I'm severely bankrupt.
Your loss
Age 35, Male
Dank
Hard Knocks
England
Joined on 2/2/04
- Level:
- 10
- Exp Points:
- 1,075 / 1,110
- Exp Rank:
- 60,997
- Vote Power:
- 5.25 votes
- Art Scouts
- 1
- Rank:
- Scout
- Global Rank:
- 43,984
- Blams:
- 97
- Saves:
- 105
- B/P Bonus:
- 4%
- Whistle:
- Normal
- Trophies:
- 1
- Medals:
- 20
- Supporter:
- 7y 2m 8d
- Gear:
- 13
Comments
It's a good way to be. Life on the edge!
Skimmed through the previous post on the crash before this, and man that looked insane. :| What did you crash into, though? Another vehicle (if so how did it go for those guys)? Some other obstruction?
Good to hear you're recouping! And keeping creative. And attaining new wisdoms. On your fruit loot pointer: there's a lot less sugar in vegetables, so I'm more into those whether I like them or no. ;) Also do think having good idols inspires you to be better, so I like to put someone like Jackie Chan on a pedestal; remind me that's the kind of person I aspire to be. I'm still following that Kim Dotcom trial too, crazy how long it's been going on, though he seems to be making the best of his situation too. Yeah, cash is still king (people don't think about what that really means), but with cards and digital currency... our entire economy's a lie. I keep waiting for it to break down, but as long as we keep consuming maybe that just won't happen... feels like the Earth itself is the real deadline. Once we've exploited it so much our very existence is threatened, maybe there'll be something less superficial to unite us; set us on a better path.
Good read! Stay strong.
Thank you for the comments and kind sentiments! Here's some pics of the other car and general damage http://imgur.com/a/1GGgG . Of course, he was fine. Barely even a scratch. Actually started threatening and raging. I was terrified he was gonna pull me out my car, when I was still too stunned to even move!! Didn't even realise I was injured or in pain until the ambulance crew came. insurance claim is dragging onnnn though. Still.
Sure, I like certain vegetables. As long as they are cooked... Also enjoy cooking fruit too. I wouldn't be too worried about naturally occurring sugars. They aren't like isolated sugar or more synthetic ones, like Fructose corn syrup and sweeteners, which fuck with your insulin n stuff. The sugars in fruit and veg are balanced to the other nutrition in them so are almost good for you. It's just so damn hard to get away from sugar these days! Can't seem to get a drink without also drinking about 30g of sugar or more.
Sure, we should definitely respect people who achieve great things and even try to emulate them ourselves! This was more general, talking about "regular" people in our day to day lives; not putting someone above us just because society tells us to or because your friends want you to. It's important to remember we're all equal. We're just human beings.
Also, Jackie Chan huh? :) Did you ever read about the time Adam Philips (yes chluaid!) ran the Jackie Chan fanclub?? :P
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4706sd/who_was_your_saddest_celebrity_encounter/d099pq4/ great read.
The Dotcom trial is fascinating. They are clearly dragging it on and on, in hopes that some new law will be introduced. Then they're gonna try sting him on that. They already switched from a copyright case to a fraud one lately. Which is totally illegal; that's the FBI for you. I can't wait to watch this documentary when it's done with film festivals. It's great that he's set out on multiple new ventures, even in his current position.
It's always great to find people who understand the importance of our one and only planet; over our feelings and money, or whatever bullshit people are forcing into the spotlight. High five!
Short of alien overlords coming and saying they will wipe out humanity if we don't co-opoerate.. I think the best thing we can hope for is another plague. Something that really skews the population numbers and brings people together. Sad to say that but... We're headed for something tragic either way. I'd just rather it be a peaceful resolve rather than yet another bloody war-ridden one.
oh jesus. I recently tore a ligament in my arm unveiling my pain threshold. I couldn't take that amount of pain again. But my injury is like a mosquito bite compared to what you went through.
that's some sweet art dude...from reading your anti-capitalist sentiments why would you feel that a Trump victory is indicative of being on the winning side? He's all about making America "rich" again and the GDP. The lesser of two evils is still very evil in that regard. And you can bet your boots that he's going to be pushing for legislature that's going to diminish net neutrality.
