#self refuting

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Follow up:

If everything happens according to his plan, it makes no sense for you to claim that "prayer works."

If he has a plan, then I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be to make that plan play out, and I need do nothing other than what I'm already doing. And yet, you keep trying to overthrow your own god's plan by trying to cajole me otherwise.

#free will #god's plan #god's will #god's unknowable plan #self refuting #religion #religion is a mental illness

[pinene]

idk how to even phrase all this, but.. I just really need gay dudes to stop assuming that any gay/bi guy who presents masculine (whatever that means) is like, unexamined and self-hating. I understand that DL guys have traumatized us all but operating under the assumption that liberation has a certain look is…. not very sound.

#And no I’m not claiming masc gays are oppressed. Please god nobody try and shove those words in my mouth #I assume some people will try to refute this entire point by citing how masc guys are so desired #and I’m like. Yeah that’s kinda my actual point. There’s this simultaneous hunger for masculine men while also a complete lack of faith #in their self awareness and compassion for others in the community.. and I just. #don’t think that’s a good juxtaposition.

[worldwright]

WAIT WAIT. do plants literally need love to survive???? Tesla died so quickly in part because she was neglected in her needs as a person -- did the twins only survive because Rem showed them that there was a place they COULD survive? Did Tesla's body just go "there's no place for me here" and shut down? The dependent plants only survive because people care for them and tend to their needs. Are independents the same, just with different needs?

#im having a lot of half-formed thoughts about how the plants 'know' 'how to be' a person/a part of something greater #they have a more powerful connection to symbiosis than humans do -- they KNOW they can't survive without community #humans can -- and often do -- lie to themselves that they don't need other people #but the plants KNOW that they wouldn't survive alone. and they know that humans wouldn't survive without them #the independents play a different role. they're able to see and understand humans' frequent need for self-reliance and they refute it #wait don't only the first couple tags show up in search #trigun maximum #trigun tesla #trigun #ok back to rant #independents are the mouthpiece of the plants -- their advocates #most symbiosis in nature works on a more fundamental level where such communication isn't necessary #but the humans' symbiosis with the plants operates on a higher level of consiousness #free will and sentience are essential elements of it. the humans' inventiveness and enduring will is needed for the survival of the plants #this is all just a bunch of loose post-its on the wall btw otherwise id jyst make a post about it lol #anyway thank you for your time i love yall

[forestofsprites]

love when shows 'acquiesce' to their audience by providing canon queer side characters that will live for exactly 3 episodes and get character exploration akin to that of a piece of cardboard. dude, bisexuality 101 and gender identity 401 personified are stood behind you. your show has provided the characters. they've been here all along. you wrote them a decade ago. they're right there. i can see them. they're delicately woven into a complex narrative. baby talk to me

#dude it is okay if ur self insert turns out to be bisexual it's fine we'll get through it #'but i didn't write them that way' oh but my love.... you did. you really really did #thoughts #all this to say that cishets are soo convinced that those they write must likewise fit into their worldview or binaries #they will create the same complex understandings of gender and sexuality that exist in the world within their work #without realizing #fans will point and say- hey! that's a narrative! that's an allegory! that's me! that's us! because it IS #but the writer refutes the assertion. refutes the idea that such notions could exist naturally in the narrative #so they gift a one dimensional queer character. made as THEY see queer people #that doesn't engage with the same principles as their pre-existing characters #i could explain this better

[onhoude]

Just. Holding the concept of Shang Qinghua level dread and moments of derealisation in the palm of my hands and looking at it from different angles.

The world he lives in is his creation, but it is not under his control. The individuals he knows he willed into being - he knows them better than they know themselves.

Some things in the world are horrifically blank (plotholes, if you will), but no one realizes this. He does. Some people don't have a past. Some flowers don't have colour. Some buildings were never built but still exist.

The relief when someone does something unexpected - the horror when he realises the result is still similar to what he imagined.

He cares for people as their creator, sometimes as the people they are, sometimes thinking they're not actually free-willed individuals, sometimes reassuring himself that they are, they are, they are-

There is one other being who he knows is as real as he is, but Shen Qingqiu is sometimes swept up in the narrative too. He can't rely on him to differentiate between reality and fiction.

At the desk of his king, whom he envisioned, he writes with a quill that he proclaimed as an ancient relic, but is entirely unblemished because he never actually had written about someone using it before him.

The fleeting moments of fear that one of the stories he writes for fun will be the next world he inhabits.

