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what's so blinkin' happy about new year's 2015? :x
I think it will be a splendid new year! :bounce: 19%  19%  [ 8 ]
meh! gimme a drink. :drunken: 23%  23%  [ 10 ]
I think it's gonna be the worst yet! :x 21%  21%  [ 9 ]
just give me my ice cream! :albino: 37%  37%  [ 16 ]
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01 Jan 2015, 6:24 am

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yeah, the earth did it again, just like she did cca 4.54 × 10000000000 times before! yeah, she can do it, that old peace of rock! woohoo :jester:

Exactly my feeling. Listening to these fire crackers and seeing these people gives me a feeling of deja vu, like one of those thought loops that some people in psychiatric hospitals can't get out of, a smiling nightmare you can't wake up from, sitting in solitary confinement with nothing but a record player playing a record with a scratch repeating the same short piece of people laughing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over



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01 Jan 2015, 6:33 am

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yeah, the earth did it again, just like she did cca 4.54 × 10000000000 times before! yeah, she can do it, that old peace of rock! woohoo :jester:

Exactly my feeling. Listening to these fire crackers and seeing these people gives me a feeling of deja vu, like one of those thought loops that some people in psychiatric hospitals can't get out of, a smiling nightmare you can't wake up from, sitting in solitary confinement with nothing but a record player playing a record with a scratch repeating the same short piece of people laughing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over


yeah, to me it's like that with just about every "holiday" they so forcefully like to celebrate.... let's repeat the same ol' phrases over and over again and pretend that we're happy by doing so. And the best pretender will get most candy! :jester:



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01 Jan 2015, 6:37 am

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yeah, the earth did it again, just like she did cca 4.54 × 10000000000 times before! yeah, she can do it, that old peace of rock! woohoo :jester:

Exactly my feeling. Listening to these fire crackers and seeing these people gives me a feeling of deja vu, like one of those thought loops that some people in psychiatric hospitals can't get out of, a smiling nightmare you can't wake up from, sitting in solitary confinement with nothing but a record player playing a record with a scratch repeating the same short piece of people laughing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over


yeah, to me it's like that with just about every "holiday" they so forcefully like to celebrate.... let's repeat the same ol' phrases over and over again and pretend that we're happy by doing so. And the best pretender will get most candy! :jester:
Yeah, that's basically how I feel about human interaction at large. Nothing but empty repetition. That's why I'm a loner and care about striving upward toward lofty otherworldly goals. I don't give a damn about people and their mundane carnal interests.



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01 Jan 2015, 6:43 am

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It's just a mask, disguising the truth, which is that the whole thing serves no other purpose than that of the tally marks on a prison wall.


yeah, like today it will be any different or better than it was yesterday or the day before...just a different number on the calendar, while they all mean the same...increase in entropy ever since the arrow of time started it's journey from the vacuum fluctuations through the space-time continuum. and we're here, mere specks of stardust carved in the furnaces of dying stars, just observing our fate on this peace of rock. and apparently celebrating it for the reasons beyond my comprehension.... :jester:



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01 Jan 2015, 6:44 am

tomato wrote:
Booyakasha wrote:
tomato wrote:
Booyakasha wrote:
yeah, the earth did it again, just like she did cca 4.54 × 10000000000 times before! yeah, she can do it, that old peace of rock! woohoo :jester:

Exactly my feeling. Listening to these fire crackers and seeing these people gives me a feeling of deja vu, like one of those thought loops that some people in psychiatric hospitals can't get out of, a smiling nightmare you can't wake up from, sitting in solitary confinement with nothing but a record player playing a record with a scratch repeating the same short piece of people laughing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over


yeah, to me it's like that with just about every "holiday" they so forcefully like to celebrate.... let's repeat the same ol' phrases over and over again and pretend that we're happy by doing so. And the best pretender will get most candy! :jester:
Yeah, that's basically how I feel about human interaction at large. Nothing but empty repetition. That's why I'm a loner and care about striving upward toward lofty otherworldly goals. I don't give a damn about people and their mundane carnal interests.


it would be nice to go beyond appearances, beyond senses.....but the earth's pull is still too strong :(



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01 Jan 2015, 7:11 am

I also find this whole "celebration of the fact we made another orbit" thing illogical. While I had a decent second half of 14, I didn't experience much change between 13 and 14. There are a few changes coming for me for 15. I look forward to and dread them both at the same time.

I will become independent this year. I want and fear it at the same time.

I will probably have a Case Manager. This will make things easier, maybe.

I'm not into change, but I will tolerate it as long as it's for the greater good.


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01 Jan 2015, 7:45 am

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it would be nice to go beyond appearances, beyond senses.....but the earth's pull is still too strong :(

It's called psychosis. The Earth's pull does seem to be very strong, and too strong, for most people on this forum. Not sure about myself. I feel like I might have already lifted at least a couple of inches off the ground.



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01 Jan 2015, 8:34 am

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it would be nice to go beyond appearances, beyond senses.....but the earth's pull is still too strong :(

It's called psychosis. The Earth's pull does seem to be very strong, and too strong, for most people on this forum. Not sure about myself. I feel like I might have already lifted at least a couple of inches off the ground.


for some of us there is no way out it seems :( happy to hear that there at least some with their feet off the ground.



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01 Jan 2015, 8:41 am

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it would be nice to go beyond appearances, beyond senses.....but the earth's pull is still too strong :(

It's called psychosis. The Earth's pull does seem to be very strong, and too strong, for most people on this forum. Not sure about myself. I feel like I might have already lifted at least a couple of inches off the ground.


for some of us there is no way out it seems :( happy to hear that there at least some with their feet off the ground.

