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Each of us creates the world we live in. We choose what to include in it and we also decide what to leave out.

Interested in the latter, we dug around Reddit and found a few discussions where people have been sharing difficult-to-accept truths that they know are correct but actively try not to think about.

So we put together the most popular entries, and I gotta say, it's not the easiest list to go through, but it's definitely intriguing and thought-provoking. After all, even if we refuse to acknowledge a fact, that doesn't make it go away.

Continue scrolling to check out what things are bothering people the most and the talks we had with social science writer and researcher Jeremy Sherman, Ph.D., MPP, and professor of psychology at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, Noam Shpancer, Ph.D.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear No-one wants to hear your shitty music in public, especially in class.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If only there were some sort of device that could be used to stop this from happening.. Wait a minute, there is! HEADPHONES!!

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According to Shpancer, refusing to think about something we know is true is a form of avoidance. "It may provide short-term relief from discomfort, and can sometimes help us keep from becoming distracted, but in the long term, a habit of persistent avoidance—a refusal to face your known challenges—becomes a bigger problem than whatever issue you were avoiding in the first place," the author of The Good Psychologist told Bored Panda.

This, let's call it practice, sounds quite similar to denial, but, as Shpancer pointed out, the latter is a refusal to accept or acknowledge the truth altogether. "The benefit of denial is that it may, in the short term, buy you some time to summon and mobilize your coping resources," he explained.

"When we hear bad, surprising news, our first reaction is often 'No, it can't be,' even if we have every reason to trust the source of the bad news. This momentary denial may allow us to 'catch our breath' as it were, before delving into the hard work of coping. Relying on denial for the long term is, however, unhealthy. Such persistent refusal to acknowledge and face facts erodes interpersonal trust and communication and leads to bad decisions. If you're falling, there's no use telling yourself that you've learned how to fly."

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Just because someone is related to you doesn't mean they are a good person.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother and sister are my abusers. I remember seeing a Tumblr post about how great it is to have a sibling as you’ll “always have a friend”. I almost choked laughing at the naivety.

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Sherman, the author of Neither Ghost nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves, agreed, highlighting how human life is uniquely anxious compared to other organisms. "Just compare the range of worries a human could have compared to any other critter. No contest. To cope, we need denial, escapism, entertainment, but to survive we need all hands on deck in reality too," he explained to Bored Panda.

"I'm on a campaign I call 'optimal: see illusion, safe escapism or strategic gullibility', encouraging people to take their denialist flights of fancy but always with a return ticket to reality safe in your heart pocket. It's not how far out you go, but whether you remember to come back. The big difference between a death metal concert and an authoritarian political rally is what happens in the parking lot after. After the metal concert, people return to reality. After the rally, people think they've experienced something more real than reality. That's dangerous."

#3

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Voting Trump out of office won't magically fix everything. He is a symptom of a bigger disease here in the USA.

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One study of 2,000 adults across the United States, which was commissioned by global tour operator G Adventures, suggests that the average American spends 12 hours and 56 minutes escaping their reality each week. (That's roughly four years over a lifetime.)

The most popular forms of disconnecting from work, responsibilities, and everything else that drives them crazy came in the form of reading books (1 hour 34 minutes), watching movies (2 hours 37 minutes), and dreaming of vacations (44 minutes).

#4

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Life is easier for attractive people.

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However, as previously mentioned, this can't go on forever and we need to come to terms with the world around us. Jeremy Sherman thinks people can make it easier for themselves by focusing on what he calls ironic fallibilism.

"An ironic situation is one where you get the opposite of what you expected: you do the right thing and it comes out wrong or vice versa. An ironic attitude is recognition that despite your best effort, ironic situations are not entirely escapable. There is no sure-fire formula for living. Just when you discover the meaning of life, it changes."

"Ironism is not cynicism. It's the recognition that life is deeply tragic and deeply slapstick. Life is tragicomic," he explained.

#5

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear We need to stop consuming animal products the way we currently are. It's absolutely unsustainable.

