I've never tried that out. It never really comes down to only two options for me I guess is why.
Good idea for a thread.
Rules to live by...
1. Violence only makes things worse - honestly, in all of my life experiences, I've discovered being aggressive or mad or overly emotional during a problematic situation only makes everything worse. Any problem, and when I say any, I mean ANY, can be solved via nonviolent means. This is why I think war could prove to be obsolete if people would just understand that. If they just decided killing somebody else is wrong, no matter what the reason (which is the issue really), that's the end of war as we know it... If society viewed somebody who killed another person, which would include politicians who sent soldiers off to foreign countries to kill people, those soldiers themselves, police who murder criminals/citizens, and everybody else in between who killed another human being as a sick individual in need of mental health treatment not fit to live amongst the rest of us in civilized society, we would live in a much different world...
2. THINK FOR YOURSELF - It sounds so simple on the surface, but to truly think for yourself, you have to think about all the subconscious shit that makes an influence on the way you think on a daily basis, which isn't so simple. For me, when it happens it's one of those moments that I'll never forget, I know that because it's happened so far for me twice in my entire life and I remember distinctly both times exactly what happened. The first example is when I was a kid, pretty sure around 4th grade, playing kickball during recess... I was placed at one of the bases, someone kicked the ball toward my direction, I was standing on the base and I didn't take my foot off the base to get the ball, at the time I didn't think about it, leaving the base and grabbing the ball and running back to the base, I just let it go past me into the outfield, and everyone laughed... lol, as they should have, because it was pretty stupid of me not to take my foot off the base to get the ball and get the out.. But check it out, life lesson learned; you don't always have to stay on the bases. From that point on I applied that to everything I learned. The second time was when I realized I was an atheist. After the realization so many new things became clear to me. From that I learned that some of the rules our society has set in place are meant to be broken for the collective benefit of mankind. It's a power structure designed with individual interest in mind, not universal happiness, or at the least, universal contentment. Everyone should have a meal, everyone should have a bed. Billions, that's with a B, don't have access to either of those basic necessities for weeks at a time sometimes...
3. Be Honest - I've also learned that telling lies comes with a price. I can't tell a lie without feeling guilty about it. I don't know why and it doesn't depend on the lie... The price I pay to tell a lie is seriously not worth it. It's paid in guilt I feel, it's one of the worse feelings I can remember feeling and it lasts for days if not weeks sometimes. Sometimes until the lie is revealed, having rendered it useless in the first place and making me look even worse in the end. So yes, better off to just tell the truth I find. The guilt isn't worth it.
I'll add more if I think of any...
