here's the new thread - we can update this thread for a couple of weeks, then i'll start another one.
it's so nice to hear what other folks are doing, and the folks who aren't dieting or exercising as a part of this group, your input is very helpful.
i appreciate kensei and mincan for instance for their advice.
Atkins...ugh...
Perhaps the most popular wrong way to do it.
I'm extremely sorry I have to say that.
Edit: When your finished, you'll probably become pre-diabetic, have damaged kidneys, and never look at eggs or most kinds of meat again and become a willing Fruitarian or somesuch.
in my new search for truth, i'm back to my old routine of getting my 7+ different bibles out and comparing them all.
which one have you chosen, if at all, and why?
I use the one best suiting for long time service as kindling starter. I also like the ones that I can stand on to reach things high up in the cupboards...
Seriously, what the hell would I use a bible for? I use it about as much as I use Erik the Red Sagas, The Simerillian, The Egyptian Book of The Dead, The Selected Writings of Socrates, 1001 Arabian Nights and my Deluxe Edition of The Ilyiad and The Odyssey. Actually I used it more, so I'll probably come back to the others more often in future.
tell me the story behind the picture.... why is mr flipper mr flipper?
how much do you look like zappa, jk666?
and gopher - are you really a little old man?
Metaphysics, awesome, philosophies of the mind....
Are you a dualist, materialist, other? jk jk
Hey I wanna believe in reincarnation, how do I start?
tell me the story behind the picture.... why is mr flipper mr flipper?
how much do you look like zappa, jk666?
and gopher - are you really a little old man?
Rush's 2112.
Damn straight, my favourite album of Rush, the 2112 Suite is awesome, im going to play it now. memario and BB heard it on our drive down to Ohio.
imagine that you are staring down from some ethereal plane of post-death...not the funeral, mind you, but perhaps years or decades after your physical decease.. what would you feel pleased to see written on your gravestone?.
me:.
he thought he'd figured it out,.
When I die, I don't think there will be epitaphs, at least not for people like me.
I really don't care what happens to my corpse, as long as it isn't treated in the arrogant ignorant manner that most are, that is: Locked off from the earth that sustained it, a post-death finger to the environment, filled with chemicals that will make it not only useless, but harmful for those creatures that will try to use it, etc.
If I'm really lucky, a tree of some sort or other will use it for nutrients. I know, cliché
gold, produce, foods, things comming out of china, turkey,... prices keep going up, up, up, umbelievably?.
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does anyone have facts?.
Ah...YES.
One... I remember that period all too well... Carter's real legacy is remembered by those who lived here in the States and lived through it. The following cut-and-paste is EXACTLY as I remember it:
"When Carter took office in 1977, he received a moderately growing economy in which inflation was 5.4 percent and interest rates were around 8 percent. When he left office, the Soviets were entrenched in Afghanistan, Iranian students had been holding US State Department personnel and US Marines hostage for 444 days, the American military had been gutted by the administration's post-Vietnam cutbacks, American prestige was in tatters abroad and inflation was in the double digits and interest rates were so high it was impossible for Americans to finance large purchases like homes and cars.Carter's administration is without a doubt the worst in modern American history, yet Carter himself blamed his failures on a "national malaise". This "malaise" kept his Democratic party out of power for 12 years; even today it wrestles to free itself from Carter's legacy."
So, Americans do believe that the President is the be all and end all of the democratic republic institution?
Sad...
i read about the high incidents of mental illness and psychiatric disorders among jehovah's witnesses and it .
started me thinking about why this is and how so.
then i made this list and realized how much a child's psyche.
I've been diagnosed with ADHD-Combined, Obessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Tourettes at age 6. I was medicated with Ritalin until the age of about 12.
During my lovely in-patient experience this September where I once again met with a psychiatrist, I was confirmed these were living and strong, but also given some new labels: Major Depressive Disorder, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and last but not least Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I know my make-up, genetics, and tendancies. Depression runs rampant in my family, all the females and starting with me (since I'm not afraid to admit it) a male in my family are on anti-depressants, some are on pain killers, some on opioid pain killers. Most have substance abuse disorders, all of my uncles and great uncles are alcoholics, closet alcoholics, or weekend alcoholics. Many were smokers and have since quit, save one. All have problems with obesity, I will never let that happen to me. Only some of the young ones haven't become obese.
