Fucking anxiety. Even when I'm just sitting here doing nothing my muscles tense up and I have to take a deep breath

relax. i haven't been here in years and i didn't come here to piss anyone off; i gave the guy advice.

only if you have meme anxiety

girls usually can sniff losers from a mile away

do you think the thoughts are responsible for how you feel? are you comfortable with yourself?

>girls usually can sniff losers from a mile away
lmao, this is so fucking true.

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you have to try your best to smell nice

op i really understand your woes i can be sitting there and randomly have paranoid and anxious thoughts that ruin everything

>muh anxiety

I wished I could still get anxious or excited about anything at all. I always feel drained and tired, no matter what I do.

There are two kinds of intelligence. Cerebral, and cerebellar.

For the people high on the cerebral intelligence, things simply are. They teach mostly by memorizing; facts are to be memorized, and repeated as exactly as possible. They will typically recognize "intellectual property", as knowledge is seem to have high value, and some fact may be reserved for certain special people. The origin of knowledge is not understood, most of everything they know is learned from other people, and knowledge may be believed to be of divine origin, held as sacred, and modifying it may be seen as a crime.

For those high in the cerebellar intelligence, there is an inner logic to most things. They teach mostly by letting the children rediscover the knowledge, and exactness is not expected. Knowledge is not seen as having inherent value, as what was discovered once can be discovered again; it may seem completely bizarre that soembody would want to own knowledge, as it is intuitively understood how new knwoledge is discovered and most of what they learned was learned through guided rediscovery, through their parents and teachers, rather than being handed down to be memorized. Innovation and curiosity is valued and simply memorizing facts may be seen as worthless. Cont...

This is reflected by the language and culture at large, with the cerebral cultures being highly symbolic, contain rutualized ways of doing and saying things, and langauges that use a massive vocabulary of words with complex meanings that may need long exposure to get their meaning properly understood.

Cerebellar cultures instead value flexibility and creative solutions, with certain harmful things being forbidden, rather than the proper ways of doing things being prescribed. There is a clear distinction between symbols that are used to communicate certain things, and the majority of things that are no symbols. Their languages only contain a relatively small number of tiny words with exact, very restricted meaning, from which more complex meanings are constructed through their highly productive grammar, and even very common objects and concepts use words that are constructed from several morphemes and don't have a symbol of their own.

Find your tribe.

>it's another Teuto-Japanese vs. Anglo World post

Germanic cultures would be with no doubt near the extreme of the cerebral, with perhaps some traditional australian cultures being even higher.

Asian cultures are definitely cerebellar, even though their school system may suggest otherwise. Japan may be somewhat more cerebrals, but still nowhere near the extremes of Europe.

Some cultures, such as those in southwest asia, seem ot be in fact split in two parts, one which serves the predominantly cerebral (such as hinduism, orthodox Judaism or other "hard" reigions) and those serving the cerebellar (such as buddhism)

user, as someone who has lived and studies in Japan, I can tell you confidently that
>value flexibility and creative solutions
doesn't apply to Japan in any sense at all.

The average Japanese makes even a stereotypical German bureaucrat look like a source of sublime spontaneity and wit.

>studies
*studied

This is not to be confused with collectivism and individualism. In the individualst cerebral culture, you may be free to do whatever you choose, but you still must do it the exactly prescribed way, or risk getting ostracized.

Well I knwo more china than japan, but from what I learned, if you know people, everything is possible, if you don't, there is always a reason why it cannot be done.

In Japan, it's usually more along the lines of "there is no precedent, so it can't be done". They simply don't realize that somebody has to be the first to do something for it to become a precedent.

That can really mean anything from "I don't know you so why should I bother with something unusual" to "I'm too polite to tell you you're a retard and this is the worst idea I've ever heard of".

Of course it could. The thing is that you assume that I'm basing my observations on personal anecdotes alone, when the "it can't be helped, this is how things are" was of lookinng at things is extremely pervasive in Japanese society and thought.

Yes, the countries caught up centuries of development because they are too traditional. (/s to be certain)

You either have zero social skills or you want something bizarre that doesn't make any sense.

>the Japanese (among others) value flexibility and creativity
Well, at least the Japanese really do not.
>they are very traditional, of course they do not!!1!
Your line of argument makes zero sense.

There was a historical shift of power to new elites, when Japan started their rapid modernization. They alsomade sure to closely follow established ways of doing things correctly. They even basically got Prussian scholars to write their new constitution for them, and adopted their drafts nearly without any changes.

>Well, at least the Japanese really do not.

I tried to look it up and it seems Japan might be indeed more like Germany and resto of europe in this aspect for some reason. businessinsider.com/the-culture-map-8-scales-for-work-2015-1

Still, they caught up with the west ever sooner than China did, so it cannot be that bad.

>>they are very traditional, of course they do not!!1!
>Your line of argument makes zero sense.

/s means sarcasm. Yes, exactly, it wouldn't make any sense if they were so stuck in the ways the think. You can see how that ends up with the (native) australians, total inability to adapt with modern society around them.

They really are not, but nobody's going to do something completely different (and disrupt 10 other things that depend on it) just because you want it. Hard to tell without you being somewhat more specific.

>They alsomade sure to closely follow established ways of doing things correctly

Correctly because they work and there is no known better method. Not it has always been done this way so it's good.

Even if you had a gun you would be to much of a faggot.