• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Because sometimes it is easy to give reasonable advice to someone because it is easier to look at a situation from detached view and thus no emotion involved. But apply the same advice to yourself, and emotions could come running.

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    1 day ago

    Guys this was me playing bowling the other day with my buddy every time I instructed him how to throw the ball he got a strike but otherwise… GUTTER BALL! But then I gutter balled when I went… just thought I’d mention that

    Yeah, I suck at bowling

    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Hey that’s awesome you coached him into getting strikes

      (Strikes are a good thing in bowling but a bad thing in baseball apparently)

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    2 days ago

    I know this is a shit post, but I have wrestled with hypocrisy or more specifically saying one thing but doing something else for a long time. Think of a murderer saying that murder is wrong.

    I think I am comfortable now saying that hypocrisy doesn’t discredit a true statement, even if the person who is saying it may be considered disingenuous.

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      23 hours ago

      “Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.” -Stormlight Archives

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    2 days ago

    is there a name for the reverse of this? like making a change for yourself that works great for your needs, but then assuming that others just need to do the same thing?

    • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Sharing what worked for you is a pretty normal way to give advise. It can get annoying when its done too much, but that’s also not really rare. Though that tends to happen more when it’s a fresh experience and probably related to sincerely wanting to share a good experience.

      But I don’t any specific tarm for this. Projection maybe a bit

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    2 days ago

    “My life is a mess right now and I compulsively take care of other people when I don’t know how to take care of myself.” -Princess Carolyn

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      2 days ago

      The craziest part of that is the idea supposedly working. Like: instead of both calling out his idea as outlandish, one of them was like “Yeah - cool. We’ll go with that plan. I can accept taking home half of a human child.”