Mr.Duck on 22/6/2020 at 01:08
Quote Posted by Sulphur
What I've learned is I can be kind one minute, an asshole the next, repentant yet unforgiving, and fuck if I know that it's not turtles all the way down. All I know is I'm bleeding and healing every goddamn day, and that's the truth of it.
*Snugs*
Starker on 22/6/2020 at 02:05
[video=youtube;xVr2hbE6aW0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVr2hbE6aW0[/video]
rachel on 22/6/2020 at 08:23
There were discoveries. The rest is a work in progress.
One day I might tell you about it. ;)
demagogue on 22/6/2020 at 08:45
I suppose I think about this issue more explicitly now than I did in the past after experiencing a partner with a personality disorder, when I realized people with that condition don't really have a stable self. They have a loose assembly of emotions and memories, and they continually remake themselves into new persons, often by mirroring the identity of another person whole cloth. As I began to understand really what was going on, it made me not take a self for granted, but understand that it's something a brain brought up in a modern cultural context is very carefully tuned to construct.
Anyway, one of the bigger landmarks that give substance to who I think I am is the conceptual revolution in thought I've already had, my own little enlightenment, which brought me to my own little crusade to bring this revolution to the people. People who know me on other forums may know I often use Andre Breton as my avatar. He had a similar kind of period of enlightenment in the WWI years in Paris which later blossomed into the cultural movement of surrealism. One interesting thing about our era is that it's been so long since there's been a bone fide cultural movement driven top-down by a few visionaries that people may have forgotten that it's a thing that happens sometimes. Anyway, I'm on a mission to create a movement. It's called cyberealism. If it takes off, then I'm going to be the guy that came up with that. That's who I am. Well, to be a bit more accurate, it's not that I identify myself with the movement per se, but I think if a person understands cyberealism in a deep way, then they'll understand who I am in a deeper way, like the way you can see the vision and ideas and obsessions of an artist in their work.
faetal on 22/6/2020 at 09:13
More flawed than some, less flawed than others. Trying my best to be better day after day.
I'm not exactly who I'd want to be if I could design myself from the gound up, but I'm also nothing to be unhappy about.
"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" and "stop and smell the roses" are 2 mottos I try to live by daily.
Gryzemuis on 22/6/2020 at 10:05
I live by a "golden rule".
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule)
(
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulden_regel_(leefregel))
In Dutch: "Wat gij niet wilt dat u geschiedt, doet dat ook de ander niet".
The saying has a nice rhythm in Dutch.
The English translation is less fluent: "Treat others as you would like others to treat you".
When you (try to) live by this rule, things become a lot easier. Just try to be nice.
I'm not a Christian. But if you'd ask me to summarize Christianity, I would say the best summary of the original idea is: "Don't be a cunt".
(Or: "love thy neighbor").
Unfortunately lots and lots of Christians are hypocrites. The more fundamental they are, or try to be, the more hypocritical they are.
It doesn't mean I'm always trying to be the nicest guy. On average, dutch people are more direct than others. Others might call me blunt. Or direct. Or even an arsehole, because of the way I say things. To me, that's no problem. I don't mind if others are direct or even blunt to me. Another reason for this is that I don't care much for words. Words do have some impact, but without actions, words are more harmless than some people would make you believe. I look at actions. Actions define who you are. Actions have impact.
An example from the news today. One of our talking heads on TV made a (rather bad) joke about a Dutch rapper. Who is black. A joke that wasn't funny. Our media are having a field-day. The guy is getting crucified. He doesn't care. Personally I think it's a lot of baloney about nothing. Our Dutch national football team has declared they will not appear in this TV show anymore. That's just words. Because they never accepted invitations anyway. In the mean time, that same football-team has no problems to go to the World Cup in Qatar in 2022. Qatar is one of the last countries in the world that has real and existing slavery. No problem for them. But making a bad joke is the end of the world.
Fingernail on 22/6/2020 at 10:17
[video=youtube;fQRsBZWAF7s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQRsBZWAF7s[/video]
Jeshibu on 22/6/2020 at 11:14
I've found a better way to define myself than Meyers-Briggs, apparently.
I'm someone who hates whataboutisms. Someone who hates tolerance of (
https://nltimes.nl/2020/06/19/businesses-pull-sponsorship-veronica-inside-hosts-racist-remarks) racists with a history of making racist remarks being excused as harmless. Someone who hates modern-day slavery in another continent only being used as an excuse to not fix racism in one's own country, not as something to champion against. Someone who hates people with a motto like "Do to others as you would have them do to you" that still excuse racist remarks as not a big deal.
Hate.
Hate.
Hate.
I do like cats though.
Necrohowl on 22/6/2020 at 13:51
I believe the Hammerite Haunts also want to know.
heywood on 22/6/2020 at 15:19
Quote Posted by Jeshibu
I've found a better way to define myself than Meyers-Briggs, apparently.
I'm someone who hates whataboutisms. Someone who hates tolerance of (
https://nltimes.nl/2020/06/19/businesses-pull-sponsorship-veronica-inside-hosts-racist-remarks) racists with a history of making racist remarks being excused as harmless. Someone who hates modern-day slavery in another continent only being used as an excuse to not fix racism in one's own country, not as something to champion against. Someone who hates people with a motto like "Do to others as you would have them do to you" that still excuse racist remarks as not a big deal.
Hate.
Hate.
Hate.
I do like cats though.
I noticed that you just defined yourself by who you hate. And before that, a personality test result.
I don't know you, so I don't know whether either of those things accurately reflects your personality. But it seems like you're projecting, which is not what Gray had in mind for this thread.
I'm guessing you're reacting to Gryzemuis' post, which was also not in the spirit of the thread. Can you guys please not interject current events, culture, and politics? We get enough of that in other threads.