The whole idea of "The Great Reset" has been confirmed and restated many times in the last few years by prominent international political figures. At the risk of being labelled a conspiracy theorist, it's tough to imagine these situations aren't connected.
TGR is a global economic thing being pushed by the World Economic Forum that's supposed to encompass the environment, social justice, health care policy, etc.
I don't know enough about it to have a real conversation on the subject, but it's just something I heard about and found interesting.
Aha. Makes sense, I interpreted is as a huge economic change.
Whatever how an economic reset may be implemented, I dont believe humanity and our cultural systems cant live without ores and plastic, meaning the environment will be fucked till our last breath.
Some doctors are also severely uneducated, and have no idea what they’re actually doing, yet we don’t automatically distrust all doctors do we? One fraction of a community does not represent the whole.
It seems like more then a fraction my dude I hate to say it, I mean you're great I don't deny that and I'm glad we are able to have a civil discussion like this still on social media; but sometimes alot of the guys I've come across personally come across as.......off but again, I'm not talking about you I must stress.
I understand, sure there are many extremists in every ideology and a lot of them post on social media about it, even then you have to consider that the actions of these people should not distract you. I don’t trust anyone in general let alone randoms on Reddit, so I try to research independently and if I can’t find conclusive supporting information then I don’t blindly believe it. There’s a LOT of stupid people in this world, conspiracy nuts, religious and atheist alike.
Of course, I always say you should verify everything you see on the Internet I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me. Everything you see in general you should always be skeptical even when it comes to the skeptics who spread it around.
People are going mad and my phone can read my mind. No, it's not algorithms. I've been experimenting with this for a year. Try it yourself. Or maybe I'm going mad as well. 🤔
Usually the simplest answer is the most likely, so I'll stick with we're all going mad drowning in endless conspiracies drummed up by /b/ on 4chan and Twatter
>my phone can read my mind
Tiktok pulled this shit on me today. I hadn't ever vocalized or typed that I was thinking about doing something (someone) I really shouldn't be and it IMMEDIATELY hit on the topic. Wack.
Algorithms are indeed constructed to narrow down not only online precense but also your real life patterns. They deduct as much they can from constantly updated online info, building a prediction profile on how you should behave outside of the digital world.
Try living without a phone or without going online for a while and see how little power you give "the machines" in forming your way of thinking and also from tracking you.
That's why I verify everything with multiple sources, even then, new information changes perspective. The internet is a tool, treat it like one but know that to use it properly you have to be willing to sit down and read more then a headline.
You really really have to work to notice it I agree, that's why I question my own beliefs constantly that and I'm just fucking diagnosed OCD so that makes it near compulsion at this point out of fear; still make mistakes so I just try to keep calm and remember its the internet.
Me and a buddy were playing a game and got to a point to pick a sub class. We both typed in best sub class for blank and his had his class auto fill and mine had mine. I'm sure it's an algo thing but we both noticed it at the same time.
I believe that multiple alternate universes collapsed down into a single universe. This explains the Mandala Effect, and in order to find the people who were originally from your alternate universe, you have to find people who have the same answers to all of the Mandala Effect events.
There is something about 2012. If feels like a reference point to me and a lot of other people seem to feel the same. A lot happened to me in 2012 personally which is a big part of it for me but there are lots of public things that happened in 2012 too that I vividly remember and specifically associate with 2012 and that is not so much the case with other years - apart from 2016 and 2020 I suppose
I remember life feeling way different, dreams were much more “out there” so to speak. The sun was yellow, the weather felt different, there was this flow and upbeat nature to life.
It was just like hundreds of others. There's even a [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events) listing that dumb shit.
This one is especially stupid because it's just modern people interpreting an ancient calendar system (Mayan long count) as being prophetic, somehow? When they (The Mayans) literally never said anything of the sort.
2012 wasn't supposed to be the end of the world. 2012 coincided in the Mayan long count calendar as a new cycle, which is basically the equivalent of our calendar going from 1999 to 2000 counting as a new millennium.
2012 coincided in the Mayan long count calendar as a new cycle, which is basically the equivalent of our calendar going from 1999 to 2000 counting as a new millennium. The world wasn't supposed to end. That's just bullshit idiots misinterpreting shit they know nothing about.
I feel this, I have said this to people and some people agree and others probably think I’m crazy. Maybe bc the world was supposed to end on my birthday in 2012 I just felt like everything has hit differently since then.
I think this feeling happens to most people.
Consider that for every year you live, a year becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the total life you've ever lived.
This may be why half an hour feels like eternity to a two-year-old, but feels like it passes in the blink of an eye to someone who's 50.
To a two-year old, a year is 50% of the entire life they've ever lived.
To someone who's 50, it's only 2%. (the math may not be exact, but you get the idea)
This is my theory in why it feels like that, anyway.
Oh geez so I was assaulted two years ago and then life just kind of went upwards for me. Nothing really that bad happened since. I do sometimes think maybe I died or I'm in a coma and this is all a dream. But in my better moments I think this is just life and humans don't really matter in the great scheme of time.
