Usefulness Community

I've never been anyone's favorite😔❤️‍🩹

I've never been anyone's favorite, not even my mom's, although I know she loves me, but not like those mothers who constantly brag about their children. I'm not anyone's best friend. I've had best friends, but I'm not their best friend. In friendships, I've always played the role of the friend… read more

The usefulness of AI

I want that automated answering machines to check the person identity before answering calls. Its pretty cool

A stone that cannot be warmed is useless. Raising someone who cannot be tamed is ungrateful.

I recently heard this phrase "a stone that cannot be warmed is useless, raising someone who cannot be tamed is ungrateful". To me it sounded like a blend of some metaphorical wisdom from different traditions, though it is not some direct quotation from any canonical source. So I looked it from… read more

Finding True Happiness

Finding True Happiness True happiness is not to be found in self-gratification, but in the path of duty. God desires man to be happy, and for this reason He gave him the precepts of his law, that in obeying these, he might have joy at home and abroad. While he stands in his moral integrity, true… read more

Metamorphosis(Samsa)

I always believed that carrying the financial weight and putting my people first would guarantee their unconditional love and respect. Kafka's The Metamorphosis completely shattered that illusion. If you are actively searching for a piece of classic psychological fiction that explores the darkest… read more

Agree or Disagree: The Right to Waste

Production is one possible use of a life, not the condition that legitimizes having one. OR No person owes the world the maximization of their productive, social, intellectual, or economic value. OR A person has the right to expend their finite life, time, capacities, and attention according to… read more

Late Son Part 10

Summer → The Narrow Road Summer arrived and stayed. Not with events. Not with demands. Just with days that asked to be lived inside rather than managed around. The riverside settlement held without effort. Nets were mended. Walkways repaired where they wore thin. Nothing needed escalation. Nothing… read more

You’ll always be important to those who benefit from your presence. Love begins where usefulness ends.

The Hours That Hurt

Morning has never been kind to me, but at least it arrives carrying instructions. There are floors beneath my feet, doors that need opening, small machinery waiting to be started again. Even reluctance has somewhere to go when the world is asking things of you, and I have learned how to answer… read more

What Are the Four Main Greek Concepts of Love?

The ancient Greeks identified four primary concepts of love: Philia (φιλία): This term describes the love found in friendships, family bonds, marriage, and civic relationships. It signifies mutual goodwill and active concern for another's well-being. Aristotle considered it a fundamental aspect of… read more

Late Son Part 1

The Forgotten Door Steven woke to stone. Cold beneath his back, close on either side, the kind of corridor built for maintenance rather than people. No chains. No pain. His magic was there—present, patient—but it lay coiled instead of reaching. That alone told him this wasn’t a trap meant to hold… read more

The Caretaker

Miranda Mercer is an ordinary woman who has deliberately built an extraordinary life. Fully aware of the supernatural, she stepped towards it by choice rather than accident, never out of fascination with power, but because she trusted the people involved. She has never wanted to become something… read more

The way Kafka shows how our worth is tied to our usefulness is honestly brutal. Looking back at the story, the real tragedy isn't Gregor’s transformation at all. It’s the way his family changes, stripping away their own humanity once he’s no longer 'useful' to them.

🛑 Are you living your life for the algorithm?

​ ​Every metric—from your feed's engagement score to your job's efficiency targets—is designed to make you predictable and useful. ​A new academic paper argues that this digital control system is trying to confuse your simple USEFULNESS (Utility) with your infinitely complex REAL WORTH (Intrinsic… read more

Need Playtesters for my card game!

Hey everyone! I'm looking for some playtesters for my in-the-works card game Elementals: The Living Stones. If you're interested in being a playtester, please let me know! The only requirement is you must own Tabletop Simulator, as that's where it's being hosted. Elementals: The Living Stones is… (edited) read more

Farms

What's your favorite farm to make, whether it be for usefulness or you generally just like the farms design

Socrates’ "Triple Filter" test

One day an acquaintance ran up to Socrates & asked: “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?” “Wait a moment,” Socrates replied, “Before you tell me, I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.” “Triple filter?” asked his acquaintance. “That’s… read more

At a certain age are friendships more about what you can do for each other and less about actually liking each other?

Like you start caring more about what use you can get out of each other and if someone lacks too much usefulness you're not gonna bother to build a relationship? And even for long time friends if someone stops providing you a use you expected out of them you just cut them off in favor of those who… (edited) read more

The usefulness ends when the benefits end.

Love is all that is left when usefulness is no longer present.

How fast they abandon once usefulness is gone lol

My Evening Prayer

God, forgive me where i have been resentful, selfish, dishonest, or afraid today. Help me to not keep anything to myself but to discuss it openly with another person. Show me where i owe an apology and help me make it. Help me to be kind and loving to all people. Use me in the mainstream of… read more

What we do...

I believe the usefulness of the artist to help people see things in a different way. To help them feel new things. To shift another's consciousness. Not to just create pretty things. Or ugly things depending on your style. Art should expand the view of the viewer. Change and influence. If not this… read more

Litter: A piece of trash story

The movement of the wind was powerful enough to cause a low howl to drift across the face of the ocean. In a way it was a perfect addition to the purplish hues fighting with the brighter orange blotches in the sky. The clouds resembled dark shadows moving across a beautifully painted mural. Bottle… read more

Short story - 1

Could there be anything more addictive than newspapers in the future?” wondered the desperate housewife while trying to catch her husband´s attention as she sipped some tea early in the morning. It was crystal clear that their honeymoon had been left behind a long time ago.     She had been… read more

beepbop

We are meaning machines. We were able to creat computers because we understood the difference between specific meanings and were able to predict their ends if followed through on. We provided input, simple arythmatic to which we knew the answers, and designed physical machinery with gears to get… (edited) read more

To be invisible

What does it mean when you're seen, but no one can see you? When you're heard but no one will listen? To be the brightest color on the canvas, but still somehow be the wrong hue? With years of knowledge, stories, and jokes to tell, yet every question every conversation is just an empty shell. Have… read more

Pick 3

Charm, Loyalty, Strength, Usefulness, intelligence, Style, Passion, Looks, Talented, Gentleman, or Cleans Alot.

Of overriding relevance this morning,

out of gimcracks, whizbangs, wangdoodles, doodads, gizmos, doohickeys, thingamajigs, collywobbles, gubbinses, jimberjaws, wallywambles, wigwanglers, widdershins, wookwhistles, mollymarbles, grumkins, and squonks, which strikes you as having the most usefulness in your daily life?

Usefulness of scarp... (edited)

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The wise man is the one that makes you think that he is dumb. You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. If you want the rainbow, you have to tolerate the rain. Fear is interest paid on a debt you may not owe. Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by… read more

The Book of Disquiet

"To submit to nothing, whether to a man or a love or an idea, and to have the aloof independence of not believing in the truth or even (if it existed) in the usefulness of knowing it - this seems to me the right attitude for the intellectual inner life of those who can't live without thinking." -… read more

Archaeology of Habit

Your daily routines are fossils of past decisions. The morning scroll, the nail-biting, the third drink - each was once a solution to some ancient pain. But solutions outlive their usefulness. What ancestral coping mechanisms are you still carrying that no longer serve who you're becoming?

Story 1

“Could there be anything more addictive than newspapers in the future?” wondered the desperate housewife while trying to catch her husband´s attention as she sipped some tea early in the morning. It was crystal clear that their honeymoon had been left behind a long time ago.     She had been… read more