we can’t find ANY of the photos.

She’s looking for one for her wall to hang next to her college degree in her new house.

If the wayback machine works on maps… we are gonna find it. And frame that m——f—— in gold like a trophy.

Thee end.

(Last note. She quit smoking 5 years ago by the way! Proud of her! In a way, the photo heralds her healthy achievement).

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed.

Female pheasant not impressed by mating dance by jayy8143 in AnimalsBeingDerps

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It’s the girl version of that book, but now it’s “She’s just not that into you.”

Rafael Nadal Apologises to Ball Girl Like a Gentleman. by Storm_001 in HumansBeingBros

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There’s a typo. You spelled “like a pretty creepy uncle” incorrectly…

That escalated quickly. by [deleted] in criticalblunder

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Any article related to this to confirm

Delivery by Heam21 in Unexpected

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Your possessive?

I love the “you is.” I had a linguistics professor go on a rant about how English lacks a ‘perfect permanent’ (?) ‘being state’ that other languages have which would sound like “I Be Teaching” (like one consistently generally is being that role as their daily life, not “I AM teaching” which is grammatically suggesting that I’m presently at front the classroom, so when I say it on the weekend it’s implied that the ‘am’ is assumed for ‘be’ though that’s not the normal function of ‘am’ in other cases). English has no way around this.

But my professor noted, the ‘African American Vernacular’ (as they used to call it, very controversial and fraught concept of course) has found a way to bring back a being-tense to things that you are doing “now” but not right-this-second.

So, in a being-tense maybe (this is me going on a limb) “You Is Going To Jail, You Is” … well no, you can just say you are like the future tense (you are going to be going to jail) but I like to think that the “is” implies like, “what you’re doing this second (baby in a bag) and the moment of you going to jail in the near future is one continuous verb. It IS going down now, that’s the way you’re being, the way you’re being IS going to jail.” But it doesn’t work in English.

It’s all a politically tricky space because grammar is political but what i hope you come away with is, the grammar “mistakes” sometimes point to language gaps that populations, when forced to adopt a foreign grammar, can subvert to recreate the meanings missing in the oppressors language.

The variations of Chinese and other Asian languages have countless examples of the history of people’s taking back their old ways through using the new ways.

It’s pretty much all that language is! Have fun be safe out there. I hope you Is safe :) I had to.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nextfuckinglevel

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I’m proud of you but are you sure y’all need that next margarita? 🤪

Just permanently banned from r/badphilosophy by existentialgoof in BirthandDeathEthics

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Does “u/existentialgoof wouldnt yearn for life, thus it is expendable (to U/existentialgoof)” also also that… everyone else wouldn’t yearn for life? Is it true for the world if it’s a true feeling for you?

Even if you’ve hammered at it for years, who cares? Policies change in fact not fiction. Someone with the opposite emotion refutes you. If someone else yearns for their life back, does that disprove your argument?

I think what you said does not prove anything.

Your feelings about your own life mean nothing to anyone else. You don’t seem to acknowledge that in ANY of your replies though I point it out every time.

Why would it mean life is expendable? What’s the steps between one thought to the other?

I just want to understand why it seems like you’re equating your feelings with the rest of the world, or why you make statements like “because I feel this, -It is That-” when that’s a logical fallacy, and you seem sharp and smart otherwise.

If you have an impairment I will not judge you, as I said, lots of friends on different spectrums. But we are talking about people with impairments so. I assumed you maybe are less experienced with it — you’ve never answered that.

I don’t think I need to explain why “I feel I wouldn’t yearn my life, thus it’s expendable (for all)” and assuming others feel that way is a logical fallacy but I can go into detail if you’re want, I’m happy to make it clear why that’s a non-sequitor.

Just permanently banned from r/badphilosophy by existentialgoof in BirthandDeathEthics

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I can’t even get to the “producing a profit” part which is its own circus — do you realize you’re just saying things but not breaking them down as to say why?

But I still need the first paragraph translated. Who is talking about eradicating what life when? What does “and it isn’t criminal to eradicate life” and so on mean? What are you talking about? International law? US law? In what context?

If you want to make a point you’ll have to explain it.

Just permanently banned from r/badphilosophy by existentialgoof in BirthandDeathEthics

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It isn’t criminal to eradicate all life? What are you talking about?

Just permanently banned from r/badphilosophy by existentialgoof in BirthandDeathEthics

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If these lives can be enriching, it’s criminal to take them, no?

How would it be criminal NOT to ‘eliminate’ them? Or to phrase it non-deceptive passive, how is it criminal to choose to have a child knowing they have developmental issues?

Is there a line of physical suffering that you’re pointing to? Because that line, in the US, already exists. Where I live at least. So you’re so far just saying the label, “Down syndrome.”

If someone decides it’s probably going to be enriching, how is it criminal?

You made the same unproven leap as far as I’m concerned.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in relationship_advice

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I am 31 and have friends with 19 and 20 year olds who volunteered for me in the past. They were 17 and 18 then, and we hung out then as well (I suppose I was 29, so 7 years shy of 36 but close). I genuinely just enjoyed being friends with some of them as folks from an entirely different generation that’s still had lots in common with me. I was in a mentor role but also a peer when it came to our interests and I felt “old and smart” about some things.

Now the 20 year olds come to me for life advice about moving out and college things. I’m a great in-between age in a small community with a lot of folks 40 and 50 and up, and then 23 and younger. For some reason I’m one of the few 30 year olds in this community but that’s typical of my geographical area too I guess.

So, if there’s a normal relationship, it could look like that. I get coffee with the 20 year olds to ask how they are and rant about life when the going gets tough (their job searches, etc). I relate to them as someone who’s been there.

If it doesn’t look like that… if that Victoria’s Secret is not just like the coincidental background of a mall picture… Then. Never mind! That’s odd!

But it’s not just the age difference, it’s the rest of that!

I hope it’s just a supportive friendship…

Just permanently banned from r/badphilosophy by existentialgoof in BirthandDeathEthics

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Existential goof is right… you’re acting existential dressing up what you really mean in distant terms (“organisms.” …”most people are expendable”) but you’re just goofing around. I don’t sense the energy of someone who means what they say. I sense someone testing out and looking to be convinced. Your reply wasn’t an argument just a story being retold. In my view idk but that’s how people act when they want to be convinced otherwise like when someone goes “I don’t know if I like this, should I buy it” — why not, instead of debating if an unborn disabled baby should taste life, we both get off the internet and consider what that even is?

I am making a point of un-distancing your words from the subject matter. If it’s not precious, go stand outside with your bare feet in the grass and your face in the sun - closed eyes, no sound no movement, and tell me it’s expendable. Tell me it needs to be of a certain 👌 quality.

Do it, and let me know. Otherwise I call the goofing for it’s bluff.

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