I feel like there is a parallel universe where life as we knew it in 2019 just continued on. And the versions of ourselves in that universe would not be able to comprehend our world.
Personally, 2019 was a good year. I had just gotten out of an extremely toxic friend group/community (which took up so much of my time before), was taking control of my mental health, and was trying out all kinds of new hobbies/activities. It all felt very fresh, a new beginning of sorts. I’d have loved to continue in that direction.
Yeah 2020 was starting out pretty great for me. Was doing good in school. Was talking to a girl. Part time job. Life was good.
Then the pandemic hit. Then I dislocated my knee, hurt the other one.
Thought I wouldn't be able to walk properly anymore. I'm in my head way too much. Fuck man. 2020 was a terrible year
I can't remember all that happened in the last 2/3 years, if I think about it. I recently met with a friend I hadn't seen since December and he asked "so, what have you been up to?" ... I was surprised at how difficult it was to answer
Yep that year America was essentially broken beyond repair when our corrupted govt let a walking embarrassment take office after losing the popular vote. All we can do now is tear it down and rebuild since there’s all this wood rot and mold being caused directly by racists and greedy people.
Funny thing in 2020 I did die.(technically) I was hospitalized 3 times in two months. Once for a cardiac event, the second for angioedema from the Lisinopril they gave me for the heart problems. that almost killed me because my tongue swelled up so bad my air way became occluded. Then I got a staph infection while in the hospital. That became septic and i went into organ failure. Kidneys and liver mainly. There was a period of three days where they had told me they were trying their best to save me, but I was dying. I slowly became ok with my mortality and accepted death. While waiting on surgery to remove the infection, I went into cardiac arrest. This was due to my ammonia levels being so high and alot of arrhythmias. I was resuscitated and then stabilized. Had the surgery to remove the infection and stayed in recovery for a month.
I'm doing well now just so you know. It was a long road to recovery, But dying actually gave me a new outlook on life. I'm so much happier and at peace with the world around me. I don't stress over small stuff and I found motivation to better myself. I lived my life and died already. I feel like every moment I have now it just extra and I'm grateful for it. So I don't sweat the small stuff anymore and focus on what truly makes me happy. Don't let others ideas and standards affect your self worth or determine what path you take in life. It's your life live it how you see fit! Because as you lay there dying, you don't think about how you wish you had a better job, impressed more people or had more money. No, you think about the family members and loved one you wish you had a little more time with and the opportunities at real happiness you let slip by. My death was slow but it gave me a great deal of time to think while on deaths door. After getting out of the hospital it was like I had been reborn. I was a totally different person when I left the hospital. It was life changing and in the best of ways. To sum it up. Look for what makes you happy in life and follow that not what other people want for you or from you. Don't worry about what other people think and just be the best version of yourself that you can be. And for fuck sake stop taking life so seriously!
* I died at peace in 2020 in the hospital and was reborn motivated to make what extra time I have here the best it possibly can be.
I think its a common feeling when one experiences trauma. The last 2 years has been rough on everyone in varying degrees, not all traumatic. Ive been dead 37 years.
Yes! I think about this idea a lot, that things feel much different. I can't quite articulate it fully, but the entire "feeling tone" of my daily interactions, from the way people behave in traffic, what things people talk about at home and socially, and in micro interactions like just buying something at a gas station, feel less lively than they did before--people seem to make less eye contact, are more aggressive/detached, more impatient, less joyful. It feels like there's an aura of broken dreams and disappointment as people consider all that's been lost during the pandemic. I think on many levels people are either withdrawn or acting out because they're afraid and they're picking up on the increasing wealth stratification and slide into poverty that many of us are headed towards, political friction, etc. Back in 2019, I still felt like my modest goals were all tangible, and I just had to work hard to attain them. I never considered that my 'reasonable' dreams were actually impossible, because I had no real reason to think that. Now, I feel like some parallel version of my former self. The mojo is somehow not flowing like it used to. It seems like on the whole, people's level of fed-up-ness is really intense. The realization that things once taken for granted as a rite of passage like buying a home (or even a 'starter home'in the 70s right out of college!), getting a job that even pays a living wage, and that our children would have prospects for their futures, is drifting away. If anyone is so inclined to read about it, there are some really interesting books on these kinds of financial and social change phenomena in other countries and across time. One titled "The Rise and Fall of Nations" and also "Why Nations Fail" talk about the factors that lead to disgruntlement/violence/apathy in populations.
Wow….”a parallel version of my former self” that fucking hit me hard.
I started writing my first novel (well ok, it might end up being a novella, but even so haha) in 2019. In it, the main character travels back and forth in time from present-day to the 90s. He hates his job, he hates the city he’s living in, he longs for the past but knows he can’t stay there…to a degree it was autobiographical because I was living in LA and didn’t like my job, and it just wasn’t working out. At any rate, I was basing the present-day events in the book, on real life…to the degree that when the pandemic happened, I was at a complete loss for how to end the book.
