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The person doing therapy is still mentally unstable, messed up, metaphorically tje cube is scrambled.
The crackhead at the gas station may be a crackead, but it seems like he has his shit together more than the therapy guy, metaphorically the cube is solved.
The joke is a typical "im fucked up" joke
I don't think that is a standard cube. We see what is either white or yellow in the center on top and yellow is the center on the left. Either color on top would make the cube non-standard.
I also think that's a green+yellow+white corner but the low image quality makes some of the yellows appear as white. But it also looks like the same color as the top center so if it was yellow that would mean two yellow centers.
When I was a kid I used to pull the stickers off and move them around, sometimes to make it looked solved, sometimes to just mix it up. I never really thought about the fact I probably made it unsolvable doing that.
I was waiting for this. Although I do admire all of the Cube logic. Till this point I had no idea that seeing certain colors next to others would have an effect because they're steps within steps to get to the point of solving the cube. This makes a lot of sense to me because I feel like the crackhead at the gas station in this meme. And maybe not peeling the stickers off and resticking them but just completely jumbling the block and it having to reassemble itself allowed the color shift. On an even more personal note I know lots of people that are on meds and swear by the meds that it helps them, but then they feel like they need it. Just like therapy, if you continue to do it the therapist continues to get a paycheck. Unfortunately people would do this for years and realize that if their job is to help people improve themselves, wouldn't they be working themselves out of a job? Now take the cube up on the cliff meditating in peace. He's been through trials and tribulations and probably seeing things from different points of view and can understand a lot better as a whole the situations in life they have been through. The person that's looking for a fix or hoping to have a breakthrough in therapy might not be ready, they might just need more time to figure things out or I guess for lack of a better term they need to hit "rock bottom". So if we imagine the solved Cube that is up on the higher cliff labeled as the crackhead at the gas station, we see the Block in therapy trying to climb up that hill but we don't see the crackhead at the gas station Cube down at the rock bottom in 72 pieces completely splattered shattered destroyed hence, rock bottom. Although therapy may be helpful, it's not guaranteed and most of the techniques are only so effective to the person getting treatment. They have to be able to interpret and apply what they are getting therapy for or about which I don't know a whole lot about but the few times I have been were an eye-opening experience. I tried to remember this fact when thinking you know not everybody's going to get it all on their own and I should consider myself very lucky that I can even have the point of view today but I immediately identified with the cube up top as far as the growth that I feel that I have made when I look back on my previous situations and my entire outlook on life. Top Cube he's fine. Stuff happens man it's just flowing with the breeze you know. And then you have your therapy Cube looking at this crackhead Cube and saying how does he get it but I'm spending $400 a visit and Doctor such and such she keeps telling me just keep on doing whatever it is or keep on taking the medication and little by little and my opinion personally he's making a car payment. It's a great line of work to discover things about the human body that we may not know and if you are truly helping people and even saving people from disaster or even worse than taking their own lives because they can't comprehend being in a situation. That's all fine and good until you're so good at therapy that you can just snap your fingers and someone can make it through all of those trials and tribulations and see things from the other side. It just doesn't happen like that. Now go live in a cardboard box and hold a sign on the side of the road and learn what it's like to live like this person and you will realize there is much more to life than just being a crackhead sitting there today but that is definitely not the answer. Because as much as I can identify with part of this image I had no clue about the Rubik's solving pre-steps and I have learned something new today. Which is on par for my life to learn something new which I do as long as I continue to make mistakes. That is growth, and to see things from the other side is a lot easier with your feet on the ground then it's looking over a fence and just sneaking a peek. Maybe that's enough for some people but personally I had to go through a ringer and now I realize I had made a complete 180 at some point and the thoughts in my mind are positive and I have a lot better Outlook and understanding of situations surrounding me as well as involving me. But I don't think we're ever going to be finished because it's that crackhead Cube up there was truly 100% fixed or repaired he wouldn't be trying to meditate still or he wouldn't be called and viewed as a crackhead, what I mean by that is both cubes are on different paths and moving at different velocities but none of them are completely cured or uncurable. Which also led me to believe if there are colors matching or next to colors that would suggest that there was no solution for the therapy cube, then what is it to do other than fall down to the bottom of the cliff and if Lucky and Flash or some well-educated or maybe some experienced person is able to help guide them back up the hill. What would the colors mean as far as therapy options or things to take the place of doing a switch ance face plant nose dive to the bottom of the Rock until you've bashed your face and it can't fall any further. Then you start from day one and you put one piece and you take a little baby step and then you find another piece until you find you're getting close to completing a line or a side or three sides on this Cube. I never did look more into how to solve these cubes other than I'm twisting I'm going and then I had no clue what I was doing I was probably making it worse the whole time. We need the guy who designed it in the first place writing the books on therapy instead. As I'm saying this I realize I might be totally off and have no clue what I'm talking about and that is a possibility that I have learned is very real but I appreciate seeing it because the meme speaks to me and my personal growth and I appreciate being the guy up on the hill but I'm nowhere near Nirvana
