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Bubbagumpredditor t1_jbxoi0h wrote

I mean except for those dying of cancer.

Or those kids being abused.

Or the people starving to death.

Or the person who's partner just died in a car crash.

Or the parents who's kids have an incurable crippling condition.

I fucking hate this"it all happens for a reason" bullshit.

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Nexecs t1_jbxsmys wrote

I fr be wishing I could go back in time literally like a month or so and tell myself that we'll be fine and to stop worrying.

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mercset t1_jby3nup wrote

Just not going to talk about the isolation and skin melting? Ok

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bkrluffy t1_jby69b1 wrote

Lost me at ‘divine’. Sometimes things go bad.

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FallenITD t1_jby8l70 wrote

the luna moth loses its mouth and digestive system after completing its metamorphosis.

it will die of starvation in a few weeks. if it manages to successfully reproduce it will cause this sadistic joke of evolution to continue.

bug: has no mouth and it must scream.

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k4Anarky t1_jby8u86 wrote

People tend to forget that to change, you sometimes have to give up something (I like the story of Odin giving an eye and bled for 9 days for knowledge) or completely break yourself down.

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ScienceofSpock t1_jbyh4bq wrote

You know, I had a situation like this in the Army. I grew up as an Army brat, and we moved around quite a bit, including several deployments to Germany and Italy, the last one being Stuttgart where I graduated high school.

After I graduated and we were back in the US, I joined the Army and went to Basic in Ft. Jackson SC, and AIT in Ft. Gordon GA. At the end of AIT, we were all getting our permanent duty station assignments, and the vast majority of us were getting stationed to Berlin Brigade. At the time (1988), it was still walled in, East Germany still existed, and all that.

Many of these guys I went to basic and AIT with had never left their home town before, and were now being told that they were getting stationed to a walled-in city, that is completely surrounded by the Communist enemy halfway around the world. There were several guys CRYING like they were being deployed to front-line trenches in WWII. Me, being the worldly traveler that I was at 19 laughed and explained that despite what they THOUGHT, they were in for the time of their life, that Berlin was a VERY cool and modern city and that it was going to be, to paraphrase, "fucking incredible."

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sptlssmnd t1_jbylh02 wrote

Replying to k4Anarky (#2,215,079)

I feel this. Like being in a comfortable, but ultimately unhappy relationship. The change is rough and you’ll “emotionally bleed” for a while, but sometimes it’s for the best.

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ValyrianJedi t1_jbyq0od wrote

Replying to Bubbagumpredditor (#2,214,274)

Nothing is going to apply to literally everyone. That doesn't mean that it isn't true and useful for the vast majority of people to hear... Comments like this are like somebody posting "if you get a cut you should rinse out the wound, put ointment on it, then apply a bandage", and you replying "oh yeah? Don't think a bandage is about to help with someone's arm being chopped off or somebody getting impaled. Awful advice"

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Ok-Seaworthiness7207 t1_jbysjh0 wrote

Replying to k4Anarky (#2,215,079)

I'm a student worker with a past I'm not proud of, and this marine who works in the office always talks about how "nobody changes", and it seriously puts me on the verge of a panic attack.

Sort of irrelevant, but I seriously hate that mindset, if I believed that, I'd have killed myself already.

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RedJester44 t1_jbyt15w wrote

“Fair warning that you will be fully susceptible to every known species of assassin bug during the entire process.”

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SandyBouattick t1_jbyyojl wrote

Replying to bkrluffy (#2,214,959)

I can't stand how bad things aren't caused by divine power, but good things always are. All the people pulling survivors out of the rubble of the earthquake in Turkey were praising God for each survivor, but nobody was asking why God allowed a million others to die horribly in terror.

Things do work out sometimes, and we need to try to keep our chins up and hope for and work toward better days. You don't need divine intervention to do those things.

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[deleted] t1_jbyz5hl wrote

Lieeees ! Caterpillar Nation 🐛🏴✊🏻

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Haseovzla t1_jbz18g9 wrote

Actually no, you won't be able to feed yourself because you'd have no mouth but the good side is you'd probably die mating

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StructureFresh1545 t1_jbz57q7 wrote

Funny how we love this on Reddit, but hate it when it's happening to us.

