Rock bottom is no objective state but a psychological one where you literally can’t care anymore and feel indifferent towards dying or consequences.
Somewhat ironically, i needed to get to that state to discover that once i had given up, nothing could hurt me anymore and i could do whatever I felt like without worrying about societies weird rulings and restrictions.
Never ended up doing anything that was really outlandish but experiencing that knowledge of absolute freedom and freewill (anarchy)
kept me going long enough for it to become an escape vector to climb to a condition where i could care once again.
Physically, only a finite amount of information fits in a given volume (e.g. your skull) before it collapses into a black hole. Among all possible configurations of information within that volume, some set of configurations is going to be the worst. So it can't always get worse.
Though if you're talking about your experience, then yes things can always get worse by lifting the restriction that it has to be "your experience". Whatever criteria you use to define "your experience", your worst possible experience will bend the boundaries of those criteria to find near-inhuman levels of suffering.
I like this thought, if only more people applied this to life to makes things more tolerable. Maybe lampooning day to day is the start of the great fall!
Or, you might find that what you believed to be rock bottom was actually just a resting spot for you to get nice and comfy thinking "can't be any worse than this, right?" before plunging even further when the stability of rock bottom is suddenly pulled out from under you like a rug. That's a thing that happens to some people...
Lol, I know some sisters who don't have to repay their student loans because they're private loans and they changed their name in transition and now they can't find them.
47 Comments
Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 91 pts · 153d
There is no rock bottom. It can always get worse. Even if the outside doesn't get worse, your experience can. I have seen and experienced it.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 30 pts · 153d
What most people call 'rock bottom' is just their personal bottom, where they, personally stopped digging themselves deeper and instead turned around.
But, yeah. Until you're dead, it can always get worse. Always.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 151d
I would argue that rock bottom is significantly farther down than dead. I would rather be dead than in a great many other scenarios.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 4 pts · 151d
True, but even in those situations, it could still get even worse.
However, if you're dead, things can't get worse. One of the great benefits of being dead (not to mention all the tax advantages).
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d
Locked in syndrome has entered the chat.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 153d
Beneath rock bottom is a trap door.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 153d
Rock bottom is no objective state but a psychological one where you literally can’t care anymore and feel indifferent towards dying or consequences.
Somewhat ironically, i needed to get to that state to discover that once i had given up, nothing could hurt me anymore and i could do whatever I felt like without worrying about societies weird rulings and restrictions.
Never ended up doing anything that was really outlandish but experiencing that knowledge of absolute freedom and freewill (anarchy) kept me going long enough for it to become an escape vector to climb to a condition where i could care once again.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 152d
So, you're proving the adage "you hit bottom when you stop digging."
Look at Charlie Sheen. Guy had a million second chances, and only stopped doing drugs after he'd caught AIDS and was being blackmailed.
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 153d
Sounds like you're doing it the Rocky Bottom Way
starik@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 153d
Better than the way we had
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 153d
Rock bottom is where you stop digging
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 153d
Another win for the lazy
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 153d
Schlimmer geht immer
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 152d
Physically, only a finite amount of information fits in a given volume (e.g. your skull) before it collapses into a black hole. Among all possible configurations of information within that volume, some set of configurations is going to be the worst. So it can't always get worse.
Though if you're talking about your experience, then yes things can always get worse by lifting the restriction that it has to be "your experience". Whatever criteria you use to define "your experience", your worst possible experience will bend the boundaries of those criteria to find near-inhuman levels of suffering.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 153d
Been watching the d20 marathon, but didn't recognize this. Which season was this?
Sas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 153d
This was Brennan playing a lil frog for a critical role adventure. It was called Wildemount Wildlings and i recommend it.
deacon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 153d
Oh I can hear the voice now.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 153d
Thanks homie
f314@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 153d
Just wanted to second the recommendation! Brennan’s character is hilarious, and Sam slays it in his DM debut (I think).
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 152d
I was going to say the same. Sam really settled in and found his groove, and Brennen had be dying from laughter.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 151d
Theres a marathon going on? How do you watch?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 151d
Dropout tv
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 151d
Just by chance I subscribed today, is it a special marathon or just watching a lot of dimension 20 in general?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 151d
It's a special thing they have been doing for the past week or so to celebrate their new 24 hour channel.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 151d
But I think it's at the tail end cause they're doing the steampunk ones now.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 151d
OK ive only seen fantasy high 1 and 2 so far
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 151d
Never stop blowing up and gladlands are my absolute favorite, if you're signed up definitely give them a check! If not they encourage password sharing
Yeller_king@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 151d
Could be a local minimum and not the global minimum.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 151d
This guy fucks
his math teacher
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 10 pts · 152d
I believe it starts at rock bottom and then you work your way towards buns of steel.
Visstix@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 153d
Rock bottom is where we live, and still we dig these trenches.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 152d
I thought the fast and furious franchise reached rock bottom, but by some miracle they're still making movies that are worse.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 152d
The fast and furious movies are much better once you understand that they're actually anime
Vile_port_aloo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 152d
I like this thought, if only more people applied this to life to makes things more tolerable. Maybe lampooning day to day is the start of the great fall!
Prizefighter@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 152d
I've hit rock bottom and started to dig.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 152d
I call that Dwarven Artistry.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 6 pts · 153d
Some just keep digging into the rock hoping to strike gold.
kamen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 151d
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 152d
Or, you might find that what you believed to be rock bottom was actually just a resting spot for you to get nice and comfy thinking "can't be any worse than this, right?" before plunging even further when the stability of rock bottom is suddenly pulled out from under you like a rug. That's a thing that happens to some people...
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 151d
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 151d
Death is a nice reprieve from the bottom.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 151d
Congratulations! You are now the opposite gender, but you still have student loans to repay!
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 151d
Lol, I know some sisters who don't have to repay their student loans because they're private loans and they changed their name in transition and now they can't find them.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 151d
Ahahaha! GOOD, GET FUCKED EXPLOITERS!
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 153d
i like her hairband
snoons@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 152d
Then you can pretend to be in Plato's cave and everything's FINE. SHUTUP ABOUT THE TREES EVERYTHINGS FINE SHUTUP
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 153d
You could get crushed by the weight of everyone and everything in the core...
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 151d
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 151d
as they say in AA, "rock bottom's just where you put the shovel down. you can always dig deeper"