The positive thought thread.

[gagemage]

i collect animal bones, certain plants/seeds and trinkets i find out in nature. our backyard has a pretty decently sized wooded area that's been pretty much untouched by man for years. the trees have grown over the entrance to the woods that the previous owners made a path for but eventually abandoned, the floor of the woods is full of mole, rabbit and potentially snake holes and it's also covered in quite a bit of poison ivy, so whenever i go back there, i have to be careful. 

 

every now and then, i'll get the itch to scavenge but i can't travel to the lake or any other woods for whatever reason, so i'll go scavenging in that natural area in our backyard. i've found a few small bones that i cleaned and whitened, though i've decided not to whiten my bones from here on out since the ones i love most are natural and aged. we also have a tree that produces witch's burrs which is great! 

 

but what made me happy in my brief scavenge this morning was finding a small ceramic cherub with chipped blue paint. i don't know how it ended up where it was unless someone threw it like a football into our yard, but it was a wonderful find that felt so good lol. i love little things like that!

Edited July 2, 2022 by gagemage

[Swiftstep]

Do not succumb to the masses ideas
Over ridicule and judgement
For those who follow the ideas of the weak
Will perish in a dim fog of enlightenment
Become the vision of the mind's eye
And carry your flame to the fire
Do not wait for the fire to carry the flame to you
Build, work, build, work, build, work
Fall down, fail, learn, learn, earn, earn and conquer
Money is a tool for the creation of a creative space
Do not squander the value of a gift from a friend
Family, strangers, enemies, atheists, partisans, pedlers, people
People in this ocean of hungry minds
Feed, do not starve
Start now, wake up
A trillion more lives will live happy before one of those trillion care or not about your happiness
Love yourself and hate only you
If you don't...

[Guest]

I realized lately that I'm a lot more common or generic than I thought I was. For a long time I sat in this headspace where I thought I was particularly (insert list of noteworthy traits here) and then I realized this was a sort of solipsistic bias, confined to my own perspective. Of course I think I'm more <whatever> than other people, I have more access to myself and what I'm doing than anybody else. In reality, I'm as bland and generic as anybody else, passing by in cars I don't think twice about, just like neighbors two or three streets away whose lives are opaque to me. In the bigger picture, I'm background noise. And really, I like this. I think it's taken away a lot of "heat," a lot of passive belief that I should be doing something specific. Keeping up with, or outplaying, the Joneses in some way. If I continue to live like this, I'll never accomplish anything massive, I'll never go down in history, but why should I? I have enough to be content with. I have more than most of my ancestors ever did, probably. I don't need or want a persistent legacy. I made it this far, and I'll make it as far as I make it from here, and that's that. I'm not sure if I'm putting this into words adequately. I'm just surprised at how liberating it is to embrace being boring, to accept that everything I thought made me "unique" is actually replicated by dozens of other guys who share some of my interests, or background. Dozens of guys around the entire world doing more or less the same bland self-indulgent shit I am. Like shipmates on the same voyage! But very hidden ones.

[Darkpig]

More people are coming out of the closet to be themselves. As a chaotic good neutral evil character this pleases me greatly as people are being themselves and expressing their interests in healthy ways. And speaking of healthy habits I'm actually posting in this thread for the first time in who knows how long.

Edited August 7, 2022 by Darkpig

[Idyll]

13 hours ago, Darkpig said:

More people are coming out of the closet to be themselves. As a chaotic good neutral evil character this pleases me greatly as people are being themselves and expressing their interests in healthy ways. And speaking of healthy habits I'm actually posting in this thread for the first time in who knows how long.

 

Same here.

[RohZima]

On 7/24/2021 at 9:10 AM, Carabosse said:

Does any one else ever experience seemingly random and completely unexplained moments of, I don't know what else to describe it as other than euphoria/extreme happiness.

 

There's no indication that they're about to happen and they are very fleeting.

 

I've had them for as long as I can remember. They don't happen very often however. As much as I can make sense of them they almost always tend to occur when I am sitting and maybe related to moving my eyes quickly. Like if I am reading something on a screen.

 

And no, it is nothing to do with drugs. That has never been my thing, at all. Unless you include alcohol and caffeine. But even those are used sparingly (maybe not so sparing with the tea/caffeine).

 

I'm happy for what it is but I do wish that I could bottle it.

 

My question would be do you also experience the opposite of that, or just the positive?

 

But to answer your question, yes, I do experience sudden shifts like that. Though not exclusively of the positive kind. Lot's of people do.

[Monsto Brukes]

On 8/8/2022 at 2:21 AM, RohZima said:

. . .yes, I do experience sudden shifts like that. Though not exclusively of the positive kind. Lot's of people do.

 

First of all, "Lot's of people do" is the kind of thing that people say out loud, not as a point of proof for the world, but as a justification to themselves.

