Most of us say "yes" when asked if we want to hear the truth. And it seems like a good idea at first that will ultimately help us improve and become our best. But there’s something about having it shoved in our face that is so unbearably revolting, only the most courageous dare to swallow it.
Thanks to the redditor who posted the question “What is an absolute truth that no one wants to hear?” on r/AskReddit and received 11.8k comments, we now know what people hold as some of the most difficult truths. So hold on tight, ‘cause it ain’t gonna be an easy ride, and you won’t surely have a place to hide.
You have an option to either endure them and survive the post, becoming a better self, or to ignore them and move on. Whatever you choose, I feel you. No one was born ready to come to terms with things like “Just because someone is related to you doesn't mean they are a good person” and “It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose.” And I mean it.
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Just because someone is related to you doesn't mean they are a good person.
Don't believe everything you think.
“It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure that is life.”
-Captain Jean Luc Picard
Getting people to see what’s right in front of their face is not easy. This is largely due to the fact that we, as humans, hate hearing the truth. It’s especially true when we are dealing with truths that involve something we need to improve or work on.
To find out more about why so many of us don’t feel comfortable around hard-to-swallow truths, Bored Panda reached out to Susan Petang, a certified life coach who runs The Quiet Zone Coaching. Susan is helping those who struggle with stress find relief, manage their fears, and build self-confidence so they can wake up happy in the morning.
Susan said that if the truth is something we don’t agree with, it will be uncomfortable to hear it because it all has to do with our core beliefs and values, and the way we view the world. “When what we believe to be true about ourselves, situations, other people, or the world, in general, is at odds with what we observe, the result is cognitive dissonance—when our beliefs and our observations are at odds. This can cause considerable stress,” she explained.
Life is easier for attractive people.
As unjust as it is, it is also very true. Good looking people have to try a little less harder than the rest of us. Also, remember Jeremy Meeks? He became a model even though he served time in prison (assault and robbery I think)
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
They help stop the spread of the disease. They are not a cure, the just allow you to have a lower chance to catch the virus, which helps lower the chances of the virus spreading.
There is no inherent justice in this world.
Bad things will happen to good people, and good things will happen to bad people.
However, one has to be aware that perception can be an issue here too. “So, what I have experienced as 'truth' may not be what you have experienced as 'truth.' For example, one could say that the truth is that water boils at 212 degrees. Or does it? If you use the metric system, water boils at 100 degrees.”
Susan said that even though these two are the same, the perception, the semantics come across differently, and “what one individual might experience as truth wouldn't be truth to someone else.”
Susan warns that when you’re telling people something they don’t want to hear, it’s going to sound like a criticism. She suggests keeping that in mind and not being surprised if you get perceived as the one launching an attack.“
If you didn't vote but could have done so, you have no right to complain about our elected officials.
True. Tired of hearing "My vote doesn't matter." Every vote matters because it contributes to the grand number that influences the elections. If 90% of the people refuse to vote, they are leaving the remaining 10% the powers to decide over their lives. That's how polls work. They just ask a small number of people "representing the people" and present the result as the peoples opinion. Remember how that blew up in so many faces in 2016? "Yeah, we're going to win so I don't have to vote..."
i dont believe my vote matters anymore, im jaded but I still do it, so I can bitch about it when s**t happens. If you vote, you can bitch, if you didn't, you can't. Simple as that.
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I wholly disagree with this notion. The US voting system being a prime reason why this isn't really true. Voting in a rigged system, voting in a system where the people running don't represent you, or voting in a system where you can't actually have a voice does not remove the right and need for people to complain. Abstaining from voting when there is no one that reflects your views in the system is a legit statement and right of a person. Why should someone be forced to vote and support individuals they do not align with?
I'm tired of people saying I can't complain if I don't vote. I can complain that there is no candidate worth voting for. This is the whole problem.
I usually go and give an empty vote. I don't think any of those assholes deserves to win and I'm gonna show it.
