Why did I have to import a vinyl record from the UK? IT'LL NEVER GET HERE. NEVER.

I know the /a/ character (Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo!), but I don't recognize the /co/ one (although I'm assuming she's one of the X-Men because of her uniform).

I remember having headcanon ideas where I was firmly convinced as a preteen that Tenchi was either going to end up in a harem with all of the girls, or walk away from all of them. I wonder if there's ever been a harem series that ended with the main guy/girl of affection just picking no one.

>finally get that cracked tooth fixed two weeks later than it should've been because weather dicked me over
>finally able to chew food with both sides of my mouth and taste things with my whole tongue again

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/b/b8/SandwichEat09.wav

>>374200

>I don't recognize the /co/ one

’tis Rogue from the X-Men.

>Tenchi was either going to end up in a harem with all of the girls

According to Word of God, this actually happens in the OVA continuity.

>>374200
>NOT A 90s KID
>STILL WATCHED TENCHI MUYO

either you're old as balls or you're a real wapaflapa

https://www.facebook.com/Choongum

>>374206
HAHAHAHAHA

OH GOD

I can't even

>>374207

I saw this in my Facebook feed in the middle of a lab meeting. Here is an accurate reenactment of me in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdkLZNyEMVU

>>374205
...I am a 90's kid? I'm in my 20's. I just (for whatever reason) missed out on the original X-Men (though I was aware of the arcade game) and didn't get into it until Evolution.

Well now I feel bad because I said to pay $0 for his stuff when I should have been promoting people throwing dosh at him.

Oh well, that's still fucking hilarious and awesome at the same time.

>>374206
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

you're famous.

>>374210

I knowwwwwww

It's not much but whatever man I'm a broke ass scienceperson it's all I got.

>>374206
>>374212
I am jealous of your newfound fame, Ninja.
Share some of your fame. I'm hungry for fame!

>>374192
>>374194
r-really? you guys are making me blush

ummm lets see. same old job but i've applied for a promotion and im pretty confident

started seeing someone who is basicly rule 63 me. to give you an idea she's looking to buy a house and one of the most important things it has to have is a spare room so she can build her dream model train layout

also... she uh.. has kids. which is actually pretty cool because i can use them as an excuse to go places that i'd wanted to go to but would look creepy going on my own. hell, they know more about sci-fi than i do

>>374214
sounds weird but you have playmates... that you can train!

that's pretty neat in itself.

have fun, agent. glad you're kicking.

>>374214
ah shit i deleted some of it

*confident that i'll get it. on my shift the competion is either the rookie or the densest motherfucker i've ever met. but my supervisor told me about the position opening up before it did while the others only found out when it was posted so maybe he knows something i dont

If you have a few spare minutes today, check out this album on imgur:

http://imgur.com/a/gR84L

You’ve likely seen a whole bunch of those photos, but the cumulative effect of seeing them back-to-back can get to you.

>>374229
i think we need to give context to that third image with the bull and the matador.

http://fiskeharrison.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/this-photo-is-not-what-it-seems/

>And suddenly, I looked at the bull. He had this innocence that all animals have in their eyes, and he looked at me with this pleading. It was like a cry for justice, deep down inside of me. I describe it as being like a prayer – because if one confesses, it is hoped, that one is forgiven. I felt like the worst shit on earth.
>In fact, not only is this not true, it could not be true, not least because the matador in the photo is actually Francisco Javier Sánchez Vara, pictured right. While the words come from an article by the author and melodramatist Antonio Gala Velasco in the Spanish newspaper El País in 1995.

Well, that's that. The cat at the shelter that I felt a real connection with has been taken home, and I'm unlikely to ever see him again. Sad feels, man, sad feels...

>>374196
Ends in sex. The best sex.

Gonna try a month-long experiment for February — gonna use the Internet as little as possible and create, create, create.

From morning to early eveining: no social media, no imageboards, no news sites, no pointless Web browsing — just writing, drawing, pixel arting, web designing, or re-creating myself via new, better habits (like exercise and eating less/eating better). Doesn’t matter if I publish anything, I just want to get in the habit of creating new things and make some better habits for myself. Early evening to sleep, I'll get in touch with people via IM and chat, but not via Twitter/FA/DA/etc. Saturdays will stay my ‘reading day’ where I burn through any bookmarks I’ve built up over the week. Gotta take a break, right?

The basic idea: less input, more output. Gonna write a thing for my blog about it tomorrow morning.

