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There's no such a thing as Karma. I put it under the self-fulfilling prophecies category. The most basic instincts are not conscious nor unconscious. They are deeply wired and built in the body underneath and prior to the mind. If you inspect deeply, you'll notice that there's no actual reason other than feeling for why you want to eat or have sex. This feeling (hunger, thirst, horniness, etc.) is not reasonable. It is illogical and irrational and it doesn't require any justifications. In fact, all justifications and reasoning stem from it. This feeling is inexplicable, even though we can speculate about why it's happening, but there's really no ultimate answer.

I try to keep an open mind all the time, but still. In my whole life, I've never dealt with criticism as much as the criticism I've gotten from the Actualized forum, both from members and moderators. Most people in real life just deal with me normally, and my relationships with others are good overall, at least that's how it seems to me at the moment. Even when I was at my worst (psychotic, neurotic, delusional, religious, dogmatic dickhead), rarely did anyone tell me to change my behaviors, even though I literally used to ask my friends all the time to be brutally honest with me whenever they thought I needed to change. Although, some people did reduce or even cut contact with me at the time. And now, after getting rid of the dickhead I was before, I never get criticism anymore, literally none except from the Actualized forum, not even verbal fights or even tensions, unless of course someone steps on my boundaries, which is where I activate the chimp mode haha. But to be fair, I don't socialize as much as before so I may be wrong. But maybe it's hard to criticize someone directly in their face, maybe the way I carry myself prevents people from thinking about criticizing me, or maybe people talk about me behind my back, but anyway. None of us is perfect. Everyone is a work-in-progress. That's how I see the world and people around me. So now, how do you know if someone is actually bringing up a valid point about your behavior? I know I know, someone is going to say there aren't any right or wrong behaviors, but let's be practical for now. Morality is relative to society, not absolutely relative, as Jordan Peterson says. And I'm not even really concerned with the moral aspect of the question. I'm mostly asking about the practical aspect. When someone tells someone else to change, what is really the case there? And why doesn't that someone change themselves instead of telling others to change? There are two sides of the equation. Either I change my behavior, or the other person accepts it as normal. So, how do we decide who should be the one to change? Can we find a middle-ground?

A variable is a container that can store data and allocate it to a specific location in memory in order to retrieve it later. It stores the data according to types, and there are various Data Types in C. Variables are declared by using the data-type keyword right before the variable name (which should match the purpose of the variable, e.g. whole numbers are stored in integer type variables), and each variable is then called by using a unique data-type specifier whenever needed. On the other hand, JS doesn't require stating the data type explicitly, therefore it is called a dynamically-typed/weakly-typed language, as opposed to C and TypeScript, which are statically-typed/strongly-typed languages. There are pros and cons to each of these two ways of programming, so there's no point in trying to find the best way. As well, JS doesn't have specifiers. A function is a piece of reusable code that can be called whenever needed in order to execute the code specified originally. Functions create their own scopes, and all the code inside them is basically only local and cannot be accessed from the outside scope, so that they don't interfere unintentionally with the rest of the code. By default, functions don't return anything as value, even though they can if they're told to. The not-returning of any value is called returning a void, so that's how a function is declared in C, by using the void keyword (or the appropriate data-type keyword) right before the function name. Whereas in JS, this happens silently and automatically behind the scenes without needing to explicitly state any returns. You just write your code, the return statement is optional, and you don't specify the expected data type for the returned value. Other than that, I haven't seen many differences between C and JS yet. I'll probably share whatever more interesting findings I may collect.

@Faith Thank you for sharing your story, and best of luck for you on your journey. You can do it, and so can I.

It largely depends on your interests and the kind of people you want to make friends with. I would generally attend courses, seminars, workshops, etc. if I'm interested in meeting serious/smart people in particular. Otherwise, parties, clubs, theaters, etc. for the more artistic types.

One year has passed so far while on the front end path, still not over the learning curve yet, still lacking enough foundational understanding of basic concepts, especially and most importantly of variables and functions. People/Instructors say that practice is the way to get over the learning curve, but I don't think they're exactly right. I mean I have already been practicing for quite some time, but alas I don't see the effects that I want to see. I think their advice can make a developer, but not a good let alone a professional one. Obviously, if you repeat something enough times you will get through the wall. If you keep banging your head to the wall, eventually either of them will break, and in this case it's most likely the wall. But that doesn't bring deep understanding. It can't. At best it can bring a surface-level understanding, which is not enough for someone who wants to commit to this path until the end. So that being said, I decided to go one step back and learn a little bit about the C language, which is a middle-level language and actually the origin of most high-level languages, such as JavaScript which is the essence of front end development. This shouldn't take a long time, given the fact that I'm already familiar with programming in JS, and somewhat-versed in it. At the same time, this should bring a lot of clarity and remove many obstacles because C is the father of JS. So overall, I expect quick improvements and finally getting past the learning curve. We'll see how it goes.

Just some thoughts that pass through my mind...

That is a cool way of looking at the mind. I notice you refer to this masculine and/vs. feminine dichotomy a lot on your channel almost in every topic, this post clarified some of your mind-map to me which should help me understand more of your videos.

Hard to assess what paradigm you're asking from, so I'll start with: I don't know.

Thoughts.