Sorry, this is the kind of bull that makes me really angry! This statement is only true if you wanted to vote for a certain party or candidate but still didn't. Not voting can be a statement too, especially in countries where elections are manipulated. You can also find yourself in a situation where you can't see yourself represented by any of the candidates and will be unhappy with the outcome anyway. There are also situations where voting for the party you want will actually help the other side gain more votes due to complicated election systems (has been like that in Germany for some time). If you can't decide who to vote at all, not voting might also be a good idea, since what good is a vote randomly placed? So stop telling people that they have to vote! Vote if you are happy or unhappy with the current leaders and want to keep or change them.
False. It is quite possible that there were no acceptable options to vote for.
I totally disagree. Especially now you see that people have to decide between two douchebags. Not to vote can be a statement as well. Especially if the system of politics supports corrupt and dishonest people. Of course you can complain about this, without supporting anyone with your vote who is part of this system.
THANK YOU!! I for one am sick and tired of this. If you strongly disagree with your country's system, representative democracy, or the electoral college, or you dislike any of the candidates, then HOW do you let your voice be heard?
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If you say, "one vote missing doesn't matter," then you are wrong, because 10 million other people said the same thing.
I don’t agree. In fact, even if you voted for someone and they were elected, you can still complain about them, especially if things didn’t turn it the way you were expecting. Shutting up everyone who didn’t vote or who voted for a particular candidate who are now trying to advocate for change will make it all the more likely that people in their spheres won’t vote.
It doesn't matter who you voted for. If you voted you secure yourself the right to complain about it since you were involved. You made an effort to choose what you believed was the best option at the time. If you didn't vote (and were able to), you shouldn't be allowed to moan about it since you made no effort on your part to do anything about the situation.
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And if I am complaining about the system itself? Where do I get to vote on that? I am not complaining about who got elected but about the system that makes useless figureheads of those we elect.
Actually, (at least in the US), you have every right to complain about the government, 'scalled the bill of rights
That is like saying if you could have gone to another town and didn't, you have no right to complain about getting mugged.
Absolute bollocks! NOBODY has the right to tell other people when they can and can't express their opinion! Yes, participating in the democratic process is important. And yes, it would seem hypocritical to moan about the results of a process that you chose not to be part of. But freedom of speech is the difference between a democracy and a totalitarian state!
I’m so glad I live in a country where freedom, even freedom to not vote, and freedom of speech, are still paramount. Oh, wait! According to #8, that not true.
Actually, it's not true. I have right to complain even if I didn't vote because I pay taxes.
I've heard this my entire life and it's total BS. It's those who voted that screwed things up. This is just an attempt to shift/place blame. Voters are the ones who made the choice.
And yet, look what happened last election with the Electoral College. Hillary had the popular vote to win, but the Electoral College failed to do it's part in accordance to how the people voted
I am a conscientious objector. I am very politically engaged and active. I care! I even once went to the polling station to state why I didn't vote (they didn't care haha). To me it's not the candidates but the system that I would like to see changed. But in many countries, by law, parties are prohibited to attempt to change the form of government in which they exist. So how do I protest this system of representation, if not by not-voting?
and others say if you vote fore someone you gave your vote away so is your own fault if they abuse that. I chose option 3 ones, a party without a real agenda. who would keep a online forum fore all there voters so that on each decision that had to be made, there would be a poll. The aim was not be big. But to show what the people wanted.
That's actually bullshit considering the electoral college. Every vote does not matter. The majority matters.
Sorry, but this is bullshit. Same as ,, if you dont write a book, you have no right to criticise other authors." If I must vote between idiot and moron, and I just dont want to support any of them, still have a right to talk about fact, that they are idiot and moron.
George Carlin has a nice take on this topic, examining the other side of this coin.