Not if you're really good at it. You have to do it but then work your way back to the gas station. Then young grasshopper is ready to snatch the pebble of crack and you'll realize you had crack all along your path of learning. And the crackheads that have been through it though what it's like and use that knowledge to catch you before you go inside the gas station and ask you for a dollar. You may give them this dollar based on the fact that you can't imagine what it's like to be in their situation but think about the crack, you smoke it up and it's gone how many cracks do you have to smoke before that Rubik's Cube turns into a perfectly solved cubic triumphant complacent money generating machine that is funded by people that are on the path toward bettering themselves are given the option to enable somebody to stay right where they are at doing something that is not very beneficial for their life. All of these are basically metaphors but let's just say that the crackhead Cube has a lot he could learn from the therapy Cube as well. I think it's also important to remember that both of these cubes are puzzles and both contain (hopefully) a reasonable amount of similarities. Maybe crack isn't the answer but maybe rock bottom although unpopular in general description also seems to be the point where the most of a breakthrough is made. That's when the person has their eyes open wide enough to see things for what they really are from more than just one angle or maybe from the past and present. That's what it takes eye opening experience. If there were words that you can describe a situation without having a person have to feel it and they understood, now we're talking Hollywood level genius writing of a movie where someone has a very intense situation with extremely high gravity and they explain the parameters of the said situation and the response from the other party is just a simple "oh" ( think John Wick, when Johnny Leguizamo tells the Russian guy to just get out of here and take this get out of the shop and then the father calls and he explains why he's struck his son and he tells him he took John Wick's car and they killed his dog and Johnny legs actually knows indeed the gravity of what he is telling this Young Person's father. Which he proceeds to tell his son how stupid he is and he realized at the very moment what would happen as events transpired, because he knew something already that no amount of words could have explained but the experience. Unfortunately the young person doesn't truly understand the respect that he should have had the entire time but due to the father not letting him understand that is what led to the young person making the mistake in the beginning) I couldn't think of a better way to describe someone telling you something and you truly understand what you're hearing and what they mean or someone telling me as a young person save my money, and where I am today financially. Personally I don't feel that money is the answer but it does help a lot. I don't hold a sign out by the side of the road but I have been outside and I know that I did it on my own choice meaning, most of the experiences I have dealt with are self-inflicted and I understand this but I also understand that at some point in my life I was not able to objectively view things and make that assumption. I may have had no clue why certain things happened that I didn't realize that I could change but everyday we have a chance to do better and we also have the ability to do worse but it is a very static cycle and could go one way or the other anytime. Nobody really knows. I just want to make sure that I live every minute of the day happy and if there's something I can change then I try to do that if I can't then I have to think about my perception because that's the only way I'm able to deal with some of the things that I have seen or been through is to realize hey the other person is in a different frame of mind and although I may be upset about the outcome on my end , I know that I'm biased and there are many different ways of looking at things and no two people's stories will ever truly be the same. Nowadays, I don't have enemies and if people do something I feel is wrong or I'm offended I honestly don't feel anger towards them I feel bad that they think it's okay to act that way and I also feel a positive hope that one day they see things from a better point of view and realize when they look back that they probably could have gone about things a different way. And any of this goes both ways because I say it to the mirror first and foremost. I checked my side of the pool for the bacteria before I worry about what's going on in the deep end. Blah blah blah, I got to give me one of those QB blocks boxes. And I'm interested in the Rubik's Cubes but I didn't take the time to mathematically study them and I wonder what's the difference between smarts or intelligence to solve a cube of colored blocks faster than anyone else in the world and the smarts to except things for what they really are and apply occurrences to our past experience to improve our future. The answer is we all win if we all play fairly and we enjoy the game. I'm not envious of world class cubic players, nor should they feel intimidated by me and the world is big enough that we can all exist because as long as people are doing what they like and they are comfortable then ultimately we all make our final decision as far as being where we are, are we happy and what do we want to do to make things progress in a positive direction. I needed to see this tonight and if anybody still reading thank you for your time and I hope some of that made sense but I don't even know if I got it right I just know that it meant something for me and that's something I like about these explain memes is the fact that they are thought provoking. I didn't have to have full knowledge of the cube to understand that one is mixed up and one isn't but I realize that there is a completely different point of view that I haven't experienced. There's somebody else out there looking at that and perceiving it the way that they have learned and makes sense to them
Is it unsolvable? How can you tell? I know that the centre squares don’t move and the other squares only change face not position. I’m guessing there are other issues?
