#Understand Yourself

[positivelypositive]

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if you've found...

...yourself struggling with the same problem again and again, then maybe it's time to look into the root causes.

just loving yourself isn't enough. sometimes you need to understand yourself from deep within so that you know why you struggle with what you do.

look deep inside so that you can be there for you. heal your way to happiness ✨

[serenityquest]

[prehistoric-minds-lost-in-time]

Every day we wake up to news,

They say none is good so guess you can see the ruse

Hate information because complacent citizens

Make the nation one easier to run

But in the process, we lost us,

We soulless now,

Gun in hand to destroy another life

Another objective fact

One big movie like Running Man

Endless night is where we seem to be careening to

We used to be dreamers too

But now the images switched to horror and atrocity

Shots dropped at an artery with absolutely no second thoughts

And we wonder where we first went wrong

Seems like the broken homes we clawed a life from

Still catch up like the dawn

Cycical natures got my mind running circles

Looking for reasons for this hateful shit bubbling up from our species

Like some dormant, latent secret

Kept quiet 'til this moment, now it's racing, like time for those whose heads are leaking

Most feel like prayers fall on deaf ears

So we all seething, reaching,

Touching depths of rage where a page couldn't keep it

In place

This more like a novel, an epic, the biological product of our twisted essence

The quicker you accept it, with haste we can redirect it

And instead of all this hate and pain hitting like drops of rain

We could raise the populace to a range

Where we overcome obstacles,

Popping paradigms so the same outcomes break like window panes

[grace-williams-xo]

On the point of spirituality:

One of my best friends wrote a long essay in late high school about how the fall of religion happened, and shortly thereafter the fall of society, in a great many societies repeatedly throughout history.

The teacher said it was one of the best things he’d ever read in his decades teaching, and even years later I still think about it a lot.

Humans need something to believe in. It is intrinsic to who we are. Humans will have faith, and if we’re not careful and intentional, that faith is easily misdirected.

Like OP, I’m not personally into organised religion (but I love learning about them! And that’s part of understanding my own personal philosophies and spirituality) but that doesn’t have to matter.

You won’t know who you are when you’re young—and who you are will constantly evolve—but you need to live a constant journey of understanding yourself, your morals and your beliefs. Part of that is understanding what, or who, drives you to certain actions and beliefs.

It’s part of being human. Be spiritual, however that manifests.

things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

[ometochtli2rabbit]

[madewithonerib]

How To Understand Yourself | Manis Friedman

Will Power vs. Pleasure which permeates, ecstasy [27:04]

[heartsmade4more]

You are not here to make others understand you. You are here to understand yourself.

Kristen Butler

[prolibytherium]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[imblocking-you]

The stress from cet szn mustve kept all of this at bay last year now it's all catching up to me, some years wotth of whatever accumalated, gunk just resting onmtop of my brain, seeping into the sinews, whatever whatnot. I am so fucking sick of this lol

[creatingtodayinvestinginme]

TIME TO UNDERSTAND YOU! #💯

And the first one in line to understand you is you 🫵🏼 #👣

No one knows what you like to eat until you tell them or why you like it until you describe how you respond to it.

No one knows how you want your haircut, or which clothes you want to wear each day… who can tell you why #you like the career you chose? Who knows what it felt like the first time you skinned your knee or had your heart broken??

WHO ARE YOU??? #🤔

It’s time for you to start learning you!

#gotime #now #today #inthismoment #understandyourself #learnyourself #beyou #thebestyou #livefully #lovefully #worthit #gratitude #thischangeseverything #fearLESS #live and #be #free #perspective #happiness #mindset #love #boba #bossupyourgame #lifebydesign

[bluebeesknees]

Pull me in 💙

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Kiss Kiss Fallen Tree!