The amount of downvotes this post will receive proves the title of this post.

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Ripley
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The key part of this is "the way we currently are", and this is very true. You don't have to be a vegan to not participate in the cruelty of intensive factory farming. It is possible to eat genuinely ethically raised animal products where the animal had a happy life - it's just really expensive. Killing is not inherently cruel - subjecting an animal to pain and terror before it's killed is.

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E. Hamilton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Human ethics and animals; always a concerning combination of words and usually a red flag for me. Let's not combine facts with the ebb and flow of cultural and societal norms. The fact is however the animal protein is produced is irrelevant; over consumption is the issue. The over consumption fuels so many solvable problems we are facing today; whether it be the environment or general health of the population. People appear very quick to look at the "supply" portion of issue, point fingers and take sides; while the demand is almost always overlooked.

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Ivana
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate when people do that end part to a post, like "Jesus is the savior of souls, share this post if you agree. Only 2% will share." It makes me roll my eyes every time. I agreed with the first half then they had to get all high and mighty about it by trying to shame people they don't know.

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Jaded McQueen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stop reproducing HUMANS for starters. I am dumbfounded by people who CHOOSE to have a child at this day and age. Wth are they thinking?!?!!??

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notnow
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This day and age has always been bad. Back to the beginning of time. It is hard to fight the need to procreate. Unless you're like me. I never wanted kids. But for those that do I would ask that you just raise them right. Meaning raise them to be productive citizens of society. Please.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is currently number five on the list, so the preemptive, "I bet all you unenlightened souls will downvote this" prediction didn't come to pass, but here, have a downvote just for that and nothing else.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing makes me downvote faster than any version of "I know I'll get downvoted, but..." Ugh. Either make your statement or don't, but guilt tripping people for upvotes is just gross.

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Giles McArdell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good news on this from the UK, our poxy "Government" (Quotes quite intentional) has screwed up our economy so much no-one can afford meat anyway!

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DennyS (denzoren)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I support it because you didn't say stop entirely. Regulating? Having animals in cruel conditions? Of course. We need that critically. I keep my own chickens for eggs and meat. I make sure they've got more than ample space, food supply, water and clean bedding.

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Bryan W.
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Note how this is worded. It states a popular but controversial opinion acting like it would get down voted in an attempt to harvest up votes. I downvote just for that reason.

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Ausrine Ciapaite
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes it will help switching to veganism but only temporarily. I believe that reducing human population will solve a lot of problems that are directly and indirectly affected by our numbers. Let's research the best way of reducing global population without harming people.

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Gregory Mead
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The best solution is to reduce the world population. If we had 750 million instead of 7.5 billion, we could eat as much animal products as we want. I was born 66 years ago - world population has increased about 3x during my lifetime.

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Trophy Husband
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, does that mean that the fact that it was upvoted proves it is false? I'm so confused!

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Felice Coles
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We need to stop abusing animals, period. Can't even talk about the horror in pharmaceutical and "science" labs that torture animals to death for profit.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My name might tell you how I feel about this "truth" lol. We absolutely need to eat less meat.

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Juan Ghote
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t disagree, it’s just that this post is not offering a solution to the problem.

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Adam Jeff
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This post is about unwelcome truths, not solutions. But I would have thought it's kind of obvious what the solution is: eat less animals, rear the ones you do eat more sustainably.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No. The number of downvotes indicates how many people disagreed with your statement. In the same way, the number of upvotes indicates how many people agreed with your statement. Neither disproves or proves the validity of your statement.

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Charles Mark Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So when I harvest a deer and eat the meat this beautiful animal provided. It's 100% organic ( more than organic food) was free range, was not processed in a plant, went to no waste, did not go to pharmaceutical testing and impacted only the animal itself and my family and friends. Is this ok? Or is this really pushing on everyone else something around vegetarian and vegan? I know Bored Panda supports a variety of views. So...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, we rarely eat red meat in my home and the pork/chicken that we do eat isn't a lot. We try to have lots of fresh fruit, veggies, and stuff like hummus and flatbreads around to snack on. I'll still indulge in an occasional cheeseburger from time to time but it's a big hit to my energy and digestive system to do so.

