I don’t look for things to be either angry or grateful about I just get on with life. I respect that gratitude works for you. Personally I find forcing gratitude just drains me. I find I do best just accepting that sometimes I’m angry or stressed and that those are signs telling me something.

I don’t own a gun. I’m from a country where it’s not an option. To assume makes an ASS out of u and me.

Your point is bullshit. Not all people are good. Rapists exist. Serial killers exist. I’d like some options if I ever ran into one.

Guns would at least cause some difficulty oppressing people.

I’m a nihilist. I wasn’t thinking of God.

IDK. I respect that gratitude works for others. I personally am not a fan because I feel we have the normal range of emotions for a good reason.

For example: Anger motivates us to leave an exploitative job or an abusive relationship. Gratitude might very well keep someone in that relationship or in a job where they end up herniating a disk…because instead of being angry enough to leave they tell themselves ‘I’m so lucky! Other people have it worse!’

^probably this.

I think it’s simply more a placeholder term for something people haven’t found out enough about yet.

You make it sound like some poor hardworking exploited person built the earth themselves out of some sort of clay and handed it to me for free.

I find gratitude incredibly draining because it’s artificial and also it seems oddly guilt based. I would rather frame things as giving myself credit. I got tasks done. I showed self discipline. Gratitude implies I was handed something on a plate.

I think maybe there’s a reason we’re not grateful. Maybe we need those emotions to motivate us.

I don’t think if I were grateful I’d bother finishing up my scifi novel or many other projects.

I get that it’s a bit inappropriate to be flippant and make jokes but if I worried about this every time I saw a headline about it I’d die from my adrenal glands exploding and melting a hole through the back of my computer chair.

sings Descending…unrelenting…beauty of annihilation…

Oopsie poopsie.

What in the name of diarrhea is this? Someone please just explain like I’m a complete idiot

Then why are teenage girls far more likely to die from pregnancy than adult women who finished growing???

Hmm good point.

Unsure I agree with this. I agree it’s not black and white but for example if someone spent it on drinking binges or gambling is that really just their business? The money could have gone to something else.

IDK. Annihilation is not frightening. I will not be awake to experience it. The only frightening thing is that it’s hard to conceptualize not existing so you default to the nearest thing you can imagine which is a black void or being trapped in a coffin.

…you do know they used to have an extensive empire and want it back

You think Russia is gonna stop at invading Ukraine if someone doesn’t put a dent in them?

They are solving their own problems by fighting back. Unfortunately that requires missiles that fucking cost money.