• Mongostein
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    1 month ago

    I rolled over a brand new cable with my office chair. Now it does this. I’m forcing myself to use it for a year as penance.

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      1 month ago

      Hey. I’m going to ask why? Like if you are extremely tight financially I get it. But why make yourself suffer every day if it’s not needed? It’s going to be annoying and a slight negative to your day every day.

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        1 month ago

        Two reasons:

        Because I’m a filthy hippy and I don’t want to throw a brand new cord in the landfill because I fucked up.

        Dealing with it for a long enough time period will make me think of how I wrecked it and I won’t haphazardly leave my cables lying on the floor any more.

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          1 month ago

          Ultimately it’s your life yah.

          But I can’t help but think that adult humans don’t need to do penance and suffer for a year just because they made such a small mistake. It’s like a 12th century religious act.

          I believe that adult humans can just learn not to do something without religious style self imposed suffering. If I burn my hand on the stove I don’t need to keep the wound in pain for a year in order to remember not to burn my hand again.

          This all being said I am a humanist materialist. If people come from a spiritual background where self imposed suffering helps the soul I can see why they would do such a thing.

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              Ok. I’m curious now though. Do you choose to suffer unnecessarily as a joke on yourself? Is there a reason you choose to suffer when you don’t have to?

              Like I can’t relate to your choice at all here and am very curious.

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                I don’t know what to tell you. It still works and I don’t need to move my phone while I’m working or sleeping.

                I don’t consider minor inconveniences suffering.