Post your random thoughts/feelings etc
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SoScared
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Cleaning for 1/2 hours a day enables me to practiceTicking boxes.
Every day a tiny little bit. Meditation, movement, gardening, cleaning, showering, make my bed, writing.
It help to keep the darkness and depression at bay.
It took me a long time to get to this point. But I still have such a long way to go.
The Buddhist technique of labelling and noting leading to mindfulness is exceptionally rewarding but surprisingly difficult to do. I've found that cleaning for 1/2 hour day gives me the vehicle I need to practice.
FountainandFairfax
in a VAN down by the RIVER
I think I've finally pinpointed the source of my mysterious, annoying, forehead rash: onions.
I've been plagued by itchy, slight-to-moderate breakouts for over a year now, and through process of elimination it seems that I've finally discovered the culprit. I thought it was something I was going to have to deal with for the rest of my life.
I've been plagued by itchy, slight-to-moderate breakouts for over a year now, and through process of elimination it seems that I've finally discovered the culprit. I thought it was something I was going to have to deal with for the rest of my life.
this_portrait
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Gonna pass out soon and actually drag my *** out of bed at a reasonable morning time and be productive and then later on go roam around a different neighborhood, maybe sit in a coffee shop there and try to get more of my novel done (Lord knows I've neglected it a lot these past couple months, thanks to my damn grad school classes -- so ready to be done with them).
GraybeardGhost
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I was watching a documentary earlier today that claims the world's population will likely increase to nine billion by 2050. It went on to describe various ways in which emerging technologies will be able to feed, power, and support such a huge number of people, but not one word about how to prevent such a calamity from happening in the first place. The planet may be able to handle that many people, but can the people handle that many people? What will happen to the quiet places? Cities will expand so far that there won't be a decent place left to live, just vast expanses of asphalt and concrete without a single tree or blade of grass or moment of peace. It's a truly horrifying prospect. The world is bad enough as it is. I'm glad I won't be around to see the disaster this program predicts.
Ithior
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You should probably take those claims with a hint of salt. I didn't watch that documentary but they always make those "predictions" by assuming the trend will continue going the same way it has been. So if the trend has been exponential growth, then they assume the population will continue growing exponentially. I'm not saying it won't happen, but there are so many things that can change in 30 years. For example, countries like Brazil and India can continue developing and face the same issue most developed countries are facing: an aging population, in part due to people having less kids.
Besides, we still have a lot of space. Check China for example, it has ghost cities that can house 10 million people (that's equivalent to the entire population of Portugal). And then you have countries like Portugal, where everyone lives by the sea or abroad and the interior is empty.
So I don't think lack of space will be an issue. Video of China's ghost cities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm7rOKT151Y
But still, it can become a problem so it shouldn't be overlooked. You can check the mouse utopia experiment if you want to know what happened to a population of mice that grew too big: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM
State_Of_Trance
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There're two things I've been meaning to write for some weeks. Today I finally got around to a little research and a little writing for the first of them. As usual, writing tires me. I get discouraged so easily. I just know that within a few minutes of posting it it'll just be torn apart by smarter people with better rhetorical skills. And this is what I did over the weekend for fun! Snap, I hate everything.
this_portrait
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I feel like I'm going to be spending the rest of my life thinking about what could've been. I think my novel is even a result of that thinking.
I can't believe some of the things I said to her, to someone I cared about.
this_portrait
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I wouldn't consider mine autobiographical, considering where I got my inspiration from for it, but I'm certainly injecting elements of my own feelings throughout it (as you can only put yourself in someone else's shoes to an extent).
GraybeardGhost
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Jeezus, I'm a tight-fisted bastard. 
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FountainandFairfax
in a VAN down by the RIVER
"It's just a phase, he'll grow out of it."
Good job, guys.
Good job, guys.
PugofCrydee
You want to know how I got these scars?
had a productive day.
worked 8 hours, came home and painted and finished installing new floor boards, planted some seedlings, made dinner.. now It's time to relax.
All on 2 hours sleep from the night before..
worked 8 hours, came home and painted and finished installing new floor boards, planted some seedlings, made dinner.. now It's time to relax.
All on 2 hours sleep from the night before..
Why did I go back and read that again...?
Razzlecherry
Banned
^Because you have a heart. Everyone else is a heartless cocksucker.
MollyBeGood
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What an awful day so far. I really was better off staying asleep like I wished to have done. I have missed nothing and only experienced pain and awfulness. What a joke.