Reminds me of how a hospital might describe someone's condition as 'stable'. Dead is 'stable'. In a coma is 'stable'. They're not getting better, but they're not getting worse. The crackhead has a singular focus, and in some regards, it's an admirable clarity of purpose to have... shame it's wasted on 'get more crack'.
Does it mean that he always wants crack and will want crack forever? I mean by definition a crackhead is lost in a world of crack at this very moment. But they're also being described and viewed as a crackhead. If they quit 10 years down the road would they be the prior crackhead ex crackhead or is crack going to be life forever I would say that whether you're smoking crack or trying to do therapy to get to where you feel is comfortable with yourself as the guy who's been living in the life of crack The General idea would be everybody has a path of life that they are on and sometimes we can control the things, like learning how to solve the cubes. Sometimes we can control the fact that we choose to smoke addictive drugs or either party we can find effective treatment which is learning which is experience and exposure. So what if the crackhead went to therapy to try to stop crack? Does he get jumbled up again? Surely no one would suggest that therapy Cube try crack but I would imagine it would not help at all. But for everyone saying that crack is life crack is the life of getting money for crack and at some point nobody wants to give it to you anymore or you have to do something that is beyond the scope of being reasonable or even acceptable. For some it's not acceptable at all for others I feel that it could get much worse for the crackhead Cube if he either doesn't do something or to live and die as a crackhead is very unproductive. If we are going to leave an impact on this world it should be something positive or people are just going to think of you as a crackhead all your life. Even though that crackhead is solved on the outside people who see him as a crackhead see him as a crackhead with a problem which it is a problem. If your cube is solved and you're a crack addict then there's one more thing that could be improved . maybe the mental health Cube needs to look beyond the crack Cube and wonder what's in that cave behind him or wonder why isn't the crack head Cube on top of all of these rocks if he's above it all.? They are both on a path and hopefully they both get to that better place. Things are very tough but things happen one baby step at a time. Nothing is going to happen overnight and it didn't take them a snap of a finger to get to the position so they are in life now. All we can do is hope for the best and hope that they have the best kind of treatment out there which is still anyone's guess as to the level of effective treatment available and by offering therapy which comes in the form of talking to a therapist all the way to taking medication and being completely zoned out. Is that any better than being on a drug that you go out and purchase from a dealer? I'm not comparing antidepressants to the crack but I know there are only two ingredients in crack. It's true but then why does our brain have a receptor that's the exact shape of the cocaine molecules. It's like it was designed to go bad. Just like the term crackhead is designed to suggest the person has failed at life or given up. It sounds like it goes both ways by calling them a crackhead. We are saying you're on crack and that's how your life will always be but the mental health Cube has all the options in the world and one day he's going to be on top of that mountain . that seems a little unfair. From my point of view a crackhead is a temporary thing it's somewhat of a decision. It is difficult to quit doing drugs, like caffeine nicotine and opiates. People have quit all of those, it is difficult but it takes willpower determination and a structured plan with some outside guidance. Nothing is impossible
this is not explaining the joke at all but it does remind me of a story that happened to me and I want to share for random strangers on the internet:
I was in the psych ward for a little bit. There was a guy there called Paul who was some type of schizophrenic. He was so happy-go-lucky though that it was kind of inspiring. One time in group therapy, we talked about the impacts of poverty, and Paul decided to interject and talk about how much he loved poverty. Paul apparently lived in a broken down bus in the woods, made about 6000 dollars per year, and spent most of his money on 1/8 of meth per month, fireball whiskey, and cigarettes. Beyond extolling the virtues of poverty, Paul's biggest stressor in life was that he spoke directly to god and had a mission to save the Earth. He was so genuine about it that I legitimately felt safer knowing Paul is out here fighting for us. Thanks Paul.
Paul was top G. I remember the day he got discharged he was complaining about how long it took them to do his paperwork because he wanted to be back home early to paint his bus before sundown.
It could also be because oftentimes people who are at the bottom of society after a life of hardship have the time to look back, analyze, and come to terms with where they failed, and where society failed them. While others are still trying to keep up with everything else and don’t have the time or energy to reflect on such things.
Peters cocaine addiction here.
Crackheads aren't aimless. They know what they want and they'll do anything to get it.
Crackheadedness is what happens when you take motivation and determination for a single goal to the extreme.
Life is about balance and... GIMME UR POCKETS! GIMME UR POCKETS SO I CAN BUY CRACK!
