[Gust Hubb]

Fighting with a coworker who is accusing me of shirking my duties by saying I have to leave at 4 pm each Friday to pick up my kids (court-mandated btw....). I have been trying my best this whole fucking divorce to be a good resident, covering for other residents on my current rotation when they needed to leave early to get things done, or when they had vacation. I do not appreciate being told I am shirking when I haven't taken a sick day or vacation day since this divorce got rolling. Doing the best I can you self-centered, rigid dingbat.

[Loki]

 Briar King, on 29 April 2016 - 02:07 AM, said:

I'm outside serfing net.

You're just a slave to the interwebs.

[Andorion]

 Briar King, on 29 April 2016 - 02:07 AM, said:

Ugh brown termite swarm has started. I loath these things. My neighborhood is so dark atm. Any light will draw 1000's to it. They even dive bomb my phone screen when I'm outside serfing net.

We get these too! Nothing to do but close the windows if you want to keep lights on

[Loki]

 Briar King, on 29 April 2016 - 04:44 AM, said:

I'm not sure what type they are but they swarm twice a yr in crazy mind boggling masses. What is even worse is their wings which they shed during the week. Each has 4 wings and when there's millions of them flying around the wing numbers are even crazier to think about and the wings float around for weeks.

Sounds like an inventive way to spread the z-plague - termite wings.

[Andorion]

 Briar King, on 29 April 2016 - 04:44 AM, said:

I'm not sure what type they are but they swarm twice a yr in crazy mind boggling masses. What is even worse is their wings which they shed during the week. Each has 4 wings and when there's millions of them flying around the wing numbers are even crazier to think about and the wings float around for weeks.

Hey BK, since its very humid where you live, what do you do about sunscreen in the summer? I can't use any as I just sweat it off. My phone weather app keeps on warning me about "Very High UV"

[Loki]

 Andorion, on 29 April 2016 - 05:32 AM, said:

 Briar King, on 29 April 2016 - 04:44 AM, said:

I'm not sure what type they are but they swarm twice a yr in crazy mind boggling masses. What is even worse is their wings which they shed during the week. Each has 4 wings and when there's millions of them flying around the wing numbers are even crazier to think about and the wings float around for weeks.

Hey BK, since its very humid where you live, what do you do about sunscreen in the summer? I can't use any as I just sweat it off. My phone weather app keeps on warning me about "Very High UV"

Roll in mud, stand inside cool room - solvered.

[Tiste Simeon]

This tweet sums up how I'm feeling right now...

[Nicodimas]

The last three weeks have been some of the most challenging, eye-opening and tough weeks for me in my life. Maybe the past year+. Experience is the biggest eye opener. The point is to grow and challenge our belief structure. I always try to challenge my worldview.

I survived. As a survivalist this was a total win for me. What cost? Is reality about just facing down the corporate world and making it thorough the challenges it levels at you. Yes, you can do this. Survive. Keep your head low and work hard, that's how I was raised!! At what cost...it kind of makes you a dick is what I decided.

I don't want to go that path. It's really bittersweet..you are alive another day to survive in the world ( hey i got bills) but it's not about just survival. It's about helping your fellow man. I kind of came to the conclusion over time a lot of the shit we , I, got indoctrinated ( as the right wing) that really doesn't benefit the people that really exist.

I am all sitting there...and kind of view Ayn Rand's teachings in horror lately as I did a re-read... Which is weird cause I totally know where the right comes from and the pure feeling of never being in control. It's so weird because I get that viewpoint and know where the right is coming from the majority of the time. Here is how view thing's lately..and my musings...

1) I was wrong for so long too. Corporations and breaking up the world in the smallest of factions, would never ever work. Libertarians are wrong. The reasons they are wrong is the same thing I have always thought about the government too. The sociopaths, these little sniveling pieces of shit rule this part of the world too. They will do everything in there power to stay in control and they put each other in power positions. As the worker-bees we have to put up with these people in leaderships positions and just run with their totally illogical and unintelligent decisions. Their criminals.

2) Government is absolutely needed. Maybe not at this super power planned version we run with--> The government doesn't go after the real criminals. They are complicit and need to do their job. Protect us.