All have serious denial problems. Many have only hidden their problems. I believe that if they didn't have a serious problem are the only ones that haven't compartmentalised and disassociated. They are all very close so they all have an extreme need to know everyone elses business. This is completely opposite of me, because I try to work through my problems and am fiercely personal (couldn't tell by this post though...). I'm in a psychoeducation group right "Stress, Assertiveness, and Relaxation" at the perfect time, I got a family wedding coming up this weekend and everyone is going to be interrogating me... "What have you been up to the last half year" Oh nothing, a few suicide attempts, hospital stays, medication terror, frustration, suicidal ideation, persistant daily non-reasonal anxiety... nothing big... "When are you going to get a job?!" Oh I don't know, when I think I can handle one without quitting in the second week from low self-esteem (now that I recognise my problems in the work place that has led me to this place) self-loating and suicidal ideation. I need to heal sufficiently and also treat the things that cause me to get more depressed and anxious at the work place before I attempt again. Good news, though, I do feel I am ready now, and have made the mental change from "I can't work" to "I want to work" now I will wait for something acceptable to come around. (Try finding a job in Niagara Falls in the winter...)
Anyway, my prognosis is good because of my intellectual abilities (really not trying to toot my horn, but I realise what is me, what is chemical, what is neurological, and what is unchangable, and what in my borderline is not real and I need to fight those thoughts rather than give in to them), my low ambient stress levels (only need to deal with existential angst and temporary external stressors like this weekend). I may have to step it up a notch though, Social Assistance sees my progress and wants me off...I Completely agree! :) Getting better....
i'm scared everyday that i will lose my husband to this cult.. i'm scared everyday that i will offend my dear friend because of my bitterness with this cult.. i'm scared everyday that my husband will choose to go back to studying and become active again.. i'm scared everyday that my life will crumble after working so hard to build the wonderful relationship that i have.. i'm scared everyday that his family will eventually say that they cannot associate with him anymore unless he goes back.. i'm scared everyday he'll choose.
i'm scared everyday that i'll never have a family of my own because of this stupid cult.
i won't bring innocent lives into this shit.. i'm scared everyday that i'll give up.. i'm scared evertday that he'll be gone.. i'm scared they will convince him.
Just be yourself and let your love shine... those that see it and are attracted to it are worthy of you. Those that reject it are not really your people.
tell me the story behind the picture.... why is mr flipper mr flipper?
how much do you look like zappa, jk666?
and gopher - are you really a little old man?
Mincan was a character in a short story I wrote at about the age of 12ish. It was science fiction and historical fiction and romance.
Anyway, when I first started having access to the internet around that age 12 and 13, I used it as a username because it was so unique I was always gauranteed no one would have it. It's easy as hell to remember, but it seems a lot of people either make the the mistake of spelling it Mincam or Minican or some other non-sense. For the record, it's pronounced Mink (like the animal) -in. Minkin. Spelled Mincan. The characters name was actually Mincan Two, and the story was titled "The Desalite Named Mincan Two". The two in his name was because he was the second sentient android taken into the house of Mincan on his home planet. His adopted family's name was Mincan.
Anyway...
My first avatar here was a Praying Mantis, because they are one of my favourite creatures, other than African penguins.
Now it's "just" me because certain people think I should be more showy-offy about myself and find some lovin'.
That is all.
gold, produce, foods, things comming out of china, turkey,... prices keep going up, up, up, umbelievably?.
.
does anyone have facts?.
This time period reminds me of the mid-1970's...just when we elected Jimmy Carter...he "sounded" good, but he didn't know what the h*ll he was doing. Lord have mercy on us all.
Ah...no.
(Do you even understand the 1973 Oil Embargo? Do you realise the United States, up until 1970 was the Saudi Arabia of the world... the "swing" producer? Then after 1970, oil extraction has gone into relentless decline. In 1970 the United States extracted 10 million barrels per day, now it's about half that. By 1973, it was obvious that America would become an importing nation. Cut manufacturing, industry, exports, etc and you get a consumer Walmart bubble society, where everyone just takes out everyone else's laundry... when's the house of cards going to collapse, well it already has started.
(Used to be investments were made on business, not on investment...)
Jimmy Carter was the last sane President the United States had. He was the first and only to government fund alternative energy research, he even installed solar panels on the White House roof (you may remember this if you are old enough). He came on TV in a cardigan and told Americans the truth - their way of life was intrinsicly and completely dependant on oil. Turn down the thermostat, buy a smaller car, and invest in alternative energies so when the oil is gone we won't have a human die-off. If the United States had kept up that arrangement, since it takes about 30 years to change a societies energy infrastructure, we wouldn't be up shit creek now...
Americans got scared...what did they do, throw Carter out of office in a hurry.
What did Reagan do as soon as he got in office? Tore those solar panels right off the roof, cut all government funding into alternative energy research, and told Americans to stop worrying and keep on a' spending and gluttoning... how did he put it "sunrise on America" or some such nonsense...
Everyone says Clinton was a great President. I disagree, he was forunate enough to reign while America was having a free ride. The 1990s had the North Sea and Canterall discoveries (the last large discoveries we will have. In 2003 and 2004, not a single field of oil over 6 million barrels was found! To put that in perspective the world uses 85 million barrels a day. And discovery worldwide peaked in 1962) which allowed the 10 dollar a barrel oil we had at the time.