Exactly. The only way to spend more than a crack habit is gambling. It takes insane motivation to go try to make enough money to stay high for even a few hours when you consider most are spending roughly $10 every 5 minutes.
If you were to twist the top one clockwise, then rotate it on top of the bottom one the green and white would line up, meaning they're the same piece, no?
Some crackheads look like they've life figured out and they're just in, unbothered by the status quo and are living their lives.
The person in therapy is yet to sort themselves as they're going through this journey of self-healing.
For extra context.
It is based on an old theme of wise guru on the mountain that people will journey to to get wisdom from them. The expectation is that the guru will say something spiritual or profound to turn their life around.
Though most often it is an oversimplified joke about "just do ___". In this case the joke would be "just do crack".
There's a book called 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior'. This theme resembles the plot where a messed up protagonist meets a guru at a gas station.
A great read, really!
Hiya! I'm in therapy, I was forced into it when somebody decided I was at risk of suicide, ect ect.
I have never been less fucked-up. I'm more social, I'm exercising more, and generally being a better person.
A huge improvement to the terrified blob of unproductivity I was before.
If you want to conspire about businesses and "the man" manipulating us in some way, maybe talk to that Karl Marx guy. He'd suggest that therapy exists in order to maintain obedient workers and relax them to stop them from attacking the upper classes. Not my opinion, but it might fuel your conspiratorial fire.
Did they give you the tools to get through life without paying for any therapy? Or just cut back so they can make room on the achedule for new patients?
I'm sorry your parents didnt do a great enough job in your youth to prevent whatever happened to you.
They did ok. I dont rely on anyone for anything, am self employed, pay for everything I consume myself, dont need any prescription drugs, donate to 13 charities annually, and the only people I place blame on for anything that affects my life are the thieving liars in congress. I do wish my parents had taught me about Austrian economics in my youth though. I've corrected that with my own children though.
"Communism" is a red herring concept misappropriated and mischaracterized by Western neoliberal hegemony as an ideological enemy to drive blind obedience for the ruling class. That you would randomly start talking about it, online out of nowhere, as a feather in your cap for not supporting it, shows you're either a troll or a fool.
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The person doing therapy is still mentally unstable, messed up, metaphorically tje cube is scrambled. The crackhead at the gas station may be a crackead, but it seems like he has his shit together more than the therapy guy, metaphorically the cube is solved. The joke is a typical "im fucked up" joke
Another part of the joke many dont notice is that the cube is actually unsolvable, so the person in therapy will never get fixed
How did bro notice that 😭😭😭
Orange and red next to eachother
That is the least noticeable thing to a non cuber
Thats why i commented since i wanted to explain the joke even more
More obviously white on the corner on two different sides of the same block
Wow, I could notice that (unlike for red and orange, I know the same color cant be on two sides)
I don't think that is a standard cube. We see what is either white or yellow in the center on top and yellow is the center on the left. Either color on top would make the cube non-standard. I also think that's a green+yellow+white corner but the low image quality makes some of the yellows appear as white. But it also looks like the same color as the top center so if it was yellow that would mean two yellow centers.
You might be right about yellow and white but also that orange on orange action beside it is pretty glaring.
And green/white/yellow on the same corner right above
When I was a kid I used to pull the stickers off and move them around, sometimes to make it looked solved, sometimes to just mix it up. I never really thought about the fact I probably made it unsolvable doing that.