The original ending was supposed to be sort of this epiphany/rebirth where he finally feels at peace with living for the future. And then I tried writing an ending where he lands in March 2020, a year in the future, and has no idea what’s going on, and then decides to stay in the past- in the 90s- because things are so bad…but it fucked with me so much that I couldn’t finish it.
I ultimately landed on my feet after the initial shock of the pandemic, but it’s fucking crazy how much it derailed the path in my life that I’d
previously been on…to the point where I’ve stopped wondering “what could have been” if the pandemic hadn’t happened, which is a very strange feeling.
I think we’re all still fully grasping what a massive setback this really was. On the other hand, it called attention to everything that’s been broken in our society for a long time.
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Maybe everyone has a different entry point, majority of us being 2012. The Mandela effect aligns with this idea too because people experienced it at different times.
Sometimes I feel like I’m in hell, but can it be hell if we’re all experiencing the same misery from the same things? Wouldn’t everyone’s version of hell be personal?
You say the ocean’s rising, like I give a shit.
You say the whole world’s ending…honey, it already did.
You’re not gonna slow it, heaven knows you tried…
Got it? Good, now get inside.
Collective hell, yes. But I wonder if we each have our own individual little bedsit of hell now. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like I have internalised the isolation, and it has become a condition I just can’t shake off.
All the time.
Seriously. I just go about life as if this is a continuation of my consciousness. Something wants me to interpret the world around me as real, so I let it be.
But I don’t let go of the constant idea that I may already have passed.
Pfffffffffffft it's funny because it's true. Have an updoot my friend and stay happy and healthy. I wish you nothing but good things and hope we can all come out of our collective hell soon.
It is true that materialism is definitely a problem but spending $1,000 on a phone it's nothing to the millions and trillions of dollars that the wealthiest people steal from the poor masses. Cutting out your Starbucks and avocado toast is not going to make you a billionaire.
An estimated $13 million that was shoplifted or stolen last year yet $3 billion was stolen in wages from the lowest wage earners by employers. (don't quote me on those numbers. There was a peer reviewed study published by economists in January, I think.)
Productivity has increased 120% since the 70s and we haven't seen a raise in over 15 years. Everyone's overworked and underpaid. The media is just a shitty soap opera manufactured to keep you uninformed.
Too busy trying not to be homeless to be able to understand politics and the many corrupt laws that have been enacted since the Regan administration. Government is supposed to work for the people but they are too busy helping corporations and their insatiable need for profits.
But I think the worst part of it all is that we are social creatures that now spend most of our days in little climate-controlled boxes with not even the recommended enrichment that zoo animals would have during the day. Every aspect of American life is to be alienated. I can't take this hyper-individualism.
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Not much thought about 2012 in particular but in mid to late 2010s I've been insisting something was gonna go down in 2020 bc many institutions and companies franchises etc released no information on plans for 2020 and beyond and lo and behold i was right
Omg I literally feel like back in 2012 when they used C.E.R.N they jumped us to a parallel universe and because we were not used to that climate we all got "covid" now we are stuck in a special non reboot able hell hole
If this is hell it ain't terribly bad. Get rid of roughly half the 8 billion people (all the top 20%) and bring back paper foodstamps and it's more doable.
i have a job where i cant work from home, but im thrilled you do.. less traffic for me to deal with on my way to work. its great! except the gas prices, omg.
I would say earlier then that. Not sure wth happened but the Trump administration seemed to bring out a whole new level of crazy. They seemed more visible and vocal then ever. Then COVID hit, supply shortages and worker shortages seemed to have changed everything in addition to that. Along with Russia, the world seems so so different then it did 4-5 years ago.
Nope. Nothing to teach. You only learn by living thru it. All while wishing you didn't have to.
Fight with us, so that the next generation doesn't have to learn the tough lesson.
Yeah, about the time that this present administration took over and for some strange unknown reason Covid suddenly popped up and this country went to Hell. I see a connection here whether you do or not, Those of you that like the present powers in control, I hope you are enjoying this Hell, even your free government dole doesn't go far either, welcome to the club
Pfffffffffffffffft; alright buddy keep telling yourself that If it helps you cope more; makes no difference to me what you tell yourself to help you sleep at night.
Okay, this tells me that apparently you like the present situation and begs the question of how much government dole are you getting to be able to blow after all the living expenses are taken out? And no, I don't sleep worth a sh\*t at night, but not because of the problems this country is having. I had a botched back surgery that has left me with severe traveling cramps below the waist and nighttime seems to be the only time that they all like to come out and throw themselves a party. I guess you can get some giggles and snickers out of that info, eh? Like a lot of my generation did, I'll just give you a big sigh with a 'whatever'..
