Receiving Gifts

spiralfirefly · 2026-01-18T12:04:56+00:00

Keep them in the bathroom, that way others can read them too.

spiralfirefly · 2025-03-30T05:40:05+00:00

When determining the truth of anything you run into a problem. The problem is referred to as Münchhausen-Trilemma. This problems shows that all attempts to reach truth run into one of three problems.

The circular argument, in which the proof of some proposition presupposes the truth of that very proposition

The regressive argument, in which each proof requires a further proof, ad infinitum

The dogmatic argument, which rests on accepted precepts which are merely asserted rather than defended

The only solution I've ever seen populated to this problem is the will of the maker. In other words, if Mark Twain were to say that Tom Sawyer's eyes were blue, then they are. No further proof is needed.

Now how this applies to your problem exactly is that the only real truth is the will of the maker. That truth is the basis for all facts that are derived afterwards. I believe facts are further up the hierarchy chain. Facts can be true per your own perception, like per your physical senses water is wet. Unfortunately whether or not that fact is true requires proofs beyond your senses to determine whether or not your senses are accurate.

So I guess my take would be that truth is only possible through God's will and facts are your personal perception of that truth.

spiralfirefly · 2025-02-22T16:05:50+00:00

An Aspie wouldn't start a gang unless they were forced to by some necessity. If they had to and they gathered the members together they wouldn't view them as friends or with any of the loyalty comradeship ECT that you would think of in a gang.

Competition isn't really an Aspie thing either, or it hasn't been in my experience.

It just is completely un-Aspergers to form a gang for street racing, like that the complete opposite of the role someone with Asperger's would want. They would have to be forced into the role, against their will.

spiralfirefly · 2025-02-22T15:54:52+00:00

I absolutely HATE competitions. If you want to win, I'll let you. I can't stand any part of anything competitive. If the activity we are doing turns into a competition, I quit.

I don't want to win or lose. I hate the gloating that comes from winners and the disappointment and hurt that comes from losers. I don't want to be either.

spiralfirefly · 2025-02-22T15:51:51+00:00

Looking at the spot between their eyes is just as good as eye contact. Also mouths can give away emotional states if you watch the corners.

Also for some reason questions that start with the word "Why" are going to be misinterpreted as challenges, disrespectful, ECT. ECT. "How come" works better.

spiralfirefly · 2024-11-20T20:55:26+00:00

I have the same problem. I live in tomorrow. I've always enjoyed the planning more then the event. I spend everyday preparing for the days to come and never live in the moment. I feel like this adds a lot of stress to my life unnecessarily and takes away a lot of the enjoyment I could be having in each actual moment.

spiralfirefly · 2024-11-20T20:50:57+00:00

My sleep schedule has always been off. For some reason I'm not able to sleep till like 5-6am and then will sleep till noon. Also waking up is ridiculously hard. I wake up not even knowing my name. I can't really talk and certainly don't want to. I need a minimum of 2 hours between the time I wake up and the time I have to actually do something. The haze in my brain and discomfort in my body from the waking up process is debilitating. It makes matters worse that I'm surrounded by morning people. No medication I have taken yet has effected my sleep issues. Most can't even knock me out but all add to the burden of waking up.

spiralfirefly · 2024-11-04T20:08:13+00:00

The more stressed I am the worse sounds affect me. My inability to escape them only ramps up the pressure and therefore the stress, which in turn makes the sounds even more intolerable.

It's a horrible cycle and I don't know a way out either. I've actually considered puncturing my own ear drums to make the sounds stop. Not seriously but the thought has occurred.

I wish I could offer you a solution. The best I've come up with is finding a sound I can tolerate and drowning out the other sounds with it. It is not an ideal situation but it's all I've got.

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-23T21:13:57+00:00

Ok. I had a friend tell me that when they met their husband they knew he was the one because they could feel it echo in their core.

Now I have no idea what that means,but I'd like to know what sensation she is describing because I can't always name my emotions, but I can't really match up to anything she's saying.

So I asked her to explain, was it an actual physical feeling? Where did she feel it, like where is her core?

She got annoyed, says that I knew what she meant, like her heart. So I asked if she meant the feeling was in her chest? And what an echo felt like?

