Post what you are thinking at this very moment

[RBP]

I have never worried about dying. Doesn't bother bother me. Then I got married. Now I worry about dying.

(Before you ask, no. I didn't worry about dying in the first marriage. I wanted to die then.)

[DemonGeminiX]

You have someone you would leave behind now. I have no one, but I was never much for the family thing anyway. I just wanted to leave my name attached to something good before I departed, even if that good thing only lasted for a short time (in other words, something that somebody improved upon later). However, that thing hasn't come to pass and I don't really know where else I could focus my efforts. Something will pop up. Maybe I've already done it and just haven't realized it yet. Anyway...

I'm not scared to die. No one lives forever. Everyone dies. We'll each have our own moment in time to face it. I suppose we could look at it like the ancients did: with weight scales of deeds. If your good deeds outweighed your bad deeds, then your soul passed on to the afterlife. If not, then you descended into hell. I think that's more of a metaphor for the weight on your mind in your final hours. Unless you have an unexpected sudden death, or you descend into Dementia or Alzheimer's or some other similar disease that ravages your mind, then you're gonna have time to reflect on your life before you pass on. If one's past weighs heavy on his or her mind in his or her final hours, then that person might be wishing they had more time or a second chance. It's a terrible way to go, feeling unfulfilled.

If you really worry that much, then maybe you should do more. Live more. Experience more. Give more of yourself to the community and/or to the world. Or do more for yourself. I don't know how you feel about this, but maybe you should go to church. Or not. Find some kind of spiritual outlet or whatever. Your mind and your heart yearn for things, but your soul's somewhere in there in between too.

[DemonGeminiX]

I'm gonna run.

[Pony]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspective...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Godfather]

Going to a Chinese banquet wedding tonight. I'll eat anything once and love trying interesting Asian food, but even to me the menu looks intimidating. Birds nest soup with conpoy and Love bird rice, whole abalone with oysters... I'll report back tonight

Yup so Abalone is awful

The dish looked about like this. I'm not really sure how to describe the texture, dense and rubbery, basically tasteless. I have no clue who would pay $70 for this dish

[DemonGeminiX]

Today's the first day of fall? So summer's officially over now? We can see lower temperatures now? And can those hurricanes all fuck off? Don't come up here, Karen, you bitch.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Pffffft....it's supposed to be 81° here today. Fall my ass

[Muddy]

Yup so Abalone is awful

The dish looked about like this. I'm not really sure how to describe the texture, dense and rubbery, basically tasteless. I have no clue who would pay $70 for this dish

I'm pretty open minded, but no thanks on that one...

[DemonGeminiX]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-...ouse-bill/1296

This is getting a Judiciary Committee vote this week. It will pass the House. Whether McConnell allows it to come to a vote in the Senate or not remains to be seen.

[DemonGeminiX]

Lorenzo's forecast to be a monster of a storm. I hope he doesn't come this way.

Still waiting to see what Karen's gonna do.

I need to get away from the coast.

[Muddy]

Lorenzo's forecast to be a monster of a storm. I hope he doesn't come this way.

Still waiting to see what Karen's gonna do.

I need to get away from the coast.

If you wanna ride in the Benzo, you gotta get with Lorenzo...!

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Lorenzo's forecast to be a monster of a storm. I hope he doesn't come this way.

Still waiting to see what Karen's gonna do.

I need to get away from the coast.

The forum folk said "DGX move away from there"
Said "Californy is the place you ought to be"
So he loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly

Hills, that is. Swimmin pools, movie stars.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Fun fact: since the very first US Census in 1790, NYC has always held the #1 spot as the most populous city in the United States.

[DemonGeminiX]

... and it's full of idiots.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

... and it's full of idiots.

Now, yes, but it probably wasn't always that way