[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'J')ust so I know, are we talking about Heine's or RE's thoughts now?

[galacticsurfer]

Everyone comes into their own style with time. Kids grow up and copy their parents and then their peers and eventually just become consciously themselves. When someone comes into a room or a new company then the atmosphere is so that people have to learn who and what this person is about. What is meant as offensive, as a joke, is he an idiot or a kindred soul, whatever. After a while most of the variations are just ignored as he/she is well known. Then Mood of the day, maintenance of relations, perseverance and courtesy becomes critical as the whole thing is a serious project(job, whatever), as in here we are having a permanent debate on our future and we are not, say, trolls, just trying to get a rise out of others then moving on to the next website under another pseudonym. Acutally that might be fun if one were totally against the POV of a certain group(Nazis, Satanists, etc.), but I am no warrior.

[Heineken]

As Pops implied, I think the discussion of writing style merits a thread of its own. I am principally to blame for this thread going off track.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'A')s Pops implied, I think the discussion of writing style merits a thread of its own. I am principally to blame for this thread going off track.

[Pops]

Try this, Define your writing style...

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '.')..At any rate, I'll share the blame with you for getting off track here.

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[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'T')ry this, Define your writing style...

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '.')..At any rate, I'll share the blame with you for getting off track here.

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[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'T')ry this, Define your writing style...

[AlexdeLarge]

Smigly : A Life

Life is good, without it we’d all be dead.

[aldente]

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'A')h, one of those buried "Open Forum" threads that nobody reads because they don't appear in the Last 24 Hours listing

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', ' ')Was thinking of buying a bow and teaching myself archery. Something new to shake things up a bit.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CarlinsDarlin', 'I')ndeed, 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

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '(')...)
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.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '(')...)
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.

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bodinagamin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '(')...)
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.

[Crazy_Dad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DoomWarrior', 'G')reat 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.