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2024.05.16 06:04 Umitsbooboo How I changed my life with Neville's teaching since 2018 (large money, freedom, travel, love)
Successor : u/Intel81994
Hi,
I first found this subreddit and Neville's works in 2018 so I thought I'd share my success/experiences.
I've never posted here, only lurked... daily. I often see people post tiny wins in here like manifesting a test result or a few hundred dollars. I don't see many huge wins except occasionally, or multi-year life changing creations.
Well, I'm not where I want to be bc my goals have gotten a lot bigger, but I've come a long way and finding this work in 2018 changed my life so I want to share with you how.
Not to discourage, but small wins are nothing compared to the deep life changes and incredible abundance you can create in knowing who you really are - just think - there are people out there, several, who own $10M+ houses, multi-millionaires, many came from nothing.
I'm not saying that's the only thing worth striving for or even the source of joy, of course. But my point is anything you want, someone else out there has done it, they are just humans like myself and you.
So here's how my life turned around since 2018 and what I created. The HOW I did so is no different than what you already read on this sub every day.
Neville has been my favorite teacher and this is the MAIN sub I have read over the last few years. I own all of his books and have read them several times.
I regard his methods as most influential for me. This may come off as some motivational story but truth is I use Neville's methods daily and always try to understand and control my beliefs to grow.
Here is how my life changed completely after DOING the work:
To my current goals, this is really nothing now and I now surround myself with people doing a ton more than me. So I'm not preaching here, it's just levels to the game right.
I now work professionally in the crypto industry, but also have skills and knowledge to a few types of online businesses in the consulting & marketing space, as well as make money from markets/trading, which is a great vehicle because there are effectively no limits.
I can live anywhere I want, have plenty of cushion and money to live mostly how I want (have larger goals now), have time freedom as well, and most of all, love growth and feel great striving for more. I did SATS to get my current gig.
I've also been trading the last 2 years and no it's not easy, in fact you're competing against algorithms and the best minds in the world so the learning curve is quite steep.
Trading is not easy money, but the potential is there. Besides, trading is just one vehicle, it's not value-additive to the market like businesses are, so I believe it's best used in conjunction with a business/job, and investing longer term is better.
Anyway I turned <40k into ~350K in crypto, and a separate stock portfolio last year.
And yes a lot of that crypto growth was market timing and luck with everything going on, monetary policy and all, and I know people who turned less into several million and also plenty who got liquidated and lost millions. I still spent a lot of time and skill to create that, point is I created all of it in various forms.
My health is impeccable and I've for sure made other physical changes, and I think I somehow changed my gf's looks to become better over time too. She was always quite cute though. I'm still very much in shape but now do yoga daily for last few years, as well as lifting.
Some was luck, some was skill and work. All was my creation. I also got quite decent at trading and managing a portfolio that I not only managed to publicly call the exact day of the market TOP in november 2021 but also sniped the bottom in July. Intuition plus knowledge.
So I kept this money, it is not bleeding out in my portfolio with the market. I've devoted a LOT into mastering this craft but again, self concept and Neville helped.
I got hacked for 60k-70k a few months back and chose to give it new meaning and manifested a career change to crypto industry, landing a position making over 10k per month (I'm not happy with this at my current standards of income, but I'm grateful), that I am growing to 20k per month of active income now with other streams.
What's interesting in my recent career manifestation is I decided I want a position that basically pays me to do what I already do (I was independently researching and managing a multi-6 figure crypto portfolio... over a quarter million dollars combined money that I was managing. )
I now get paid a full time 6 fig salary to do nothing extra from what I was already doing and barely work on the actual job with plenty of time for other stuff.
I just decided it was done and that's it. Also of course it's remote... knowing what I know, I will only consider remote jobs (never worked in a physical office and I've actually never had a w2 job before this, always doing sales and stuff or my own thing).
I have been working on increasing my standard to 25k per month minimum of active income generation. Had a lot of ideas come through. I’m just not the type to have a job I think but I have to figure out what I can build again.
Compared to who I want to be at a later date that’s also nothing much. Again, levels to the game.
Now also working on growing a business in this space. This hack event was pretty traumatic but I now see how I 100% manifested it. And I can choose to also create something far greater out of the event now.
With every job I've ever had, I've never worked in an office. I've only ever been remote or online because this is the only thing I was willing to accept. Being a digital nomad has been my norm since I graduated college.
Be specific in what you want and do not settle.
I went to a top 5 US public university and even manifested myself to lead a large pre-med club on campus (I was a pre med student) before I knew Neville. I'm now very glad I chose to go my own route instead of medicine for several reasons beyond scope of this post but anyway.
My best mental model/tips
Random Musings
The thing with manifesting is we sometimes take a passive route and wait for things to happen to us (and sure this is fine and still works), but think- if you don't grow your mental, emotional, skills container to deal with large amounts of money, or a team, or skills to sell and market and manage money... if you suddenly get 500K or 1M, how are you going to hold on to it?
If you lack personal power and execution skills, say you suddenly win 5M from the lottery, do you have the skills to keep it and make decisions at a level that can fluctuate several millions? It's stressful and requires thinking completely differently.
You have to 'stress test' your consciousness and expand your container.
I know that because I got hacked (stolen) ~70k it means nothing because the version of me who makes multi-7 figures a year deals with fluctuations of multi-6 figures in his portfolio all the time, it's part of the game. and I HAVE dealt with 6 figure fluctuations in my portfolio before this hack so it wasn't super new in that sense.
You know time is not real, it's all happening now, Creation is already finished, so you should also know that the way to 'hack' time is making decisions from a place of the future version of yourself you already are.
Make a commitment to stop playing small and settling for crumbs. Why would you get hung up on the one limited way your ego thinks that abundance has to manifest in your life, or love, instead of just feeling the emotions themselves, knowing it's done, and letting your life color it in in grander ways than you could have imagined.
Funny little manifestations and things happen literally every day that I just take it as reflections of me being in my creative power.
Something crazy/funny that happened was on our last trip, I told my girlfriend 'hey, how funny and weird would it be to see a parrot meowing?' - then next day we sit at a cafe and there is a parrot in a cage outside, meowing loudly. The most bizarre manifestation, I didn't even intend for it, just asked hey would it not be funny. Things like this happen so often, I can't keep track.
There is nothing new to learn. Just do the techniques and do self care rituals and get lost in your work. Feel the feeling of utter abundance and freedom now and it will happen.
We live in an advanced economy with the internet, it has never been easier to start or fund a business compared to even 50 years ago (see interest rates), distribution has never been easier, so if you know these tools, why would you not create the biggest dream you can imagine? Why settle for a free $200?
I realize there are levels people go through however so I don't mean to belittle, but now that I have been through so much and grown, I know there is nothing separating myself from multi millions and VC's and creators of large companies except belief, work, and time in this reality.
I have the knowledge, belief, and skills to not need a job if I don't want one. I can instead offer something to the market and be independent.
I'm telling you this stuff works and is sustainable. You can be as specific as you want and get whatever you want, and trust that with the turns life takes you through, it is a BRIDGE meant to turn you into the person to get and sustain what you say you want. Decide it and it is so.
I am someone who is a first generation American immigrant, my parents moved to the US from India when I was 5 and we had very little here. I grew up 'lower' middle class, and didn't have the best money programming from parents, but I always did well in school.
I KNOW I am going to be the first multi millionaire in my family. It's all in how you think about yourself/self concept and the work you do from that mindset. Do actions and shift your environment in accordance with who you want to be.
I always splurge on self care now and do things like fly business class or pay more for a better room because that's who I internally am. Just find a way to produce more and let it flow instead of shrinking yourself to be someone you’re not in your 4D
I don't try to scrimp and penny pinch, I let money flow. Even though getting stolen 70k was traumatic, oh well, I chose to give it a better, empowering meaning and my reality shifted.
That's all I have to say. Do the work. Stop procrastinating with learning. All the teachers, scripture, it's all the same Truth at the core. Learning is fine because you learn different mental models at different points of your life but you need to do the work.
I've been fortunate to not only have explored TONS of teachers and books in this realm, you name it I've probably read it or have a copy, I've also HAD mentors and WORKED directly under multi millionaires older and more experienced than me who know this work very well and knew Neville specifically, and it's the real deal. I did sales for someone in the online coaching space was was very well off and had decades of success and spoke of Neville very often, it was really cool.
Proof of the Law
I don't know what more proof you need that the Law is real. All religions throughout eternity have known this, Neville just distilled the same Truth through his own methods that work really well in my opinion and I personally love his interpretation of scripture.
The most successful people in the world are usually consciously (and some unconsciously) doing these same actions. Just do the work and focus on it coming from a good place of knowing that it's done. You don't need to know HOW but you just need to know the plane is going to somehow land one day.
I just come back to Neville every time, because his methods are simple and philosophies work well for how I think. I've done tons of psychedelic mushrooms over the years which luckily made me very open to this sort of thinking, before that I was very rigid and too '3d scientific' minded in my thinking. Keep in mind there is actually nothing 'unscientific' about the Law... modern science has its own limitations in that we cannot measure many things.
What used to be called magic in years past is now under the realm of science right? I'm not saying I don't value logic and science... I have a science degree from a top 5 university.
I'm just saying your ego mind which wants to keep you stuck and surviving uses the excuse of logic and science when that's actually not the full scope of how reality works, we are incredibly limited in our conscious understanding of reality.... we don't even know what we're doing here on a floating rock in infinite space and we can hardly see much of the light spectrum as it is.
So remember that when your ego tries to believe in your limitations and the 3d reality only. You being here is magic that even the most advanced science does not know the answer to. Do scientists know fundamentally why there is something at all instead of nothing?
Anyway, one more thing is I've never been shy of making relatively bold and fast decisions, investing in a mentor (for business) and just generally betting on myself.
Because getting around people who think bigger than you and don't settle is a hack and it's worth every penny. There is a reason millionaires hang with other millionaires.
I'm not saying to cut people out of your life (unless toxic) but rather to seek proximity and get around winners or pay to join some mastermind in business or whatever you need to do to network in your realm.
Just last week I invested 7.5k for get into a network of high performing young male entrepreneurs just because I want a better network in real life and work on business tactics and execution. When I was 23 I invested 25k that I did not have at the time (I made it happen and earned it back) to get a business mentor. So I use all of this in combo with Neville's methods primarily. I really like revision method as well.
The act of DECISION literally creates a parallel reality and becomes the new bridge to your manifestation.
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Hi,
I first found this subreddit and Neville's works in 2018 so I thought I'd share my success/experiences.
I've never posted here, only lurked... daily. I often see people post tiny wins in here like manifesting a test result or a few hundred dollars. I don't see many huge wins except occasionally, or multi-year life changing creations.
Well, I'm not where I want to be bc my goals have gotten a lot bigger, but I've come a long way and finding this work in 2018 changed my life so I want to share with you how.
Not to discourage, but small wins are nothing compared to the deep life changes and incredible abundance you can create in knowing who you really are - just think - there are people out there, several, who own $10M+ houses, multi-millionaires, many came from nothing.
I'm not saying that's the only thing worth striving for or even the source of joy, of course. But my point is anything you want, someone else out there has done it, they are just humans like myself and you.
So here's how my life turned around since 2018 and what I created. The HOW I did so is no different than what you already read on this sub every day.
Neville has been my favorite teacher and this is the MAIN sub I have read over the last few years. I own all of his books and have read them several times.
I regard his methods as most influential for me. This may come off as some motivational story but truth is I use Neville's methods daily and always try to understand and control my beliefs to grow.
- MONEY/TRAVEL : I went from -50k in debt running my own online fitness coaching business at my lowest point not knowing how I would pay rent (long story but I was young and not skilled enough in business at this time to really build a team and 7 figure business like I wanted),
To my current goals, this is really nothing now and I now surround myself with people doing a ton more than me. So I'm not preaching here, it's just levels to the game right.
I now work professionally in the crypto industry, but also have skills and knowledge to a few types of online businesses in the consulting & marketing space, as well as make money from markets/trading, which is a great vehicle because there are effectively no limits.
I can live anywhere I want, have plenty of cushion and money to live mostly how I want (have larger goals now), have time freedom as well, and most of all, love growth and feel great striving for more. I did SATS to get my current gig.
I've also been trading the last 2 years and no it's not easy, in fact you're competing against algorithms and the best minds in the world so the learning curve is quite steep.
Trading is not easy money, but the potential is there. Besides, trading is just one vehicle, it's not value-additive to the market like businesses are, so I believe it's best used in conjunction with a business/job, and investing longer term is better.
Anyway I turned <40k into ~350K in crypto, and a separate stock portfolio last year.
And yes a lot of that crypto growth was market timing and luck with everything going on, monetary policy and all, and I know people who turned less into several million and also plenty who got liquidated and lost millions. I still spent a lot of time and skill to create that, point is I created all of it in various forms.
- FITNESS/HEALTH: I achieved a more fit and better body than 98% of men have. This was a result of hard work plus these methods and was in 2018 when I decided to undergo a bodybuilding prep for a photoshoot. Great size, leanness, abs, I had been lifting for years but never gotten this in shape.
My health is impeccable and I've for sure made other physical changes, and I think I somehow changed my gf's looks to become better over time too. She was always quite cute though. I'm still very much in shape but now do yoga daily for last few years, as well as lifting.
- LOCATION/LIVING: I manifested the EXACT view I used to visualize in the center of my major city, with a gorgeous view of the ocean and city both, for a great price and have lived here for last 3 years now. In a luxury high rise. I can see ships and yachts right outside my balcony every day. It's literally grander than I even knew to imagine just 5 years ago.
- MORE FINANCE: Over the last 2 years my investments and more were doing so well sometimes - not always - that I often was able to have some months making 20-40k, point is I was not worried about work.
Some was luck, some was skill and work. All was my creation. I also got quite decent at trading and managing a portfolio that I not only managed to publicly call the exact day of the market TOP in november 2021 but also sniped the bottom in July. Intuition plus knowledge.
So I kept this money, it is not bleeding out in my portfolio with the market. I've devoted a LOT into mastering this craft but again, self concept and Neville helped.
I got hacked for 60k-70k a few months back and chose to give it new meaning and manifested a career change to crypto industry, landing a position making over 10k per month (I'm not happy with this at my current standards of income, but I'm grateful), that I am growing to 20k per month of active income now with other streams.
What's interesting in my recent career manifestation is I decided I want a position that basically pays me to do what I already do (I was independently researching and managing a multi-6 figure crypto portfolio... over a quarter million dollars combined money that I was managing. )
I now get paid a full time 6 fig salary to do nothing extra from what I was already doing and barely work on the actual job with plenty of time for other stuff.
I just decided it was done and that's it. Also of course it's remote... knowing what I know, I will only consider remote jobs (never worked in a physical office and I've actually never had a w2 job before this, always doing sales and stuff or my own thing).
I have been working on increasing my standard to 25k per month minimum of active income generation. Had a lot of ideas come through. I’m just not the type to have a job I think but I have to figure out what I can build again.
Compared to who I want to be at a later date that’s also nothing much. Again, levels to the game.
Now also working on growing a business in this space. This hack event was pretty traumatic but I now see how I 100% manifested it. And I can choose to also create something far greater out of the event now.
With every job I've ever had, I've never worked in an office. I've only ever been remote or online because this is the only thing I was willing to accept. Being a digital nomad has been my norm since I graduated college.
Be specific in what you want and do not settle.
I went to a top 5 US public university and even manifested myself to lead a large pre-med club on campus (I was a pre med student) before I knew Neville. I'm now very glad I chose to go my own route instead of medicine for several reasons beyond scope of this post but anyway.
- SP: Manifested my SP (gf) back in 2018 and we have a great relationship going on 6 years now (together since 2016). I focus more on self love and feeling I AM God rather than seeking it externally. My consciousness and inner connection is my source of sustenance.
- Honestly there are so many other crazy little things I can't possibly keep track. Every day I have synchronicities like crazy still. I don't give them much meaning but just take it to mean that I am aligned.
- Delude yourself into knowing that imagination is MORE real than the 3d. The 3d is 'old news.' Meaning it's a shadow world. The real creation is happening in your imagination, and there is a time lag in this physical world.
- I do SATS during the day, works fine for me, I don't think it matters much if day/night, but you need to do it. Follow a guided hypnosis session to get deeper into trance first if it helps.
- Act and trust deeply that life is leading you to what you want, and the meaning you give to events is literally what molds your future. Choose empowering meanings. Stop being a victim.
- Make a daily routine checklist and stick to it so you internally feel in control of your reality. Mine is: SATS or revision, meditate or breathwork, EFT or writing, cold shower, no phone in the morning, wake at 6am, and of course I exercise daily in some form. I use a spreadsheet to make sure I hit my routines for the day so I don't be a victim but rather stay in control. This is critical for me.
- As long as you occupy the realms of consciousness that you want, the result WILL come via downloads and hunches and thoughts, and insane physical things will happen that will 'seem like it would have happened anyway' so don't worry about the how.
The thing with manifesting is we sometimes take a passive route and wait for things to happen to us (and sure this is fine and still works), but think- if you don't grow your mental, emotional, skills container to deal with large amounts of money, or a team, or skills to sell and market and manage money... if you suddenly get 500K or 1M, how are you going to hold on to it?
If you lack personal power and execution skills, say you suddenly win 5M from the lottery, do you have the skills to keep it and make decisions at a level that can fluctuate several millions? It's stressful and requires thinking completely differently.
You have to 'stress test' your consciousness and expand your container.
I know that because I got hacked (stolen) ~70k it means nothing because the version of me who makes multi-7 figures a year deals with fluctuations of multi-6 figures in his portfolio all the time, it's part of the game. and I HAVE dealt with 6 figure fluctuations in my portfolio before this hack so it wasn't super new in that sense.
You know time is not real, it's all happening now, Creation is already finished, so you should also know that the way to 'hack' time is making decisions from a place of the future version of yourself you already are.
Make a commitment to stop playing small and settling for crumbs. Why would you get hung up on the one limited way your ego thinks that abundance has to manifest in your life, or love, instead of just feeling the emotions themselves, knowing it's done, and letting your life color it in in grander ways than you could have imagined.
Funny little manifestations and things happen literally every day that I just take it as reflections of me being in my creative power.
Something crazy/funny that happened was on our last trip, I told my girlfriend 'hey, how funny and weird would it be to see a parrot meowing?' - then next day we sit at a cafe and there is a parrot in a cage outside, meowing loudly. The most bizarre manifestation, I didn't even intend for it, just asked hey would it not be funny. Things like this happen so often, I can't keep track.
There is nothing new to learn. Just do the techniques and do self care rituals and get lost in your work. Feel the feeling of utter abundance and freedom now and it will happen.