>>374234
I tried this once. Only allowed myself e-mail and ten minutes of Facebook a day for a week. It actually went pretty well, but only because I have a huge amount of porn on my computer.

Now I have so much more porn and a huge backlog of offline games, perhaps I could go a month...

I'm so mad, switching out of neutral would physically destroy me.

>>374238

I don’t even need to worry about porn, because I’ve tried to cut back on how much I masturbate and how much porn I expose myself to — which means I watch far less porn than ever.

>>374241
I tried doing that for a week once, too: no masturbation or porn. Many times, in fact.

I believe my record is about 40 hours.

My aim is to /start/ masturbating. I never really had a sex drive (too much stress and not enough time alone) and I heard it helps relax people.

>>374242
11 months.

>>374247
You either have a super-active life or no penis.

>>374241
>>374242
I remember trying that out. 24 days. The couple a' weeks were weird. had constant hip spasms and pretty much everything was porn.
Then I chilled out for the rest of the time, and did it out of boredom.
Haven't been occupied or generally mellow enough to let go of that, again.

>>374242
Five months. It seems so much harder to do, now. Even after discovering that nofap reddit community and the idea that not fapping so damned much is better overall.

5 days. Just get fucking bored, honestly.

moses is in Korea?

Part 1 of my ridiculously circuitous evil plan is complete!

>>374250
>the idea that not fapping so damned much is better overall.
This is my understanding as well. But, well, doing it in the short term just makes me feel good, at least for a time, when I'm usually depressed, so that beats out any long-term gains.

>>374255

Dammit Miley no blowing up the world.

Ee-arth’s where I keep all my stuff.

All of my favorite streaming sites are down right now.

Please come back.

Man, is there a polite way to get people to leave you alone at lunch? Dealing with people 10 hours a day and when I clock out I just want to read and have some me time, but this one dude from another department intercepts me almost every day to chat.

>>374260
*dealing with people 10 hours a day is exhausting

I lost a bit of respect for my dad over the weekend. He's a Lutheran pastor, so he's always been a religious-right guy, but he would never really use it as a battering ram, i.e., would never parade around "God Hates Fags" signs. We differ on a lot of things, but we never talk about them, and I still love him

However, over the weekend I heard him talking to my grandpa (mom's father), and the conversation got around to laws in Iowa where my folks live, and my dad made the comment "Iowa is the only state where you're not allowed to smoke a fag, but you can marry one." Even after a life of chans, "poor taste" is an understatement for that, IMO.

The next day my sister was talking about a camp in California that was attended mostly by upper-class kids from within and without the U.S., then my dad starts muttering about hedonists so my sister (who is probably center-religious) says "Fine I won't talk about it anymore" mid-story until my mom urged her to ignore my dad and continue. (Okay, yeah, the kids' families were probably filthy rich to excess, but it would be like going to a game designer and complaining about gamers.)

Sigh.

http://stephentstone.tumblr.com/post/41963517021/the-february-creation-challenge

So, yeah, prolly won’t see me posting here much (if at all) for the next month.

>>374264
Good luck Stone!

Is it normal to automatically know what to write just by listening to music? Like, not even being inspired, it just comes to you right there?

>>374264
it had to be done sorry

>>374272

http://youtu.be/v155e8k1Xx4?t=6m3s

>>374259

Xvideos is still up!

Doh ho ho ho.

Say, Mesias, you know a shitton about education stuff from the government side, don't you?

How the hell do you get a GED in this country?

>>374276
How have you not graduated high school yet?

Also, IIRC, Mesias is from a South American country (Chile, I think), and not Mexico.

>>374278
Probably by being over 18, and having dropped out.

>>374276
Well, I know some education stuff from the costarrican government since I'm a clerk from one curricular department, and we don't have a GED test. That's test is just US and Canada only.

>>374278
Wow, did I sounded like a chilean?

>>374282
it's an ignorance thing, Mesias. Most of us anglophiles couldn't tell the difference between a Chilean, Argentinian or Costa Rican accent.
Spanish and Portugese are kind of all unknowns to me. I only speak New English. Couldn't tell Mexican Spanish from Columbian Spanish. That's not meant to be hyperbole or mean, I literally couldn't.

I don't really mind when someone reblogs something I posted on Tumblr a year or two ago, but all of a sudden I keep getting, say, two people who go through 20+ pages of a certain tag and REBLOG EVERYTHING IN IT that it gets a little...weird, and I don't know if I should approach them about it or not.

