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The blue dragon sea slugs prey is the Portuguese man o'war which is highly venomous. The blue dragons after they eat them concentrate the vemon into its "fingers" making the venom stronger then how it already is.
So far the only point i have is hyper-masculinity and the "grindset" mindset has been fetishized into being misogynistic and young men having a lack of empathy towards anyone who isn't an American. I just need more articles to site my work so if anyone has any that would be deeply appreciated!
So far the only point i have is hyper-masculinity and the "grindset" mindset has been fetishized into being misogynistic and young men having a lack of empathy towards anyone who isn't an American. I just need more articles to site my work so if anyone has any that would be deeply appreciated!
I didn't actually push them out my life i just distance myself whenever i feel bad instead of looking for support. I always compare myself and what i have to my friends and other people and whenever i feel like im not ig preforming the way i think i should be based off of what i see i feel like im just a burden to have around or im just kind of lacking any understanding of what it is to be an adult.
I just get really self critical and cut myself off from hanging out or talking to anyone but this time it feels like i genuinely need to get my shit together. I get that im still young and nobody truly knows what their doing but at the same time i feel that i need to in a way have all the answers or have a clear path of what im doing constantly.
Im at that point where i understand that self isolation isn't the most healthy solution but after losing my job and struggling to find a new one i just want to avoid burdening anyone which is def caused by some kind of parental trauma.
Ig if anyone else feels this way or does something similar just understand that at some point asking your friends for support or affirmation when you need it can help but ofc don't ask for it constantly just kind of when your feeling low and you need it.
I've just started dabbling into this philosophy but i knew what it was before i got interested. I notice alot of people in this sub mentioning camus and the saying "one must imagine sisyphus happy" and the way i interpret that is to embrace ones own struggles as a part life to sort of rebel against life.
Before i found out what absurdism was talking to my friend abt nihilism and i thought that looking at everything as if it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things or taking everything at face value seemed in a way kind of boring and i felt that was such a complacent way of seeing the world and i thought that maybe understanding that the universe is always changing and nothing is always stagnant sounded better. I felt like he could be right but why should i ground myself with that view of things.
(This dream does get a lil weird ngl)
I had a dream that started off at a air bnb that all my friends were renting but were still in florida and at some point i stepped outside and some beautiful black women came up to me and for some reason we both had spiderman powers and we were just chasing eachother around town but at some point we started kissing and hugging and it felt like ik her in real life and i knew her for a while. I vividly remember turning down sex bc we were not only outside but we were infront of a window of the bnb that my friends could see us out of. After that she got upset and crawled away and when i went after her she was gone.
After that some time passes into the morning and me and one of my asian friends (yes this is important) went to a corner store that was up the road but still a decent walk from the house. After we checked out she just disappeared and i had no idea how to get back so i just walk around looking for familiar landmarks to find my way back. Eventually i come across this sidewalk going down a hill and at the bottom of the hill on the side there was a huge concrete drainage pipe big enough for me to sit or stand comfortably. After checking it out i begin to leave and then a wasian man(filipino and white) who i definitely met before comes walking down and goes "how come you didn't catch anything" i told i wasn't fishing snd he says i dress like one. After that he invites me back down and shows me how to catch fish there. Mind you there were no fish in there when i first checked it out and the moment he steps into the water hes catching some small bluegill, bass, to even a small dead squid and i look at his feet and theres a dead stingray at his feet. It felt like he was making these fish appear. After watching him fish he proceeds to teach me and some random little kids how his trap setup worked and after that i ask what time it is and he points up to the sun as a way for me to tell the time. After that i left and i woke up.
For context i am Filipino and black and researched who anansi was before so i do know he can shapeshift but the deam itself is the confusing part especially because both deities that i probably met felt or were familiar to me and that I've met them before.
I saw a video that said if you could pick any word to base magic off of what would it be?
Basically it can be any word you want and whatever context that word can be used can potentially be your magic ability. Ofc the only limit is your imagination because the only way you'd advance and become stronger is if you can imagine how to apply and use different contexts of a word.
For example the word space. You can create space bewteen you and anything else or if you figure out how it would work you can trap them in their own "space" or "domain" by themselves and ofc you can do the same to yourself. Personally i chose nightmare.
Something I've always admired abt anarchists is that everyone is creative in their own ways and some would use that creativity to fulfill their way of living as an anarchist.
I could blame the system for everything I've been feeling but at the same time i feel like its also my fault. I've filled sm of my time since i lost my job with doomscrolling and looking for a new job that I've lost my drive to be creative and take care of myself. I can blame social media for feeling so drained most of the time but even tho i could be right im still posting this to a social media platform and which is the problem. I feel like talking to my friends abt this makes me sound like a schizophrenic or some conspiracy theorist.
I feel like the issue with social for me is that its become such an addictive pacifier because i have whatever pleases me in the palm of my hand which and if not its still right in my pocket ready for me to use and tune in. Ik theres a solution like even after that when i do start scrolling on social media i get posts abt something bad going on politically and then like, repost, and scroll to some brain rotting content. And in this day of AI being every even in social media and everyone having a bias take on anything it feels mindless to read into a situation so i just keep scrolling. Its just so much news and content being flooded into my head constantly that it feels like i lost not only my creative drive but the "anger" that drives me as an anarchist.