We live in an advanced economy with the internet, it has never been easier to start or fund a business compared to even 50 years ago (see interest rates), distribution has never been easier, so if you know these tools, why would you not create the biggest dream you can imagine? Why settle for a free $200?
I realize there are levels people go through however so I don't mean to belittle, but now that I have been through so much and grown, I know there is nothing separating myself from multi millions and VC's and creators of large companies except belief, work, and time in this reality.
I have the knowledge, belief, and skills to not need a job if I don't want one. I can instead offer something to the market and be independent.
I'm telling you this stuff works and is sustainable. You can be as specific as you want and get whatever you want, and trust that with the turns life takes you through, it is a BRIDGE meant to turn you into the person to get and sustain what you say you want. Decide it and it is so.
I am someone who is a first generation American immigrant, my parents moved to the US from India when I was 5 and we had very little here. I grew up 'lower' middle class, and didn't have the best money programming from parents, but I always did well in school.
I KNOW I am going to be the first multi millionaire in my family. It's all in how you think about yourself/self concept and the work you do from that mindset. Do actions and shift your environment in accordance with who you want to be.
I always splurge on self care now and do things like fly business class or pay more for a better room because that's who I internally am. Just find a way to produce more and let it flow instead of shrinking yourself to be someone you’re not in your 4D
I don't try to scrimp and penny pinch, I let money flow. Even though getting stolen 70k was traumatic, oh well, I chose to give it a better, empowering meaning and my reality shifted.
That's all I have to say. Do the work. Stop procrastinating with learning. All the teachers, scripture, it's all the same Truth at the core. Learning is fine because you learn different mental models at different points of your life but you need to do the work.
I've been fortunate to not only have explored TONS of teachers and books in this realm, you name it I've probably read it or have a copy, I've also HAD mentors and WORKED directly under multi millionaires older and more experienced than me who know this work very well and knew Neville specifically, and it's the real deal. I did sales for someone in the online coaching space was was very well off and had decades of success and spoke of Neville very often, it was really cool.
I don't know what more proof you need that the Law is real. All religions throughout eternity have known this, Neville just distilled the same Truth through his own methods that work really well in my opinion and I personally love his interpretation of scripture.
The most successful people in the world are usually consciously (and some unconsciously) doing these same actions. Just do the work and focus on it coming from a good place of knowing that it's done. You don't need to know HOW but you just need to know the plane is going to somehow land one day.
I just come back to Neville every time, because his methods are simple and philosophies work well for how I think. I've done tons of psychedelic mushrooms over the years which luckily made me very open to this sort of thinking, before that I was very rigid and too '3d scientific' minded in my thinking. Keep in mind there is actually nothing 'unscientific' about the Law... modern science has its own limitations in that we cannot measure many things.
What used to be called magic in years past is now under the realm of science right? I'm not saying I don't value logic and science... I have a science degree from a top 5 university.
I'm just saying your ego mind which wants to keep you stuck and surviving uses the excuse of logic and science when that's actually not the full scope of how reality works, we are incredibly limited in our conscious understanding of reality.... we don't even know what we're doing here on a floating rock in infinite space and we can hardly see much of the light spectrum as it is.
So remember that when your ego tries to believe in your limitations and the 3d reality only. You being here is magic that even the most advanced science does not know the answer to. Do scientists know fundamentally why there is something at all instead of nothing?
Anyway, one more thing is I've never been shy of making relatively bold and fast decisions, investing in a mentor (for business) and just generally betting on myself.
Because getting around people who think bigger than you and don't settle is a hack and it's worth every penny. There is a reason millionaires hang with other millionaires.
I'm not saying to cut people out of your life (unless toxic) but rather to seek proximity and get around winners or pay to join some mastermind in business or whatever you need to do to network in your realm.
Just last week I invested 7.5k for get into a network of high performing young male entrepreneurs just because I want a better network in real life and work on business tactics and execution. When I was 23 I invested 25k that I did not have at the time (I made it happen and earned it back) to get a business mentor. So I use all of this in combo with Neville's methods primarily. I really like revision method as well.
The act of DECISION literally creates a parallel reality and becomes the new bridge to your manifestation.
2024.05.12 06:55 squidrobotfriend Genuinely upset I didn't know about NTPLLN until now
So, I've been coming to UCSD undergrad since 2018 (medically mandated part-time), and I'll be finishing up my coursework this coming Fall.
I've never had any reason to go to Sixth College until last quarter when I had to take a series of philosophy exams at the Department of Philosophy building. I'm a Murion and a CSE major, so I'm most often bouncing between the Muir campus, Warren campus, and Center Hall.
While I was at the NTPLLN, I discovered that they have, among other things
Please, if you learn anything from this, explore campus, even the parts you have no reason to go to. It's so easy to get stuck in the loop back and forth between Center Hall, Price Center, your major classes, your undergrad college campus, and like one or two hangout spots (shoutout to EnVision!) and forget everything else exists, especially if you're a commuter. I did and I regret it.
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I've never had any reason to go to Sixth College until last quarter when I had to take a series of philosophy exams at the Department of Philosophy building. I'm a Murion and a CSE major, so I'm most often bouncing between the Muir campus, Warren campus, and Center Hall.
While I was at the NTPLLN, I discovered that they have, among other things
- a really good ramen shop that also serves karaage and Japanese beer
- an authentic Chinese restaurant
- Middle Eastern street food
- and a really nice cafe
Please, if you learn anything from this, explore campus, even the parts you have no reason to go to. It's so easy to get stuck in the loop back and forth between Center Hall, Price Center, your major classes, your undergrad college campus, and like one or two hangout spots (shoutout to EnVision!) and forget everything else exists, especially if you're a commuter. I did and I regret it.
2024.05.11 14:03 Ymenoa_Merenet Des retours d'expérience sur la RF Continental GT 650 ?
Salut à tous !
Je prévois de bientôt commencer mon permis moto, j'aime vraiment beaucoup la philosophie cafe racer et je suis très intéressé par cette 650 depuis sa sortie. Auriez-vous des retours à faire passer pour un néophyte qui souhaite l'acquérir pour la sortir en balade le week-end ? Merci par avance !
Édit : je voulais dire la RE, pas la RF, désolé
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Je prévois de bientôt commencer mon permis moto, j'aime vraiment beaucoup la philosophie cafe racer et je suis très intéressé par cette 650 depuis sa sortie. Auriez-vous des retours à faire passer pour un néophyte qui souhaite l'acquérir pour la sortir en balade le week-end ? Merci par avance !
Édit : je voulais dire la RE, pas la RF, désolé
2024.05.11 12:53 Strange_Talk_3311 my friend (20f) and i (20f) have different ideologies. how do i go about (or not) with this friendship?
tl;dr at the bottom
we have been friends for almost three years.
my friend has many great qualities. i am also very grateful for what she has done. she’s the one who vouched for me so i could get a job at where she worked at. now we both work here. when i didn’t have my license for a solid year, she drove me around for many miles to hang out. she says she enjoys driving, but i know that driving far and when tired takes a toll on you no matter what. i always tried to pay her back on gas by asking her how much i owe her or simply bought her food. i’d like to think i’m a fair person and have paid her back for all the rides. (i know some of our other friends do not always or never do that.) besides that of course she has lend me her ear to vent to. i have always noticed whenever we see each other when we haven’t in a while she asks me how i’m doing. i know it’s not out of mere politeness. she expects me to update her about my life and asks me questions out of genuine curiosity. she asks me how my family is doing, too, which nobody else does. i really appreciate that, even though i do have some familial problems she’s aware of. i think she’s trying to care and look out for me. all in all, she’s a good friend.
here’s where i have some difficulty. she’s great as a friend, but her ideologies differ vastly from mine. she is catholic, i am not religious at all (haven’t labeled myself agnostic or atheist yet). she is pro-life, i am pro-choice. she is conservative, i attempt to be neutral but am left-leaning. she is straight, and let’s just say i am not straight (this is not an ideology but will be important later on).
i hate to admit it but her being religious can sometimes be overwhelming. at first it was fine. she wears a cross necklace, signs the cross and mutters something before eating (sorry i don’t know what it is and don’t care to find out), talks about going to church on wednesday, etc. i would say that’s a pretty average religious person. however, lately it’s been a lot more. she created and leads her own group in the church for christian youths to argue god is real (or something like that). basically another agenda to spread the word of god. she has a podcast to discuss philosophy with other christians. but worst of all, i had a rather uncomfortable moment with her and religion. i went to a cafe with my friend and another friend. we talked until late, and somehow the conversation turned to god. my other friend is from a christian family but is on the fence about it because he has questions. my friend started talking and trying to convince this other friend that god exists because x —-> y —-> x —-> y but it can’t go on so god must be the start of it all. as a non-religious person i tried to chime in but was shut down by both of them. it was so upsetting to be ignored and forced to listen to this (in my opinion) ridiculous talk about god for at least an hour that i cried in my car to a different friend before going home.
i also kind of find it surprising and bizarre that she claims she was raised not religious (but her parents were) and then she chose to be christian. so it was her choice? i am of course not sure the extent to which her parents influenced her religious standing but i can’t believe her own research led to her becoming full-on 100% religious.
as you can see it’s not just her and her religion but religion in general that can be quite confusing, overwhelming, or even annoying to me. (she happens to be the most religious person i personally know.) i do find this concerning and am not sure what the root cause is, but i do want to be respectful (freedom of religion after all). so unless you’re not religious yourself and have more to say please don’t give me advice on being more understanding of religious people i’m already aware.
i can’t tell whether her being religious or being pro-life irks me more. she plans to have like eight kids in the future. (i am not 100% sure how she’ll support such a family in this economy but sure.) she wanted to or is in the process of volunteering at a center for pregnant women (not sure of the details). she talks about population in china decreasing at each generation because of the two-child policy, which is apparently true according to another friend. she says the economy will collapse. i said overpopulation is bad as well, so both options are bad (basically a lose-lose situation). a different friend says she hates babies/kids, my friend says babies are adorable. my friend once claimed having a kid is a responsibility people want or take on in life (that’s the general gist of the argument), and my life developmental psych professor said no (i agree with my professor). you get the idea. overall she is pro-life, and i am pro-choice.
my friend is a conservative through and through. she voted conservative. she’s dated conservatives. she reads or listens to jordan peterson. she’s excited when she meets a cute conservative guy. she was interested in a liberal guy before, but it failed (i don’t know the reason but i bet it’s because of their differing political stances and they both like to yap a lot). this sort of ties in with the pro-life and religious thing, but yeah, conservatives are generally like that.
your sexual orientation is not an ideology, but this is one thing that also makes me question my friendship with her. she is straight. i have told her i’m not.
in a group setting she has outed me before indirectly. she asked me if i’m talking to/am interested in any girls. i said no very shyly because i had not told everybody in the group i wasn’t straight. i was uncomfortable she brought it up. i hoped my other friends talking to each other didn’t hear it, but they did. a friend i hadn’t told later confirmed it for me once i came out to them on my own. it kind of sucked. my parents are slightly/pretty homophobic, meaning they probably don’t want their daughter to be gay. i am still living with my parents, and as much as i know word won’t reach them, i can’t help but feel uncomfortable my friend basically outed me to people i didn’t want to be outed to.
my friend has a sibling who is a trans guy. my friend still refers to them by she/her pronouns despite her sibling literally having he/they pronouns in their insta. i have talked to the sibling, and he is whatever with the situation because my friend has been using she/her pronouns for her sibling her entire life.
so pronouns can be hard to get by okay. but it does suck to have to introduce everyone you know your sibling as your sister when it’s actually her brother. it also majorly sucks when my friend deadnames her brother. it happened once, and i almost couldn’t believe it happened. she said she tends to forget.
okay maybe using the wrong name is not the end of the world. but it’s been at least a year and nothing has changed. i also feel disappointed in myself for not speaking up more, but i’m not sure if the sibling wants me to step in.
there’s a lot more to talk about, but those are the major points. my biggest concern is that i will be working with my friend for another two years and we share the same friend group. how can i resolve this issue, whether within myself or with her? what would i even say? or should i simply change my mindset about this situation? ideologies are very difficult to change, but every time i meet her i am reminded of at least one of these things.
tl;dr: my friend has done many things i am grateful for but we have different ideologies. she is religious (very involved in church activities), i am not religious. she is pro-life, i am pro-choice. she is conservative, i attempt to be neutral but am left-leaning. she is straight, and i am not (she kind of outed me once, continuously misues pronouns for sibling, continuously misgenders sibling, and deadnamed sibling). i will be working with her for the next two years, and we share the same friend group. what can i do?
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we have been friends for almost three years.
my friend has many great qualities. i am also very grateful for what she has done. she’s the one who vouched for me so i could get a job at where she worked at. now we both work here. when i didn’t have my license for a solid year, she drove me around for many miles to hang out. she says she enjoys driving, but i know that driving far and when tired takes a toll on you no matter what. i always tried to pay her back on gas by asking her how much i owe her or simply bought her food. i’d like to think i’m a fair person and have paid her back for all the rides. (i know some of our other friends do not always or never do that.) besides that of course she has lend me her ear to vent to. i have always noticed whenever we see each other when we haven’t in a while she asks me how i’m doing. i know it’s not out of mere politeness. she expects me to update her about my life and asks me questions out of genuine curiosity. she asks me how my family is doing, too, which nobody else does. i really appreciate that, even though i do have some familial problems she’s aware of. i think she’s trying to care and look out for me. all in all, she’s a good friend.
here’s where i have some difficulty. she’s great as a friend, but her ideologies differ vastly from mine. she is catholic, i am not religious at all (haven’t labeled myself agnostic or atheist yet). she is pro-life, i am pro-choice. she is conservative, i attempt to be neutral but am left-leaning. she is straight, and let’s just say i am not straight (this is not an ideology but will be important later on).
i hate to admit it but her being religious can sometimes be overwhelming. at first it was fine. she wears a cross necklace, signs the cross and mutters something before eating (sorry i don’t know what it is and don’t care to find out), talks about going to church on wednesday, etc. i would say that’s a pretty average religious person. however, lately it’s been a lot more. she created and leads her own group in the church for christian youths to argue god is real (or something like that). basically another agenda to spread the word of god. she has a podcast to discuss philosophy with other christians. but worst of all, i had a rather uncomfortable moment with her and religion. i went to a cafe with my friend and another friend. we talked until late, and somehow the conversation turned to god. my other friend is from a christian family but is on the fence about it because he has questions. my friend started talking and trying to convince this other friend that god exists because x —-> y —-> x —-> y but it can’t go on so god must be the start of it all. as a non-religious person i tried to chime in but was shut down by both of them. it was so upsetting to be ignored and forced to listen to this (in my opinion) ridiculous talk about god for at least an hour that i cried in my car to a different friend before going home.
i also kind of find it surprising and bizarre that she claims she was raised not religious (but her parents were) and then she chose to be christian. so it was her choice? i am of course not sure the extent to which her parents influenced her religious standing but i can’t believe her own research led to her becoming full-on 100% religious.
as you can see it’s not just her and her religion but religion in general that can be quite confusing, overwhelming, or even annoying to me. (she happens to be the most religious person i personally know.) i do find this concerning and am not sure what the root cause is, but i do want to be respectful (freedom of religion after all). so unless you’re not religious yourself and have more to say please don’t give me advice on being more understanding of religious people i’m already aware.
i can’t tell whether her being religious or being pro-life irks me more. she plans to have like eight kids in the future. (i am not 100% sure how she’ll support such a family in this economy but sure.) she wanted to or is in the process of volunteering at a center for pregnant women (not sure of the details). she talks about population in china decreasing at each generation because of the two-child policy, which is apparently true according to another friend. she says the economy will collapse. i said overpopulation is bad as well, so both options are bad (basically a lose-lose situation). a different friend says she hates babies/kids, my friend says babies are adorable. my friend once claimed having a kid is a responsibility people want or take on in life (that’s the general gist of the argument), and my life developmental psych professor said no (i agree with my professor). you get the idea. overall she is pro-life, and i am pro-choice.
my friend is a conservative through and through. she voted conservative. she’s dated conservatives. she reads or listens to jordan peterson. she’s excited when she meets a cute conservative guy. she was interested in a liberal guy before, but it failed (i don’t know the reason but i bet it’s because of their differing political stances and they both like to yap a lot). this sort of ties in with the pro-life and religious thing, but yeah, conservatives are generally like that.
your sexual orientation is not an ideology, but this is one thing that also makes me question my friendship with her. she is straight. i have told her i’m not.
in a group setting she has outed me before indirectly. she asked me if i’m talking to/am interested in any girls. i said no very shyly because i had not told everybody in the group i wasn’t straight. i was uncomfortable she brought it up. i hoped my other friends talking to each other didn’t hear it, but they did. a friend i hadn’t told later confirmed it for me once i came out to them on my own. it kind of sucked. my parents are slightly/pretty homophobic, meaning they probably don’t want their daughter to be gay. i am still living with my parents, and as much as i know word won’t reach them, i can’t help but feel uncomfortable my friend basically outed me to people i didn’t want to be outed to.
my friend has a sibling who is a trans guy. my friend still refers to them by she/her pronouns despite her sibling literally having he/they pronouns in their insta. i have talked to the sibling, and he is whatever with the situation because my friend has been using she/her pronouns for her sibling her entire life.
so pronouns can be hard to get by okay. but it does suck to have to introduce everyone you know your sibling as your sister when it’s actually her brother. it also majorly sucks when my friend deadnames her brother. it happened once, and i almost couldn’t believe it happened. she said she tends to forget.
okay maybe using the wrong name is not the end of the world. but it’s been at least a year and nothing has changed. i also feel disappointed in myself for not speaking up more, but i’m not sure if the sibling wants me to step in.
there’s a lot more to talk about, but those are the major points. my biggest concern is that i will be working with my friend for another two years and we share the same friend group. how can i resolve this issue, whether within myself or with her? what would i even say? or should i simply change my mindset about this situation? ideologies are very difficult to change, but every time i meet her i am reminded of at least one of these things.
tl;dr: my friend has done many things i am grateful for but we have different ideologies. she is religious (very involved in church activities), i am not religious. she is pro-life, i am pro-choice. she is conservative, i attempt to be neutral but am left-leaning. she is straight, and i am not (she kind of outed me once, continuously misues pronouns for sibling, continuously misgenders sibling, and deadnamed sibling). i will be working with her for the next two years, and we share the same friend group. what can i do?
