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  • morality behind forgiveness isn't about what's good for other people

    I'm sorry you see it this way. All I did was try to point some random stranger on the internet to what I felt is right. If you don't accept it that is ok. Hope your belief system works for you and as you said you have a peaceful life, so good for you.

    I understand that I can't get my point through to you, so I'm not going to. I don't know you enough to make this point so I could be completely wrong, but if I may make one remark, you tend to over assume things. Again I could be wrong, but that's what I felt from the brief conversation.

    Also on the same lines, you don't know me, and whatever crappy person you made up in your mind is, I'm not that. So I don't care about those remarks you made. Those are just in your mind.

    Yes I accept it is a universal truth that positive feelings and peacefulness is good. And where I can help I will. Not because I think of myself as privileged or superior, because I have received help and forgiveness from others and I consider I owe it to others too.

    I'm not going to respond any more because I see no point. One last thing I would say is one day you and I will die (my friend, if I may). And it wouldn't matter what was right or what was wrong, because in death, nothing matters. So all these thoughts that we have are just for the few years in between. Hope we sail those years without harming oneself and others.

    Wish you good life 👍

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  • First of all, I forgive you for not reading and trying to understand my point and abuse me by calling names. (There you go, you have an example when to forgive)

    I never mentioned forgiveness is the ultimate choice. Neither did I mention being assertive is. My point, to repeat, is this - the decision to take your action DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION. We should not blindly advocate "always forgive" or "always be assertive". It ALWAYS and ALWAYS depends on the situation.

    What we should do is to have the mindset to take a step back and analyse the situation and choose the correct action.

    The example I gave is purely fictional and I don't know how you are blindly taking a stance against such abusive elderly ? Maybe you have worked with elderly and maybe in those situations they deserve it, but how do you know the situation of everyone in the world ? How can you take that stance without having enough information about them.

    Again, please take a step back and try to understand my point.

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  • Everything depends on the situation. There is no one right answer.

    To give an example, lets say a person who has about a week left due to some incurable disease does something offensive to you. Will you go about asking for accountability or forgive them?

    It depends on how offensive the action was VS what the state of the person who did the action is. Regardless, you'll need strength, either to hold accountable or to forgive the person.

    Either could be the right choice, but I'm saying life is not black and white, it's mostly gray situations and people trying to call it black or white.

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    What is the weirdest/strangest thing you find comfort in?
  • Death is mysterious. But do you really want to seek it ? It will eventually come anyways, so why seek it before it comes.

    Even though it was not our choice to be alive, we do have the choice to live it in 100 different ways. I cannot judge the hardship you are facing, but rather than seeing death, why not try changing the variables of your life or help change it for someone less fortunate than you ?

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    What is the weirdest/strangest thing you find comfort in?
  • To think about death.

    No I'm not depressed. Death is a topic that is sad or scary from the point of view of the living. But once we die, that point of view is not valid for us any more. So then death becomes a point beyond which being sad or happy doesn't matter any more because sad and happy are part of the living world.

    Of course I'm scared to die. Fear is a part of life and survival instincts are what has kept us what we are. I don't want to seek death and want to enjoy the time of being alive to the fullest.

    But we can seek solace in the mystery of death as much as the mystery of birth, I believe.

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    Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever
  • Do you think they make movies without caring if it would be good ? All those people, all that money invested and they don't care for returns. Obviously not. They want returns and they try to make a good movie.

    In the case of Marvel movies people keep their expectations so high that even decent movies like The Marvels is shit to them. That's definitely the fault of the high expectations.

    Again, I'm not saying it is the best movie. But it definitely doesn't deserve the hatred it is getting.

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    Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever
  • I agree that of the three lead roles I felt only Miss Marvel (Iman Vellani) seems to be the most developed character. And her portrayal alone is one of the positives of the movie too.

    But as a movie it is still enjoyable like any other Marvel movie. It is a light hearted fun movie.

    The level of hatred it received even before it got released is so cringy. They seen to just borrow someone else's opinion and spew it elsewhere.

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    Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever
  • Watched it. It is a pretty OK. Typical forgettable marvel movie. There is a villain and heroes do something, and the day is saved. That is all I expect from these movies t.b.h. Mild entertainment.

    I don't understand the hatred received for it though. Most of them either seem to be on either their expectations not being met or they are tired of these superhero movies.

    Well if it didn't meet your expectations, don't keep it so high for these movies. And if you don't like superhero movies, don't watch them. Solved.

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  • https:// lemm.ee /post/14701217

    Mine is !mononoki

    https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/

    It is a very minimal clean looking monospace font with support for ligatures. What is yours ?

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    What got you into coding ? (aside from money)
  • True. I usually tell people it is a good field, provided that they have interest. Then the question usually is how to be interested in it, and I just tell them to just be curious about how any app/software that they use works.

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  • To give some context, I'm a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not "tasted" programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things.

    Aside from being a career, I'm curious what got you into coding ?

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    Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
  • THIS oh gawwwd, couldn't agree more. Tired of reading news about this guy talking unintelligent crap. Dear people, for him even negative publicity is still publicity and for us it is a waste of our attention, 1 cent of which he doesn't deserve.

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