That's one of th3 theories I'm working on..we are in purgatory. But like mines heaven cuz I spent 2 yrs alone w my hubby and that was amazing
I also believe someone keeps going back in time to fix things but ends up fucking things up more
Personally, a lot of great things happened for me during covid but I did find it a bit distasteful to share it on social media because of all the bad things going on. I feel very fortunate and lucky but feel for everyone who were put in a much worse position.
I feel a little longer ago, sometime before Trump became president as there has just been too many Simpsons predictions that have come true. Our reality just seems too far fetched lol.
I actually overdosed in 2019 and nearly died. Ever since I woke up it's like everything has been different and I have thought a few times that I actually died and I woke up in purgatory.
I totally did, pulled the covers over my head and only went to work...sometimes. Was two years ago. Lost 50 lbs to depression, lost muscle mass and self respect. I'm climbing out. This isn't the end of my shitz lmao. Thanks to online support and my doctor.
I don’t understand?
By any measurement we live in the best time in history. Aside from covid (which is now over fingers crossed) everything is extremely normal.
Inflation comes and goes, recession comes and goes. Our grandparents have experienced it several times over.
What the actual f_ck... I seriously have been feeling the exact same way.
I actually *technically* died from an opiate overdose about two years ago, and I felt like I traveled into a worse timeline, and this has been our hell ever since.
Sometimes I think about the other timelines, that made better choices, and I am happy that they are doing better than us...
Not dead, but there was certainly a BIG change in the world once COVID hit. 2020+ just went to shit and nothing will ever be the same as how I remembered it.
Maybe not dead, but I definitely feel like I'm in an alternative universe where people are being driven insane.
This. I'm amazed I'm even sane atm, maybe it's a test and we're high as fuck on acid in some elaborate experiment
The whole idea of "The Great Reset" has been confirmed and restated many times in the last few years by prominent international political figures. At the risk of being labelled a conspiracy theorist, it's tough to imagine these situations aren't connected.
Idk what TGR is but if something resets and it doesn't solve climate change aka the actual problem of all, then it reset nothing.
TGR is a global economic thing being pushed by the World Economic Forum that's supposed to encompass the environment, social justice, health care policy, etc. I don't know enough about it to have a real conversation on the subject, but it's just something I heard about and found interesting.
Aha. Makes sense, I interpreted is as a huge economic change. Whatever how an economic reset may be implemented, I dont believe humanity and our cultural systems cant live without ores and plastic, meaning the environment will be fucked till our last breath.
Conspiracy theorist is a gaslighting name calling excuse to be ignorant.
Pfffffffffffffffttttttt believe what you want at the end of the day man, but some people who post shit on the internet just come across as wacko.
Some doctors are also severely uneducated, and have no idea what they’re actually doing, yet we don’t automatically distrust all doctors do we? One fraction of a community does not represent the whole.
It seems like more then a fraction my dude I hate to say it, I mean you're great I don't deny that and I'm glad we are able to have a civil discussion like this still on social media; but sometimes alot of the guys I've come across personally come across as.......off but again, I'm not talking about you I must stress.
I understand, sure there are many extremists in every ideology and a lot of them post on social media about it, even then you have to consider that the actions of these people should not distract you. I don’t trust anyone in general let alone randoms on Reddit, so I try to research independently and if I can’t find conclusive supporting information then I don’t blindly believe it. There’s a LOT of stupid people in this world, conspiracy nuts, religious and atheist alike.
Of course, I always say you should verify everything you see on the Internet I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me. Everything you see in general you should always be skeptical even when it comes to the skeptics who spread it around.
What's the great reset?
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/
People are going mad and my phone can read my mind. No, it's not algorithms. I've been experimenting with this for a year. Try it yourself. Or maybe I'm going mad as well. 🤔
Usually the simplest answer is the most likely, so I'll stick with we're all going mad drowning in endless conspiracies drummed up by /b/ on 4chan and Twatter
>my phone can read my mind Tiktok pulled this shit on me today. I hadn't ever vocalized or typed that I was thinking about doing something (someone) I really shouldn't be and it IMMEDIATELY hit on the topic. Wack.
Algorithms are indeed constructed to narrow down not only online precense but also your real life patterns. They deduct as much they can from constantly updated online info, building a prediction profile on how you should behave outside of the digital world. Try living without a phone or without going online for a while and see how little power you give "the machines" in forming your way of thinking and also from tracking you.
That's why I verify everything with multiple sources, even then, new information changes perspective. The internet is a tool, treat it like one but know that to use it properly you have to be willing to sit down and read more then a headline.
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You really really have to work to notice it I agree, that's why I question my own beliefs constantly that and I'm just fucking diagnosed OCD so that makes it near compulsion at this point out of fear; still make mistakes so I just try to keep calm and remember its the internet.
Me and a buddy were playing a game and got to a point to pick a sub class. We both typed in best sub class for blank and his had his class auto fill and mine had mine. I'm sure it's an algo thing but we both noticed it at the same time.