2024.05.11 12:43 Strange_Talk_3311 my friend (20f) and i (20f) have different ideologies. how do i go about (or not) with this friendship?
tl;dr at the bottom
we have been friends for almost three years.
my friend has many great qualities. i am also very grateful for what she has done. she’s the one who vouched for me so i could get a job at where she worked at. now we both work here. when i didn’t have my license for a solid year, she drove me around for many miles to hang out. she says she enjoys driving, but i know that driving far and when tired takes a toll on you no matter what. i always tried to pay her back on gas by asking her how much i owe her or simply bought her food. i’d like to think i’m a fair person and have paid her back for all the rides. (i know some of our other friends do not always or never do that.) besides that of course she has lend me her ear to vent to. i have always noticed whenever we see each other when we haven’t in a while she asks me how i’m doing. i know it’s not out of mere politeness. she expects me to update her about my life and asks me questions out of genuine curiosity. she asks me how my family is doing, too, which nobody else does. i really appreciate that, even though i do have some familial problems she’s aware of. i think she’s trying to care and look out for me. all in all, she’s a good friend.
here’s where i have some difficulty. she’s great as a friend, but her ideologies differ vastly from mine. she is catholic, i am not religious at all (haven’t labeled myself agnostic or atheist yet). she is pro-life, i am pro-choice. she is conservative, i attempt to be neutral but am left-leaning. she is straight, and let’s just say i am not straight (this is not an ideology but will be important later on).
i hate to admit it but her being religious can sometimes be overwhelming. at first it was fine. she wears a cross necklace, signs the cross and mutters something before eating (sorry i don’t know what it is and don’t care to find out), talks about going to church on wednesday, etc. i would say that’s a pretty average religious person. however, lately it’s been a lot more. she created and leads her own group in the church for christian youths to argue god is real (or something like that). basically another agenda to spread the word of god. she has a podcast to discuss philosophy with other christians. but worst of all, i had a rather uncomfortable moment with her and religion. i went to a cafe with my friend and another friend. we talked until late, and somehow the conversation turned to god. my other friend is from a christian family but is on the fence about it because he has questions. my friend started talking and trying to convince this other friend that god exists because x —-> y —-> x —-> y but it can’t go on so god must be the start of it all. as a non-religious person i tried to chime in but was shut down by both of them. it was so upsetting to be ignored and forced to listen to this (in my opinion) ridiculous talk about god for at least an hour that i cried in my car to a different friend before going home.
i also kind of find it surprising and bizarre that she claims she was raised not religious (but her parents were) and then she chose to be christian. so it was her choice? i am of course not sure the extent to which her parents influenced her religious standing but i can’t believe her own research led to her becoming full-on 100% religious.
as you can see it’s not just her and her religion but religion in general that can be quite confusing, overwhelming, or even annoying to me. (she happens to be the most religious person i personally know.) i do find this concerning and am not sure what the root cause is, but i do want to be respectful (freedom of religion after all). so unless you’re not religious yourself and have more to say please don’t give me advice on being more understanding of religious people i’m already aware.
i can’t tell whether her being religious or being pro-life irks me more. she plans to have like eight kids in the future. (i am not 100% sure how she’ll support such a family in this economy but sure.) she wanted to or is in the process of volunteering at a center for pregnant women (not sure of the details). she talks about population in china decreasing at each generation because of the two-child policy, which is apparently true according to another friend. she says the economy will collapse. i said overpopulation is bad as well, so both options are bad (basically a lose-lose situation). a different friend says she hates babies/kids, my friend says babies are adorable. my friend once claimed having a kid is a responsibility people want or take on in life (that’s the general gist of the argument), and my life developmental psych professor said no (i agree with my professor). you get the idea. overall she is pro-life, and i am pro-choice.
my friend is a conservative through and through. she voted conservative. she’s dated conservatives. she reads or listens to jordan peterson. she’s excited when she meets a cute conservative guy. she was interested in a liberal guy before, but it failed (i don’t know the reason but i bet it’s because of their differing political stances and they both like to yap a lot). this sort of ties in with the pro-life and religious thing, but yeah, conservatives are generally like that.
your sexual orientation is not an ideology, but this is one thing that also makes me question my friendship with her. she is straight. i have told her i’m not.
in a group setting she has outed me before indirectly. she asked me if i’m talking to/am interested in any girls. i said no very shyly because i had not told everybody in the group i wasn’t straight. i was uncomfortable she brought it up. i hoped my other friends talking to each other didn’t hear it, but they did. a friend i hadn’t told later confirmed it for me once i came out to them on my own. it kind of sucked. my parents are slightly/pretty homophobic, meaning they probably don’t want their daughter to be gay. i am still living with my parents, and as much as i know word won’t reach them, i can’t help but feel uncomfortable my friend basically outed me to people i didn’t want to be outed to.
my friend has a sibling who is a trans guy. my friend still refers to them by she/her pronouns despite her sibling literally having he/they pronouns in their insta. i have talked to the sibling, and he is whatever with the situation because my friend has been using she/her pronouns for her sibling her entire life.
so pronouns can be hard to get by okay. but it does suck to have to introduce everyone you know your sibling as your sister when it’s actually her brother. it also majorly sucks when my friend deadnames her brother. it happened once, and i almost couldn’t believe it happened. she said she tends to forget.
okay maybe using the wrong name is not the end of the world. but it’s been at least a year and nothing has changed. i also feel disappointed in myself for not speaking up more, but i’m not sure if the sibling wants me to step in.
there’s a lot more to talk about, but those are the major points. my biggest concern is that i will be working with my friend for another two years and we share the same friend group. how can i resolve this issue, whether within myself or with her? what would i even say? or should i simply change my mindset about this situation? ideologies are very difficult to change, but every time i meet her i am reminded of at least one of these things.
tl;dr: my friend has done many things i am grateful for but we have different ideologies. she is religious (very involved in church activities), i am not religious. she is pro-life, i am pro-choice. she is conservative, i attempt to be neutral but am left-leaning. she is straight, and i am not (she kind of outed me once, continuously misues pronouns for sibling, continuously misgenders sibling, and deadnamed sibling). i will be working with her for the next two years, and we share the same friend group. what can i do?
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we have been friends for almost three years.
my friend has many great qualities. i am also very grateful for what she has done. she’s the one who vouched for me so i could get a job at where she worked at. now we both work here. when i didn’t have my license for a solid year, she drove me around for many miles to hang out. she says she enjoys driving, but i know that driving far and when tired takes a toll on you no matter what. i always tried to pay her back on gas by asking her how much i owe her or simply bought her food. i’d like to think i’m a fair person and have paid her back for all the rides. (i know some of our other friends do not always or never do that.) besides that of course she has lend me her ear to vent to. i have always noticed whenever we see each other when we haven’t in a while she asks me how i’m doing. i know it’s not out of mere politeness. she expects me to update her about my life and asks me questions out of genuine curiosity. she asks me how my family is doing, too, which nobody else does. i really appreciate that, even though i do have some familial problems she’s aware of. i think she’s trying to care and look out for me. all in all, she’s a good friend.
here’s where i have some difficulty. she’s great as a friend, but her ideologies differ vastly from mine. she is catholic, i am not religious at all (haven’t labeled myself agnostic or atheist yet). she is pro-life, i am pro-choice. she is conservative, i attempt to be neutral but am left-leaning. she is straight, and let’s just say i am not straight (this is not an ideology but will be important later on).
i hate to admit it but her being religious can sometimes be overwhelming. at first it was fine. she wears a cross necklace, signs the cross and mutters something before eating (sorry i don’t know what it is and don’t care to find out), talks about going to church on wednesday, etc. i would say that’s a pretty average religious person. however, lately it’s been a lot more. she created and leads her own group in the church for christian youths to argue god is real (or something like that). basically another agenda to spread the word of god. she has a podcast to discuss philosophy with other christians. but worst of all, i had a rather uncomfortable moment with her and religion. i went to a cafe with my friend and another friend. we talked until late, and somehow the conversation turned to god. my other friend is from a christian family but is on the fence about it because he has questions. my friend started talking and trying to convince this other friend that god exists because x —-> y —-> x —-> y but it can’t go on so god must be the start of it all. as a non-religious person i tried to chime in but was shut down by both of them. it was so upsetting to be ignored and forced to listen to this (in my opinion) ridiculous talk about god for at least an hour that i cried in my car to a different friend before going home.
i also kind of find it surprising and bizarre that she claims she was raised not religious (but her parents were) and then she chose to be christian. so it was her choice? i am of course not sure the extent to which her parents influenced her religious standing but i can’t believe her own research led to her becoming full-on 100% religious.
as you can see it’s not just her and her religion but religion in general that can be quite confusing, overwhelming, or even annoying to me. (she happens to be the most religious person i personally know.) i do find this concerning and am not sure what the root cause is, but i do want to be respectful (freedom of religion after all). so unless you’re not religious yourself and have more to say please don’t give me advice on being more understanding of religious people i’m already aware.
i can’t tell whether her being religious or being pro-life irks me more. she plans to have like eight kids in the future. (i am not 100% sure how she’ll support such a family in this economy but sure.) she wanted to or is in the process of volunteering at a center for pregnant women (not sure of the details). she talks about population in china decreasing at each generation because of the two-child policy, which is apparently true according to another friend. she says the economy will collapse. i said overpopulation is bad as well, so both options are bad (basically a lose-lose situation). a different friend says she hates babies/kids, my friend says babies are adorable. my friend once claimed having a kid is a responsibility people want or take on in life (that’s the general gist of the argument), and my life developmental psych professor said no (i agree with my professor). you get the idea. overall she is pro-life, and i am pro-choice.
my friend is a conservative through and through. she voted conservative. she’s dated conservatives. she reads or listens to jordan peterson. she’s excited when she meets a cute conservative guy. she was interested in a liberal guy before, but it failed (i don’t know the reason but i bet it’s because of their differing political stances and they both like to yap a lot). this sort of ties in with the pro-life and religious thing, but yeah, conservatives are generally like that.
your sexual orientation is not an ideology, but this is one thing that also makes me question my friendship with her. she is straight. i have told her i’m not.
in a group setting she has outed me before indirectly. she asked me if i’m talking to/am interested in any girls. i said no very shyly because i had not told everybody in the group i wasn’t straight. i was uncomfortable she brought it up. i hoped my other friends talking to each other didn’t hear it, but they did. a friend i hadn’t told later confirmed it for me once i came out to them on my own. it kind of sucked. my parents are slightly/pretty homophobic, meaning they probably don’t want their daughter to be gay. i am still living with my parents, and as much as i know word won’t reach them, i can’t help but feel uncomfortable my friend basically outed me to people i didn’t want to be outed to.
my friend has a sibling who is a trans guy. my friend still refers to them by she/her pronouns despite her sibling literally having he/they pronouns in their insta. i have talked to the sibling, and he is whatever with the situation because my friend has been using she/her pronouns for her sibling her entire life.
so pronouns can be hard to get by okay. but it does suck to have to introduce everyone you know your sibling as your sister when it’s actually her brother. it also majorly sucks when my friend deadnames her brother. it happened once, and i almost couldn’t believe it happened. she said she tends to forget.
okay maybe using the wrong name is not the end of the world. but it’s been at least a year and nothing has changed. i also feel disappointed in myself for not speaking up more, but i’m not sure if the sibling wants me to step in.
there’s a lot more to talk about, but those are the major points. my biggest concern is that i will be working with my friend for another two years and we share the same friend group. how can i resolve this issue, whether within myself or with her? what would i even say? or should i simply change my mindset about this situation? ideologies are very difficult to change, but every time i meet her i am reminded of at least one of these things.
tl;dr: my friend has done many things i am grateful for but we have different ideologies. she is religious (very involved in church activities), i am not religious. she is pro-life, i am pro-choice. she is conservative, i attempt to be neutral but am left-leaning. she is straight, and i am not (she kind of outed me once, continuously misues pronouns for sibling, continuously misgenders sibling, and deadnamed sibling). i will be working with her for the next two years, and we share the same friend group. what can i do?
2024.05.11 10:33 oboedude They’re just giving it out for free
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2024.05.11 04:57 Successful_Tiger_330 Do lots of cities have Ayn Rand fanboy/fangirl meetups? I’m tempted to go wearing my best pair of Japanese socks
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2024.05.10 01:06 WRickWrites The Earth Preservation Society Genre: HFY
Another one-off, not connected to anything else I've done.
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Message begins:
Mission: infiltration
Subject: Sol 3, also known as Earth
Mission findings:
Earth is a hell world. Its biosphere is highly aggressive, and lethally hostile to all non-native life. There is nothing here that isn't trying to kill you, from the highly virulent viral and bacterial pathogens all the way up through the food chain to multi-ton carnivores capable of hunting prey several times their size. There are insects here that lay their eggs under the victim's skin, which hatch and devour the host alive. Even the plant life is packed with deadly toxins. And the planet itself is un-survivable in many areas, from the ice-capped polar wastes to the large expanses of desert.
The dominant species, humans, are well-suited to their deadly environment. They kill each other constantly, fighting for status, wealth and power. They are much more technologically sophisticated than initial reports indicated, and a considerable portion of their economy is dedicated to armaments production and research. When they discovered the energy potential of a nuclear chain reaction several generations ago, the first thing they did with it was build a bomb. Their brutality has only advanced from there; more troublingly their weapons technology is now considerably more advanced as well, and they have no qualms about using it.
It is the opinion of this infiltration team that attempting to annex this planet would lead to catastrophic casualties for the empire. We cannot even recommend our own exfiltration because of the danger of biological contamination. We sacrifice ourselves willingly, knowing that our mission has saved the lives of many loyal soldiers who would otherwise have been sent to die in this light-forsaken place.
Report concluded.
Hail to the Emperor!
Signed: Intelligence Captain Hrusk Vaurlg
Message ends.
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It was a sunny day in Paris. One cannot always trust April, with its sudden showers and temperature swings; poets have often compared it to a moody lover, but then again there's almost nothing a Frenchman can't compare to a woman. Today, April was glorious. All along the Seine the trees were bursting forth in their verdant spring displays, and stray cherry blossom gusted down the streets of Montmartre.
The streets were packed with people. Old men sitting outside the corner cafes they'd known for decades, with a cup of coffee and the morning paper. Old women ignoring their twinkling eyes, or pretending to at least, hurrying home with today's baguette and a guilty pleasure from the nearby chocolatier. Cyclists cruising along the embankment of the Seine in the shadow of Notre Dame, dodging the little dogs that yap excitedly until their owner tugs on their leash. And the young couples walking hand in hand, oblivious to everything but the sun and their love.
Someone hurrying through the back alleys of the Latin Quarter did not fall into any of these categories. You could tell he wasn't a Parisian - something about the clothes, the hair, the attitude (or lack of attitude). But he moved with too much purpose to be a tourist. It seemed like he didn't fit in anywhere here, but he definitely had somewhere to be, and clearly he thought it was important.
A patisserie, tucked away in a small pedestrian street, with a red-and-white striped awning and battered, wooden patio furniture that looked like it predated Napoleon. If you knew this particular patisserie then you would excuse him his haste. Le Petit Gaulois, with it's little Gallic warrior painted above the door. There were people who'd asked for its macarons on their deathbed.
There were five men sitting at five different tables, each very concerned with their laptop, or the daily crossword, or the dog-eared copy of Les Misérables in front of them. And yet, when the newcomer said:
"I'm sorry I'm late."
All five of them looked round. Then they looked down the street, one side, then the other. At this time of day there was no one around in this neighbourhood; the locals came for breakfast, but it was mid-morning now, and tourists never made it this far. Apart from these customers, no one would trouble the owner of Le Petit Gaulois - who was behind the counter, propped up on his elbows reading what looked like a biography of Dolly Parton - until the lunch rush.
And so no one would trouble them.
"Your security is intact?", one of them asked, likewise replying in English, although somewhat stiffly and with a heavy French accent.
"I'm not under surveillance by my government, if that's what you mean. My communication devices don't broadcast without my express permission, but I left them back at the hotel just in case."
"Excellent.", said another man with a more neutral accent. "Well, it seems the coast is clear here. Shall we?"
One by one they got up pulled their chairs over to the only table capable of seating all six of them. This table had apparently been used as a scratching post by the neighbourhood cats since the time of Marie Antoinette; it was even missing one of its feet, but at some point someone - for reasons one can only guess - had decapitated a garden gnome and filled it with sand to act as a replacement.
"This is... this is a nice place.", the newcomer mumbled. "Very... very..."
"Not like home?"
"No."
They shared a smile. The newcomer was a white male of average height with brown hair and brown eyes. Perfectly nondescript, he would blend in anywhere in Europe or the Americas, and automatically be dismissed as a tourist anywhere else. Three of the men at the table were so similar to him they could be related, although one was wearing a white suit that stood out like a search light, and the other two had more imperfections, as if they had been afraid of being too normal; one had a slightly bigger nose, the other was half a head taller than the others. There was another man who looked older, with salt-and-pepper hair and a grey moustache, and the one with a French accent had a slightly darker, more Mediterranean skin tone.
Yet apart from the newcomer, they all felt like they belonged here.
"Well, I suppose there's only one question: did you send the message?". The white-suited man said it casually, yet there was a degree of focus both from him and everyone else at the table that suggested there was a lot riding on the answer.
There was a moment of hesitation. Then the outsider answered: "Yes. I sent the message, exactly as we wrote it. But..."
"You're not having second thoughts, are you?"
"Not exactly, but..."
"Guilt.", the grey-haired man nodded as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "He knows deep down he's done the right thing, but he's still finding it hard to reconcile it with his old loyalties."
"Are they my old loyalties?", the outsider asked sharply. "I don't know. Before I pressed send I was certain I was doing what needed to be done, but afterwards I felt like I'd betrayed everything I ever believed in. I betrayed the empire. It wasn't that long ago I would have given my life for the imperial cause, and now... now I don't know what I believe in."
"You still believe that Earth is better off not being bombarded into rubble and occupied by an alien empire.", the tall man said. "Don't try to deny it, I can see that much hasn't changed."
The outsider hesitated.
"You're worrying too much.", the man in the white suit said. "We all went through the same thing. We all came to Earth with a mission. And when we realised that we didn't actually want to complete that mission, of course we experienced a crisis of conscience. But look at us now: do we look like we have any regrets?"
"No, but...", the outsider began, slowly, as if he was trying to avoid giving offence. "But you're... I mean, you're..."
"I'm Askazian.", the other man replied. "That is what you were getting at, isn't it? From the planet Askaza, eight hundred light-years from here. More usually seen with six limbs and an armoured exoskeleton."
The outsider shifted uncomfortably. "Yes, well..."
"I'm Askazian, he's Dravki, Kutrukata, Betanog, and Mezeyejdon.", he said, pointing round the table in turn. "And you think that the none of our species are really on a par with the mighty Hratza Empire."
"I didn't actually say..."
"Hratza propaganda might say we're all inferior species, but the truth is that any one of our empires, hegemonies, confederations or whatever could take on any other. Otherwise they'd have been absorbed by their rivals already. But either way, it's beside the point. We were all just as loyal to our respective peoples when we arrived on Earth. Whether our government actually was the best in the galaxy or not, we believed they were, and we still turned our backs on them. If we could do it, you can too."
