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Deep sigh. You want me to ~be compassionate~ here's the compassionate answer: your trauma will tell you you're a helpless child forever and you need to Not Think This Way for yourself (living under the assumption you're still in danger whether you actually are or not) and everyone else who has to tiptoe around your Sensitivity. That's how you break the cycle and you can only do this by accepting responsibility for your actions. And it seems like a small semantic thing but imo step one is calling yourself a survivor instead of a victim. Self identifying with your victimhood helps No One. You lived, now get up

"how can you like this objectively bad thing!" because i have bad taste. move on.

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

Guys I'm gonna be honest I don't think we're ever going to be the new pdf

THAT ANGEL DIED OF HOMOPHOBIA AND ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS AN ELECTION. WHAT IS WRONG IWTH YOU. 

#happy 5 years fam

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PLEASE REBLOG THE THIRD ONE TOO I NEED TO KNOW

bbc merlin has a lot of faults but i do think the way they blithely ignored the existence of christianity was very funny of them

"#'old religion' they said. and then simply said nothing of a new religion" yeah Uther Pendragon, noted athiest. Entirely agnostic court. It's crazy that there's no belief system backing anything up. Like, we're going to get by on vague prophecies but also prophecies are magic which is evil. Divine right of kings but no divinity. Mirrors and mirrors but no windows.

but it isnt too late to start tho! if you suddenly wake up and realize the years have slipped by you can start actively living again!

they put me in the book

lifelong denial of the appetitive component of my soul due to childhood neglect was bad for me psychologically but it made me really good at detached critical thinking at least!

also anyone who says you need to do away with worldly desire is a con artist. there's one thing to be said for the idea that attachment to certain things to the detriment of your connection to other things is bad, but "the material world is evil" type shit is horseshit. live in your body

"oh material pleasures are impermanent and incomplete" if I hand you a delicious cake but then I say it's actually garbage because it's not The Platonic Ideal Of Perfect Cake and also isn't infinite, that would be stupid.

this is not a criticism of Buddhism btw this is a criticism of the specific really irritating way a lot of white people engage with Buddhist ideas in a shallow pop culture way. like I have seen people do the same shit with gnosticism and neoplatonism actually, that's just way more niche so you don't see it as often, but anyway. this imo is actually a fundamentally puritan sentiment that is so quintessentially American that it hurts

I think the best emotional step I ever took towards recovery was learning to be aware of the way I was undercutting my own enjoyment of life by focusing on everything wrong with whatever it was I was doing. nothing on this earth will ever satisfy you completely and forever. that's not how desire works. but the solution is not to cut desire out of your life. you need to want things and you need to take joy in pursuing them.