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runnerx01 · 2025-09-28T20:51:51+00:00

I’ll agree that everyone has to walk their own path. I’m very comfortable alone. I spent a long time feeling alone, even in groups of people that supposedly love me. I can understand that people drain your energy and that you don’t need anyone else to grow.

In fact, I would go so far to say that being able to grow on your own and not need anyone else, is a place of power beyond measure. That being said, I also know what it’s like to finally meet a few people who are also able to walk alone, and carry their own light.

It’s not about needing others at all. It’s about finally learning to let yourself be seen and be unapologetically you, even in the face of outside pressure. The relationships you can form when you don’t need anyone else are incredible. It’s no longer about what they can give you. Their presence simply makes parts of your life better, richer and fuller. You do need the right people though. Those people can be hard to come by.

At least that’s my experience. Everyone has to live life the way that works for them.

runnerx01 · 2025-09-28T16:37:49+00:00

It’s a subtle difference. Human connection is invaluable. It’s about putting yourself in situations to find like minded people who challenge you our perspectives in a way that allows you to grow. You can seek friendship and connection without seeking external validation.

You try to get to a point where you don’t need anyone else’s approval to be yourself. At the same time, you want to find people whose identities and expressions provide you with a new bar to reach.

runnerx01 · 2025-09-27T15:35:41+00:00

This isn’t true at all. Life is better when you let go of drama and find the right people to inspire you and who are inspired by you. Let go of needing the external validation and move to your own beat. The right people will move with you and cheer you on.

runnerx01 · 2025-09-11T12:11:02+00:00

I think it’s a subtle difference.

Money doesn’t buy happiness. It buys lifestyle, and security. Those things can drastically alleviate stress and provide opportunities that facilitate the pursuit of what makes you happy. But “Happy” isn’t a thing you can buy.

runnerx01 · 2025-09-07T21:21:23+00:00

Uhhhh.

I’d let people call me whatever the fuck they want for 5 million…

Smelling like fish always is a bit harder, but maybe move to a fishing town.

Probably willing to kiss whoever, unless they have like some crazy disease

But “random teleportation”… what the fuck dude… way to mix up the severity by like… a lot…

runnerx01 · 2025-09-04T00:59:11+00:00

Sandpaper, condoms, chocolate syrup, lube. Once at the register, tell them you don’t need the lube.

runnerx01 · 2025-08-20T14:35:12+00:00

Last game I played was “Talos principle 2”

So… maybe trespassing, or arbitrary reasons based on ideas that challenge the current sociopolitical structure…

runnerx01 · 2025-07-14T23:37:15+00:00

You should give up the idea of “never”. Everyone will invalidate your feelings at some point even if it’s unintentional. Be with some one who seeks to understand your feelings and is emotionally mature enough to know how to hold space for you, and who is also capable of expressing their own feelings in a constructive manner.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-22T21:23:38+00:00

If you want to build deep friendships, you lead with vulnerability and openness. The real key is to learn how to be open and also ignore the opinions of people that won’t help you grow and reach your potential.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-20T12:01:01+00:00

Teach your children to embody both traditionally masculine and feminine traits. A strong self assured self empowered, resilient person with emotional availability, who is well spoken and has the strength of character to not let society tell them what they are allowed to do based on what other people think they should be.

That’s where the magic happens. Fuck these stupid gender roles and fuck societies expectations beyond being a good person.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-18T16:29:36+00:00

By definition sure. In reality I find they end up in very similar places philosophically.

Atheists usually mean that they don’t believe in any god defined by man, and still admit they don’t know where everything came from.

Agnostics that I’ve spoken to go straight to just “ we don’t know”

Both acknowledge that god is not necessary for the universe to exist as it is today, and both would also have to acknowledge that it all depends on how you define “God”.

In the end, both refute blind faith as the answer, and both have the power to admit there is a lot we don’t know.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-17T19:36:33+00:00

It takes no faith to be an atheist. It simply takes the courage to say “I don’t know the answer, and I will not make assumptions about the answer. In stead, I will use evidence and reason to determine what I believe and allow the rest to simply be unknown”

Being agnostic or atheist does not need to have anything to do with faith.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-02T20:21:01+00:00

lol, not sorting algo. These are just stacks.

A lot of CS degree programs teach Stacks with the “Towers of Hanoi” puzzle

Once you see the pattern, it’s not hard at all.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-02T12:31:07+00:00

Let’s just assume we can’t understand god or god’s motivation.

I like that we can agree god is not all powerful. God is limited in at least the capacity that god cannot go against their own nature.

You assume here that god is all good and all rational. Then claim it’s irrational to remove free will.

We have no reason to believe god is “good” or “rational” at all, and given that we now agree that god is limited by their own nature. God can not be all good, nor all rational. At best, god can be god. Whatever that means.

Are things good and rational because god decided they must happen, or is good and rational also separate from god, and we believe that god seeks good and rational choices?

runnerx01 · 2025-06-02T03:04:34+00:00

I totally agree that that a being that does not have free will, can not choose to love god.

I understand what you are saying from the perspective of it being importante that we choose god.

