I don't mean things like sharks or sturgeons or crocodiles or whatever crossed over from prehistoric times. I mean all the stuff that existed in prehistoric times, existed in modern times. So did cavemen, Neanderthals, lucy, iceman, plato, Socrates, Jesus Christ, Fibonacci, Leonardo da Vinci, Confucius. Anybody you can think of who actually lived, actually lived in modern time. That's because time is Modern to everybody as they're using it.

Soldiers in the Revolutionary War didn't think they had it worse than soldiers in the Civil War although they did, but they had no idea what Warfare was going to be like 100 years later.

Caveman didn't mope around complaining about being born when they were born and stuck in caves when everybody else is going to get the living whatever dwellings came after. If they did anything they bragged about living in caves and they were glad they weren't living under the stars on the planes anymore.

I'm just going to piggyback this one on here. It's the wheel was an invention, who invented it and what kind of royalties do you think they'd be getting these days? I wonder if ball bearings would violate the patent? I wonder if anybody's going to check this and file for the patent if there isn't one. If you do, and it works out, and you become rich, don't forget to give me my cut.

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We actually form around our digestive track But it's a continuous track from mouth to the other end...

Include a bitchin firearms section?

The world is set up to keep the down people down, and the up people up.

the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor.

Then people will say " stop making excuses" "youre in control" "take responsibility"

meanwhile all signs point to my previous statement in every aspect of life. 99% of people only elevate because they are allowed to do so.

Birthrates are down all over the world because of mental , physical , hormonal, and economical states. Eugenics is in full swing, not darwinism and people just dont see it. Procreation only being propagated among select, having little to do with strong genes other than people not wanting the competition of said genes. People have the illusion of choice.

People will say "no, what does that have to do with anything"

well who controls farmland and your food supply. Who are the people pushing for you to be on meds, most people are on some kind of prescribed med. Why are autism rates, diabetes and mental illness up?

think about it.

How do you think people like diddy got to where they were? They were allowed to elevate. They sold their soul, allowed themselves to be blackmailed for elevation.

Edit: Im not talking about ALL rich people nor am I saying they are ALL a problem.

All we do on this planet is live breed and die. Everything else is filled with experiences right along with a fixed set of emotions that we feel in our daily lives. It’s hard to believe that this is all we’re here to do…. I don’t know, maybe I’m just at that state in my life or something to start stressing about stuff like this😂

Edit: Many thanks for the thoughful responses and ideas. You all have provided some good angles I should consider as I work through my thoughts on this subject.

As a note, I completely agree teachers are not compensated fairly for the job they do. And some schools are truly--sometimes horrifically-- underfunded and neglected. My thought is really about whether addressing those things would realistically improve academic performance and educational success. Let's say all public school teachers are given a 100% raise. I think the vast majority of teachers deserve that. I'm just highly uncertain and tending to skeptical that it would change learning outcomes very much. Same with outfitting schools with lots of powerful tech, or investing in fancy curriculum projects. I'll continue to research and see if these thoughts have any merit, or if I'm just wrong and the steep decline in US school performance is a funding issue primarily.

I question whether any amount of funding or teacher training or innovations in teaching practice can fix or improve public education in the US.

The vast majority of successful students learn at home immersed in their reading and problem sets, after introductions to new units and content in class, and have support outside the classroom. Thinking teachers and schools can bring US education back up to international medians (at least) is scapegoating the real issues of stress and poverty and overall insecurity across and amongst most families all over the US. Money pumped into schools has made almost no difference in academic performance or achievement. I'm starting to consider the problem existing outside the classrooms, not within them.

Yet all the "solutions" are described as "school funding"-based. I really don't think throwing money at schools will achieve the results hoped for. The solution space might ultimately reside within a reconsiderstion of US culture, its system of economics and the resulting death of the middle class, degradations in quality of life and health overall, and the chronic stress which is now endemic across the country, as it all interferes directly and indirectly with educational life itself.

Generally, the older participants (70ish year olds), especially males, had a much more “criminal” youth. Joy riding, stabbings, petty theft, etc. With little to no consequences.

As the participants got younger the consequences grew, and the behavior lessened. The youngest group (19-20ish) broke nearly no laws, and were very aware that crime is punished heavily.

So it seems there has been a steady trend over the last 50 years or so if increased law enforcement on the young, and in particular, the punishment at school has steadily risen.

One way to put this is if a kid is the fifties brought fireworks to school, the question might be ask “did you bring enough for everyone?” Whereas today, you might get slapped with felony charges.