YEAH GOT MAH TAX REFUND

Only the federal, still waiting on the state. Time to pay some billz.

>>374286
Likely spambots or link farmers trying to build up profiles for fake tumblr accounts.

>>374291
Do I just block them, then? How do I know it's not just someone who really likes stuff I posted two years ago?

>>374292
I would look at their tumblrs; if all they have is re-posts from old posts, then they're probably farming to create content to then link to their site and try to bump their Google rank.

I don't know tumblr (I rarely visit), so I don't know what to do with this information. We have lots of tumblr users here, perhaps one will chime in with useful info.

Selfiish, but I really wish someone like dreamslayer didn't exist. Or at least didn't drop by at all. Just wanted to get that out of the way. Polite sage since I don't really do this and knowingly having certain people read this. Ugh...

>new concept to read and understand.
I do not understand this particular concept you are trying to convey to me, sir. There are holes in my understanding from A to Z this concept depends upon me already knowing.
>it's explained using vocabulary words, definitions and concepts you're unfamiliar with.
I do not understand ten of the words you just used to explain the one thing and concept you just tried to convey to me, sir.
>fork off the explanation into ten different paths to explain ten different new concepts. Which themselves may have forking off to even more words to define things you aren't familiar with.
Tell me when you're ready to use parallels, examples, similies or oblige me totally and use simple layman terms, and I'll start caring again, sir. I'm done chasing and learning fifty new, difficult things just to understand one new, difficult thing.

for extra points, repeat the explanation using words the listener does not know and insist you can somehow force knowledge on people that don't know what the fuck you are talking about just by repetition.

>>374302
if you can't simplify the concept for a stranger, it's likely you don't know it is all i'm saying

oh look bed

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

>>374303
Oh? Try explaining "color" to a blind person, then.

For that matter, imagine you are talking on a radio to an alien on another world who has never seen a human. Tell him which direction "left" is.

>>374305
someone's decided to try to counter feynman with feynman.
cute.

>>374305
"the experience of red is akin to tasting a flavor. something visually has a particular light flavor that is reminiscent of something warm, hot, vibrant." even if it's not precise, you can talk about it in metaphors that will shed meaning on it.

also, you can explain which side is left. magnets and charges like electrons that are characteristic to matter. electrons deflect in a particular way in the presence of a magnetic field. you can do it. it just requires fundamental particle discussion.

also i'm too high right now to re-derive it, but i do believe the left-hand rule follows for electrons. do-ho-ho

>>374301
That makes two people he annoyed enough to leave the drawchat tonight, just being himself.
time for a little abuse of power. I'm tired of dealing with him.

>>374308
was gonna come back with a quip about "objects reflect light rays of light that come from the sun or other light sources. The objects absorb a portion of the light rays, giving them a subtle visual texture beyond what can be felt by touch" but yours is much better.

>>374308
Only very vaguely related, but I remember a comedian saying that the only things that taste like "red" and "green" are NyQuil and DayQuil. They don't replicate the flavor of anything that exists.

I'm just reading my bookedy book over again to make sure I'm comprehending things correctly, and not caring much how it defines voltage. Or the example it gives. 'Voltage is potential'? Uh. Potential, like a highschool kid has potential?... wat.
"The way when you hold a brick, it has the potential to fall. And the way when you hold a brick up high from the top of a building, it has more potential."
WAT.

Then I read about the difference of batteries stacked in series and batteries in parallel. In series they make a theoretical lightbulb shine brighter than one battery would. In parallel they make a light shine as well as one battery would, but as long as as many batteries you have. So..

It seems like if current/ampres were the speed at which you pull the string, the voltage would be the size of the anal beads.

>>374282
My mistake then. I was simply going on some of your older posts from these past few years. I distinctly remember you mentioning Chile a few times...even once during their earthquake a while back.

So, tell us, what country are you from?

>>374278
Long fuckin' story.

>>374315
He mentioned it right there. Costa Rica. (formally North America. But teeeechnically Central America.)
Beautiful country, I've heard.
Some friends of mine went there whent UANL played Alajuelense in the aforementioned-by-myself Champions League.
(I wanted to go myself when Monterrey played both Herediano and Saprissa but didn't have the chance.)

>>374282
Hm. I was offered an equivalent during my last setback (chickened out of that one - and that window is TOTALLY closed) So I KNOW there's a version here but I just have no clue about it.

