Feeling a bit down. ?

[Glyphdoctor]

There's nothing shameful about the obvious or not so obvious defects on your list. And one can live life happily with them too. I know from experience. Sorry you are so miserable though even though you were born perfect.

[Dusak]

Mmm, im in deficit here, when I look out of the window it makes me feel worse, concrete, concrete, a hint of bush and tree and yet more concrete.

Palm trees and nile views it aint!!!!!

Can't be all that bad if you can see a hint of bush.

[newcastle]

Mmm, im in deficit here, when I look out of the window it makes me feel worse, concrete, concrete, a hint of bush and tree and yet more concrete.

Palm trees and nile views it aint!!!!!

Can't be all that bad if you can see a hint of bush.

As long as it's not G. W. Bush

[Brian Yare]

Are there two birds in the bush?

[jewel]

There's nothing wrong with my life...it's other people that **** me off!
The ones with the rose tinted specs who can't see "the bigger picture"

[Bullet Magnet]

Other people are a reflection of You, therfore if they pee you off, YOU have the problem not them.
Remember: Life is a lesson. And with all lessons when the lesson is learned, you no longer have to attend the class.

That Picture Is not complete Jewel.. You did not give us the whole picture...

I have the correct picture in my Gallery..



The reason I put it there, is to show how some people learn a little bit more than the masses but get stuck, ( the guy in the middle who has seen beyond the wall through doing SOME learning for himself)
then they go spreading all the doom and gloom about what they have found.
What they didn't do was keep learning and see a whole bright new world, like the man on the right..( above the clouds )

Take care in the Valley of lies, it really isnt THAT bad, but so much deception in disguise..
As my DD Mum used to say to me.. "You dont really think that the Devil would come down to Earth as a horned red man with a tail and a trident in his hand do you "?

[jewel]

I never asked for any lessons though BM and I certainly didn't want to attend the class.

To me that "new world above the clouds" is non existence.

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[Bullet Magnet]

Sorry to hear that Jewel...

I am now reminded of a dear old friend of mine who lived in Luxor, he was a Christian man.
One day he told me that he believed that I would "Find God"
He was not wrong...
Sadly I never had the chance to see him afterwards. Although I have no doubt our discussions about God may well have been "interesting" to say the very least..
Life my dear Jewel is a funny old game. I hope you get it one day. Sincerely.. XXX

[HEPZIBAH]

There's nothing wrong with my life...it's other people that **** me off!
The ones with the rose tinted specs who can't see "the bigger picture"

Has it not occurred to you that some people are probably not meant to be able to see "the bigger picture"?
Perhaps they have been given tinted spectacles - of different shades - because they need guides or to enable guides to do their work fully.

[Dusak]

Are there two birds in the bush?

Yes, if you happen to be like these two ladies.

Abigail and Brittany Hensel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abigail Hensel
Brittany Hensel
Born Abigail Loraine Hensel
Brittany Lee Hensel
March 7, 1990 (age 24)
Carver County, Minnesota
Residence St. Paul, Minnesota, US
Nationality American
Education

Lutheran High School in Mayer, Minnesota
Bethel University
Home town New Germany, Minnesota, US
Parents Patty and Mike Hensel
Relatives Dakota (brother)
Morgan (sister)

Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990) are dicephalic parapagus twins, meaning that they are conjoined twins, each of whom has a separate head, but whose bodies are joined. They are highly symmetric, giving the appearance of having just a single body with little variation from normal proportion. In fact, several vital organs are doubled up; each twin has a separate heart, stomach, spine, and spinal cord.

Each twin controls her half of their body, operating one of the arms and one of the legs. This means that as infants, the initial learning of physical processes that required bodily coordination, such as clapping, crawling, and walking required the cooperation of both twins. While each is able to eat and write separately and simultaneously, activities such as running and swimming must be coordinated and alternate symmetrically. Other activities as diverse as brushing hair and driving a car require that each twin perform a sequence of separate actions that coordinate with the other.

Despite the curiosity that their condition has generated, the twins received relatively little press attention until adulthood. At the age of 16, they gave an interview on The Learning Channel on December 17, 2006, in which they discussed aspects of their daily lives and plans for the future. They starred in their own Abby & Brittany reality series on TLC.[1][2]

[jewel]

"Everything is under the sway of death and decay. All relations are chains of bondage. Enjoyments are our fatal diseases and desires are a tantalising mirage."

Inscription at Shri Lakshmi Narain Temple, Delhi

[newcastle]

Are there two birds in the bush?

Yes, if you happen to be like these two ladies.