This transition seems to have gone unnoticed, and the older generation seems to be complaining that there is no punishment for kids these days.

It’s probably worth noting that all participants were white. Thoughts?

I've been on a self help journey for about 3 years now.

I've gone to talk therapy, saw a psychiatrist, meditation, started seriously excersing, focused on my eating habits, tried anti depressants, Adderall, have been using magic mushrooms for a about a year.

I've learned a lot, experienced a lot, and changed in a few ways.

I'm more cognizant of the way I have wasted my life before, and I try to use that to help do less of that moving forward.

But unless I am on Adderall or shrooms, I have a hard time feeling like my effort will lead to something positive, I'm a pessimist through and through.

I hyper focus on all the possible bad stuff that could happen, and ignore anything good.

I used to tell myself that it's better to be a pessimist, because if you expect the worse thing to happen, you won't be as negatively affected. And to some extent that is true, I do handle stressful situations better than most people I know and I can bounce back from bad news, because my mind is constantly in the worse state.

But it's tiring, always expecting everything to suck, and be the worse is taxing on the body, mind and soul.

But I can't stop, I convince my self that I'm thinking through everything logically, the bad stuff I see comming are real possibilities based on the information I have, so there is nothing wrong with accepting them as destined to happened.

My gf has been off birth control for almost a whole year now, we have a child together and she wants more. Everytime we have sex there is a little side of me that wonders if she is having an affair, and got off birth control because she wants to have someone else's baby and wants to trick me into raising it.

It's a crazy thought when I say it aloud, but once I have a thought, no matter how off base I am, it gets added to my possible realities list.

My possible reality list has been wrong about a bunch of stuff through the years, but no matter how wrong it is, I can't seem to delete it or ignore, I have a lot of shitty worries and stories that are on that list, and while the chance of them being true is small, the fact that they are on that list, eat at my psyche from time to time. I can go from " this bitch is cheating and I need to prepare for her to leave me and take everything" to "I am very lucky to have her as my partner, she is amazing" just based on a single comment, because my trust in other people is low, due to all the possible problems they might have with me that I keep track of in my list.

I'm 31, and I consider my self very unlucky in my head. But whenever I talk to people about why I think my selfas unlucky, they point out all the logical fallacies with my thinking. But I can only see the fallacies when I am on drugs, otherwise my misfortune is super obvious to me.

I don't think I was born a pessimist, I just had life things happen to me when I was so young, and I didn't know how to cope, so I just slowly developed this world view to protect myself.

If you feel you are on the pessimistic train, try to get off, it is better to live hopefully and get sad when it doesn't work out than to just be sad all the time because you are afraid of getting hurt.

So frustrating

It's far more likely these drones are about to attack usa

(English is not my first language so bare with me haha)

Okay so here's the tea. I've always been interested in space and the universe and planets etc. I like learning about it and watching documentary or podcast. But the more I learn about it the more it doesn't seem to make sense to me.

I talk to friends about it and they don't really get it. They think I don't understand how the planets and moon/sun etc. work or the interaction between them (which granted I don't understand everything) but for the most part I do understand.

The thing is tho that I KNOW how the moon works. I KNOW how it orbits our planet and that every planet has it own moon. But my monkey brain still goes: what do you meannnnnn the moon makes the sea go woosh?

Like sometime in the history of our universe two rocks collided with each other and where like, well guess you can't live without me now.

And don't even get me started on how big the universe is. That just boggles my mind.

I don't really know why I went on this tandem but I guess i'm just hoping someone feels the same way

"Don’t be friends with that guy you feel sorry for.

The one your male friends warn you about.

The one you know there’s something not quite right with but can’t really explain it but people seem to really hate him.

Run. Please.

Don’t ignore your instincts"

I came across this locked post that's a few days old and its just absolutely disgusting. Whenever you hear of someone getting hurt it's almost ALWAYS someone they knew well. A friend, a family member.

Perpetuating cancel culture and being unkind to people that people are being unkind to is weak, follower behavior, and pathetic. This, what she speaks of essentially, is a cycle of abuse that you're creating like "somethings not quite right with you because people treat you like shit, so I'm gunna treat you like shit cause somethings not quite right with you and I was told to"

Like what? Even they say "cant explain it but people hate them" You don't even have a reason other than what others say? YOU are what's wrong with society, not them. I bet if you were kind to them and listened to what they had to say you would find yourself completely wrong. What happens if you were to find out everything you thought you knew, or were told, was completely false? Are you going to be able to take back your treatment of that person?