#svsss #shang qinghua #scum villains self saving system #this man potentially has so many bouts of derealisation that he can't actually refute #'name three things you smell' oh god i never gave this room a smell did I???? #shang qinghua going from 'One more document finished from my pile of work' to 'I created my own simulation and nothing is real' #about five times before lunch #derealisation tw #just in case

[blunderpuff]

fuck Jonathan Glazer and fuck everyone cheering him on

#self-hating jews are still antisemitic #'i refute my jewishness' okay then bitch! don't make a movie on the backs of 6 million dead jews then! #there are always going to be kapos #and he's one of them #did you know that the actors who had yellow ribbons for the hostages were told to remove those ribbons? #did you know that the red hand print pin that the other actors were wearing are referencing the lynching in ramallah in 2000? #the hand references one of the murderers holding his bloodstained hands out a window to cheer to the crowd outside #that he had murdered jews with his bare hands and there was the proof #the arabs have been using the red hand print as a symbol of palestinian '~*~liberation~*~' (jew murder) since then #glazer just gave permission to every antisemite to tokenize him

[dreampearls]

for all that i might compare colleis writing to scara with scara working as a weird sort of mirror world alternate look into collei if she wasnt smited by misogynistic writing decisions. scaras writing is not all that good either

#like his whole thing w rebirth and tying that into sumeru as a whole + paralleling nahida is well done #but if youre to take his quest at face value it think it can very easily and very dangerously come across as going #''well. Killing myself is the answer.'' and then that . not actually being meaningfully refuted #<- which okay arguable. they do take the time to say he was wrong for it. which is. a whole other thing on how genshin handles #suicide/self sacrifice in the first place. but i digress. its just the fact that materially him attempting to erase his existence #..did kind of absolve him from his problems. WHICH. AGAIN. complicated topic. ik its meant to tie in with his rebirth thing but wholesale #divorcing him from his past without any catharsis of punishment or consequence probably isnt the best way to go about it #like i dont think everyone forgetting their memories of him is in of itself bad writing tbh its a very interesting angle #to approach a character who is obviously seeking self punishment but being being denied it at every turn #but we all know genshin is not approaching his character from this angle

[funnycomputer]

#The shocking doomer-ism of this website is evident every time i see a post complaining about Kids These Days #Cmon guys. Come on. You love to shit your pants and not do anything about the mess #people are obsessed with catastrophizing about things they aren't even informed about #the result tends to be Net Zero Information as baseless panicked claims are refuted #moral panic is unproductive and just self destructive #viewing young people as an unintelligent and gullible monolith rather than people who are adapting to current norms is . Appalling #And it keeps happening!

[arsenicxarcana]

should probably reblog the Lucio arm post bc it does tie into the thought process for WANF in that the scars from battle are fine but the ones from the arcana are shameful bc he couldn't fight back

(bc its magic burns, from the magic of godlike representations of human consciousness, in their own territory where the laws of reality are already fucked - but no he could have easily stopped them, right?)

but myeh idk if I want to actually apply that to the arm bc he did lose it in battle AND he got a wholeass Countship out of it

the reason he's :( about it in cross-dimensional luciocest thots is 1) it looks worse without proper care for years, 2) that's him that looks like that (old and raggedy and bearing that same damage), and idk it could be early enough in the timeline that the scar is fresher in mind/body for him

its healed and covered in a cool prosthetic but the trauma is still there and this bitch just casually reminds him of that like it's nothing

#the arcana #lucio #plus yeah mc already saw it and he was kinda focused on not being a goat at the time #I'm not refuting the self esteem of nothing tho that's my favorite part #mama raised him to kill and beg for approval

[kkoraki]

“if the trials hadn’t been interfered with the 8th would have ascended to lyctorhood” blocked

#main tag block of the day #i……. only THREE necromancers get the chance to explicitly refute it and THEY ARE ONE OF THEM… #idk why this fandom is like this i just dont know #if someone ever finds out why this fandom is like this lmk please #not ONLY lacking reading comprehension but going out of their way to say characters would do things the opposite #of their entire established characterization #self

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"If God is love, and if God is also omnipresent, then the Devil cannot exist.

If the Devil exists, God cannot be love and also be omnipresent. Yet, an omnipresent god of love and the Devil are both said to exist.

It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that there is something wrong here!"

The best way to convince people your god is fake is for you to describe him.

