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Re: You are not your job

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Post by pdimitar » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 1:23 AM UTC

jplusequalt wrote: post #328

pdimitar wrote: post #221

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Philosophy is the theory and we are discussing the practice here. Be a non-nihilist; belong to any school of thought you like. Ultimately, out there, people value you by just 5-6 things and almost never they are your beliefs or personal values. So your respectful challenge seems to be missing the point. Your beliefs are not challenged here. But you cannot change how other people value you.

>Ultimately, out there, people value you by just 5-6 things and almost never they are your beliefs or personal values. This is such a rigid world view that is demonstrably wrong. I won't even argue with you because others have already pointed out why this cannot be true elsewhere. What I will say is that I hope you're doing alright.

I have no idea what's your goal with that message. I would love to live in your world but I am fairly sure that wherever I was geographically (5 countries), it does not exist there.

Re: You are not your job

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Post by pdimitar » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 1:25 AM UTC

skandinaff wrote: post #289

pdimitar wrote: post #220

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Zero to do with religion, I knew quite a lot of atheists / agnostics who were extremely wholesome and caring people.

While that could be true, it's important to remember that these people probably grew up in a culture that had religion influence for thousands of years. In order to become atheist, one needs to renounce god, therefore have the idea of god, therefore, have some background knowledge of or about religion. That is to say, that these processes a not as simple, as one might think: take soviet union as an example - official…

I don't buy it. People were decent and nice to each other long before any "holy" books were written. As my sibling commenter said, it's far more likely that some people one day finally caught up to that fact and figured they'll start writing stuff down.

Your message almost sounds like it has an agenda.

Re: You are not your job

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Post by skrlet13 » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

abcde666777 wrote: post #122

Being able to see ourselves as something beyond our job (our means of survival) is a luxury. If a person can't provide for themselves the rest goes out the window fast. The only way to ease the anxiety in people isn't with fluff about their 'human worth', but rather to help them envision other tangible and plausible ways in which they can provide for themselves. The cold reality, in my opinion, is that the things we…

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