There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then the grey-haired man spoke up: "Are any of your team having similar problems adjusting?"
"Yes. Maybe. To a lesser degree. Well, they were a bit subdued when I sent the message. But now they're talking about buying a bar in Greece, and starting an alien-friendly hotel if that works out."
"Well there you go then. Your subordinates clearly think you made the right decision."
"I think you're all missing the most important point.", the man with the French accent said, and despite his species apparently being Betanog he said it with the most French shrug imaginable. "What's done is done. He's sent the message now. If the empire ever finds out he lied to them, he'll be executed."
"Well, nothing in my message was technically untrue...", the outsider said. "It's just the combination that might give a misleading impression of how difficult Earth would be to conquer." If his superiors concluded it would take one cruiser more than a few hours, he'd been very misleading indeed. The only way he'd been able to put in the phrase 'catastrophic casualties' was because the Dravki had promised to kamikaze his shuttle into any imperial ship that showed up. But it was true that Earth had plenty of large predators, deadly diseases, and harsh environments... just not really anything Hratza technology couldn't handle.
"Are your Hratza commanders known for, you know what the phrase is... splitting hairs?", the faux-Frenchman asked.
"No.", the outsider said morosely. "Skulls, yes, but not hairs."
"So what's your problem? For better or worse, you've made your choice now."
"I was raised to die for the empire. My life doesn't come into it. I sent that message because... because..."
"Because after a while on Earth, everyone stops to ask themselves: really, what's the point? Why are we even doing all this?", the man in the white suit said. "Like I said, we all came here with a mission, and we thought that mission was the most important thing in the universe. And then we found that there were theatres here, and, and...", he waved his hand expansively, "and concert halls, and hair salons, and Fleetwood Mac, and paintball, and fireworks, and gardens, and local football clubs, and of course, little French patisseries where the owner knows your name and sometimes slips an extra macaron into the box. Things happen here. Things that aren't just work, or missions, or duty. Life is lived here. Coming to Earth is like seeing everything in colour for the first time."
"I know, but...", the outsider said, clearly agonised.
"Ah.", the grey-haired Mezeyejdon said. "I think I see the problem. You're worried you betrayed your people for selfish reasons. That you were seduced by the soft lives of these primitive humans. That you didn't make a moral choice, you were just weak."
"Well, aren't I?", he asked, shifting uncomfortably like there were splinters in his seat (which was unlikely after centuries of being worn smooth by Parisian posteriors).
"You didn't just save this planet for yourself.", the elderly alien reminded him. "You saved it for your team, who would otherwise have had a taste of paradise and then had to go back to the empire and get on with their lives knowing what they were missing. And you saved it for me, and everyone else at this table. And of course, you saved it for the eight billion humans on this planet." He paused, then leaned in. "But I think most importantly of all, you saved it for everyone else across the galaxy. I doubt it will happen in our lifetimes, but I'd like to think the day will come when so-called civilized species will take a look at Earth and, like we did, ask themselves whether humans might not have a point. If the empire had conquered this planet it would just be gone, forever, but thanks to you there's still a chance that one day, just maybe, everyone might be able to learn something from this place."
"Do you think that could ever happen? Actually, scratch that: do you think it should? It's not like humans are perfect. They are backward, and they can be violent and short-sighted."
"Learning from humanity doesn't mean we have to turn our own planets into carbon copies of Earth. We take the best of what they have to offer, and hopefully they would take some lessons from us in return. Better than conquest and destruction, isn't it?"
"Every scrap of indoctrination I was given is screaming at me to say no. But you're right. Maybe I am weak, maybe I like the luxuries here too much, but I think this place is better off without the empire."
"Looking at the truth and acknowledging you were wrong isn't weakness. It's the greatest strength of all. All this," he waved vaguely at the street, the city, and the planet around them, "isn't just empty luxury. It's evidence that there's more to life than imperial doctrine."
The francophone alien rolled his eyes. "Enough talking. Enough empty philosophy. There is only one way to truly prove to him that he made the right decision. You want evidence? I'll get you evidence. René!", he shouted into the patisserie. "Deux éclairs à la crème chantilly, et un chocolat chaud. S'il vous plait."
The proprieter of Le Petit Gaulois put down his Dolly Parton book with ill-disguised irritation at his customers that only a Parisian small business owner could truly master, but he didn't drag his feet. A few moments later there were two eclairs in front of the outsider, and a hot chocolate with a swirl of whipped cream. Handmade, of course. Any Parisian pâtissier who used whipped cream from a can would be run out of town by an angry mob. The outsider looked uncomfortably at the pastries, like a Catholic priest at a wet T-shirt competition. Condensation glistened on the chocolate frosting.
"Go on, eat.", the francophone alien ordered. "In fact, take just a single mouthful of that, and tell me that the universe isn't a much better place with René's éclairs in it."
He hesitated for a moment more, then like he was handling a live bomb he picked up the éclair, and took a bite.
"Well, Captain Varlg?", the white-suited Askazian asked. "Did you make the right decision, or didn't you?"
Captain Hrusk Varlg of the Hratza Imperial Intelligence Service closed his eyes for a second as he savoured the éclair, and the moment. Then, he made his decision.
"Yeah, fuck the empire."
The other five people round the table smiled. "Good to have you with us.", the grey-haired Mezeyejdon said. "Can we now count on your full participation in our little committee?"
"What do I have to do?", Hrusk asked, voice somewhat muffled by the considerable amount of éclair in his mouth.
"Only what we did for each other, and for you. Track down any agents sent here by alien powers, and help them realise what we realised: that it would be much better for all concerned if they reported back to their people that Earth is unsuitable for conquest."
"Sure, I can do that. We always meet here, right? There will be more éclairs?"
"My friend, from now on, there are as many éclairs as you want."
Hrusk paused to consider this, with the air of someone experiencing an almost religious revelation. "I'm in.", he said, with conviction.
"Well then, on behalf of all of us...", grey-haired alien looked round at the rest of the group, and received a round of nods, "Welcome to the Earth Preservation Society."
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Message begins:
Mission: infiltration
Subject: Sol 3, also known as Earth
Mission findings:
Earth is a hell world. Its biosphere is highly aggressive, and lethally hostile to all non-native life. There is nothing here that isn't trying to kill you, from the highly virulent viral and bacterial pathogens all the way up through the food chain to multi-ton carnivores capable of hunting prey several times their size. There are insects here that lay their eggs under the victim's skin, which hatch and devour the host alive. Even the plant life is packed with deadly toxins. And the planet itself is un-survivable in many areas, from the ice-capped polar wastes to the large expanses of desert.
The dominant species, humans, are well-suited to their deadly environment. They kill each other constantly, fighting for status, wealth and power. They are much more technologically sophisticated than initial reports indicated, and a considerable portion of their economy is dedicated to armaments production and research. When they discovered the energy potential of a nuclear chain reaction several generations ago, the first thing they did with it was build a bomb. Their brutality has only advanced from there; more troublingly their weapons technology is now considerably more advanced as well, and they have no qualms about using it.
It is the opinion of this infiltration team that attempting to annex this planet would lead to catastrophic casualties for the empire. We cannot even recommend our own exfiltration because of the danger of biological contamination. We sacrifice ourselves willingly, knowing that our mission has saved the lives of many loyal soldiers who would otherwise have been sent to die in this light-forsaken place.
Report concluded.
Hail to the Emperor!
Signed: Intelligence Captain Hrusk Vaurlg
Message ends.
* * * *
It was a sunny day in Paris. One cannot always trust April, with its sudden showers and temperature swings; poets have often compared it to a moody lover, but then again there's almost nothing a Frenchman can't compare to a woman. Today, April was glorious. All along the Seine the trees were bursting forth in their verdant spring displays, and stray cherry blossom gusted down the streets of Montmartre.
The streets were packed with people. Old men sitting outside the corner cafes they'd known for decades, with a cup of coffee and the morning paper. Old women ignoring their twinkling eyes, or pretending to at least, hurrying home with today's baguette and a guilty pleasure from the nearby chocolatier. Cyclists cruising along the embankment of the Seine in the shadow of Notre Dame, dodging the little dogs that yap excitedly until their owner tugs on their leash. And the young couples walking hand in hand, oblivious to everything but the sun and their love.
Someone hurrying through the back alleys of the Latin Quarter did not fall into any of these categories. You could tell he wasn't a Parisian - something about the clothes, the hair, the attitude (or lack of attitude). But he moved with too much purpose to be a tourist. It seemed like he didn't fit in anywhere here, but he definitely had somewhere to be, and clearly he thought it was important.
A patisserie, tucked away in a small pedestrian street, with a red-and-white striped awning and battered, wooden patio furniture that looked like it predated Napoleon. If you knew this particular patisserie then you would excuse him his haste. Le Petit Gaulois, with it's little Gallic warrior painted above the door. There were people who'd asked for its macarons on their deathbed.
There were five men sitting at five different tables, each very concerned with their laptop, or the daily crossword, or the dog-eared copy of Les Misérables in front of them. And yet, when the newcomer said:
"I'm sorry I'm late."
All five of them looked round. Then they looked down the street, one side, then the other. At this time of day there was no one around in this neighbourhood; the locals came for breakfast, but it was mid-morning now, and tourists never made it this far. Apart from these customers, no one would trouble the owner of Le Petit Gaulois - who was behind the counter, propped up on his elbows reading what looked like a biography of Dolly Parton - until the lunch rush.
And so no one would trouble them.
"Your security is intact?", one of them asked, likewise replying in English, although somewhat stiffly and with a heavy French accent.
"I'm not under surveillance by my government, if that's what you mean. My communication devices don't broadcast without my express permission, but I left them back at the hotel just in case."
"Excellent.", said another man with a more neutral accent. "Well, it seems the coast is clear here. Shall we?"
One by one they got up pulled their chairs over to the only table capable of seating all six of them. This table had apparently been used as a scratching post by the neighbourhood cats since the time of Marie Antoinette; it was even missing one of its feet, but at some point someone - for reasons one can only guess - had decapitated a garden gnome and filled it with sand to act as a replacement.
"This is... this is a nice place.", the newcomer mumbled. "Very... very..."
"Not like home?"
"No."
They shared a smile. The newcomer was a white male of average height with brown hair and brown eyes. Perfectly nondescript, he would blend in anywhere in Europe or the Americas, and automatically be dismissed as a tourist anywhere else. Three of the men at the table were so similar to him they could be related, although one was wearing a white suit that stood out like a search light, and the other two had more imperfections, as if they had been afraid of being too normal; one had a slightly bigger nose, the other was half a head taller than the others. There was another man who looked older, with salt-and-pepper hair and a grey moustache, and the one with a French accent had a slightly darker, more Mediterranean skin tone.
Yet apart from the newcomer, they all felt like they belonged here.
"Well, I suppose there's only one question: did you send the message?". The white-suited man said it casually, yet there was a degree of focus both from him and everyone else at the table that suggested there was a lot riding on the answer.
There was a moment of hesitation. Then the outsider answered: "Yes. I sent the message, exactly as we wrote it. But..."
"You're not having second thoughts, are you?"
"Not exactly, but..."
"Guilt.", the grey-haired man nodded as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "He knows deep down he's done the right thing, but he's still finding it hard to reconcile it with his old loyalties."
"Are they my old loyalties?", the outsider asked sharply. "I don't know. Before I pressed send I was certain I was doing what needed to be done, but afterwards I felt like I'd betrayed everything I ever believed in. I betrayed the empire. It wasn't that long ago I would have given my life for the imperial cause, and now... now I don't know what I believe in."
"You still believe that Earth is better off not being bombarded into rubble and occupied by an alien empire.", the tall man said. "Don't try to deny it, I can see that much hasn't changed."
The outsider hesitated.
"You're worrying too much.", the man in the white suit said. "We all went through the same thing. We all came to Earth with a mission. And when we realised that we didn't actually want to complete that mission, of course we experienced a crisis of conscience. But look at us now: do we look like we have any regrets?"
"No, but...", the outsider began, slowly, as if he was trying to avoid giving offence. "But you're... I mean, you're..."
"I'm Askazian.", the other man replied. "That is what you were getting at, isn't it? From the planet Askaza, eight hundred light-years from here. More usually seen with six limbs and an armoured exoskeleton."
The outsider shifted uncomfortably. "Yes, well..."
"I'm Askazian, he's Dravki, Kutrukata, Betanog, and Mezeyejdon.", he said, pointing round the table in turn. "And you think that the none of our species are really on a par with the mighty Hratza Empire."
"I didn't actually say..."
"Hratza propaganda might say we're all inferior species, but the truth is that any one of our empires, hegemonies, confederations or whatever could take on any other. Otherwise they'd have been absorbed by their rivals already. But either way, it's beside the point. We were all just as loyal to our respective peoples when we arrived on Earth. Whether our government actually was the best in the galaxy or not, we believed they were, and we still turned our backs on them. If we could do it, you can too."
There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then the grey-haired man spoke up: "Are any of your team having similar problems adjusting?"
"Yes. Maybe. To a lesser degree. Well, they were a bit subdued when I sent the message. But now they're talking about buying a bar in Greece, and starting an alien-friendly hotel if that works out."
"Well there you go then. Your subordinates clearly think you made the right decision."
"I think you're all missing the most important point.", the man with the French accent said, and despite his species apparently being Betanog he said it with the most French shrug imaginable. "What's done is done. He's sent the message now. If the empire ever finds out he lied to them, he'll be executed."
"Well, nothing in my message was technically untrue...", the outsider said. "It's just the combination that might give a misleading impression of how difficult Earth would be to conquer." If his superiors concluded it would take one cruiser more than a few hours, he'd been very misleading indeed. The only way he'd been able to put in the phrase 'catastrophic casualties' was because the Dravki had promised to kamikaze his shuttle into any imperial ship that showed up. But it was true that Earth had plenty of large predators, deadly diseases, and harsh environments... just not really anything Hratza technology couldn't handle.
"Are your Hratza commanders known for, you know what the phrase is... splitting hairs?", the faux-Frenchman asked.
"No.", the outsider said morosely. "Skulls, yes, but not hairs."
"So what's your problem? For better or worse, you've made your choice now."
"I was raised to die for the empire. My life doesn't come into it. I sent that message because... because..."
"Because after a while on Earth, everyone stops to ask themselves: really, what's the point? Why are we even doing all this?", the man in the white suit said. "Like I said, we all came here with a mission, and we thought that mission was the most important thing in the universe. And then we found that there were theatres here, and, and...", he waved his hand expansively, "and concert halls, and hair salons, and Fleetwood Mac, and paintball, and fireworks, and gardens, and local football clubs, and of course, little French patisseries where the owner knows your name and sometimes slips an extra macaron into the box. Things happen here. Things that aren't just work, or missions, or duty. Life is lived here. Coming to Earth is like seeing everything in colour for the first time."
"I know, but...", the outsider said, clearly agonised.
"Ah.", the grey-haired Mezeyejdon said. "I think I see the problem. You're worried you betrayed your people for selfish reasons. That you were seduced by the soft lives of these primitive humans. That you didn't make a moral choice, you were just weak."
"Well, aren't I?", he asked, shifting uncomfortably like there were splinters in his seat (which was unlikely after centuries of being worn smooth by Parisian posteriors).
"You didn't just save this planet for yourself.", the elderly alien reminded him. "You saved it for your team, who would otherwise have had a taste of paradise and then had to go back to the empire and get on with their lives knowing what they were missing. And you saved it for me, and everyone else at this table. And of course, you saved it for the eight billion humans on this planet." He paused, then leaned in. "But I think most importantly of all, you saved it for everyone else across the galaxy. I doubt it will happen in our lifetimes, but I'd like to think the day will come when so-called civilized species will take a look at Earth and, like we did, ask themselves whether humans might not have a point. If the empire had conquered this planet it would just be gone, forever, but thanks to you there's still a chance that one day, just maybe, everyone might be able to learn something from this place."
"Do you think that could ever happen? Actually, scratch that: do you think it should? It's not like humans are perfect. They are backward, and they can be violent and short-sighted."
"Learning from humanity doesn't mean we have to turn our own planets into carbon copies of Earth. We take the best of what they have to offer, and hopefully they would take some lessons from us in return. Better than conquest and destruction, isn't it?"
"Every scrap of indoctrination I was given is screaming at me to say no. But you're right. Maybe I am weak, maybe I like the luxuries here too much, but I think this place is better off without the empire."
"Looking at the truth and acknowledging you were wrong isn't weakness. It's the greatest strength of all. All this," he waved vaguely at the street, the city, and the planet around them, "isn't just empty luxury. It's evidence that there's more to life than imperial doctrine."
The francophone alien rolled his eyes. "Enough talking. Enough empty philosophy. There is only one way to truly prove to him that he made the right decision. You want evidence? I'll get you evidence. René!", he shouted into the patisserie. "Deux éclairs à la crème chantilly, et un chocolat chaud. S'il vous plait."
The proprieter of Le Petit Gaulois put down his Dolly Parton book with ill-disguised irritation at his customers that only a Parisian small business owner could truly master, but he didn't drag his feet. A few moments later there were two eclairs in front of the outsider, and a hot chocolate with a swirl of whipped cream. Handmade, of course. Any Parisian pâtissier who used whipped cream from a can would be run out of town by an angry mob. The outsider looked uncomfortably at the pastries, like a Catholic priest at a wet T-shirt competition. Condensation glistened on the chocolate frosting.
"Go on, eat.", the francophone alien ordered. "In fact, take just a single mouthful of that, and tell me that the universe isn't a much better place with René's éclairs in it."
He hesitated for a moment more, then like he was handling a live bomb he picked up the éclair, and took a bite.
"Well, Captain Varlg?", the white-suited Askazian asked. "Did you make the right decision, or didn't you?"
Captain Hrusk Varlg of the Hratza Imperial Intelligence Service closed his eyes for a second as he savoured the éclair, and the moment. Then, he made his decision.
"Yeah, fuck the empire."
The other five people round the table smiled. "Good to have you with us.", the grey-haired Mezeyejdon said. "Can we now count on your full participation in our little committee?"
"What do I have to do?", Hrusk asked, voice somewhat muffled by the considerable amount of éclair in his mouth.
"Only what we did for each other, and for you. Track down any agents sent here by alien powers, and help them realise what we realised: that it would be much better for all concerned if they reported back to their people that Earth is unsuitable for conquest."
"Sure, I can do that. We always meet here, right? There will be more éclairs?"
"My friend, from now on, there are as many éclairs as you want."
Hrusk paused to consider this, with the air of someone experiencing an almost religious revelation. "I'm in.", he said, with conviction.
"Well then, on behalf of all of us...", grey-haired alien looked round at the rest of the group, and received a round of nods, "Welcome to the Earth Preservation Society."