I don't wanna drag this rant out any longer but personally imma try to talk to my friends abt how I've been feeling just cus they're also anarchists so surely they'll understand along with forcing myself to stay off of social media as much as i can and fill the day up with fulfilling my creative hobbies.
So i was sparring with my hbs at first at the local chuze fitness and some dude came up wanting to spar so i was like sure why not i could do a lil bit more cardio before i leave. At first it started fine like a normal light spar and ig he got to upset that i wasn't letting him get any hits off but like, its a light spar and even then im not gonna simply let you hit me. Mind you im keeping my distance to avoid getting into his range and then he starts yelling and calling me names. It felt like at some point he wanted to actually fight and he was def going through some kind of roid rage. Luckily i already had my bag packed so after he stormed off screaming i just grabbed my bags and dipped.
I had a dream where my gf was adopted by elon musk and i didn't know that bit all ik was she was rich. One day she invited me and all my highschool friends to a pool party and for some reason there were like 6 pools and when i accidentally jumped into this one really deep pool they called the "rim pool" elon and my gfs mom came out and started yelling at everyone and elon just got really angry and started calling everyone poor(its weird that it was so in character of him). While he was yelling his son who for some reason looked like the new version of shreks son came out onto the second story balcony telling elon to shoot me while my gf was yelling at me for "starting problems" but instead elon used one of his robots to try and kill me. I turned the robot towards the son so it shoots him and then i started to leap through the house to the front door and when i got out i found a life sized optimus prime mech and when i got into it elon took over so then i hopped into his batmobile that elon tried to take over but i used a cyberpunk(yes the game) type of quick hack to prevent that and drove away in the rain and stopped at some abandoned garage in night city. After a time skip the house i was at in the beginning is abandoned and for some reason im the voice actor or morty at a rick and morty convention at the same house and after doing a couple impressions around fans a school bell rings and everyone takes off to go to class while im prancing through the hallways like a tiger while scream "ooooweeeh look at me" and over the intercom an announcement is made saying "if anyone wants an autograph hes prancing through the hallways with a cat tail and ears". And then i woke up.
Im still fairly new to buddhism but from I've been told i think that the middle path is a kind of not to much but not to little situation. For example you can chill out and relax but you can't let it be an all day habit and same thing for working. But my question is if its a permanent path or something that should be treated as the beginners path to buddhism.
I love seeing videos of british ppl trying southern food or germans dancing in Louisiana clubs. I genuinely fills me with sm happiness and joy. I saw a video of a hatian guy start a chant in creole on a bus with a bunch of scottish ppl and they all chanted along with him for fun😭. Ik alot of countries go crazy for soccer but this year it feels like a giant cultural exchange event.
I recently broke up with my gf because im not where i wanna be in life. Like i still live with my parents, i don't have a car, I've lost my job, and I've been working trades since i graduated knowing damn well i didn't wanna do that. Ik im young and i have all the time in the world to achieve what i want but im not making any moves to achieve that right now and thats the issue.
I understood that she was willing to help me through my problems but i couldn't stand the fact that she had to deal with my constant bs and felt like she should in a way treat herself to someone who has more.
I don't think im necessarily hard on myself its just ik when to call myself out when im lacking and i feel like when it comes to relationships you should always set some kind of standard for who you want to date and never settle for anything just to expect it to always work out.
Idk how to make sense of it but in a way i feel the need to incorporate elements like water and earth in basically my day to day life and that i need to do things to be more intune with them.
As a Floridian I've always wanted to be a marine life conservationist since i was young and now that im a young adult i feel like i absolutely need to do that and ik it sounds like im just passionate for my career but i'll also have dreams of the ocean or nature or feel spiritually calm around a body water or a tree.
I just wanna know what this feeling would be called or if its a sign of anything or if im just being dramatic.
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Ik that the elements are very significant in hoodoo and what not but I've been feeling like I quite literally need these elements to be a part of my day to day life whether its career wise or simply having to go out on a hike.
As a Floridian I've always wanted to work in the marine biology field as a kid and help with cleaning the ecosystem and what not but as a young adult I feel that need on a spritual level in a way thats somewhat difficult to explain.
I just wanna know if anyone else has ever felt that way for the other elements or if im just being dramatic.
(Disclaimer ik alot of jobs don't pay well but idc abt that im just sick of working my current job and im passionate abt marine biology)
I ain't gonna lie, I kinda flunked in highschool and although I graduated with my diploma I never made it into college and went right into the workforce. Marine biology in general has always been a dream of mine and I recently found out about marine life conservation and realised thats what I wanna do especially since I live in florida and businesses or housing is taking up the natural springs/wetlands we have. I just need to figure out how to get into that field or atleast get as much experience before college if needed.
(Disclaimer ik alot of jobs don't pay well but idc abt that im just sick of working my current job and im passionate abt marine biology)
I ain't gonna lie, I kinda flunked in highschool and although I graduated with my diploma I never made it into college and went right into the workforce. Marine biology in general has always been a dream of mine and I recently found out about marine life conservation and realised thats what I wanna do especially since I live in florida and businesses or housing is taking up the natural springs/wetlands we have. I just need to figure out how to get into that field or atleast get as much experience before college if needed.
Like one day your experiencing the worst ego death of your life, next day your having a spiritual awakening, then all of a sudden your getting ready for a crab boil and Hennessy birthday party for 3 of your friends. Deadass ever since i turned 20 its been a cycle of "im so doomed" to "im a thug it out" to "we're so back guys" and then all over again😭.