You assume that God is bound to the system of causality in which you exist?
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Ah yes, China, comes to the top of the list when I think of protectors of human life. One-child policies, welding people into their apartment buildings, corralling them into COSTCOs [1] like they're farm animals being loaded into a semi-truck. Such benevolence.
> Or have a lot of us so internalized anti-China propaganda that we're no longer able to think logically?
Nah, more likely you have been drinking the pro-China propaganda like a 7-11 Big Gulp.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/xgvlm6/video_of_peo...
This is like asking if Usain Bolt can run a 9.5s 100m why is a cheetah that can run 6.1s not that much faster
News inherently captures attention through fear. "Everything is fine today" doesn't sell papers.
But if that's the story you're choosing to tell yourself I would dread that future too.
Any other strategy to speaking great English will take you much longer. Immediate corrective feedback is the path of accelerated learning in anything.
Good news, you're completely normal. Every couple has their unconscious dance both in a positive and negative way.
Barring physical ailments, low vitamin D (etc), the solution for anxiety is do your healing work. Anxiety is often unresolved fear, anger, shame, guilt, etc. Everyone has anxieties, and they have to be dealt with daily.
This is a bit like saying you find the hiring process at the NFL or for SEAL teams a red flag. You either fall through the selection sieve or you don't, that's the whole point. The filter has served its purpose, and they end up with the elite high-performing teams they desire. There's nothing wrong with you or the filter if you don't make it. The filter clearly does work because Jane St prints cash like the Fed and is one of the top MM firms out there.
What are you gonna do when you both get old? You're going be a saggy-breasted wrinkly bag (might already be due to the kids) and so will he, best figure out your attitude problem now.
If questioning why certain people + orgs want to push/parrot a self-fulfilling narrative is "wearing a tinfoil hat", I'll gladly buy the whole tin foil aisle in the local grocery store.
You don't even know which came first, the facts or the belief. Stop pretending like this is "science" when the only thing that matters is whether or not we choose to believe we can find common ground.
Americans need to wisen the fuck up that so much of this "America divisive, we disagree so much, civil war coming" is manufactured. Especially in the age of GPT-3 where it can be as simple as telling an AI bot to "make an article that Americans are divided" and then spreading it on various social channels.
Even HN falls for this shit without any sort of discernment. Even if this article is genuine, ask yourself what benefit does it bring you or America to believe that we are more divided and want to go to war? Absolutely none. Time to start pushing back:
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/29/america-pa...
[2] https://thecorrespondent.com/197/more-divided-than-ever-the-...
Yea it's called being a man. Biologically speaking men statistically have far fewer connections between the two halves of their brain. Your wife basically has a gigabit link between her two halves while you're on 56k, which contributes to the intensity of her integrated story-telling experience. On one hand this often gives women better recall, but it also generally enables men to ignore intense experiences better (i.e. easier to block out the cross-chatter) and soldier forward.
> Yes, I am actually pretty good at other brain stuff.
The results establish that male brains are optimized for intrahemispheric and female brains for interhemispheric communication. -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896179/
Of course. It's tempting to think we're in this new lovey-dovey age of an improved/superior humanity, but the reality is man's baser instincts are kept in check by BFGs and MAD.