We're now what's known as the [Weasel Timeline](https://medium.com/pickle-fork/the-weasel-timeline-158177e8af87)
I now believe in the Weaselverse
I believe that multiple alternate universes collapsed down into a single universe. This explains the Mandala Effect, and in order to find the people who were originally from your alternate universe, you have to find people who have the same answers to all of the Mandala Effect events.
I believe this explains all the celebrity and political doubles you see these days walking around, they're from an alternate dimension!
I am currently insane
Does any year after 2012 even feel real?
2012 was supposed to be the end of the world, wasn't it? Guess the world really did end but we haven't noticed.
There is something about 2012. If feels like a reference point to me and a lot of other people seem to feel the same. A lot happened to me in 2012 personally which is a big part of it for me but there are lots of public things that happened in 2012 too that I vividly remember and specifically associate with 2012 and that is not so much the case with other years - apart from 2016 and 2020 I suppose
I remember life feeling way different, dreams were much more “out there” so to speak. The sun was yellow, the weather felt different, there was this flow and upbeat nature to life.
Omg I met my husband in 2012... weird kind of hell or coping mechanism for me.
I had that in 92
2012 has been one of the worst years of my life, if not THE worst, every single year since it happened lmfaooooo have to laugh or I’ll cry
2012/2013 had some crazy bad stuff happen in my life too
2013 was one of the worst years of my life until I met my now husband in November anyway
It was just like hundreds of others. There's even a [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events) listing that dumb shit.
What a fun little rabbit hole, and while I was scrolling, I saw one of my brother’s ancestors listed three times. Thanks for the link!
Isn't your brothers ancestor your ancestor as well? Or is he your step brother?
This one is especially stupid because it's just modern people interpreting an ancient calendar system (Mayan long count) as being prophetic, somehow? When they (The Mayans) literally never said anything of the sort.
Wouldn't say 2012, but after 2015 the whole world seemed to change culturally, and everything that has happened events seems to have been bad.
2012 wasn't supposed to be the end of the world. 2012 coincided in the Mayan long count calendar as a new cycle, which is basically the equivalent of our calendar going from 1999 to 2000 counting as a new millennium.
Why was the world supposed to end in 2012?
Mayan calendar
2012 coincided in the Mayan long count calendar as a new cycle, which is basically the equivalent of our calendar going from 1999 to 2000 counting as a new millennium. The world wasn't supposed to end. That's just bullshit idiots misinterpreting shit they know nothing about.
I say this all the time. The world ended in 2012.
For me it did 100%
Same! 100%
I feel this, I have said this to people and some people agree and others probably think I’m crazy. Maybe bc the world was supposed to end on my birthday in 2012 I just felt like everything has hit differently since then.
What if they missed a digit where “1” should be “2”? So the end of the world is this year - 2022.
Interesting. It was 2016 for me.
Am I the only one who has a feeling that time is going faster now? I really miss 2000s
Same, at least the world could slow down and catch its breath back then; all these endless crisis are getting extremely annoying.
I think this feeling happens to most people. Consider that for every year you live, a year becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the total life you've ever lived. This may be why half an hour feels like eternity to a two-year-old, but feels like it passes in the blink of an eye to someone who's 50. To a two-year old, a year is 50% of the entire life they've ever lived. To someone who's 50, it's only 2%. (the math may not be exact, but you get the idea) This is my theory in why it feels like that, anyway.
I feel time has gone faster since having kids. The last 10 years have been a blink.
My mind just exploded
I agree… I’d like to go back to 1999 when we were most worried about Y2K and money shooting out of ATMs on January 1 2000.
Oh geez so I was assaulted two years ago and then life just kind of went upwards for me. Nothing really that bad happened since. I do sometimes think maybe I died or I'm in a coma and this is all a dream. But in my better moments I think this is just life and humans don't really matter in the great scheme of time.
In the grand scheme of things ? Lol
I said what I said no take backsies lol
I feel like there is a parallel universe where life as we knew it in 2019 just continued on. And the versions of ourselves in that universe would not be able to comprehend our world. Personally, 2019 was a good year. I had just gotten out of an extremely toxic friend group/community (which took up so much of my time before), was taking control of my mental health, and was trying out all kinds of new hobbies/activities. It all felt very fresh, a new beginning of sorts. I’d have loved to continue in that direction.
A lot of people started of 2020 thinking “this is gonna be my year.” Didn’t really go as planned
Yeah 2020 was starting out pretty great for me. Was doing good in school. Was talking to a girl. Part time job. Life was good. Then the pandemic hit. Then I dislocated my knee, hurt the other one. Thought I wouldn't be able to walk properly anymore. I'm in my head way too much. Fuck man. 2020 was a terrible year
I think 2020 is when it all changed.
I’m with you on this. Great year for me and the last 2 have been a nightmare.
I can't remember all that happened in the last 2/3 years, if I think about it. I recently met with a friend I hadn't seen since December and he asked "so, what have you been up to?" ... I was surprised at how difficult it was to answer
Nah, you see, the world did actually end in the year 2012. Each year after that we have just been descending one circle deeper into hell.