Surveillance would curtail terrorism/crime but is a crime in and of itself and would essentially permit the government to commit terrorism against its own people (that happens to a certain degree anyway)
i'd say wealth isn't evil, it's the desire for wealth which is evil. Capitalism at its core is just paying a fair price for a service. there's nothing inherently wrong with the system, but plenty of corrupt people within the system who use others as a means to an ends.
As technology evolves capital becomes redundant...but the development rate is moving to fast for society to amend its moral compass. Hundreds of years ago slavery was justified. Hopefully in a hundred years it becomes morally unacceptable to pollute the Earth for future generations and treat everything with a means in itself. If not, then the human race and Earth can only maintain a couple more generations until a devastating collapse.
don't know, Cyberdevil's comment appeared in my feed and here I am...
Haha.. All pain is still pain!! It fades in time. Or.. Sort of doesn't, in my case. It's just nowhere near as bad as it was at the time.
Take recovery seriously would be my best advice. Your doctor isn't giving their professional opinions for a laugh :) Also do your physio exercises, if you've been given some of those. Then just eat properly, rest well.. etc.
I don't feel Trump winning is a real "victory". I just didn't agree with Clinton bribing Sanders out of his campaign (with mystery 'leverage') and trying to steal all the support he had. The "victory" here is that people saw through it. People didn't want to endorse that corruption and fuckery. The general population don't want to be represented by lies and deceit. The small victory, is that regular people are as fed up of it all as I've been this whole time.
Although, he did cancel TTIP/TPP which is great. Until the next one appears.
What seems weird... Which people don't seem to get... If you want to make our nations rich again... Just stop pouring money into bombs and wars? Put someone in power who actually does want real, genuine change. I'm not even anti-war, it's just laughable that our biggest expenditures are excursions in foreign lands, which some people have never even heard of. Even less people know why we're actually at war. Then everyone's sat there, moaning about the state of our own infrastructures.
Surveillance hasn't been proven to do anything to be honest. France has surveillance on encrypted comms. Look what happened there, with all the shootings. It didn't stop shit because the real criminals and terrorists are always 5 steps ahead. They communicated over unencrypted regular old phone calls! You might catch out one or two amateurs but actual organised crime is precisely that. A business. It needs to be tackled like one. Spying on business is great if you're competing with it but we're trying to shut it down. We need to cut it off at the source.
All surveillance does is make the general public more vulnerable. Especially when you start storing this data; it will be sold and maybe hacked/leaked into the wrong hands. It's a bad, baaad way to go. Luddite dinosaur politicians, thinking the web has some magic portal to the bad guy hangout because they don't understand it. Don't the NSA still have yet to catch a single act of anything it's meant to protect against? That's over 15 years they've been spying on us, learning about us and..achieved nothing they set out to do. That's over half my lifetime.
The desire for wealth is definitely what's evil. Greed has always been evil and a problem, as told in many proverbs. It's scary these days, when lots of money also means lots of power and influence. It doesn't mean someone with lots of money is inherently a bad person but someone with lots of money and bad intentions could easily do way more damage than any amount of terrorism. Arguably, we already are. To our oceans.
Lets just keep hoping that people wake up and as you say.. In 100 years time... All of todays practices of killing the planet and dividing our citizens will be unjustifiable and illegal!
Wellp, thanks for joining in 8^)
Fellow PTSD sufferer here. I feel your pain of not trusting (or finding it difficult to trust) others; that's one of the things it can do in some cases I guess. Also, hello.
Yo safe for reaching out dude.
It's a horrible mistress is the old PTSD.
It was worse when it still hurt just to move my leg. Waking up in cold sweats, after sleep paralysis and flashback night terrors.
Or having dreams where I was fine then waking up and twisting slightly wrong, pain shooting back and all the reminders setting in.
Hell..the not trusting people is from over a decade ago and lifetime of being bullied lol that's a whole other set of traumas, for me :P sort of helps though. Keeping people at arms length is a good means to avoid letting them fuck you over. Just as with my ex-colleagues. Turns out none of em gave half as many shits about me, as I did them. Certain members wanted to use me and give me a shit pay, to do everything they couldn't do ...including actually being good at their jobs.