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KLo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are the only mammals who consume other mammals milk.

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Sir Beer Korma
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the only ones we allow to breed uncontrollably. And the only ones to generate external power that they demand for their existence, or pillage the ground for stuff to sustain their pointless existence

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If there weren't farmers that love their animals and that take excellent care of the nature and animals, the Alps in Austria or any surrounding country wouldn't be as beautiful. People from the city only want beautiful landscape and no animals. The people complaining about cow dung or cow bells, or bees or goats, just drive me crazy. Or those stupid people taking down a fence - it is there for a reason. Or those crazy ones going hiking on an "Alm" mistreating the animals and then they sue the farmer because the cow "attacked" them when it was only defending itself or her baby.

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Veri Rockt
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The alps weren't build by cows 🤦‍♂️ also we don't vacuum there to prevent forest fires

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Down voted because of the last line. That s**t is obnoxious.

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Gregg Carr
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish people would focus on the main issue of unsustainability. .. Too many humans. ! Agent Smith summed it up perfectly - Humans are a Virus.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thing is, heavily processed "meat substitutes" made out of soy or wheat are possibly even worse for the environment - it takes a lot of land and a lot of processing (meaning pollution and factories) to make them. Meat can be made humanely - if you've got back yard chickens, you've got way less impact on the environment than if you are Beyond Meat or whatever the trendy thing is these days.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hardly a fair comparison - if you're taking as example the 0.1% of meat-eaters who raise their own meat, why not compare to a vegan that grows their own veggies? The soy burger is obviously worse than eating something from your backyard - but it's much better than the average beefburger, which comes from a factory farm whose cows have eaten far more soy than would have gone into the soy burger.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I didn't have digestive issues that causes poor protein absorbtion, I would cut down. As it is, I have a hard time getting my blood protein levels up to the normal range.

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Jon Stuart
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How much carbon would we save and how many cows if we just ate vegans?

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Ganta S
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the cattle is the problem because of greenhouse gases emission, we shouldn't stop eating them - we should eat them all and solve the problem

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. We need to stop consuming animal products the way we currently are. As Ted in There's Something About Mary suggests, we should start eating meat from cones. No more knives and forks.

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CatGirl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would you say that 'killing is not inherently cruel' if it were being done to children?

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Lex
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not inherently wrong to use animals for food, but the way meat is produced (there are a few humane ways) is wrong.

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Francie Traschen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you wouldn't eat your dog/cat then you shouldn't eat cow, pig, lamb, chicken, etc.

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Adedoyin Kugbiyi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nobody said stop eating meat... It's how we do things that we need to adjust. True.

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Bug
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God gave us the animals of the field for food, as well as the plants. We are ment to consume both, per the Bible.

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Jennifer Norton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I eat meat and I agree with this post. There is no need to eat meat everyday

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Gregg Carr
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish people would focus on the root of the sustainable issue - Too many humans !!! Agent Smith from the Matrix summed us up perfectly ... Humans are a Virus .

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It depends where you live, I live near a farm I get to see how the animals that I eat live. And they live a good life out in the fields eating everything they can or need.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to teach Supply Chain theory and the one thing that blew the minds of students was how much chicken is consumed and how difficult it is to keep pace with demand. Every shop, every restaurant, fast food and most households in the UK hold chicken. The only way to keep pace is broiler farms go look it will make you think and maybe a little disappointed in us as a race

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't necessarily agree with the post. But I can understand it's pov. It's just about finding more sustainable ways of producing meat products. People had to do the same with the fish industry. A way to maintain what is needed but not so much it over uses the land to the point of destruction. It also takes a lot of resources to raise cattle for any reason.

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Sir Beer Korma
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can quite happily raise cattle sustainably, the are even used for conservation grazing. Cattle feedlots are an American thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Husbandry, eating meat and farming is a huge topic. And parts of humanity eats to much meat. And those gigantic "meat factories" are a problem. Thing is, though, there is not 1 answer that is correct for all of our planet. Again, it is a huge and extremley complex topic.

