There has been rarely A day that I have missed smoking weed for almost 38 years.. I quit once for a yr because of probation (for weed) which I don't count because It wasn't my choice. After I got off probation I remember the 1st day lighting up. I was disappointed. It seemed my memory of smoking and getting high was better than the reality, mainly because I had accomplished so much during that year. I went back to school and earned A 3.8 GPA and things really started to come together for me. About 6 months ago I stopped for 30 days and felt great! And then I went back again and got the same feelings by being able to compare a sober life to a life of getting high daily. But by then It was already too lalready too late, I was on the weed train again. I've been weed free for only 5 days and I'm feeling like shit just like before.. and I can't wait to start feeling better and live a life of sober mind, so that I can have the energy levels, productivity, being present with friends and family and clear mindedness again. Over the years I have started to become more reclusive , which is not normal for me since I am a social person. Thank you for all of you that have commented your experiences because it really helps. Right now I have different phases I go through. For a few hours I feel great and then a few hours I feel nauseous, energyless, headache, and of course the glorious bonus of having digestive issues. I'm looking forward for the physical withdrawal to go away so I can deal with only the psychological issues, which seems to be much easier in my past experience. Although looking back I think there was some value in relapsing because now I have something to compare it too. And I can honestly say that in my opinion there is nothing better than being sober. Being sober pales in comparison getting high every day. It seems that the weed is less destructive than other drugs. It's not. It's just a slower installment plan to unhappiness. This time I won't go back. I deserve it and my friends and family deserve it... and hopefully I can help others get through this very subtle yet destructive drug.

Mine would be this one:

In the most basic understanding, alchemy has always been about transformation and remains so in the psychological theory of Carl Jung. The name, alchemy, in fact, derives from the Arabic al-kimia meaning the art of transformation.

Carl Jung’s ideas:

• One of the purposes of every human being is to become free and to nurture their individuality. However, to do so, one had to decode each symbol of the subconscious.
• Alchemy is a personal journey of transformation and an instinctive impulse for growth.
• People with an inflexible mind and a consciousness that focuses merely on objectives, material things, and the observable will have a limited life.
• Alchemy arise from many of your unresolved psychic elements. You must delve deep into that alchemical darkness where your shadows meet in order to bring them back to light. Every transformation requires effort, open-mindedness, and creativity.

"The alchemists were not projecting personal unconscious material about their repressed childhood wishes and traumas. They were revealing the most fundamental patterns of psychological transformation, which apply to human beings universally." — Murray Stein

Alchemy’s greatest achievement is to create a relationship between our inner world and our outer world. While physical alchemy deals with altering and transforming the properties within matter, soul alchemy is connected with freeing your spirit from your fears, limiting beliefs systems, and lack of self-acceptance. Alchemy is the art of transformation, inner liberation, and change.

** Warning: lengthy, high-effort post ahead **

I’ve been mulling this over for the better part of a year now, studying and organizing my thoughts, strengthening my understanding of both Stoicism and modern psychology. I bring these ideas to you today for two reasons; to share what I have learned with others in the hope that it can bring positive change and guidance, but also to hear feedback and criticism, which will in turn sharpen my own knife and bring me closer to wisdom. This post is about Positive Psychology, and how it can strengthen and refine our understanding of Virtue as it pertains to Stoicism.

I want to begin with three of Marcus Aurelius’ most popular Stoic quotes, as their themes are central to the discussion I am presenting to you today.

>"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." This is a call to live a virtuous life. Philosophy is not for sitting in armchairs and talking about. Philosophy is for exercising, and weaving into the choices and actions we make in each moment of every day.

>“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” This is an imperative for identifying when and where our choices lie; Identify what decisions you are making each day, so that you can apply Virtue to the decision-making process.

>“If thou findest in human life anything better than justice, truth, temperance, fortitude, and, in a word, anything better than thy own mind's self-satisfaction in the things which it enables thee to do according to right reason, and in the condition that is assigned to thee without thy own choice; if, I say, thou seest anything better than this, turn to it with all thy soul, and enjoy that which thou hast found to be the best.”

