Yesterday, I was laid off. Entire branch shut down by upper management. It happened with no warning.
I looked up to a coworker crying at her desk, and a sudden Webex meeting titled ‘Org Changes’ from my manager.
My manager was stern and cautious when he delivered the news, as if he expected it to break me.
But in truth, I was fighting back a smile. I had no back-up plan, no job lined up, but I had something I didn’t used to have, unwavering faith.
Faith that God is guiding me if I slow down and listen. Faith that the Universe is on my side. Faith that I can truly get anything I want out of this world. Anything, but not everything.
I used to oppose faith, thinking blind faith closes your mind to reason, to truth.
But I’ve had a change of heart.
Faith and conviction have more in common than they would like to admit.
We can’t know truth, so we need a little faith. We cannot arrive at truth through pure rationality. At the core of our collective knowledge lies gaping mysteries.
So believe whatever empowers you.
Irrational? Who cares. What isn’t? Allow yourself to place your faith in something.
Benefits of drinking:
-hilarious situational laughs that add years to your life
-being 7 beers deep in the Sun with your friends realizing you almost forgot the point of life is to have fun with people who make you happy
-3 bottles of wine with your wife then smashing all night without a condom (lasting 975% longer)
-heartwarming couples dinners hugging goodnight thinking ‘I’m so glad we did this’
-concerts with your girlfriend and friends making lifelong memories favorite songs slapping mythologically
-backyard party watching your girlfriend hit it off with your Aunt while your friends and Uncles plan a road trip to a Big 10 football game “Hanging By A Moment” by Lifehouse jamming in the background wanting to freeze time and live this day every day the rest of your life realizing ‘wow life is a miracle I’m so lucky to be alive’
@JamesonCamp@_Liso_ Even with bulletproof promoting its so bad
>Give me the smartest test
>Now what’s the answer
>I know I just wanna see if u know
>Wow that was my answer too
>Do u believe im the smartest now
‘Actually, you could be the smartest human alive!’
People think it’s ridiculous we’re terraforming the moon before fixing shit on Earth
Used to agree, seemed like billionaire antics
That’s the wrong take, this red pilled me
@Sam1nfo Yeah fully. For all the outrage over inequality, it’s weird this never comes up
These kids are cooked, sad it probably won’t get fixed for this gen
There’s going to be a generation of young who grow up very pissed off at the technological hellscape we’ve thrown them into. iPad kids frying their brain with TikTok and porn because they don’t know better.
These are the real demons, malevolent possessive entities.
I need to quit consuming pornography. I've needed to quit for over a decade.
i was exposed too young. i didn't know i was installing a load-bearing nervous system control lever i'd still be shamefully, compulsively pulling a decade later.
something must change.