Other Random question of the day

Mostly working on my short film! Learning more about animation and film production in general, and slowly inch towards those lofty goals of mine <3
 
AlexneushoornTheGreat said:
Happy New Year, RPN! Hopefully 2025 will live up to all your expectations!

Random question of the day:

What are your plans for 2025?
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I’m working on eating better for my physical health as there’s a family history and being mindful of mental health. Well 2023 was a bad year for my anxiety so trying to work on bettering myself.
 
Random question of the day:

Given that 2025 is the Year of the Snake in Chinese astrology and it's supposed to represent transformation, spiritual growth and renewal to name a few things, what do you believe this will mean for the world as a whole?
 
It will mean that some people will read a greater amount of transformation, spiritual growth and/or renewal in events they experience or hear about, regardless of of whether there is any substantive increase in those compared to other years.
 
Random question of the day:

What are your thoughts on the anti-Trump crowd leaving 2024 and going into 2025 with a pessimist/defeatist attitude? (Use the discussions thread linked at the beginning of this thread for detailed discussion of this question.)
 
What would you do in the face of a gigantic alien race? If all they want to do is use you as a toy, knowing who you are and what your accomplishments have been, that's a relief. If they knew you were really sentient, who knows what they would do to you?
 
AlexneushoornTheGreat said:
Notice for New Members: If you're gonna answer a previously asked question, please quote the question in particular so we can avoid confusion on which question you're answering.

Notice for everyone, New Members included: Please keep debates and SilvaGunner esque nonsense conversations out of this thread. If you're not gonna answer a question, then please don't say anything.

Notice for everyone, New Members included: Don't ask your own questions in this thread. Only I get to ask questions.

Link to the discussion thread for discussion of loaded questions or questions in general: Other - Random question of the day: The Discussions

In this thread I will ask a question everyday, and you will have to answer it. So the first random question of the day is:

What do you prefer? Playstation or Xbox?
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Ive had my xbox for almost 4 years now and my playstation for 2 definitely playstation because of the exclusives
 
No answers yesterday. Oh well.

Random question of the day:

Why is it common for women who get pregnant on accident or through unwilling factors to be forced to marry the man who got them pregnant?
 
As far as I'm aware, at least within societies I'm familiar with in the modern day, they are not, though this would be contingent on definition of "forced" (as in is there direct pressure and a substantial threat towards the woman marrying that man specifically). As for places and times when such a thing would be the case it had to do with cultural, social and religious values and norms.
 
Idea said:
As far as I'm aware, at least within societies I'm familiar with in the modern day, they are not, though this would be contingent on definition of "forced" (as in is there direct pressure and a substantial threat towards the woman marrying that man specifically). As for places and times when such a thing would be the case it had to do with cultural, social and religious values and norms.
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In the middle ages you could surrender an unwanted child to the church and disappear. The church was obligated to keep a Foundling (any child surrendered to them, anonymous) on doctrinal and moral grounds. They do not like it, because the kid would become a monk and when anyone becomes a monk they have to offer a gift of material or land to the monastery the person is joining.

Alternatively, since virgin status was often ascribed to the having of a child, women could just slip off somewhere and get an abortion and if it's deniable enough in at least a sort of ritual context ("lol I just went off into the forest and prayed to a saint and removed the child from the womb!") everything would be fine. There were - are - infact canonical saints known for abortions, most important of them being Saint Bridget. Hildegard of Bingen is also known to have written whole ass medical tomes for women's health that involved medical plants that can be taken to induce an abortion. They may not be at all important anymore and even forgotten, but they were once very important "back then"
 
No answers to yesterday's question. Eh...

Random question of the day:

Is it true that you don't have to fully forgive someone for horrid actions they committed against you even if they do end up going out of their way to apologize to you for it?
 
I mean yeah. I mean an apology hardly makes up for a lot of stuff. Plus sometimes you can’t bring yourself to forgive even if you want to.

Now, I do personally think one should try to forgive, but that’s a matter of religious values. As a Christian I believe I ought to forgive - though this shouldn’t be confused with forgetting or not taking into account patterns of behavior, nor even that the person in question does not deserve punishment. It’s a matter of my personal grudge against them that I ought to be able to look past.

Additionally in a more practical sense even if you can’t forgive someone there are certainly times when it’s the more sensible thing to do to nonetheless act as if you are, at least in the sense of allowing them to return (the precise meaning of which is highly context-dependent), not actively going against them or even actively cooperating with them.
 
Forgivness is never for the perpetrator of pain. Like idea said it is birthed from a virtue of I surrender myself to a situation out of your control and mentally this brings power back in your court. It is powerful to forgive in many cultures around the world. Some cultures have a very structured system around forgivness.

Pain only breeds more pain but pain can not feed on joy it finds it quiet indigestible. To quote one of my favorite spiritual teachers.

Forgivness can be strangely easy. It took a lot of cbt and dbt work and years of self reflection on that to fully accept this truth myself.

I have had to forgive many people in my life if only for the sake of my own neurological health. The stress of holding onto trauma and feelings actually does brain damage over time so be kind to your brain and give it vacant space for hope and opprotuniy


Awesone question today Alex :)
 
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