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shockingdevelopment t1_jbz5p4m wrote

You calling me a fkn WORM? Man I was motivated until I saw this. Disgraceful!

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Zero_Burn t1_jbz92b1 wrote

"You're gonna lose your mouth and anus and your entire life will become about fucking and then you'll die, it's gonna be incredible."

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ThisQuietLife t1_jbz94x8 wrote

Butterfly: A tiny bundle of your cells is going to secrete an enzyme that will liquify the entire rest of your body. That bundle will then use the liquid as food so it can grow into being me. So cheer up!

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Aldurnamiyanrandvora t1_jbzlpm5 wrote

Replying to SandyBouattick (#2,216,146)

For some people it's a coping mechanism, and I understand and respect that. But as usual… it's the instance that their way of dealing with things must be spread and be the 'normal'. The insistence on letting their way of life become yours. The evangelicalism.

Which is such a shame, because I've seen people who struggle really hard find their greatest strength in religion. But the taste is kind of soured for the rest of us.

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CaptainHindsight92 t1_jbzm24v wrote

Yeah you get to fly around with food everywhere with no mouth and slowly starve to death having fulfilled your godless purpose and the last thought in your head is that your whole life was just to cum once. But damn that butterfly puss is sweet af

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twystoffer t1_jbzqrwk wrote

Butterflies are basically the mascot of a certain kind of person, and holy shit do I feel this.

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Mufakaz t1_jbzskud wrote

Comic about future reassuring the past

What I saw was an adult propositioning a child.

Am i broken?

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aesu t1_jbzv05p wrote

Replying to SandyBouattick (#2,216,146)

Theres a reason people living basically anywhere but first world environments post penicillin,. Almost entirely believe ING of. The alternative, that everyone you love and work so hard to protect can just be extinguished, for all eternity, for absolutely no good reason, at any moment, is not really compatible with just going about your life. It's highly demotivating, at the least.

We can manage without God because we've built such a. Technologically advanced environment that we can generally expect for us and our children and loved ones to live to a heap to h old age.

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Ninjaofninja t1_jbzvi2s wrote

and then it's cocoon form gets peeled off by a ticktoker/youtuber to be eaten by a sugar glider

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Endorkend t1_jbzys3q wrote

Bad critter to take as an example.

If your grown up period was living without mouth or anus and dying within a matter of days, regardless if you achieved your only purpose in life (fucking), you're not going to have a good time.

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cliswp t1_jbzz6k2 wrote

Replying to FallenITD (#2,215,068)

Heaven is what you mix all the days of your life, but you call it dreams. You have one chance to buy your Heaven with all the intents and ethics of your life. That is why everyone considers Heaven such a lovely place. Because it is dreams, special dreams, in which you exist. What you have to do is live up to them.

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[deleted] t1_jc01cwe wrote

Replying to Ok-Seaworthiness7207 (#2,215,872)

Everyone loves a comeback story! Change is in our nature. We are the most adaptive species on the planet.

Don’t let someone’s admission that “I will never change” become an iron law in your mind of “people never change”. They change all the time!

Change is rarely comfortable though. So your fears are reasonable. Marines are fun but they aren’t exactly known for their people skills….

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SandyBouattick t1_jc01tav wrote

Replying to aesu (#2,217,529)

Eh. The US is still very religious. Try running for president as an atheist.

I completely understand how it can be a coping mechanism, but that only works if you believe it. If you stop to think why God would allow millions to die horribly while saving a select few, or why he allows suffering at all, or how he could be omnipotent while we also have free will, or which God is the real God, etc., then believing in it enough to actually draw any peace from that belief is pretty tough.

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YourMildestDreams t1_jc04yn5 wrote

Replying to aphrodisiactoez (#2,215,702)

What about children who get raped? What lesson did your god want them to learn? And what about animals who die horribly in wildfires? Wildfires are natural, so why is there so much needless suffering? Your "divine order" doesn't seem very fairly ordered.

