• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s not really a myth… It’s a sith legend. The Jedi won’t teach it.

    That being said, my grandma’s sister is the most vile, racist, nationalist, evil hateful woman I have ever met. She lives off her dead husband’s veteran benefits, social security and Medicare. Never worked a day in her life. She’s survived pneumonia, colon cancer, pneumonia again, first wave COVID, second wave COVID, more cancer. She’s in her nineties. Outlived 3 of her children, and dropped all contact with a fourth.

    Sometimes I really think about it, and realize the dark side is a pathway to many abilities, some considered to be unnatural.

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      5 months ago

      Not giving a fuck is one way to lower stress. Poorly processed stress is a cause of illness and a lifetime pattern of badly processed stress can cause chronic illnesses. Stress doesn’t have to have bad effects if it’s processed well by the organism.

      There are many different ways to be a bad person, not all of them reduce stress, or improve the ability to process stress, but conceivably some ways could do either or both.

      That’s my hypothesis.