Listen we have a bond here on the 10pm thread. If you're too pussy to see that, then I'm sorry. Most threads don't hold a candle to this place! Except maybe Simplexs' Penicillin thread or whatever.


Joie you need to study up on what the word "Family" means!

How? I was ok until we walked in. Then I freaked out. Even the sound of the drill in another room and the talking of the staff about my teeth freaks me out. The music did help considerably. I really want to get over this.

I do understand and I also know family is about communication. You did not communicate your goal to us until you had already given up on it. If you would like to sit and join us perhaps we could help you. Otherwise, I'm sorry but you seem to have made your own choice.

Was that motherly enough? :hmmm:

Night Pussy :)

It's about training your mind to not expect bad things when those triggers happen. You need to learn to detach your senses from your expectations.

How do I train my mind to ignore the triggers?

Don't take us to divorce court yet. We can work it out. :(

Psst.... Please share my concerns with your dentist...

Meditation is the fastest way to train your mind to remove expectations. Basically you'll learn to stop thinking, meaning that you won't have those triggers fire off.

I am willing to try it. How does it work? Just practice freeing the mind or is it more complicated?

You're trying to turn her into a blonde?

How'd you know I wasn't already?

It's incredibly simple to understand, but very difficult to do. You need to practice spending time where you don't think. You want to empty your mind. This is obviously near impossible, you will have thoughts enter. The idea is to accept those thoughts, not beat yourself up about it, and simply categorize them as what they are and place them in the back of your mind to deal with later. Then return yourself to a not-thinking state.

I'm assuming it needs to be alone and completely quiet?

Just a guess.

You're female, but you almost seem to have a brain.

:p

Good guess. I'm a brunette. :)

Thought you were leaving. Can't sleep?

From what little I saw of Croyle (part of one game, and highlights), he has a strong arm and guts, both characteristics that Greise is lacking.

When you're starting, it will help to be alone. It will probably help to have some music that is very calm and quiet (classical, etc). Use the same music every time. You want to get into a routine of "I hear this music, I clear my mind, I become peaceful."

The next step is to control your breathing. Breathe very, very, deep. Breathe very, very slowly. One way to keep your mind clear is to count breathes. After you get to a certain point, stop counting them and start simply mentally tracking "in, out, in, out". At a certain point you can stop with that thinking.

You know, I've never practiced meditation, but I've never had any problem clearing my mind of thought and tuning out the distractions
around me.

How long did you have to practice?

Every day, forever. Some days are better than others.

The point is, he (Croyle) has a couple of tools that Griese is lacking, which gives him an advantage over Griese.

It's hard to say if he will succeed, but I like his chances better than Griese.

Joie,

Don't cancel the meds, but do what you can to not have to take the ones that are there.

Thank you. I will try meditation. I'd like to in time be able to go med free w/ maybe just music.

http://www.learningmeditation.com/room.htm

Here are some "guided meditations" which will help you get started. It's more of a new age approach than a true Buddhist approach, but it is a great way to get started.

I'm going to bed.

Thank you Simplex, for your help.

howdy folks

Thanks. Bookmarked. :)

You're welcome.

I'm using vodka as a form of meditation and it's working.

If only I could get that kind of help with IT problems.

You have a problem, I recommend a step to begin with, you ignore it and go do something else.

:)

Pussy

...besides, truth be told I have no passion for IT. To me it's just a job.

What are you doing here on a Friday night? Shouldn't you be out chasing tail?

I'm not gonna chase tail until I graduate with a degree. I don't want any distractions.

I received a "This forum is not accepting new posts" message.

You will never know what I had to say.

I'm fairly certain it was just inane drivel, so I won't lose any sleep over it.

It probably looked something like this:

Blah, blah, blah blah.

What?

Why can I not create a new thread?

You lost your thread creation privileges for spamming the front page a while back. You were obviously drunk, do you not remember that?

I remember posting new threads while drunk many times. However, the only possible spam I remember was for a puzzle book concerning the Davinci code stuff, which I had recently purchased. I was never in a position of profit or advantage, and asked, if not in that post, then a fairly immediate subsequent post, if my reccomendation was spamming. I don't know how I posed it, question, or apologetic statement, but I have never had any intention of any material gain, through any level of gain through any post on this board. I guess I don't what spam is, definitively.

If you donate $25 to the Planet I'll reinstate your thread creation privileges.

Oh, wait, I think I bumped it too,.. maybe a few times... but really... it was because i was getting into it and wanted to share that experiene... the material i found interesting is research sources online for free... like what a college student would find. Is there a social fine or public apology system? Can I get probation? I want to know specifics.

LMAO

So a donation gets reinstation and a t-shirt?

WTF is going on in here?

The t-shirt is extra.

I just got back from Jerry's Bait Shop.

For those of you who don't know, it's not a place where you buy fishing bait ROFL

Nothing to see here. Move along people.

Sure, why not.

F this , I'm serial.

what the heck is that avatar?

Another album cover, Judas Priest this time.

It is the head of a stuffed cat which happened to be the favorite toy of two female rotty lab puppies. It has been perched, and by perched I mean pushed "onto'" as a finger-puppet on to a thumb, atop the white-picket fencepost of my newly puchased two bedroom house, circa 2000...

It also is one of the first, if not the "first" digital image I ever stored... anyway, what is spamming?

Spamming is starting multiple nonsensical threads. Did you make that donation yet?

So,.. from the land of the restricted and banned, I ask sincereley for a logically consistant, in the face of all counter-examples, definition of "nonsensical." Upon the receipt of said transmission of definition you may receive a free t-shirt almost identical to, though materially different from the one I chumped into.

Good grief. This is still going on?

So whats goin on?

OMG You may see this, or something like it more than once. I am sorry.

I just went back to some of my drunken rambling posts and read responses. They do read like weird spam my wife tells me about in our filter folder.



WOW. I really am just writing buzzed. I come across all kinds of BS here. Although what I say seems chaotic, I really am giving fragments a my real thoughts... and , although some are unrecognizable to me after the fact, they are sensible to me. I see how they sound random. Most of it is an excercise in phoenemical double entendre. They are not totally irrational... and are not spam. What is up with that weird e-mail anyway? How does it help the creators?

Anyway, no. wow.

I apologize for making the morning crew wade through a couple of dozen threads that are nothing more than mid-level concious ramblings when only a few planateers are around. I kinda thought they' just press on.

I didn't really think anyone was taking the time to read what I wrote.

Don't make me beg...

please?

Nuthin new

I'm High.

Well, there's something you don't hear everyday. Oh wait, yeah it is.

Hi High!

I'm so low I gotta' stand on a nickle t'pee on a dime....

I'm so low I pcan pplay handball on a curb...

Hey, I just realized I passed 3,000.

buy too

i gotta' go have a smoke,