I'm feeling pretty... Blackpilled, at the moment. Maybe even worse than that. Things are bad. Things keep getting worse. Not just politically, but... As a human being. All the failed relationships, all the lost friendships, all the... Shit, that has happened in my life, is sort of getting to me pretty bad.
But more than that, it feels like we're losing. Like things... Are spiralling out of control (in Aus, but also outside it). I literally can't look at ANY popular media, or any sort of news, without being utterly bombarded by it.
So... If you've got a good "whitepill", or just... Something that counteracts all this... Existential angst, and feelings of sheer... Doom, I would appreciate hearing it, I guess. Thanks. While it lasts, and while I last.
You need to cultivate a more stoic mindset. Stop caring about things you have no control over. Acknowledge them, move on. Do something constructive and physical - maybe build something with your hands. Your emotional state should not control you. Your emotional state should not be completely dependent on outside stimuli. Take responsibility for your life, your future. Identify a goal. Make a positive step towards achieving that goal today.
This is incredibly difficult when those things directly affect my life (at least for me). For example, my employer was weeks ahead of Biden on the vaccine/testing mandate. I've thus far managed to avoid any direct changes as I've been working from home since they announced the requirement, but I've probably only got another couple weeks before the issue is forced.
I have a 'goal' to alleviate the issues this is causing, but actually making steps toward that goal is difficult because due to how drained I've become I'm having difficulty even working up motivation to come up with a proper plan (something which I didn't use to find difficult, even when under significant stress/depression.) I could just quit to alleviate most of the stress, but that leaves me without an income and as yet no other reliable means of getting one.
I know that my emotions shouldn't control me, but I've come to a point where I feel there are few acceptable logical solutions remaining and until I have a specific plan to achieve those I can't even force myself through the steps I find distasteful. My old methods of withdrawing inward until I find a solution hasn't worked for a while, and no one else has, as yet, been able to give me a path that doesn't involve waiting out my current situation (or requires something of me that I've lost the drive to do on my own.)
I guess that's enough venting. I hope that most of you are faring better than me (at least emotionally).
There are versions of this for as inexpensive as $1.50. It has loads of material from the best classical minds of stoicism. Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is amazing.
Really reading and contemplation of what these people said has been a huge help for me. I recommend against any modern interpretations. I only started one, because the English is easy to read, but they butcher all meaning, especially when they work so painstakingly to remove any reference to God from the original works.
Things don't change until people effect change, but on the logical inverse, so long as people exist, so too does the possibility for change.
Wait, that's feel-good bullshit.
Social Pendulum swings tend to occur with regime shifts, and China is likely to take over the world thanks to COVID paranoia and mass western incompetence, thus leading to a regime shift soon? You've seen how Disney markets towards China, I'm sure, it's definitely a paradigm shift from "woke". So change is likely to occur in our lifetimes.
So brush up on your Mandarin, it'll give you something to do that'll take your mind off things, and will likely be useful in the future.
The only phrase I care to learn in Mandarin is "Get raped by an elephant in your cunt-like eyesockets, you dog-eating monkeypig demon."
The Creator of the universe loves you and misses you.
If you had a good relationship with your earthly father, you'd understand why your Heavenly one doesn't come running every time you scrape your knee.
Wow, I didn't know fedora-tier atheists still existed. Maybe if you weren't such an insufferable asshole, people wouldn't condescend to you
Mankind has been given total freedom on earth, to do good or evil. We have been given a moral compass to instinctively know when we do so. We do not have an intervening God, on the whole. On top of that, there is a 2000 year old book to remind us. This life is our test, our final exam. You get one pass. On the whole, mankind is failing, sadly. Doesn't mean that our Creator wants us to fail, he wants us to be with him.
He wants to separate the worthy from the unworthy. The unbelievers, the proud, from the believers, the humble.
Anyone can do it. If you let that pride go, all that man-made false knowledge, and science falsely so-called, and see the truth of this world. This is the hard part. The ego of men is a big blockade. The road is small, and intentionally so. But we have total freedom to choose to walk the path.