OMG, exactly. Our last election (UK) I was trying to explain to some guy that said "they're all as bad as each other" to at least spoil his ballot paper. If people don't vote they are giving the government (local and national) carte blanche to do whatever they want. If a whole area has a low turn out then guess what, they will get less slice of the pie because the government thinks they aren't paying attention and don't care. On the other hand if an area has an above average percentage of spoilt ballot papers then all the parties will be forced to pay attention to what is going on there, put forward better candidates, etc. argh. Just write 'none of the above' or draw some genitalia. But make the effort to get to the polling station. It is very easy to vote in the UK, none of the terrible and bizarre problems I have heard of over the years in the US, and yet people can't be arsed. Don't you *dare* complain about anything you could have changed with a vote.
Years ago, my youngest brother and I were engaged in a hot(ish) political debate when he asked me if I had voted. When I said, "No", he replied, "than you have no right to complain." 'Nuff said.
Not even close to 'nuff said. No one is obligated to vote for people that don't represent them. That kind of notion that you don't have a say unless you support someone that doens't align with your views is fundamentally flawed and ridiculous.
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Worked on a democracy tv show and one guy who was a heavy participant never voted. Drove us crazy.
First of all, it’s called freedom of speech. And for example... So because I’m not a parent but I could have been and your child is running around screaming, causing a scene and ripping things off people’s tables... I’m not allowed to complain? Also... doesn’t the electoral college have the ultimate say in the end... hence why trump won in the first place.
That's not the same thing. It's more like they held a vote and asked everyone if they could bring the kid inside and you and several others decided not to vote and then got mad when the kid got let in even though you didn't vote to keep them out. And he won in part because of the electoral college and in part because of gerrymandering.
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Maybe because voting for one of the two party system is just promoting the status quo and the broken system they are complaining about???...
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I've always thought that if you didn't vote then you voted for whoever won. It's always worth voting even if you know it's a protest vote due to where you live. It gives heart to the person for whom you vote too
I've believed this for years. Sometimes, when someone is on their high horse, I asked if they voted. About half the time they say no. I tell them to shut their yap. The other ones that make me nuts are the ones who say they're not going to vote because they don't like either VP Biden or 45* (idiots). Well they aren't the only ones on the ballot!! Senate races, Gubernatorial races and local ordinances are all there as well. Don't be any bigger of an idiot than you can help.
That would be true in a sort of democracy where I get to choose whatever/whoever I deem best to further my goals/ideals/principles. (Still wouldn't mean I wouldn't lose of course.) But as long as I get to vote on 2-5 random, equally filthy, s***y, useless, self-serving, two-faced candidates/parties who never in a million years will ever "represent" me or do anything I feel should be done I can very well express my contempt by not voting on any of them and still have every right to complain about whichever of them get to be in power. I have to take the consequences of me not voting, as in X, Y or Z getting into power. But I do not have to shut up about my opinion.
It's not about being happy, it's about participation. If you didn't vote, if you willingly chose not to get involved with the whole electoral process. Deciding not to get involved with something, but then complaining about it doesn't make much sense, does it?
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One doesn't. Unfortunately it's never only one person who doesn't go out and vote. In that way things will never change on their own. Unless if you live in a dictatorship where votes are stolen. Or unless you make a revolution and bring them down with other methods.
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Having an opinion doesn't make you right.
I mean, the bubonic plague never went away, we just have treatment for it now.
That being said, the first step is to remember kindness and the Golden Rule. How would you want to be told that something you believe isn't true?” Susan suggests thinking about your tone in communication, which should be kind, respectful, and encouraging.
Moreover, you may use reflective listening. “For example, you could say, 'It sounds like you see grass as pink,' or 'I'm hearing that you think crocodiles make great pets.' You can also add, 'Tell me how you came to that conclusion,' or 'I'm curious as to how you formed that opinion.'"
Susan encourages using expressions like "It sounds like..." "I'm hearing that..." "You seem to feel..." "I'm noticing that..."It’s also important to phrase the truth in a way that doesn’t undermine others.
And also, it's important to agree to disagree, since “even after you have (calmly!) stated the truth, someone else still might not accept it,” she concluded.
