liminal_luke

Thanks for the heads-up, Sean. And good luck dealing with all the challenges being thrown at you lately. It´s likely little consolation, but you´re certainly not alone. I agree with Gatito and Thelerner that Trunk is an excellent choice. Just in the nick of time, I´d say.

Good question! Can you narrow it down a bit? I assume you also want fun and interesting -- in addition to hard and doable -- and what that is for you is going to be highly individual. My mom goes crazy for spinning wool into yarn that she then uses to knit sweaters. Personally, there´s no quarantine so severe that I could be persuaded to take up spinning! Just thinking about what you value and would like to learn about or improve is likely to get you moving again out of a motivational rut. One idea is to go back to something that you used to do and gave up, perhaps prematurely. Is there something you were passionate about as a child, adolescent, or young adult that got pushed aside with the demands of family or business? Perhaps now is a time to explore anew.

True. Personally, I´m finding it difficult not to engage with threads and people who aren´t good for me here. Part of me is attracted to the drama of it all but then I find that my time here has dragged me down rather than lifted me up. It´s perhaps not so different from reading Coronavirus news. As important as it is to stay informed, it´s easy to overdose on scary stories. I miss the mods. The forum with mods is like a healthy buffet with grassfed buffalo burgers, organic powergreens, and no distracting icecream sundaes to tempt me. Without mods, it´s like you have to pass through a Snicker Bar factory just to get to a carrot. Yes, it´s possible to do. Yes, it´s my responsibility to say no to that Snickers and fill up on the roasted carrots hidden in the corner PPF. But hey, I´m human. This stuff is hard.

@GSmaster Sometimes it helps to hold back a little. Your view seems to be that your spiritual level is far and away superior to the vast majority here. Honestly, I don´t have my third eye open, am unable to read energy, and can neither affirm or deny that position. But for the sake of this post, let´s say I believe you. From your point of view, you are a God and most bums are comparatively like ants. No matter how true this is, it doesn´t help to say so. It doesn´t help the Bums you are talking to, and I dare say it doesn´t help you. I´m assuming you are here because you´d like to be helpful. You would like your posts to be useful to others. Trash talking about other Bums, even the most idiotic among us, even me, just makes the forum uglier.

Poor Sean. After a lifetime of community activism, the capitalist machine rages on, seemingly more powerful and evil than ever. Discouraged and despairing, he finally succumbs to a complete mental breakdown. The diagnosis is in: dissociative identity disorder. Yes, that`s right, his personality split into a bunch of tiny pieces. All that`s left of our beloved founder on the board today is a subpersonality that calls himself GSMaster.

I called you a peer as a courtesy, benefit of the doubt kinda thing. If you feel otherwise, I´m fine with that.

If you´re interested in my opinion, please interpret my laughing emoji as follows: stay if you´re willing to participate without insulting your peers (which, hello, we are). Leave if you´re not.

I´ve sean a bad moon a´rising.

Troll is to Virus as Ignore List is to Social Distancing.

@steve who inspires by example. The fruits of your spiritual practice are evident in the way you treat people here on the board. @Trunk who is scrupulous and careful in his public recommendations and posts ways of looking at things and practice ideas that are both beautiful and actionable.

Heartbreak´s threads aren´t contributing to the quality of the forum -- I don´t think anybody except maybe Heartbreak disagrees with us there. I think the counterattacks further degrade the conversation, though it is tough not to go there. We´ll likely continue to disagree on this one Earl, but in the spirit of walking my talk, I´ll say no more about it.

Agreed. I don´t think it´s possible to stop Heartbreak at the moment because nobody has moderation power to do so. But we can stop responding to him and people of his ilk. Let´s not let the cure be worse than the disease. (Ducks flying tomatoes.)

@Taomeow You figured in my dreams last night, giving stock market advice of all things -- something I don´t imagine you doing much in real life. I asked if you thought we´d hit a bottom after yesterday´s big rally and you said no way, this coronavirus thing ain´t over yet. Well...that last part does sound like something I could imagine you saying. The market went up again today but I´m betting on the dream cat -- it´s not over.

Oh, I love horseradish! Just finished writing an email to one of my buddies in Palm Springs. A group of five of us usually gets together for movies and I suggested a virtual movie night. We could all watch the same movie on Netflix at exactly the same time with our cell phones on speaker to call out comments on the good/bad parts. Would miss the communal happy hours though!

By Robert Peng. Different movements to empower each of the 12 meridians and associated organ systems. Figure I should up my practices these days for health.

Hi there....doing well, reviewing Yi Jin Jing videos. You?

Glad not to be rideforever´s grandpa.

I´m contemplating some incense purchases and wondering if anybody here uses it as an aid to meditation or for relaxation, stress-reduction, or health. What kind do you like? How do you use it? Thanks! Liminal

Do you thin the acrylics with water or with some sort of medium? My partner has been working in acrylics lately and might want to experiment.

That´s beautiful! I´ve got some comorbidities too and have also been dealing with fear. Do you notice when media reports come out about a death, they are quick to point out a person´s advanced age and "underlying conditions." Is that supposed to be reassuring? Just once I´d like to hear a different kind of report: Joe was 82 with diabetes and a heart condition but pulled through just fine. Anyway, I am touched by your openness and strong vulnerability. I made a rare phone call to my brother and floated the idea of going in together to buy our 77 year old mom a bidet.

Kindness is one of the highest siddhis.

If people want to take this occasion to reach out to help the elderly and call up long-neglected friends and relatives, what´s the harm? I don´t find stories of such behavior condescending or fake a bit. I find them inspiring.