Pride, my man. You have lots of it.
If I may interject:
BigCheese: You're kind of talking past Weyoun's argument and dismissing it outright by denigrating his character rather than directly addressing the Problem of Evil, which has confounded many a great theological mind in the admittedly accomplished and storied history of your faith (minds much greater than mine, I might add).
To put it bluntly, if God is the ultimate arbiter of all existence, whence cometh evil? If evil exists outside of His control, then He is not the ultimate cause of all extant phenomena, and He ceases to be "ultimate." If, on the other hand, evil exists under His will, why did He will for it to exist, in obvious contraposition to His (presumptive) flawless nature? Whence cometh the "worthy" and the "unworthy" when He lined up everything that was ever going to happen in the entire universe, down to the tiniest quantum interaction.
Our understanding of this conundrum today is far more nuanced than this presentation, but I wanted to sort of float it over the plate for you to have a crack at it. You seem to be taking a rather antiquated hard-line Calvinist view of the problem, whereby God just does whatever and we mortals are utterly bereft of any mental, moral or spiritual faculty to ask any questions about it apart from what's written in a compendium of scripture that wasn't decided on for seven centuries after The Crucifixion and wasn't translated into this language for another seven centuries after that.
Of course, this can all be summarily dismissed if you suspect me of being "prideful."
Weyoun: You played right into Cheese's hand when you came out of the gate expressing resentment at a being whose existence you don't credit. He latched right onto that and projected that resentment onto your relationship with your parent(s).
Next time, I recommend a more detached mindset. What both sides seem to forget so often is that there's a whole lot of room between "Every word of the King James Bible is Revealed Truth" and "The entire universe is a total accident and nothing means anything."
I'm not sure what exact flavor of atheism or agnosticism you're expounding here, but as a fellow nerd boomer I must say that you've chosen an ironic username to do so under.
It's prolly a tie between Weyoun and Garak for my fav DS9 character.
watch crocodile dundee again
Lol, he thought THAT was a knife...
Here's a good white pill for you. Kind of long, but it shows that you can survive without relying on the degenerate Left and its broken infrastructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDVU5Bj9vl8
Super White pill for you: https://youtu.be/YeM57ysRd-Q
Hungary is not GIVING in to the Rainbow Reich and their degenerate blackmail.
They're standing by their laws keeping degenerate propaganda away from any and everyone under 18. They also recognize that once you allow LGBT degeneracy run rampant in your society the family unit is destroyed and birth rates will plummet (which is exactly what's happening in every first-world country embracing the Rainbow Reich's propaganda).
So huge props to Hungary for standing up for justice, humanity, and a safe and prosperous society.
Oh, I thought it had something to do with legalized infanticide, incomes stagnant for decades, skyrocketing cost of living and debt, moving millions of stable well-paid jobs to China, putting women in the workforce and making single-income families impossible for the middle class, etc.
But you're right, it must be pride parades keeping heterosexual couples from having more kids, that makes more sense.
It's not the only cause. I'm pretty sure most people can recognize that. But it plays a HUGE part in shaping and sculpting the mindset of future generations.
When you combine the taxes with the wage-slave mentality and high-cost of living with a completely disrupted family unit and the inculcation of alphabet degeneracy into the youth, you see the birth-rates hit the floor. It's a compounding factor, which I thought was made pretty clear in the video, but nevertheless, it's one of the most easily avoidable evils by simply outlawing the propaganda that allows it to take hold in the education, political and entertainment sector.
And now all the kids are going to join the rainbow spectrum, further marking a downturn in any hope of recovery.
You can strip away a woman's rights, sure, but now that you've got her back in the kitchen what good is that when little Timmy and Tabatha are being inundated left and right with alphabet soup propaganda? We've already seen a startling rise in the amount of kids who now identify as "pansexual", "non-binary" and "bisexual" to a startling degree.
The entire landscape of the nuclear family is like a barrel with a bunch of holes in it. But at the very least, Hungary recognizes that one of those holes can easily be plugged, and I'm glad they've plugged it.