2021 will not magically be better than 2020.
This is honestly all I’m hanging on to. It’s ok to want to pretend
Just because you’ve done something wrong in the past, doesn’t mean you can’t advocate against it.
This is what some people need to hear. I 100% agree with this statement, some of us dont know the harm we've done until later, but it doesnt mean its too late to prevent others from making the same mistake.
As long as we fail to protect and provide for all children in our society, we will continue to suffer the crimes of the damaged adults we produce. We have no right to expect any different, and we deserve everything that we get.
Anyone who complains about people receiving benefits from the government needs to consider this. If we don't help them, their children have NO chance of doing better. We'd end up with people living in gated communities, hiding from the other part of society, afraid to go out. Parts of the world all ready live like that. I hope we never do.
Mark Murphy, the author of "Truth At Work: The Science Of Delivering Tough Messages," suggests that cognitive dissonance is to blame. It occurs when someone holds two psychologically inconsistent beliefs (or attitudes or opinions) that create unpleasant mental tension.
Murphy explains: “If you've ever been in a conversation with someone who just couldn't, or wouldn't, hear the truth, no matter how many ways you tried to explain it, or who reacted so badly to the truth that you regretted saying anything at all, you've likely witnessed someone who was experiencing cognitive dissonance.”
This is because such a reaction is a way of lessening psychological tension and reducing anxiety when people face something that contradicts their existing beliefs, attitudes, and opinions.
In reality, no human brain would ever enjoy receiving information that doesn’t help ourselves in the sense that it makes our lives more difficult or threatens our self-esteem, status, and public image. And it seems that the saying “truth hurts” wasn’t born out of nowhere.
People don't think about you anywhere near as much as you think they do.
Ahh, but to the socially anxious, we still cringe over something dumb we said to someone 20 years ago. Something they no doubt forgot within a week.
You're supposed to care deeply about the things in your own life, and other people not caring about them doesn't make them less important.
This is one of the things Instagram culture has taken away from us -- the idea that you're doing great even if nobody likes the photos of the breakfast you made or knows who you are.
For most of human history, most of our emphasis and energy was spent on our families and immediate communities. Now we're all flailing to "matter" to a bunch of strangers we probably wouldn't like in person and it's wrecking our brains.
Except for the few that have discovered that life without Fakebook, Instagram and Twitter is much more enjoyable.
No matter how nice you are, people will still just be a**holes to you just cuz.
Some people will. It's not that all the people are a**holes all the time but you do get to meet the inevitable jerk or bitch, no matter how nice you are. It's up to you to decide if they are going to dictate how you interact with people. It still does take more muscles to frown than to smile.
Just because someone is related to you, doesn't mean you have to like or tolerate them. Sometimes for people, friends are your true family because they accept you for who you are. They choose to stick around with you. Not because they have to.
I don't speak to my abusive father and never will again, nor his side of the family. I'm estranged from one of my sisters already and I don't like most of my extended family. I do not appreciate their morals.
You won't lose much at all by cutting some family ties (circumstances depend though, ofc). You'll be much happier in the long run once you establish your life, who you are and what you need/want for your future.
Yes, this. It is YOUR life, you can choose to cut the bad people, no matter who they are and how you know them
Civil debate is a must. You gotta stay respectful, open-minded, and civil, even if you loathe the views of the other side with a passion.
Even though you think your kids are special, they are most likely just average.
But everyone’s kids are special to them, and that is why love is so important.
After a generation or two after your death, no one alive will have any memories of you. Your life, everything you did, and all of your struggles and achievements will all be forgotten. You’ll just be another one of the billions of forgotten souls whose names, faces, and life stories have all been lost to time.
You need to have your views challenged.
Being around and positively engaging with people who disagree with you is one of the healthiest intellectual practices we can do.
We've come to a point that "positively engaging with people who disagree with you" has become impossible. Everything has become an "Either you're with me or you're against me"- issue. You can't criticize politicians or you're a leftist fool or a rightwing idiot. And the same goes for feminism, sexism, racism etc. etc. So we all persist in our views making any dialogue impossible.
