What makes someone weak? What makes someone strong?

@RebelFox Hey! Don't wish that on me!

I may be bad with nuance but clapping cheeks is pretty straightforward; pump and pump until something gushes. Real simple. I'd do a good job 😏

@Eternity Everyone knows women get preg when they ambush boners 🤷🏼‍♀️ 😂

Well hun I appreciate it, but I prefer men with more experience that do more than pump…

@RebelFox not if you lift them up and glaze the donut 🤷🏽‍♂️

That was a joke lol. I could do far more than just pump you. I'm real good at sex, maybe not as experienced as you but I'm very experienced for someone my age. A disadvantage to being a man is we have to work harder to get our numbers up than you fairer folk do. But add the experience I do have to my strong physicality, anatomic assets, and my general nastiness, and you'd be in for a good time rest assured.

But, you are free to believe as you want...that won't change the truth though 😉

@Miram

I agree with this but only to a point. I think that there is a point that most people would agree is pretty lame to crash at.

Like a person who regularly whines about something but never does anything about it or half asses it then stops and cries.

I think we would agree that such a person is weak right?

@Eternity

I think when we decide someone is strong, it is us mirroring what we find best in others. We are trying to attach meaning to suffering or to hope. So it is relatively easy to decide who is strong whether or not it is true. What is there to lose with little encouragement..

I don't know about others but determination has been both for me, self preservation which is innate , you do what you have to in order to survive + the choice to become better which is to me pretty much the will to power like described by Nietzsche .

It is very easy to decide who is strong because ultimately I am just attaching values that I aspire to to others.

Weak though is tricky. Lack of strength isn't the only reason why someone would do that and wallow in misery. I met lot of strong people who stopped wanting to get better in some fields of their lives because they do love their problems and don't want to lose what they already have. And them complaining over and over empowers them and keeps them going..whereas it would depress you to hear.

They still have determination, determined not to leave their abusive partners, determined to still follow laws that don't have their best interest, determine to be religious despite gender discrimination..etc they can still will to become better but not in those particular aspects.

Are they weak as whole? I don't think so. I think they are only weak in those aspects.

And so am I in some.

I think sometimes when we consider them week we enable their laziness ..other times we do so as protection, like we are obligated to help the weak. So often it can happen as result of excessive superiority tendencies.

Unfortunately that also applies to strong. Lot tend to dismiss helping others and feeling responsible for their suffering by calling them strong.

I also think being strong is not always the right choice.

@Miram this is an extremely nuanced perspective 👏🏽

@Nanori i agree. I dont think asking for help makes one weak. If you're asking for help then you must at least want to succeed. Otherwise there'd be no point.

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@DeluxedEdition self esteem is a vital aspect of strength I would think. One wont seek strength if they dont think they are worthy of it right?

@Eternity Self-awareness comes into the mix as well

@Dan193 i feel that self discipline is instrumental to increasing one's strength, but i do think strength is inherent to a degree.

I think people can be strong without it, but never as strong as they could be with it.

@Eternity to me thats what strength means. Big muscles or being a big shot, is not what impresses me as much as when I see or hear somebody's story of growth through struggles.

@Dan193
That raises a valid point too. There are different forms of strength.

@Ozymandiaz i agree with this. Another point for determination.

I think that determination is a pretty good benchmark because it is fair to everyone no matter their strength level.

If one has to be determined then whatever they are going through must be difficult, at least to them. And if they persevere then they have chosen strength.