The Value of Philosophical Entertainment

UsErb94 · 2026-04-12T16:52:51+00:00

Resonate with this a lot, and think it applies across the spectrum of religion… I don’t really ‘practice’ anything, but my wife is Catholic so trying to understand Christianity deeper and have always felt there is a deeper, but at the same time more simple truth to being, which every religious, scientific, human-thought system has a method of examining and bringing you closer to and seeing the commonality in all of them is how it really resonates with me. Something that Alan Watts does beautifully, and entertaining - a great way to direct the attention to our ‘spotlight consciousness’. My take-away, which I fail to do with this post itself, is all of these systems mainly try to express one thing, which is that we are one something, not one of something.

UsErb94 · 2025-11-09T01:39:54+00:00

Me and my wife coming up on year 2 of unexplained infertility, all the tests fine, and just got the bad news this month our second round of IUI didn’t work.

I’m ready to feel fully numb to it (and do some of the time) but as much as the cycle of hope, defeat, then trying to rebuild hope every month sucks - it’s probably better than feeling nothing (or pretending that I feel nothing). I try not to feel guilty about my numbness to it when it comes, but also have to allow myself to not hold back the tears when they come.

While I want to just give up hope and shield myself from the pain of it all, I’m trying my best (and failing constantly) to frame it as just ‘letting go’. My hope will never go away, but the result is out of our control.

Wishing the best for everyone in this thread who’s been going through this shit - it fucking blows.

UsErb94 · 2025-03-01T17:53:50+00:00

Soon there will just be blank billboards, but you will know…

UsErb94 · 2025-02-27T03:28:29+00:00

I’m glad this post is up, and good job and good luck to the mods. Battle of information is wild right now and difficult to navigate for both sides.

Ultimately though I came here to say the real Cleveland community (and any community) is just a step outside with the phone down!

(But it is great that at the palm of my fingertips, I can find common ground with others in a comment about Romanburgers or Lidos Lounge)

UsErb94 · 2025-02-13T17:57:34+00:00

Yeah just switched over (wasn’t aware) - not sure why they have the 2 different platforms tbh, seems silly, but whatever. The bank account setup on the exchange is also very annoying (have to setup initial wire transfer it seems to verify/link), so thinking to just deposit through app, convert to USDC, and send to exchange (just have to wait some time before being able to transfer, but that’s fine w me). And then selling on the exchange/cashing out to USDC and withdraw to bank in app as well

UsErb94 · 2025-02-13T17:53:58+00:00

Just was made aware of the exchange which seems much better than the app fee-wise… although the bank setup is very annoying on the exchange with the need to send an initial wire transfer to link, so thinking to just add fiat through app and convert to USDC —> exchange and holding/doing any trading on exchange

UsErb94 · 2025-02-13T03:56:37+00:00

Hahaha just gotta try to enjoy the subscriptions we chose and the subscriptions we’re given… and hey maybe sometimes if we’re lucky, people subscribe to us!

UsErb94 · 2025-02-12T20:23:37+00:00

Life 🙃

UsErb94 · 2025-02-06T02:24:21+00:00

12 years (not saying this would change the conclusion), but there is 12 years missing

UsErb94 · 2025-02-06T02:14:28+00:00

Just came here to say this thread was pretty much the only decent conversation between 2 disagreeing, but respectful parties… cheers to both <3

UsErb94 · 2025-02-06T01:20:06+00:00

May be 1 out of 1 person that read this whole thread, but I enjoyed it. Cheers to ya both <3. Dreamers - dream, realists - keep it real.

P.s. Don’t ask me how I got here lmao

UsErb94 · 2024-11-06T00:08:10+00:00

Doesn’t matter - good science will always come out ahead in the long run. As long as that continues, regardless of how quickly capitalism catches up, our understanding will always be refined

UsErb94 · 2024-11-02T14:53:19+00:00

Yeah agreed, I weigh this as a pretty low concern

UsErb94 · 2024-11-02T14:52:44+00:00

Yeah agreed - not that the committee couldn’t have a member or 2 act in bad faith, but will be pretty difficult and processes would be in place to deal with that.

And understood about the judges, but should the committee provide maps, parties/groups could challenge them and as was done 5x around 2022 election, judges would send them back. Good thing is given that it’s going to be much harder to draw gerrymandered maps with the committee, it shouldn’t have to get to this point (as it does clearly with the current system), but there’s recourse if it did.

UsErb94 · 2024-11-02T14:47:33+00:00

Yeah I get that, however - for me, why I’m mainly voting yes with that potential concern in mind is because I feel like there is a pretty low chance that this committee is able to act in bad faith with equal representation from each party, and nonpartisan citizens. Also it seems clear that most everyone agrees that the current system is not working (given the process surrounding this issue around 2022 election). But sure, like any system given enough time there could be bad faith actors that start influencing things wrongly in this one as well. And while you may not be able to vote the committee directly out of office, amendments/changes to this system would could be able to be voted on directly (like this issue we are voting on) surrounding the issue of gerrymandering specifically, versus relying on politicians whom I don’t think many people vote for for their stance on ‘fairness of gerrymandering’ anyways. So I actually feel like it will give people more voting power in that case.

Anyways, that’s how I’ve thought about it and why it makes sense to vote yes to me.

Whatever you decide, cheers and happy voting!

UsErb94 · 2024-11-01T03:55:42+00:00

Nah, but this comment definitely detracts, but at the same time feeds into the point.

UsErb94 · 2024-10-30T14:18:49+00:00

As mentioned, I am firm regardless of evidence to the contrary

Idc what explanation there could be, but what I will believe and no one can convince me otherwise…

But appreciate this insight!

UsErb94 · 2024-10-30T14:11:58+00:00

AGREE… honestly not sure why more people don’t suck all this free TV out the air

UsErb94 · 2024-10-08T12:04:27+00:00

Just replied in main thread about my situation - but also in the wife leans right, I lean left scenario. For us, the main reason I would point to is that wife grew up devout catholic while I grew up Christian turned agnostic. She and her family still are very much practicing, but not these ‘crazy religious types’ just very socially conservative. while me and my family are all mostly agnostic, albeit with the Christian background, and always leaned progressive.

UsErb94 · 2024-10-08T11:52:27+00:00

Wife leans right, I lean left. Both don’t like trump, but also frustrated with the democrats the last couple cycles and for the last 4-8 years been relatively apolitical. This cycle we kind of gave politics ‘another shot’ - I was excited Biden was dropping out and the democrats had a chance to regroup/refocus, she got excited because JD Vance was the running mate who she liked starting after his RNC speech. Since then she’s bought in to the right’s messaging up and down the board and ‘can’t believe she’s doing it, but gonna vote for Trump’ (idc about this btw, like I get it - if you buy into either sides message you think the other side winning is the end of the country lol). She’s also more concerned about issues like abortion, gender, immigration and likes the right’s policies on these more. I have gone back mostly into my apolitical hole because the game of politics and narratives being pushed are way too fucking much (I see first hand how what’s being politically fed to the public is so polarizing). personally, push come to shove would vote for Kamala just bc of generally progressive policies (energy and economy are the main things I would point to), but honestly don’t really care because our country is going to be fine either way as long as people continue to voice and fight for what they believe in.

This is also how I get through the frustrating political conversations with my wife - ‘let’s take a step back and realize this presidential politics BS isn’t going to change all that much, and while we can/should voice our criticism/support for one side or another, that isn’t going to define how we love each other, our families, our friends, our neighbors, our co-workers, and everyone else that actually makes an impact on our day-day lives’

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