You can't control what happens to you, only how you react to it.
partial disagree here, i would say that you cant control EVERYTHING that happens to you
Just because you helped someone doesn't mean they are going to help you. People are ungrateful more often than not.
Hard truth. My BF is a volunteer firefighter, and do people ever thank him for getting up at random times in the night and sprinting to station just to break open that door for the medics or pump out floodwater or hauling some dumbass out of a smoked-up apartment? Usually, no. Sometimes the people he just rescued even choose to be mean. He gets pretty broken up about it sometimes, I make sure to thank him but it would be a whole different thing if the actual people in question would just say thanks sometimes. If a fire station ever helped you out, it's not too late to send a letter and simply say thank you. A lot of them are volunteers in many countries.
You cannot go through life without experiencing some type of pain/discomfort. Physical and emotional. It is necessary for growth.
Things are going to keep getting worse on our planet and we are in for some serious human tragedy.
This is not universally true. In fact, many things are improving, at least when looked in decaded. Scientific progress. The fight of hunger (despite negative effects through corona). Medicine. People believing it ought to be worse anyway are a major contributor to it becoming worth, because, why should they care if they are doomed anyway?
So many of these are negative... So how about the truth that one of the best ways to be happy in life is by helping other people. People don't want to do it, because helping other people feels like you're losing out, but it's true.
How does it feel like you're losing out? It always gives me a happy feeling.
Love alone is not enough to make a relationship work.
If they’re referring to the feeling of love, no. Feelings come and go with the weather. However, mutually choosing to act in love is enough. However you should make sure you’re compatible in values and life goals before you make a commitment!
People will criticize you even when you do perfect.
Your kid has no idea it's their birthday for the first few years. Stop making a huge deal about it. It's obviously about you and not them.
Is it wrong to celebrate the milestone because you're happy they made it there? Many babies don't, so why not celebrate?
Money can indeed buy you happiness. People that believe that it can't, have never had to worry about money.
Once you have enough money to be financially secure, money can't buy you happiness. But if you are not financially secure, ANY extra money will make you HEAPS happier.
Some people are just evil. There’s not always a reason behind it.
No. I don't believe anyone is born evil, so something makes them that way. Whether it's childhood trauma, abuse, substance abuse, untreated mental illness, head trauma - there will be something behind it.
Just because you've been doing something longer than other people doesn't mean you're better at it (driving, job role, sports etc).
The vast majority of people don't care about you. Family and close friends will but everyone else is far more concerned with themselves and their family and friends. They don't really hate you and they don't really like you, they just don't really care. Some people may love or hate the idea of you but it's not personal.
Hard work may increase your odds of success. But it doesn't guarantee you [anything]. There will always be thousands of people out there who worked way less harder than you but achieved way more.
Another American opinion. There are lots of people who think they are successful if they have a steady nine to five job, their own house and car, 52 long weekends to spend with their family, 4 weeks paid vacation and no debts.
Corona may never go away and be in our lives forever in some capacity.
A lack of critical thinking and greed are responsible for most of the world's man-made problems. We can't eradicate greed. So, if the world's going to get better it needs to think better.
Until critical thinking becomes a skill as basic and necessary as arithmetic, we'll continue doing stupid things.
No one is at the wheel. There is no one leading the planet, just powerful people, companies, and countries all struggling together against everyone else for power, money, and control.
So you're telling me there's no Deep State or Illuminati or Circle of 13 that controls the world? Sure, buddy. Just search the internet, there's so much evidence. Like how Christmas is always on the exact same date.. /Sarcasm=off
Whoever is reading this doesn’t have anything better to do at the moment.
Animal agriculture does more harm to the environment than all of the cars, planes, boats, etc in the world combined.
It's destroying our oceans, our air, our land, and our bodies.
