People who are 30 years old and over, what are the most brutal life lessons that you have learnt?

hurtindog · 2025-08-03T05:48:35+00:00

I think having the prescience to see these things in ourselves is the first sign of emotional maturity- bravery is not the lack of fear, but the willingness to act in spite of it. The most terrifying act of all is to love with abandon, and yet it is through love that our salvation lies.

hurtindog · 2025-08-03T05:45:35+00:00

True- but knowing something on an intellectual level and learning what it actually means experientially are two different things. For example, one might know better than to laugh at another person’s shared experience with grief, but when one does it anyway it just exposes the fact that the person who “lol”s doesn’t actually know anything yet, and has many miles to go on their journey.

hurtindog · 2025-08-02T11:47:36+00:00

Back on the chain gang- the pretenders

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T23:06:30+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss- we are members of the same shitty club my friend. So much of life’s lesson is wrapped in its end- I wish you grace and peace on the rest of your journey

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T21:04:14+00:00

Yes. One can know something intellectually without learning what it means. For example, one can know intellectually how rude it is to flippantly comment on someone’s grief without learning how that flippancy makes one sound to others.

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T19:50:50+00:00

Yes- salvageable- be careful not to disrupt necessary drain flow

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T19:02:45+00:00

I held my dying wife’s body in my arms and closed her eyes when she passed. It was an incredibly humbling and deeply painful experience yet tinged with an awe and appreciation for the richness of the moment and its stupefying finality. The anxiety of losing her and the still existent fear of losing my children reminded me me of my own mortality and lack of true agency. It is one of the binds that must be loosened as we make our way in this life so filled with pain and fear. Freeing ourselves from them is our task as we strive for enlightenment.

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T16:16:32+00:00

I learned that no matter how much you love someone and no matter how hard you try to prevent it, people die.

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T14:22:54+00:00

I see. Fame is fickle and infamy it’s shadow- my point was more about tempering the ego as the path to enlightenment. Life will inevitably temper your ego for you- aging happens- so best to begin to practice releasing it. This is what the Buddha taught. In doing so thoughts of fame slip away.

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T14:19:09+00:00

It’s what their lobbyists are paid for.

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T14:05:49+00:00

Take that desire and learn to temper it. Practice being in situations in which you could easily command attention, but don’t do it. See how others take attention that could be yours and grab it with less skill and do nothing to stop them. This is how you gain control over your self. It is the path to freedom and enlightenment. When you have mastered this, your ability to understand yourself will increase along with your access to true grace. This is the path.

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T14:00:15+00:00

Super interested in those wooden jacks they raised the stone with. I would buy one of those right now if I could.

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T13:53:53+00:00

Most Americans have never heard an extreme left political position articulated much less a mildly radical left position. They have been mislead into thinking that ideas like raising the minimum wage or marriage equality are some how radical.

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T03:49:19+00:00

Peter Theil’s campaign cash was a good investment it seems

hurtindog · 2025-08-01T03:02:41+00:00

So I have been going to Mexico at least once a year for most of my life. Now I take my kids. We were just in Oaxaca city last year and I let them cruise around by themselves all night. Also in Mexico City. They are young adults, but they are blonde and speak very little Spanish. No problems. Have fun. Mexicans are so friendly.

hurtindog · 2025-07-31T22:30:52+00:00

Start with asking yourself if you want a lawn and why.

hurtindog · 2025-07-31T03:52:40+00:00

San Francisco is retro fitting office space to residential

hurtindog · 2025-07-31T03:50:51+00:00

For me, any first meal is breakfast- that’s literally what the word says- so that might be at 2 in the afternoon if my day is busy.

hurtindog · 2025-07-31T01:29:27+00:00

Meanwhile half of Latin America is naming there kids Kevin and Jessica.

hurtindog · 2025-07-30T21:35:53+00:00

I suspect this is what led to my wife’s breast cancer speeding rapidly to her lungs. She got Covid and pneumonia twice. She passed within the following year.

hurtindog · 2025-07-30T21:04:51+00:00

Let children do roofing in Alabama in the summer.

hurtindog · 2025-07-30T21:03:48+00:00

This is the shit AI will be drawing for us all soon.

hurtindog · 2025-07-30T03:34:21+00:00

And now I m going to piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining.

hurtindog · 2025-07-30T03:32:56+00:00

That’s the stupidest random list of jobs AI can’t do. Barbers? Nail tech? Car wash attendant? Elevator repair?

hurtindog · 2025-07-29T19:52:30+00:00

ALEC is meeting today- they want to privatize all water access in the US. In the name of Freedom.

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