u/cherry-care-bear

TBH, I'm thinking in particular of the tendency these days to overshare. OFC--and for many reasons--it's just not a good idea.

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I'm not techy in the least but 'this' is the thing I was referring to. The part where the one lady talks about that one boy calling 'her' when he had been locked out of his apartment or needed food and reached out to 'her' to order him a pizza really broke my heart. As much as we talk about white folk on this sub, it made me wonder why this kid had nobody 'black' he could call.

So what are 'we' doing; any examples that can be demonstrated here? I'd love to see it.

This stuff is obviously complicated. However, I'm also aware 'we' could be doing a lot that might not make it to mainstream media. This is a chance to uplift us so please help and contribute if you can.

The prices on some of this stuff could literally bring tears to your eyes! If the active ingredient is, say, something you can grow in your backyard, why are we paying so much?

If any of that was standard--especially for people 'not' born here--I figure we'd all know it.

I think I read a thing not that long ago that said Wichita was ranked one of the friendliest cities in the nation? What exactly is 'whoever' basing that on?

Social stuff and that are def possible but TBH it feels like in order to master it, you have to make it the equivalent of a fulltime job.

No shade; just saying.

I mean I knw most dogs will eat anything but...

I was at the house of a friend of a friend the other day. I love dogs so a pretty big one climbed up into my lap. I'm blind. So sitting there, there was this 'plop' on the couch next to me. When I reached over to feel around to learn what it was--and sniffed it LOL, it was evident that it was a cupcake.

OFC, the dog jumped down and barked, probably like WTF; leave my food alone. But it's weird and really did put me in mind of pets having so many diseases now that people have, maybe because we're giving them too many people foods.

Decided to put this 'here' because a lot more of us were maybe around 'before' this was a thing.

Even in the 80s when I was born, the kids got to the extra sweets before any dog did.

I mean with laws like that, the emphasis for many isn't on caring about breaking them, it's about not getting caught. If people around won't chide you and there's not much of a chance you will be held accountable, so what about the law?

How does that orientation toward it keep kids safe? So-called law 'enforcement' often only comes in after-the-fact.

Is it actually just symbolic before that?

Like if it were culturally acceptable to remove the hand of someone who abused a child, I feel like that would be more of a deterrent than 'the law.

Feels like I have a ton because I love to sing. One song had the refrain 'he's never failed me yet' and was soulful.

Another contained the words 'wonderous cool thou woodland quiet' and another was 'something told the wild geese, it was time to fly, summer sun was on their wings, winter in their cry; beautiful.

The posts that come up on these topics--regularly I might add--are, seemingly, from people who literally don't know some of this stuff. Assuming parents aren't teaching it, where else would it be learned before you'd have to ask about it on a platform like Reddit?

I recently posted a question having to do with this issue and someone went on and on about systemic dynamics that contribute to the propensity for us to harm our kids. My point was why do we focus more on racism from whites than how we hurt each other? Like OFC racism--past, present and future--is real--and so are whatever dynamics contribute to community dysfunction--but why is tossing that stuff out there where the exploration of the question stops?

I made a post in this very sub not long ago wanting to talk about what led up to that black guy in Shreveport killing 7 of his 8 kids as well as a cousin of one of the kids; no one responded.

When I brought this up on another post, someone said they couldn't find mine; that maybe it had been deleted.

WTF if that's true?

People always go on about needing to go over these situations with a fine-toothed comb to make sure they never happen again but then what? You could say they happen 'rarely' but WTF; why are they happening at all?

Why are we so quick to distance ourselves from all the subtle and other implications? If they don't matter--not even to us in a sense really--doesn't that just make us even more vulnerable to the outside degradations folks on this sub like to talk about so much?

Are we truly incapable of doing better? If so, why don't we just admit it and move on?

Every now and then, people will ask if I can 'see' in my dreams; the answer is no. It feels, addditionally--like everything is scripted.

In an nightmare just yesterday, I awoke in my tiny apartment to 3 kids baking something in my oven that involved peanut butter. Icouldn't see the kids or whatever they were baking but, apparently, 'had' to know that so my outrage about my space being invaded without permission would make sense and feed into the anxiety these nightmares are often bounded by.

My question has two parts. First, if I were a psychopath, would I 'feel' less and second, if the nightmares couldn't be based on intense emotion or anything visual, what would they be based on instead?

Please people answer or I'll have to ask the white people; that's how bad I want to know.

A lot of folks from Maryland pronounced the word 'house' like that as well. How might that be explained from an anthropological perspective?