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"suppressing" isn't the right word, but we all have conflicting desires and chose which ones to follow. For some reason when it comes to sex though, people act as though choosing some desires over sex is terrible and unnatural. Bullshit.

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"But what if we made ice cream taste the same... or non-addictive heroin..." is missing the point. You have life goals that will require ignoring/contradicting some basic drives. Everyone's goals are different, so you do you. You cannot do anything without suppressing some desire

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People seem really stuck on this. I want other partners like I want to eat only ice cream and not exercise while doing heroin. All those things feel really good! Doesn't mean I'm considering it in any way a good idea.
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RT @meditationstuff
If your eyes or imagination sort of start to low-key, current-relationship-respectfully, but consistently, IRL sexually wander, even if you care about, want to want, & are still sexually into y…
twitter.com/meditationstuff/st

It's almost like this describes most Trump supporters.
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RT @SianChristinaK
Stuck between thinking the NZ trump supporters are dumb fucks and feeling sad because a lot of them are brown - misinformed, have valid distrust in the government, are vulnerable and easily manipulated.
twitter.com/SianChristinaK/sta

Why do you think that a new partner every day would be satisfying?
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RT @Aella_Girl
@Vada_da_arbiter the kind of proof i'll take is someone who's gone 30+ years without once wanting to have sex with another woman
twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/

Slacking off is the truest kindness
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RT @gptbr00ke
People who believe kindness is The Way

why aren't you kind to yourselves more often?
twitter.com/gptbr00ke/status/1

Guy living in New Zealand who has never seen the ocean

Dharma is Greg’s wife
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RT @selentelechia
gonna see how long I can go on this meditation project without learning what the word Dharma means
twitter.com/selentelechia/stat

My pants bulging at the knees with my own waste as I waddle around the public square: “look at me everyone! I’m outgroup!”
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RT @eigenrobot
use of terms like "libtards" or "trumpalos" or whatever is one of the most reliable signals that someone is tiresome

its the cognitive equivalent of shitting yourself in public and announcing it to onlookers
twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/

How do you think the worms reproduce?
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RT @selentelechia
it would be easier to think clearly about risk if it didn't feel like people who talk about risk were trying to put Misery Worms in my head*

*whether or not they actually want to do that is not relevant
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RT @pee_zombie
as one solution, I invite all of you to join me on my new Mastodon server, schelling.pt. here you will be outside the reach of corporate media & part of a decentralized network of independent Twitter-like servers, free to move between them

schelling.pt/invite/LtApnNDs

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