2024.05.09 22:31 colorlessuranium A thought on how to tell the player Amai's likes and dislikes
Maybe every day she could have a conversation event with a different cooking club member and reveal one like and dislike per conversation. I imagine something like
On Monday, after she greets the cooking club, Shoku and Amai stay at the club while the other members go to the home ec room. Their conversation goes something like:
Shoku: it's good to have you back, Amai-san
Amai: I'm glad to be back, Shoku-kun. It was tiring spending all day working in the bakery
S: did you get to do anything fun while you were away?
A: of course! I got to cook every night for my parents, I can't imagine anything more fun than making food for the people I love! *student opinion learned: cooking*
S: you know, there was a rumor going around that you were transferring schools to be with your new boyfriend (clearly fishing for info)
A: oh Shoku-kun, you know I hate gossip like that. It's all nonsense, I don't even have a boyfriend *student opinion learned: gossip*
S: oh! Well, that's good, then. I mean, that you aren't transferring. Not the boyfriend thing, haha... (totally not relieved)
A: I wouldn't abandon the club like that, especially after being elected leader last semester. Come on, we should catch up with the others now
S: right!
This one is meant to pull double-duty by suggesting that Shoku is Amai's suitor, though that could probably be implied more heavily
On Tuesday, Ajia is still in the home ec room when Amai gets there. The two start a conversation:
Amai: is everything alright, Ajia-chan?
Ajia: oh, Odayaka-san! I'm very sorry, I was just lost in thought.
Amai: what were you thinking about?
Ajia: well, I was pondering what club I would be in if not the cooking club. Please don't think I'm unsatisfied with the club, though! I am not planning on leaving it
Amai: it's fine to think about those kinds of hypotheticals. What club would you be in?
Ajia: I was actually thinking I would have started a new club. A calligraphy club, to help teach the other students how to paint traditional calligraphy
Amai: that sounds like a wonderful idea!
Ajia: what about you, Odayaka-san? What club would you be in, if not the cooking club?
Amai: hmm, I haven't really thought about that before...
Ajia: perhaps the occult club?
Amai: oh goodness, no! I get so freaked out by all of their ghost and demon ideas, I could never be a part of them! *student opinion learned: occult*
Amai: maybe the gardening club. I could grow my own vegetables! *student opinion learned: gardening*
Ajia: you truly can't get away from food, can you?
On Wednesday, Kenkou pulls Amai aside during the morning bake sale:
Kenkou: Amai-san, I want to talk to you
Amai: of course, Kenkou-kun. What's on your mind?
K: I worry that the bake sale is hurting the health of the students. This much sugar can't be good for everyone
A: I understand your worry, but an extra treat a day won't hurt anyone. It might even be good for them!
K: how could these desserts be good for people?
A: well, there's more to health than just eating healthy food. An extra treat can be good for your mental health!
A: and eating something sugary isn't the only way too be unhealthy. If a delinquent only ate healthy food but still got into fights, they'd be very unhealthy in my mind. *student opinion learned: violence*
K: that makes sense, I suppose. Health is a nuanced concept.
A: my parents have a philosophy, "what's healthy for the soul is healthy for the body"
K: they sound like wise people
A: they are! I'm very lucky to have them as my family *student opinion learned: family*
A: come on, we should get back to the bake sale now
On Thursday, Seiyou talks to Amai during lunch:
S: hey Amai, I have an idea for the bake sale!
A: oh? What is it?
S: we should make apple pies and sell slices! Also chocolate chip cookies!
A: those sound very delicious! Do you have recipes in mind?
S: yeah! I found them on an American website last night!
A: let me see... do you know how to convert these to measurements?
S: sure, it can't be that hard.
A: where did you get the idea for these, anyway?
S: well, I was playing a video game last night and they said something was "as American as apple pie'!
A: ah, I see. I didn't know you played video games that much. *student opinion learned: video games*
S: only American ones! Also, I found this drawing of an American cafe, check out how tasty everything looks!
A: oh wow! This is beautiful; I've always wanted to be able to draw like this. *student opinion learned: art*
A: why don't you start working on these now so we can add them to the bake sale this afternoon?
S: you got it!
Seiyou then spends lunch time in the home ec room. Liking art could be switched to liking photography and he could show her a photo of an American cafe, it might make this one feel less contrived. Oh, and Seiyou leaves off honorifics bc he's trying to be American. He probably offends a lot of people with that lol
Lastly, on Friday, Saki asks to meet Amai in the cooking club after cleaning time
S: thanks for meeting me, Senpai. I wanted to get your opinion on a new recipe I'm trying
A: of course, Saki-chan! As president, I'm here to help you improve your cooking skills
S: here Senpai, what do you think of these?
A: oh, they're shaped like kitties! That's adorable! *student opinion learned: cats*
S: thanks, I got the idea from an anime I watched over break. Have you ever seen Kawaii Food Fighters?
A: no, I don't watch anime much. Here, let's see how they taste. *student opinion learned: anime*
A: hmm, they're good but I think they're missing something...
A: oh! Let's try adding a bit of cinnamon
S: wow, Senpai, you're right, they're much better now! How did you know to do that?
A: it's something you learn after making enough sweets, I guess. Try adding 15 grams of cinnamon to the recipe next time
Kawaii Food Fighters was literally the first combination of words I came up with, I'm sure someone could make a better food-based anime name
It's not perfect, as you would have to wait until Friday afternoon to learn all of her likes and dislikes, but eavesdropping on conversations is more fun than just looking at her diary. Plus it would help characterize Amai and the cooking club members, who otherwise don't have much character outside their profiles. Anyways, these are all first draft conversations, I'm sure someone else could write better ones
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On Monday, after she greets the cooking club, Shoku and Amai stay at the club while the other members go to the home ec room. Their conversation goes something like:
Shoku: it's good to have you back, Amai-san
Amai: I'm glad to be back, Shoku-kun. It was tiring spending all day working in the bakery
S: did you get to do anything fun while you were away?
A: of course! I got to cook every night for my parents, I can't imagine anything more fun than making food for the people I love! *student opinion learned: cooking*
S: you know, there was a rumor going around that you were transferring schools to be with your new boyfriend (clearly fishing for info)
A: oh Shoku-kun, you know I hate gossip like that. It's all nonsense, I don't even have a boyfriend *student opinion learned: gossip*
S: oh! Well, that's good, then. I mean, that you aren't transferring. Not the boyfriend thing, haha... (totally not relieved)
A: I wouldn't abandon the club like that, especially after being elected leader last semester. Come on, we should catch up with the others now
S: right!
This one is meant to pull double-duty by suggesting that Shoku is Amai's suitor, though that could probably be implied more heavily
On Tuesday, Ajia is still in the home ec room when Amai gets there. The two start a conversation:
Amai: is everything alright, Ajia-chan?
Ajia: oh, Odayaka-san! I'm very sorry, I was just lost in thought.
Amai: what were you thinking about?
Ajia: well, I was pondering what club I would be in if not the cooking club. Please don't think I'm unsatisfied with the club, though! I am not planning on leaving it
Amai: it's fine to think about those kinds of hypotheticals. What club would you be in?
Ajia: I was actually thinking I would have started a new club. A calligraphy club, to help teach the other students how to paint traditional calligraphy
Amai: that sounds like a wonderful idea!
Ajia: what about you, Odayaka-san? What club would you be in, if not the cooking club?
Amai: hmm, I haven't really thought about that before...
Ajia: perhaps the occult club?
Amai: oh goodness, no! I get so freaked out by all of their ghost and demon ideas, I could never be a part of them! *student opinion learned: occult*
Amai: maybe the gardening club. I could grow my own vegetables! *student opinion learned: gardening*
Ajia: you truly can't get away from food, can you?
On Wednesday, Kenkou pulls Amai aside during the morning bake sale:
Kenkou: Amai-san, I want to talk to you
Amai: of course, Kenkou-kun. What's on your mind?
K: I worry that the bake sale is hurting the health of the students. This much sugar can't be good for everyone
A: I understand your worry, but an extra treat a day won't hurt anyone. It might even be good for them!
K: how could these desserts be good for people?
A: well, there's more to health than just eating healthy food. An extra treat can be good for your mental health!
A: and eating something sugary isn't the only way too be unhealthy. If a delinquent only ate healthy food but still got into fights, they'd be very unhealthy in my mind. *student opinion learned: violence*
K: that makes sense, I suppose. Health is a nuanced concept.
A: my parents have a philosophy, "what's healthy for the soul is healthy for the body"
K: they sound like wise people
A: they are! I'm very lucky to have them as my family *student opinion learned: family*
A: come on, we should get back to the bake sale now
On Thursday, Seiyou talks to Amai during lunch:
S: hey Amai, I have an idea for the bake sale!
A: oh? What is it?
S: we should make apple pies and sell slices! Also chocolate chip cookies!
A: those sound very delicious! Do you have recipes in mind?
S: yeah! I found them on an American website last night!
A: let me see... do you know how to convert these to measurements?
S: sure, it can't be that hard.
A: where did you get the idea for these, anyway?
S: well, I was playing a video game last night and they said something was "as American as apple pie'!
A: ah, I see. I didn't know you played video games that much. *student opinion learned: video games*
S: only American ones! Also, I found this drawing of an American cafe, check out how tasty everything looks!
A: oh wow! This is beautiful; I've always wanted to be able to draw like this. *student opinion learned: art*
A: why don't you start working on these now so we can add them to the bake sale this afternoon?
S: you got it!
Seiyou then spends lunch time in the home ec room. Liking art could be switched to liking photography and he could show her a photo of an American cafe, it might make this one feel less contrived. Oh, and Seiyou leaves off honorifics bc he's trying to be American. He probably offends a lot of people with that lol
Lastly, on Friday, Saki asks to meet Amai in the cooking club after cleaning time
S: thanks for meeting me, Senpai. I wanted to get your opinion on a new recipe I'm trying
A: of course, Saki-chan! As president, I'm here to help you improve your cooking skills
S: here Senpai, what do you think of these?
A: oh, they're shaped like kitties! That's adorable! *student opinion learned: cats*
S: thanks, I got the idea from an anime I watched over break. Have you ever seen Kawaii Food Fighters?
A: no, I don't watch anime much. Here, let's see how they taste. *student opinion learned: anime*
A: hmm, they're good but I think they're missing something...
A: oh! Let's try adding a bit of cinnamon
S: wow, Senpai, you're right, they're much better now! How did you know to do that?
A: it's something you learn after making enough sweets, I guess. Try adding 15 grams of cinnamon to the recipe next time
Kawaii Food Fighters was literally the first combination of words I came up with, I'm sure someone could make a better food-based anime name
It's not perfect, as you would have to wait until Friday afternoon to learn all of her likes and dislikes, but eavesdropping on conversations is more fun than just looking at her diary. Plus it would help characterize Amai and the cooking club members, who otherwise don't have much character outside their profiles. Anyways, these are all first draft conversations, I'm sure someone else could write better ones
2024.05.08 03:40 darrenjyc Curiosity Café presents "ART: What's the Point?" — Tuesday May 14 (6pm) at the Madison Avenue Pub (FREE!)
This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.
By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
About Curiosity Cafés
For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.
We will be hosting our next Curiosity Café on Tuesday May 14 from 6:00-8:30pm at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2S1).
The event is free but please RSVP here or here to attend.
The topic of this café is: "ART: What's the Point?"
Art is a major and seemingly indispensable part of our culture. We browse art galleries, read literature, attend film screenings and concerts, and decorate our rooms with sculptures and paintings.
Opinions about the purpose and value of art, however, have been and remain deeply divided. Some contend that art – unlike cars, vaccines, and engineering degrees – has no function, or at least eludes or transcends conventional standards of utility. (“All art is quite useless,” wrote the Irish author Oscar Wilde in his foreword to The Picture of Dorian Gray.) Others contend that art can offer moral instruction or therapeutic benefit, or even galvanize social and political change. Artists themselves have variously described the creative process as sacred, therapeutic, emancipating, and miserable.
All this raises the question: What is the point of art? Is there a purpose to enjoying it — or creating it? Does art have a moral function? How is a work of art supposed to make you feel — or think? Does art always need a meaning or a message?
Join us at our next café, moderated by Being and Becoming's own Marybel Menzies and Adrian Ma, to discuss these and other art-related questions in a lively, collaborative, low-stakes setting.
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By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
About Curiosity Cafés
For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.
We will be hosting our next Curiosity Café on Tuesday May 14 from 6:00-8:30pm at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2S1).
The event is free but please RSVP here or here to attend.
The topic of this café is: "ART: What's the Point?"
Art is a major and seemingly indispensable part of our culture. We browse art galleries, read literature, attend film screenings and concerts, and decorate our rooms with sculptures and paintings.
Opinions about the purpose and value of art, however, have been and remain deeply divided. Some contend that art – unlike cars, vaccines, and engineering degrees – has no function, or at least eludes or transcends conventional standards of utility. (“All art is quite useless,” wrote the Irish author Oscar Wilde in his foreword to The Picture of Dorian Gray.) Others contend that art can offer moral instruction or therapeutic benefit, or even galvanize social and political change. Artists themselves have variously described the creative process as sacred, therapeutic, emancipating, and miserable.
All this raises the question: What is the point of art? Is there a purpose to enjoying it — or creating it? Does art have a moral function? How is a work of art supposed to make you feel — or think? Does art always need a meaning or a message?
Join us at our next café, moderated by Being and Becoming's own Marybel Menzies and Adrian Ma, to discuss these and other art-related questions in a lively, collaborative, low-stakes setting.
2024.05.03 22:53 fuzzycjo [WTS]Armani, BDK, Carolina Herrera, Creed, Demeter, Miss Dior, Escentric Molecules, Gucci, Initio, Jeroboam, Jo Malone, JHAG, Kilian, Maison Margiela, Mancera, Montale, Marc Jacobs, Nishane, Nest, Prada, Philosophy, Valentino, Versace, YSL, V&R, Xerjoff - a little bit of everything, 160+(Decant)
Hi all!
Decanting my and my husband's collection of 160+ scents.
I've got a little bit of everything, feminine, unisex and masculine, designers, cheapies, niche and a few indie.
Shipping is $6 Oregon> CONUS + AK, $50+ free shipping (will consider shipping for actual shipping cost to HI, PR, Canada, UK, buyer assumes risk, F&F only, please ask). Orders will ship no later than 2 days after payment received, but I often ship next-day. (Weekends excluded)
Pricing is in USD
CashApp, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, if using G&S, please cover the fee.
I will meet or beat any legit gray market decant site, must be same scent and size.
Scroll to the right on mobile
Decants: (Click link for pictures)
Click here for the full list
Smaller sizes (1ml, 2ml available, heavy glass for 10ml +$3)
Please comment on the post before sending a chat request. Verifications are appreciated and returned!
Full list is regularly updated with any new inventory. Lots of samples, cheapies, some decent clones available as well.
Happy to answer any questions, provide any pictures etc...
Free sample(s) included with any order of $20+ (and sometimes less.)
Thanks for checking out my post!
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Decanting my and my husband's collection of 160+ scents.
I've got a little bit of everything, feminine, unisex and masculine, designers, cheapies, niche and a few indie.
Shipping is $6 Oregon> CONUS + AK, $50+ free shipping (will consider shipping for actual shipping cost to HI, PR, Canada, UK, buyer assumes risk, F&F only, please ask). Orders will ship no later than 2 days after payment received, but I often ship next-day. (Weekends excluded)
Pricing is in USD
CashApp, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, if using G&S, please cover the fee.
I will meet or beat any legit gray market decant site, must be same scent and size.