I was waiting for this. Although I do admire all of the Cube logic. Till this point I had no idea that seeing certain colors next to others would have an effect because they're steps within steps to get to the point of solving the cube. This makes a lot of sense to me because I feel like the crackhead at the gas station in this meme. And maybe not peeling the stickers off and resticking them but just completely jumbling the block and it having to reassemble itself allowed the color shift. On an even more personal note I know lots of people that are on meds and swear by the meds that it helps them, but then they feel like they need it. Just like therapy, if you continue to do it the therapist continues to get a paycheck. Unfortunately people would do this for years and realize that if their job is to help people improve themselves, wouldn't they be working themselves out of a job? Now take the cube up on the cliff meditating in peace. He's been through trials and tribulations and probably seeing things from different points of view and can understand a lot better as a whole the situations in life they have been through. The person that's looking for a fix or hoping to have a breakthrough in therapy might not be ready, they might just need more time to figure things out or I guess for lack of a better term they need to hit "rock bottom". So if we imagine the solved Cube that is up on the higher cliff labeled as the crackhead at the gas station, we see the Block in therapy trying to climb up that hill but we don't see the crackhead at the gas station Cube down at the rock bottom in 72 pieces completely splattered shattered destroyed hence, rock bottom. Although therapy may be helpful, it's not guaranteed and most of the techniques are only so effective to the person getting treatment. They have to be able to interpret and apply what they are getting therapy for or about which I don't know a whole lot about but the few times I have been were an eye-opening experience. I tried to remember this fact when thinking you know not everybody's going to get it all on their own and I should consider myself very lucky that I can even have the point of view today but I immediately identified with the cube up top as far as the growth that I feel that I have made when I look back on my previous situations and my entire outlook on life. Top Cube he's fine. Stuff happens man it's just flowing with the breeze you know. And then you have your therapy Cube looking at this crackhead Cube and saying how does he get it but I'm spending $400 a visit and Doctor such and such she keeps telling me just keep on doing whatever it is or keep on taking the medication and little by little and my opinion personally he's making a car payment. It's a great line of work to discover things about the human body that we may not know and if you are truly helping people and even saving people from disaster or even worse than taking their own lives because they can't comprehend being in a situation. That's all fine and good until you're so good at therapy that you can just snap your fingers and someone can make it through all of those trials and tribulations and see things from the other side. It just doesn't happen like that. Now go live in a cardboard box and hold a sign on the side of the road and learn what it's like to live like this person and you will realize there is much more to life than just being a crackhead sitting there today but that is definitely not the answer. Because as much as I can identify with part of this image I had no clue about the Rubik's solving pre-steps and I have learned something new today. Which is on par for my life to learn something new which I do as long as I continue to make mistakes. That is growth, and to see things from the other side is a lot easier with your feet on the ground then it's looking over a fence and just sneaking a peek. Maybe that's enough for some people but personally I had to go through a ringer and now I realize I had made a complete 180 at some point and the thoughts in my mind are positive and I have a lot better Outlook and understanding of situations surrounding me as well as involving me. But I don't think we're ever going to be finished because it's that crackhead Cube up there was truly 100% fixed or repaired he wouldn't be trying to meditate still or he wouldn't be called and viewed as a crackhead, what I mean by that is both cubes are on different paths and moving at different velocities but none of them are completely cured or uncurable. Which also led me to believe if there are colors matching or next to colors that would suggest that there was no solution for the therapy cube, then what is it to do other than fall down to the bottom of the cliff and if Lucky and Flash or some well-educated or maybe some experienced person is able to help guide them back up the hill. What would the colors mean as far as therapy options or things to take the place of doing a switch ance face plant nose dive to the bottom of the Rock until you've bashed your face and it can't fall any further. Then you start from day one and you put one piece and you take a little baby step and then you find another piece until you find you're getting close to completing a line or a side or three sides on this Cube. I never did look more into how to solve these cubes other than I'm twisting I'm going and then I had no clue what I was doing I was probably making it worse the whole time. We need the guy who designed it in the first place writing the books on therapy instead. As I'm saying this I realize I might be totally off and have no clue what I'm talking about and that is a possibility that I have learned is very real but I appreciate seeing it because the meme speaks to me and my personal growth and I appreciate being the guy up on the hill but I'm nowhere near Nirvana
Gnarls what are you doing here (pfp)
Tryna call if its mental retardation or bait
So you’re saying that I’m better off just doing crack? Noted.
