October 23, 2019 4:05 am
We are all aware of how distracted we are. We are walking around half connected to a myriad of machines. Half the time you can be standing next to someone and not know whether the words they are speaking are directed at you or some person they are wireless connected to. We say we crave connection but that which we seek is a disconnected connection. How are we tethered to this world?
I am often concerned as to how we grow as humans if we are mired in nothingness. So much of day-to-day life is ephemeral. Although, that word is too pretty. Me talk pretty and sad. That should have been the title of David Sedaris’ book of essays. But ephemeral is beautiful until it is not.
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Not quite Mimi, life is so beautiful, just thinking when I wake up that I’m alive and can do so many things or do nothing, depends on the choice, it’s true I can choose …, have a nice day!!!
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By almeidadepaulo on October 23, 2019 at 4:18 am
Fact of ‘Terminator Science’ is Social Animals
Not Tethered to Each other
Die A ‘Spiritual Death’
First then Faster
And Slowly
Go Extinct…
Human Machines
Die As iRobot Life…
i’ll be back i’m Human..:)
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By katiemiafrederick on October 23, 2019 at 6:58 am
Oh my. Hehe
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By psychologistmimi on October 25, 2019 at 12:08 pm
Google ‘Behavioral
Sink Experiment’
If You like…
John B.
Calhoun’s
Work with
‘Human Rats’
Today in the
60’s what
Instant
Gratification
Is Doing these
Days too.. fascinating
And HaLLoWeeN Dark..;)
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By katiemiafrederick on October 25, 2019 at 7:14 pm
Instant gratification is all the rage 🙂
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By psychologistmimi on November 3, 2019 at 2:35 am
True Smart Phones
Are like Free Crack
For All Ages Constant
Never Ending Mental
Pill with messed up
Prescriptions i do
My Best to
Make
It
Challenging..;)
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By katiemiafrederick on November 3, 2019 at 1:19 pm
The hardest thing about our forever home is finding the longer term connections that will take us through the rest of life. 350 wonderful residents, but most are still acquaintances a year later – it takes time spent together to forge the bonds, and one thing we don’t do here is visit much in each others’ apartments.
We have dinner together with many people in the course of a week – but they are not friends yet. Maybe because we haven’t done hard things together.
It’s happening, but it is very slow on the very front I ripped up before coming (not that it was working that well – I didn’t get out of the house much – but because there was SOME).
It is critical to do for others before you can’t; many people come to these places too late to integrate well with the community because they are too absorbed with their own problems. Or with taking care of a spouse before that leaves them single.
We’ll make it, I hope, but it still feels like working without a net.
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By Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt on October 26, 2019 at 2:07 pm
It certainly does take time. But it will happen. Wishing you the best
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By psychologistmimi on November 3, 2019 at 2:34 am