Scroll to the right on mobile
Decants: (Click link for pictures)
| House | Scent | 3ml | 5ml | 10ml |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armani | Code EDT | $9 | $14 | $21 |
| Mania EDT (disc) | $24 | $32 | $55 | |
| BDK | Gris Charnel EDP | $12 | $20 | $28 |
| Gris Charnel Extrait | $14 | $22 | $32 | |
| Rouge Smoking EDP | $9 | $14 | $26 | |
| Bond No. 9 | Gold Coast EDP | $14 | $22 | $32 |
| Calvin Klein | Euphoria Men EDT | $5 | $10 | $15 |
| Carolina Herrera | Good Girl EDP | $12 | $18 | $25 |
| Blush Elixir | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Good Girl Gold Fantasy | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Good Girl Gold Supreme | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Very Good Girl | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Clean | Air EDT | $5 | $10 | $15 |
| Cool Cotton EDT | $5 | $10 | $15 | |
| Fresh Linens EDP | $5 | $10 | N/A | |
| Chloe | Chloe EDP | $12 | $18 | $25 |
| Coach | Dreams | $8 | $12 | $20 |
| Poppy Citrine Blossom | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Creed | Green Irish Tweed | $12 | $15 | $26 |
| Silver Mountain Water | $12 | $15 | $26 | |
| Demeter | Earl Grey | $5 | $7 | $13 |
| Gingerale | $5 | $7 | N/A | |
| Green Tea | $5 | $7 | $13 | |
| Lychee | $5 | $7 | $13 | |
| Sheerest Musk | $5 | $17 | $13 | |
| Thunderstorm | $5 | $17 | $13 | |
| Dior | Miss Dior Parfum (2024) | $12 | $20 | $28 |
| Dolce & Gabbana | Light Blue EDT (Women's) | $8 | $12 | N/A |
| Light Blue EDT (Men's) | $5 | $10 | $15 | |
| The One EDP (Men's) | $5 | $10 | $15 | |
| Donna Karan | Cashmere Mist EDP | $8 | $12 | $20 |
| Dua | A White Milk Gourmand Escape | $10 | $13 | $22 |
| Arena | $10 | $13 | $22 | |
| Cardamom Chai | $10 | $13 | $22 | |
| Casino Elixir | $10 | $13 | $22 | |
| Floral Explosion of Orchids | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Greatness | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Sweet Twists! | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| White Freesia | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| White Milk | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Escentric Molecules | Escentric 01 | $8 | $12 | $20 |
| Molecule 01 | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Molecule 01 + Black Tea | $10 | $13 | $22 | |
| Molecule 02 | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Molecule 05 | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Glossier | You | $10 | $15 | $23 |
| Gucci | Flora Gorgeous Gardenia | $10 | $15 | $23 |
| Guilty (Women's) EDP | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Guilty Absolute (Women's) EDP | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Imaginary Authors | Whiff of Wafflecone V1 | $10 | $15 | $23 |
| Initio | Musk Therapy Extrait | $25 | $35 | $60 |
| Jeroboam | Insulo Extrait | $25 | $25 | N/A |
| Ligno Extrait | $25 | $25 | N/A | |
| Jo Malone | English Pear & Freesia | $14 | $20 | |
| Ginger Biscuit | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Myrrh & Tonka | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Poppy & Barley | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Scarlet Poppy | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Wood Sage & Sea Salt | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Juliette Has a Gun | Juliette | $7 | $9 | $18 |
| Not a Perfume | $7 | $9 | $18 | |
| Pear, Inc | $8 | $10 | $18 | |
| Kilian | Born to be Unforgettable | $14 | $22 | $32 |
| Sunkissed Goddess | $25 | $35 | $65 | |
| Maison Margiela | Jazz Club | $8 | $12 | $20 |
| Replica By the Fireplace | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Mancera | Cedrat Boise | $10 | $13 | $22 |
| Instant Crush (Screw Cap) | $9 | $14 | $21 | |
| Tonka Cola | $9 | $14 | $21 | |
| Marc Jacobs | Daisy Dream EDP | $10 | $15 | N/A |
| Daisy Eau so Fresh EDT | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Daisy Wild | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Montale | Intense Cafe | $8 | $12 | $20 |
| Mango Manga EDP | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Mugler | Kryptomint (disc.) | $15 | $25 | $32 |
| Nest | Citrine | $12 | $20 | $28 |
| Golden Nectar | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Indigo | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Lychee Rose | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Sunkissed Hibiscus | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Wisteria Blue | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Nette | Thé Vanille | $12 | $20 | $28 |
| Nishane | Wulong Cha | $12 | $20 | $28 |
| Philosophy | Amazing Grace Magnolia | $10 | $15 | $23 |
| Falling in Love EDT | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Field of Flowers Peony Blossom | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Fresh Cream | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Radiant Grace EDP | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Prada | Candy | $8 | $12 | $25 |
| Candy Sugar Pop | $8 | $12 | $23 | |
| Paradoxe | $9 | $14 | $26 | |
| Ralph Lauren | Romance EDP | $8 | $10 | $18 |
| Romance Le Parfum | $8 | $12 | $20 | |
| Sand + Fog | Amber Rose EDP Oil | $9 | ||
| Jasmine & Cedarwood EDP Oil | $9 | $12 | ||
| Pistachio Dreams EDP Oil | $6 | $10 | $19 | |
| Santal & Cardamom EDP Oil | $9 | |||
| Vanilla Musk EDP Oil | $9 | $12 | ||
| Violet Sandalwood EDP Oil | $6 | $10 | $19 | |
| White Vanilla EDP Oil | $6 | $10 | $19 | |
| Snif | Soda Snob EDP | $10 | $17 | N/A |
| Taskeen | Caramel Cascade | $6 | $8 | $12 |
| Peach Tea | $6 | $8 | $12 | |
| Valentino | Donna Born in Roma Green Stravaganza | $12 | $18 | $25 |
| Uomo Yellow Dream EDT | $10 | $13 | $22 | |
| Versace | Bright Crystal Absolu | $8 | $12 | $23 |
| Dylan Blue EDP | $8 | $12 | $23 | |
| Dylan Purple EDP | $8 | $12 | $23 | |
| Dylan Turquoise EDP | $8 | $12 | $23 | |
| Yellow Diamond EDT | $8 | $12 | $25 | |
| Viktor & Rolf | BonBon EDP | $10 | $15 | $23 |
| Spicebomb Infrared EDT | $10 | $15 | $23 | |
| Xerjoff | Dama Bianca EDP | $12 | $20 | 28 |
| La Tosca EDP | $12 | $20 | $28 | |
| Naxos EDP | $10 | $17 | $27 | |
| 1888 Casamorati | $14 | N/A | N/A | |
| YSL | Black Opium Illicit Green | $10 | $13 | $22 |
Smaller sizes (1ml, 2ml available, heavy glass for 10ml +$3)
Please comment on the post before sending a chat request. Verifications are appreciated and returned!
Full list is regularly updated with any new inventory. Lots of samples, cheapies, some decent clones available as well.
Happy to answer any questions, provide any pictures etc...
Free sample(s) included with any order of $20+ (and sometimes less.)
Thanks for checking out my post!
2024.05.02 15:28 BooksMirth 21F, looking for friends with similar interests!
Hi! I am 21 and currently majoring in Literature, with a minor in Political Science. I feel as if I lack friends that share similar interests with me perhaps, even in university-- someone that is inclined towards theory, philosophy, someone I can learn from and talk about intellectual pursuits with. I also have a penchant for feminist theory, specifically Beauvoir, Dworkin and Wollstonecraft. I am also very, very eager about perhaps publishing my research work someday so I need opinion on that often. I am not the most well-read, but I am eager to learn and to talk. Other than academia, I enjoy coffee, cats, student journalism and radio, films and lots of music. I also gym pretty regularly and over the weekends you'd find me in a cafe with friends or at home, cosied up with a book. Just send me a message or a chat telling me more about yourself and let's see if we hit off ^^
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2024.05.02 06:23 LucyAriaRose Would anyone like a free bouquet of flowers and some chocolate? I got ghosted by my date in Birmingham, and I'm here from London with nothing to do for the day.
I am NOT the Original Poster. That is u/ConfidentNews. They posted in brum
Thanks to u/Efficient-Mode-4670 for the rec!
Mood Spoiler: wholesome af
All of the image descriptions are my own lol
Original Post: November 19, 2022
Title: Would anyone like a free bouquet of flowers and some chocolate? I got ghosted by my date in Birmingham, and I'm here from London with nothing to do for the day. If you're able to show me around the city, or just have a fun chat over a cup of coffee, I'd love to hang out and be friends :)
Hi there! I woke up early this morning in London, and went on a trip to meet a date in Birmingham. And as I was getting ready for the occasion I decided to bring a bouquet of flowers and some chocolate pastries too.
Well, unfortunately my date decided to back out at the last moment- and by then, I was already on the train to Birmingham. So all of a sudden, I find myself arriving at this lovely, with flowers, chocolate, and feeling very silly.
I was going to just buy a ticket straight back to London, but I thought it might be cool to explore the city with a friend. You'll get a bouquet of flowers, and some chocolate pastries from an artisanal bakery :)
Here's a bit more about me. I'm 23 year, and I'm a Philosophy student from the U.S. who is here in the UK for a year. I love exploring places, talking about books, and just hearing people talk passionately about their hobbies and passions. Do you have a favorite cafe or bookstore in the city? I'd love to go someplace cool like that for the afternoon.
Anyways! Feel free to message me if you're free and want to spend time this afternoon. I don't care if you're a guy, or a gal--- I just want to share the flowers and chocolates, and hopefully have an interesting conversation with a new friend :)
Relevant Comments:
Sorry this happened to you!!!
No worries, these things happen. If anything I now have a chance to explore an interesting city on my own! I just arrived in the UK three months ago, so I am very new to this place. And this is actually my first time out of London, so I'm quite excited :)
In response to a multitude of suggestions:
"Thank you for the excellent suggestions! I think I am going to head into the city center first, and sightsee a bit at St. Phillip's Cathedral, and then take a walkabout at the streets! I'll probably find a cute little cafe next, or check out the Library that Gentleben1978 recommended, and plan out what to do.
I really hope I can meet someone— carrying around the flowers make me feel quite shy. And I certainly can't eat all the chocolates by myself!"
Checking out a castle:
I love castles! Just took a quick look at the route, and I'm not sure if I'll be confident going that far on my own. But I am making my way to see the Cathedral now, and along the way I crossed a lovely Christmas themed pedestrian street.
All updates are on the Original Post, and times are from the OOP. Image descriptions are my own:
12:38 Update: I am at this fun Christmas-y thing right now! Making my way to see the Cathedral :) https://i.imgur.com/9eZ8vyc.jpg
Image description: OOP at what looks like an open air Christmas market.
12:45 Update: I arrived at the Cathedral! They have food stalls and a live band playing interesting music. The vibe is wonderful :) https://i.imgur.com/3lgBoVU.jpg
Image description: A lovely cathedral with a band playing out front- the tent is decorated for Christmas.
13:00 Update: Is this the Ferris wheel? I thought it was more of a merry go around, but it's actually filled with beer! Anyhow there's a gentleman making music with his voice here, and the beats are fantastic! https://i.imgur.com/E51p9J2.jpg
Image description: What I originally thought was a Merry-Go-Round is actually a Christmas themed hot wine stand with a propeller on top according to u/Curl-the-Curl- thanks! See here for more info
13:20 Update:I found the real Ferris Wheel! And it is a Merry go around! (Apparently there is another Ferris wheel?) I am now enjoying the crowds at the city center. Birmingham is so lovely! https://i.imgur.com/cSXKLsv.jpg
Image description: Honestly that still looks like a Merry-Go-Round to me. There are a lot of people in front of a really lovely building. Still lots of Christmas things.
13:30 Update: I am getting a Bratwurst now at one of the totally authentic German Market stalls. I've also been informed on good authority, that there is in fact a real Ferris Wheel. I'm going to try to find it next! Oh! And if any of you are at the Christmas market, let me know. We can find the Ferris wheel together :)
13:45 Update: Oh my gosh, they've got a tiny cathedral as well! https://i.imgur.com/VJAj8Pq.jpg
Image description: It is, indeed, a tiny cathedral. (Pretty cool looking- looks like it's in a fountain?)
14:00 Update: Guys and gals, I did it! I FOUND THE FERRIS WHEEL! And indeed, it is massive and stately and so absolutely cool. Here is my picture of it! https://i.imgur.com/dDxPAB0.jpg
I am now hanging out at the Birmingham Library, which is indeed much lovelier than the British Library in London, or even the National Library in Bucharest. This is definitely a library that is worth visiting!
I think I'll rest here a bit, and think about what to do next. I should probably book a ticket back for London, but I still have the bouquet and chocolates with me. I'll still need to find someone to give them too. If anyone is still free to meet up, now will be the time to message me. We can go on the Ferris Wheel together!
Image Description: Heck yes OOP found the Ferris Wheel! Lots of people around.
14:50 Update: Recharged, refreshed, and off to adventure! I went to see the view from the library terrace, and got a wonderful picture of the Ferris Wheel (the real one), as well as some complicated contraptions that look like they're fighter pilot training. Now off to see the Shakespearean elevators, and the Secret Garden of the Library! https://i.imgur.com/afx3jln.jpg
Image description: A view from a higher vantage point of several different rides, including the Ferris Wheel.
15:00 Update: I found the secret garden, at the seventh floor of the Birmingham Library! And it was just as cool as I had hoped, if not more! And what is the secret garden, you ask? Well, I actually had a picture that I was going to share with you, but then it wouldn't be a secret anymore, would it? I'll have to keep the secret safe, and take it to the grave!
16:00 Final Update: Alright folks! I am at the platform of Birmingham Central Station, and I am about to board my train back home. I had an absolutely lovely time in your beautiful city, and I explored many cool venues and scenes!
Most of all, it was such fun having your advice and your suggestions. Like the voices of a Greek Chorus, your comments have guided my adventure throughout the city. And guess what? I even found a cute girl at the end, who accepted my flowers with a smile :)
Anyhow, I'll be going home shortly. But I'll never forget the wonderful avenue I had here. I might have missed my date. But the true date was with the city of Birmingham, and brum all along!
Cheers and take care y'all.
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Thanks to u/Efficient-Mode-4670 for the rec!
Mood Spoiler: wholesome af
All of the image descriptions are my own lol
Original Post: November 19, 2022
Title: Would anyone like a free bouquet of flowers and some chocolate? I got ghosted by my date in Birmingham, and I'm here from London with nothing to do for the day. If you're able to show me around the city, or just have a fun chat over a cup of coffee, I'd love to hang out and be friends :)
Hi there! I woke up early this morning in London, and went on a trip to meet a date in Birmingham. And as I was getting ready for the occasion I decided to bring a bouquet of flowers and some chocolate pastries too.
Well, unfortunately my date decided to back out at the last moment- and by then, I was already on the train to Birmingham. So all of a sudden, I find myself arriving at this lovely, with flowers, chocolate, and feeling very silly.
I was going to just buy a ticket straight back to London, but I thought it might be cool to explore the city with a friend. You'll get a bouquet of flowers, and some chocolate pastries from an artisanal bakery :)
Here's a bit more about me. I'm 23 year, and I'm a Philosophy student from the U.S. who is here in the UK for a year. I love exploring places, talking about books, and just hearing people talk passionately about their hobbies and passions. Do you have a favorite cafe or bookstore in the city? I'd love to go someplace cool like that for the afternoon.
Anyways! Feel free to message me if you're free and want to spend time this afternoon. I don't care if you're a guy, or a gal--- I just want to share the flowers and chocolates, and hopefully have an interesting conversation with a new friend :)
Relevant Comments:
Sorry this happened to you!!!
No worries, these things happen. If anything I now have a chance to explore an interesting city on my own! I just arrived in the UK three months ago, so I am very new to this place. And this is actually my first time out of London, so I'm quite excited :)
In response to a multitude of suggestions:
"Thank you for the excellent suggestions! I think I am going to head into the city center first, and sightsee a bit at St. Phillip's Cathedral, and then take a walkabout at the streets! I'll probably find a cute little cafe next, or check out the Library that Gentleben1978 recommended, and plan out what to do.
I really hope I can meet someone— carrying around the flowers make me feel quite shy. And I certainly can't eat all the chocolates by myself!"
Checking out a castle:
I love castles! Just took a quick look at the route, and I'm not sure if I'll be confident going that far on my own. But I am making my way to see the Cathedral now, and along the way I crossed a lovely Christmas themed pedestrian street.
All updates are on the Original Post, and times are from the OOP. Image descriptions are my own:
12:38 Update: I am at this fun Christmas-y thing right now! Making my way to see the Cathedral :) https://i.imgur.com/9eZ8vyc.jpg
Image description: OOP at what looks like an open air Christmas market.
12:45 Update: I arrived at the Cathedral! They have food stalls and a live band playing interesting music. The vibe is wonderful :) https://i.imgur.com/3lgBoVU.jpg
Image description: A lovely cathedral with a band playing out front- the tent is decorated for Christmas.
13:00 Update: Is this the Ferris wheel? I thought it was more of a merry go around, but it's actually filled with beer! Anyhow there's a gentleman making music with his voice here, and the beats are fantastic! https://i.imgur.com/E51p9J2.jpg
Image description: What I originally thought was a Merry-Go-Round is actually a Christmas themed hot wine stand with a propeller on top according to u/Curl-the-Curl- thanks! See here for more info
13:20 Update:
Image description: Honestly that still looks like a Merry-Go-Round to me. There are a lot of people in front of a really lovely building. Still lots of Christmas things.
13:30 Update: I am getting a Bratwurst now at one of the totally authentic German Market stalls. I've also been informed on good authority, that there is in fact a real Ferris Wheel. I'm going to try to find it next! Oh! And if any of you are at the Christmas market, let me know. We can find the Ferris wheel together :)
13:45 Update: Oh my gosh, they've got a tiny cathedral as well! https://i.imgur.com/VJAj8Pq.jpg
Image description: It is, indeed, a tiny cathedral. (Pretty cool looking- looks like it's in a fountain?)
14:00 Update: Guys and gals, I did it! I FOUND THE FERRIS WHEEL! And indeed, it is massive and stately and so absolutely cool. Here is my picture of it! https://i.imgur.com/dDxPAB0.jpg
I am now hanging out at the Birmingham Library, which is indeed much lovelier than the British Library in London, or even the National Library in Bucharest. This is definitely a library that is worth visiting!
I think I'll rest here a bit, and think about what to do next. I should probably book a ticket back for London, but I still have the bouquet and chocolates with me. I'll still need to find someone to give them too. If anyone is still free to meet up, now will be the time to message me. We can go on the Ferris Wheel together!
Image Description: Heck yes OOP found the Ferris Wheel! Lots of people around.
14:50 Update: Recharged, refreshed, and off to adventure! I went to see the view from the library terrace, and got a wonderful picture of the Ferris Wheel (the real one), as well as some complicated contraptions that look like they're fighter pilot training. Now off to see the Shakespearean elevators, and the Secret Garden of the Library! https://i.imgur.com/afx3jln.jpg
Image description: A view from a higher vantage point of several different rides, including the Ferris Wheel.
15:00 Update: I found the secret garden, at the seventh floor of the Birmingham Library! And it was just as cool as I had hoped, if not more! And what is the secret garden, you ask? Well, I actually had a picture that I was going to share with you, but then it wouldn't be a secret anymore, would it? I'll have to keep the secret safe, and take it to the grave!
16:00 Final Update: Alright folks! I am at the platform of Birmingham Central Station, and I am about to board my train back home. I had an absolutely lovely time in your beautiful city, and I explored many cool venues and scenes!
Most of all, it was such fun having your advice and your suggestions. Like the voices of a Greek Chorus, your comments have guided my adventure throughout the city. And guess what? I even found a cute girl at the end, who accepted my flowers with a smile :)
Anyhow, I'll be going home shortly. But I'll never forget the wonderful avenue I had here. I might have missed my date. But the true date was with the city of Birmingham, and brum all along!
Cheers and take care y'all.
2024.05.01 20:57 wealthyGorgeousYoung The Joys & Privileges of Growing Up a Pakistani & a Muslim & Solutions
Assalamualaikum,
I left Pakistan at a young age (but kept visiting annually).
I wanted to write to say that those of us who are overseas, care deeply for all of you & love you.
I wished to touch briefly on the joys & privileges & honor of being raised a Pakistani & a Muslim.
Then I wished to talk about some challenges we face & accompanying solutions.
Joys & Privileges by God's Grace
Despite these & many joys hailing from a lo-income country like Pakistan one is likely exposed to more trauma than usual. That might be helpful since it may help us appreciate life in a developed country. Nonetheless there is always room for improvement.
So I hope someone's prayers are answered & comes true when we say: رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِىْ الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِىْ الآخِرَةِ حَسَنَة (our lord give us the best in this world & in the hereafter). After all we pray for THE best in this life & in the hereafter every day at least 20 times a day.
So following are some action items which we can act upon to bring about a more developed, Europeanized/ Westernized Pakistan:
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I left Pakistan at a young age (but kept visiting annually).
I wanted to write to say that those of us who are overseas, care deeply for all of you & love you.
I wished to touch briefly on the joys & privileges & honor of being raised a Pakistani & a Muslim.
Then I wished to talk about some challenges we face & accompanying solutions.
Joys & Privileges by God's Grace
- Unsure if recently many Pakistanis have experienced this but growing up in Pakistan, by God's grace, we never ran into a single idolatrous Indian, Mongoloid Asiatic or African, Mashallah. The sacrifices of our soldiers & Maulvis & our leaders resulted in the honor of being raised around the Pakistanis & Muslims. Subsequently upon my Dad's posting overseas in the MidEast we ran into the best of the best Europeans(Christians), Brits (Christians), Arabs (Labanese), Sudanese Muslims & Somalis etc. It was not until we moved to the US that I ran into my first idol worshipping Indian (8-9 months after arrival). The gentleman was from N. India & I found him to be sweet, gentle & patient with my teenage questions about idols etc. I also ran into my first Buddhist Mongoloid Asiatic at around the same time. However, poverty is the mother of vices (as observed by Marcus Aurelius & the ancient Greeks) & it is best to avoid the company of peoples who have been corrupted by poverty or a dated theology or the polluted & toxic environs prevalent in 3rd world countries unless you are a trained professional (doctor, aid worker, theologian & missionary, soldier etc.).