>>374301
coughcoughagreedcoughcoughcough

(and to finish it off)
>>374285
I actually consider myself really good with accents! There's a couple that are REALLY distinct (brazil portuguese being more pronounced in the vowels than portugal's - argentina's over-the-top stereotypical portrayals lead to at least some guides) but some lesserly ones are also kinda bit easier to tell apart (Honduran/Guatemalan/South Mexican or Colombian/Venezuelan/Equadorian) and the sort.
I've been living here for years in a really international-friendly zone so I guess I can chalk it up to that.
Also, football really helps with that stuff. I think I can spot every flag pertaining to Concacaf. And I'm honestly surprised. Never thought I'd knew the location, population and general appearance of St. Kitts and Nevis.

>>374314
Potential as in easily accessed energy. When you lift a brick into the air, it takes a certain amount of energy, which is stored until you release it, at which point the kinetic energy released causes it to hurdle to the ground at high speed. Higher if it drops from a high enough distance.

Though gravity is a weird one to use because of how fucked up gravity is from a physics perspective. Probably would've been better to say a rubber band that's been pulled taut, or a spring that's been pressed down as examples of potential.

>>374315
>>374319
Shit...didn't see it because it was typed as one long word (and I skimmed, so...).

Well, I'm now informed for the future. Thanks.

>>374320
I guess my earlier assumption was wrong then, and it's more like a stored amount of fuel?
And higher voltage batteries are much like larger, more heavy duty rubber bands that can stretch and have more tension to store more energy to capacity before they become depleted.

I figured voltage was less the amount of fuel so much as the grade of it. Heavier duty stuff requiring heavier duty fuel.

>>374323
well, not quite. total stored fuel is "total energy". the grade is an interesting analogy and a bit better, but not quite right.

how about this. imagine having a super soaker water gun or any pump water gun that you could keep at a constant pressure with unlimited water. it really doesn't matter how much water since the amount of water doesn't effect how hard it shoots. voltage is like the amount of pressure.

the more pressure you have built up in a water gun (as you squeeze the trigger or pump it with the pump), the gun will shoot harder.

in a battery, a charged battery provides a lot of electrical pressure from the chemicals it has in it. they call that voltage. it mostly remains constant, and if allowed to flow, the current shoots out at that "pressure", that hard.

now you might ask, why don't all the electrons just blast out as soon as you connect something to the battery? well, when you connect anything to the battery, it applies a back pressure to fight back the flow of electricity. Imagine trying to put a finger or... something pretty substantial to block the water from the super soaker. It could slow down the amount coming out by clogging the thing just a bit. Okay, say the thing blocking it is... oh... a fan blade. the fan blade would start spinning (and blasting off a bunch of the water because it's not optimized to get hit by water), but some of that energy is now used to spin the fan. same with the battery. the battery uses some of that built up electrical energy at its voltage to try to drive some electrical component to do some work or heat it up or whatever.

i need a new tumblr username
i'm tired of my old one and i'm looking for a nightwing related one that isn't taken.

halp

i'm trying to retire ferrousfellow from most things because i mean really tony's kind of a dick (hawhaw) and i'm not drinking nearly as much whisky as i used to

>>374331
nevermind. brushiebrushienightwing it is.

>>374325
I guess when I imagine it as water, I presume the pressure (voltage) translates automatically into a higher current/ampere. The more constant pressure in this metaphorical supersoaker, the faster and further it discharges and the quicker it depletes to a trickle.

So.. okay. Voltage returns, in my head, to the function I ascribed to it earlier. the stat that determines the cruising 'might' of a thing. Current is how quickly that voltage moves through a circuit, wattage is the power and work done with it.

It's still rather nebulous, but god damnit I can't try any harder. that's the problem

Ah, capsaicin-based topical analgesics. How I love you and the potent pain relief you provide my shrieking lower back and legs.

