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(05-31-2026, 08:40 AM)LightAngel Wrote: I think the truth often lives in the grey. 
In all the nuances of life that don't fit into boxes.
Well, truth does feel subjective sometimes.
Perception doesn't fit into boxes either...
Such is life, shades of grey indeed. 
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
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(04-26-2026, 12:12 AM)Knows Wrote: It's stupid to trust anyone online. Or anywhere else. 
I'm genuinely sorry if you've missed out on love and friendship. Life doesn't have to be like that.
I trust, and have always trusted, many people. I don't think it's possible to live without trust. You need someone to hold a ladder for you sometimes while you get the cat down from the tree.
I've been betrayed now and then, but not really very often. And when it does happen, it isn't the end of the world. Forgiveness and understanding count for a lot.
Sartre was wrong. Hell isn't other people: Hell is solitary confinement.
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(05-31-2026, 08:44 AM)andy06shake Wrote: Well, truth does feel subjective sometimes.
Perception doesn't fit into boxes either...
Such is life, shades of grey indeed.
Yes, and life also keep expanding us, far beyond the identity we started with. And yet, maybe we were always the same deep inside. 
Evil Will Never Win.
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(04-28-2026, 06:08 AM)andy06shake Wrote: Because when we are always preparing for the worst.
We need to be careful not to end up mentally living there...
Wise words.
By the way, an excellent way of preparing for the worst is dealing with the merely terrible. Practical training in survival skills, if you catch my drift. Life lessons.
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(04-26-2026, 12:12 AM)Knows Wrote: It's stupid to trust anyone online. Or anywhere else.
100%
In tune
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(05-31-2026, 10:25 AM)KTemplar Wrote: 100%
'In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.' – Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human.
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(05-31-2026, 11:34 AM)Astyanax Wrote: 'In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.' – Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human.
Just get a couple cats or something. Learn to play an instrument. Instead of eating yourself.
For crowds? Stay away from them. Or turn the tables and learn to eat the crowd if pushed.
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(06-01-2026, 03:06 AM)Knows Wrote: Just get a couple cats or something. Learn to play an instrument. Instead of eating yourself.
For crowds? Stay away from them. Or turn the tables and learn to eat the crowd if pushed.
Don't they advise one to picture people in their underwear or naked to bring them down to a more equal level? lol
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu"
I agree with you, in that, one does not have to live in loneliness, one can enjoy one's own company through more cerebral and/or artistic pursuits, which in my case, always has me ending up in a crowd.
Cats can be tricky, just saying.
"The only journey is the one within."
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It's never about quantity.
It's about the people who feel like home. 
Evil Will Never Win.
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(05-31-2026, 09:01 AM)Astyanax Wrote: Forgiveness and understanding count for a lot.
Some things can be forgiven, but some things should simply be walked away from.
However, forgiving "for yourself" is healthy because it brings inner peace.
But it doesn't mean staying in a toxic situation.
You can let go and still choose distance.
Evil Will Never Win.
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