- In the West (US) white people usually avoid non-white peoples as if an invisible force-field protects them from people who are not as healthy (physically , spiritually & psychologically) as they are. You barely run into them if you are not up to their moral & physical caliber & when you do they are oft intimidating in their sheer beauty & appearance (surely most of you have experienced first hand). This exposure to people from developing countries is not ideal of course because ethnic people have begun to breach this invisible wall & leave behind "signatures" of their trauma (from 3rd world countries). This often results in an overall decline in the quality of life, blighted neighborhoods, vices & other countless negative externalities. The movement is increasingly towards adopting the quarantine model : quarantine non-white people who have been oppressed historically & heal them & include them gradually as they heal & become healthier physically, physiologically, psychologically & in morality. Ideally we want to be taught by our betters while at the same time avoid being at an equal or subordinate position to those who are misguided.
- The attendance at the Masajid was a moment of great emotion & akin to experiencing great theater, by God's grace (an exceptional opera or symphony with mere oration & rhetoric). The various Masajid we visited for Juma would almost inevitably have a sermon that would shake us to the core without fail. The weekly scolding resulted in tears & great emotion but unfortunately it did not last because the environment outside the Masajid (music, movies, advertisements, art) is not lead by learned Ulama & Maulanas. Mashallah, they taught me to love our fellow Muslims like one loves a member of their family & reminded me that if one of us suffers everyone feels it. In moments of personal loneliness & suffering I know that I am loved by Allah SWT & my larger "aal" (family) particularly the "aal-e-Ibrahimi" (the family of Abraham : Jews, Christians & Muslims) & hopefully all humankind. Meanwhile the suffering of others be it infighting between Jews & Muslims in the Levant or attempts at improvement in the MidEast (Iraq)/ Af-Pak, continues to resonate strongly with us overseas influencing our very joys & reminding us why we are here : so we can bring heaven upon earth not just for our host countries but for our ummah (community). Mashallah attending Juma sermons was attending a master class in philosophy & theology & ethics which is a singular privilege & all the more astonishing because we mistreat, abuse & pay our Maulvis so little that any love & kindness we get from them has to be a miracle.
- The clergy in the West (US) usually have minimum a PhD in theology & are often multi-millionaires (& some billionaires by God's grace) due to being best-selling authors, their consultancy fees (from consulting on movies & music), their lecture tours (at universities) & their enterprises (they oft own restaurants, clothing shops that support the local tailors & manufacturing etc.). The Pastors are on company boards & work with foundations to improve the quality of life of the congregation. Most importantly their sermons are entirely wholesome (no talk of zinna or warfare which creeps in our sermons due to the impoverished background of our Maulvis), the clergy are oft picked from the best families & the sermons are accompanied with orchestras, organs/pianos (which simulate orchestras) & choirs (a group of singers) who sing Hamd & Sanaa (Hymns) to virtue, righteousness & the Most High God.
- Attending the kindergarten at a NATO base in Pakistan was a lifelong fond memory, by God's grace. In the local Pakistani school overseas, being taught by Pakistani (& then later some Indian Muslims) was akin to being taught by aristocracy (particularly after comparing it to Professors I would later encounter at Harvard & other Ivy Leagues). Mashallah, they were patient, loving, wise, poetic, poised, accessible, generous, intellectual, upright, learned & even though we were told to treat them like our parents the only regret is that they did not receive enough honor, praise, compensation, rewards & respect.
- White people in the West bring their teachers food (like apples) & the parents often help the teachers with their career goals (most infamously there is the example of a school teacher in NY, who will go unnamed, who had parents of his students invest with him & helped him open his wealth management firm which eventually made him a billionaire).
- The food in Pakistan like "bun kabab" & "gannay ka ras" & "chicken tikka nan" & "kulfi" & "lassi" were a highlight of personal outings & on summer visits to Pak. Although the Bazaars had one too many flies & the health code at restaurants was one too many times not enforced & you would often see stray cattle feasting on garbage or flying plastic bags one has yet to taste the intensity of flavor in the foods (except for organic foods in the West).
- In the Western hemisphere the stress is on nutritional value & health as opposed to flavor (or spice) which is also the case in Arabia & a trend catching on in the more orient-influenced parts of Pakistan (by God's grace). I pray that the best of cuisine, climes & cultural practices catch on everywhere.
Despite these & many joys hailing from a lo-income country like Pakistan one is likely exposed to more trauma than usual. That might be helpful since it may help us appreciate life in a developed country. Nonetheless there is always room for improvement.
So I hope someone's prayers are answered & comes true when we say: رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِىْ الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِىْ الآخِرَةِ حَسَنَة (our lord give us the best in this world & in the hereafter). After all we pray for THE best in this life & in the hereafter every day at least 20 times a day.
So following are some action items which we can act upon to bring about a more developed, Europeanized/ Westernized Pakistan:
- alter the climate to have it resemble the climate in Switzerland & Italy (which is temperate but not too hot nor humid).
- actively plan out development & improve cities ensuring every block has gardens , fountains, flowers, streams, libraries, cafes, gyms
- ensure everyone becomes ever-healthy, ever-white, ever-wealthy, educated, ever-free, ever-prosperous, ever-young (EDIT: to be elaborated upon later with your kind indulgence.)
- remove all harmful flora & fauna from the lands
- Islam perhaps could do with ijtihad. Reform would be based on the correct ideas within the religion of Abraham (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). In the days of the Prophet Muhammad SAW & the Sahaba the Islam they practiced was different from the one we do now. For one thing they knew the meaning of the verses they were reciting, we Muslims recite verses without knowing what they mean. We are perhaps in a "darkness" or "jahala" of not knowing what we recite & the religion is reduced to rituals for one too many adherents, perhaps. A faith & lifestyle is warranted which does not mean following mindlessly the rituals (5 times prayers & reciting a holy book you don't know the meaning of) and greater stress on living - or worship of Allah SWT by the act of living : swimming in clear waters, skiing, boating, dining out, dancing, watching the opera/wholesome movies/ symphonies/ theaters, smelling flowers etc. (EDIT: to be elaborated upon later with your kind indulgence.)
- replace multi-generational dwellings with lifestyles favoring couples & single friends (as in the show Friends, where singles & couples live on their own & go out dining & dating & enjoying the cultural elements of life)
- ensure every person before they are born have a lifetime supply of foods, clothing, transportation, housing (at prime locations), resources for a quality life set aside for them (in order to regulate population management we need to install a system where the best aesthetes & Prophets may pick what genotype & phenotype is suitable for & needed for our society with a stress on health, beauty & a peoples conducive to acts of love)
- Growing up safe in Pakistan & MidEast, largely insulated from suffering & traumatized; exposure to traumatized in the western hemisphere & ways the local population copes.
- The teachings & environs in the Masajids that are wholesome & edifying. Churches & clergy & their exceptional & uplifting environs.
- Pre-K, Kindergarten & Pakistani school experiences vs. University & Ivy League experiences in the US.
- Comparison of foods in Pak vs West. Stress on content & nutrition & health vs flavor.
- Despite the joys there is some trauma which can be rectified. Some suggestions & recommendations.
2024.05.01 16:05 BooksMirth 21F, looking for friends with similar intellectual and academic pursuits-- especially Philosophy and Literature!
Hi! I am 21 and currently majoring in Literature, with a minor in Political Science. I am a Marxist! I feel as if I lack friends that share similar interests with me perhaps, even in university-- someone that is inclined towards theory, philosophy, someone I can learn from and talk about intellectual pursuits with. I also have a penchant for feminist theory, specifically Beauvoir, Dworkin and Wollstonecraft. I am also very, very eager about perhaps publishing my research work someday so I need opinion on that often. I am not the most well-read, but I am eager to learn and to talk. Other than academia, I enjoy coffee, cats, student journalism and radio, films and lots of music. I also gym pretty regularly and over the weekends you'd find me in a cafe's with friends or at home, cosied up with a book. Just send me a message or a chat telling me more about yourself and let's see if we hit off ^^
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2024.05.01 11:12 Baby-C- Qualifications needed to teach VET courses?
Hi everyone,
I’m in my first year of a Masters of Secondary Teaching degree. My undergrad is English, History and Philosophy so I’m obviously planning on teaching English and HASS. But I also have 15 years experience in the cafe industry — I’ve done everything from washing dishes to upper management to running training workshops when I worked for a coffee roaster.
I’m looking to add to my teaching qualification after I graduate, so that I can teach the hospitality and tourism VET courses. Can anybody tell me what qualifications I would need? And any ideas on where I can complete those qualifications (based in Perth, but happy to do tafe online if possible) would be awesome too.
I have no hospitality qualifications, just a lot of industry experience. Do I do the VET Delivered to School Students Teacher Enhancement Skill Set? Do I need to go back and do Cert I and II in hospitality and tourism before I can teach them?
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I’m in my first year of a Masters of Secondary Teaching degree. My undergrad is English, History and Philosophy so I’m obviously planning on teaching English and HASS. But I also have 15 years experience in the cafe industry — I’ve done everything from washing dishes to upper management to running training workshops when I worked for a coffee roaster.
I’m looking to add to my teaching qualification after I graduate, so that I can teach the hospitality and tourism VET courses. Can anybody tell me what qualifications I would need? And any ideas on where I can complete those qualifications (based in Perth, but happy to do tafe online if possible) would be awesome too.
I have no hospitality qualifications, just a lot of industry experience. Do I do the VET Delivered to School Students Teacher Enhancement Skill Set? Do I need to go back and do Cert I and II in hospitality and tourism before I can teach them?
2024.04.28 13:32 Independent_Leg_9385 Le meilleur café avec alcool en cinq pays
 | Aux quatre coins du monde, on aime se gâter avec un café un peu plus épicé que les autres. Cette boisson vénérée depuis des siècles, stimule les esprits et ravit les palais avec toutes ses saveurs. Mais qu’arrive-il lorsqu’on veut épicer notre vie avec une larme ou deux d’alcool ? C’est pourquoi on vous propose ici un péripleà travers cinq excellentes recettes de café avec alcool! submitted by Independent_Leg_9385 to Letempsdunebiere [link] [comments] 1. L’Espresso Martini: Un Cocktail classique et élégantPourquoi choisir entre un café et un cocktail quand vous pouvez les avoir tous les deux en un seul verre? L’Espresso Martini, une création londonienne qui marie l’intensité de l’espresso avec la douceur de la liqueur de café et le punch de la vodka, est l’incarnation même de l’élégance rebelle.https://preview.redd.it/qsr6q1fph7xc1.png?width=1392&format=png&auto=webp&s=d3643d9bc79b888791cbe8d031ce195d4e48c449 2. Le Carajillo: Le Café de la MéditerranéeImaginez-vous sur une terrasse ensoleillée, le bruit de la mer en toile de fond, sirotant un Carajillo. Originaire d’Espagne, cette concoction simple, mais divine allie la robustesse du café avec la douceur sucrée du Licor 43, pour une expérience qui vous transporte directement sous le soleil méditerranéen.3. Café Espagnol: Rien de moins qu’un festinLa culture espagnole sait comment célébrer la vie, et rien n’incarne mieux cette philosophie que le Café Espagnol. Cette merveilleuse concoction mêlela richesse du café avec la chaleur de la crème fouettée et la douceur de la liqueur de café, créant ainsi une symphonie gustative qui enivre les sens.https://preview.redd.it/jkcd7d6qh7xc1.jpg?width=5184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc4e53cc3e4bd01ad8bfeeb53b849aad6be3a70e 4. Café Irlandais: Si l’Irlande était une boisson, elle serait celle-ciSi l’Irlande était une boisson, elle serait sans aucun doute le Café Irlandais. Cette création légendaire combine la chaleur réconfortante du café avec la force du whiskey irlandais et la douceur de la crème fraîche, créant ainsi une expérience sensorielle qui réchauffe l’âme, même dans les nuits les plus froides.5. Café Frangelico: Un délice ItalienL’Italie est réputée pour son amour du café, et le Café Frangelico en est un exemple parfait. Cette création exquise marie la profondeur du café avec la chaleur de la liqueur de noisette Frangelico, offrant ainsi une expérience gustative riche en saveurs et en textures.Artilce complet et recettes sur le Temps d'une Bière |
2024.04.28 13:27 Independent_Leg_9385 Aimez-vous le café alcoolisé?
 | Ah le café, ce petit festif du matin qui éveille et stimule. Cette boisson vénérée depuis des siècles, stimule les esprits et ravit les palais avec toutes ses saveurs. Mais qu’arrive-il lorsqu’on veut épicer notre vie avec une larme ou deux d’alcool ? C’est pourquoi on vous propose ici un péripleà travers cinq excellentes recettes de café avec alcool! submitted by Independent_Leg_9385 to france6 [link] [comments] 1. L’Espresso Martini: Un Cocktail classique et élégantPourquoi choisir entre un café et un cocktail quand vous pouvez les avoir tous les deux en un seul verre? L’Espresso Martini, une création londonienne qui marie l’intensité de l’espresso avec la douceur de la liqueur de café et le punch de la vodka, est l’incarnation même de l’élégance rebelle.2. Le Carajillo: Le Café de la MéditerranéeImaginez-vous sur une terrasse ensoleillée, le bruit de la mer en toile de fond, sirotant un Carajillo. Originaire d’Espagne, cette concoction simple, mais divine allie la robustesse du café avec la douceur sucrée du Licor 43, pour une expérience qui vous transporte directement sous le soleil méditerranéen.https://preview.redd.it/cpauok1xg7xc1.jpg?width=5184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5f5aa947946d982e5b2e182e60fcafb91593284 3. Café Espagnol: Rien de moins qu’un festinLa culture espagnole sait comment célébrer la vie, et rien n’incarne mieux cette philosophie que le Café Espagnol. Cette merveilleuse concoction mêlela richesse du café avec la chaleur de la crème fouettée et la douceur de la liqueur de café, créant ainsi une symphonie gustative qui enivre les sens.4. Café Irlandais: Si l’Irlande était une boisson, elle serait celle-ciSi l’Irlande était une boisson, elle serait sans aucun doute le Café Irlandais. Cette création légendaire combine la chaleur réconfortante du café avec la force du whiskey irlandais et la douceur de la crème fraîche, créant ainsi une expérience sensorielle qui réchauffe l’âme, même dans les nuits les plus froides.5. Café Frangelico: Un délice ItalienL’Italie est réputée pour son amour du café, et le Café Frangelico en est un exemple parfait. Cette création exquise marie la profondeur du café avec la chaleur de la liqueur de noisette Frangelico, offrant ainsi une expérience gustative riche en saveurs et en textures.Artilce complet et recettes sur le Temps d'une Bière |
2024.04.28 10:50 whix12 Exoticca self guided Japan Tokyo,Kanazawa,Hiroshima,Kyoto, Osaka
Hey guys we’re doing this tour between 9th and 25th of June
https://www.exoticca.com/uk/tours/asia/9479-self-guided-land-of-the-rising-sun?
It’s our honeymoon and as the almost Mrs has poured so much into the wedding planning it’s my job to do the honeymoon, I’m not the best at making plans I’m hoping someone will give it a once over. So far I’ve cobbled this together, mainly just want to know if I’ve missed everything because it’s just been thrown together from scooting round Apple Maps, trip advisor and a few ‘what to do in Japan’ websites
(Copy and pasted from a note so I hope the formatting isn’t dreadful)
-I’m a bit stuck on day 5 and it’s full of question marks (one day to do most of Tokyo seems fun 😬) -Final day in Osaka? There doesn’t seem like much to do we’re not going to bother with universal, or Disney in Tokyo for that matter..
Feel free to bash my bad plans I’d rather know now that later
Japan Plan
09/06 DAY 1 - Fly ✈️
Can park from 4 Check in from 5 Lounge from 6 Fly at 9.10
10/6 DAY 2 - Arrival 🇯🇵
Land at 1pm, meet exoticca rep get all the tickets etc. - - Anything you want to ask them? Pop it here
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/AttractionProductReview-g14133673-d11473202-1_Day_Tokyo_Bus_Tour-Nishishinjuku_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Tokyo_Prefecture_Kanto.html I think I’ve found it it might be this one? This tour says it doesn’t do the river cruise on Tuesdays 😓
-Pick up at 7.50 - Meet at love statue Approx 9 hours Estimated arrival back: 17:00
12/6 DAY 4 - Mount Fuji Bus Tour 🗻
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/AttractionProductReview-g14133673-d27167612-Mt_Fuji_Day_Tour_from_Shinjuku_in_Tokyo_Japan-Nishishinjuku_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Tokyo.html -think I’ve found it?
Pick up at 07.45 - Meet at love statue Approx 10 hours Estimated arrival back: 18:00
-Ginza if we want to see more of imperial palace I think we only drive past on the tour. *Very posh shoppy area by the looks of things not too much else, and it’s where that glitch coffee you saw is -Akihabara, Ueno and Asakusa (by sky tree) seem closish to each other so could do that region *If you want to go more outsidey suburby then either shimokita or kichijoji are supposed to be nice kichijoji has parks etc the other is more shoppy and restauranty **- River Cruise? Could do it evening time? To make up for not going on the tour - goes to Odaiba the Island bit with Liberty Statue and team labs and stuff
14/6 DAY 6 - Travel to Kanazawa 🌳
Kagayaki (less stops) -505 8.11-10.46, -521 8.33-11.07 -507 09.20-11.52 All from Tokyo station
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8.40 Tsurugi to Tsuruga arrive 09.25 09.39 Thunderbird To shin-Osaka 10.58 11.20 Sakura to Hiroshima Arrive 12.51 Or 07.02 Tsurugi to Tsuruga arrive 07.59 08.37 Thunderbird to shin Osaka arrive 09.58 10.20 Sakura to Hiroshima arrive at 11.51 Orrrrr if you really want to wake up early…. 06.00 Tsurugi to Tsuruga arrive 06.57 07.05 Thunderbird to shin-Osaka arrive 08.26 0853 Sakura to Hiroshima arrive 10.22
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https://m.jrpass.com/blog/using-the-jr-pass-on-the-hiroshima-sightseeing-city-bus?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqPyjzrfYhQMVJpFQBh3lSQvhEAAYASAAEgJ4SvD_BwE
17/6 DAY 9 - Miyajima ⛩️
https://www.japanrailpass.com.au/guide-miyajima-using-japan-rail-pass/#:~:text=Hiroshima%20provides%20quick%20and%20convenient,having%20to%20pay%20extra%20fees.