Yeah.
PTSD.
Man what a difference on the amount of carnage on yours and the other car! :|
Cooking fruit hmm, interesting, didn't even know you could do that. Yeah you're right Fructose corn syrup and sweeteners are a whole other level of bad, but people who get by on fruit-only diets don't fare too well either, gotta have a balance. It seems to be worst for the teeth btw, without any calcium or other minerals (can be found in plenty of other stuff than just milk) they just wither away... I'm drinking a lot of coconut water lately, btw, barely any natural sugar at all (and nothing added). They exist but yeah, 'mainstream drinks' are a whole other thing...
True that. Also man that'a a depressing account to read (hadn't read it earlier no)!! Would suck to meet your idol and be treated like that. I thought Jackie Chan was one of the most humble guys too.
For sure. High five back at ya.
When that wave of Ebola came about a couple years ago I thought that might be it... but turns out we survived after all! It does feel like we need something like that to get back on the right path, but when something that seems to be 'it' does come around I start second-guessing those thoughts, wouldn't want people I know (nor myself) to be taken in by the seige... but of course that's human nature, don't want to let go of what you have, and don't realize what you have until you lose it (or at least until there's a chance you might and you can imagine what it might be like). Reminds me of how i read about Samurai, on how they started each day by envisioning their death, so they'd be able to live each day to the fullest; like it might be their last. Always ready. Sounds a bit overly morbid to live like that but... there's some wisdom to it at least. Yeah, hope so too. I've been starting to wonder if maybe the human race will dwindle in numbers simply because of apathy. If we reach such a point that birth rates plummet, and people just lose interest. Seems first-world countries have already started on that route.
Sorry for the late reply btw, somehow this thing got buried below a mound of other bookmarks...
you complete us too :}
fam
Wow!!! I'm glad you are ok. It's been a few months. How are you now? Your post wasn't boring at all. It was very insightful, and I agree with a lot of what you said.
Heylo sweet , I forgot to reply to this. I was busy with so much stuff back then. I am doing so well now! I can run and climb -- and still recovering (jus under 2yrs to go)! Already recovered better than I ever thought possible.. It is amazing. I hope you are well too.
Heretic-Anchorite
I'm happy to hear your ok.
That may be odd coming from a stranger, but my father died in a violent car crash that I watched from a distance; it wasn't anyone's fault and there was nothing I could of done once it happens, but I've always felt very guilty about not stopping it.
One thing I learned from all of this is that most people live in a bubble. They think nothing can happen, everything is ok, and that the ending will always leave the "cast" of their lives as they where in the beginning of the episode like some dumb sitcom. It takes shit to happen to wake people up. It really sucks for a while, it never fully goes away; but the most important part is that overtime it'll make you stronger then you could possible have imagined.
Failure can teach a man a lot more then anything else if you aren't too proud to learn; this is how I feel about this.
Good luck and endure; I hope my words where of some help.
AcidX (Updated )
Hey as I say, sometimes it helps just to know someone is listening. Whether they're a stranger or not.
That sounds pretty horrible just having to witness a fatal car accident like that, let alone losing a loved one at the same time. I can't even imagine how hard that must've been and feel even more helpless with these attempts to offer some consolidation.
You're right though, I once had a conversation with a lady who had worked in a care home - type of one where old people whose families forget them, go to die. She said there were two main types of people there. Those prepared for it and those who get terrified, act like they never saw it coming. Luckily, I'm the former. I've lived a life without regret and left nothing unsaid one way or another. I've done what I can, so needn't be afraid when I get there.
Trust me, my little bubble popped when I was 8 years old and my dad left. Life was very different for me from then on. Maybe even before that, having experienced Meningitis and other life-threatening infections at a young age. It made me who I am now and taught me at an early age to forget about "what could've been". I've always felt hyper-aware of things around me and get pissed to see sooo many self-absorbed people living out stupid dystopian fantasy lives where they are all that matters. They really could benefit from putting themselves in other people's shoes and viewing the world through different eyes every once in a while.
Sadly, dumb blind people like that will keep making the wrong political votes and supporting the fascist agendas that cause all this suffering.
Peace man and thank you for also sharing your own wisdom.