I've just chucked in my job.
I'm 47 years old. I don't believe there is anything beyond this. That's the key, really. I was making double the national average national salary. Had a mortgage.
I was dying, though, one minute at a time.
My family believe i'm a fool. Don't know how to tell them anything, really.
There is only one thing keeps me alive: Life itself.
That's all there is to it.
I'm heading off, now, to a new thing, somewhere. Got about two weeks before it all comes to a head financially.
Living philosophically? Heh.
It's all I've ever done.
Take a noun. Any word, really.
Repeat it over and over and over and over and over to yourself... Let's make it "Toilet".
Keep doing it until that word doesn't mean anything anymore.
You can do it.
I'm 47 years old. I don't believe there is anything beyond this. That's the key, really. I was making double the national average national salary. Had a mortgage.
I was dying, though, one minute at a time.
My family believe i'm a fool. Don't know how to tell them anything, really.
There is only one thing keeps me alive: Life itself.
That's all there is to it.
I'm heading off, now, to a new thing, somewhere. Got about two weeks before it all comes to a head financially.
Living philosophically? Heh.
It's all I've ever done.
(Jun 27, 2016 02:43 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote:Try something.Quote:It’s true isn’t it, CC? It impossible to know yourself. Even if you know the "self" is an illusion, and embrace the uncertainty, you still can’t escape your image, can you? You can’t opt out. Even knowledge is desired to make on wise. The desire to be desired is always there.
I just noticed something. I do this all the time. I leave out letters and entire words. I can only pick up on it when I read it the next day. When I forget what I initially said then my mind is no longer anticipating what comes next. Fraggle said once, that there was a name for this, and it was similar to dyslexia. I can’t remember the name of the disorder. I don’t think it’s a disorder, though, do you? In the discussion about the "self" being an illusion, they talk about how our minds fill in the blanks, and how we can still read a paragraph when it’s jumbled.
We read and write from left-right. If you're trying to locate something, you can scan an area from right-left. Your visual field will be choppy, and not as smooth, but you’ll be able to pick out more details. I went to a wine tasting event this weekend with my girlfriends. One of them wandered off and I was able to quickly spot her within the crowd. It’s not a good proofreading tip, though.
Well, I’ll be damned. Stryder doesn’t have a time limit on editing. I was able to fix it. Wow! He’s treating us like adults. I like it!
Take a noun. Any word, really.
Repeat it over and over and over and over and over to yourself... Let's make it "Toilet".
Keep doing it until that word doesn't mean anything anymore.
You can do it.