 

IOW, it's telling ones self "It's normal to feel like absolute shit."

 

It's not "normal" and it's not "OK". It is a potential problem for you and your future, and if it is at all possible, you should talk to a doctor about it. Even just a regular-ass General Practitioner. 

 

And anyone that tells you to "lighten up everyone feels a little sad sometimes", punch them in the face and then call the doctor. Or you could skip the facepunch and just call the doctor while understanding that person isn't good for you.

Edited August 10, 2022 by Monsto Brukes

[RohZima]

12 hours ago, Monsto Brukes said:

 

First of all, "Lot's of people do" is the kind of thing that people say out loud, not as a point of proof for the world, but as a justification to themselves.

 

IOW, it's telling ones self "It's normal to feel like absolute shit."

 

It's not "normal" and it's not "OK". It is a potential problem for you and your future, and if it is at all possible, you should talk to a doctor about it. Even just a regular-ass General Practitioner. 

 

And anyone that tells you to "lighten up everyone feels a little sad sometimes", punch them in the face and then call the doctor. Or you could skip the facepunch and just call the doctor while understanding that person isn't good for you.

 

Lot's of people do experience that. That's why I said it. Because it's true. Going to a doctor is also worthless advice; what will they do, give you drugs? Time off work? More indulgence without even beginning to scratch the surface of the issues causing it. Social problems that cannot even be discussed by those living within the society that is causing the problems. A mentally unhealthy society that cannot even begin to postulate a rational theory about mental health. Like you just demonstrated; "normal," as in, the majority. What has that got to do with it? If the majority is drunk then that means the sober man is the one with the problem, doesn't it? According the degenerate logic of moderns like yourself, the sober man would need to be "cured" of his ailment. Sheesh.

[Monsto Brukes]

18 hours ago, RohZima said:

 

Lot's of people do experience that. That's why I said it. Because it's true. Going to a doctor is also worthless advice; what will they do, give you drugs? Time off work? More indulgence without even beginning to scratch the surface of the issues causing it. Social problems that cannot even be discussed by those living within the society that is causing the problems. A mentally unhealthy society that cannot even begin to postulate a rational theory about mental health. Like you just demonstrated; "normal," as in, the majority. What has that got to do with it? If the majority is drunk then that means the sober man is the one with the problem, doesn't it? According the degenerate logic of moderns like yourself, the sober man would need to be "cured" of his ailment. Sheesh.

 

I spent the better part of 20 years clinically depressed, in a hole. Still dealing with it today. But I escaped (mostly) by bouncing from doctor to doctor until I got a guy who was interested in solving the problem, not just throwing pills and platitudes at it. I also found a counselor who works very well for me and my family. 4 doctors and 6 counselors over about 3 years. Most people spend more time shopping for a TV than they do a Dr.

 

"Normal" is individual. Blood pressure, heart rate, alpha waves, cracked tooth, slight limp, etc etc. What's normal for one person is abnormal for the next, specifically because of the things you mention.

 

 

I fucked up the last message and the end result is that it came off preachy. I'm sorry for that. What I intended to do was to say things out loud that support the individual theme of trying to make ones world better for themselves, and specifically to tell you that there's no reason to live at the bottom of the hole. An individual can spend a lot of energy trying to stay down and not even realize it.

Anyway, I heard the exact same things that I used to say and I see now the effect that it had on me. Yeah society has no idea how it works. That's why I was trying to point it out. Nobody, not even my wife at the time, was trying to help me. I had to recognize it in myself, and do the work (finding the dr, and counselor) myself. 

 

And I thought perhaps I can save someone else some time, and steps, on the same journey.

Take care and good luck.

Edited August 12, 2022 by Monsto Brukes

[RohZima]

3 hours ago, Monsto Brukes said:

 

I spent the better part of 20 years clinically depressed, in a hole. Still dealing with it today. But I escaped (mostly) by bouncing from doctor to doctor until I got a guy who was interested in solving the problem, not just throwing pills and platitudes at it. I also found a counselor who works very well for me and my family. 4 doctors and 6 counselors over about 3 years. Most people spend more time shopping for a TV than they do a Dr.

 

"Normal" is individual. Blood pressure, heart rate, alpha waves, cracked tooth, slight limp, etc etc. What's normal for one person is abnormal for the next, specifically because of the things you mention.

 

 

I fucked up the last message and the end result is that it came off preachy. I'm sorry for that. What I intended to do was to say things out loud that support the individual theme of trying to make ones world better for themselves, and specifically to tell you that there's no reason to live at the bottom of the hole. An individual can spend a lot of energy trying to stay down and not even realize it.

Anyway, I heard the exact same things that I used to say and I see now the effect that it had on me. Yeah society has no idea how it works. That's why I was trying to point it out. Nobody, not even my wife at the time, was trying to help me. I had to recognize it in myself, and do the work (finding the dr, and counselor) myself. 

