You have bribed the Senate!

I’ve always believed myself stunningly gorgeous. Just my own superior perception of beauty. Confident, not arrogant in the slightest.

@Janet "I could care less". No, you 'couldn't' care less. Anything being 'lit', 'peng' or of course 'woke'.

@kaia_ I think it refers more to having the humility to accept its transient nature and your relative insignificance, while appreciating how unique and peculiar it is as an experience. A well balanced worldview from a degree of detachment from your identity can allow you to better rationalise and weigh up multiple factors in situation assessment and allow you to better decide how to act and how to deal with things when they go wrong. They also give you openness to interpret and empathise with other peoples' behaviour, which naturally helps with relationships on all levels. Don't get me wrong, I have my own obsessions and goals but one of the keys to stopping them from interfering with my judgement or skewing my priorities in the bigger picture of my life is to accept they're absurd and in some cases slightly ridiculous, or at the least incredibly partial. This helps me form connections to others without imposing some extremely partial moral/behavioural standards on them. Then again I conflate seriousness with rigid principles, and with dogma a lack of universality. We might have different things in mind. Objectivity is easier in principle than practice. "Life is too important to ramble huge paragraphs at strangers" is probably the quote I needed.


Regret? Inconceivable to those of us who do everything perfectly.

I often spend inordinate amounts of time looking at myself.

@Jess Henry eh? obviously

He's called Brad Pitt for a reason.

You'd yell at her for choosing the lake district " This wouldn't 'av bloody 'append with an albatross!"

@Janet "I could care less". No, you 'couldn't' care less. Anything being 'lit', 'peng' or of course 'woke'.

I'm sort of addicted to it thanks to its past glories partly owed to its novelty to me at the time and due to the fact it's simply an easy way to procrastinate or escape (though increasingly less immersive). I remember less than 10 years ago people were more generally open to chatting, and social media sites/ places like omegle hadn't degenerated into the shitholes they are now. Do you remember a time when it was normal to regularly chat to strangers of the same sex for the sake of conversation? Conversation seems largely about exacting gratification for its own sake rather than as a by product of mutually beneficial, mentally stimulating interactions.
The internet is a great tool, but one that reflects its times naturally, and frankly they seem rather stagnant. We seem to be increasingly disposed to imposing arbitrary moral values on others, creating staunch, whimsical rules by which we condemn them. We don't seem to try to reach mutual understanding and learn from each other but use the internet to further entrench division from our insufferably sanctimonious camps. As it's becoming normalised it's difficult to view times before all this mess and wonder if it's a recollection through rose tinted glasses. I just hope the spark of optimism (perhaps blind faith) that things can return to some semblance of sanity and reasonably healthy social compromises (or debate) doesn't die, though it's looking grim. The internet is full to the brim with lazy thinking. It's not that I take issue with people's core beliefs per se (I'm hardly a genius myself), it's not even that I take issue with them being upset or irrational, it's the fact they're so unwilling to even entertain other beliefs/ treat them as logical consequences of a multitude of events instead of something to be crushed according to some moral dichotomy. Now I understand there's always been ideological dogma, but to be told by people championing inclusivity that you're unsalvageably damaged (in effect what being called evil means) for what (they think) you believe in is such a stroke of backward, religiously minded thinking that I can't help but feel we've hardly come a long way at all to being open minded. In short, the internet best represents us as a species which to my mind therefore reflects unnegotiable failings in parenting and education. There's obviously enough hope left in me to even entertain typing such a post, but it's probably approaching its death throes. There's still easy access to tonnes of music though, which is no feat to overlook. Anyway, my life does seem to be more and more leaning towards finding a way to be left alone in peace than be pro-social, and the internet's main value is now acquiring materials for hobbies. This is a drunken rant so please forgive the discrepancies.

Make sure it's alive.

You have bribed the Senate!

@kaia_ I think it refers more to having the humility to accept its transient nature and your relative insignificance, while appreciating how unique and peculiar it is as an experience. A well balanced worldview from a degree of detachment from your identity can allow you to better rationalise and weigh up multiple factors in situation assessment and allow you to better decide how to act and how to deal with things when they go wrong. They also give you openness to interpret and empathise with other peoples' behaviour, which naturally helps with relationships on all levels. Don't get me wrong, I have my own obsessions and goals but one of the keys to stopping them from interfering with my judgement or skewing my priorities in the bigger picture of my life is to accept they're absurd and in some cases slightly ridiculous, or at the least incredibly partial. This helps me form connections to others without imposing some extremely partial moral/behavioural standards on them. Then again I conflate seriousness with rigid principles, and with dogma a lack of universality. We might have different things in mind. Objectivity is easier in principle than practice. "Life is too important to ramble huge paragraphs at strangers" is probably the quote I needed.

Cause I'm freeee burp, free yaaallling

@Roy shrug if you're gonna make things this toxic, don't come to me for help. burp

The fear of Roy leaving my life cause it's crippling me.

BRI-UN! Raises pint...burp

I’ve always believed myself stunningly gorgeous. Just my own superior perception of beauty. Confident, not arrogant in the slightest.