Abigail and Brittany Hensel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abigail Hensel
Brittany Hensel
Born Abigail Loraine Hensel
Brittany Lee Hensel
March 7, 1990 (age 24)
Carver County, Minnesota
Residence St. Paul, Minnesota, US
Nationality American
Education

Lutheran High School in Mayer, Minnesota
Bethel University
Home town New Germany, Minnesota, US
Parents Patty and Mike Hensel
Relatives Dakota (brother)
Morgan (sister)

Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990) are dicephalic parapagus twins, meaning that they are conjoined twins, each of whom has a separate head, but whose bodies are joined. They are highly symmetric, giving the appearance of having just a single body with little variation from normal proportion. In fact, several vital organs are doubled up; each twin has a separate heart, stomach, spine, and spinal cord.

Each twin controls her half of their body, operating one of the arms and one of the legs. This means that as infants, the initial learning of physical processes that required bodily coordination, such as clapping, crawling, and walking required the cooperation of both twins. While each is able to eat and write separately and simultaneously, activities such as running and swimming must be coordinated and alternate symmetrically. Other activities as diverse as brushing hair and driving a car require that each twin perform a sequence of separate actions that coordinate with the other.

Despite the curiosity that their condition has generated, the twins received relatively little press attention until adulthood. At the age of 16, they gave an interview on The Learning Channel on December 17, 2006, in which they discussed aspects of their daily lives and plans for the future. They starred in their own Abby & Brittany reality series on TLC.[1][2]

I believe that they are being intensively studied, with psychometric tests, to ascertain whether, indeed, two heads are better than one.

[Dusak]

Two heads may be better than one, but on here, one mouth suffices, but two faces are common.

[newcastle]

Two heads may be better than one, but on here, one mouth suffices, but two faces are common.

And multiple identities even more so

[Brian Yare]

Two heads may be better than one, but on here, one mouth suffices, but two faces are common.

Yes, and we were given two ears, but only one mouth. We should use them in that ratio.

[Dusak]

We are also given two nostrils to sniff out the duds, unless of course your name happens to be Danniella Westbrook.

[jewel]

[Winged Isis]

Reading all your depressing and (as usual, as ever) negative posts all over the place since you reappeared on L4u recently, I, as in the past wonder, particularly considering this thread, why you haven't taken the other option open to you, if you find yourself and this world so sad and disgusting? Not for one second do I encourage you in any way. On the contrary, as I believe all life is precious and to be cherished and used up right to the the limit, I sincerely hope you get professional help, because you surely are in great need. I, and I bet others not game enough to say, am just amazed you've hung around so long when its easy enough to do. Why then do you continue? What does make you get up every morning? Do you get any joy from anything? I hope so.

[jewel]

Oh dear WI....what you consider "depressing" to me is life as I perceive it.
You WI are patently one of those "think positive" Pollyanna optimistic types, who deny the realities of existence.
The truth of the matter is that once we are brought into existence we are condemned to life until the day of our death. Suicide is a solution, but as you may be aware not as easy as you appear to think. Consider the worst case scenario...a failed or botched suicide resulting in permanent disability or brain damage... Not a pleasant thought, as if life wasn't bad enough without adding to the misery.

So yes I make the most of my life by travelling and writing mainly. But thinking positively?

Unpleasant existential veracity: Positive mental states are only achievable when we manage to consciously disregard the immense preposterousness of our distressful sentient existence and its tediously insufferable surroundings.

The simple fact that we are left inevitably compelled to strongly sedate our inconveniently imposed high-degree of cerebral awareness/perception in order to eventually attain short lasting periods of elation (and this is an action which doesn't even always work given that it is attached to our messy and ever changing sentimental moods) inside our sensory experience, clearly exposes in full visual detail one of the greatest flaws and dysfunctionalities of our modern evolutionary reality.

A reality that follows an extremely nonfunctional, wasteful process that consists of restlessly having to escape from the agonising nightmare that it is dealing with constant negatives just to find temporal shelter in a certain artificially laboured stimuli, only to after a brief period of time later almost automatically reverting back to experiencing the same old harassing negatives, so once again we will find ourselves searching for a new simulated positive to neutralise the before mentioned constant negative and so on, leaving us doomed to having to repeat this absurd futile little quest of mechanical nothingness over and over until we cease to be organically functional and become comfortably unconscious once more.

I am WI a nihilistic antinatalist, an efilist, possibly a solipsist, although that is indeed something I am currently exploring, reading Caspar among others.
I read widely, and have concluded that many writers are also antinatalist, when you explore deeper. Even David Attenborough has reached similar conclusions lately.

[Dusak]

I think that you would do a rapid U-turn if you lived with Dusak for a week.