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[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

i know that when people say "hey we made it through the last four years! we can do it again!" it's usually because they're just trying to tell themselves it'll be fine because they're scared too so I don't want to be a dick about it but like. they didn't have a guy make a fucking nazi salute to a fucking cheering crowd in his inauguration on day fucking one eight fucking years ago. i mean not to damper down the optimism or nothing but. i feel like it's important to point out that it's not just going to be a Repeat of 2016-2020 All Over Again. it's probably going to be more like the Fucking Worst of it that we got in 2020 (or the 2021 Fucking Insurrection) will be the Starting Point for whatever the fuck happens next and we should. idk. plan for that

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[rileylastname]

maybe it’s because it’s “too obvious” but im surprised how few readings I’ve seen of the Substance (2024) that discuss the themes of addiction and substance (ha) use & abuse.

in moderation you can use the substance to become a better, more fun, easier, happier version of yourself. then you realize you no longer want to be who you are when you’re not on the substance. then taking the same dose that used to be enough before isn’t enough anymore, so you want to take more, and just a little bit more couldn’t hurt, right? so you start to take even more. but this is only taking away from sober you, which is painful and difficult and even scarier than what compelled you to take it in the first place, so of course you can’t stop now. now you want to take even more, you NEED to take even more. sober life becomes harder and harder to bear, especially compared to how much easier everything is on the substance. now you’re not only using it to enjoy that feeling anymore, you’re using it to hide from what you’re turning into without it, from what you’ve already turned into.

every minute that you’re sober is spent counting down the days until you can use again, and the ends of being high are spent dreading going back. the sober self is upset and jealous at how irresponsible the high self is. the high self is upset at how much of a buzzkill the sober self is, and wishes they could exist on their own, without requiring their sober tether to existence. but the sober and high selves are the same person, you are one, and you become jealous and angry at yourself for ruining your own life in a vain attempt to become an impossible version of yourself that you most desire to be.

you want so badly to have all—and only all—of the best parts that you milk yourself dry, until you end up with all—and nothing but all—of the bad parts. by the time you truly feel that you have indeed lost everything and know you need to stop, the damage is already done, and there is no going back. you wish you had stopped at the first chance, you wish you had never started to begin with. and even then for many people the only way to deal with this terrifying, painful reality is to use even more, because you have made this terrifying, painful life without your substance feel unliveable, even scarier yet than what had made you use in the first place. there is nothing left to do but to hide from your own life, and the only ways to do this are to stop, to love yourself and take care of the person that you are now… or to keep taking more and more, using until there is truly nothing left, not even yourself.

[sharkylad]

Thinking about the fact that Mabel and Dipper didn't know they had two great uncles.

Yeah they are 12 and at 12 I had a shotty understanding of my family tree- But really? Nobody brought up their great uncle? Stanley? Especially since they'll be staying with his twin brother, Stanford?

Shermie never went to Stan's fake funeral, which to me means the twos relationship was strained on some level. If Shermie is older that means his view of Stan was poisoned in some way, that even as kids they weren't close. If the Shermie is younger then he never even got to meet Stan and all he knew about him was how he failed his family. Hell, people probably barely mentioned Stanley TO Shermie.

The fact that Stan had become a black stain upon the Pines family name makes me so vividly upset. Stanley faked his death and the family just- seemingly decided to strike him from the record. To pretend he didn't existed to spare themselves the sadness and shame.

Stanford and Shermie Pines. The only children worth mentioning of Filbrick and Caryn Pines.

It was never Stanford that was lost to the world. It was Stanley, ever since he had to leave New Jersy- it was always him that had to be struck from the record. Change his name, change his state, change his affiliations, destroy the remains of ghost that was Stanley Pines. Kill him so the family doesn't bring him up, doesn't ask questions, stops asking "Stanford" about his twin.

I just keep thinking about the fact that since the day he made one single mistake all the way up until Ford walks out of that machine- Stanley Pines was killed and did not exist. And Stan himself had no one to blame, he had to play the part in his own demise- He is the only one who ever knew Stanley was alive and has been for decades.

He lives in the multitudes of every personality he's ever taken, all in the hope that he himself can stop being Stanley Pines.