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And what’s the value in [seeing life as it really is]?
You automatically reminded me of this speech. Thank you.
Got up to “pain, misery…” and cracked up laughing.
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meds I don’t want.
Why?
Medication helped me a lot after we lost our daughter. As did group therapy.
I don’t want to spend money on medication and I don’t want to be medicated. As for group therapy, I don’t know why I would want to be in a group with anybody, but especially not group therapy. I credit them for the business model though. You can see a lot more customers rather than one at a time.
Therapists are a waste. I don’t want to sit on a couch and pay some bastard hundreds of dollars to listen to me tell him about my childhood and then prescribe me some meds I don’t want. As for your “Happiness is possible,” line, that’s a gross generalization. It’s one of the really sickening attitudes that the public tends to have. I hinted at it in a recent conversation in the Politics thread, but such statements (or lies as I prefer to call them) insult me. They’re just vague bullshit lines that people can throw at others and pretend that they’re being helpful. Handman can, and should, do whatever the hell he wants; I was just making a suggestion.
Given that there are people who find more happiness than you believe is possible, I’d say it’s obvious that happiness is possible. I don’t know who finds total carefree bliss, but that’s clearly not what I’m talking about. This is about recognizing and living up to potential.
You must feel you have a really good reason for thinking it isn’t possible for you to become happier.
Happiness seems like a delusion to me, so I don’t find it appealing anymore.
Without some kind of assistance I don’t know how you can bounce back from that belief.
But even if you want to accept happiness is a delusion, why wouldn’t you choose that delusion?
I’m not delusional.
It must be an awfully easy thing to be under this delusion. How were you able to escape it? And what’s the value in [seeing life as it really is]?
I don’t understand the question. I’ve never really been what anyone would call happy before.
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meds I don’t want.
Why?
Medication helped me a lot after we lost our daughter. As did group therapy.
I don’t want to spend money on medication and I don’t want to be medicated. As for group therapy, I don’t know why I would want to be in a group with anybody, but especially not group therapy. I credit them for the business model though. You can see a lot more customers rather than one at a time.
Therapists are a waste. I don’t want to sit on a couch and pay some bastard hundreds of dollars to listen to me tell him about my childhood and then prescribe me some meds I don’t want. As for your “Happiness is possible,” line, that’s a gross generalization. It’s one of the really sickening attitudes that the public tends to have. I hinted at it in a recent conversation in the Politics thread, but such statements (or lies as I prefer to call them) insult me. They’re just vague bullshit lines that people can throw at others and pretend that they’re being helpful. Handman can, and should, do whatever the hell he wants; I was just making a suggestion.
Given that there are people who find more happiness than you believe is possible, I’d say it’s obvious that happiness is possible. I don’t know who finds total carefree bliss, but that’s clearly not what I’m talking about. This is about recognizing and living up to potential.
You must feel you have a really good reason for thinking it isn’t possible for you to become happier.
Happiness seems like a delusion to me, so I don’t find it appealing anymore.
Without some kind of assistance I don’t know how you can bounce back from that belief.
But even if you want to accept happiness is a delusion, why wouldn’t you choose that delusion?
I’m not delusional.
It must be an awfully easy thing to be under this delusion. How were you able to escape it? And what’s the value in [seeing life as it really is]?
I don’t understand the question. I’ve never really been what anyone would call happy before.
Many people believe being happy is possible. You say that’s delusional. I’m asking why you think you have been able to avoid that delusion. And I’m asking what value you see in [seeing life as it is].
The blue elephant in the room.
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And what’s the value in [seeing life as it really is]?
You automatically reminded me of this speech. Thank you.
Got up to “pain, misery…” and cracked up laughing.
I imagined mfm giving that speech, but it had a surprise ending.
The blue elephant in the room.
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meds I don’t want.
Why?
Medication helped me a lot after we lost our daughter. As did group therapy.
I don’t want to spend money on medication and I don’t want to be medicated. As for group therapy, I don’t know why I would want to be in a group with anybody, but especially not group therapy. I credit them for the business model though. You can see a lot more customers rather than one at a time.
Therapists are a waste. I don’t want to sit on a couch and pay some bastard hundreds of dollars to listen to me tell him about my childhood and then prescribe me some meds I don’t want. As for your “Happiness is possible,” line, that’s a gross generalization. It’s one of the really sickening attitudes that the public tends to have. I hinted at it in a recent conversation in the Politics thread, but such statements (or lies as I prefer to call them) insult me. They’re just vague bullshit lines that people can throw at others and pretend that they’re being helpful. Handman can, and should, do whatever the hell he wants; I was just making a suggestion.
Given that there are people who find more happiness than you believe is possible, I’d say it’s obvious that happiness is possible. I don’t know who finds total carefree bliss, but that’s clearly not what I’m talking about. This is about recognizing and living up to potential.
You must feel you have a really good reason for thinking it isn’t possible for you to become happier.
Happiness seems like a delusion to me, so I don’t find it appealing anymore.
Without some kind of assistance I don’t know how you can bounce back from that belief.
But even if you want to accept happiness is a delusion, why wouldn’t you choose that delusion?
I’m not delusional.
It must be an awfully easy thing to be under this delusion. How were you able to escape it? And what’s the value in [seeing life as it really is]?
I don’t like the assertion that focusing on awful things is more objective than focusing on positive things. There is too much information to process, and we play a part in our own stories. So I think that the idea that objectivity can exist regarding looking at life is rather arrogant, moreso the idea that being negative about it is the superior position.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
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meds I don’t want.
Why?
Medication helped me a lot after we lost our daughter. As did group therapy.