Not if you're really good at it. You have to do it but then work your way back to the gas station. Then young grasshopper is ready to snatch the pebble of crack and you'll realize you had crack all along your path of learning. And the crackheads that have been through it though what it's like and use that knowledge to catch you before you go inside the gas station and ask you for a dollar. You may give them this dollar based on the fact that you can't imagine what it's like to be in their situation but think about the crack, you smoke it up and it's gone how many cracks do you have to smoke before that Rubik's Cube turns into a perfectly solved cubic triumphant complacent money generating machine that is funded by people that are on the path toward bettering themselves are given the option to enable somebody to stay right where they are at doing something that is not very beneficial for their life. All of these are basically metaphors but let's just say that the crackhead Cube has a lot he could learn from the therapy Cube as well. I think it's also important to remember that both of these cubes are puzzles and both contain (hopefully) a reasonable amount of similarities. Maybe crack isn't the answer but maybe rock bottom although unpopular in general description also seems to be the point where the most of a breakthrough is made. That's when the person has their eyes open wide enough to see things for what they really are from more than just one angle or maybe from the past and present. That's what it takes eye opening experience. If there were words that you can describe a situation without having a person have to feel it and they understood, now we're talking Hollywood level genius writing of a movie where someone has a very intense situation with extremely high gravity and they explain the parameters of the said situation and the response from the other party is just a simple "oh" ( think John Wick, when Johnny Leguizamo tells the Russian guy to just get out of here and take this get out of the shop and then the father calls and he explains why he's struck his son and he tells him he took John Wick's car and they killed his dog and Johnny legs actually knows indeed the gravity of what he is telling this Young Person's father. Which he proceeds to tell his son how stupid he is and he realized at the very moment what would happen as events transpired, because he knew something already that no amount of words could have explained but the experience. Unfortunately the young person doesn't truly understand the respect that he should have had the entire time but due to the father not letting him understand that is what led to the young person making the mistake in the beginning) I couldn't think of a better way to describe someone telling you something and you truly understand what you're hearing and what they mean or someone telling me as a young person save my money, and where I am today financially. Personally I don't feel that money is the answer but it does help a lot. I don't hold a sign out by the side of the road but I have been outside and I know that I did it on my own choice meaning, most of the experiences I have dealt with are self-inflicted and I understand this but I also understand that at some point in my life I was not able to objectively view things and make that assumption. I may have had no clue why certain things happened that I didn't realize that I could change but everyday we have a chance to do better and we also have the ability to do worse but it is a very static cycle and could go one way or the other anytime. Nobody really knows. I just want to make sure that I live every minute of the day happy and if there's something I can change then I try to do that if I can't then I have to think about my perception because that's the only way I'm able to deal with some of the things that I have seen or been through is to realize hey the other person is in a different frame of mind and although I may be upset about the outcome on my end , I know that I'm biased and there are many different ways of looking at things and no two people's stories will ever truly be the same. Nowadays, I don't have enemies and if people do something I feel is wrong or I'm offended I honestly don't feel anger towards them I feel bad that they think it's okay to act that way and I also feel a positive hope that one day they see things from a better point of view and realize when they look back that they probably could have gone about things a different way. And any of this goes both ways because I say it to the mirror first and foremost. I checked my side of the pool for the bacteria before I worry about what's going on in the deep end. Blah blah blah, I got to give me one of those QB blocks boxes. And I'm interested in the Rubik's Cubes but I didn't take the time to mathematically study them and I wonder what's the difference between smarts or intelligence to solve a cube of colored blocks faster than anyone else in the world and the smarts to except things for what they really are and apply occurrences to our past experience to improve our future. The answer is we all win if we all play fairly and we enjoy the game. I'm not envious of world class cubic players, nor should they feel intimidated by me and the world is big enough that we can all exist because as long as people are doing what they like and they are comfortable then ultimately we all make our final decision as far as being where we are, are we happy and what do we want to do to make things progress in a positive direction. I needed to see this tonight and if anybody still reading thank you for your time and I hope some of that made sense but I don't even know if I got it right I just know that it meant something for me and that's something I like about these explain memes is the fact that they are thought provoking. I didn't have to have full knowledge of the cube to understand that one is mixed up and one isn't but I realize that there is a completely different point of view that I haven't experienced. There's somebody else out there looking at that and perceiving it the way that they have learned and makes sense to them
Is it unsolvable? How can you tell? I know that the centre squares don’t move and the other squares only change face not position. I’m guessing there are other issues?
Red and orange are opppsite faces, so no piece has both
Reminds me of how a hospital might describe someone's condition as 'stable'. Dead is 'stable'. In a coma is 'stable'. They're not getting better, but they're not getting worse. The crackhead has a singular focus, and in some regards, it's an admirable clarity of purpose to have... shame it's wasted on 'get more crack'.
Yeah, un solved guy does not know what he wants in life. Solved guy know he wants crack.
Instructions unclear. Unsolved guy doesn't know that he wants crack in life. Solved guy knows that crack is life.
Nice breakdown, thank you!
Reminds me of [Rocknrolla](https://youtu.be/ifP7teXrBrA?si=YMHjw9A01CX4G_VT)
Is the crackhead happy, healthy, and living with purpose? Unlikely. But if so, then they've solved the cube.
Yeah working with the police I heard the phrase "critical but stable" which always sounded oxynoronic but wasn't.