It is a quote by Marcus Aurelius which comes up over and over again in popular Stoicism media; If you find anything better than Justice, Truth, Temperance, and Fortitude, embrace it without reservations. The fact that Aurelius could study and conceptualize Virtue at all is (to my admittedly limited understanding) originally owed to the philosophy of Plato, then to his student Aristotle, whose philosophy ultimately brought about the book Epictetus, which Marcus Aur

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Of course mental disorders are controversial and what constitutes a mental disorder is partially dependent on cultural norms. What is considered normal behaviour in one culture can be considered abnormal or even pathological behaviour in another. I argue that Quark displays pathological behaviour and tendencies from a Ferengi point of view and that this constitutes a mental disorder in Ferengi society. His level of ruthlessness and single-mindedness in pursuing profit is abnormally low and his levels of compassion pathologically high.

First I will argue that compassion and lack of rigour in pursuing profit are indeed considered pathological behaviour by presenting the point of view of a Ferengi male widely considered to be psychologically healthy in his own society, Liquidator Brunt. He lays out the case clear enough. What he calls 'vile and insidious weakness' is the mental disorder I talk about and which I call 'philanthropy'. Some of the behaviour Brunt considers pathological are:

1. Subverting the audits of the FCA to protect his mother's pathological behaviour.
2. Giving credit to his customers
3. Not taking a large enough cut from the tips of his employees' tips.
4. Selling food to Bajoran refugees at cost (or slightly above it, but still very close).
5. Giving his employees vacations.

The only thing Brunt gets wrong actually proves that Quark is mentally disordered, namely that Quark 'has gone Starfleet'. The humanitarian gesture to the Bajoran refugees proves that Quark was already rotten to the core and mentally wayward before Starfleet even entered the scene.

Other things that support Quark's state of pathology but which are not directly argued by Brunt are several other behaviours.

1. Setting up the Regent of Palamar's murder to save 28 million people from a weapon of mass destruction Quark was selling. He chose to forgo a massive profit at a great risk to himself in order to save these people.
2. Breaking a Ferengi contract to save his own life, breaking the sacred norm that Ferengi contracts are inviolable.
3. Making a death threat against Brunt after his business licence was revoked. No Ferengi in his right mind would risk and use violence to conduct business.
4. Standing up to fight for a Klingon house and defending its honour, gaining the respect of the Klingon High Council in the process.

Quark's behaviours are pathologically wayward from a Ferengi point of view and are much more in line with Federation and Klingon ways of thinking.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

One of the greatest draws to living on New Proxima was, as the name suggested, how new the ringworld was. It lacked the millennia of establishments, institutions and enterprises that could be found on the other rings. It was fertile ground in which to plant the seeds of new growth.

That is what lured the Argute Chiliad.7 genealogy to New Proxima from Wolf. Here, on the continental plate of Ylem, they founded one of the earliest restaurants on the ring and the first to be run by non-biologicals.

Argute Chiliad.7.0.2, Argute Chiliad.7.0.3 and of course little Argute Chiliad.7.0.3.1, arrived in an undeveloped field not far from the burgeoning settlement of of Serendipity Square. Each was a virtually identical floating metal sphere. They immediately set to work painstakingly building their restaurant molecule by molecule. Over the course of several weeks the building sprouted up from the ground like a tree as they added to it layer by microscopic layer.

At long last it was finished. The restaurant consisted of two rings, the larger one on the ground level and a smaller one above it. They were held in place by antigravity and connected by spokes to a cylinder in the center. All along the outside of the rings were field-windows capable of showing the greenery outside or any other view from any other planet with the flick of a mental switch. On nice days they could also be dismissed entirely.

Once the simple matter of manifesting a building out of the wilderness was complete it was time to begin the much more complex process of altering both their hardware and software to give them a sense of taste.

The Chiliads had put an incredible amount of research into this aspect of the project. Their new senses would be able to detect every subtlety in food down to the subatomic level. Their palates would be as refined, as utterly profound, as was physically possible.

Argute Chiliad.7.0.3 came back online after having rebooted its mind. Although it was not yet projecting its tasting field it could already feel the void in its perceptions that flavors would eventually fill. It allowed its tasting field to expand and soon it could taste the air and the floor. It was immensely pleased with itself.

<Tasting the environment is not the intended use of this hardware,> signaled Argute Chiliad 7.0.2. <This is frivolous.>

<Frivolity is prized in human recreation,> retorted 7.0.3. <I will taste all things. In doing so I will gather much data and insight i

I won't be doing that today!