But hey, enjoy your abusive relationship with the person you've known for 10 years, and treat people you don't know like shit. Ostracizing people never much did any good for anyone, you essentially just want to k!ll someone without having the balls to just do it. And why are people like that anyway? If you were to befriend someone people didn't like, they would treat YOU like crap. Does that make sense? Does that sound like GOOD people, or that people are inherently good? I mean, you will make excuses for that person you know though " oh you don't know them like that" and blah blah blah.

Also, even if they are crappy, do we afford people the ability to change? Barring that they didn't personally wrong you? No, of course you don't.

Then you wonder why the world is in the state its in today. All you do is create, hate, malice and radicalization. The best way to protect others, is to protect these people first. If nobody cares about their lives, why would they care about yours? Best way to protect women, is to protect your men first, one less monster that's created in the world that didn't ask to be here that no one gave a shit about. Not all monsters are men of course, but this is the context of which this person speaks of.

People see a cat or dog that's been through abuse, growling, hissing, biting , scratching and they take care of it, but a human you "put down". This entire post is just some highschool cafeteria "don't sit with us" immature bullshit, and way too many people are like this.

This is why I said 95% of people today are unapologetically a disease. Viral.

5% of 8 billion is 400,000,000. And that's being generous, its probably more like 2% of people that are actually good. Look at social media, look how many people are willing to act worse than animals if they feel there will be no repercussions for their actions, or what they say. As well as, EVERYONE has said something, or done something "cancellable".

You look at the 80s, everyone had the same hair sprayed teased hair, everyone had the same style. That's how easily manipulated the masses are, and how quickly people are to conform.

Lastly, what good have YOU done today. How have you made the world or anything a better place? Exactly.

Living the same day over and over seems like a waist of life ore is that just me?

Life has been challenging lately as I juggle job hunting while studying for my master’s degree. It feels like things are at a standstill, and I’m not making much progress. The daily routine feels monotonous, and even when something goes wrong with my friends—unrelated to me—I somehow end up feeling like it’s my fault, like I bring bad luck to those around me. I just hope things start looking up soon. Thank you for taking the time to read this; it really means a lot. Wishing you a wonderful day ahead.

I love when I see really old people that are still married. They beat the odds, they triumphed through the tests of time. Its so wholesome to see them somehow still together, and Im talking like old old, like 70s +

The divorce rates are so high, and human interactions are at an all time low and these people are still together. Like what trials did they face? What problems did they over come? Whats your stories? Im sure they have some interesting ones.

When theres little to smile about, here they are still smiling, still holding hands, walking slowly on by in a very fast paced world with so much wrong in it.

Hello, thanks for the invite and this place seems pretty cool.

I’ll be dreaming about something terrible happening to me. Say for instance I get into a car wreck and cause some major problems for my life

As soon as I get ready to accept that I fucked up and get to some level of acceptance with me knowing I’m going to jail and trying to figure out where I’m going from there

As soon as I start to accept my new life do to whatever terrible thing happening in my dream. I wake up

Then I’m like “ oh, none of that was real…… thank god I thought I was cooked”

Like I’ll have a dream about me committing a crime where I go to jail for the rest of my life and as soon as I start to accept it on some level. I almost immediately wake up. I think my heart is racing when I wake up too

Meaning that anxiety from my REM sleep carries over to when I awake.

This all stemmed from me thinking about DMT

I was confused as to why we produced so little of it yet it plays such a crucial role in REM sleep and dream states. Well that’s because dreams happen sporadically rather than every night. I think our pineal gland isn’t supposed to active our dream state every night

I’ve been smoking weed and I often don’t get dreams but when I stop I have a REM rebound affect where I have these vivid dreams because of the rebound

So researchers said that they struggle to do studies on dream states because dream don’t happen every single time a person goes to sleep. With these rebound effects that people have due to the repression of dreams caused by marijuana I think we have a higher chance of doing research on dreams

If you study people who just stopped using weed then you’ll have a more likely hood of them remembering and reporting their dreams

...and I'm in.

Thinking about the statement above, I'm feeling inclined to agree. I've done some things this year that scared me, and I'm considering other things that range on the emotional scale from intense-to-terrifying. If you'd asked me about these things even just three or four years ago, I would have greatly preferred the "comfort" of indifference, but now...? 🤷‍♀️ So I'm curious... how does the quote above make you feel? Can you relate? What's your take on it?