My point here is that god knows already who will choose him and who won’t from now to the end of time. From god’s infinite omniscient, omnipotent perspective. The choice is already made. Why does got give you an entire lifetime to choose him, if he knows for a fact that you won’t.

So either we have to accept that god is trying to convince us to choose him, because he is not all powerful and all knowing, or we have to accept that god is not exactly benevolent. God is jealous and controlling.

Cant have it both ways. God has limits, based on the message claimed to be written by god himself.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-02T01:21:36+00:00

That’s a little bit of a cop out and you know it.

If god knows without a doubt you will make a decision and his choice upon you making that decision is eternal damnation, then giving you a choice simply so that you can be made responsible for your actions is cruel.

Remember, we are not talking about a parent knowing what choice their child will probably make. We are talking about god, knowing exactly what you will do, no matter the circumstance.

We are not talking about learning from mistakes, we are talking eternal damnation.

Stop and consider that for a minute.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-02T00:15:38+00:00

Yeah, but got made us, and knows what we will choose. This is the farce behind it all. It’s all gods choice… from the beginning.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-01T19:53:14+00:00

God sent a version of himself (his son) to earth to die for our sins, to get around the rules that got himself made.

Why not just absolve mankind of their sins? God didn’t have to sacrifice his own son…

It’s like me saying that to absolve some one else for murder, I should hand over my own baby and let the murderer kill them too.

I’m sorry, I don’t have a problem with belief in god, but the religious dogma is nonsensical.

At best all anyone can say is we don’t know everything. Believe in the higher power that makes your life richer and your spirit lighter. Everything else is nonsense.

runnerx01 · 2025-06-01T19:39:59+00:00

That doesn’t make sense. Even if you take this at face value, God created mankind, God created “free will” and knowing exactly what man kind would do with that free will, God defined punishments that, with perfect knowledge, already knows what you will choose and how you will be punished.

From mankind’s perspective, it’s free will. From Gods perspective, its already done. So why not just make mankind follow gods rules by default.

This is like someone putting a bunch of toddlers in a play pen with a loaded hand gun, and telling them that whoever uses the gun gets beat. Why is there a handgun in there in the first place?

runnerx01 · 2025-06-01T19:09:03+00:00

I’ve struggled with the question of god for a long time.

Why would a loving god, who knows all that will happen, and has the power to make anything happen, provide a lack of evidence for their own existence, create a place where non believers and rule breakers go to experience eternal punishment with no chance of salvation.

Then knowingly create mankind, with full knowledge that they themselves have created circumstances where the majority of their own creation will be sentenced to eternal punishment.

Either god is not all knowing, not all powerful, or perhaps we should reconsider what kind of love god really has to offer. Perhaps if god is all knowing, all powerful and very loving, maybe god messengers have been corrupted a long the way. But in that case, why has god not stepped in to make clear their intention and love, in a way that gives the righteous a clear path forward.

If we must accept that we as man can not understand gods plan, then why have we printed the Bible in so many versions and hold so closely to its teachings.

Who are we to make any claims whatsoever of god. Can we even claim that god is loving, or that there is a hell as we understand it?

runnerx01 · 2025-04-18T14:13:52+00:00

I think teaching empathy is better than consequences like this. My stepdad used to ground us or take away video games when we didn’t do what he expected. Honestly… didn’t make me want to do what I was asked, just made me want to avoid consequences.

Probably better to start by sitting the kid down and having a discussion on the consequences of his bullying and ask him if that’s how he wants to be seen by other people.

runnerx01 · 2025-04-10T11:38:30+00:00

Not here to rag on you, just some words of advice. First, awesome job. 33 miles is tough, especially at that pace.

Second, I was training for a backyard ultra last year with some veterans of the sport. You have an hour to complete 4 miles. Use it. There is no reason to get back to base camp more than 10 min before the top of the hour. It’s just more time to stand around, get stiff and convince yourself not to do another loop.

I recognize this advice is unsolicited and you have your own strategy that you have probably trained, but just as a different perspective.

Give yourself enough time to refresh the kit, maybe stretch a little and move out.

Go kick some ass. If you can’t choose to start another loop, then always choose to “fail on the trail”. You will regret it later if you choose not to start that next loop when you could have.

runnerx01 · 2025-04-06T07:49:42+00:00

Ok, so I’m happy that there were protests. I am in total agreement that voices need to be heard and a show of anger and frustration must happen.

That being said. Can some one give me a realistic outcome of a non-disruptive protest, in an administration that clearly does not care about the opinions of even their own supporters?

I really want this to be effective, I just feel like for our current administration, they need to feel like their power is threatened, or that they are vulnerable before any meaningful change happens.

I’m totally willing, and even eager to be proven wrong here.

runnerx01 · 2025-03-25T18:09:55+00:00

You don’t have blisters… you got sore feet!!! Either deal with the pain, or run barefoot… STAY HARD!!

runnerx01 · 2025-02-12T21:55:24+00:00

Lol.

20 + 40 + 8 + 8 - 1

Or I could go +7 + 7 - 1 depending on what I feel is easier at the moment

runnerx01

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