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Cake day: October 15th, 2023

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  • Now you’re reminding me of those literary analysis classes. “The author used the colour blue to express their hidden and deep sadness over the loss of a burrito to a seagull…”

    While we might be able to extract her point of view at the time of writing and we might assume its evolution based on her later public interactions, logic only suggests a probable conclusion based on those components, not a definite one.

    Rowling also integrated parts of her own experiences into her stories. How do we know Hermione wasn’t a jab at herself or some other girl she knew? Must it absolutely be a broad perception of real life? Why can’t it be a particular and individual event to have given it inspiration to grow into something bigger?

    Logic is only sound when it covers all the angles, not just the ones favorable to a set conclusion.



  • So you get no enjoyment from anything?
    Never made and ate a good meal that had you feel “I needed that”?
    Never bought a random toy or played a game and felt “that was fun”?
    Is receiving sexual pleasure just a meaningless chore?

    Maybe the issue isn’t not feeling it, maybe you’re looking for some great high that makes trivial things worthless by comparison.
    Were you perhaps spoilered by other people telling you what to expect and those expectations never came to pass?
    Or are the bad experiences so ingrained that the good ones simply can’t compete?

    Regardless, active exploration is the way to change a state of mind. Passivity leads to numbness. Or so I’ve been told.







  • Why only 3? Is 3 the magic number? More than exhausts and less than is not enough? Is 3 the balancing act that best brings stability? Maybe it’s one for use, one for backup and one for backup backup.
    Actually it doesn’t even matter, going all in was the only choice all along.


  • You’re seeing India as a whole, but you gotta split it into pieces. It’s a melting pot of ethnicities that exist disharmoniously. Unlike China where the Han Chinese pretty much wiped out most of their extended family over the course of centuries by way of brutal warfare and discrimination, India managed to retain some familial morality where everyone lives together while hating each other.
    It’s a similar, yet different path of evolution.

    China - There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
    India - Bloody bitch bastard bloody
    USA - Murika, fuck yeah!

    And yes, I am talking out of my ass.