Recent content by Eirise

I've never really understood the point of "oh but let us remember, the other side also does this" kinda thing. It seems obvious and beside the point

Well, refer to title :\ There's a reason I didn't stumble onto this site earlier, despite having been googling things like that for a long time.

Thanks. What was your ending like? I didn't really like it, either. I get that, maybe that's how some people might respond to torture like Winston went through (iirc, his brain basically broke and he went along happily with whatever he'd been conditioned to repeat/think). But I think it's...

I was never interested in philosophy because I always thought it was just a bunch of egotistical assholes rambling in a needlessly convoluted and wordy way about nothing. Recently I got interested in stoicism. I've barely started reading Marcus Aurelius - Meditations, but I like what he says...

Same and same. Same way Adeptus did. Has this site never tried advertising in that way? It's common for people to google phrases with 'reddit' tacked onto the end. I was googling 'conservative forum reddit' & 'freedom of speech forum reddit', etc. and just stumbled onto that comment.

Everything related to socializing is worse. But yeah; giving up just means life will suck forever. It's frustrating that you can work to improve things and still things get worse.

This might sound a bit all over the place, but oh well. A million years ago in 2016, it felt like the internet was dead. The only place I could find, as someone who gives up easily, that seemed to offer some kind of conversation with people online in a forumish kind of way was Reddit. Have you...