this will take you back up to abstractions in some sense but they’ll be re-grounded in your experience. PUA guy wasn’t a player trying to get laid, he was wrestling with heartbreak and a deep loss of trust in women and PUA stuff was the best stuff he’d found to address that
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but PUA stuff wasn’t what he actually needed. ultimately i think what he needed was a way to express the pain of confusion and uncertainty coming from betrayal: “i don’t know if i can ever trust a woman again. i don’t know how to tell whether i can trust a woman”
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motherfucker, i wrote this entire thread as a message to myself 🙃
took my own advice, 5 seconds into talking about my feelings and i got a flash of two specific people’s faces
mother*fucker*
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Rationalism, nihilism, and depression: I’ve spent today reading review articles on cognitive deficits in depression, and pieces of an understanding are falling in place. Fascinating!
Depressive cognition simultaneously recruits and degrades rationality.
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It seems to me that people rage and rant against political figures, against sports teams, against publicly visible things – as a substitute for dealing with their deeply personal wounds. Hurt people hurt people, right? Hurt people (specific) also complain about abstractions
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nice
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instead of making general proclamations about populations, you could focus your time and energy on finding specific solutions to your specific problems
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"like 3 specific guys"
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Everyone should get to know someone well enough and long enough that, when that friend generalizes that all [men] are [x], you know for a fact that they are referring to like 3 specific guys.
And then realize that that’s what everyone’s up to.
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read the next tweet after this one and you’ll realize this tweet is about one specific guy
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Friends don’t ask friends to help move.
Hire movers or do it yourself. Period.
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"a decades-long argument with someone who is not present"
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Life makes a lot more sense once you realize that practically everyone you meet is engaged in a decades-long argument with someone who is not present.
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"casually drops some personal context... that totally explains their out-there take on something else"
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every so often someone on Twitter casually drops some personal context – usually in someone else’s mentions – that totally explains their out-there take on something else, but it would seem so fucked up for me to point it out when everyone’s basically/mostly moved on
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“Do not let a woman who decorates her buttocks deceive you, By wily coaxing, for she is after your granary”
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“Sometimes the mf inciter left the building years ago”
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the weirdest record scratch freeze frame moment is when you notice you’re perpetuating a drama wherein the inciting incident is no longer even in the scene. Sometimes the mf inciter left the building years ago
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now i ain’t saying she’s a grain digger,
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Hesiod is also the one who said that women were a punishment from Zeus. wonder what happened to him