What is currently on your mind?

[Niels]

Weekend plans are on my mind. If all goes well, I expect to be adding a new feature and recording a video for a software development project, finishing three drawings (my sketching is quick, but my computer coloring is slow), painting a model, and fixing my mountain bike's derailleur so I can ride it again.

 

[mama2one]

Weekend plans are on my mind.

I told husband & teen yesterday they are only allowed to eat, sleep, and watch TV this weekend

they both need a break!

Super Bowl anyone?

 

[MehGuy]

Sadly, sometimes I attract mentally unsound women.

I am not into having an angsty relationships. Maybe I was when I was younger; as a man who is in his 30s and suffers from depression and other psychological disorders, I am just too tired. I don't want a woman who likes to fight and be sad all the time. I just want a woman who respects me and is kindhearted. Everyone has faults and no one is perfect, but I want someone who at least seems to be trying.

Occasionally I lurk the Female Dating Strategy on Reddit. It's filled with incredibly toxic and self-entitled women. I think some of them need to realize that men have desires beyond having a mate. I suspect most of them are not exactly high up in the looks department and seem to mostly be angry that "Alpha" males are not into them, but even then; I think most men with some sense would rather be with a woman who is average in the looks department yet has a nice personality compared to a gorgeous woman who has a rotten one.

 

[Paidiske]

My weekend (such as it is) plans are also modest. I hope to get down to the library and change books over, maybe catch up with housework, that sort of thing. I've been working too much lately!

 

[MehGuy]

I am starting to feel like I am experiencing a plot twist... all this time I thought I did not understand what love is very well and what a healthy relationship looks like, but now I am starting to believe I actually have a pretty decent understanding love and most others do not.

Which is a scary and disheartening thought, lol.

I don't want to be bitter... I know plenty of good women are out there. I hate to say it... but the kink community does have a lot of broken and psychologically messed up people in it. I kind of feel bad for some of the women I blew off in the past. I don't know... a vanilla relationship sounds nice... wouldn't be super exciting... but you know sometimes boring and tame is good too. Just a couple with mutual respect who can fulfill their biological needs and always have at least someone to be around. Even if they don't feel "romantic" love in any real deep sense. That's probably better than a lot of people have.

Anyways I'm gonna drink now, lol.

 

[MehGuy]

I feel like some of my mental fog is clearing away. When I meditate it helps... does seem to be largely stress induced. I think kicking a toxic person out of my life has also helped.

 

[MehGuy]

I find it somewhat remarkable... one of my air pods fell into the sink and got wet... the sound was extremely muffled... yet after shaking some of the water off the sound came back. I waited a few days and air dried the air pod before charging for safety reasons... but as of now... it seems fully recovered.

Sometimes I should take these air pods off when I'm doing certain things... but realistically I just forget.

 

[timothyu]

Sometimes I should take these air pods off when I'm doing certain things... but realistically I just forget.

Wait til you get older and forget to pull down the zipper.

 

[Paidiske]

Right, well, thank you for that mental image.

I think it must be lunch time...

 

[MehGuy]

Wait til you get older and forget to pull down the zipper.

Lol, I don't want to end up on a registry.

I was in a bathroom store one and this senile old man was having a friendly chat with me... and I was washing my hands and he unzipped and started going in the sink and bathroom mirror. He then zipped up and walked away. I just stood there in shock.. lol.

 

[timothyu]

I just stood there in shock.. lol.

I'll say this quietly while Paidiske is having lunch. Judging by most gas station restrooms I would bet there are a fair number of people out there who were never properly potty trained.

 

[Paidiske]

As if that's news!

 

[timothyu]

Says a woman who has no doubt been forced to use a shared public washroom

 

[Paidiske]

...whose job once included keeping a church clean. Having to scrub human fecal matter off the steps hastily before a wedding party arrived was a low point.

 

[timothyu]

A case of the flesh still presiding over the spirit

 

[Robban]

The animal part over the human part,

some conduct themselves like two legged animals.

 

[Paidiske]

And here I've just been reflecting on what it is to love one's enemies. Perhaps in the animal world, that is unique to humans.

 

[Robban]

And here I've just been reflecting on what it is to love one's enemies. Perhaps in the animal world, that is unique to humans.

Our actions have clout when our conduct is human,
mature and responsible,

not when we are acting like two-legged animals.

It is about becoming a "Mentch" a human.

 

[Paidiske]

And yet, I would say, we can have an awful lot of "clout" which does harm, when we are acting as less than fully human.

 

[Robban]

And yet, I would say, we can have an awful lot of "clout" which does harm, when we are acting as less than fully human.

Agreed, fully human, that's the ticket.

It is not about being judgemental when we fail,

nor making it a norm either, "Yeah, we are only human".

Fully human is something to strive for.