But if we produced enough vegetarian food to feed the world, how much land and pollution might that take? I live in NZ. Our land is largely hilly. You can farm sheep and cows on it. You can't grow crops effectively on hills.
We need to stop eating so much meat if we want to mitigate climate change. The earth cannot keep up with our demands for meat and eating it for every meal is not healthy for us either.
No matter what you do you polluted the planet.
Yes. And what's your point? Everyone pollutes the planet but stop making it sound like pollution isn't the fault of the companies. Who sells banana's wrapped in plastic? Who sells a tiny bottle of perfume in enough plastic to cover 50 acres of forest? Who is cutting down the rainforest for their projects? Who is still drilling for oil in nature reserves while we need to transition to electric transportation?
Some people will never find a long term partner and that's okay...
... because even if you live your life surrounded by people and love, you will die alone. Being married or with a LT partner, having children, having lots of relatives... All in all, it's no guarantee / insurance against ending up alone.
People fall out of love for no reason and sometimes there's nothing you can / should do about it.
Not everyone wants children, even the ones who will have them anyway.
Just because you love someone it doesn't mean they will love you back. No matter how hard you try to get them to, they just won't.
If you feel like you continuously have to fight for their attention, they probably aren't worth fighting for. If they only talk to you when you text them first, they have no interest in knowing you.
This isn’t necessarily true. For example, a close friend of mine is a doctor. If I text her and she doesn’t text back for three weeks, it’s probably a bad month for the ICU ward. Now, if she texted back one word answers with no input...
You can be incredibly talented, intelligent, beautiful and work your [arse] off and still go nowhere above an average paycheck. It is better to find happiness in life itself than bet on the rare occurrence of sublime success.
Your spouse/child/home/job/vacation, etc. is not nearly as important to anyone else as it is to you.
That there are people who won’t like you or agree with you and you won’t be able to change their mind so you just have to deal with it.
Just because you’ve been with someone since high school doesn’t mean they’re right for you. Don’t base your future on childish dreams.
Some people are hypocrites & preach that they are anti racism and pro feminism, but are really just fake woke activists.
The only person responsible for -you- is -you-.
No. This is a very conservative American thing to think. A society is built on cooperation, by taking care of each other, helping out when needed.
No matter how much you try to forgive your partner for cheating, there will always be remains of the pain it brought.
That is why I could never stay with someone who cheated, the trust is gone and I would constantly be worrying. Not a way to continue with a relationship.
Stop buying so many bananas, you're never going to make banana nut bread! Put them back!
You have to stop making excuses at one point in your life and get up and grow up. It sucks but you HAVE to, in order to be a decent human being. No one will do things for you.
In most situations, most people will make the choice that benefits them even at the expense of others.
When you die, it could very well be nothing. Just blackness, like before you were born.
I believe that when we die it’s like being in a deep sleep without dreams, so I guess it is just like before we were even born.
There's going to be a day where you are totally forgotten by everyone.
You are always replaceable.
This is definitely not true. A mother isn’t replaceable. A grandparent isn’t replaceable. Your child isn’t replaceable. A loving love partner isn’t replaceable. A best friend isn’t replaceable. The one who had the idea and drove a company to the top isn’t replaceable. There are people that who’s choose nobody in the world could ever fill.
The eradication of the most devastating diseases that we fight today (i.e. cancer) will have potentially devastating unintended consequences. Humans weren't meant to live forever, and a "cure for cancer" will have interesting effects in the economy and society as a whole with a world already overcrowded with people.
Actually, research shows that people with better living conditions and longer life expectancy generally have fewer, healthier children.
That if we don't start treating our planet better, we'll be gone in 50 years. Done.
Hard work matters.
This should say Hard work matters but it doesn’t mean you will be wealthy, appreciated or irreplaceable etc.
It's our fault the world is not the way it's supposed to be.
We didn't start it, it's just the people that came before us didn't fix it, and now it's our responsibility.
Expecting politicians, athletes, and celebrities to influence positive change is [useless] when so many of us don't take extra steps to contribute positively in the world.