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forte_bass t1_jc08uns wrote

Replying to No_Key_6276 (#2,216,836)

Been there, hold strong. You probably know why it needs to be done; write down some of the reasons while you're motivated, so when you're inevitably feeling weak later you can look at it and remind yourself why it was the right choice.

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forte_bass t1_jc08v9f wrote

Replying to sptlssmnd (#2,217,073)

Been there, hold strong. You probably know why it needs to be done; write down some of the reasons while you're motivated, so when you're inevitably feeling weak later you can look at it and remind yourself why it was the right choice.

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ErraticDragon t1_jc0bst7 wrote

Replying to crujones33 (#2,215,385)

I don't think it means anything.

It makes me wonder if it's a bot. "divine right order" sounds like it could have been the output of a thesaurus-izing process to avoid automatic detection. (Or maybe a chain of automatic translations?)

Plus the two periods at the end, which is (for some reason) a hallmark of the Comment-stealing bots.

Plus the fact that OP is a 7-month old account who has been posting like it's their job and has 500k link karma.

Plus the fact that their oldest post is only 4 months old (not 7), indicating that the account may have been "aged" before use.

It's not proof, but I'm suspicious.

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teheditor t1_jc0ckzy wrote

What kind of advice is this? It's blind faith if anything.

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aphrodisiactoez t1_jc0ctmy wrote

Replying to WifiWaifo (#2,218,190)

Yes.

I'd tell them it isnt fucking fair or right what happened to any of them. And then let them say what they think because that is their right and saying life is fair is stupid.

It's ups and downs. Not everyone goes thru the same hardships and awful things in life but it's our job as fellow humans to respect stand up for and be there for the people that have been disrespected, hurt, and traumatized by life.

I am a survivor of sexual assault. You think life is fair?

I dont understand the hostility from this thread everyone is acting like im on a soap box and yet it just seems like you're drawing conclusions instead of trying to take the positive outlook away from what i said.

Kind of disgusting how the hivemind on this app can be sometimes

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sptlssmnd t1_jc0ht0h wrote

Replying to forte_bass (#2,218,127)

I agree with this method. Surprisingly I have written a list in the form of questions to remind myself how unhappy I’d be if I went back. So I recommend others in my current situation to give that a try as well to reinforce the change, because it will be very tempting to find those old comforts again.

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ScienceofSpock t1_jc0pf2k wrote

Replying to ScienceofSpock (#2,215,411)

To close out the story, we were there during some "fucking incredible" times. I was there from 88 - 92, and we were, sort of this continuance of defense of the city of Berlin against the Russians, who held East Berlin and East Germany since WWII. As such, we were allowed to wear the Berlin Brigade patch as a combat patch, after our tour there was over. I didn't reenlist, so I never got to do that, but just a neat fact. Well, while we were stationed there, Gorbachov opened the wall and gave East Berlin and East Germany back, so the reason for our unit to exist pretty much vanished in the span of a few months.

A mission that had been ongoing since WWII was finally accomplished. About 50 of us got assigned to HHC Berlin Brigade to basically remove the entire brigade from the area and back to the US before it was retired completely and the units reallocated. We were there for all of it. Helped tear down Checkpoint Charlie. Got to see the Roger Waters The Wall concert. Watched several NFL teams play exhibition "American Bowl" games in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Lots of cool stuff happened in a very short period of time, and I will never forget it.

I have a chunk of the wall on a plaque. It's a typical plaque like you might get at any trophy shop. It has an enameled map of the 4 "Sectors" of Berlin and a one and a half inch chunk of the wall as it's main features, and 2 brass text plates, one of which is crooked. It is one of my favorite things.

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aphrodisiactoez t1_jcyxhwk wrote

Replying to Deadfishfarm (#2,215,889)

Its an opportunity to have the power to find happiness in the worst possible circumstances. There is nothing more touching or awe inspiring than the power that surrounds someone at peace especially when they have been hurt

Im not playing semantics here, looking at all of this a week later i think this entire argument is too general to come to a definitive conclusion on. There is too much tragedy and too many people projecting said tragedy in any form as well as their outrage into the 'statement' instead of just taking away the positive outlook

Although i do like being questioned because i do think no statement should be made with its meaning so confused that the intent no longer holds its value

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