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Sir Beer Korma
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of the world's cattle is not in feedlot factories but wandering around fields of grass.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Veganism won't truly help the larger issue. Cow farts are not necessarily the main problem. The larger issue is large-scale industrial mono-cropping and poisoning the land with herbicidal sprays like Grazon. What is sustainable is locally sourced permaculture efforts that balance out the broad spectrum of herbicidal poisons and the massive carbon footprint of internationally shipped produce and foods. Industrial monocropping creates food deserts for essential pollinators, the poisons they spray on industrial produce like Grazon poisons the soil, pollinators, us, and is even now showing up and killing compost and bagged soils (here's looking at you, Kellog's) that is affecting the plant growth (especially the nightshades tomatoes/peppers) of home gardeners and homesteads that are trying to create a better environment with locally sourced organic permaculture. Support your local organic farmer. #WhatJessSaid #OneDropofRain #RaindropDecisions #RootsandRefuge

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Rich Marcheschi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Buy local, not only is it better for the environment, but better quality, a friend gave me some meat from the 1/2 cow he bought locally, my wife who is a chef of 20+ years (and vegan of 5+ years) said it was the best quality ground beef she has ever worked with.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I eat meat, but I have cut back significantly and it's so easy. I just use mushrooms or plant-based "meats" instead. They are so many tasty options now.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True. Microwaved dishes gross. You need to throw that meat on the grill!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heck I downvoted just for the pre-emptive "boo hoo I'm going to be downvoted" thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"If you disagree with me, that proves I'm right." Yeaaaahh.......

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is actually a fallacy and there is waaaay too much to unpack. There are faults in the industry but it is completely sustainable. As it is there is far too much wasted meat world wide and the focus should be better husbandry and better distribution.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is consuming plant products in the same quantity somehow absolutely sustainable? WITHOUT destroying thousands of acres of ecosystems to create farmlands? I’m not saying either is better, but that such an extreme view is facetious and spurious.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We still have to use crops to feed the animals we eat. Si if we use the acres we are using to feed what we will eat, there will be no need to destroy any more land because to get a ton of beef, we have to feed cows with 10 tons of plants.

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"Fallibilism is a concept in philosophy and more than any other notion, fallibilism has given me peace of mind about dealing with reality," Sherman continued. "I think of the fallibilist mantra as 'no matter how confident I am in a bet, I remain still more confident that it is a bet. Life is iffy guesswork. Yoda is wrong. There's only try. One can make better bets. One can bet with high confidence. One can't escape betting."

Sherman sees ironic fallibilism as the antidote to two unworkable approaches that are often combined:

The first one is fundamentalist hypocrisy, or pretending you have the formula for living though you don't, can't, and shouldn't live by it. And the second one is cynical hypocrisy, or pretending there's no formula so you can do whatever you want.

"[Jerks] (I'm a psychoproctologist) employ both. Everyone should live by their supposed fundamentalist formula that they cynically don't think they have to live by. No deed is too dirty for saints like them."

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Just because you've been doing something longer than other people doesn't mean you're better at it (driving, job role, sports etc)

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Professor Noam Shpancer added that we should revise our expectation that life should be easy, and the attendant aversion to discomfort. "Hardship is not the end of the world," he said. "It is just the world. The default position for human beings is resilience. Normalizing the struggle is useful."

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"Second, accepting reality tends to be easier when we take a long-term perspective, because the danger and damage associated with a failure to face reality are usually obscured in the short run and clarify only in the long run. When making decisions, it is, therefore, useful to consider not only your present self but the well-being of your future self as well. When you fail to deal with the facts of your circumstance, you in effect sell out your future self."

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear "You can achieve anything you put your mind to" is NOT true.

Not even close.

Genetics play a HUGE role in whether or not someone will be a good athlete, or a super successful scientist.

