The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“
Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.
does anyone have more these are great
i’m wheeziNg
Friendship is two people choosing each other. It's looking at someone and saying "I want Their Problems to be MY Problems."
I’m slowly beginning to accept the reality that 2007 was not last year but in fact almost four years ago
Anyway, no-fault divorce, easy access to birth control, and abortion on demand all serve to make families stronger, healthier, happier, and more robust, because they allow family to be a matter of choice rather than a means of social control and violence.
Wow, this got notes.
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like people are just going to keep saying “theyre only queer because they want to be/because it gets them off/because they think it’s fun/because they saw a queer person and thought it sounded like a good idea/etc. theyre gonna keep saying it
and we are going to have to stop desperately scrambling to say noooo, they have to be like that, they have no choice, they wouldn’t be like this if they didnt have to. we HAVE to stop falling all over ourselves assuring straight people and transphobes that we hate being us as much as they hate us being us, that we are suffering and that’s why we deserve this decadence and deviancy. we HAVE to start saying “yeah ok and?”
being queer is a delight. deviant sex makes people really happy. being genderfucky is joyful. queerness CAN actually be an option you can choose, and that doesn’t make it worth less than if you only picked it with a gun to your head, because it is a good option and there are good reasons to pick it.
Ok so I think this is interesting
you CANNOT select a PLAYER(that’s categorical; no caveat to it), but it’s INTERESTING that it takes the time to ALSO say John finds it “meddlesome” and rejects it, implying Player agency matters to the act. Obvsl it doesn’t, allowing a Playeranchored cursor to MOVE the Player would be super-unbalanced & let you go anywhere, but John also refuses to be cursored; also implying that, even if you theoretically could, he wouldn’t let you.
This feels kinda similar to Homestuck’s later concept of destiny, inevitability, agency, and timelines to me? Like: possibilities aren’t infinite because Players define the set of actions they WOULD commit&consent to, thus limiting possible futures, and these limitation are, themselves, Systemically baked-in.
Also: thinking about it super-lightly just now; the juju at the end is kinda cursory? Like: the abilities it grants seem very Cursorish.
There’s also the implication that Lord English is some result of Caliborn merging with the characters HE gets sucked into the Juju with, tho we dont see a similar merging with the B1Kids in the Epilogues, so who knows what’s up with that.
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Being a good person is a choice. Don’t let people fool you into believing that truly good people never have bad thoughts, are never tempted by the easier path, by the low road, never mess up or act out selfishly. Never believe a person can be good without making a conscious effort.
Every single time you do something good, you’ve made a decision to make the world a little brighter.
Goodness is not an inherent trait, it is a choice. Keep making it! I see you, I’m proud of you, and I’m rooting for you!
Apotheon-proper opens with a promise and an offer:
“I present to you a choice... Ascend Mount Olympus, strip these callous Gods of their power, and cast down Zeus from his lofty throne. Stand up to the cruel deities of Olympus, and earn your people’s salvation.
Or... Remain here, without the gifts of the Gods, and watch your world turn to ashes.”
Hera monologues this to your character, Nikandreos(“Nike”+”Andros” something like “Victorious Man” or, in homage to early games and out of my own sheer English-speaking perversity, “Winner-Man”), at the end of the game’s tutorial level; you fight to save Nikky’s town. It is an immediate and compelling hook. The Heavens have abandoned mortals to calamity. Your Community, your Polis, is ravaged by nature, want, and war. A friendly Deity gives you a chance to confront them. Will you confront them? How??
What follows is an entertaining and bloody 2D action platformer but, unfortunately, the premise doesn’t live up to its promise. Choice, then and later, is a fiction; your choices, what few of meager scope you are allowed, have no impact on the story in Apotheon, and little substantive impact on the game. In general, and alongside its treatment of Hera, that is my major complaint about the game: Apotheon sets a bold objective, suggests some truly great ideas, but suggest is all it does. Apotheon is a fun way to spend a few hours of free time but, with real choices, it could have been great, and that dissatisfaction(and it’s questionable treatment of women) mars a potentially excellent experience.
no other person on this planet was made for you, they were made for themselves. love is all about choices. no one is going to be perfect for you, and i think we need to stop raising everyone on the belief that someone out there, just one other person in the whole world, was “made for you” because it isn’t true. no one is made for you, besides you. other people belong to themselves. if you want to make it work with someone, it’s about hard work, understanding, compassion, communication, and choice
Being a good person is a choice. Don’t let people fool you into believing that truly good people never have bad thoughts, are never tempted by the easier path, by the low road, never mess up or act out selfishly. Never believe a person can be good without making a conscious effort.
Every single time you do something good, you’ve made a decision to make the world a little brighter.
Goodness is not an inherent trait, it is a choice. Keep making it! I see you, I’m proud of you, and I’m rooting for you!
<3 Thought this was important enough it needed to go on my main art blog <3
So the themes of choice and identity in Moana were much more present to me on a second viewing (everyone else probably noticed the first time but I’m a few sandwiches shy of a picnic so shh.)
Maui said that the ocean was crazy and nonhelpful because of its seemingly sporadic decisions of when help people and who to choose. But that’s not true: the ocean tested Moana at the beginning: take the pretty shell, or help an ocean creature? Only after she made her choice did it begin interacting with her.
Her grandmother accepted her choice to remain as village chief without exploring other possibilities. “You said it’s what you want.” only after Moana pressed the issue was she given the option to learn more about her people’s past.
The ocean lifted her every time she was knocked overboard… But only after she began swimming in that direction anyway.
The ocean also accepted her choice to end the journey return Te Fiti’s heart, and her grandmother’s spirit reassured her that this was okay to do, nobody would think less of her for it. “She makes her family proud…” When she realized she wanted to go through with the mission on her own after all, she had to dive in and retrieve the heart herself without assistance.
The entire movie beginning to end was Moana’s choice. A freaking fantastic message to share to little girls. I’m thrilled my nieces saw it with me.
nobody deserves anything because the idea of deserving things is a corrollary of the Just World Fallacy. take a quiet internal comfort in nihilism as you navigate the irrational world.
what about the whole human rights thing
Ok, so first off semperfuckyou is a joke self-care blog providing “self-care posts for total assholes” through posts that are as deliberately mean and pessimistic as its writer can make them. So this post wasn’t written seriously; it was glam taking her knowledge of philosophy and using it to construct an argument equivalent to advice like “sure you’re tiny compared to the universe and it doesn’t care about you, but that also means it isn’t watching and judging you. Live boldly!”, except for jerks.
But, I don’t think you’re really responding to this post so much as to my tags:
so let’s talk about your question in context to those statements.