To be accepted with all our flaws, charms and imperfections and not be harshly judged. I am looking for a wonderful individual that wishes to connect on a deep, interpersonal level. Someone with a desire to share an amazing journey with in both ups and downs. What is your story?

Listed summary down below

There's something special about the experience of connecting with individuals on a fundamental level that fascinates me; past the surface, into the depths of our beautiful minds. The friendships of virtue are rare indeed as Aristotle proclaimed, but what they offer can be worth the patience of a lifetime.

I’m a game composer, programmer, sound designer and an overall athletic nerd that spends his time enjoying a myriad of abstract and creative things: Storytelling, cosplay, philosophy, games, racing, ice skating, music, art, anime, science, history, sports and more. As a composer, I spend a lot of my time sparkling people’s imagination. There’s great enjoyment in experiencing and seeing a world take shape inside other people’s minds; Whole landscapes and stories, people and events.

One could say that I am passionate about stories, provocative ideas that challenges our preconceived notions about ourselves, others, society and the world at large. I'd enjoy listening and engaging with your ideas, interests, hobbies and goals. Invite me into your life, your passions, goals and future prospects; I'd gladly invite you into mine. My life can be full of activities that can sometimes leave me very occupied. I understand that neither of us will always be available to chat.

If we find ourselves getting along really well, I'd likely want to spend time with you; doing various activities like playing video games together, talk about stories we enjoy or simply appreciate each other's company. The activities does not have to be anything grand when the company is wonderful.

Communication

One of the cornerstones in any sort of relationship is communication. Without good communication, the relationship will unlikely work out in the long run. This is one of the reasons I highly value honesty and transparency. Some people are anxious to speak their mind due to trauma from unhealthy relationships. I think that's a tragedy and highly encourage people to speak their mind as none of us are mind readers; your thoughts and feelings matter. All of us are human beings with our own wants and needs. We can overcome any obstacle and grow as individuals if we are

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Buenosdillas

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AWYyuEG26zkIDA1s2Ij88rQiNIU8-l47/view?usp=sharing

Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bDBEuhM-OFe-B-pkP66vc4TReqL2to71FREFDN_fjoM/edit?usp=sharing

THE CAUSE OF PROBLEMS

by AdaptiveTensionTheory@gmail.com  The Curable Cause of most Mental Illness, Chronic Pain, and Close mindedness

[Please print out for ease of reading]

PURPOSE

Those who see this Paper will come to understand that the knowledge possessed here  is capable of solving most problems. By continuing to read this paper in its entirety, you  consent to bearing the burden of understanding the cause of people’s suffering. However, those  who read this will find no greater reward in life than understanding this knowledge.

MY INTENT

I hope others use this knowledge to heal themselves promptly, and furthermore to aid  me in my own healing process. You will come to understand that the healing process to a large  extent is interdependent on other people.

INSTRUCTIONS

Print and Check them off.

1. Read through this document.
2. Use the links to see the described patterns.
3. Observe patterns in people around you.
4. Find someone you trust and share this with them
5. Make an Integrity Journal: When you make changes in your life describe the state of your  mind and body.
6. Make one of the dental changes described below and journal how you’ve changed as a  person. (Once you’ve seen how much of a difference that change makes, you’ll understand  everything that I’m talking about.)
7. Practice the exercises under Tutorials.
8. Contact me for further discussion.
9. Help your friends make changes.
10. Help society make changes.

The Basic Idea of Adaptive Tension Theory:

Your body, mind, beliefs, and awareness will adapt via the subconscious to redistribute  stressors such as erroneous beliefs, physical stressors, psychological stressors, and inter social stressors. There will be stress in your subconscious until there is no reason to feel  stressed, and that stress will manifest itself one way or another. You can consciously evaluate  the state of stress in your Mind-Body (aka the amount of tension) by using the inner eye  (resting your eyes and body). You can dissociate from the amount of stress in your Mind-Body  by using the outer eye (Looking at things). The stress of perceiving the truth is required to undo  stress. The internal eye leads one to the truth. When the internal eye and external eye become  one, you become your

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Why

Nothing, it just waved

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.