Oh I'm not going to argue that everything before 2014 was peachy-rose. Society was always going to be on a decline since the Federal Reserve came into existence.
However, OP asked for a white pill, and at the very least, Hungary's willingness to stand against some aspect of the Rainbow Reich invasion is worth commending, as well as their ability to stand tall against the U.N's blackmail attempts.
But to your broader point, you're right that long-term there's just too much happening to prevent the eventual and complete collapse of many first-world nations. Japan is a good example of that, because sadly it seems to be at the point of no return, and there isn't any way to turn their sinking ship around (much to the CCP's delight). They should have started marriage incentive tax programs decades ago, while raising taxes on working women (de-incentivizing them to join the work force). It would put more money in the pockets of men, keep women in the kitchen, and bring back prosperity for the nuclear family (which ironically enough is exactly what the CCP is doing to correct their own declining birth rates). But it's all gone bust now.
I suspect the new heads of the Japanese government will start immigration programs to displace the natives, mirroring what Beijing Biden is doing in America at the moment. All to the Globalists' delight.
You... do realise that declining birth rates have nothing to do with alphabet gang shit, and have far more to do with a high standard of living, right? This is pretty basic knowledge, and is not a politicised fact either. As people start to live better, they have less children.
It's all tied together. Higher standard of living, both men and women working, and the constant influx of alphabet degeneracy means that overall you're going to get lower birth-rates.
No one said it was the only cause, but it's all part of a cumulative issue that's pervasive in first-world nations.
This is the Tribulation that has started. We are in the last days of mankind. The only thing to look forward to is Christ returning soon, and cleansing this world of the scum and the lies.
In the meantime, try to find beauty in small things, outside the realm of the system. Family, children, love, nature. And above all, make sure you get good with God right now.
Funny you mention about the end times. I wanted to share about my journey within the past year, but wasn't sure of a good opportunity. Hope this reaches OP, even if he doesn't believe in God.
When BLM started rioting over George Floyd, my life turned upside down. My so called "church" somehow thinks the rioting is justified. My workplace became pozzed and "started a conversation" about "systematic racial injustice." The only person I could confide in was my mother, who lived halfway across the world.
Through the guiding of my counselor, I started looking for other churches in my area. I locked in on the one that didn't require a mask, which was depressingly rare.
And the church was far better than I hoped for. Yes, they were conservative. But they didn't resort to "own the libs" rhetorics. The pastor cared very much about what was right and pleasing to God, rather than what would score the most points against the opposition. We built a good small community group, and shared about our daily struggles of living in constant opposition. (We're in a blue state) Yes, things sucked, and they still suck. I lost my job and got evicted by in-laws for going to church in a "pandemic." But I'm far more joyful than I've ever been, now that I have support from people who actually care about the Gospel, and know how to encourage one another in our struggles.
(Addendum: The pastor cares very much about equipping us well for the world. He even invited a speaker to help us break down CRT and understand what to watch out for.)
So I have but one advice to give to OP: see if you can find a faithful church in your local area. It'll take time of trial and error, because faithful churches are far and few in between. PM me if you want more details. Note that it's not gonna immediately whitepill you. The mindset takes a long time to change.
I've been agnostic for a long, long time. I was very in to religion as a kid but turned very much against it later on.
Now the woke/ marxist movement turned me so much towards conservatism that I did not think possible.
I've recently started taking my kids to church. Is strange but it does give me a sense of calm. Not sure if I'll ever be a true believer but the wife is supportive and I feel considerably better, serene I think it would describe it best. I also sleep better.
That's the Holy Spirit working in you, my man. God is pouring it out in the last days, making people wake up. This is the REAL great awakening.
Acts 2:17-18 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
I would suggest to get a Bible, KJV is fine, and read Matthew & Revelation, for starters. You'll be up to speed with current events in no time ;).
God bless.
As for actual response to GrandeFormaggio: The first bible study that I joined at the new church was on end times, (eschatology) and I was blown away from what I learned.
What most people know about the end times is what they see in the Left Behind movie: world goes to shit, Christians maybe get raptured, bad guys win, and Christ comes in an cleans up. However, this viewpoint only took hold within the last 100-200 years.