I don't quite see how this is true. It may be partially true and very true that we all need to do more to fix things. But, if someone hands you a pile of s**t, it is that person's fault. We were born into a world of nuclear weapons and countries that hate each other. By the logic of this post, we're just supposed to easily fix these huge problems?
Anything about someone's dream.
The MLM will never make you money, Britney.
Although your parents say so, you cannot sing, Amy.
You are not the smartest person in the world, Brandon.
(Names random)
And that's why MLMs, songcontests and "Get your PHD here" websites exist.
Having a culture that is so focused on getting high or drunk squanders much of the time in our youth that we need to develop into thoughtful, pragmatic, and mature adults.
All children are innocent, but they’re not all good. Some people will grow up to be [friggin] [arseholes] regardless of what they’re exposed to.
Costco has tubs of 7lb Nacho cheese for sale at $6.50 a piece. 7lbs of Nacho Cheese works out to about 2,800cm3 . A typical bathtub has a volume of 160,000cm3 . Here are your volumes based on weights (approximately) and how many bottles you would need to fill up the tub:
120lbs = 50,000cm3 means you need 40 tubs for 255 dollars
150lbs = 70,000cm3 means you need 32 tubs for 208 dollars
200lbs = 90,000cm3 means you need 25 tubs for 162.5 dollars
250lbs = 110,000cm3 means you need 18 tubs for 116 dollars
See the trend? The fatter you get, the more cost effective it becomes to bathe in cheese.
It started to sound like a very angry man trapped in a fortune cookie factory. This is why no one should text after drinking.
Many of these are not absolute truths, quite a few are not even true but some some contexts or with assumed connotations. Negativism does not lead you anyway; cloaking it as "brutal truths" does not make you or the world any better. Now that is an absolute truth, isn't it?
Not really, you still need the right context for virtually all of them. These read more like "how to speak like an asshole" more than hard-to-swallow truths. If we want to be kind, these read more like "consequences of standing idly by instead of taking action".
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They take stuff from Twitter, Tumblr abd Reddit all the time.
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Things I don't understand as an American. Age of drinking and smoking cigarettes are 21 because the brain isn't fully developed until then, but, 18 yr olds are allowed to sign contracts that literally put their lives at risk to join the military. There's kids being tried as adults on courts, and the parents aren't allowed to be involved because they're being tried as adults. Some adults don't even understand they're legal rights and they expect kids to on a situation that could literally mess up their whole lives of they don't have a competent attorney? Lastly, just from my experience and what I've seen with my little brother, nephews and cousins kids. Little kids are being out on psych meds left and right, sometimes just so the parents can get a fan disability check. These psych drugs can and does mess the chemicals in their brains up if they're not needed. And all the parents have to say is that they can't sit still or concentrate and the kids are given a cocktail of psych meds.
Want to Go to Heaven? . Salvation doesn't come by believing there is "a god"...it comes by believing that Jesus is the only way to Heaven (John 14:6) and confessing that Jesus is our supreme authority (Rom 10:9-10) and believing in our hearts that God raised Him from the grave for our justification and hope (Rom 4:24-25).
Let’s look at the bible logically. The bible claims god is a perfect being who is all-knowing, all-powerful, all good, is eternal (always existed) and has a divine plan. If god is a perfect being and is eternal (always existed), then he was perfectly happy & perfectly content for an infinite amount of time in the past. From there why create anything? Not logical. Doesn’t make sense. A perfect being becomes discontent & needs to create something, so he creates the cosmos & he creates angels. At least one of those angels betrays him. If he’s all knowing with a divine plan, how did he not see this coming an infinity away? Then he creates Eve & Eve betrays him. How did he not see this coming an infinity away? Then sin and evil take over the world. Why not stop evil? He’s all-powerful. He floods a world, saying that it will stop evil. But, it doesn’t. Buffoonish. Laughably incompetent. It’s a comedy of errors. Then we’re to think he gets things right with jesus? Evil still exists.
