Yes and this goes for all forms of arts. It's not too different from just knowing that music legend for one song when they have a whole library. Poets too. Often have that one or two that "everyone" knows whilst some absolutely wonderful pieces can be lost and forgotten.
It can be more personal, imo, to explore the pieces that aren't spoken about as much, that already have a predefined narrative. That's when you get to really organically perceive art - in whatever medium it is.
This is along the lines I think.
If the "God" that exists is the one that has allowed some of the absolute abhorrent acts of the world and condones the hate that some of his followers display then I don't want to go to his idea of eternal heaven or whatever 🤷♀️
That's what people don't get. Threatening that you don't get to go to the heaven of some guy you don't agree with anyway is just not that threatening 😅🤷♀️ it's like trying to threaten a vegan that they're never going to be allowed to go to a steakhouse.
Coles kitchen butter chicken has been on a "2 for $15" special for about 3 years now 😅 I specifically remember because I was in hospital a couple of times that year and had my folks bring it in to me because the hospital food was gross. It's never been not on special 🤷♀️
Yeah I have no confidence that even the ones he has agreed to will come to fruition. But it's so buried that nobody will realize 🤷♀️
😢 where I'm pretty much at at this stage too. It's horribly lonely
Yes I tend to have a standard answer for set situations now too. Now it's more so jarring when I'm unsure of the relationship "level" like I have made acquaintances and friends with coworkers. Some are "work friends" (only see them at work) and one or two are outside of work friends. I feel like I'm glitching when one of my work friends but also friends outside of work asks me how it's going because my brain is like generic or real answer, glitch glitch.
And also how do you reach out for support or tell someone you're struggling? I really haven't figured that out yet.
I'm in Melbourne and this kind of shit is why I think I really can't go to protests. I'm autistic and passionate about advocacy (I work in the industry). I can keep my cool pretty well in verbal exchanges but I would lose it, meltdown if I saw people being treated like this. And then I would probably be assaulted myself.
Disgusting treatment of disabled people. You should report that library security too. They are scaring disabled people into silence - especially in public protests.
Ooh fantastic, I will have a look through there for sure - go raibh maith agat!
So I am autistic and my interests tend to get quite stuck on one thing. I think mine started with Derry Girls lol which I needed the political context for so started reading books about the troubles. Then I heard Sinead O'Connors song Famine which is better than any history lesson I ever did at school and that led me to digging further into the history of Ireland!
One of the things that kept coming up was the erasure of the Irish language which really pissed me off 😡😅 I enjoy creative writing and learning different communication styles it's all very close to my heart (I know I sound articulate here but I can struggle quite a bit with my verbal communication!). I don't like the idea of people limiting that for others! I find the Irish language very interesting historically and it sounds so beautiful. I like the roots of words and phrases - even though I'm not religious haha and a lot of it is based around religion of course.
Things like tà bròn orm being the sadness is on me - as opposed to I AM sad really speak to me. The well wishes of the greetings/farewells. Slàinte - health, slàn - safely, etc.
I love learning the direct translations and deeper meanings behind the words. I think it's a very poetic language.
The dialects absolutely 😅 Picked up on that through Duolingo giving different pronunciations for the same words!? Even different phrases!? Conas atà tú was what I knew for how are you but all of a sudden that was wrong and the answer they were looking for was Cad é mar atá tù? And some dialects still use mh = w for certain words whereas others don't! Maidin mhaith - some say "ma" some say "wa"!?
Northern accent is brilliant but definitely harder to understand for a lot of people (my mum needs subtitles for Derry Girls 😅). All the accents are so lovely haha. Are you still living in Ireland yourself?
Of course I have seen and listen to kneecap! I love music that uses English/Irish interchangeably! Fun way to pick up on the language.
If you read all of this go raibh maith agat as léamh 😅
Yeah this is what I've observed too. It's very, very strange to see the messaging around these things change. For extra context I'm autistic and have mental health issues myself. People confuse me in general lol.
I feel like I've watched things go from "no, no, we don't talk about those things, sweep it under the rug, everything is fine" to "reach out! Speak to someone! Believe victims! It's ok not to be ok! #mentalhealth #noshame" and then in recent years we've developed the term "trauma dumping" which appears even to apply to friends.
It feels a little like we went "speak up, reach out.....ah fuck, no no stop now". I actually find it quite concerning.
And then people wonder why others are turning to AI companions. I don't personally but it does make sense to me when the social game is as confusing as it is especially around mental health or even quite minor stuff things can get the "trauma dump" label. I even remember seeing a couple of people say you shouldn't trauma dump on your THERAPIST 😅😅😅
How are you is the most confusing question a person can ask 🙃 like, really or generic answer? It can be a very lonely question, that one.
Yep. And even then, our desktop computer was upstairs - which was out of the way, nothing up there except my sister's bedroom and a living room that wasn't really used - so arguably that was too isolated lol. We weren't allowed laptops until we finished high school! Even my friend who did have a laptop wasn't allowed it in her bedroom.
The internet was also restricted to go off at 9pm because I was staying up on msn and Myspace all night otherwise 😅
I've noticed this even in gen z. Everything is just an app and having a laptop is less common so all they seem to know is phone/tablets which just have apps that work lol. Their troubleshooting skills go as far as "turn it off and back on". If that doesn't work...do it again. Otherwise... it's broken and they need a repair shop or a new phone 😅
Obviously a generalisation but something I've noticed as a millennial. Older gen x/boomers and Gen Z's seem to struggle more with basic computer skills (or what millennials just grew up with so it seems fairly basic!) I'm not particularly techy but I'm always asked by those people (zs and boomers, some older xs) how to do shit on the office computers.
Open a book, go for a walk, start a conversation with a person face to face, write, draw, paint, run, swim!