Prior to that, the dominant viewpoint is that the Tribulation that is referred to in Revelation talks about the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD. Christ has not returned yet, but he will return when the Gospel has been spread throughout all the earth.
So if the Tribulation has already happened, what's the point or takeaway? Well, for one thing, you don't need to worry some supposed undefeatable anti-Christ in the present or the future. Second, Christianity has been spreading throughout most of the 2000 years. What we're seeing now is a horrendous season, but the gospel is still spreading even now, and I'm confident that it will triumph in the long term. America and many great countries may fall, but the world is getting better. Therefore, keep up hope, but expect to live like the times of persecution.
If you're curious about justification for this interpretation of Revelation, here's a 3-hour long video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy7cEW4MJac
But I'll put out a few bullet points from my memory of the study.
Condensed story of the brutality of the fall of Jerusalem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC3nUrJutsM
It's fascinating that I've never heard about this interpretation of Revelation before this study. I do wonder if it's partly due to Jewish influences in America, as it would make them look really bad.
Preterism, i.e. it's all done in 70AD, makes absolutely zero sense, because that would mean Christ' 1000 year reign of peace would have already passed. Nobody has noticed or recorded anything.
Typical satanic brainwash and corruption of the real truth of the Bible. We are ALL heading for the tribulation (happening now already), good and bad folks, and we will ALL have to endure till the end. No early rapture either, more satanic corruption. Those who try to save their lives, will lose it. Those who give it up in name of Christ, will be saved.
It seems you're already well versed with the debates, so I'll just share what I learned from my group.
Post-millenial preterism believes that we are currently in the 1000 years of reign. 1000 is not a literal number, but just signifies a long time. The Lord of a thousand hills doesn't mean that he doesn't own the 1001st hill. Reign of Christ doesn't mean complete peace. It refers to when Christ appeared to the disciples after His resurrection and says "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." No, He has not returned yet - that would be the belief of full preterism - but he will return after the 1000 year reign is over.
I didn't say Christians aren't part of the tribulation. The first half consists of persecution by Nero
But Jesus says the days will be cut short for the elect. That is signified by Nero's suicide, not rapture.
I don't think this is a dividing issue with regards to salvation. John MacArthur subscribes to dispensationalism, while R.C.Sproul to partial preterism. They both remained friends.
Also, let me turn it around on you: what gives you confidence that now is the the start of the tribulation? Do you surmise based on what's happening in the world right now? I don't disagree that things look dire right now, but do you have other justifications?
Here, I just made a post on the end times.
https://communities.win/c/Christianity/p/13zN6ERfXB/nobody-discussing-the-end-times-/c
With regard to postmillenial preterism, you have to be insane or insanely brainwashed to believe in the fact that A. Christ has already returned, and let World War II happen. B. NOBODY recorded anything of Christ's return, while ALL will see him when he returns. ALL.
Rev 1:7 Behold, he comes with clouds and EVERY EYE shall see him, even those who pierced him, and all the families of The Earth shall mourn for him; yes and amen!
Preterism is pharisee nonsense.
I addressed your point about Christ returning. Post-millenial preterism doesn't believe Christ has returned.
sorry, late here, i will reply again tomorrow.
No. Shit's fucked.
Fuck it, get a fresh start somewhere, get away from some of that baggage. The biggest downside to moving far away is not seeing old friends and family, and that kinda sounds like that's not a problem for you right now.
The UK's fucked in many of it's own ways, but compared to Aus they're better right now. At least when the people got mad at covid overreach and protested in London they quietly backed down on a lot of covid stuff instead of sending in the stasi, now there's not many covid restrictions left. If you have any grandparents who were British citizens you might be able to apply for relatively easy 'right of abode' aka live and work freely like a citizen, so you could take temporary refuge there maybe. Economically that might still be rough though.
Failing that you can lean into that disinterest in all the cunts around you and make some money off of it. Look into a job on a boat or an oil rig or something, the kind of jobs that pay extra because of how isolated you are. If you have no relevant experience it might still have to be a shitty job at first, but at least no-one will bother you in the middle of the ocean.
