[SevenTen]

Guilt is often the penance we have been trained to give ourselves. You don't feel guilty because you cheated on your wife, you feel guilty because you think that somehow absolves you. But you knew that cheating would hurt her if she found out and decided to do it anyway.

Understand the consequences of your actions, check with your moral code, evaluate your circumstances, make hard choices, act. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Guilt is wasted energy.

[kochevnik]

Way, way down deep inside - I don't think it is guilt.

I think it's fear.

Fear that because of a lucky stroke of the universe, you got to be one of the lucky privileged few who has everything - and fear because if PO is for real, you're going to lose that privileged status and end up just like those poor schmucks in some poor thrid world shithole you see Anglina Jolie zooming around on the gossip pages - when she isn't busy giving Brad a blowjob.

Admit it - you watch those poor people a lot closer now that you found PO was for real don't you ?

I know I do.

[What_Went_Wrong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'W')WW wrote,

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')a oh god,

I should never post when drunk. I dunno who I was feeling more sorry for, them or myself. I'm out of time now (off to work) but i'll elaborate more when I get back, few points I wanna put across

[What_Went_Wrong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kochevnik', 'W')ay, way down deep inside - I don't think it is guilt.

I think it's fear.

[What_Went_Wrong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Uninspired123', 'l')ol with that kind of mindset you're not going to make it.

[Madpaddy]

WWW wrote,

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o I'm far from an 'alcoholic' and maybe you should not judge someone you have never met when you have no information to go on. Your post was offensive, uninformed and inaccurate.

[Madpaddy]

WWW,

I apologise for calling you an alcoholic. As I said before it was not a serious assertion.

[What_Went_Wrong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('What_Went_Wrong', 'I') think of it this way, if someone offered me a big sum of money for free, but as a result a few family's in a far away country would starve or suffer directly as a result of that, would I take it? Hell no.

[What_Went_Wrong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'W')WW,

I apologise for calling you an alcoholic. As I said before it was not a serious assertion.

[Madpaddy]

It's people with attitudes like Jack that have gotten us into this mess. Unfortunately, I do find it hard to argue with alot of his logic.

[What_Went_Wrong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'I')t's people with attitudes like Jack that have gotten us into this mess. Unfortunately, I do find it hard to argue with alot of his logic.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('What_Went_Wrong', 'I')t's a shame that though all this you have lost the last any of your human side, but I fully believe that it's people with your mindset that will last the longest. I envy it, I would love to have no remorse.

where you always such a hardass or did it come from peak oil? (not insulting you man, just an honest question as I really need to grow a set before TSHTF)

[emailking]

Jack, don't you worry that your clan will see your posts on here? Whether sharing your mindset or not, it would be completely idiotic to be on your side in dark times. Because you'd just as soon, say cook your wife alive than treat her debilitating leg wound.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emailking', 'J')ack, don't you worry that your clan will see your posts on here? Whether sharing your mindset or not, it would be completely idiotic to be on your side in dark times. Because you'd just as soon, say cook your wife alive than treat her debilitating leg wound.

[emailking]

Fine, I won't answer you. But you need to ask yourself these questions as well. What would YOU want your wife to do? No don't answer that. I already know the answer. Since you only care about yourself and only care about others to the extent that they can assist you (happiness, pleasure, fetch the water and milk the cows, whatever) I think it's pretty clear you would try to convince them to help you, as opposed to selflessly sacrificing yourself.

[keehah]

Double post. What no delete?

[keehah]

Wow www, don't know what is was in your post but it sure did bring out the sociopaths! Don't quite know what it was but you must have had a sentence or two that rubbed against a few sociopath denial mechanisms. Maybe it was just bravado.

I feel much the same way right now. Working in the denial industry, an alt energy company, and looks like I will soon have a job offer in a second denial/alt energy field but one that will give me new skills that will be useful for local lifestyle. (I call them denial industries from an ER/EI perspective.)

Problem is I'll be doing a whole lot of flying again. Not flying was an easy moral choice to make, especially since it is also like going into prison these days.

I am ready to stop being 'a good little German' working for the empire. We who are aware (and have decent preps) don't have an excuse other than cowardice, psychopathic or some such tendencies. As well I have a lifeboat home in a beautiful setting and community (perfect in most ways but for space for gardening) yet I am forced to come back to the big city weekdays for work and sleep listening to the trains and cars.

No leaving the big city and its lifestyle won't save the world but if I can't save the world that does not mean I need to continue killing it as fast as I can and surrounding myself with brain-dead or ego-driven people in an ego driven culture?

You may get something from this, found it linked from Matt's site last week if I recall correctly: http://whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/13 ... -practice/

[align=center]So, before you start defendin'
Baby, stop all your pretendin'
I know you know I know
So what's the point in being slow
Let's get the show on the road today
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