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You nailed it again with the mention of "important topics." I'd love it if everyone broadened what they call "important" and talked about it more online and in person. 💕

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it was in fact an article on Medium that turned my anxiousness around. It might still be there, something like 'anxiety is not in your mind but in your body', and described how I felt at the time, wanting to run away from it all but there was nowhere to go. Helped a lot. And that, too, was a personal post of this lady.

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Thank YOU, TL, and this is certainly not a ramble. You deftly articulate the challenges we all face while the parasites keep churning along.

And wow...you nailed it here: "obsessed with the doom and gloom, the 'we are superior to the dumb, captured herd' games played on some very popular Substacks that sometimes seem a bit too self-satisfied"

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some days it is just too hot to go outside. Watching nature from the window counts too I hope! Oh and of course rubbing the dog! You are so right about the internet being our safeguard for craziness in these last 3+ years. What would we have done without it! Thanks to substack we are not in the looneybin.

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Blum was a great guy. I corresponded with him years ago. He kept his mental agility well into old age.

Paying attention to circadian rhythm is one of the things that helps me break out of my tendency to doom ideation. There's a lot to be said for direct exposure to early morning and whatever sunset you can catch. Anything that reduces alienation from the natural world can be helpful—gardening, for example (even window boxes offer something).

I sometimes suspect that morbid ideation has an addictive quality. Mickey, I'm sure you've offered people a better way of doing things only to be harshly condemned. People become perversely attached to their miseries. They feel threatened when certainties, however awful, are taken away.

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Thanks, James. I openly admit it when I get something wrong but I stand by my general plea to question and to avoid hive minds. What fascinates me in this case is the choice to immediately unsubscribe when confronted with a single post that does not interest them. As touched on in my mention of captology in this post, the neural rewiring is epidemic.

On a lighter note, yes, I concur about Bill Blum. I did a couple of events with him and would say we were friends. Bill wrote a blurb for one of my books, in fact!

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Nazi exercises!

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😂 😂 😂 😂

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Lately I have to sign on on almost all substacks, I have no idea why. Only a few still work without. There are also more and more trying-to-catch-you substack postings, like connecting your contact list with substack (no thanks), what are your friends reading, lists of other than your regular forums, so what is going on ?

This morning I had to re-sign-in on Google kindle LOL. Thankfully my safety also saves my passwords, otherwise I would have had a hard time! Yes, I am one of those who makes lists of passwords and then forgets where they are...

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😂 😂 😂 😂

And yes, Substack glitches do seem to be more common lately.

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I just notice that when I open a Substack the second time that day I do not have to sign in, and that some where I am only a reader, I cannot Heart. I just hope that Elon did not secretly buy substack and then calls it Y !

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Maybe I'll buy it and name it Z.

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now that would be totally appropriate! Go for it Mickey (start saving right now)

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😇

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That Reddit thread of "humans just beings bros" is incredibly touching!!! Thank you!

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You're most welcome! I regularly go out of my way to find reminders like that. 😭

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Little doses of Vitamin HJBB is good for the heart and flushes out the eyes!

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Safe and effective, for real!

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💕

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Street Fighting Man. https://youtu.be/lSJ-F0PhY5c just stand .

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But where I live, the game to play is compromise solution 😭

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"There's nothing permanent but change." ~ Heraclitus

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We all understandably get impatient. Me too !

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"The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." (Ecclesiastes 7:8)

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Indeed Mick . We are The New Wine . A Good Vintage may take some time.

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🍷🍷

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HAHAHAHA ! Cheers Mate . clink !

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