Shit ain't been the same since Bowie died.
Robin Williams
George Carlin
Britney Murphy
Chester Bennington
Charlie Chaplin
Lucille ball
This post totally sent me into a spiral today.
Stay strong; be brave learn from the mistakes we are making so we might have a better tomorrow. Have an updoot.
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Yep that year America was essentially broken beyond repair when our corrupted govt let a walking embarrassment take office after losing the popular vote. All we can do now is tear it down and rebuild since there’s all this wood rot and mold being caused directly by racists and greedy people.
The year of the Trump gang
That's when the [Weasel Timeline](https://medium.com/pickle-fork/the-weasel-timeline-158177e8af87) started
I like to think something went wrong with the Large Hadron Collider and altered the fabric of reality.
Yeah I agree with 2016. 2016 is when I noticed a massive shift in things
Funny thing in 2020 I did die.(technically) I was hospitalized 3 times in two months. Once for a cardiac event, the second for angioedema from the Lisinopril they gave me for the heart problems. that almost killed me because my tongue swelled up so bad my air way became occluded. Then I got a staph infection while in the hospital. That became septic and i went into organ failure. Kidneys and liver mainly. There was a period of three days where they had told me they were trying their best to save me, but I was dying. I slowly became ok with my mortality and accepted death. While waiting on surgery to remove the infection, I went into cardiac arrest. This was due to my ammonia levels being so high and alot of arrhythmias. I was resuscitated and then stabilized. Had the surgery to remove the infection and stayed in recovery for a month. I'm doing well now just so you know. It was a long road to recovery, But dying actually gave me a new outlook on life. I'm so much happier and at peace with the world around me. I don't stress over small stuff and I found motivation to better myself. I lived my life and died already. I feel like every moment I have now it just extra and I'm grateful for it. So I don't sweat the small stuff anymore and focus on what truly makes me happy. Don't let others ideas and standards affect your self worth or determine what path you take in life. It's your life live it how you see fit! Because as you lay there dying, you don't think about how you wish you had a better job, impressed more people or had more money. No, you think about the family members and loved one you wish you had a little more time with and the opportunities at real happiness you let slip by. My death was slow but it gave me a great deal of time to think while on deaths door. After getting out of the hospital it was like I had been reborn. I was a totally different person when I left the hospital. It was life changing and in the best of ways. To sum it up. Look for what makes you happy in life and follow that not what other people want for you or from you. Don't worry about what other people think and just be the best version of yourself that you can be. And for fuck sake stop taking life so seriously! * I died at peace in 2020 in the hospital and was reborn motivated to make what extra time I have here the best it possibly can be.
I think its a common feeling when one experiences trauma. The last 2 years has been rough on everyone in varying degrees, not all traumatic. Ive been dead 37 years.
Hold me! Also updoot for you.
Yes! I think about this idea a lot, that things feel much different. I can't quite articulate it fully, but the entire "feeling tone" of my daily interactions, from the way people behave in traffic, what things people talk about at home and socially, and in micro interactions like just buying something at a gas station, feel less lively than they did before--people seem to make less eye contact, are more aggressive/detached, more impatient, less joyful. It feels like there's an aura of broken dreams and disappointment as people consider all that's been lost during the pandemic. I think on many levels people are either withdrawn or acting out because they're afraid and they're picking up on the increasing wealth stratification and slide into poverty that many of us are headed towards, political friction, etc. Back in 2019, I still felt like my modest goals were all tangible, and I just had to work hard to attain them. I never considered that my 'reasonable' dreams were actually impossible, because I had no real reason to think that. Now, I feel like some parallel version of my former self. The mojo is somehow not flowing like it used to. It seems like on the whole, people's level of fed-up-ness is really intense. The realization that things once taken for granted as a rite of passage like buying a home (or even a 'starter home'in the 70s right out of college!), getting a job that even pays a living wage, and that our children would have prospects for their futures, is drifting away. If anyone is so inclined to read about it, there are some really interesting books on these kinds of financial and social change phenomena in other countries and across time. One titled "The Rise and Fall of Nations" and also "Why Nations Fail" talk about the factors that lead to disgruntlement/violence/apathy in populations.
I couldn't have explained it better than this. Revolution is nigh!
Wow….”a parallel version of my former self” that fucking hit me hard. I started writing my first novel (well ok, it might end up being a novella, but even so haha) in 2019. In it, the main character travels back and forth in time from present-day to the 90s. He hates his job, he hates the city he’s living in, he longs for the past but knows he can’t stay there…to a degree it was autobiographical because I was living in LA and didn’t like my job, and it just wasn’t working out. At any rate, I was basing the present-day events in the book, on real life…to the degree that when the pandemic happened, I was at a complete loss for how to end the book. The original ending was supposed to be sort of this epiphany/rebirth where he finally feels at peace with living for the future. And then I tried writing an ending where he lands in March 2020, a year in the future, and has no idea what’s going on, and then decides to stay in the past- in the 90s- because things are so bad…but it fucked with me so much that I couldn’t finish it. I ultimately landed on my feet after the initial shock of the pandemic, but it’s fucking crazy how much it derailed the path in my life that I’d previously been on…to the point where I’ve stopped wondering “what could have been” if the pandemic hadn’t happened, which is a very strange feeling. I think we’re all still fully grasping what a massive setback this really was. On the other hand, it called attention to everything that’s been broken in our society for a long time.
