Do any of you just feel like completely retreating from the 21st century? (55, acquaintance)
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This is me! I was having trouble sleeping and started listening to podcasts when I went to sleep. I usually listen to old time radio shows some from the 40's! So I use new technology to go way back in time. Some even have the commercials and it is a blast listening to commercials about buying war bonds or hearing about the capabilities of the newest Frigidaire.
I've made up a great sleep combo, I sleep 8-10 hrs .. it's posted in the Alternatve health area or if you want it here, ask me.
My sleep got messed up after menopause and the Fibro stuff that hit me.
I would be very surprised if that happened because cancer is a BIG money maker and if there were a cure a lot of people would be out of work and Big Pharm would lose a lot of money.
I happen to know a couple of people that were cured of cancer (YES cured) using natural remedies.
I have an online friend who is now dealing with cancer issues, all holistically. She will not do the conventional treatments. So far so good for her. I've been involved with health boards and know of MOST holistic treatments.
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Sounds like a few of you started taking the red pill and realized that the world has always been a tough place. Some others are still taking the blue one, atleast as it relates to the past.
Well, the other day at the market, the YOUNGER woman in front of me bought a lot of groceries and NEVER got off her phone while checking out, the clerk was so annoyed and she kept eyeing me and I knew what she was thinking. Well the woman took off to her car with some bags and left a couple bags behind, she forgot them as she was still yaking on the phone.
She did come back in as she knew she forgot some bags and I said to her: that's what happens when you can't stop talking on your phone....she said, oh I was talking to my mother#@@$...I just looked at her. Maddening how addicted people are to their phones and never ending yakking.
Boy, are you right. I was in a restaurant one day and at another table there were 4 people eating together. Each one was staring down at their smart phone and texting someone somewhere else, instead of actually having direct conversation with the people sitting right next to them ! In our company lunchroom, 3 or 4 people will be eating together and no one says a word to anyone else, they are all staring at that damn little screen and pushing keys on the front.
The other day I was in the check out line at Costco, and there were two little girls, probably 2 and 4, and the older one had a smart phone in her hands, doing God knows what. My first thoughts were "They sure start young, don't they ?"
No wonder people are so insensitive and unmoved when they see another human being being hurt or killed, it is just another video game to them.
Don
Or I was in a restaurant within the last year and a young mother was eating with her 8 year old son. She was reading phone messages and texting the entire time and never talked or paid attention to her son. the little boy just kept eating and staring down at his plate and fidgeting a little. Dinner should be family time and a time for communication, not ignoring your children. Very sad.
I'm happier, more content than I've ever been in my life, even though external circumstances are no better or worse than they've ever been. Probably because it took me this long to learn that what Viktor Frankl said is true: I literally CAN choose my own attitude and response in any situation.
What I find had to believe, is that people think this day and age is so great because of the brave new world technology has given us. Yet all the time, we are in a steady decline, morally, ethically, and spiritually. 1/2 of all children are born without 2 legal parents, families don't eat or do things together, schools warehouse kids and indoctrinate kids, but they don't educate them. Our laws and rules are only enforced when the elected leaders feel like it. Police are now under attack, only the lives of one race matter, our culture tells us that men are evil and women are all wonderful.
And I know its not just me. My 32 year old son comments on how its gone downhill since he was a kid. As a result, he's found a refuge of sorts, and plans to stay there. We told him our plans and he thinks its a wise move.
Don't forget the push to continuously by "crap" you don't and won't need, devices to numb the brain instead of interacting with the world and those in it and a drug for every malady, then more drugs to counteract the side effects of those drugs, then even more to counteract the side effects of the drugs to counteract the side effects.
Things are only important if some second rate celeb tells us they are and people like the Kardashians are experts on everything, just ask 'em.
I, like the poster who was talking about their relative think I am living in the wrong time... <shrug>
One thing I'm most appreciated of new technology, I can deposit my check from home.
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In our company lunchroom, 3 or 4 people will be eating together and no one says a word to anyone else, they are all staring at that damn little screen and pushing keys on the front.