Can you be an "OK" athlete if you try really hard and practice really hard? Sure. Will you break world records or play for a professional team? No. You have to be especially gifted in the genetics department to do those sorts of things.

The same thing applies for mental pursuits. Not everyone is smart. Some people just don't... get it. You can try a million different ways of teaching a subject and some people just... won't... get it. Critical thinking (the ability to see a problem and visualize how to get a solution) comes MUCH MORE EASILY to some people than to others. Can you sit there and memorize things and get good grades and what not? Absolutely. Will you ever be a scientist who does extremely important research and solves the world's next huge problem? Probably not, unless you get hired because of nepotism are dragged along by someone who IS good at critical thinking.

Furthermore, much of what you CAN do is limited by who you know. If you're rich or your parents are rich and they know lots of people and have a large social network or a lot of people who want to please them for one reason or another, you'll likely find a job in whatever career you want to extremely easily provided you're not totally inept. If you're the first in your family to get a degree and aren't good at maintaining a social network you'll likely have an extremely hard time finding a job, even if you are the person best suited for the jobs you are applying for. Even if the job you're applying for is LITERALLY what you spent 5 years getting a PhD on, if you don't know somebody, you likely won't get that job.

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Finally, we must constantly work on educating ourselves and seeking knowledge that can provide answers to questions we sometimes can't even articulate. Shpancer believes that history is the subject to start with, as it "shows what happens to those who deny the facts, and about the scientific method, which shows that in refereeing competing truth claims, following the evidence is our best bet.

"'Facts,' said John Adams, 'are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.' The evidence wins out in the end. Don’t you want to be on the winning side?"

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear All children are innocent, but they’re not all good. Some people will grow up to be f*****g assholes regardless of what they’re exposed to.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Money can actually make your life happier.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Up to a certain point. If you have 100 million or 500 million, then it might not make much difference.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear 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.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear The more children you have, the more you contribute to environmental decline. Literally nobody likes hearing this because HUMANS MUST REPRODUCE YADA YADA.

turtlemari , Kelly Sikkema Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most true for Americans, and to a lesser extent the other "western" countries. There were 1 billion people on the planet in 1800. In 1950, there were 2.53 billion, 1980 4.43 billion, 1999 6 billion, 2011, 7 billion, today we sit at 7.95 billion, and will reach 8 billion people by next year. We can't effectively sustain the human population now, 1/3rd of food production ends up wasted, while 1/4 of the global population doesn't have enough to eat because getting it everywhere is a logistical nightmare, and yet a large portion of the population continues to think the only way to solve the big problems of the world is to stay the course, continue unchecked expansion and hope that solutions will be born along with the rising population. We've been playing this game for 40 years with the climate, and we're almost out of time. Yet the mindset seems unchanged.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear 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.

anon , Milan Popovic Report

#14

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Everyone's a hypocrite. Even you.

booksoverppl , Adrian Swancar Report

#15

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear I guess to counter some people in here:

Not every "real talk", "tough to swallow pill", or "harsh truth" that you have to offer someone is going to be accurate to them, or their situation.

Sometimes you're actually a f*****g d**k that is incapable of considering their perspective or feeling empathy towards them.

¯ _(ツ) _ / ¯

NappyFlickz , Jon Tyson Report

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BadCat
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. Just let people be. Maybe things will work out for them. Maybe it won't. At least they tried. This is a huge problem with long distance relationship communities. You could have one minor question, seeking a boost of optimism. Then people want more information about the relationship. They use that information against the op and base dooming "opinions", some irrelevant to the op's main issue, on their own past experiences that could have been much, much different of a situation. I don't even bring it up anymore. Don't need to.

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#16

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear There's going to be a day where you are totally forgotten by everyone.

PunchyPractitioner , Dan Meyers Report

#17

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Things are going to keep getting worse on our planet and we are in for some serious human tragedy.