#religion #contradictory #omnipresent #god of love #god is love #self refuting #god is fake #the devil #religion is a mental illness

[scoopsgf]

What do you think about rory comparing herself to MLK when she gets sentenced? I was already starting to see the changes and the character and while I didn’t like them, I was still rooting for her because I could see she was lost and hurting. But that line was just the nail in the coffin for me, because it really showed how privileged and entitled she is. She’s had a lot of things handed to her easily thanks to her grandparents, and that’s not her fault, but she really grew to expect to be fawned over and for things to be easy. She just grew up into this unrecognizable toddler of an adult and completely lost her drive and ambition it seems. Idk I loved rory pre-yale, and the writers butchered her post hs

#gilmore girls #*sigh* #i am so tired #so. sooooooo sick of dealing with rory antis WHY do you come into my askbox expecting me to agree w you #sis have you even scrolled. do you even know like. the basics of this blog #anyway. bad take. agree with 0% of it. #she was in no way entitled. did she have privilege because of her grandparents? yes #but she also came up with a complete payment plan after they agreed to cover her tuition #and she studied hard. worked her ass off at the YDN. earned her place there #then she had a crisis because she was told that she wasn’t cut out to be a journalist #which is what she spent her entire life aspiring to be #so naturally she spiralled. dropped out and felt lost and confused and hopeless #which? like? what the fuck is wrong with that? cannot wrap my mind around the lack of compassion there #she never expected to be fawned over. in fact all the fawning from SH folks and her grandparents made her incredibly uncomfortable #and she was constantly refuting claims that she was ‘perfect’ or ‘the best kid ever’ #she had so much self doubt and insecurity #which mitchum’s BS only compounded #in no way was she behaving like a toddler. she was behaving like a 21 year old girl who believed everything she’d ever been told about #herself was a lie. GOD i am exhausted i am so tired #anyway she still had drive and ambition. she just had shit to figure out. just because her questioning stage happened later in life #doesn’t mean she’s some lazy piece of shit leeching off of her grandparents’ money #and don’t forget to take Logan’s influence into consideration #it’s not like he did much to help or steer her back on the right path #in fact he encouraged the opposite. scumbag #anyway. this ask gave me a migraine i am going to lay down and hibernate until i recover #also the MLK was just a stupid writing choice and not a reflection of rory

[hikari-ni-naritai]

God I'm like. A really fucking boring person actually. I don't want tattoos I don't like makeup I don't dye my hair I don't dress elaborately or nicely I don't have an interesting identity I don't have any hobbies beyond ff14 and isekai (which I don't even READ, I only watch anime) I have a job and it's not interesting I don't drink I've never even tried weed I've only ever kissed one person I've never had feelings for more than one person at a time like what am I doing? All I've got going for me is being nice to people

#my therapist has discovered that despite beating back my depression over the course of several years by refuting negative thoughts #i still have literally no self worth or self love #which like i knew this but id mostly forgotten #i don't think about it much

[vagueiish]

i've been told a number of times that mental illness is a dirty, filthy, no good liar. but like..... what if it isn't?

#to me anyway. it's lying to the rest of you. dont use me as a guide #but. anyway.... #im much more inclined to give the mental illness and negativity the benny of the doubt than not yknow? #there's a non-zero chance (for example) that im right about the people around me merely tolerating my presence #and theyd be much happier if i were to just.... not be there #there's a non-zero chance the opposite is true i suppose but... #i know im awkward and off-putting and weird and also Not Good Looking #so evidence suggests the more negative scenario is true. right? #idk. what if i choose to believe that people do appreciate me and want me around only for it to be revealed that i was right the first time? #this kinda thing has happened before lol :'') #it was a situation i created myself i think so maybe it falls under self-fulfilling prophecy but. it still happened #the brain doesnt care if shit is homegrown lmao #i just dont want to be wrong #yknow? #im fuckin terrified of doing the stuff and working on loving myself #only to come to a point where all the alleged bullshit nonsense i used to believed about myself turns out to be true #is there proof somewhere? something refuting what im feeding myself?? #i know confirmation bias or whatever is a thing. maybe i need to be more vigilant looking for evidence to the contrary but. like.... #i dont know what im looking for really. or that i expect to find much of anything.... #i guess people are nice enough to me but it's horrifyingly easy to find ulterior motives behind being nice #they pity me. theyre nice to the weirdo to feel good aboit doing some good deed. theyre a masochist. etc etc. #and if you ask people straight up why theyre being nice to you they get defensive. understandably i guess but. #why would someone else be genuinely decent to me (says the 'liar' in my head) im not even nice to me #i suppose i should just trust other people but. lol. trust does not come easy #i want to believe people are genuine. i can kind of believe it from a distance #but.... #idk. i need sleep. i need to be up early #save me nyquil #to the void with love

[atypicalsouda]

The reason I made Sal a fist-fighter/boxer(which is def not my talent tho I do think it’s cool) is because to meet Fuyu at all I’d have to be either in yakuza territory or be at Hope’s Peak. And I just find it super boring to just say we’re in school together/feel like it’d be weird cuz I’m 25. So yeah I just needed to be someone who could survive and meet my beloved lol. And I just chose to be taken to the Kuzuryuu manor instead of him being the one to randomly find me or something.

