I remember in the 1800's and before parents would try to not get too attached to their children because infant mortality was so high. I think we have a similar situation today but what takes people from their kids is divorce.
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I spent my high school career obsessing over the girl I liked in high school. She didn't like me back. I think I was the most hurt when I tried to make myself believe she liked me. So goes with God. When you are a Christian you are forced to believe God loves you....
romantic love
Good article on relationships: You can fall in love with a wide variety of people throughout the course of your life. You can fall in love with people who are good for you and people who are bad for you. You can fall in love in healthy ways and unhealthy ways. You can...
Selfishness and Game Theory
You may be lucky enough to have good parents and caretakers that look out for you. Unfortunately these people may have instilled in you a sense that everyone else wasn't as selfish as they really are. Another factor might be that these people are older and come from a...
Mind Games, Authority Figures, and Authority Narratives
Want to play mind games? Then you need to buy into a figure of authority who are trying to get you to play them. Until then trying to play their mind games is a fruitless exercise. I say you must buy in to figures of authority, this is different than mere respect. ...
more on forgiveness
Naturally religion romanticizes things that have the powerless deferring to the powerful, like suffering, waiting, and forgiving. Specifically on forgiving, once a party is wronged they shoulder the burden of the wrong either way. If they forgive (which often...
Mind Game App Store 🙂
This won't happen in my life time but once we can upload things to our brains I think they will have a mind game app store. So you will finally be able to believe in any bullshit you want to, no matter how ridiculous it is. I could go to church and plug my brain...
axes of death
just because you haven't killed me vertically doesn't mean you haven't killed my horizontally by treating me like i'm already dead and then crying foul when i start believing it There are two axes of death. The vertical is physiological death, from perfectly healthy...
emotions ≠ circumstances
They have a term for sounds that don't arise from real-life events. They call it schizophonia. For example someone talking in the next room wouldn't be schizophonia but talking coming from the TV would be. I feel the same thing happens with us where our emotions...
time:
Time accrues. What you do when you are young is more important not just because those are your formative years but because those memories will live with you as long as you are alive. The earlier the memory the longer it lives with you (and influences subsequent...