>>374336
you're close! not bad for someone who's having it explained in dead text.

current is the stuff that's traveling through the circuit. voltage is how much ooomf that current had before it gave it all up to drive the circuit (do work etc).

as far as the supersoaker analogy, it's a bit off i know since the damned thing doesn't have constant pressure nor an infinite stream of water to shoot.

okay. so imagine a water balloon full of water and tiny little pin holes that push out the water. we're looking at the timescale wherein we don't change the pressure of the balloon much through deflating it. it's a massive fucking balloon with tiny holes. water squirts out at some velocity and foomp that's pretty much just decided by the pressure inside the balloon. now put in another tiny hole. now you have two holes that both squirt at the same rate as each other, same velocity and everything but you have twice as much water coming out.

so we can say "the water from each hole have imparted to them the same energy created by this balloon being under pressure, but the total current is just the sum of all the water coming out of those pinholes."

that's a bit better of an analogy because batteries are like that. they slowly trickle current out. you can't just dump the whole load at once (not easily anyway... not without catastrophic chemical fires). they will slowly slowly lose voltage, too, even if they're rated for some voltage, and that happens because the same thing that produces the current (the chemicals that want to get rid of or steal away the electrons from the current) are also the same ones that provide the chemical pressure (voltage). as those chemicals are used up, the voltage slowly drops off until they just can't do it anymore, captain. they just can't provide enough voltage (or enough current!) to do the job. the balloon is too floppy to push water into stuff. :[

>>374342
that wasn't too clear. i was jumping between language a bit.

let's get it straight and explain it with single electrons at a time!
energy is the total amount of ... well... i like to treat energy as the fundamental thing but it's the currency of work. work is energy spent. potential energy of any kind is energy not yet spent, or being saved up.

voltage is the electrical potential for energy. what the blazes does that mean?

well let's follow one electron. it's hanging out somewhere with a (let's forget negative signs) voltage of 1. As long as it just sits there, it doesn't use up that energy. it just sits there waiting, running around twiddling its thumbs. this electron is now given a path to run down now. the path happens to be device. at the end of the device is a place with a voltage of 0.

the electron says "i'd rather be at 0 voltage than 1V and this is the path i'll take to do it!" and gives it all up to the device.

now that wasn't much energy. in fact it was exactly a unit called one electron-volt (which is exactly what it sounds like. the energy of something with the charge of an electron using up 1 volt of potential)

same thing happens with two electrons. each drops down a volt and total gives up 2eV (electron volts) of energy.

now let's say there's some HUGE number of electrons that provides a substantial amount of charge. it's called a coulomb of charge. it's the standard. it doesn't matter the name i suppose. it's just the unit we like. this coulomb's worth of electrons travels down from a 1V situation to 0V producing a coulomb*V (like an eV) and that unit is another standard unit. It's a joule. That's one of the big money units in physics.
Well, let's say we spend a coulomb worth of electrons per second, all those electrons in that coulomb pouring evenly over the course of a second from 1V to 0V. We call that a current of electrons. The unit for that is an amp, but again the name doesn't matter. The important thing is that current going down 1V produces 1 joule of work per second. That's power! literally. the rate work is done (with respect to time) is power.

Okay. so we can do that all with 1V. lets talk about what happens at some other voltage... oh... 2V. one electron going down 2Vs worth of potential produces 2eV of energy, even though it's just one electron. Similarly, one coulomb of electrons going down 2V is 2Joules. that's twice as much energy for the same amount of charge.

Voltage tells you how much work could be done if you have some number of charges to do that work. It's energy divided by the charge used to give up that energy.

Power is how quickly you use up that energy.

I hope that was more clear.

I hate when someone brings you to task about not knowing something about them that they have never once brought up. If anything's important, you should tell me upfront, not treat me like a moron for it.

>>374345
me, too, anon. that's just bad form.

>>374342
I think I get it. This next part will either confirm or destroy my tenuous grasp.
Can you have high voltage and low resistance, but low current?
Can you have low voltage and high resistance, but fast current?

It sounds like current is a byproduct of voltage now.

>>374347
current wouldn't flow unless there's a voltage drop (a preferred place for the electrons to go over where they are now)

it's a fact to be proven later that electrons not only give up energy to something (a device, radiation, something) when they drop from a voltage state to a low voltage one, but that they are drawn toward the low voltage state. that force that draws them is created by that voltage difference. that force moves the electrons and creates a current.

because of ohm's law, the relationship for most devices under the most basic conditions is as follows. Voltage/Current = the Resistence, which is almost a definition of resistence really. If you put a low resistance device in the way of a high voltage to low voltage path, you'll produce MUCH more current than in the case of a high resistence device.

Resistence is like a counter pressure (a windmill blocking the flow of wind for example) to the electrons. Bigger resistence means more difficulty for electrons to get through, and we quantify that difficulty with term resistence.

>>374346
Agreed-- if something's important, like a fear of yours or something you don't want to discuss with others, tell me immediately and tell me several times so I don't forget. I can't read minds, sadly.