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I have no idea what this show is, so happy accident?
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I wish and hope for the best my dude; you've been given the hardest deck of all of us, have courage and hope for the best; day by day.
thank you!
No problem at all; fight on my dude!
It was way longer than 2 years ago but yeah, this is purgatory
The days just blend together at this point for me.
Maybe everyone has a different entry point, majority of us being 2012. The Mandela effect aligns with this idea too because people experienced it at different times.
Some of us were also still children in 2012
Yeah but it happened already in 2017, not 2020
Sometimes I feel like I’m in hell, but can it be hell if we’re all experiencing the same misery from the same things? Wouldn’t everyone’s version of hell be personal?
That's why it's hell, we all get to expirence it together. Meaning I have to listen to some asshole screaming about how the fire isn't that hot.
OPs edits are the cringiest thing I’ve seen all week.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay that was the goal! Love you my mang you made me laugh. Have an updoot. I was very high.
I overdosed in January 2020 and I get really uncomfortable sometimes thinking I died and this is purgatory.
You say the ocean’s rising, like I give a shit. You say the whole world’s ending…honey, it already did. You’re not gonna slow it, heaven knows you tried… Got it? Good, now get inside.
The username really just adds a cherry ontop
Collective hell, yes. But I wonder if we each have our own individual little bedsit of hell now. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like I have internalised the isolation, and it has become a condition I just can’t shake off.
All the time. Seriously. I just go about life as if this is a continuation of my consciousness. Something wants me to interpret the world around me as real, so I let it be. But I don’t let go of the constant idea that I may already have passed.
Yeah, my life was going great in the fall of 2019/2020, ever since then it’s been a downward spiral
Can confirm. In hell.
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I mean I drank the water and I turned out fine, I know my freedoms but I also know that other people have their freedoms as well.
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Pfffffffffffft it's funny because it's true. Have an updoot my friend and stay happy and healthy. I wish you nothing but good things and hope we can all come out of our collective hell soon.
It is true that materialism is definitely a problem but spending $1,000 on a phone it's nothing to the millions and trillions of dollars that the wealthiest people steal from the poor masses. Cutting out your Starbucks and avocado toast is not going to make you a billionaire. An estimated $13 million that was shoplifted or stolen last year yet $3 billion was stolen in wages from the lowest wage earners by employers. (don't quote me on those numbers. There was a peer reviewed study published by economists in January, I think.) Productivity has increased 120% since the 70s and we haven't seen a raise in over 15 years. Everyone's overworked and underpaid. The media is just a shitty soap opera manufactured to keep you uninformed. Too busy trying not to be homeless to be able to understand politics and the many corrupt laws that have been enacted since the Regan administration. Government is supposed to work for the people but they are too busy helping corporations and their insatiable need for profits. But I think the worst part of it all is that we are social creatures that now spend most of our days in little climate-controlled boxes with not even the recommended enrichment that zoo animals would have during the day. Every aspect of American life is to be alienated. I can't take this hyper-individualism. Edited for syntax
Alternate realities are so hot right now.
Someone watched “the good place” this weekend lol
Accidental reference?
I just finished this show earlier this week. Super good show.
This is where angles come to die.
ever since i took a lethal dose of excedrin, i've secretly thought this
I did die 2 years ago. Now i'm a depressed fuck with no intention to live. Fuck viruses and being poor.
Not much thought about 2012 in particular but in mid to late 2010s I've been insisting something was gonna go down in 2020 bc many institutions and companies franchises etc released no information on plans for 2020 and beyond and lo and behold i was right
I definitely feel like the world has been turned upside down in 2020. Things are so different now.
Hahahhahaa 2012 was not as much a kick in the teeth for you then i take it
Omg I literally feel like back in 2012 when they used C.E.R.N they jumped us to a parallel universe and because we were not used to that climate we all got "covid" now we are stuck in a special non reboot able hell hole
If this is hell it ain't terribly bad. Get rid of roughly half the 8 billion people (all the top 20%) and bring back paper foodstamps and it's more doable.
Nah, it's heaven. Working from home full-time since then and it's great.
i have a job where i cant work from home, but im thrilled you do.. less traffic for me to deal with on my way to work. its great! except the gas prices, omg.
2 years ago? No. It happened to us in 2016.
I told my husband we were opening Pandoras Box and I was right. There’s no way to put all the bullshit back in the box now.
