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post 1697223433 01-31-2024, 07:52 AM
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Why do so many look so desperate?

Folks look like they are at their limit. Even in a Hermes shop people look like they've checked out.

What is so wrong with peoples' lives?
post 1697224003 01-31-2024, 08:07 AM
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vaxcels and bidencels know they are cuked. just two more weeks though
IF YOU DONT SQUAT, YOU AINT SQUAT
post 1697224093 01-31-2024, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted By Legendsneverdie⏩
vaxcels and bidencels know they are cuked. just two more weeks though
Everyone is cucked by the government not just vaxcels and bidencels.
post 1697224373 01-31-2024, 08:15 AM
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Because they don't realize that the only hope is in escaping this world through faith in Jesus Christ. Nothing anyone can try to fill their heart with will suffice. The fruits of the Spirit and love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, forbearance, and self control. Without God you have none of that.
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post 1697224613 01-31-2024, 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted By Legendsneverdie⏩
vaxcels and bidencels know they are cuked. just two more weeks though
So many cucked.
Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
Everyone is cucked by the government not just vaxcels and bidencels.
But only some (though a lot) walk down the street looking defeated. Broken shells of a human being. It's prolific srs.
post 1697228663 01-31-2024, 10:05 AM
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Its the look people get when they are lied to all the time.
"To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other."-- Carlos Castaneda
post 1697228943 01-31-2024, 10:11 AM
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We're headed into year 3 of a tightening economic cycle.

People are essentially the "frog in the pot", and the water is starting to get really warm. All excitement is gone from the average person's life.

When was the last time you went out and saw people truly letting loose and going crazy? I haven't seen it in a few years now(at least in the US).

However, I wouldn't ever gauge economic health by how people in the Hermes store look. Those people have been dead inside for many years already.
post 1697230443 01-31-2024, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted By PaulJerome⏩
Because they don't realize that the only hope is in escaping this world through faith in Jesus Christ. Nothing anyone can try to fill their heart with will suffice. The fruits of the Spirit and love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, forbearance, and self control. Without God you have none of that.
You think that "kindness", "goodness", and "self-control" are characteristic of Christianity? Off to History_101 with you.
Originally Posted By crupiea⏩
Its the look people get when they are lied to all the time.
Lied to by whom?
post 1697231113 01-31-2024, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
They aren't smiling enough.
Indeed. Not even fake smiles are visible much any more - some on this forum are in band camp as well. Sad!
post 1697242123 01-31-2024, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted By OliverHeldens⏩
We're headed into year 3 of a tightening economic cycle.

People are essentially the "frog in the pot", and the water is starting to get really warm. All excitement is gone from the average person's life.

When was the last time you went out and saw people truly letting loose and going crazy? I haven't seen it in a few years now(at least in the US).

However, I wouldn't ever gauge economic health by how people in the Hermes store look. Those people have been dead inside for many years already.
I saw it at a speakeasy in LES a few months ago. Legit buying drinks for each other, and the bartender.

I only wear Hermes ties, it is my thing. The salespersons in London used to be so friendly, heck even in an airport like Frankfurt.

But from there to here (NYC) folks just seem so dead inside.
post 1697242493 01-31-2024, 02:33 PM
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Are they medicated?
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For most people, there's very little to look forward to. You have to work your ass off to afford your life, or can't anymore. Lots of people are struggling with debt, mental health issues are rampant thanks to things like social media and everyone is lashing out against each other over stupid crap like politics.

And it's not like the future looks bright, if anything people know it's only going to get worse. I'd be willing to bet if things like suicide pods existed they would be very, very busy.
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Originally Posted By PaulJerome⏩
Because they don't realize that the only hope is in escaping this world through faith in Jesus Christ. Nothing anyone can try to fill their heart with will suffice. The fruits of the Spirit and love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, forbearance, and self control. Without God you have none of that.
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post 1697244673 01-31-2024, 03:19 PM
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people holding on for dear life in this last disaster of a year under Biden
post 1697244873 01-31-2024, 03:24 PM
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they have forgotten that true happiness and more importantly contentment cannot be bought
it has to be earned through self fulfilment and sacrifice

they are living shallow materialistic lives that will only end in despair
post 1697244923 01-31-2024, 03:26 PM
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Probably because you likely scoffed at them and announced yourself as their superior. How are they supposed to feel good after that?
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Originally Posted By PaulJerome⏩
Because they don't realize that the only hope is in escaping this world through faith in Jesus Christ. Nothing anyone can try to fill their heart with will suffice. The fruits of the Spirit and love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, forbearance, and self control. Without God you have none of that.
Okay Ron
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I've bought the same grocery basics since college 10 years ago.