3) Religion. I am religious. These are *my* view's and I do not get to force my belief's onto others. I can state them and others can buy into it that way. Religion mostly makes most people very hospitable. On the grand scale...religious zealotry in all forms has really fucked up our world. Privately I can believe in whatever. Even the most intelligent person has to believe is something larger than themselves. I cannot use the word of "god" to cast my shitty small world , perception, onto others.. Can we get of the same page here. Separation of church and state was a baffling easy concept..why can't stick with it.

I guess I decided to change my core Ethos and the stuff I used to believe was wrong.

As as survivalist, I kind of ultimately decided that kind of makes me a dick. I like people...people are what the world is about! It's about being good to others and having no expectations back..at some point in life I forgot/lost this.

/rant over.

tl;dr Reality is brutal sometimes you come to conclusions that don't fit with the way you the thought the world worked. Being wrong and dropping your ego.

The last three weeks have been fucking exhausting..night.

This post has been edited by Nicodimas: 29 April 2016 - 06:39 AM

[worry]

Glad to hear you're thinking about this, even if it's not a happy place to be right now.

I'll just say: It's easy to slip into a way of thinking that treats long-standing institutions and traditions and rules as natural or best states rather than simply human inventions. But they're all tools: governments, businesses, money. All ripe for use or abuse. And we can improve them or abandon them as necessary if they're not functioning correctly. So what's the function of civilization anyway: Codifying the law of the jungle? (Does it really need the help?) Or disrupting that law for something better, like maximizing human welfare? As far as I see it, it's the latter...and there's plenty to debate about how to accomplish that, legit points of disagreement (and not necessarily one right path anyway). But once you've left that humanist way of thinking in favor of a Social Darwinist view, where institutions only facilitate dog-eat-dogism, you've already missed the point.

(Not using humanist to mean anthrocentrism, nor as a contrast to spiritual faith).

[Tsundoku]

Nico, you had me at "... and kind of view Ayn Rand's teachings in horror lately ..."

The rest was just icing on the cake.

[amphibian]

That's a huge shift in worldview and one I'm glad you made. I am reminded of Fukuyama's quote that Ayn Rand is for adolescent white men.

[Abyss]

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 28 April 2016 - 12:16 PM, said:

Out of interest - just how many of us on here have pets named for the books?

Does a guy in a gimp suit chain-leashed down in the basement named 'The Chained God' count?

[Macros]

Had a horse called Lostara, she got sold.
Was a damn fine horse.

Dragged into work on a saturday, and I know for a fact the work we're doing is not required in the slightest, its just the boss ripping every penny he can out.

[Maark Abbott]

Ale hangover. Feel sick. Leftover imitation KFC hot wings seemed like a good idea for breakfast and all.

[Slow Ben]

 Maark Abbott, on 30 April 2016 - 07:28 AM, said:

Leftover imitation KFC hot wings

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[amphibian]

Had a rotten week. Car needs $750 of power steering rack replacing, I need two wisdom teeth out, and the hunt for a better job is not going great.

Had myself a good solid retreat and cry. Then I laughed my head off at Dwyane Wade and Purple Shirt Guy (with Jeb Bush miraculously featuring in this).

[Mentalist]

weather is gorgeous. But I no longer have a bike to run errands on, cuz mine was stolen last weekend.

I didn't really mind during the week, but now it's hitting me again, just how damn inconvenient that is.

[Tsundoku]

God damn, it's as if my boy has gone back to being an infant again with his poo production.

The Mrs has started giving him some sort of chocolate-flavoured (is there any other flavour?) probiotic yoghurt pills for his "inner health". Well, they're having one hell of an effect on his digestion and ... aftermath.

It's like his arse isn't connected to him at all. Instead it's a portal to some sort of shit dimension.

[Traveller]

 Tsundoku, on 01 May 2016 - 07:23 AM, said:

God damn, it's as if my boy has gone back to being an infant again with his poo production.

The Mrs has started giving him some sort of chocolate-flavoured (is there any other flavour?) probiotic yoghurt pills for his "inner health". Well, they're having one hell of an effect on his digestion and ... aftermath.

It's like his arse isn't connected to him at all. Instead it's a portal to some sort of shit dimension.

How did the human race ever managed to survive this long without probiotics?! My boy produces things that really look too big to have even been inside him - maybe the portal theory is right! It's like an invasion by The Great Old Brown Ones.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 01 May 2016 - 06:07 PM

[Tsundoku]

C'pooloo?

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 01 May 2016 - 08:53 AM