my theory is that one of humor's main uses is as a way to compartmentalize things like horror and sorrow, and if you spend a lot of time becoming acutely aware of how much misery there is out there your sense of humor gets a lot of practice to compensate
EDIT: long way to say we are a little twisted around here, a bunch of jokers even, clowns who find the prospect of doing crime...humorous
If I wanted to think I wouldn't be posting
There's a little chunk missing from the meat of my shin and I think it's from a brown recluse bite. What the FUCK, I go out of my way to even put these venomous fuckers outside instead of killing them and this is how they repay my respect
Hearing (iirc) about how the Puritans didn't officially name their children until their 10th birthday
It isn't a real walkthrough if the first line isn't an ASCII art version of the game's logo
Got so much respect for the trans posters here, the depression I had growing up stemming from a comparatively light amount of alienation and isolation from my peers took an incredible amount of effort to climb out of, so it seems like an almost supernatural feat to me to be openly trans in these times.
Fuck man my 15 year old cat seemed lethargic and wasn't eating, and now the vet tells me all of a sudden it's total renal failure and I have to get her euthanized because there are no treatments for it at her age
Just a couple days ago I am sitting with my sweet peeping little rescue black cat and now it's over for her just like that
The pawns will call you a furry too iirc if your party has a bunch of cats
I love that interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve I've encountered in a few places that sees God as ultimately afraid of what happens. He warns them that if they eat the apple from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they will 'surely die.'" It isn't necessarily an order that is going to be disobeyed.
In this read, for God, good and evil are arbitrary things without consequence. He does not experience the consequences of these things. When Adam and Eve eat the apple, they now understand good and evil in ways that are real--they suffer, they see and feel what things are good and evil and come to know these ideas themselves. And god is scared, he's freaked out by these little non-omniscient things understanding something he doesn't, so he forces them out because they threaten his eden.
Anti-intellectualism comes alongside alienation from others. It has to. Being an intellectual is essentially saying "I trust the findings of academics and will adopt their consensus." Nobody can learn about the whole span of the world, it's too much information. But when you are convinced that collaboration is weakness and compromise is failure, you have to keep the world in your head, and the only way to do that is to maintain a really simplified internal diorama from which your "truth" is derived.
Naked mole rats are considered an example of a truly "eusocial" mammal analogue to ants. More evidence for the idea that social behavior/societal grouping, once established in a species, characterizes it more potently than just about anything else in its genetic history. Chimps might be our closest genetic relatives, but the way we live and think is probably much more similar to these guys.