>>374347
a few things to think about based on your choice of the word fast:
a really slow flow of electrons but a whole of them can equal the same amount as a fast but low density of electrons.

like... all you're doing is counting how many electrons cross a finish line. they could all be going really slowly but have a lot of them. the electrons on average will literally go more slowly through the device of a high resistance material because they'll be bouncing around in there making things happen.

the second really interesting thing to think about in my opinion is "what happens in the case of a zero resistance cell?" Like... there's no resistance... so infinite current? how fast does the electron go? what would that even mean?

Well a few things on that question. Electrons don't go infinitely fast (due to them being made of matter and this whole relativity thing that einestin discovered) and there will always be a resistance-induced voltage drop somewhere (except in VERY rare cases we can talk about later). even the vacuum of space has a resistance!

in the more realistic limitation where we don't have sparks flying, say we connect a wire to a battery. we say wires have zero resistance (compared to anything we care about) so what happens? the battery can't produce that much current at once that easily. it actually struggles to the point of building up a resistance inside the chemicals that make the voltage even happen. Eventually the resistance is so big that the current can't go up anymore. Batteries have a resistance that changes with the amount of current! (but usually it's so tiny we ignore it.) They'll heat up and burn out, but they don't produce infinite current even when you provide the nearly zero resistance bridge for the electrons to take.

>>374349
>>374352

Finally got a new computer! It's been a long 6 months, but now I can finally visit the site once or twice a week from the comforts of my laptop instead of from a cramped 3 year old smart phone!

>>374353
sorry if i said too much.
i get excited.

>>374353
keep asking questions and take some time to mull over it. i'm also sure there are good youtube animations/videos to try to describe this level of physics.

>>374357
>>374361
Difficulty comprehending things hurts sometimes.

>>374362
clear your mind of preconceived notions of what is what for a bit. the analogies can get jumbled together and stop helping.

Current and Voltage

>>374363
perhaps hunting up the definition of joules and coulombs would help understanding the things that depend upon knowing what they are.
>to wiki
... god. fucking. damn it. This is like reading a choose your own adventure book backwards.

I don't sports, but I happened by the TV as someone was watching the game and the lights went out.

So damn amusing.

Do you guys have any tips on anxiety? I seem to be in almost a constant state of shakiness/headache, eating is hard (I have to eat very small portions, and even then, I get massive stomach cramps), and I can't seem to be able to focus on anything.

My parents don't want me taking anxiety meds, because they believe they don't work and only make people sleepy (and to be fair, when I tried antidepressants, that's what happened), so that's not an option right now.

>>374374
i tell this to all my friends with anxiety, but there's a wonderful clinical psycholist/buddhist meditation expert named Tara Brach who has amazing podcasts for understanding and working through anxiety and fear.

you'll need to bear through the language, but i can't recommend her enough

>>374376
I don't mean this in the wrong way, but I'll give her a shot as long as she isn't preachy. I'm not a spiritual person. I've tried becoming one, but I just don't believe in it.

>>374379
the main core to everything is just acceptance. acceptance of what's real. that's at the core. it's what allows people to relax, to be in the moment, to forgive themselves, to let things go, and to breathe.

Can I just say that Geography is the worst fucking subject?

>>374381
I just need to learn what I've been blamed for that was genuinely my fault, and what I was merely used as a scapegoat for, because I constantly walk around with my chest full of guilt.

Sometimes I wish I believed in anything remotely supernatural, but I've never seen evidence in it existing, and when I turned to God in times of trouble, things aways got ten times worse. I just removed anything relating to religion out of my life.

>people kind of sort of relying on me
>paying bills and kinda just being semi-productive

christ when did i grow up

>>374384
the special thing about taoism and buddhism (well kinds of each) is that their goal is to remove all supernatural and illusory beliefs rather than give you superstitions to hold onto. the stories are metaphors that open up the path to understanding, not provide literal facts about how the universe must work.

so... as long as you go in and experience what you can without taking any of it too seriously, you should be fine.

>mother has a sore on her head that would not heal for months on end
>put off going to the doctor
>suspected for months it might be cancer
>she finally gets it operated on and removed
>it goes for biopsy
>talk to her about it and she confirms something I didn't want to hear
>it's cancer
>heart hits the fucking floor
>Then hear it's Basal Cell Carcinoma
>MY FUCKING FACE WHEN

Emotional roller coaster ho.

>>374410
i hope that in spite of everything they caught it early enough