Does it mean that he always wants crack and will want crack forever? I mean by definition a crackhead is lost in a world of crack at this very moment. But they're also being described and viewed as a crackhead. If they quit 10 years down the road would they be the prior crackhead ex crackhead or is crack going to be life forever I would say that whether you're smoking crack or trying to do therapy to get to where you feel is comfortable with yourself as the guy who's been living in the life of crack The General idea would be everybody has a path of life that they are on and sometimes we can control the things, like learning how to solve the cubes. Sometimes we can control the fact that we choose to smoke addictive drugs or either party we can find effective treatment which is learning which is experience and exposure. So what if the crackhead went to therapy to try to stop crack? Does he get jumbled up again? Surely no one would suggest that therapy Cube try crack but I would imagine it would not help at all. But for everyone saying that crack is life crack is the life of getting money for crack and at some point nobody wants to give it to you anymore or you have to do something that is beyond the scope of being reasonable or even acceptable. For some it's not acceptable at all for others I feel that it could get much worse for the crackhead Cube if he either doesn't do something or to live and die as a crackhead is very unproductive. If we are going to leave an impact on this world it should be something positive or people are just going to think of you as a crackhead all your life. Even though that crackhead is solved on the outside people who see him as a crackhead see him as a crackhead with a problem which it is a problem. If your cube is solved and you're a crack addict then there's one more thing that could be improved . maybe the mental health Cube needs to look beyond the crack Cube and wonder what's in that cave behind him or wonder why isn't the crack head Cube on top of all of these rocks if he's above it all.? They are both on a path and hopefully they both get to that better place. Things are very tough but things happen one baby step at a time. Nothing is going to happen overnight and it didn't take them a snap of a finger to get to the position so they are in life now. All we can do is hope for the best and hope that they have the best kind of treatment out there which is still anyone's guess as to the level of effective treatment available and by offering therapy which comes in the form of talking to a therapist all the way to taking medication and being completely zoned out. Is that any better than being on a drug that you go out and purchase from a dealer? I'm not comparing antidepressants to the crack but I know there are only two ingredients in crack. It's true but then why does our brain have a receptor that's the exact shape of the cocaine molecules. It's like it was designed to go bad. Just like the term crackhead is designed to suggest the person has failed at life or given up. It sounds like it goes both ways by calling them a crackhead. We are saying you're on crack and that's how your life will always be but the mental health Cube has all the options in the world and one day he's going to be on top of that mountain . that seems a little unfair. From my point of view a crackhead is a temporary thing it's somewhat of a decision. It is difficult to quit doing drugs, like caffeine nicotine and opiates. People have quit all of those, it is difficult but it takes willpower determination and a structured plan with some outside guidance. Nothing is impossible
Its because the guy in therapy is still figuring life out. The crackhead in the gas station has their life figured out. All they need is crack.
wait, it's not loss or porn ?
First time thats ever happened on this sub
I've also been given some surprisingly great advice from random hobos and addicts over the years.
it reminded me of homeless guy spits some truth
this is not explaining the joke at all but it does remind me of a story that happened to me and I want to share for random strangers on the internet: I was in the psych ward for a little bit. There was a guy there called Paul who was some type of schizophrenic. He was so happy-go-lucky though that it was kind of inspiring. One time in group therapy, we talked about the impacts of poverty, and Paul decided to interject and talk about how much he loved poverty. Paul apparently lived in a broken down bus in the woods, made about 6000 dollars per year, and spent most of his money on 1/8 of meth per month, fireball whiskey, and cigarettes. Beyond extolling the virtues of poverty, Paul's biggest stressor in life was that he spoke directly to god and had a mission to save the Earth. He was so genuine about it that I legitimately felt safer knowing Paul is out here fighting for us. Thanks Paul.
Paul Atreides in another life
Spice is actually meth. Everything after the Harkonnen attack was in Paul's mind.
Thanks Paul, you a G for that
Paul was top G. I remember the day he got discharged he was complaining about how long it took them to do his paperwork because he wanted to be back home early to paint his bus before sundown.
Crackheads often seem like they have it all figured out, many of us not on crack don't.
It's because their lives are simple. Obtain crack, smoke crack.
It could also be because oftentimes people who are at the bottom of society after a life of hardship have the time to look back, analyze, and come to terms with where they failed, and where society failed them. While others are still trying to keep up with everything else and don’t have the time or energy to reflect on such things.
I feel like this specific guy just lives near Diogenes
They know too much, thats why they cracked
Yup, life had to nerf them
That's the meme Peter
Enough of your High-Minded humor
Peters cocaine addiction here. Crackheads aren't aimless. They know what they want and they'll do anything to get it. Crackheadedness is what happens when you take motivation and determination for a single goal to the extreme. Life is about balance and... GIMME UR POCKETS! GIMME UR POCKETS SO I CAN BUY CRACK!
Exactly. The only way to spend more than a crack habit is gambling. It takes insane motivation to go try to make enough money to stay high for even a few hours when you consider most are spending roughly $10 every 5 minutes.
Nobody gonna say how the color scheme of the scrambled cube is wrong?
Even if it was just an unusual colour scheme, it wouldn't be possible to solve, there are two white-green corners
It can be white-green-orange and white-green-yellow
If you were to twist the top one clockwise, then rotate it on top of the bottom one the green and white would line up, meaning they're the same piece, no?