Load More Replies... Pretty negative person. Yeah, most are true (maybe all), but are they really a revelation? Here's a truth for you: if you think negatively all the time, you're never going to be happy.
Maybe this site is just s**t. It's just a trimmed down version of r/all, and everyone knows you r/all is mostly s**t.
Then why are you here complaining in multiple comments if this site is so terrible?
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So many of these were resigned and bleak, especially the ones about the environment. I don't think people realise but things are better today. CFCs, coal power and even landfills are fading out. We still have to work but we aren't on the brink of an apocalypse
It's not bitter, it's realistic and not the fairy tale that most millenials unfortunately believe in.
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It started to sound like a very angry man trapped in a fortune cookie factory. This is why no one should text after drinking.
Many of these are not absolute truths, quite a few are not even true but some some contexts or with assumed connotations. Negativism does not lead you anyway; cloaking it as "brutal truths" does not make you or the world any better. Now that is an absolute truth, isn't it?
Not really, you still need the right context for virtually all of them. These read more like "how to speak like an asshole" more than hard-to-swallow truths. If we want to be kind, these read more like "consequences of standing idly by instead of taking action".
Load More Replies... So many people are missing the point of the post. Its hard truths. Ofc its not going to be all bright and positive.
They take stuff from Twitter, Tumblr abd Reddit all the time.
Load More Replies... Things I don't understand as an American. Age of drinking and smoking cigarettes are 21 because the brain isn't fully developed until then, but, 18 yr olds are allowed to sign contracts that literally put their lives at risk to join the military. There's kids being tried as adults on courts, and the parents aren't allowed to be involved because they're being tried as adults. Some adults don't even understand they're legal rights and they expect kids to on a situation that could literally mess up their whole lives of they don't have a competent attorney? Lastly, just from my experience and what I've seen with my little brother, nephews and cousins kids. Little kids are being out on psych meds left and right, sometimes just so the parents can get a fan disability check. These psych drugs can and does mess the chemicals in their brains up if they're not needed. And all the parents have to say is that they can't sit still or concentrate and the kids are given a cocktail of psych meds.
Want to Go to Heaven? . Salvation doesn't come by believing there is "a god"...it comes by believing that Jesus is the only way to Heaven (John 14:6) and confessing that Jesus is our supreme authority (Rom 10:9-10) and believing in our hearts that God raised Him from the grave for our justification and hope (Rom 4:24-25).
Let’s look at the bible logically. The bible claims god is a perfect being who is all-knowing, all-powerful, all good, is eternal (always existed) and has a divine plan. If god is a perfect being and is eternal (always existed), then he was perfectly happy & perfectly content for an infinite amount of time in the past. From there why create anything? Not logical. Doesn’t make sense. A perfect being becomes discontent & needs to create something, so he creates the cosmos & he creates angels. At least one of those angels betrays him. If he’s all knowing with a divine plan, how did he not see this coming an infinity away? Then he creates Eve & Eve betrays him. How did he not see this coming an infinity away? Then sin and evil take over the world. Why not stop evil? He’s all-powerful. He floods a world, saying that it will stop evil. But, it doesn’t. Buffoonish. Laughably incompetent. It’s a comedy of errors. Then we’re to think he gets things right with jesus? Evil still exists.
Load More Replies... Pretty negative person. Yeah, most are true (maybe all), but are they really a revelation? Here's a truth for you: if you think negatively all the time, you're never going to be happy.
Maybe this site is just s**t. It's just a trimmed down version of r/all, and everyone knows you r/all is mostly s**t.
Then why are you here complaining in multiple comments if this site is so terrible?
Load More Replies... So many of these were resigned and bleak, especially the ones about the environment. I don't think people realise but things are better today. CFCs, coal power and even landfills are fading out. We still have to work but we aren't on the brink of an apocalypse
It's not bitter, it's realistic and not the fairy tale that most millenials unfortunately believe in.
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