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It's not just west that have access to drinking water and toilet lol.

Third comment is me in this case.

So I met my wife when we were both 30. We had never met before, that we remember, yet we both lived in the same small town, spent time with our parents when we were kids at the same places and parks, had the same friends right after school, went to the same pubs and clubs with those friends, and yet we never met. I scour the background of her family videos and photos, and her clubbing pictures, looking for myself in the background hanging out with the same people lol. Drives me nuts.

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My boyfriend was in a couple of my family photos 10 years before we met and a 17 hour drive away from my home town. We only found out when my mom was going through old photos for my brother’s wedding.

And yet westerners use a fucking piece of paper to wipe? I mean where privilege now ASSWIPE

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Idk why you're being downvoted, people need to look up what privilege means

Higher standard of living is not the same as privilege, that would imply that people of the past are somehow excluded, which they are in a sense because they're dead.

My grandparents bought a house where I live on one normal jobs income. Me and my partner work 50 hours plus a week in degree/masters prerequisite positions to share a room in a house share.

Id shit in the street and wipe my ass with glass for that opportunity.

>And easterners are so privileged that they shoot fresh clean water up their butts.

lmao

Isn't it glorious.

Unless it's your holiday/second home of course. In that case, not technically sheltering you from homelessness.

(NB. Before this ends up on humblebrag, number of houses I own = zero).

Happens to me at least once a day

Plus a lot of people will come in and give answers even though they don’t know what they’re talking about. And so the poster probably still doesn’t know the correct answer.

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It's kind of needed to make a shower thought interesting. Otherwise someone says something then there's no comments and that's the end of it

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True. But that’s not what happened here.

"Value" comes from reflection, and reflection takes time. A moment is much too brief for us to attribute value to it while simultaneously experiencing it in all its phenomenal richness/complexity. "Living in the present" means not letting that phenomenal richness/complexity slip away from our experience of Being in order to retroactively assign value (or lack thereof) to any one moment in time. Doing so causes us to lose the emergent moment (where the value of life is said, by some, to truly reside). That's at least one way to look at it, more or less.

Right! Everybody back to the "communal latrine pits!" It worked so well before, hardly any diseases or anything!