[Heineken]

I'm certainly feeling better since I started this thread.

All of you, each of you, I thank for your wisdom and insights and remarkable perspectives.

I have something taped to a lamp that I should read more often. Here it is:

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

(source unknown)

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '[')b]Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

(source unknown)

[oowolf]

Hope you're not mixing benzo's with alcohol on a regular basis; that's REALLY hard on your liver,
dude. Anyone who drinks alcohol should be taking Silymarin for liver repair (Silibum marianum; milk thistle extract) Also a proven cure for hepatitis--an essential homestead plant.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')
One philosophy I have always held to is that the minute you stop GROWING as a person is the minute you put one foot in the grave. Yes, its depressing to realize that so much of what you discussed int he past is coming true, but it does NOT mean its all over. It just means that NOW is the time everything you thought about will be put to the test. Now is the time you find out if your Preps really SUCCEEDED, in the sense that you really will have to make them WORK for you. Why did you spend allt hat time preparing if the real outcome here makes you passively resigned to the inevitable?

Be at Peace Heineken, you have fought the Good Fight. But do not give up yet. The Bunker is always there in your mind to go to, but it is NOT Bunker Time yet. There is still some Fight left in us all here, and its not time to give up the ghost until the Fat Lady Sings.

[Heineken]

Engineer, thank you.

I have seen changes in you since you joined.

Good job.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'H')ope you're not mixing benzo's with alcohol on a regular basis; that's REALLY hard on your liver,
dude.

[Sixstrings]

Really, there is no need to mix alcohol and benzos. They both sort of do the same thing, but in combo are dangerous.

You're better off getting really drunk or taking too many benzos than playing games mixing the two. And even taking too many benzos is stupid, since the more you take the more you need (tolerance).

I must be an old fogey now, as I cannot understand playing games with drugs. Heck, you're in enough danger as it is taking things as prescribed.

[Quinny]

I understand the detachment issue.

I'm currently throwing myself into a new project and really enjoying it and being very productive but......

I sometimes look at myself and think WTF - it's all going tits up anyway, so why work so hard. When I say look at myself, it really is in a detached manner almost like I'm watching my actions.

I did a really good presentation to a group of salespeople the other day. End of the presentation they all flocked round really keen about what I'd been showing them. I was feeling quite pleased with myself, but simultaneously I was thinking about family and preps and the economy and peak oil and why're you wasting your time working. The fact the income is needed seems almost irrelevant sometimes.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'E')ngineer, thank you.

I have seen changes in you since you joined.

Good job.

[Ronin]

Hello Heineken,

I've come into this thread a bit late, you're all better.
Glad to hear it mate. I thought I'd share with you a piece of music that always helps me through dispassionate times, it is Tool- Parabol.

Keep on truckin

[emeraldg40]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '[')url=http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQzfdCs_HU]Don't Fear the Reaper[/url]

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'E')ngineer, thank you.

I have seen changes in you since you joined.

Good job.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ronin', 'H')ello Heineken,

I've come into this thread a bit late, you're all better.
Glad to hear it mate. I thought I'd share with you a piece of music that always helps me through dispassionate times, it is Tool- Parabol.

Keep on truckin

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'E')ngineer, thank you.

I have seen changes in you since you joined.

Good job.

[Heineken]

RE, some of your commentary has a bombastic air that I think turns many off, because it is perceived as egotistical. Perhaps you don't intend that, but that is how it comes off---less frequently now than formerly, perhaps, which is what I was getting at in my earlier post.

Consider writing with your audience more strongly in mind.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'R')E, some of your commentary has a bombastic air that I think turns many off, because it is perceived as egotistical. Perhaps you don't intend that, but that is how it comes off---less frequently now than formerly, perhaps, which is what I was getting at in my earlier post.

Consider writing with your audience more strongly in mind.

[Heineken]

RE, I don't agree with the reasoning behind your communication strategy, but I respect you for standing by it. Be who you are.

I believe in the power of humility, restraint, and brevity. For me, language framed in that way communicates with more force than your preferred approach.

I submit that exaggeration and excess weaken rather than strengthen communication. This is an irony perhaps, but it is ineradicably true and is the path of our greatest writers, such as Hemingway.

[dunewalker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'I') believe in the power of humility, restraint, and brevity. For me, language framed in that way communicates with more force than your preferred approach.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '
')I submit that exaggeration and excess weaken rather than strengthen communication. This is an irony perhaps, but it is ineradicably true and is the path of our greatest writers, such as Hemingway.

[Pops]

Just so I know, are we talking about Heine's or RE's thoughts now?