White pill shit, iunno, it's not blue skies and rainbows ahead, but the sky's not fucking falling either. The actual pill is a little black, a little white, very red and coated in piss and vinegar to get you used to giving no fucks about the bullshit that will pass quickly.
It's a massive cliche, but if you haven't already maybe give some of Jordan Peterson's general life stuff a try, he seems to be very helpful to people struggling with existential angst and demotivation.
I really wish we could leave, but... Exit ban, remember..?
Still don't know when we will be able to. Kind of just... Waiting it out. And it'll probably (well, not probably, certainly) require me to get doubly vaccinated, which I'm obviously not, so... I don't know. That's a bridge I'll have to cross, later on, I suppose...
I wish it was as easy as "Save up, then get the fuck out", but sadly... Australia's not like that, right now. Not anymore.
Think East Germany. Or, eh, occupied Hungary. Or North Korea.
And yes, the irony of Australia taking refugees from those places, in the past, is not lost on me, or anyone else with a working brain and "free will", trust me... :-(
Yeah, I didn't look into it very much. There's an exemption for if you intend to stay away for more than 3 months, with a "compelling" reason. Unfortunately 'let me out before I do something we all regret' whilst compelling, probably isn't a smart thing to say. And yeah no advice on how to work around the vaccine stuff either, that's a whole mess of reading that I have no need to deal with so fuck that.
That the 3-month exemption exists and the exit ban shit just doesn't look long-term sustainable make me think they don't intend to keep it up like this for more than a few more months. Especially with everything blowing up over there, they're cracking the whip right now but they're gonna want to release some pressure real soon. There'll still be a bunch of bullshit rules going forward but they'll start opening up more loopholes with time. There's a lot of prep to be done if you intend to gtfo, so in the meantime you can make some plans on where to go, work on getting visa documents in order, and planning what you can do when you get there I guess. As well as maybe trying to orchestrate some 'compelling reason' you have to be elsewhere so you can meet the current exceptions too, in case they take too long to ease up on that shit.
I do think I should perhaps look into the sailing/boat crew stuff, though, yeah...
I did try that last year, but most of the ones I found online don't take "people we haven't had on our boat before" - i.e. I would have to do a paying voyage with them, first, before they will take me on as crew, which I can't afford rn... :-/
It sucks, because I have extended family, and family friends, with yachts. Unfortunately the family fucking hates me, and the family friends... I've sort of lost touch with, and my psycho parents would do their best to interfere, anyway...
So I dunno. It's a tough, tough time. Genuinely waiting with baited breath for those international borders to reopen. If they ever do... :-/
Does it sound like I'm living in a dictatorship? Because it kind of feels that way (increasingly so), honestly...
I suppose if they throw me in prison for talking about this stuff, and calling for action... At least I won't have as much of an opportunity to read/hear about how fucked the world is, while I'm fucking locked up, lol... If you catch my drift.
I joke, but... It is at the back of my mind. Which it shouldn't need to be, if this country were indeed still a "free and liberal democracy" snort...
Yeah, go find something heavy, pick it up, and then put it back down. Repeat until you're so sore you can't do it anymore, and then keep going.
Alternatively, go to the nearest sporting goods store, buy a cheap bow, some arrows, and a target, and shoot the shit out of it. Seriously, I started doing archery a couple months back, and it's so incredibly fucking satisfying when you finally get it right and start hitting the center reliably. Just make sure to find a place where you won't hit anyone else.
Yeah, archery is pretty good, hey? I did it a few months back, as part of a festival...
Also darts. I rather enjoy darts, and I'm better at it (less so archery) than I thought I would be!
So I'll probably buy a proper darts board/set first, lol... Cheaper, slightly less dangerous, and more transportable (ish). But yeah. I get the appeal, trust me.
As for something heavy, I guess... My body, lol? Nah, I'm not that overweight, but I have started doing regular... Push up, sit up, etc, sessions...
