Personally, as someone with SERIOUS hopeless-doomer tendencies myself, I’ve come to view expressing them like masturbation, or picking your nose: it should only be done in private unless others have explicitly consented to watch you do it.

Yep. I mean, my husband and I have found ourself discussing basically prepper type survival techniques for 'when the shit hits the fan'. I roll my eyes, frankly - as if we'd ever get our shit together in time. We're as fucked as everybody else. Er, in that scenario. Which might not happen. Might.

Yeah, that's for the "oh no, I'm doom-spiraling," moments when you need someone to lure you away from the edge. You don't put that out there to trip up the unsuspecting. Bad form.

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The loudness with which you say something makes a huge shift in your actual message.

I'm still struggling with the ethics and tactics of when to speak and when to be quiet in this case.

Yeah, I'm a pessimist, but I'm still going to try. And I don't want to discourage other people from trying too

there's a few doom fetish sites I like to trawl when I'm feeling especially hard up.

Yeah, same. Probably why most of my posts that aren’t responses to others are mostly nature pics.

100% feel this post in my "Holy shit, am I atheist?/Are souls even real?/Will we never see justice or peace or reach divine understanding of our faults?" grief era. Bleak, hopeless musings are for times you don't have to get shit done, for your folk who don't mind you on your existential bullshit.

I need to never pick my nose again