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[Sela]

Hey I found Red Green using kitchen equipment for non-kitchen uses!

Hope this link works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP3xiLKJ9_4/

  Sela

[Sela]

Hello Guest,

Perhaps "wait and ruminate" contemplate solutions might fit better?  Maybe the calling yourself silly name thingy would stop that way?
Just because you're thinking something over and are not certain of what to do yet, does not give you permission to label yourself "nuts", does it?
Would you call anyone else nuts if they told you they were doing that?

Some things just take time to decide eh?

Plus, you don't seem nuts to me.    (and I'm an expert on nuts!!  eat 'em almost every day for lunch!).

In retrospect, skipping over going "completely bonkers", so what if you had of talked like a parrot on speed, asked for advice and didn't hear what you wanted?  No one would have died likely.  And the bonkers part? 

Well, 

You probably wouldn't give a hoot by the time that happened anyhow (or maybe you'd be hooting up a storm in a tree some where?). 

I'm just teasing there.  The fear of going crazy can be very distressing.  I get that big time.  I think that's when we have to get tough with ourselves and just say:  "Quit it already!!  Go take a bubble bath and turn up the radio!  Take a break for now and think some more later."  (or whatever works?).


I'm sorry I will be away for awhile now as I'm going on holiday.    Keep posting!   Go for it and hopefully others will post back to you.   I must apologize as I feel like I'm leaving in the middle of a conversation.   I'lllllll be back Guest, if you wanna talk some more.  Sure hope things work out for you.

Sela

[Hopalong]

bye, lovely Sela...have a wonderful holiday. Come back and tell us how it was, okay?
(((((Sela)))))

Hi Guest,
UUs (Unitarian Universalists) seldom prosyletize. We think it's tacky or evangellical or something uncomfortable. That's why we're such a small denomination. But since you mentioned clergyperson, and since I'm a very happy agnostic UU...thought I'd mention it. Don't know if there's a UU church in your town.

I like Quakers a lot too, a good fit for me also.

Basically, it's the community. Building a chosen extended family (I call PHamily, the ones we choose). It has made a huge difference in my life.

You deserve someone to talk to. Having racing thoughts and feeling disconnected and anxious doesn't revoke your I-get-to-need-to-be-part-of-the-human-community card. Even if you tell yourself it does (you misread the fine print on the back).

Hops

[teartracks]

Hi Hops,

UUs (Unitarian Universalists) seldom prosyletize. We think it's tacky or evangellical or something uncomfortable. That's why we're such a small denomination.

Prosletize, evangelize, espouse, promote...I'm confused   - what is the difference?   Tacky?

tt

[teartracks]

Hi Guest,

I have only a few 'facts' which I base my life on!

Since they are a few, I've wanted to ask if you'd mind sharing those 'facts'?   Ref.  post #1302.  I decided to wait until now to ask because I didn't want to butt into yours and Sela's lively exchange.

tt


 

[Hopalong]

Hi TT--
Well, I guess I think of us as a kind of nerdy church (but in a good way)... 
Not terribly assertive but really focused.
Not self-confident enough to really SELL our ideas (but deep inside being sure they're awesome).

That would be my jokey description though, if you want officialese, check out www.uua.org.
(Much more dignified.) Hey, 3 of the 6 Founding Fathers were Unitarians, and Susan B. Anthony and Clara Barton and Emerson and Thoreau and we had more ministers in the march on Selma than any other denomination in the country...

I forgot Beatrix Potter!

But apart from tripping over some theology I'm a Quaker too at heart.

hugs
Hops

Hi Guest,
I am glad I was just projecting.
Well...err...not glad I-me-me do projecting, but glad it was inaccurate for you!
(I wasn't thinking "clergy" as someone for "moral correction" though...I'm a UU.
Just for kindness, compassion, a connection to your worth.

Probably projecting again, but a couple times I've run into ministers with amazing gifts that way.
And a couple cold-fish clunkers too, but I out-wait 'em...a good one always comes around again.)

Anyway, just nattering on one of my topics.
I'm glad you're posting and I've enjoyed reading you.

Hops

[teartracks]

Hi Hops,

You had me worried there.  Thought for a minute you'd gone religious elitist!