Honestly, though? Doesn't really help my mind, even if it exhausts my body... Thought it would, but so far..? Not much luck. Same with jogging.
I think my mind is just so... Pained, that exercise, dopamine, exhaustion, etc, so far at least... Doesn't make that much difference to it. Unfortunately...
Ha, yeah, I haven't played darts in like 5 years! They closed my favorite pub that had darts, I used to go there with my buddies. I used to be a spectacle because I throw darts like they're javelins, starting the movement from behind my shoulder. That's not the funny part, the real fun thing is that I actually tend to hit where I'm aiming at, while throwing like a retard.
But anyway, yeah, I think I know how it feels, I can't completely forget either. I'm one of those people who can't stop thinking, maybe you're the same. This kinda resonates with me, except for the misanthropy bit; I had a stage where I was misanthropic, but then I realized there's incredible strength and potential in humanity, and now I believe we're all being tested, and it's my - and your - duty as a human being to persevere and be better; better in the traditional sense, not the "do better" horseshit SJWs like to throw around. I don't know exactly how I got to this state of mind, but it's where I am, and it seems like a good thing to believe in.
Still, doing exhausting things seems to help, at least temporarily. So does reading a good book. TBH, going to the gym never did it for me either, it's a good and useful thing to do, but there are no immediate goals to meet (okay, sure, personal records, but somehow that's different to me), it's a long-term endeavor. With stuff like archery, or darts, or air rifle shooting (I'm getting one next spring, a Weihrauch HW 97 K) you have an immediate goal: hit exactly where you're aiming at. And when you do, you feel satisfied for a bit.
Not sure if it is a white pill or not but I do see some young liberals waking up. It would translate in some change down the road, like way way down the road after immigration replacement and the destruction of all western culture and ideals and their inevitable replacement with "we wuz kangs" and how everyone was gay thru history.
I haven't seen liberals waking up. I've seen a significant uptick in liberals arguing unprincipled exceptions but that's more of a cope that let's them keep their destructive worldview when it is impossible to not see some of the more obvious destruction. I have a friend who is all "Biden shouldn't have shut down the pipeline" but would never ever entertain the idea that climate change is a bamboozle.
Honestly a lot of what you describe. Identity politics is bad, mass immigration is bad, high taxes are bad, cancel culture is bad but still better then those evil, racist right-wingers.
I once asked a guy to give me a reason why he thinks Trump is racist, he was all about how Trump was racist so I simply asked him well if you are so vocal about it why do you not provide facts. He instantly got angry and screamed at me to do my own research. I was not the one talking about Trump. This guy is a Jordan Peterson fan that does not like most of the things on the left.
The disconnect is real.
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(Not sure if that was deliberate, but...) I feel like this would work much better not on my own post, though, lol...
As someone also from Australia, I shut out any western entertainment or news. I only get new info out of here, kiwifarms, 4chan or twitter. I can't remember the last time I watched TV or Western TV show. This is why I can't really hang out like normal people, all the things I know and enjoy are obscure stuff. I think getting used to being solitary is crucial nowadays. Additionally learning new skills are not bad either like learning another language or new instruments.
I wonder if you watch anime? I think anime has lot of feel good stuff or maybe watch 90's movies that are very hopeful and optimistic. In these days being contrarian helps massively. Learning to not go with the flow and just isolating myself form people keeps you more aware of things.
The Amish community is thriving and producing a ton of kids. They are peacefully demonstrating that an alternative lifestyle exists and is successfully outpacing society in happiness, productivity and birthrate. They are a sleeper cell of backline european genetics. Go watch Peter Santinellos’ recent youtube docs on the subject.
You better be going to those protests if they are happening in your city. They will make you feel alive. Make you feel like youre doing something to change things.
You can start working on a Stem degree right now and it will literally solve all your problems within the next decade. Get out of Australia on a visa, start an American family with some money in your pocket, and live like a king in a red state. It’s hard in that it’s like going to be a lot of work, but it’s not like there’s a mystery here.
I'm gonna go ahead and write you a prescription for two testicles; and you feel free to get this filled out whenever you want