LemmeLaroo , Li-An Lim Report

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Erin Geiger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's the thing, the planet is going to be fine, it's been around 4.5 billion years. It's the people who are F***ed

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#18

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Your spouse/child/home/job/vacation, etc. is not nearly as important to anyone else as it is to you.

tappytaps , Natalya Zaritskaya Report

#19

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear You can't control what happens to you, only how you react to it.

sheikhyerbouti , Jorge Saavedra Report

#20

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear 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

animeweebgrill , Ketut Subiyanto Report

#21

That all gods are man made, start taking responsibility for your own actions and stop thinking that some magical being is going to come and help you out.

JesusChristsGayLover Report

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#22

Your skin color / sexual orientation is the least interesting thing about you.

dreck_disp Report

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flutterbyy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you telling me my neon purple skin is the least interesting thing about me?? Oh well then.

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#23

Capitalism as it’s currently implemented doesn’t work and only increases the wealth of the wealthy at the cost of the poor, the oppressed, and the world. We are literally destroying our ability to live on this planet, and we’ll need drastic societal change to barely survive the coming era.

Monkeycrunk Report

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CJay M (They-them)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact: social capitulation, a rare system used in some insignificant island nations and small Asian countries (tu mi au, xibi San ma) in which the basic necessities of survival are provided but to live comfortably you need to work. It’s an interesting system that seems to work well and I’d be willing to give it a try. An interesting blend of capitalism and socialism

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#24

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear There is always someone better than you

Planarian171 , Jonathan Chng Report

#25

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

TimberDog12 Report

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Nimues Child
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is part of my mail .sig: "You're not a sucker to have integrity and treat people with respect." - Barack Obama

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#26

Sometimes, you are the toxic person

gummycherrys Report

#27

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear No matter how nice you are, people will still just be assholes to you just cuz.

anon , Deva Darshan Report

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BadCat
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've dealt with people at work who tried so hard to get me upset. Like really reaching. There are people who will just try to get a reaction out of you, make you feel bad for doing your job, or even just being somewhere. What they really hate is calmness and positivity in their presence of negativity.

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#28

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear We don't know everything and probably never will.

joculator , Niklas Ohlrogge Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Curiosity is a major part of life. We need to have space to learn

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#29

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Your friends and family likely talk tons of s**t about you behind your back

CrustyTowel , Rui Fernandes Report

#30

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.

oyuno_miyumi Report

#31

You can’t love someone into loving you

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flutterbyy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SO many people need to understand this! For others' sake and for themselves as well.

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#32

That people need to stop putting their trust in god to do things and do it themselves

Unovaboy Report

#33

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Everyone you love will die. Everyone you hate will die. Everything ends.

6675636b5f6675636b , Pavel Danilyuk Report

#34

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Corona may never go away and be in our lives forever in some capacity.

fib16 , Gabriella Clare Marino Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or some other vaccine / antibiotic-resistant pandemic. I think COVID has definitely demonstrated rather graphically what I've feared has happened to people over the course of the last 30 year though - people have become more selfish and more prone to f*cking each other over, even for something as simple as a toilet roll - and far more opinionated and entitled when presented with something relatively simple that they could do to prevent getting infected or spreading an infection (like wearing a mask)

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#35

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear No matter what you do you polluted the planet

Rusky82 , USDA NRCS Montana Report

#36

The only person responsible for -you- is -you-.

ladderrack Report

#37

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear Americans don't want to hear that Columbus murdered and enslaved people.

anon , Metropolitan Museum of Art Report

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SelkieBlackfysh
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not that they don't want to hear it. It's that they were taught a GROSSLY different version of the story. Though some probably would prefer to keep believing that old lie.

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#38

People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear No one really gives a s**t what your eyebrows look like.

amynivenskane , Rune Enstad Report

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Jayne Kyra
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But if being and looking groomed and neat makes you feel good and happy, go for it. Not everything is about others´ opinions.

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#39

You are always replaceable.

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Well-Dressed Wolf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, thank god. I’m starting to wear out. They’d better replace me soon before one of my internal components breaks.

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People Share 40 Things That Are True But That No One Wants To Hear You aren't special.

MrM0nday , Katie Montgomery Report

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