Hey, 3 of the 6 Founding Fathers were Unitarians.

Ahhh, is that good proof that religion and a good mind are not mutually exclusive?

tt



 

[Hopalong]

Many of the greatest minds were religious.
Many scientists are religious, many humanitarians.
Many people who sacrifice for peace, justice, mercy.

I hope religion continues to evolve...
becomes something with present living inspiration
in the present human beings, not texts that everybody
can hit each other over the head with for the next
millenia while the oceans rise.

xo
Hops

[Hopalong]

Absolutely yes, Guest.

There are quite a few atheists in my church.
Secular humanists, whatevers.

Odd, isn't it?



Hops

[teartracks]

Musing on why original sin involved man eating something (is there something implied about gluttony in that?) as opposed to some other act like cutting down a tree in the garden or picking that snake up by the tail and snapping its head off?

tt

[CB123]

Interesting, huh, TT?

If you look at a lot of the old tales, eating something figured into a major life change--often something ominous, but sometimes something good.  Trips to faerie amongst the Irish were somewhat safe, as long as the adventurer never ate anything.  If he did, he was doomed to stay.  There was Sleeping Beauty with the poison apple, for example...lots of them. 

Maybe, its just the sense that eating takes an outside substance and puts it inside a person....emphasizing the life-changing significance of the act rather than something that stays completely an event and is just something that someone DID.

CB

[teartracks]

Hi Guest,

Re:  Nutty thinking, non-nutty thinking, 3D vs cyber talk, etc...

I think a lot.  I like to think.  It's not extraordinary or profound thinking, it's just thinking.  In 3D I don't cast all my thoughts onto just any unsuspecting soul.  First, I don't think most people there would be particularly interested in what I'm thinking and second, the clarifications they might need to make sense of my thoughts (if indeed that were possible) would exhaust my 'talk' battery.  I don't think I'm crazy and I'm not delusional.   However, I have experienced  disordered thinking, a legacy of FOO.  Just today an old tape flipped on in my brain and there I went.  I quickly recognized it for what it was, and got with the person that triggered it and found out that I'd triggered one of their old tapes too.  We talked honestly about it.  Problem solved.   I get more proficient at recognizing and resolving the results of disordered thinking every day.

But where I'm going with this is not about disordered thinking, it's about the way I think my brain processes or makes sense of seemingly unrelated, fragmented parts (The two are as different as apples and oranges).  I've called it mind soup, but another way to look at it would be like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.  Lay the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle out randomly and without the picture on the box, you'd have little clue how it would look assembled or even if the parts you see can be assembled.  So in my brain the pieces bump around for as long as it takes them to fall together or not and they usually do.  I'm pretty sure this is an odd way to process, but good, bad or indifferent, I regard it as my normal.  From time to time, on the board, I'll throw out some of my crazy thinking.  Like stuff I think is trying to jell or come together in my head.  I'm petty sure that input/stimulation from others speeds up the jelling process.  And its a lot more fun than working the jigsaw puzzle alone.   People here extend uncommon grace that way  ].

tt

[Hopalong]

I like your mind, TT...

I don't think you're weird.

I think you're very very smart and philosophical and good at processing in writing.

I think you should probably be in grad school.

xxoo
Hops

[teartracks]

Hops, bless you.   What wonderful encouragement.   I'm a lowly wanna be and that's what makes it so good to hang out here with you and so many other gifted contributors - y'all allow me to belong and play.

Love,

tt

[teartracks]

Hi Guest,

Maybe it's not so odd.  I don't know.

I have a friend who seems to process differently.  It's almost as if they see a grid of some kind and start from the outer edge of the grid and work inward gathering information from each section of the grid.  Once each section has been examined, they analyze and reach conclusions.  Unlike the pieces that enter my head in random fragments theirs seem to appear gridlike in their mind from the onset.  They seem to methodically work each piece of the grid.  There is no order for me at that stage.  Stuff just bumps around as long as it takes.   I'm not expressing this as a problem.  I guess I'm intrigued with how ideas form, how information is gathered and processed, where information for new ideas/thinking come from, etc.  What part externals play and what part internals play in the formation of information/intelligence. 

tt