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Finally, an OS to rival HannahMontannaOS

This is a very common perspective for beginners.

There are a few things worth unpacking here.

1. You've set yourself a goal, which is antithetical to the nature of meditation.
2. The goal (which is besides the point) you've set is totally unrealistic. For a beginner to sit and let their mind become empty is the equivalent of an average person waking up tomorrow and deciding to run a double marathon.
3. One reason meditation is helpful is that we become more efficient at letting go of unhelpful thoughts. Your reason for not wanting to do meditation, is the reason you should do meditation. It's a catch 22.

If you ever decide to try again, it might be helpful to set some realistic goals, temporarily.

See if you can let your mind become as empty as you can, for a whole second. If that's easy, try two seconds (this is harder than it sounds, but definitely within the capacity of beginners).

Other goals might be to not hold on to any thought for longer than ten seconds before returning your attention to the breath for the duration of the practice.

If you practice enough, you'll intuitively understand the goals aren't important and are just more unhelpful thoughts.

These are all pretty common points of contention for beginners.

Barring extreme cases, like people with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, I believe meditation is beneficial, and not harmful, for virtually everyone.

I'm certain you've experienced a state of flow before and found equanimity in the process.

Meditation at its core is being able to drop back into that experience at your own convenience.

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I want the Who? Cares Bears

I'm an experienced meditator. Are you able to articulate why meditation doesn't work for you?

I didn't mean OP was a single-parent. I meant I haven't met any parents.

In any case, are you telling me you haven't ever let your kid watch TV because you were too busy?

This take reminds me of the family dinner scene from Whiplash

I'm going to assume you don't have kids.

Unless you've had kids you don't understand that it is practically impossible to complete even the most basic tasks unless your child is distracted.

Staying on top of household duties while managing a child is challenging enough, but then add on work, study, and every other responsibility.

I've never met a single parent who shares your opinion.

For me, it was Gojira

I do

This take reminds me of the family dinner scene from Whiplash

Weightlifting

It's exercise. It's in the name. It's not a sport, it's exercise. I'm expecting the next Olympics to have running, maybe swimming and a jumping event, since exercise is a sport now.

My bad, poor choice of wording on my part.

When I'm talking about proprietary in this context, I don't mean closed source, I mean it as in the financial sense of not being copy-left, or under any sort of licence which permits free adoption of their code.

Everyone here is bummed out, but fails to see the upside.

To rival the Play Store, there needs to be an alternative package manager on Android which hosts proprietary apps.

The outcome is a decrease in Googles revenue and eases the hold they have on Android as a Play Store dependant operating system.

If F-Droid didn't step up, Epic would be the only contender to the Play Store. At least this way we know there will be some degree of democracy.

Jesus dude, take the L and move on.

I'm more disturbed by the salute in front of that funny windmill symbol.

I'm just gonna leave this here

Besides being Trump, it is in no way related to this story, it just makes me laugh because it's so stupid.

Posted eight years ago, a better time. Before we knew exactly how stupid it would be.

"Have you ever realised just how broken you are?"

This question implies the experience of some kind of epiphany, but I've had a life-long keen awareness of exactly how fucked up I am as a result of having a shitty father.

My longest held ambition was to be a better father than my father was.