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    No, I'm not here to give you Leary.

    But I've been thinking lately myself as a small stone in the ocean. I stand there, just be. Sometimes the current moves me. The world around me changes. Am I going to change? When the snow is gone, it'll be close to a year of almost complete solitude. When the snow melts, it's a sure sign of progress, nature moving forward. I'm not moving forward. Did I stop my movement, or did the ocean's current stop moving me? I can't go back, but can I catch up?

    Sometimes you feel like you aren't part of the society or the human race to begin with. But still, you feel like you're connected to the nature. Even more so then. In fact, I should change my personal time to the for seasons, light and dark. Who cares what time it is, it's irrelevant. Once you begin to wonder the rationale and common sense behind things, you're calling almost everything BS. So are you dropping out or tuning in? Dropping out from the society, or tuning into the world and nature?

    I think most men should experience a long period of solitude. Perhaps not as most men these days are doing it, having a crawfish on you. A complete dropout is sometimes the tune in, in which you become more self aware while becomine less self aware, depends on the standards you live by. Yes, I have lost my relationship to all celebrities, all the gossips, most news, all politics, most entertainment and media. But at the same time I can reflect more clearly. I would see a person of celebrity status having front page news because they said something strange or bought a car an insult to myself. Not a personal one, but as a meaningless discourse from the lowest levels of the structure that is commanded by its upper layers of power.

    It keeps us occupied and blurred. Once you disregard all that, in solitude, you go through a painful process of self realization. It cannot be called identity crisis, because then we would all have it. It should be called the process of self realization, it should happen in a vacuum of a sort, though that is virtually impossible. You are born from pain of that, you realize you aren't so great, you realize most everything is BS, because it doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. Ask yourself, does it matter? No. It doesn't. You even realize that you yourself don't matter much. Then you drop out. And only after you drop out, can you start tuning in.
    In da butt.
    "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
    THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
    "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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    I don't have a car anymore. I'm glad I don't. It ties me up. First, you spend money to own it. But you don't really own it because you didn't make it. You paid for it and now you are legally the owner of that thing, but in order to use it, you have to buy gas, that costs whatever it does, depending on current events, politics and economy. Then you have to have a license and obey the traffic laws, which is fine, because otherwise it would be a mess. But you are always subjected to those laws, punishable by what has been defined in those laws. You can't sell it without notification, because you have registered it to your own name. You pay taxes when you buy it and you still think you own the car just because you can smash it if you want to. Then you need a parking space for it, so you have to have someone sell it to you usually, but you don't own that space. You rent it from someone who rents it from someone who rents it from someone who claims they own it.

    I'm glad I got rid of that piece of ****. Less worries. In fact I should sell more. It's not like I can really own it anyway. The less property I have, the better. The less tied I am. The less responsible I am to laws and regulations and all kinds of BS surrounding those things. They're just things anyway, things. I can move from point A to B using other methods of transportation just fine, so why did I ever pay so much money to have that junk in my name?

    So people asked me am I crazy for getting rid of it. Why? Do you REALLY need your car? Some people do need it, but most? I don't think so. They can have it if they want to, but that's their decision. Statistically speaking, most car owners are idiots anyway. That's one reason they get fat and unhealthy and clog the lines in medical treatment. Because they can't be bothered until they're about to die from the disease of their own inability to take move or eat better. Which is in its class of itself. A person dying because they ate too much. And if you really look at it, it's not because they loved the taste of something so they wanted more. Most things taste good if you cook it right, show some effort. It'll most likely be pretty damn good. But these people rarely cook, they just microwave their junk, eat double portion of it until they feel sick and then make up excuses for it. If nothing else, they say well, I have the right to do what I want. That is quite true. No one said you shouldn't Darwinize your own ass. In fact, it is good. Get you off the gene pool it does.
    In da butt.
    "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
    THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
    "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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    • #3
      What are you trying to say?

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      • #4
        Pekka is converting to Buddhism!

        I haven't had a car in... 5 years now I think. I have access to a car if I really need it, but that's been once or twice a year (and I really didn't need it then either, was just being lazy). But that depends on your situation, some people really do need a car for work/kids/errands.

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        • #5
          I'm dropping in, then tuning out.
          Long time member @ Apolyton
          Civilization player since the dawn of time

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          • #6
            drop all ready ...gesh

            get rid of computer next
            anti steam and proud of it

            CDO ....its OCD in alpha order like it should be

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