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6 Common Traits of Narcissists and Gaslighters
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Everyone who has a pot to piss in thinks they earned it.
And for the love of God. Please, PLEASE, really please stop mentioning Facebook. FFS stop.
And just to change the narrative, when **** went my way, and I was walking around big Asian cities with hundreds of dollars in my pocket and eating expensive ass meals and drinking 18 year old scotch I didn’t earn ****. It just ****ing rolls one way or the other. When **** is rolling your way instead of patting yourself on the back why not have some humility and think man I could be on the wrong side of all this? Ever since I went to India and Bangladesh and saw little kids starving and leprosy and all that I knew I had nothing to do with any part what I was doing except that I was cog in the oppression that was the poverty of all the dying in front of me. I’m sorry but it’s like that. And btw if you have money someone DID give it to you. No one earns ****.
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These kinds of discussions are why I think it would be better if more people believed in "something". Cause taken all on its own (if you don't believe in something) I don't find that kind of moralizing to be compelling. Why even care about the planet or random kids in another part of the world if I'm just going to die a miserable death someday? It just isn't relevant when my own life is already complicated as it is. I came out of extreme poverty in the U.S. and no rich guy from India flew over and helped me or anyone I know. Anything good that has ever happened in my life only happened because I changed the way I did something when I knew nothing. But the vast majority of humans don't think that way: they look at something like capitalism and despair like its their responsibility and it really isn't. If you were born centuries ago you wouldn't have been able to do jack **** about your Lord if you were some serf or if a bunch of Vikings decided to pillage your little town if you grew up in an even earlier era.
My point is, you choose what's important to you and what you want to fight for. You became demoralized from what you've seen and experienced over a long period of time. I've seen much of the same and came to different conclusions. People could look at what we do and learn from both approaches.