My "Strange Time"

Pops · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:13 pm

ReverseEngineer wrote:

Ah, one of those buried "Open Forum" threads that nobody reads because they don't appear in the Last 24 Hours listing ;-)

Help me out, does the Hall o Flames not show up in 24 either?

I'd like someone to cut and paste what does show and perhaps a non-Member to tell me the forums they can get.

This site is a patchwork currently being rebuilt and I can't log in as just a member and I doubt any other admin knows either.

Any replies will be moved to the appropriate thread.

Newfie · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:53 am

Heineken wrote:

Was thinking of buying a bow and teaching myself archery. Something new to shake things up a bit.

I just found this thread and have not read it through but I will. In the meantime I wanted to comment on this before I forgot.

I personally find shooting a bow the most relaxing thing I have ever done. There is something in the mix of concentration, repetition, build of tension, and subsequent release that works for me.

Once I took an acting class and we had to do relaxation exercises by laying still and mentally relaxing muscles in our body. I now find it hard to do (through lack of practice) but it still works. Just thinking the bow thing through maybe what I am experiencing is drawing up tension within my body and "shooting" it out through the arrow.

Alas, here in the center of the doughnut, there is no place convenient to shoot. My range is over a half hour away by car and, because I am lazy, this is inconvenient and takes too much time.

bodigami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:00 am **Posts:** 2330

CarlinsDarlin wrote:

Indeed, you are not alone Heineken. I've had similar times in my life. One in particular was very much like you describe. I found that I needed to return to my roots, because "where I was" in my life just didn't fit. You can try to make yourself fit many places, but there is only one place you'll be comfortable. I had to learn where that place was and return there. It was a journey (just the self-discovery phase was a struggle at times), but I made it "back home."

Someone I respect said you cannot "should upon" other people. You should do this, you should do that... and it applies to yourself, too. Don't get yourself buried under all the things you "should" be doing or how you "should" be living.

Sit down and re-examine your current state of affairs. Like Pops said, it may just be that you've tried to fit into something/somewhere that just doesn't. Perhaps you've listened to one too many "shoulds" and it's time to just get back to being you.

Good luck.
K

Wise advice, it applies with the "shouldn't do" too.

bodigami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:00 am **Posts:** 2330

mos6507 wrote:

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I have been aggregating every mainstream global warming and peak oil news link for over a year, obssessively, and yet I am really afraid to share this with anyone because I don't want to hear them slough it off no matter how tall the body of evidence is. It's like I'm collecting this shrine of spiteful "I knew all along" for the moment when the people around me take the blinders off. That and hanging around here is really an unhealthy addiction.

I disagree... unless it becomes an addiction this forum is a great way to talk with people that are IMO wiser than avarage.

bodigami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:00 am **Posts:** 2330

Newfie wrote:

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Alas, here in the center of the doughnut, there is no place convenient to shoot. My range is over a half hour away by car and, because I am lazy, this is inconvenient and takes too much time.

lol, what is the center of the doughnut?

Newfie · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:58 pm

bodinagamin wrote:

Newfie wrote:

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Alas, here in the center of the doughnut, there is no place convenient to shoot. My range is over a half hour away by car and, because I am lazy, this is inconvenient and takes too much time.

lol, what is the center of the doughnut?

Center City Philadelphia. You know, Center City surrounded by blight (ghetto) surrounded by suburbs.

Sortta zombie hoard ground zero.

Crazy_Dad · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 3:05 pm

DoomWarrior wrote:

Great thread.

I also have been experiencing a lack of grounding and centeredness. To the extent I can pinpoint the root causes, they are:

1. The realization that my once beloved country (USA) is about to go t!ts up as a result of incompetence, corruption, greed, deception, lack of foresight, and profligate spending;

2. The realization that peak oil will exacerbate the foregoing;

3. The realization that peak oil will likely vaporize a good chunk of my profession, and render useless my doctorate degree;

4. The realization that 99.99% of the population remains clueless as to what is fundamentally important in life and in preserving the future of civilization and this planet; and

5. The dichotomy I face every day that, on the one hand, I witness the very fabric of society disintegrating beyond repair, and such disintegration is increasing exponentially; and yet, on the other hand, I nevertheless work and function within this matrix as though nothing were wrong, and participate in our dysfunctional society as though it still has a future.

Wow - what DoomWarrior said - that's my views in a nutshell. Australia is no longer the place I grew up in.

I have had severe depression (and was at one point relaxing in a sanitarium) which drugs couldn't touch. You see it wasn't me being sick, it was me reacting like any other creature to stimuli that was unhealthy.
Trap a rat in a cage and poke it with a stick every day - it's going to act crazy really soon. Recognising this and accepting that there is nothing I could do to change or influence others started me back out of darkness. I stopped poking myself with a stick.

I still see everyone in shopping malls and on trains to work as zombies, not in a hallucinatory way(Not that crazy sorry), in a values way. When TSHTF they will be clueless on how they got there. But that is no longer my problem

Since my 'troubles' I have become remarried to a beautiful woman who is not only intelligent enough to know that TSHTF is coming, but will talk and plan with me.

I chose my nickname to remind me of my past, especially when dealing with the topics we find on these forums. Other people may think I'm crazy. But I'm sure I would think and individual running the other way down the street looking agitated and wild eyed was crazy too. Until I saw what he was running from and followed his example.

So anyway to the OP and others who have felt disconnection and depression, it's a symptom not a disease. Get some assistance and talk to people so you no longer poke yourself with that stick

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