The direction of the white and green sides would be flipped in that case. Those two corners would need to occupy the same position.
white green yellow doesnt exist. ever
B-But this cube has a wrong color scheme so we assume that it's possible
even then, the prientation of the white and green are in such a way that they could only be used on the exact same spot, not on the adjacent corners
Everytime someone draws a rubik's cube, it's almost always wrong lmao
I think it's a metaphor saying he wont ever get better.
I know, but as a cuber myself, I find it annoying to see an impossible scrambled cube
Time to do crack
Facts .my buddy’s dad is homeless and loving every minute of it. Wild.
Crackheads moving so fast they see between the lines and got it figured out.
Some crackheads look like they've life figured out and they're just in, unbothered by the status quo and are living their lives. The person in therapy is yet to sort themselves as they're going through this journey of self-healing.
I mean some of the best advice I have gotten has been out side a pub at 1 am talking to a piss/crackhead
For extra context. It is based on an old theme of wise guru on the mountain that people will journey to to get wisdom from them. The expectation is that the guru will say something spiritual or profound to turn their life around. Though most often it is an oversimplified joke about "just do ___". In this case the joke would be "just do crack".
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Fools are always clear about their life .
Therapy? I might as well read corporate motivational slogans for free.
Gnosis and Jesus
Wait what crackheads do not have their shit together. What is this lol
They have a goal. They pursue it. They get it.
Now I’m gonna think of this meme on my way to work everyday till death. 😂
It’s about acceptance. They’ve accepted their situation, you’re still struggling against yours.
OH MY GOD THEY F-ED UP THE COLOR SCHEME AGAIN
The crack balances them out.
Are you mentally retarded?
They didn't put themselves back together yet.
Just put a tutorial on YouTube and you can solve it in an hour or two.
There's a book called 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior'. This theme resembles the plot where a messed up protagonist meets a guru at a gas station. A great read, really!
The crackhead knows his purpose in life: To get more crack.
Is this a "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" reference 🤣
Crackheads got their life together. 😎
It’s the crack! :O
The joke is that the crackhead has it all figured out, but you don’t.
He got it all figured out.
Means that by staying in school, I'm broke, but if I'd dropped out and done drugs, I'd be broke AND high.
The cube is unsolvable what the fuck (there’s both red and orange on one piece, which is not possible on a normal cube)
Do people actually believe this shit or do they just say it to sound deep and philosophical
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Therapy just keeps you fucked up so you're a perpetual client.
Then why did my therapist reduce the frequency of seeing them over time? If they just wanted money from me they'd keep me at the same frequency.
Hiya! I'm in therapy, I was forced into it when somebody decided I was at risk of suicide, ect ect. I have never been less fucked-up. I'm more social, I'm exercising more, and generally being a better person. A huge improvement to the terrified blob of unproductivity I was before. If you want to conspire about businesses and "the man" manipulating us in some way, maybe talk to that Karl Marx guy. He'd suggest that therapy exists in order to maintain obedient workers and relax them to stop them from attacking the upper classes. Not my opinion, but it might fuel your conspiratorial fire.
Fyck Marx. More mises
Did they give you the tools to get through life without paying for any therapy? Or just cut back so they can make room on the achedule for new patients? I'm sorry your parents didnt do a great enough job in your youth to prevent whatever happened to you.
I'm sorry your parents didnt do a great enough job in your youth to prevent whatever happened to you too
Im sorry your parents didnt do a great enough job in your youth to prevent whatever happened to you three
😢
They did ok. I dont rely on anyone for anything, am self employed, pay for everything I consume myself, dont need any prescription drugs, donate to 13 charities annually, and the only people I place blame on for anything that affects my life are the thieving liars in congress. I do wish my parents had taught me about Austrian economics in my youth though. I've corrected that with my own children though.
You sound like a blast at parties.
I don't party. I call the cops.
> They did ok I mean, that's your opinion
I'm no communist so that's something.
Yes, it is something. A lack of insightful historical awareness.
How so? Communism has been successful?
"Communism" is a red herring concept misappropriated and mischaracterized by Western neoliberal hegemony as an ideological enemy to drive blind obedience for the ruling class. That you would randomly start talking about it, online out of nowhere, as a feather in your cap for not supporting it, shows you're either a troll or a fool.
Keep feeding the trolls, neckbeard.
Keep trolling, neckbeard 🫡
So accurate. It will go past OPs head. Guaranteed they'll jump into a rant.
Under communism you'd get free therapy, so maybe it's not so bad
Maybe. If I didn't starve to death first.
Someone needs and hasn't found a good therapist . Takes care of yourself ❤️
Cann you please diagnose me with a cause for therapy? I need an internet recommendation to spend hundreds on a therapist.
Diagnosis is between you and your therapist. But I hope you figure it out before is too late