Edit: Sheesh. Some of you folks need this.
Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages
up·lift·ing /ˌəpˈliftiNG/
adjective
adjective: uplifting
inspiring happiness, optimism, or hope. “an uplifting story of triumph over adversity”
My go to happy thought is this:
Wild dogs, wolves, coyotes, etc… don’t have eyebrows. That is to say that they never evolved the muscles necessary to move their eyebrows in an expressive way.
Moveable eyebrows were a trait that domesticated dogs specifically evolved in order to mimic their humans and invoke more empathy (and let’s face it…likely manipulate us for more treats)
That’s a good one.
Humans aren’t destroying the earth. We may be changing it so it’s no longer hospitable to us, but the earth will go on fine even if humans extinct themselves.
This isn’t a fact but I have a gut feeling that people will be taking their power back in the near future.
Every dip into fascism in human history has been accompanied by an eventual upswing and purging of said fascists so, yes, I believe you are right.
IDK…some places have never really had Democracy, or their democracy is openly corrupt, or have been some other shitty leadership for generations. People can live under these systems…just the have/have not division can be really stark.
Franco lasted a long time though. I might be dead by then
Franco’s fascism died with him. Trump won’t live another 36 years.
Wow you all suck at this. Okay I’m gonna do an actual one. The amount of wars had around the world has SIGNIFICANTLY decreased from just a century ago.
In 6 billion years the sun will swole up to engulf the earth and none of this will have ever mattered.
I actually do find that comforting.
Assuming humanity doesn’t get our shit together enough to explore and settle the galax-heeheehee. I’m sorry. I used to hope for that.
Even if we did, most of us will likely be born into slavery on some distant colony as the property of a deranged tech trillionaire.
I vote to reduce taxes on the slave owning billionaires just in case I ever become one.
Sensible choice.
I’ve been working on a new kind of spaceship designed to act as both ark and engineering station for the construction of dyson spheres. So there’s that, although I’ve not got very far with it yet.
Concepts of a plan, eh?
Well, I’ve decided to paint it red.
Pizza. It’s really good and I’m going to eat more of it
“There is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can’t be improved with pizza.”
Daria Morgendorffer
Scuba diving.
It might make it worse, not being able to eat the pizza without tasting the water you’re in and having to deal with removing and replacing your mouthpiece.
… or latrine/septic cleaner on the job. I’m not enjoying pizza in a shittank.
Cost of living has gotten to me recently so I’ve been making my own pizzas and they taste better than dominoes plus they’re cheaper. I’m stoked
Dice some garlic, mix it with passata and chopped spinach and that’s your sauce. Cheese and sliced tomatoes on top, plus more spinach
Are you making your crust or buying it somewhere?
- The world is αwful.
- The world is much better thαn it once wαs.
- The world cαn be much better than it currently is.
All three stαtements αre true αt the sαme time. It’s wrong to think these stαtements contrαdict eαch other.
You sαy there is doom in our current reαlity, and it feels true, but never discount the wonderful things either. While mαny in this threαd have focused on directly αnswering question, I suspect there mαy be αn underlying dissαtisfαction in your mentαlity.
This threαd cαn shαre wonderful things, but without α shift on mentαlity, it mαy be eαsy enough to brush off. I know becαuse I wαs and still αm like this. Prαcticing grαtitude or grαtitude journαling mαy help, it did for me.
• I’m grαteful becαuse vαccines hαve such α powerful αurα of protection, thαt we αs α society have forgotten the nαmes of the diseαses they protect αgαinst. The world can be better, because one day, we may even erαdicαte these diseαses which still plαgue our species.
• I’m grαteful I hαve opposαble thumbs, becαuse it mαkes it eαsy to be α potαto on the couch and doom scroll. The mere αct that I can see informαtion on α powerful device thαt cαn tell me the stories from αround the globe is quite incredible.
• I’m grαteful becαuse I don’t comment very often, but I wαnted to this time. I usuαlly lurk quietly, but I too cαn be better thαn I currently αm αnd pαrticipαte sometimes.i am so distracted by your "a"s
What a great comment from an infrequent commenter. Thank you! This was a lovely read, good points, and I shared with my wife.
When you die there is nothing. You go back to where you were before you were born.
No past, no future, no memory, nothing.
You will cease to be and the memory of you will fade from this universe nearly instantly.
There’s a lovely peace to that…
Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings,
but contemplate their return.Each separate being in the universe
returns to the common source.
Returning to the source is serenity.- from Tao Te Ching, Chapter 16, Translation by Stephen Mitchell
That might be the case. Or you could be part of something else. A collective consciousness, of which you are a transient node. Or maybe there is no time at all. What we call time could just be our current state on a progress bar as we process life. Or maybe we’re part of a nervous system for some larger construct. Or perhaps we are just reluctantly self-aware iterations of bio computers with fleeting lives that appeared through the chance combination of carbon-based structures.
Who knows. That’s the beauty of it, which I personally feel religion and a certain type of confident atheism tend to deny with their respective faith/certainty.
Death is before me today Like a sick man’s recovery, Like going outdoors after confinement. Death is before me today Like the fragrance of myrrh, Like sitting under sail on breeze day. Death is before me today Like the fragrance of lotus. Like sitting on the shore of drunkenness. Death is before me today Like a well-trodden way, Like a man’s coming home from warfare. Death is before me today Like the clearing of the sky. As when a man discovers what he ignored. Death is before me today Like a man’s longing to see his home When he has spent many years in captivity
It sucks how good that show was for how fucked Gaiman is.
The comics are amazing too
Yeah im reading the comics for the first time, I’ve read some of his books before. My gateway was the Pratchett joint venture. I hate that hes so rapey. Now I know a bit of how potter fans feel.
Their casting choice for sandman was really disappointing to me. His appearance is so distinctive and strangely dignified in the book but they cast some conventionally attractive guy with for the lack of a better term little prick vibes
I know it’s not a big thing, but for everyone who owns Yooka-Laylee on Steam, Yooka-Replaylee just released and is temporarily giving a discount for those who bought the original. Any chance to save money and have fun is a plus. Especially if you need distraction and escapism from the world.
Bonus: the game is NOT following the trendnof being triple AAA slop $60 priced. I’m confused on how much the owner bundle discount thing is, but it’s currently 10% off in general until October 16, in which it will go back to being $29.99USD for the game. For a collect-a-thon, I’d say that’s a steal.
Hoping Playtonic is able make a true sequel eventually. Looking forward to playing this reimagined version though.
what’s “uplifting” depends a lot on what you want to see in the world …
but i’d say that we live in very exceptional times in history, so what’s currently happening is not the norm and will sooner or later pass…
When I need my fix of good news I go to iea.org and look at some graphs. I’m always thinking it should be faster but then again there’s hope for climate change and the world is transitioning despite how entrenched the fossil fuel industry is.
Here’s one on the investments being made:
Every generation in human history has been more intelligent and progressive than the last.
This trend is not slowing in the modern era.
this is reductive and false to the point where i have a hard time deciding where to begin
Fun fact: we kill 1-3T animals a year for food/textiles! The more you know!
That wasn’t uplifting, at all.
poor T aminals 😢
Man this is some fuckin excellent news
Im going to read through but I can’t imagine anything that is uplifiting enough to counter the current weights attached to us.