Well, I don't know for sure, just speculating. If there's any truth to it, my advice would be stay cynical, don't take that soma.



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01 Jan 2015, 8:44 am

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it would be nice to go beyond appearances, beyond senses.....but the earth's pull is still too strong :(

It's called psychosis. The Earth's pull does seem to be very strong, and too strong, for most people on this forum. Not sure about myself. I feel like I might have already lifted at least a couple of inches off the ground.


for some of us there is no way out it seems :( happy to hear that there at least some with their feet off the ground.

Well, I don't know for sure, just speculating. If there's any truth to it, my advice would be stay cynical, don't take that soma.


As my friend once said, that "soma" sticks like plaster. Thanks for the advice though.



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01 Jan 2015, 9:27 am

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As my friend once said, that "soma" sticks like plaster. Thanks for the advice though.

English is not my first language but I guess it means this:

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a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.


What did he mean by "soma sticks like plaster"? I can see how perhaps soma sticks like the cement between bricks, where you are only a brick in the wall when you take the soma. Not taking the soma you are like a brick without cement, of no use to the wall.



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01 Jan 2015, 9:53 am

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As my friend once said, that "soma" sticks like plaster. Thanks for the advice though.

English is not my first language but I guess it means this:

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a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.


What did he mean by "soma sticks like plaster"? I can see how perhaps soma sticks like the cement between bricks, where you are only a brick in the wall when you take the soma. Not taking the soma you are like a brick without cement, of no use to the wall.


Lol English isn't my first language either; actually I remember him saying that when he was talking about feelings, but since to me they are very somatic, corporal, I extended the analogy to your "soma", sorry for the confusion.

I guess he meant to say that although we strive to transcend our emotions, they stick like plaster - yes, like cement between the bricks - and you just can't transcend that electric impulse in your brain signalling an emotion even though you try so hard. And then those emotions make you stick to the earth, they keep you in the earth's pull - well at least that's how it is in my case.



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01 Jan 2015, 9:55 am

Well, in 2015 the flyby of Pluto by New Horizons will finally happen, maybe allowing us to finally see what Pluto look like up close. Looking forward to it.



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01 Jan 2015, 10:45 am

Christmas/New Years aregood to get a few drinks in but being nearly 50 makes one more aware of entropic decay with each year.



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01 Jan 2015, 11:00 am

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Lol English isn't my first language either; actually I remember him saying that when he was talking about feelings, but since to me they are very somatic, corporal, I extended the analogy to your "soma", sorry for the confusion.

I guess he meant to say that although we strive to transcend our emotions, they stick like plaster - yes, like cement between the bricks - and you just can't transcend that electric impulse in your brain signalling an emotion even though you try so hard. And then those emotions make you stick to the earth, they keep you in the earth's pull - well at least that's how it is in my case.
Ok. Yes, I agree. By cement between bricks I also meant that the soma, emotional intelligence, is what makes you compatible with society. Quite obviously this is what most on here strive for, hence taking the soma. While I believe that it is not taking the soma, the red pill, that is enlightenment, even though it entails suffering and alienation. When I said don't take the soma I meant to not take antidepressants or believe psychiatrists or people in general, or to strive to fit in. Sure it's hard to not do any of that since that's basically suicide but I at least do very little of it, I'm just barely managing to pull my own weight. But I might be mildly psychotic since most people on here seem to have no clue what I'm talking about most of the time. Aghogday has a different view than me on these things; I believe detachment from emotion is a good thing, he believes pretty much the opposite it seems. Not sure who's right.



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01 Jan 2015, 11:08 am

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Lol English isn't my first language either; actually I remember him saying that when he was talking about feelings, but since to me they are very somatic, corporal, I extended the analogy to your "soma", sorry for the confusion.

I guess he meant to say that although we strive to transcend our emotions, they stick like plaster - yes, like cement between the bricks - and you just can't transcend that electric impulse in your brain signalling an emotion even though you try so hard. And then those emotions make you stick to the earth, they keep you in the earth's pull - well at least that's how it is in my case.
Ok. Yes, I agree. By cement between bricks I also meant that the soma, emotional intelligence, is what makes you compatible with society. Quite obviously this is what most on here strive for, hence taking the soma. While I believe that it is not taking the soma, the red pill, that is enlightenment, even though it entails suffering and alienation. When I said don't take the soma I meant to not take antidepressants or believe psychiatrists or people in general, or to strive to fit in. Sure it's hard to not do any of that since that's basically suicide but I at least do very little of it, I'm just barely managing to pull my own weight. But I might be mildly psychotic since most people on here seem to have no clue what I'm talking about most of the time. Aghogday has a different view than me on these things; I believe detachment from emotion is a good thing, he believes pretty much the opposite it seems. Not sure who's right.


I believe detachment from emotion is a good thing as well, just not sure how to reach it! And I don't take antidepressants, I most certainly don't believe psychiatrists and I couldn't care less about fitting in. And so I agree with you - but what I meant is no matter how hard one tries to pull away from shackles of ego, it's still there! Lurking in emotions, waiting in feelings of pride, and despair and attachment and I can put myself on my head, I can meditate whole day long, but the effects of meditation have expiry date....and so we're back into same ol' ego and its fetters. I mean, one can go to the monastery and try to leave the world behind, but putting oneself behind is the hardest thing of them all, and no monastery or seclusion will help in that.