the dark little box in the dark little room
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Kevin Solway
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Re: the dark little box in the dark little room
Looks like the only open spaces left on earth are central Africa, central Australia, western China, Antarctica, and Northern Alaska. And most of these places are uninhabitable. It's surprising to see how built-up the Amazon basin is becoming.
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Kelly Jones
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Re: the dark little box in the dark little room
Not all humans use lights at night.
I don't like the modern way of having shops always open, including weekends, and people not ordering their lives by sunlight. I can well understand the rituals of midday siesta, or weekend shut-down.
Bring back the ability to be bored! Bring back the experiences of disappointment, inconvenience, and exercising that atrophied muscle - patience.
I don't like the modern way of having shops always open, including weekends, and people not ordering their lives by sunlight. I can well understand the rituals of midday siesta, or weekend shut-down.
Bring back the ability to be bored! Bring back the experiences of disappointment, inconvenience, and exercising that atrophied muscle - patience.
Re: the dark little box in the dark little room
Patience is a close cousin of resignation and mediocrity. Passion makes demands.
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Dan Rowden
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Re: the dark little box in the dark little room
Oh, dear - there's only one guy I know who posts for a while then asks to be banned.
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Kelly Jones
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What about making demands on desire to quit it?Jason wrote:Patience is a close cousin of resignation and mediocrity. Passion makes demands.
Or hoaxing NEED?
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If the quitting is primarily fueled by a flight from disappointment and inconvenience, then there's a good chance this "patience" is resignation with the subsequent slipping into mediocrity.Kelly Jones wrote:What about making demands on desire to quit it?Jason wrote:Patience is a close cousin of resignation and mediocrity. Passion makes demands.
Old people are patient. They are content with the the small simple things in life, ie they are tired, lack passion and are full of sour grapes.
I don't know what that means.Or hoaxing NEED?
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Why do you wish to be banned, if you don't mind me asking?geniuine wrote:Kevin: PLEASE ban me (my IP).
Or Dan... :)
This forum is a very toxic place on the internet, it can do you a lot of damage. It can screw you up, it can rob your life even.
Re: the dark little box in the dark little room
Yeah, his posting style looked familiar, he roped in (conned) a couple people here. I thought about ripping him a new %*@#, but sat back and watched his comedy routine unravel ...Dan Rowden wrote:Oh, dear - there's only one guy I know who posts for a while then asks to be banned.
We hold these truths to be self- ... now lemme get this straight ... you put the lime in the coconut ... 'n mix 'em both up?
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Dan Rowden
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It might help you understand to know that this was the same poster who's been banned under more names than I can recount. Basically, his mind lures him back here, then he regrets it. He seems not to have the willpower to stop posting and requires that someone stop him. It's unfortunate, because he's not a bad kid. You know the type.prince wrote:Why do you wish to be banned, if you don't mind me asking?geniuine wrote:Kevin: PLEASE ban me (my IP).
Or Dan... :)
This forum is a very toxic place on the internet, it can do you a lot of damage. It can screw you up, it can rob your life even.
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Kelly Jones
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Re: the dark little box in the dark little room
I went through a stage like that.
It's a case of engaging the ego, and participating in the Genius Forum to feed the sense of self and power through knowledge, reputation, and so forth.
One then encounters some idea, is uncertain about it, and then there is fear. If one encounters more of the same, then one logs off the Genius Forum with a strong emotional impression of having run-away from a monstrous enemy.
So, offline, the thoughts will churn and repeat, in order to find some way to overcome this monster and the 'enemy people' inside it. It becomes a life-or-death battle - not over ideas using reason, but over imaginary enemies using worry-laden ideas of attack to make oneself feel safe and powerful again.
That toxic perspective does really, as prince says, do a lot of damage, screw you up, rob you of life.
Dignity is so easily misplaced, not put into reasoning and into one's love of Truth.
My way around it is sometimes using half-measures, like following a schedule, not using the forum to express my general thoughts but to write such notes down elsewhere, or participating for some reasons of my own. It's my aim to be able to use full-measures, but it's coming slowly.
It's a case of engaging the ego, and participating in the Genius Forum to feed the sense of self and power through knowledge, reputation, and so forth.
One then encounters some idea, is uncertain about it, and then there is fear. If one encounters more of the same, then one logs off the Genius Forum with a strong emotional impression of having run-away from a monstrous enemy.
So, offline, the thoughts will churn and repeat, in order to find some way to overcome this monster and the 'enemy people' inside it. It becomes a life-or-death battle - not over ideas using reason, but over imaginary enemies using worry-laden ideas of attack to make oneself feel safe and powerful again.
That toxic perspective does really, as prince says, do a lot of damage, screw you up, rob you of life.
Dignity is so easily misplaced, not put into reasoning and into one's love of Truth.
My way around it is sometimes using half-measures, like following a schedule, not using the forum to express my general thoughts but to write such notes down elsewhere, or participating for some reasons of my own. It's my aim to be able to use full-measures, but it's coming slowly.