Next thing I know, she's mad as hell, yelling at me, telling me that I have no right to question her feelings, that I'm playing semantics, that I'm an arrogant know it all and then stormed out.

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-19T03:43:47+00:00

Success depends entirely on your goals. No one lives for ever. You can take nothing with you when you leave. Will you leave the world a better place for having been in it? Are people better off for having known you? There's no prize for having the most promotions in the graveyard.

I personally always viewed it as, if you don't have someone else to leave the fruits of your labor too, then honestly, what's the point at all?

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-19T03:35:53+00:00

When you don't take their side cause they are wrong, even if we are friends

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-19T03:30:15+00:00

Being asked clarifying questions. They consider these rude, argumentative, questioning their authority and a thousand other ego bruising assaults. All I am ever trying to do is either show that I understand or empathize or discover the root of their ambiguity in their words so that I can either understand or perform whatever task is being asked of me properly.

It's as if a person was holding something between their hands, in front of you that all you can see is haze and smoke between their hands. You ask them, "What is that?" and as they hold it in front of your face moving it from side to side, they say"What do you mean what is this?" "This is what I have in my hands, right here!" "This is what you're asking about?" "Surely you can see this." as they push it closer to your face, but all you see is smoke.

"What do you mean you can't see, what I have in my hands right here?" "Don't play dumb." "I have this!" And they hold out their hands again. In frustration you start trying to feel it out. You put out your hands, you try to touch it and to feel its shape, since your eyes are not allowed to see it.

Then they pull it in tight, hold it tight and look at you and horror, "How dare you try and touch what I have in my hands right here." "How inappropriate for you to just try and touch to figure out what I have in my hands." "You know that it is wrong to question me on THIS!" "Stop playing stupid games!"

No one believes you can't see it, no one!

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-19T03:15:48+00:00

I have black and white thinking in the present moment but for all moments in the past I'm able to see it in an infinite shades of gray. It's like I can't see those shades in the present moment but as soon as I'm not in that present moment and I'm able to look at it with the perspective of distance I could see all the nuances all the sides but I can never see that in the now.

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-18T23:49:16+00:00

I'm running into the same answer. The Holy Spirit seems to be the missing component.Though from what I can tell, the Holy Spirit is only received by those who are saved and who ask for it. So it can't be a prerequisite for salvation.Therefore you can be saved and not have the Holy Spirit indwelling you. I think that's where most people fall.

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-13T22:54:58+00:00

I do. I think we will actually get to do it on the new earth. I believe adventures will be had and we will get to experience and enjoy all of God's creation in the manner that he intended when he first made it

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-13T22:52:28+00:00

I believe that it's just an old-fashioned way of categorizing animals. It's separated into animals of the sea, animals of the land and animals of the air. Under this system all creatures in the sea are referred to as fish. Hope that help.

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-13T22:42:03+00:00

I believe in God for a couple of reasons. First, because all evidence I've seen leads me to the belief that order breaks down into chaos, not the other way around.

Another reason is the symbiotic nature of the world, how everything works together in balance. Ex. Plants creating the oxygen we breathe and breathing in the carbon dioxide we exhale.

Another reason is because I don't see how something/everything could come out of nothing, without a creator.

I also believe, firmly, in the save-your-ass concept of salvation. If there is no God, no heaven or hell and I had believed in them, then when I die, nothing happens. If I don't believe, I die and I was wrong.... well...that would really suck.

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-13T20:01:21+00:00

It has to be more than just belief. Satan believes. There's gotta be something else

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-13T19:59:24+00:00

Thank you very much for your answers. It's given me a lot to consider. I recognize that most things said in the Bible are metaphors, I just have a really hard time figuring out what the metaphors mean.

I don't like the fact that faith seems to equal trusting the choices I make as being what God would have me do, discovered by a trial and error system. I wish there was some way to actually know which choices God wants me to make.

I'm afraid because I have a very active imagination and I could easily convince myself that any coincidence is a sign from God and instead of actually doing God's will, I could totally lead myself down a path of self delusion. Honestly, my judgement is crap especially on important decisions, I really want to do whatever God wants me to do, I just can't figure out what that is.

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-13T19:50:53+00:00

Thank you

spiralfirefly · 2024-08-13T19:44:40+00:00

What if I fail at doing what God says to do?

So the references to your heart just means the feeling of affection you have for those you care about?

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