How to get there guide with jr pass
Earliest 8.10 Sakura to shin Kobe arrive 9.24 swap to 9.34 Hikari to Kyoto Arrive 10.02
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Pick up at 09:00 - Train Station Approx. 08:30
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/AttractionProductReview-g298564-d11485661-Kyoto_Top_Highlights_Full_Day_Trip_from_Osaka_Kyoto-Kyoto_Kyoto_Prefecture_Kinki.html 99.9% sure it’s this one Tour does Fushimi Imari, kiyomuzudera, Jinkaku and Arashiyama - ends
Stay around Arashiyama area for a bit Okochi sanso garden at the end of bamboo grove looks cool, lots of temples nearby to wander round. -Try find food? Might be hard with how busy it gets round here if not train back and find something in the center.
20/06 DAY 12 - Kyoto Half Day 💃 - Nara Trip 🦌
-Morning in Kyoto, Brekky something Dinner then go to Nara - meet where? Find out, doesn’t say on itinery need to ask airport guy he should have info for all tours. - In Nara park. Todai-ji (we get a ticket), kasuga grand shrine and Nigatsu-do temple look cool - Harushika brewery down the road? 🥴
21/06 DAY 13 - Travel to Osaka
-something during day….. - Kobe Steak (find a nice place and book a table)
24/06 DAY 16 - Travel Home
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https://www.exoticca.com/uk/tours/asia/9479-self-guided-land-of-the-rising-sun?
It’s our honeymoon and as the almost Mrs has poured so much into the wedding planning it’s my job to do the honeymoon, I’m not the best at making plans I’m hoping someone will give it a once over. So far I’ve cobbled this together, mainly just want to know if I’ve missed everything because it’s just been thrown together from scooting round Apple Maps, trip advisor and a few ‘what to do in Japan’ websites
(Copy and pasted from a note so I hope the formatting isn’t dreadful)
-I’m a bit stuck on day 5 and it’s full of question marks (one day to do most of Tokyo seems fun 😬) -Final day in Osaka? There doesn’t seem like much to do we’re not going to bother with universal, or Disney in Tokyo for that matter..
Feel free to bash my bad plans I’d rather know now that later
Japan Plan
09/06 DAY 1 - Fly ✈️
Can park from 4 Check in from 5 Lounge from 6 Fly at 9.10
10/6 DAY 2 - Arrival 🇯🇵
Land at 1pm, meet exoticca rep get all the tickets etc. - - Anything you want to ask them? Pop it here
- Train Skyliner to Keisei-Ueno station find JR office (main Ueno has one- by central ticket gate) activate JR pass to start from Friday and book a train to Kanazawa- (times below)
- Underground to Akasaka-mitsuke (orange line Ginza in Shibuya direction)
- Check in to hotel (3pm) quick wash then find some food nearby (checked maps there’s a bajillion little restaurants)
- The B Akasaka Mitsuke
11/6 DAY 3 - Tokyo Bus Tour 🚌https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/AttractionProductReview-g14133673-d11473202-1_Day_Tokyo_Bus_Tour-Nishishinjuku_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Tokyo_Prefecture_Kanto.html I think I’ve found it it might be this one? This tour says it doesn’t do the river cruise on Tuesdays 😓
-Pick up at 7.50 - Meet at love statue Approx 9 hours Estimated arrival back: 17:00
- Tube to Nishi shinjuku takes 20 Leave about 7ish to be safe, Walk to tube station then west on red line one station past big shinjuku station south exit then east one block and turn right and down one block (we could get off at shinjuku but sod that I’m not getting lost)
- Bus returns to shinjuku, stay in shinjuku for tea? Otherwise head to shibuya or wherever we didn’t go yesterday to find some tea, have a wander.
12/6 DAY 4 - Mount Fuji Bus Tour 🗻
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/AttractionProductReview-g14133673-d27167612-Mt_Fuji_Day_Tour_from_Shinjuku_in_Tokyo_Japan-Nishishinjuku_Shinjuku_Tokyo_Tokyo.html -think I’ve found it?
Pick up at 07.45 - Meet at love statue Approx 10 hours Estimated arrival back: 18:00
- Leave hotel at 7ish again same route.
- On return go to wherever we haven’t been from before so Shibuya or stay in shinjuku if we didn’t yesterday, later return so maybe best to stay today.
- Stay in Shinjuku?
-Ginza if we want to see more of imperial palace I think we only drive past on the tour. *Very posh shoppy area by the looks of things not too much else, and it’s where that glitch coffee you saw is -Akihabara, Ueno and Asakusa (by sky tree) seem closish to each other so could do that region *If you want to go more outsidey suburby then either shimokita or kichijoji are supposed to be nice kichijoji has parks etc the other is more shoppy and restauranty **- River Cruise? Could do it evening time? To make up for not going on the tour - goes to Odaiba the Island bit with Liberty Statue and team labs and stuff
14/6 DAY 6 - Travel to Kanazawa 🌳
Kagayaki (less stops) -505 8.11-10.46, -521 8.33-11.07 -507 09.20-11.52 All from Tokyo station
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- Get up check out, tube to Tokyo big station
- Get there in time for train we booked early morning
- Arrive in Kanazawa, go to find JR office book trains to Hiroshima so it’s done.
- How to get to Hotel:
- Drop bags at hotel or try dump bags if too early
- Check in from 1500 -Hotel Vista Kanazawa
- Should be around lunch time so get some lunch
- There’s a Kanazawa tourist loop bus that doesn’t cost much each. ¥800
- Kanazawa castle and the Kenrokuen park (Castle and Park closes at 18:00)
- How to get there: South east through station and along main road - Happy to walk there couple of mile.
- Plenty of little stalls in the parks for tea coffee snacks etc with nice views across park which would be nice
- Tea in either nightlifey bit west of park (Kiguramachi) or back towards station and hotel?
- Back to Center to do either Nishi Chaya (southern one) or Higashi chaya (north central) geisha districts, (higashi is bigger nishi is one street but temples and a ninja house nearby) or north to Nagamachi old samurai district. Should fill the morning
- Bus to beach? (42 from stations and back )
- Have a wander around the park there - Kemin Kaihin park (if we’re tired and weather is ok seems like a nice place to chill)
- Or we can go the other way to the hills where there are nice views (Utatsuyama park)? Would have to look up buses et -or go to one of the million museums there seems to be
- Saturday nights there’s a light up bus that goes round lit up areas, sounds cool!
- 500 YEN Hokutetsu Center (on Kanazawa Sta. West Gate) and the Transportation Information Center at Kanazawa Station, as well as at some major hotels.
- The Light-up Bus departs every 15 minutes from Bus Stop No. 7 at the Kanazawa Station East Exit. The first bus departs at 7:00 pm.
- Early night I think especially if we’re going for the early train.
8.40 Tsurugi to Tsuruga arrive 09.25 09.39 Thunderbird To shin-Osaka 10.58 11.20 Sakura to Hiroshima Arrive 12.51 Or 07.02 Tsurugi to Tsuruga arrive 07.59 08.37 Thunderbird to shin Osaka arrive 09.58 10.20 Sakura to Hiroshima arrive at 11.51 Orrrrr if you really want to wake up early…. 06.00 Tsurugi to Tsuruga arrive 06.57 07.05 Thunderbird to shin-Osaka arrive 08.26 0853 Sakura to Hiroshima arrive 10.22
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- Travel to Hiroshima
- Get tickets sorted for return to Kyoto - times below -meipruru bus (red tourist one) goes past hotel free with jr pass
- Arrive go to hotel and drop bags Check in from 3- Mitsui Garden Hiroshima Lots to pick from
https://m.jrpass.com/blog/using-the-jr-pass-on-the-hiroshima-sightseeing-city-bus?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqPyjzrfYhQMVJpFQBh3lSQvhEAAYASAAEgJ4SvD_BwE
17/6 DAY 9 - Miyajima ⛩️
https://www.japanrailpass.com.au/guide-miyajima-using-japan-rail-pass/#:~:text=Hiroshima%20provides%20quick%20and%20convenient,having%20to%20pay%20extra%20fees.
How to get there guide with jr pass
- walk along coast (lots of shops and cafes and restaurants) to Itsukushima and Otorii in the bay
- Find the cable car Nomijidani (follow the stream) some of the way up mt Misen walk the rest of the way to the viewing platform -Find somewhere to eat -Night cruise -Travel back to Hiroshima
Earliest 8.10 Sakura to shin Kobe arrive 9.24 swap to 9.34 Hikari to Kyoto Arrive 10.02
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- Go to hotel from station directly north past temple on left and right on first dual carriageway we get to
- Drop bags see what check in time is 3pm —Vessel hotel Campana Kyoto Gojo
- Bike rental next door? E-bike get round faster seems pretty cheap too
- cut through Gion, path of philosophy up to Ginkaku (Silver Temple) ** spot anything else east side that isn’t the big 2 in tomorrows tour?
Pick up at 09:00 - Train Station Approx. 08:30
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/AttractionProductReview-g298564-d11485661-Kyoto_Top_Highlights_Full_Day_Trip_from_Osaka_Kyoto-Kyoto_Kyoto_Prefecture_Kinki.html 99.9% sure it’s this one Tour does Fushimi Imari, kiyomuzudera, Jinkaku and Arashiyama - ends
Stay around Arashiyama area for a bit Okochi sanso garden at the end of bamboo grove looks cool, lots of temples nearby to wander round. -Try find food? Might be hard with how busy it gets round here if not train back and find something in the center.
20/06 DAY 12 - Kyoto Half Day 💃 - Nara Trip 🦌
-Morning in Kyoto, Brekky something Dinner then go to Nara - meet where? Find out, doesn’t say on itinery need to ask airport guy he should have info for all tours. - In Nara park. Todai-ji (we get a ticket), kasuga grand shrine and Nigatsu-do temple look cool - Harushika brewery down the road? 🥴
21/06 DAY 13 - Travel to Osaka
- Morning in Kyoto anything we missed??? -Nijo castle or old imperial palace we won’t have done
- Local train to Osaka
- Umeda sky building and surroundings depending on time eat around this northern bit of the city as we are staying in the south
- Getting to Hotel: Subway to NAMBA (red line on map) walk east and hotel on left side of street Agora place Osaka NAMBA
- Lots of alley way restaurants and bars to wander around if short on time, have a look at the mossy statue in that area then wander on to Dotombori along the river.
- Tsurumi Ryokuchi Parkrun @ 8:00 🥱
- How to get there: Go up to light green line at Shinsaibashi then east, station has same name, park across road in main entrance and turn left. Train Time / Leaving Time??
- Get a Coffee in the Park
- Go back to Hotel to shower and change -Got train/bus pass today so to get it used
- Admission ticket for the Osaka Castle so go there first, after that there a market Tsuruhashi ichiba which seems cool, then Sumiyoshi Taisha.. **Anything else? -Shinsekai area in evening
- There’s boats up and down dotonbori which would be cool
-something during day….. - Kobe Steak (find a nice place and book a table)
24/06 DAY 16 - Travel Home
- Airport shuttle bus ticket to transfer from Osaka to Airport
2024.04.27 14:54 JuniorSound1888 Studying in and moving to Maribor as a trans person
hi! i'm from one of the shittier balkan countries and i've been thinking about studying in maribor (majoring in one of english lit/translation/history/philosophy/economics) and most likely moving there long term (if i'm able to settle in :p) and i'd like to ask a few questions before i actually try anything lol
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- how hard is it to get accepted into the programs i mentioned? i think english lit/translation would be my top picks. i assume i'd actually be able to maybe find work as a translator or something (even tho i'm much more of a philosophy/history type tbh) and econ would be my last choice - and i don't think its a very realistic option for me either given that my grades aren't particularly amazing. econ where i live is p competitive when it comes to admissions and i had a 3.5 grade average in my first 2 years of high school and i'm currently enrolled in the ib program where i'm going to graduate with the equivalent of like.. a 4.0? maybe a 4.4 if i manage to boost my grades in the near future? the ib has a slightly wonky grading system (the highest grade is a 7 lol and certain aspects of my grade technically aren't based on any tests i took in a particular subject but rather some long-form essays we had to write) so it's kinda hard to convert properly but that's how my school does it internally)
- i am a broke balkanaut. there are no words to describe how broke i actually am. i am broke as fuck. i am beyond broke. jokes aside yea my parents aren't very well off even by [shit tier balkan country standards] and i have no savings and i doubt i'll have more than like a thousand euros saved up by the time i actually arrive in maribor (which is probably next year). so i've actually got several questions regarding the cost of living and all that dumb gay shit (grrr!!!!): 1. how hard is it to get a dorm room (also is it possible to request to share a dorm with someone and have that request be accepted? my gf is also planning on coming here so i'd like for us to be together if possible) and how much do they cost? 2. in the event of me not being able to get a dorm room how expensive would it be for us to rent out an apartment? 3. whats the overall cost of living like in terms of food and basic living supplies? i'm pretty frugal i can get by on eggs bread and onions for weeks at a time but i need to know in advance how frugal i'm gonna have to be
- how hard is it for a student on a foreign visa to get a part-time/full time job in maribor? like how many hours am i legally allowed to work per week (also are there any places where i can get some extra cash off the books (im desperate (maybe not that desperate) and is it actually possible to find employment as a dirty for'ner? im asking this because again my parents r broke and probs wont be able to help me financially at all
- also, scholarships? are those obtainable for 2nd/3rd yeamasters students? id imagine i wouldn't be able to get one right off the bat given that my my grades are shit (also i've noticed that a lot of eu countries don't have scholarships for 1st year students in general which is odd)
- whats the local club/party/concert scene like? i can fuck with mostly anything i dont rlly have the highest standards tbh and i like going to underground venues. probs wont be able to afford anything more expensive kek
- yea heres the big one. a huge part of the reason why i want to move to maribor is the fact that slovenia is way less homophobic than just about every other balkan country (like damn you guys just legalised gay marriage whereas i was up until recently scared of wearing jewelry in public lest i be dubbed a [insert your homophobic slur of choice] and being harassed). obviously i'm not expecting too much and trust me i do NOT want the fact that i'm trans to be out on full display (tho it likely will be because tbh i dont look that good so ill definitely get weird looks at least) so i wont be dressing in a particularly provocative matter or anything of the sort. i want to blend in as well as possible obviously but i don't think that's going to be possible for at least like a year or two (which i might spend in the closet and acting like nothings happening tbh) so id like to know if i'm going to run into any issues. rn i basically look like a sorta gay mildly androgynous semi-twink and i supposedly have a minor case of gay voice - which was all enough to set ppl off on me in my hometown lol. would people be fine with me transitioning? would they even care? obviously i'd like to find a more accepting friend group if possible but i'd like to know what my odds are like when it comes to even finding people who'd accept me. also, does maribor have any queequeer-friendly bars/cafes/clubs/orgs? it doesnt have to be an explicitly gay space (my hometown doesnt have one either) but i think every mid-sized city has at least one or two that r just swarming with gay people (my hometown does and the people here are very homophobic!!)
- do i need like a temporary slovenian id card or something? and would i be able to choose the gender it says i am on the card or would i need to go through the legal channels to have that changed? i have no idea how that whole process work btw as far as i can tell trans people in slovenia need to provide proof of diagnosis and that they've been on hormones for like 3 years? i'd be able to get the former as i've already been informally diagnosed (per my previous therapist who's an acquaintance i met with off the record while i was trying to figure out whether im trans or not (i.e trying to cope by saying that im not) - i'm an open and shut case. i have a textbook example of gender dysphoria and i dont think it'd be too hard for me to get an official diagnosis. but would i need to go through the legal channels in bosnia first? cause if so well that's not happening lol
- how hard is it to get slovenian citizenship? like I said i intend on staying here for a while and id like to obtain citizenship asap.
2024.04.26 06:39 darrenjyc Curiosity Café: The Value of Care — Tuesday April 30 (6pm) at the Madison Avenue Pub (FREE!)
This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.
By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
About Curiosity Cafés
For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.
We will be hosting our next Curiosity Café on Tuesday, April 30th from 6:00-8:30pm at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2S1).
The topic of this café is: The Value of Care
Throughout our lives, we encounter many instances of caring action. Whether it is a mother nursing her child to sleep, your friend lending an ear while you share your feelings, or even a stranger holding the door open for you, care might be our most basic way of relating to one another. Despite this, care is not always recognized as valuable, and can even be seen as contrary to our values of independence and autonomy. From philosophy to public health, however, care is of concern, and may offer moral and practical considerations for how we should treat one another. In this cafe, we will investigate questions like:
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By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
About Curiosity Cafés
For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.
We will be hosting our next Curiosity Café on Tuesday, April 30th from 6:00-8:30pm at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2S1).
The topic of this café is: The Value of Care
Throughout our lives, we encounter many instances of caring action. Whether it is a mother nursing her child to sleep, your friend lending an ear while you share your feelings, or even a stranger holding the door open for you, care might be our most basic way of relating to one another. Despite this, care is not always recognized as valuable, and can even be seen as contrary to our values of independence and autonomy. From philosophy to public health, however, care is of concern, and may offer moral and practical considerations for how we should treat one another. In this cafe, we will investigate questions like:
- How does care show up in your life?
- What is valuable and beneficial about care?
- What is the relationship between care and autonomy?
- When it comes to acting ethically, what role does care have?
- When does the presence of a caring attitude seem important?
- Are there cases where it is better to be uncaring?
- Who should we care for, and how far should our care go?
2024.04.25 07:31 Eidetic_Illustrator Is Existentialism the go-to Philosophy for the “Prelude to Collapse Period” we find ourselves in?
Current bedtime reading is a great book called “At the Existentialist Cafe” by Sarah Blakewell. (Recommend it- the audiobook is great for a road trip!) Hearing about existentialism and it’s origins and the quandaries it was trying to address- perhaps most notably the horrific losses and tragedies of WW1 and WW2, it made me wonder if this is the most apt philosophy with which to face the 2030s and 2040s. Camus wrote “the plague” which to me hits harder on a social level than the more famous “the stranger” which is more of an exploration of how we subjectively/personally handle the end of our own time as a human being. I know Stoicism is hot in the YT community right now, and I think it’s a great manual for facing struggle so we should all probably get a proactive dose of it, but then when it’s time to analyze how to best utilize this fragile moment where there’s still mostly peaceful relations on most of the planet and in some places there’s enough fresh water to have lawns. Is having a lawn a celebration of a momentary privilege of green grass to walk barefoot in and throw a frisbee to your dog, or is it’s callous act of disregard for the wanton wasting of water while so many others have barely enough to quench their thirst and keep their service animals alive? I guess I’m wondering what philosophical schools and thinkers/writers have the most Cred/presence in the collapse-aware community…
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