In college it would be $45-50.

Those same basics now cost me $130
post 1697247113 01-31-2024, 04:36 PM
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Inflation, covid and useless wars have got to go.
post 1697247503 01-31-2024, 04:47 PM
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Because it always feels like there's some chit going on; inflation, wars, house prices, slave, slave, slave



When was the last time everything was rosy?
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Originally Posted By LogicalLifts⏩
You think that "kindness", "goodness", and "self-control" are characteristic of Christianity? Off to History_101 with you.
You think anyone who claims to be a Christian is really a Christian?

Matt 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
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Bidenomics has hit people hard, and woke politics has become exhausting.
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Originally Posted By andyray⏩
When was the last time everything was rosy?
When that mean orange man was in charge but we had to kick him out because mean tweets!
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
When that mean orange man was in charge but we had to kick him out because mean tweets!
2016-2019 were GOAT.

If you had a single brain cell you could get a decent job.
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Originally Posted By 6gorillion⏩
2016-2019 were GOAT.

If you had a single brain cell you could get a decent job.
This. My god do i feel for those who missed this boat.

The gates are shut now, but during that time period i was able to leap frog my way from the peasantry into a fullfilling middle class career.

There had been a vaccume after all those people retired or died of covid and while many couldnt hack it, some did, like myself.

But my god is it a BAD BAD time to be poor. Hell i'm making what i considered great money just 4 years ago and it feels like i'm just living a normal life, nothing special really.
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yea man, a lot of people look like this these days


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Originally Posted By FrostF⏩
This. My god do i feel for those who missed this boat.

The gates are shut now, but during that time period i was able to leap frog my way from the peasantry into a fullfilling middle class career.

There had been a vaccume after all those people retired or died of covid and while many couldnt hack it, some did, like myself.

But my god is it a BAD BAD time to be poor. Hell i'm making what i considered great money just 4 years ago and it feels like i'm just living a normal life, nothing special really.
Just need to weather this final year of this ass clown.
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Originally Posted By LogicalLifts⏩
Folks look like they are at their limit. Even in a Hermes shop people look like they've checked out.

What is so wrong with peoples' lives?
No matter what you hold dear in life social media has introduced you to a few thousand people who will gleefully shred it apart. I think it leaves people feeling unmoored. What an I meant to take pleasure from or seek strength in when everything is a problem for somebody else. Add in financial woes & mass migration. Crime and a debased culture. People no longer feel safe and at home in the world. Everything feels more difficult and complicated for them. Personally, if I had money I’d live a quiet rustic life. No tv or internet. Shut the world out. A tree is still a tree, a blue sky is still a blue sky. I remember reading once that Johnny Depp spent a year in the gardens of his French château just watching the plants and flowers grow. I’d do that.
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Originally Posted By redmelly⏩
Are they medicated?
It could be. From the way many folks speak here in NYC I can't help but think they are on meds.
Originally Posted By WoofieNugget⏩
For most people, there's very little to look forward to. You have to work your ass off to afford your life, or can't anymore. Lots of people are struggling with debt, mental health issues are rampant thanks to things like social media and everyone is lashing out against each other over stupid crap like politics.

And it's not like the future looks bright, if anything people know it's only going to get worse. I'd be willing to bet if things like suicide pods existed they would be very, very busy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59577162

I know someone with (he says) depression, and that if he was going out with some lingering illness he'd use a 'suicide pod'. Had never heard of this thing until last year, and your post reminded me of that.
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Originally Posted By LogicalLifts⏩
Folks look like they are at their limit. Even in a Hermes shop people look like they've checked out.

What is so wrong with peoples' lives?
Most people are making 40K a year, doping themselves with opioids, and waiting to die.

We’ve reached peak civilization. There’s not much left
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