But there’s also the fact that Fuyu would be harder to win over if I couldn’t hold my own or survive being a clan member. He’s someone who admires physical strength, and I’m sure he’d prefer not to have to worry about me as much. So I gave myself brownie points lmao. Not to say I can’t defend myself, cuz I can. I’m just nowhere near the “my motto is punch first and ask questions later” kinda person that my self insert is.

Oh also I have no interest in being in canon DR with Junko okay? That’s why it’s an AU. A somewhat happier one.

And another thing. Fuyu will still worry all the fucking time cuz…autism. So much that it may cause us to fight over my/Sal’s capability. Not calling Fuyu ableist, but he’d be rather highly misinformed about it, probs having never even met an autistic person before. It’d take seeing Sal in action to really understand that he’s strong.

Luckily he does, and that’s his initial spark of attraction! 😊

#Kaz is an exception to everything lol #and ya can bet that Fuyu was not willing to let him join at first #fuyu💓 #f/o stuff #sal #my self insert #info about my selfship au #unfortunately I think once Fuyu knew he’s trans it might cause us to fight again :( #but I could easily refute it by being like- You’ve seen me fight Fuyuhiko! You know I’m just as capable any man here! #and yeah it’s good that I could convince of that pretty quickly lol #ramblings #selfship ramblings #god fucking typos! *as *him #I mean not that I mean Fuyu finds women incapable(the women he knows are beasts like peko lol) #but he’d still see it as something else to worry over #that someone could take advantage of me or something idk #Fuyu just has been taught bad things okay #he’d be a tough egg to crack over certain things #being in a relationship with another man is one of ‘em too #🤷‍♂️ #good thing he’s mine<333 #and everything is now peachy lol

[theambitiouswoman]

Cognitive Techniques To Change Your Thoughts ✨✨

Cognitive techniques are strategies used in cognitive therapy to help you identify and change negative thoughts and beliefs. These techniques should be practiced regularly so that they become habits.

Cognitive Restructuring: This involves identifying and challenging negative or irrational thoughts and replacing them with more positive or rational beliefs.

Thought Stopping: When you notice a negative thought entering your mind, you can mentally shout "Stop!" This interrupts the thought process and gives you a chance to replace the negative thought with a positive one.

Mindfulness and Meditation: These practices help you become more aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. When you observe your thoughts without judgment, you gain insight into negative patterns and choose to let them go.

Journaling: Writing down your thoughts can help you process and analyze them. With time you can identify patterns and work on changing negative thought cycles.

Positive Affirmations: Repeating positive statements can help counteract negative self talk and reinforce positive beliefs about yourself.

Evidence Collection: When faced with a negative belief, ask yourself, "What evidence do I have that supports or refutes this thought?" This can help you see things in a more balanced way.

Decatastrophizing: If you tend to imagine the worst scenario, ask yourself how likely it is to happen and what other possible outcomes there might be. This can help you view situations more realistically.

Labeling: Instead of saying "I am a failure," label the thought as "a negative thought about my abilities."

Distraction: Engaging in an activity or hobby can divert your attention from negative thoughts and give your mind a break.

Scheduling Worry Time: Instead of ruminating on worries throughout the day, set aside a specific time to process them. This can prevent constant worry and allow you to focus on other tasks.

Challenging Cognitive Distortions: Recognize and challenge cognitive distortions like black-and-white thinking, overgeneralization, and personalization.

Visual Imagery: Visualize a place or situation where you feel calm and happy. This can help shift your focus from negative thoughts.

These are very simple descriptions and examples of cognitive techniques. I listed the ones we can put into practice on our own. There are more in depth methods and practices used by doctors on different fields of study and practice. I can list, as well as add upon the information listed here.

#cognitive science #cognitive behavioral therapy #psychology #personal improvement #personal development #personal growth #self help #self improvement #self care #limiting beliefs #positive mindset #affirmations