well i have some laundry in and i worked hard all day and i just did a good citizen act and im waiting for my edible to kick in and reflecting on an earlier discussion guys, its time for some virtue poasting
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as with garlands thread this will likely be long and rambling especially as the weed manifests
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so, earlier tonight I claimed that the most fun thing to quit is Anger after several hours i stand by this anger basically sucks as an emotion being too online you can THINK that it's fun but you gotta consider the opportunity costhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1115814134698795008 …
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the easiest way to perceive this is to simply observe others being Mad pretty generally, they end up clowning themselves now maybe you're Right and Good and Clever but it would be foolhardy to imagine yourself immune to this case study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8 …
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the solution is not to just Not Be Mad this is probably impossible but you can go a long way to releasing yourself from the desire to continue being angry this is harder when the anger is or seems entirely justified in these cases fall back to a consequentialist stance
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no matter your situation anger is unlikely to improve your lot did someone offend you inadvertently? they will be less likely to make amends if you explode at them did they offend you deliberately? your anger will be delicious and theyll return for more like danes to danegeld
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if someone is likely to hurt you again, maybe you need to act against them; but this will be hard to accomplish effectively if you're mad compared to the sangfroid case just imagine yourself holding down a button depressing your IQ by about twenty points when youre mad
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and on top of all of this its just so exhausting being angery, it eats at you and drives you mad if you let it i mean look at the partisans of whatever tribe is out of power at any give time do they seem like theyre having Fun do they seem like theyre accomplishing anything
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so forget about the Just Anger thing apart from it being very difficult to evaluate justice while mad its totally immaterial just or not it is not useful
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once youve decided being angery is probably not something to be desired, but rather evaluated and dispatched, youre basically there hard to hold on to anger if youve decided you care to but if you like, recite the Litany Against Fear but /s/fear/rage/ same thing end.
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