Nothing shocks me anymore.
How about you?
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Jaded
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Re: Jaded
by Arsenal » Tue 06 Jan 2009, 09:32:40
Agreed.
I have become jaded about a great many things. My struggle is to direct that feeling into action and away from my family. Prepping for a possible future collapse can wear a person down if you don't enjoy life as well. Get out!! Fishing, hunting, bike rides, etc.. My wife is behind me when it comes to preps but she does not want to dwell too much on the possibility of using them for survival.
Stock market = Jaded
Economy = Jaded
Head in the sand people = Jaded
Preps... = A little jaded. I really wish I did not have to do this.
etc etc etc..
I could like hundreds of thing but you get the point.
Enjoy life! Make sure to direct that feeling where it belongs. 
ACTION!
I have become jaded about a great many things. My struggle is to direct that feeling into action and away from my family. Prepping for a possible future collapse can wear a person down if you don't enjoy life as well. Get out!! Fishing, hunting, bike rides, etc.. My wife is behind me when it comes to preps but she does not want to dwell too much on the possibility of using them for survival.
Stock market = Jaded
Economy = Jaded
Head in the sand people = Jaded
Preps... = A little jaded. I really wish I did not have to do this.
etc etc etc..
I could like hundreds of thing but you get the point.
Enjoy life! Make sure to direct that feeling where it belongs. ACTION!If the American people ever allow the banks to control issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. T Jefferson
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Re: Jaded
by Pops » Tue 06 Jan 2009, 16:04:58
I'm thinking you ain't seen nothing.
Reading crap on the internet and watching TV news is not real.
Jaded = $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'm')ade dull, apathetic, or cynical by experience
Reading crap on the internet and watching TV news is not real.
Jaded = $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'm')ade dull, apathetic, or cynical by experience
Try some of these experiences and tell me whether you are jaded or just bored:
Your outgo exceeds your income
Sit with your parents as they die in your 30's
Take care of a daughter in insulin shock innumerable times
who then is hospitalized many times more, then virtually blind at 30
Then take care of her daughter after her mother died from 25 years of diabetes
Tend to a brother when he sliced open his leg with a worm-drive, a nephew who fell off a roof and a father on a drunken tear when you are 10
I could go on but I'm thinking jaded wasn't the word you were looking for...
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
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Re: Jaded
by Sixstrings » Tue 06 Jan 2009, 22:39:14
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')othing shocks me anymore. How about you?
Nope. Nada. Nothin shocks me anymore.
I think I lost half my innocence about the saneness of the world on 9/11. That event was literally out of a Tom Clancy novel -- those things aren't supposed to happen in real life.
The other half of my naivite eroded away with the events which have transpired since I joined peakoil.com.
Add to this the everyday experiences of illness and death in the family, and my disillusionment with Corporate America. So ya, nothin shocks me anymore (it occurs to me it's bad luck to say that
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I'm so *unshockable* that a couple months ago, an suv clipped a car and did four flips right in front of me -- and I didn't bat an eye. Everyone else in the car with me was freaking out, but not me. I just calmly surveyed the scene, looked for leaking gas, looked for an exit out of there.
(nobody was fatally hurt by the way, thank goodness.. others had gotten out to help the victims, or I would have)
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Re: Jaded
by bratticus » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 06:40:41
Yawn!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Worst year for jobs since '45
Annual loss biggest since end of World War II. Unemployment rate rises to 7.2%.
By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer
January 9, 2009
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The hemorrhaging of American jobs accelerated at a record pace at the end of 2008, bringing the year's total job losses to 2.6 million or the highest level in more than six decades.
A sobering U.S. Labor Department jobs report Friday showed the economy lost 524,000 jobs in December and 1.9 million in the year's final four months, after the credit crisis began in September.
The unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month from 6.7% in November - its highest rate since January 1993.
The steep annual drop in jobs marked the highest yearly job-loss total since 1945, the year in which World War II ended.
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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Worst year for jobs since '45
Annual loss biggest since end of World War II. Unemployment rate rises to 7.2%.
By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer
January 9, 2009
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The hemorrhaging of American jobs accelerated at a record pace at the end of 2008, bringing the year's total job losses to 2.6 million or the highest level in more than six decades.
A sobering U.S. Labor Department jobs report Friday showed the economy lost 524,000 jobs in December and 1.9 million in the year's final four months, after the credit crisis began in September.
The unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month from 6.7% in November - its highest rate since January 1993.
The steep annual drop in jobs marked the highest yearly job-loss total since 1945, the year in which World War II ended.
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Maybe another world war ended? Whatever.
Well I'm off to my bread line at the soup kitchen.
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