This is a good sign. Give them the validation they want for it
Yes, that, while skydiving
"president musk" - this is good. Trump is more likely to keep him if the crazies hate him
Yeah... I definitely don't like the feeling of being either manipulated or forgotten, which is what tends to happen socially in the polite Asian countries
I guess that's why every German I meet can speak 5 languages
Chinese are very direct. Mainland, at least. An aside, but I'd love it if Taiwan would hurry up and officially declare their name to be Taiwan so I can skip all the "mainland" acrobatics...
China Chinese are generally about as happy being rude as a New Yorker, and even more direct. The rest of Asia is indirect and polite. That'll change if China ever fully integrates
I'm also from the South, but I'm weird... Introvert, would rather go to the dentist than meet new people. I usually have a New Yorker's directness and humor, though I hated NYC when I visited once
Huh. Reminds me of a time someone in China very directly and impolitely begged - demanded, really - for some coins to ride the bus. I gave him the coins, mostly just off guard and happy I understood him, and that was that
Fish? That's unexpected
That's good, and under appreciated in society. A good relationship with your mother, I mean.
This religion thing combined with fiat clown world progression could go to some very very bad places. Everyone is going insane... A lot of them think turning to religion is a proper response to the insanity they can recognize, but don't realize the religion is just validating some very bad assumptions. Like, "men should be the bread winner" is an assumption that plays on men's emotional insecurities, and synergizes with the churchy message that the man leads the family. Nevermind the reasons and justifications - this creates monsters in a society where men have less and less success.
Just smash buy, keep eating ramen with an egg in it
In the past few days I think I've gone through a kind of psychological cycle. I was getting some validation from my spiritual musings, leading into religious stuff, but ended up reacting very negatively and harshly to someone for what I felt were domination tactics. You saw, no need for elaboration... Then, I think as a reaction, I started trying to remake how I interact with nostr. Basically tried to appreciate a more playful use of it. Doing so would fit with a longer term project I've had, which is to reduce my dependence on "left-brain" thinking, which means try to get more creative/intuitive. My problem there is that I still approach it in a logical/mechanistic way, but just fool myself into thinking its creatively expressive.
I've mentioned a few times on nostr my dislike of a particular religious group - the eastern orthodox. That's because, in light of this new love bombing information, they tried to love bomb me over YouTube. If they hadn't moved too quickly into the gaslighting phase, it might've worked. I guess my left brained approach to life saved me there... It certainly got a reaction from them.
I wonder... The EO cult may be a particularly bad offender, but they aren't the only ones... I think something like that is going on in all of the physical churches. So the emotional need that causes people to do that could be the reason Christianity has fallen so far from the original meaning. Its so bad, that most people who figure out the Bible end up quitting Christianity altogether. The problem is the people, not the beliefs. You tell anyone who thinks they're Christian what Jesus is actually saying, and they respond with intolerance. That may be because they are under a psychopath's control. What I described earlier as the forever narrowing of purity tests could actually be the gaslighting of "believers" to maintain control over them.
Anyways. Please do point out if I was doing any love bombing, or anything manipulative. There were a few things I said recently which I've been beating myself up over - showing too much neediness, basically.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/love-bombing this is a pretty good explanation of it
i have noticed an alarming amount of this kind of "buttering up" in notes in threads i saw you interacting with.
i cannot strongly enough recommend you make yourself familiar with the techniques used by manipulators to acquire your attention and get you trapped into continuing to feed them. There is many good resources on the internet about the techniques used by cults to gain and maintain control of their victims. I made a 9C's code myself, made a Gist on my old github account:
https://gist.github.com/l0k18/99692e5a92868b53529899fccd9859a0
it's the condensation of the research i did when i learned about this in late 2021, i feel like you would benefit from adding this to your arsenal
Were other people love bombing me, or was I love bombing them? Either way, thanks for telling me. Most people wouldn't, even if they had all the information.
Imagine.
This is how humans explored the world for thousands of years
https://video.nostr.build/474a99876a08b7e00798d44cf027693882d3a68c41b27be277d353e68c1d96ae.mp4
#bullishbounty
Its one of my favorite things to imagine
Was he clingy or what? Huggy?
You know how you're supposed to act super interested in the company you're interviewing with? And you gotta know all about them...
That's a humiliation ritual.
Checks out, chicken wings are basically poetry