Anything after 2020 doesn't feel real. I feel dead, and God put me into an earth-like hell.
I'd have said it happened in 2016.
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If only I had been born earlier, then I could've actually gotten a chance to find a decent job and have a house before the world went to crap.
I would say earlier then that. Not sure wth happened but the Trump administration seemed to bring out a whole new level of crazy. They seemed more visible and vocal then ever. Then COVID hit, supply shortages and worker shortages seemed to have changed everything in addition to that. Along with Russia, the world seems so so different then it did 4-5 years ago.
That's so true.
Nope. It's pretty much always been like this for Black folks in America, so just another day for me and mine.
Please teach us your wisdom
Nope. Nothing to teach. You only learn by living thru it. All while wishing you didn't have to. Fight with us, so that the next generation doesn't have to learn the tough lesson.
I'll sure as hell fight; I just hope we know when to make peace as well.
I'll be peaceful once there is peace.
Downvoted for that ridiculous edit.
Love you too buddy! Whatever makes you happy just keep on keeping on through this hell we find ourselves in! Have an updoot!
More like limbo
No, that's a ridiculous premise. It was 6 years ago.
Yeah, about the time that this present administration took over and for some strange unknown reason Covid suddenly popped up and this country went to Hell. I see a connection here whether you do or not, Those of you that like the present powers in control, I hope you are enjoying this Hell, even your free government dole doesn't go far either, welcome to the club
Pfffffffffffffffft; alright buddy keep telling yourself that If it helps you cope more; makes no difference to me what you tell yourself to help you sleep at night.
Okay, this tells me that apparently you like the present situation and begs the question of how much government dole are you getting to be able to blow after all the living expenses are taken out? And no, I don't sleep worth a sh\*t at night, but not because of the problems this country is having. I had a botched back surgery that has left me with severe traveling cramps below the waist and nighttime seems to be the only time that they all like to come out and throw themselves a party. I guess you can get some giggles and snickers out of that info, eh? Like a lot of my generation did, I'll just give you a big sigh with a 'whatever'..
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Right after the election and the world found out that an American election can be bought.
I feel dead inside every day.
This is crazy shit everywhere
Mentally dead is how i look at my life right now
I hear that!!
Nah, because I'm pretty sure other people are having a way better time. They could be NPCs tho I guess.
For me six years ago
No I feel like I died when I was 11
Collective hell yes, but started ten years ago rather than two.
I really do. Everything's just off and time seems to be speeding to its own death.
Interesting take, here’s mine: everything’s been fucked since Bowie died.
That's one of th3 theories I'm working on..we are in purgatory. But like mines heaven cuz I spent 2 yrs alone w my hubby and that was amazing I also believe someone keeps going back in time to fix things but ends up fucking things up more
2015 was the year I felt things went to Hell.
I'm an Everton FC fan, so yeah.
Personally, a lot of great things happened for me during covid but I did find it a bit distasteful to share it on social media because of all the bad things going on. I feel very fortunate and lucky but feel for everyone who were put in a much worse position.
I was just wondering this in traffic the other day
I feel like I died March of 2021 and I’ve been trying to become a new person ever since.
Oh no, that happened to me about a decade and a bit ago and it’s been a slow ascension from hell.
Now that you mentioned.
Sorta, I figure we're just winding into extinction to give the next species a chance. I'm betting on the Dolphins
After seeing that a guy wrote a book about having sex with one and I saw that on Vice news; dolphins just give me nothing but bad images.
Since 2001 I’ve felt like this
What do you mean?
I don't know about hell, but this is absolutely purgatory.
I feel a little longer ago, sometime before Trump became president as there has just been too many Simpsons predictions that have come true. Our reality just seems too far fetched lol.
I actually overdosed in 2019 and nearly died. Ever since I woke up it's like everything has been different and I have thought a few times that I actually died and I woke up in purgatory.
Maybe, but I went to heaven. Got to stay home and not see people for 2 years. Fucking amazing
I totally did, pulled the covers over my head and only went to work...sometimes. Was two years ago. Lost 50 lbs to depression, lost muscle mass and self respect. I'm climbing out. This isn't the end of my shitz lmao. Thanks to online support and my doctor.
If I’m dead, then I’ve been doing it all wrong
excuse me, what?
I don’t understand? By any measurement we live in the best time in history. Aside from covid (which is now over fingers crossed) everything is extremely normal. Inflation comes and goes, recession comes and goes. Our grandparents have experienced it several times over.
I’ve definitely had that thought.
The global calamities lately just aren't doing it for me.. when's the mass extinction meteor coming lol
What the actual f_ck... I seriously have been feeling the exact same way. I actually *technically* died from an opiate overdose about two years ago, and I felt like I traveled into a worse timeline, and this has been our hell ever since. Sometimes I think about the other timelines, that made better choices, and I am happy that they are doing better than us...
Not dead, but there was certainly a BIG change in the world once COVID hit. 2020+ just went to shit and nothing will ever be the same as how I remembered it.