 

And I thought perhaps I can save someone else some time, and steps, on the same journey.

Take care and good luck.

 

Hm. Thanks for the clarity.

 

My irritation was that I see people knee-jerk heading to the "official" solutions but they don't work, or not especially well. And while I can't exactly bring up statistics - I would be surprised if mental health was a problem before, as it is now. Based on tangibles like suicides (sorry to bring it up) and substance addiction, or generally nihilistic and self-destructive behaviors. 

 

I think that modern society is the most mentally unhealthy. And also the most ignorant. Ignorant because it has no idea as to the cause of it's woes, while the answers are very simple and right in front of everyone's faces.

 

Basically I think that the modes of thought that produced these modern fields of "knowledge" are redundant and when mankind moves on, there will no longer be people with "mental health issues" but people merely dealing with their tangible life struggles.

 

So the mental struggles people experience in their internal world are effects of the disharmony in the external - like cells in your body being effected by toxins in the blood. Sensitive people will obviously experience these more keenly. And society - very immorally - brushes these aside as "people with problems" or whatever, but no, it is society that has the problem; not the individuals. That would be like blaming a blood cell for being unhealthy, rather than the condition of the blood, which is the true cause.

 

In other words, the issues are environmental, rather than individual.

 

Anyway, good luck. It's hard work to stay positive, no matter what you believe in.

[spoonsinger]

Sometimes you get a nice surprise in the post.

 

[Grey Cloud]

38 minutes ago, spoonsinger said:

Sometimes you get a nice surprise in the post.

A tale of death and taxes.

[DrunkenCow]

Ha!  Someone boinked a draugr.

[Horatius_PL]

Ring of Kangz has a chance to sunk amazon streaming service and please oh pleaae god let it happen 

[Heroine HoneyCrotch]

Never posted one of these before(YoutubeShorts) but this seems like a good place to post this.............

 

 

[Guest]

> The world needs more like this lady who sees positive and good and this people, not the burden of the society

[landess]

Scientists go through years of foreplay before getting the payoff.

 

On the serious side - This is pretty amazing. The human race is taking steps to try and avoid natures fury and our universal fate because we can.

 

This isn't Hollywood.

 

 

 

 

[Darkpig]

Bought some popcorn with Carolina Reaper seasoning and it basically made my whole kitchen unsuitable for human life for a few hours. Would buy again.

[beefers]

I'm positive that I don't like most people.

 

Wait, did I do that right?

[TheWilloughbian]

 

[Heroine HoneyCrotch]

On 11/6/2022 at 9:55 PM, Doctor Cadaver said:

Someone dropped $30 on the ground as I was leaving the grocery store.  Well, as they say, "finder's keepers". 

yin an yang, Im not sure which one was you

[Heroine HoneyCrotch]

On 11/6/2022 at 11:08 PM, Darkpig said:

Bought some popcorn with Carolina Reaper seasoning and it basically made my whole kitchen unsuitable for human life for a few hours. Would buy again.

 

curious if your opinion changes after passing said popcorn w/Carolina Ripper?

 

Spoiler

wasnt very positive of me, sorry

 

[TheWilloughbian]

1 hour ago, Heroine HoneyCrotch said:

 

curious if your opinion changes after passing said popcorn w/Carolina Ripper

  Reveal hidden contents

wasnt very positive of me, sorry

 

lol

[Frafildur]

I am trying, ok world. This year was a waste, but I am going to turn it around. I will take control of my life. I will find what I deserve. I will figure this shit out and find a way to shackle my inner demons for as long as possible.

[Monsto Brukes]

On 12/2/2022 at 9:43 PM, Frafildur said:

I am trying, ok world. This year was a waste, but I am going to turn it around. I will take control of my life. I will find what I deserve. I will figure this shit out and find a way to shackle my inner demons for as long as possible.

 

Ever see the move A Beautiful Mind? It's about a mathematician guy who's got a mental thing going on. In his 30s he realized that his roommate from college, the roommates little sister and I think a mentor, he realized they never aged. IOW he figure out that they were hallucinations. 

 

Here's the point:

Once he realized what they were and what they represented, regardless of the drama they caused him, then he was able to deal with the real world. 

 

I've struggled with those kind of demons myself. I personally have found that shackling them is a fruitless effort. They're always going to escape. Burning more and more spirit to focus on control is giving more and more power to those things that you simply cannot control.

 

So . . . Let the demons be as free as they want. But you must know them and watch them because only then will you see them coming. Understand ahead of time where and when negativity may come, and prepare yourself for it, so that you can do what you need to do to work past it.

 

When you know what's coming, then you can live your life and follow your path with less and less interference.

 

Hope this helps.