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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

Epictetus, Discourses

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[stoicbreviary]

When I look at the Universe from a moral perspective, there is no such thing as waste. . . .

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

If you want to do something, make a habit of doing it; and if you don't want to do something, don't do it, but get into the habit of doing something else instead. The same also applies to states of mind.

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[asafeplaceforus112]

Someone please explain what the "actually x" tag stuff is about, because it fucking worries me man - bossy

Like I know its prolly something cool but it worries me so much that its like the same energy of like "I'm ACTUALLY gay, I'm a REAL gay not like those OTHER gays"

and like I don't know, spent my whole life being the "Weird girl" because I didn't act like someone who was "actually autisitc" so I'm always weary of anything like that.

Labels are used to find community or help you define yourself, not to exclude other people (At least thats what we use them for)

[yorgunherakles]

oysa sen kendini ihmal ediyorsun. ne vefasızlık, ne cinayet!

epiktetos - düşünceler ve sohbetler

[lilacbestpurple]

“LGBT+ people aren’t your enemy!” Mate, specific cishet people aren’t my enemy but we should be able to call out groups of people with harmful beliefs even if we are part of the same minority. This isn’t about perisexcishetalloallos vs LGBTQIA+, this is about saying “Hey, the ideas you’re conveying are at best unhelpful/negligible and at worst encourages and contributes to negative perception/treatment of people.”

[arthropooda]

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[freewayhaunt]

“But my nose is running!' What do you have hands for, idiot, if not to wipe it? 'But how is it right that there be running noses in the first place?' Instead of thinking up protests, wouldn't it be easier just to wipe your nose?”

― Epictetus

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[kuchipatch1]

yall have got to be more normal about Southern people and I'm not kidding. enough of the Sweet Home Alabama incest jokes, enough of the idea that all Southerners are bigots and rednecks, and enough of the idea that the South has bad food. shut up about "trailer trash" and our accents and our hobbies!

do yall know how fucking nauseating it is to hear people only bring up my state to make jokes about people in poverty and incestuous relationships? how much shame I feel that I wasn't born up north like the Good Queers and Good Leftists with all the Civilised Folk with actual houses instead of small cramped trailers that have paper thin walls that I know won't protect me in a bad enough storm?

do yall know how frustrating it is to be trans in a place that wants to kill you and whenever you bring it up to people they say "well just move out" instead of sympathizing with you or offering help?

do yall understand how alienating it is to see huge masterposts of queer and mental health resources but none of them are in your state because theyre all up north? and nobody seems to want to fix this glaring issue because "they're all hicks anyways"

Southern people deserve better. we deserve to be taken seriously and given a voice in the queer community and the mental health space and leftist talks in general.

[philosophybitmaps]

[stoicbreviary]

Nobility is not a peace from the circumstances, but a peace despite the circumstances: work through them, not against them. . . .

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Those who proceed but very slowly can make much greater progress, if they always follow the right path, than those who hurry and stray from it.

from Discourse on the Method by René Descartes 

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