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OK, well, two of the zillion problems that have cropped up recently are somewhat dealt with.. My car passed the smog test. And my son saw the doctor, and they still confirm that the headaches are stress-induced and not neurologically caused. That doesn’t make them less painful for him, but it gives us some idea of how they can be managed. It’s a shame that kids like 14 and 15 have to have such grown-up problems these days.
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Thanks.. and i realize that… it’s the "circle of life" thing… it sucks, then it gets good then it sucks then it gets good then it sucks again, then it gets good again, etc… I just hope that when i die it will be during one of the good parts. But if its during one of the sucky parts, you’ll be happy enough that death is iminent 
Yeah, I don’t know if I’d want to die in the middle of one of the "good parts"…kind of like having the power go out 5 minutes before the end of a really great movie. —– Dr. Kathryn Litherland, Managing Editor Journal of Latin American Anthropology "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." –Margaret Mead http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~lither
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very frustrated with life in general. I’m sorry that things are looking shitty right now. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth and wait it out.
Thanks.. and i realize that… it’s the "circle of life" thing… it sucks, then it gets good then it sucks then it gets good then it sucks again, then it gets good again, etc… I just hope that when i die it will be during one of the good parts.
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Sending long distance, {{{{Mary Lou}}}} and making sure I stay out of her way until she calms down. No reason to get my butt kicked two days in a row.
thanks.. and don’t worry, i’m not violent.. just frustrated and really sad.
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Oh yeah, and today i tried to get my car smogged and the MF’ers, even tho the ad said they were open today, they don’t do the smog thing today. And I hate my car anyway, and I have to spend all this money smogging it, and it’s not even the car i wanted, it’s the one the ex wanted even tho i made the payments.
Maybe I can get someone to steal it for you… resentments? nawww…. very frustrated with life in general.
I’m sorry that things are looking shitty right now. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth and wait it out. —– Dr. Kathryn Litherland, Managing Editor Journal of Latin American Anthropology "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." –Margaret Mead http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~lither
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very frustrated with life in general.
Sending long distance, {{{{Mary Lou}}}} and making sure I stay out of her way until she calms down. No reason to get my butt kicked two days in a row. sam Don’t push the red button, Never push the red button! Daffy Duck
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Oh yeah, and today i tried to get my car smogged and the MF’ers, even tho the ad said they were open today, they don’t do the smog thing today. And I hate my car anyway, and I have to spend all this money smogging it, and it’s not even the car i wanted, it’s the one the ex wanted even tho i made the payments. resentments? nawww…. very frustrated with life in general.
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What’s "falling apart" today? Share?
Some things that I thought were so "right" suddenly feel "wrong", in regards to my hopes and dreams and future, you know, small stuff , that stupid stuff that women think about when we aren’t dreaming of shoes… I hope it will work out but it’s not something I can do, and it won’t happen on its own. I can’t go into details becuz it’s too personal. sorry. And the other stuff, well, my mom and my ex are both going into surgery on the 11th and I’m worried about both. And i found out my son may be subpoenaed (sp?) to court on the 17th in regards to the school shooting. As if he hasn’t already been thru enuff, still dealing with the headaches/ptsd stuff after 4 months, now he may have to face this kid and relive the whole f*cking thing? What kind of justice is that?? I’m feeling like a train that’s been suddenly derailed, but still upright and coasting along parallel to the track. I’ll even say FUCK FUCK FUCK and i don’t even care…
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A great spiritual truth, life is hard. The harder life is the more spiritual growth occurs. Some of us here may even achieve Nirvana…
Phaedo on Plato: ""The soul is in the very likeness of the divine, and immortal, and intelligible, and uniform, and indissoluble, and unchangeable; and the body is in the very likeness of the human, and mortal, and unintelligible, and multiform, and dissoluble, and changeable." The body is destined for dissolution while the soul remains indissoluble." Keep the faith, some good news has got to be around the corner…
But he who is a philosopher or lover of learning, and is entirely pure at departing, is alone permitted to reach the gods. And this is the reason, Simmias and Cebes, why the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly lusts, and endure and refuse to give themselves up to them, — not because they fear poverty or the ruin of their families, like the lovers of money, and the world in general; nor like the lovers of power and honor, because they dread the dishonor or disgrace of evil deeds. No, Socrates, that would not become them, said Cebes. No indeed, he replied; and therefore they who have a care of their souls, and do not merely live in the fashions of the body, say farewell to all this; they will not walk in the ways of the blind: and when philosophy offers them purification and release from evil, they feel that they ought not to resist her influence, and to her they incline, and whither she leads they follow her. What do you mean, Socrates? I will tell you, he said. The lovers of knowledge are conscious that their souls, when philosophy receives them, are simply fastened and glued to their bodies: the soul is only able to view existence through the bars of a prison, and not in her own nature; she is wallowing in the mire of all ignorance; and philosophy, seeing the terrible nature of her confinement, and that the captive through desire is led to conspire in her own captivity (for the lovers of knowledge are aware that this was the original state of the soul, and that when she was in this state philosophy received and gently counseled her, and wanted to release her, pointing out to her that the eye is full of deceit, and also the ear and the other senses, and persuading her to retire from them in all but the necessary use of them and to be gathered up and collected into herself, and to trust only to [83b] herself and her own intuitions of absolute existence, and mistrust that which comes to her through others and is subject to vicissitude) — philosophy shows her that this is visible and tangible, but that what she sees in her own nature is intellectual and invisible. And the soul of the true philosopher thinks that she ought not to resist this deliverance, and therefore abstains from pleasures and desires and pains and fears, as far as she is able; reflecting that when a man has great joys or sorrows or fears or desires, he suffers from them, not the sort of evil which might be anticipated — as for example, the loss of his health or property which he has sacrificed to his lusts — but he has suffered an evil greater far, which is the greatest and worst of all evils, and one of which he never thinks. And what is that, Socrates? said Cebes. Why this: When the feeling of pleasure or pain in the soul is most intense, all of us naturally suppose that the object of this intense feeling is then plainest and truest: but this is not the case. Very true. And this is the state in which the soul is most inthralled by the body. How is that? Why, because each pleasure and pain is a sort of nail which nails and rivets the soul to the body, and engrosses her and makes her believe that to be true which the body affirms to be true; and from agreeing with the body and having the same delights she is obliged to have the same habits and ways, and is not likely ever to be pure at her departure to the world below, but is always saturated with the body; so that she soon sinks into another body and there germinates and grows, and has therefore no part in the communion of the divine and pure and simple. That is most true, Socrates, answered Cebes. And this, Cebes, is the reason why the true lovers of knowledge are temperate and brave; and not for the reason which the world gives. (Plato’s dialogs, excerpt Phaedo 6, Greece Copyright, cir. (c)330 BC) Best – Fido – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Mike (in Calgary)
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Just when you think things are going well, and life is getting good, it all falls apart. Way it is,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,laughs,,,,,, (sorry doc, for stealing your copywrited comma routine)
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A great spiritual truth, life is hard. The harder life is the more spiritual growth occurs. Some of us here may even achieve Nirvana… Keep the faith, some good news has got to be around the corner… Mike (in Calgary)
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just when you think things are going well, and life is getting good, it all falls apart. Way it is,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,laughs,,,,,, (sorry doc, for stealing your copywrited comma routine) Don’t learn copywrite lessons very well, eh ML? What’s "falling apart" today? Share? Janie — The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. – Lao Tse
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