I don’t want to spend money on medication and I don’t want to be medicated. As for group therapy, I don’t know why I would want to be in a group with anybody, but especially not group therapy. I credit them for the business model though. You can see a lot more customers rather than one at a time.
Wow, I must be a simpleton for falling for the business model where a bunch of strangers who have gone through similar tragedy can help each other cope under the guidance of a professional therapist. Nice.
I started writing some stuff about your stance on medication but I decided it would be as offensive to you as you just were to me so I deleted it.
Sorry you’re so miserable.
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Sorry everyone.
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I’m sorry too. Truly I feel bad that you are in such a bad place. Wish I could help.
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meds I don’t want.
Why?
Medication helped me a lot after we lost our daughter. As did group therapy.
I don’t want to spend money on medication and I don’t want to be medicated. As for group therapy, I don’t know why I would want to be in a group with anybody, but especially not group therapy. I credit them for the business model though. You can see a lot more customers rather than one at a time.
Therapists are a waste. I don’t want to sit on a couch and pay some bastard hundreds of dollars to listen to me tell him about my childhood and then prescribe me some meds I don’t want. As for your “Happiness is possible,” line, that’s a gross generalization. It’s one of the really sickening attitudes that the public tends to have. I hinted at it in a recent conversation in the Politics thread, but such statements (or lies as I prefer to call them) insult me. They’re just vague bullshit lines that people can throw at others and pretend that they’re being helpful. Handman can, and should, do whatever the hell he wants; I was just making a suggestion.
Given that there are people who find more happiness than you believe is possible, I’d say it’s obvious that happiness is possible. I don’t know who finds total carefree bliss, but that’s clearly not what I’m talking about. This is about recognizing and living up to potential.
You must feel you have a really good reason for thinking it isn’t possible for you to become happier.
Happiness seems like a delusion to me, so I don’t find it appealing anymore.
Without some kind of assistance I don’t know how you can bounce back from that belief.
But even if you want to accept happiness is a delusion, why wouldn’t you choose that delusion?
I’m not delusional.
It must be an awfully easy thing to be under this delusion. How were you able to escape it? And what’s the value in [seeing life as it really is]?
I don’t like the assertion that focusing on awful things is more objective than focusing on positive things. There is too much information to process, and we play a part in our own stories. So I think that the idea that objectivity can exist regarding looking at life is rather arrogant, moreso the idea that being negative about it is the superior position.
Agreed. Like Frink I’m wishing there was a way to help. Any number of us have felt as mfm does to some degree. I look back at my own feelings of hopelessness and I can’t believe I let myself live that way.
The blue elephant in the room.
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Honestly, mfm has most likely already been told all the advice that any other person would give someone who they think is miserable. I say to just let people do what they do. And that would be preferable since mfm is one of my favorite members here.
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And that would be preferable since mfm is one of my favorite members here.
Mine too.
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Plex, Inc. made sweeping, untested changes to their Plex for Android app (which accesses my media server). Not only is the new layout more clunky and less intuitive, but it’s so buggy as to be unusable in places.
The UI changes were annoying, but the bugginess was so bad I had to roll back to the previous version. I’m at least fortunate that Android lets me do that…
I like Plex Media Server when it works, but the company is often so bent on adding new features that they don’t focus enough on fixing bugs or whether said features are actually desired by the current user base. It’s annoying.
JEDIT: But I can’t just switch to something else because the alternatives suck worse than Plex for different reasons.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
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if it comes in an App form, you can be sure it is largely untested.
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And this is why I don’t use Plex or Kodi or any of that other crap. Everything goes on a physical HDD that sits inside my KDLinks media player, all organized by folder exactly the way I want it to be without having to deal with making the file names “scrapeable” or whatever by some database, and all disconnected from my network so I’m not screwed if my cat yanks on my router cables like she likes to do.
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Microsoft Office needs to crawl in a hole and die.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
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Microsoft Office needs to crawl in a hole and die.
What’s wrong with it?
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Microsoft Office needs to crawl in a hole and die.
What’s wrong with it?
Nothing. He just loves to complain about things that are perfectly fine.
Making up problems?
“Oh, he Excels at that.”
I’ll see myself out.
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lol
(Edit: I’m lol’ing Possessed, not you Handman)
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
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What? I’m sure MS Office has its issues, I was just curious. I’m not really a fan of the subscription model they’re using now, and it should probably be a lot cheaper with so many free options available. Yet, none of those are ever as polished and as easy to use as Office.
Edit: Half of this is in response to Possessed.
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Microsoft Office needs to crawl in a hole and die.
What’s wrong with it?
It’s a bloated p.o.s. that bogs down my four-core machine. I prefer to work in plain text and .csv when I can, but sometimes coworkers don’t jive with that.
For writing a letter or a short paper, Word is fine. But for anything longer or more complex, there are far better options.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
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What? I’m sure MS Office has its issues, I was just curious. I’m not really a fan of the subscription model they’re using now, and it should probably be a lot cheaper with so many free options available. Yet, none of those are ever as polished and as easy to use as Office.
Unfortunate simultaneous posting. I’m lol’ing Possessed’s joke, not you, Handman.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
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For writing a letter or a short paper, Word is fine. But for anything longer or more complex, there are far better options.
I work in a law office, and use WordPerfect.
WordPerfect uses streaming code (like HTML), so it’s a lot easier to fix mistakes in the formatting without ruining the whole document. It’s really too bad there aren’t any WPD editors on mobile.
Outside of work, I’ve used Google Docs, but it’s extremely barebones comparatively.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
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I use notepad and then lie about it
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I use notepad again and then lie some more about it
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I use notepad and then lie about it
Notepad++.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.