There are people who bring joy into your life and there are those that do not.
Simple.
Politics can rip people apart, don’t let it. Especially if their good in bed.
Number 6 is an attitude cultivated in Stoicism - it’s hardly a toxic belief
Tons of BS is this list.
I stand by many of those ‘toxic’ beliefs. It does not mean I feel obligated to prove they’re true. The beliefs just provide a little guidance when one has to decide for themselves.
Same as with ‘profiling’ other people.
You almost have to profile, so you have an idea what to expect from others. That’s a way to learn about the people around you.
I have a serious desire to see justice served (corruption, fighting against truth and God, abortion, perversion, etc.), but God says He will take revenge. I have real trouble with that, but He is correct, not me.
Here’s one: that homosexuality is normal
Reddit, the source of this article, is a Toxic Belief that thankfully is decreasing in influence as a cultural norm.
avoid reddit
That’s going to be one huge bumper sticker. Is there an abridged version?
Number 14 about loving yourself is somewhat true.
My first serious boyfriend (together 4 years starting in high school) was a miserable soul who constantly needed lifting up while tearing me down. It didn’t start that way, but as my life started to take off and his didn’t, he changed. I finally realized what an emotional vampire he was and kicked him out of my life. It felt like an albatross was removed from my neck.
My husband is the exact opposite; he is confident in himself, protects and provides, and praises my accomplishments because they benefit our family.
The ex had a victim mentality. My husband has a conquerer’s mentality. Huge difference.
Just like damaged women, damaged men (aka “I can fix them” projects) should be avoided.
They need to fix themselves.
Guarantee no but it sure ups your odds.
'You have to love yourself before you can love anybody else.'
If you do not love yourself the best you can do is obsess over someone else and that is not love and not healthy. Now loving yourself does not mean thinking that you are perfect and deserve everything at the expense of others but it is believing you have worth.
If I disagree with you that means I’m not *tolerant* or I’m a *hater*.
Later.
#3 Irritated me. While you can’t will yourself out of a physical condition, I have willed myself out of depression. The kind which is chemically-induced due to imbalances is rarer than people think, and a lot of drugs are being thrown at people whose depression is being caused by external factors. That doesn’t help.
Depression and ADHD need less drugs and more teaching people how to cope and work within their boundaries, and how to expand them healthily. People are taking drugs just because at this point, and I see them being handed out like candy.
We don't. We owe each other common decency of course. I could see an argument for a social safety net that is not allowed to become a hammock. Beyond that? No. We don't owe others for everything. You DID build that - not "society". It doesn't take a village - it takes a family especially good parents. We are not all in it together.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
2
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
3
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
4
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
5
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
6
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
7
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
8
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four–
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
9
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
10
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
They left out:
“love is love.”
“6.”That you should always be happy and thankful your situation isn’t worse.“
You should, because in most cases it can.
Yep - absolute tripe...
“11.”’If they pick on you, it means that they have a crush on you.’”
I guess that would mean the left absolutely adores President Trump...🥸