i second this request. please
i second this request. please
cow looks downhearted
i spend a lot of time alone and so my mind wandering out unattended can be a real problem. years ago (45 now), i finally traced back to the single moments in my life that caused my demise and since then my brain LOVES to torture me repeatedly with the pain and betrayal and shame and anger of those moments.
1.5 years ago i found something that helps. i made “elevator music” for my mind.
i have always had a bit of a problem getting songs stuck in my head. so i found one that i like but not love (not a favorite song) that i have known for forever, and put the chorus and bridge on permanent replay.
the tune and lyrics are available as a reflex, last for about a minute before the loopback, it is calming and centering and allows me to manually wrest control away from thought processes that are harming me but seem to be happening automatically.
it may be that this is too specific of a solution, but it aids my sanity. good luck to you.
(the song is: “Spinning the Wheel” by George Michael)
when was the last time you paid your taxes?.. or were they auto-deducted from your paycheck before you even had a chance to count it?
“you’re free to move to a place…” hahaha! haaahahaha! WHAT? you are not a serious person.
it is really bugging me that you are getting heavily downvoted for this. it’s not like you are actively proselytizing here. i am sorry people are so shitty.
i think belief in (some type of) god is probably pretty healthy. unfortunately, my life experience has led me to a failure to believe in anything at all.
anyways… you do you. be well.
oh yes, i see now…
… YOU are part of the elect few who TRULY understand. of course!
shut it ALL down.
Bernie should use that gavel on Mullin’s head. shut that fucker up.
Watching their partner have sex with someone else sometimes sparked what they called “classic little jealousy issues,” which Adams said they resolved with “more communication, more growing up.” The money was just too good. And over time, they adopted a self-affirming ideology that framed everything as just business.
i swear this is the exact plot of “Boogie Nights”. i wish these young entrepreneurs all the best, but the movie didn’t exactly have a happy ending.
it’s so so sooooo difficult to take this language seriously. because EVERY election is phrased with this sky-is-falling rhetoric. i am 45 and for as long as i have been a voter, this-next-one is the-big-one.
nevertheless, i do actually think that this time bad things really will happen.
also, i want to get it out there that even though this guardian piece downplays “biden is old”, i cannot stress enough that i will unconditionally NOT vote for biden. so these fuckers better put up a reasonable candidate very quickly.
i got to spend 30 minutes in the doctors waiting room last week and they had a pop playlist running. i rarely listen to (any) music these days and spend my time in public with earplugs jammed in my ears.
the music coming from those speakers was ungodly distracting, aggressive, poorly constructed and LOUD. i brought it up to my family and they told me i sound like an old man (45).
i don’t think it’s just my age.
it’s not as though it is a thing to be admired, like a work of art… it’s a fucking gun. that is what you do with guns.
this is where the video was taken of two women, above whom had formed a small electric storm disturbance causing their hair to stand on end.
the Inflation Reduction Act is climate legislation?.. should we pass a Climate Reduction Act to get ahead of the grocery bill?
i became a member of abovetopsecret.com back in 2007. speculation about “the powers that be” was interesting and there was lots of information and friendly people.
i still visit that site about once per week, but the people are awful and the information is no good. habit, i guess.
i think in this case we also want to consider…
do not click a twitter link
… as the article states, it is the traffic, itself, that they want.
it has never made much sense to me that simply because you arrived on this planet before i did, that you should be granted a greater share of its resources than me.
back when i was younger and had the energy and focus to do so, i would engage with my father (whom holds unreasonable opinions such as you are up against with your family).
often, i would catch him making a point which directly contradicted an earlier point of his. i would then circle back to the earlier point and connect the two, breaking both of his arguments and hopefully forcing a concession.
but somehow he was able to blind himself to self-contradiction. it was infuriating.
the moral here is that i do not think it is possible to change anyone’s mind, even if you are clear and rational and your point is water-tight.
your love for and enjoyment of them must be independent of political and religious differences. good luck!
that’s what i was thinkin… surely single-cell eukaryote (fungi) is earlier than complex eukaryote (shark)?