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Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by Slow_Hand »

jimbokun wrote: post #77
ang_cire wrote: post #28

> A writer needs readers. An entrepreneur needs customers. An athlete needs competition. A lover needs someone free to reject him. Any worthy pursuit needs a mat. Nah. I judge myself by how I progressed from yesterday, not by whether what I am or what I built is useful to others. Is keeping a diary pointless if you're not planning to make it a memoir? Is staying healthy pointless if you aren't using that health to co…

What activities are you engaging in where you can make progress with no interaction with other people?

Speaking for myself: working out, reading, composing music, and journaling.

Re: Exit the Cave

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itsamario wrote: post #72
jondlm wrote: post #37

A couple weeks ago I went by myself for a hike through an old lava tunnel cave. I needed a flashlight because it was pitch black. I found a small nook in the wall about a mile in that I could wedge myself in to. I sat down, turned off my light, and let myself feel the enveloping darkness for a long time. I cried. The only sounds were of small droplets of cold water hitting the floor and my body. I let myself settle i…

Jesus and Mohammed supposedly did this for 40 days. They figured it was where an outcast should die. They got sent back. The "Celestial Mechanics" art was a similar era but instead of a new religion, that era was a Renaissance. We're at a similar point in history where an industrial revolution quietly changed a way of life between living generations

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Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by mindslight »

cube00 wrote: post #68
jondlm wrote: post #37

A couple weeks ago I went by myself for a hike through an old lava tunnel cave. I needed a flashlight because it was pitch black. I found a small nook in the wall about a mile in that I could wedge myself in to. I sat down, turned off my light, and let myself feel the enveloping darkness for a long time. I cried. The only sounds were of small droplets of cold water hitting the floor and my body. I let myself settle i…

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Yeah, it's much better to be standing so you can toss the bag of food into the subway car right before the doors close.

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by RobRivera »

ang_cire wrote: post #28

> A writer needs readers. An entrepreneur needs customers. An athlete needs competition. A lover needs someone free to reject him. Any worthy pursuit needs a mat. Nah. I judge myself by how I progressed from yesterday, not by whether what I am or what I built is useful to others. Is keeping a diary pointless if you're not planning to make it a memoir? Is staying healthy pointless if you aren't using that health to co…

I'm a grindset man.

I never advertise my grind details.

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by sizzle »

jondlm wrote: post #37

A couple weeks ago I went by myself for a hike through an old lava tunnel cave. I needed a flashlight because it was pitch black. I found a small nook in the wall about a mile in that I could wedge myself in to. I sat down, turned off my light, and let myself feel the enveloping darkness for a long time. I cried. The only sounds were of small droplets of cold water hitting the floor and my body. I let myself settle i…

What happens if your flashlight craps out?

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by tootie »

ang_cire wrote: post #28

> A writer needs readers. An entrepreneur needs customers. An athlete needs competition. A lover needs someone free to reject him. Any worthy pursuit needs a mat. Nah. I judge myself by how I progressed from yesterday, not by whether what I am or what I built is useful to others. Is keeping a diary pointless if you're not planning to make it a memoir? Is staying healthy pointless if you aren't using that health to co…

My side projects all take forever and meander indefinitely. Completing them means they're over. I do them to do them. I pretty much never make anything useful.

Re: Exit the Cave

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Post by jondlm »

bodegajed wrote: post #75
jondlm wrote: post #37

A couple weeks ago I went by myself for a hike through an old lava tunnel cave. I needed a flashlight because it was pitch black. I found a small nook in the wall about a mile in that I could wedge myself in to. I sat down, turned off my light, and let myself feel the enveloping darkness for a long time. I cried. The only sounds were of small droplets of cold water hitting the floor and my body. I let myself settle i…

> birds that visited me are you a disney princess?

This gave me a hearty laugh!
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