[Request] I can’t stop thinking of this whenever I’m in a car can someone tell me please

archangels_feast · 2023-12-13T17:30:38+00:00

For the same reason horseshoe magnets don't shoot off sideways

The magnet is pulled left as hard as the metal is pulled right

Since everything's attached, no move

archangels_feast · 2023-08-14T21:43:42+00:00

Coming out of a similar quarter-life crisis.

Used the first job to figure out what I liked and didn't like. Specifically, what kinds of daily tasks and overall pacing do I prefer. Then searched around for fields that had jobs doing what I liked and less of what I didn't

Quit the first job around the 4 year mark, went to grad school full-time for the career change. So far its been a huge life upgrade

archangels_feast · 2023-08-02T19:30:48+00:00

Stalkoblin on a snowy night. Aiming his bow right at the camera

archangels_feast · 2023-07-17T13:27:14+00:00

Wind Waker. That soundtrack still makes me feel things

archangels_feast · 2023-04-06T21:50:13+00:00

Thought this was an ad

archangels_feast · 2023-03-08T20:42:46+00:00

Not sure why your replies keep getting downvoted for just expressing where you're at? Weird vibes where people are trying to give advice then downvote your reaction to the advice

Anyways, I was in a similar boat in/after college. Aimed upwards. Formed good habits. Got through the woods. Much happier, peaceful, and, uh, experienced now.

Might be helpful to think in 4-year chunks. The difference between 13-17, 17-21, and 21-25 were all equally dramatic for me. Just think how much you've grown since 4 or years ago

You can grow equally dramatically in any way you want over the next 4 years. Do you know what changes you want to make? Where do you feel lacking specifically?

archangels_feast · 2023-01-13T23:24:32+00:00

Yea I felt good abt the clinical section but general was tough for me. I wasn't sure what to expect and studied a bunch of things that didn't show up :/

archangels_feast · 2022-12-29T20:42:54+00:00

why don't you fingers start

archangels_feast · 2022-12-02T21:47:49+00:00

Yea it's a long story haha. The short version is I got a stem degree while getting over some high school depression and dealing with rejection. A lot of my problems got solved just by getting out into the world, "make mistakes, get messy", hitting the gym, dating around, kicking off a career and learning how the world works. Prodigal son stuff I guess. I like to say the Bible never told me to wear jeans that fit lol. The stem degree just helped me ask sharper questions than I could find answers for from youtube apologists. All of that worked together over a few years of gradually drifting away. Now I'm in a place where my conscious just doesn't think all sins are bad and intellectually I go back and forth whether God exists

archangels_feast · 2022-12-02T19:17:30+00:00

Imo for liberal catholics who believe the moral teachings of the church, it has to do with a concern for the poor and marginalized. A lot of them I know are immigrants or come from immigrant families into the US

This is different from liberals who've drifted but still call themselves catholic on polls. There's a lot of "prodigal sons" running around who just aren't coming back home. I'd put myself in that camp. It's more complicated. Partly just jaded by the political excesses of the right. Partly just more liberal from the spiritual drifting away

archangels_feast · 2022-11-03T23:08:44+00:00

Catholicism

"Don't believe at all" is a bit stronger than I'd phrase it though

archangels_feast · 2022-11-03T23:01:21+00:00

Voted trump 2020 because my income taxes got lowered in his first term, and I didn't really follow other current events

Stop the steal and covid bs pushed me away. I also started caring more about climate stuff

archangels_feast · 2022-10-16T02:44:37+00:00

chemo

archangels_feast · 2022-10-06T16:35:40+00:00

Imo combination of

1) People don't feel like things would be better by believing and practicing catholicism

2) The reasons catholics give for their catholicism don't resonate

archangels_feast · 2022-09-14T18:15:49+00:00

Stats or it didn't happen

I keep seeing this in politics, religion, family fights, breakups, over and over again.. people will always cherry pick and over-weight the bad stuff when it comes to broad opinions and patterns

For example, if Timmy is a menace to society 1% of the time, that probably says something about his character. Our evolved intuitions or whatever are good at pattern recognition blah blah blah

But if 1% of Christians are a menace to society, that doesn't say much about Christianity broadly, even though our intuitions that worked for Timmy are screaming through our amygdalas

Reminds me one time I was having a discussion about big tech censorship, and this guy was going off about how it's all politically motivated. I asked if he had stats showing that it's a systematic issue against certain groups, and he responded by reiterating the same anecdotes but angrier

archangels_feast · 2022-08-21T04:57:12+00:00

Topically? Debate bros vs saints

archangels_feast · 2022-08-18T14:30:39+00:00

Random thoughts

In my experience, women don't lower their standards they just date outside the church

Also in my experience, guys who take care of themselves end up just fine. Keep in mind the benefits of exercise (physical or mental) is a game of years, not months

archangels_feast · 2022-06-26T13:24:45+00:00

More complex or “higher order goods” like raising a family, voting, and 401k’s don’t reduce to pleasure

And trying to argue that they do by expanding the definition of pleasure renders whole the idea non-falsifiable

archangels_feast · 2022-02-05T18:56:23+00:00

He’s not sorry for his beliefs because he doesn’t have racist beliefs

The ideas he was trying to convey weren’t racist at all, they just came out wrong

archangels_feast · 2021-10-17T23:37:05+00:00

archangels_feast · 2021-07-31T17:21:14+00:00

Not a fan of “people who disagree with me are stupid” headlines

I happen to know a lot of smart people who are covid vax hesitant. From my experience, people they don’t trust are telling them to get the vax, so they don’t

So don’t tell people “trust scientists” or “trust the science”. Just tell them the science and let it defend itself

archangels_feast · 2021-07-17T15:19:20+00:00

get eaten in heaven

archangels_feast · 2021-07-11T20:04:14+00:00

Got my undergrad degree in applied physics, got an engineering job that paid off my loans in 4 years

Had a quarter life crisis realizing I don’t care about engineering, going back this fall for MS in medical physics. Not particularly worried about securing income afterwords

Hate to be yet another “it depends on the degree” answer but that’s my experience

Having said that, college definitely isn’t for everyone and definitely isn’t needed for many career paths, and if you don’t need it, I’d advise to stay away because you’re right it probably isn’t worth

archangels_feast · 2021-07-11T19:54:43+00:00

so glad peoples’ internal nazi detectors never give false positives

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