I'm very drunk and I want to know how all you stupid apes find the will to put one foot in front of the orher, day after day after day.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Gaslit myself into thinking I was a sociopath cause the reason I did nice stuff was cause it made me feel good. Got over it by not being so fucking self centered and navel gazing. Oh no, I get a dopamine hit from doing good things, God forbid I get addicted to good deeds. Gotta meet a good personality trait emerging with as much suspicion as possible. Now it's cool, but now it constantly blows my mind when say at work when the hypothetical was brought up who of us would have the best chance on the show Survivor I was picked cause I have really good social skills.

      Edit: my ability to give a fuck is pretty low and I've lived a lot of life at this point that makes me pretty well-informed on reading people and asserting myself. I've hopped trains and had someone stocking me who would actually kill me over some dumb shit and smoothed it over, various drug related sketchy crsp what have you. If I didn't learn how to be an appealing and charming dude I would have been fly food in a ditch long ago

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Altruism is a human instinct and it blows my mind that we've been poisoned to think it's bad or unnatural.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          It gives you really solid street cred too. You get friends or at least the good will or reputation of people who have nothing to lose. That street cred of just being g a really solid guy has literally saved my life and also I just like, have dudes on the streets who are thinking of me and in this modern age keeping one eyes on the ground is always useful, the amount of good sidewalk trash has been nuts. My current cider hustle is because a street dude I known brought me a wine making kit he found when college kids were moving.

      • SocialistWombat [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Being a nice person is fucking awesome, it doesn't matter where it comes from.

        Glad you're still with us, king/queen/regent :meow-hug:

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        That's how Randroids try to "gotcha" compassion out of people while at the same time claiming that sociopathy is the only natural way to be. Fuck those monsters.