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Re: Television Addiction

Re: Television Addiction2012-07-02T06:15:20+00:00
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Robbo
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I love camping!…

Your last post above gave me a bunch of good ideas I can use to cut myself loose from the idiot box. I despise deadlines, an enemy rivaled only by the clock on the wall. I admire what looks like real courage to me, to be in that writing program. Especially the accountability agreement friend part.

For more than 10 years I have secretly wanted to be a writer. Go ahead laff it up you guys :-) Stranger things have happened!

Nearly all the things I say here that look and sound like advice are actually challenges I launch against myself. Integrity could be the one characteristic I desire the most. And hypocrisy the least. I’ve made progress. I’m grateful. I would like to be less selfish and self centered, I can see real progress there too. Self doesn’t trash talk me as much these days.

The main thing about my TV is FEAR. I like the part of me that tends to see things from about 35,000 feet. There is always a bigger picture. At altitude we all become tiny little parts n pieces of the big organism, humanity. What’s on the tube boils down to keeping us in a state of fear. AMHO the A is for also.

I wonder how many of my favorite sci fi movies are written by authors unknowingly participating in the conspiracy of fear. Are we already in the Matrix?. How do we really know?

The truth about me, I do have some tendencies to be lazy, stupid, and definitely crazy. I just have a better way out of that nightmare now. A clearer straight line between two points. One being suffering, the other, enlightenment.

Enlightenment = to lighten up. Denial still rears it’s ugly head… we don’t all get the same quality of health care, it’s simply not available to all of us. I’m not in denial about that ugly truth. Honesty with me is powerful stuff. Unless I don’t really know the truth…

Listening to music on youtube made me think of this thread. Rush, one of the greatest bands I know of from Canada, just 3 musicians who magically sound like an orchestra. Their album All The World’s A Stage got me through some of my most difficult years, puberty. I could listen to that 8 track tape for hours n hours. The headphones, my best friend. At what point does entertainment become entertainment addiction? Does it depend on how big the monsters we’re escaping are?. The monster of FEAR, self centered fears…

Sometimes the comments written below the music are actually worth reading on youtube, Take a look/listen if ya want to see what I mean. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYDJFoBS-Ms&feature=related The song’s called Witch Hunt. It’s about this FEAR I been talking about.

I hope my diarrhea goes away soon :o(

it sure smells.

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