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Reply #315 - Mar 22nd, 2011 at 6:56pm
 
Grey wrote on Mar 21st, 2011 at 11:24pm:
G'day all, I'm a newbie here but not to the concept. I'm a refugee from the recently closed GUT (Guardian Unlimited Talk) where I was more or less a founding member.

The way I play this game is that you're either as 'good' or 'bad' as your last post. I don't much like to feel I'm on a 'team'. I treat each issue honestly on its merits.
I opposed the war in Iraq
with bitterness, I support rhe war in Afghanistan wholeheartedly, but not the conduct of the war. I admire Godwin and Wollstonecraft, Kropotkin, Orwell and Hitchens, but don't agree with everything they ever said.

I'm keen on 'grass roots' politics,
I don't regard orgs like Get Up as being that.

Here we go Wink


That's all that one can do!

War, what war, I remember an Oil takeover bid?


Good luck with Politics, I can't stand Politicians!


Oh btw, welcome to Wonderland and remember to bring your looking glass.
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Reply #316 - Mar 28th, 2011 at 11:31am
 
Hi all. Me noo heer 2.

I am kind of chaotic neutral - occasionally chaotic evil - with regard to my personal politics. I don't like the Liberal party, but I loath Labor.

I support illegal immigration, so long as they don't come and plague MY town with middle eastern gang wars. ("Notorious" is by far the biggest outlaw MCC in the state, or so I am told). Carbon tax my arse. etc.

cheers!  Cheesy
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Reply #317 - Mar 28th, 2011 at 11:41am
 
Welcome all.
May you put Personality and Information into your posts.
May you understand that a Troll can flush out "old Billy Goat gruffs" (those who can't build a bridge and get over it).
May you come to realise that I am always right. Wink
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Reply #318 - Mar 28th, 2011 at 4:15pm
 
Additional:

I am a severe manic depressive, so be prepared for occasional bouts of weirdness. When *I* go on Mr Toad's Wild Ride, it lasts 8 to 10 weeks.

So any shorter bouts of bizarre behavior are just me.

I am an epileptic also, so I am thinking of trading in my brain.
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Reply #319 - Mar 28th, 2011 at 4:28pm
 


That's a bit too much information there, for your own good - and I suggest that you utilise the [Modify] button and delete those comments which might give others interpersonal ammunition for future use...

Everyone, who is delusional, obsessed and/or bored enough to come here to debate with virtual strangers in such a sheltered microcosm, must have a screw or two loose - I mean, it's not as if any one of us is actually changing the world...

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Reply #320 - Mar 28th, 2011 at 4:31pm
 



Oh, and a warm welcome to anyone else I haven't personally welcomed yet!

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Lamenting the shift in the Australian psyche, away from the egalitarian ideal of the fair-go - and the rise of short-sighted pollies, who worship the 'Growth Fairy' and seek to divide and conquer!
 
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Reply #321 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 8:02am
 
Hi Equist.

Thank you for your kind thoughts, but I am bulletproof as regards mental illness, childhood abuse and other topics. I trumpet them in fact. Someone in the know (at least from my personal experience) has to speak up on the topics. Raise awareness where the opportunity presents.

I am new to this forum but not fora in general. I have haunted Delphi for years. There are plenty of petty or abusive nutjobs there.

I only take offence from people whose opinions I respect. Other are "just Spam in a can, boy".

But again thanks for your advice, and the spirit in which it was offered. I don't cry or lose my rag easily.  Wink
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Reply #322 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 8:38am
 
Example:

I feel complete with Depression. I do not try to supress it with Alcohol, Drugs or Anti-stimulants. I allow the Depression to take me down into the deep, dark, 'abyss' within my self and allow the abyss to look into me. Depression brings about 'clarity' that happiness would otherwise hide.
My favourite joke when working in Psyche wards with my surgical blue uniform was "...and you think you're feeling 'blue'.", which always resulted in a warm smile both via the mouth and the eyes from the patients.
Buddhists have been able to 'enlighten' up their right frontal lobe which releases a sense of happiness or euphoria ...naturally. This was proven via MIR/CT scanning methods. The Nirvana state has been recorded at 17% above the normal so far.
Me, I prefer to activate my left frontal lobe. Like I said, Depression brings Clarity.
Some people can live with it, some people can't.
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Reply #323 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 9:35am
 
Bipolar mania is (for me) a ten week free cocaine experience. You feel like Superman. Invincible, brilliant, charming, witty, charismatic... (The last is not a delusion, I seem to have no difficulty talking people into going along with the strangest of schemes.) I write a lot of text and music too, one feels very creative.

But you spend too much money (so I guess it's not exactly a FREE cocaine ride) and can say and do things that are hideously embarassing and cringe-making when you come down. But all in all, I look forward to it, as bipolar depression is the pits, and the cocktail of chemicals I am on keep me from ever feeling very bad, but also from feeling very good (mood stabilizers).
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Reply #324 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 10:06am
 
Sure,
Dr Seuss was drug enhanced, as too was C.S.Lewis, Stephen King, Ernest Hemmingway, along with a many number of 'Artisssstz' and 'Musos'. I guess its a 'poor' compensation for what they originally lack. Some people like trying to chase after their weaknesses.
Most people see through the facade ...the illusion (and you don't need a Psyche Degree to see this) that is generated by 'drug/alcohol' enhancements and the benefits for the person using the enhancement is mostly 'short-term' effect.
I guess its hard on the Ego to admit to oneself, that one has travelled down a 'dead end'.

By all means, do your 'Coke' for whatever reason you see fit. Just don't expect everyone else to 'deal' with it.
I remember when I worked Traffic Control and one obnoxious fool threatened me with the fact that he was 'Bi-Polar' (as to is the UK: they don't know if they are a part of the USA or Europe Roll Eyes).
"So what." I replied "I don't care. You *F* around with me, the job at hand and I'll drop ya."
Six weeks later he kept up his 'Bi-Polar' excuse and I eventually had to drop him. Although we were both sacked, everyone praised me for getting rid of a twat.

I think Cocaine allows a person to bowl some pretty fast balls down the Cricket pitch, but they are always mostly 'wide' and 'no-balled'.

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Reply #325 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 12:44pm
 
I have never actually tried coke myself, nor any other white powder, but BP mania conforms to everything I have ever read about it.

I have certainly never gotten violent in mania (except road rage once). To me its an excuse for being happy as Larry, if a little wired.  Cheesy
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Reply #326 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 2:03pm
 
I make it a habit to differentiate between melancholics, such as myself, and depressives. Essentially melancholics never lose their sense of humour.  "Here is your cross, your nails and your hill"  Grin

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Reply #327 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 5:05pm
 
LifeMasque wrote on Mar 29th, 2011 at 12:44pm:
I have never actually tried coke myself, nor any other white powder, but BP mania conforms to everything I have ever read about it.

I have certainly never gotten violent in mania (except road rage once). To me its an excuse for being happy as Larry, if a little wired.  Cheesy


Myself, I tried Coke & other soft stuff and all I got was Diabetes!

Btw, hi to you too!
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Reply #328 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 5:13pm
 
Grey wrote on Mar 29th, 2011 at 2:03pm:
I make it a habit to differentiate between melancholics, such as myself, and depressives. Essentially melancholics never lose their sense of humour.  "Here is your cross, your nails and your hill"  Grin



He is certainly distinctive, Leonard Cohen!



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Reply #329 - Mar 29th, 2011 at 5:36pm
 
Btw, KD Lang also does a fair rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah!

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