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1 day ago by positivelyantagonistic

OK. I know im a good person and i know im very wise for my age. But if theres one thing about me that can be kind of annoying is that I take myself a bit too seriously. I know life is a game and we only live once and should make the most of it and all that but wise philosophical people like me have ...

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2 days ago by Maria

Depending on the season, my little self was more often than not curled up on the couch reading – or in the industrial kitchen at my parents’ restaurant, burning the pads off my tiny fingers – or standing in pouring rain under the broken eaves-trough at Uncle Ron’ s ramshackle house – or maybe tucked ...

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3 days ago by Dan Fincke

Being alone is not a virtue. It is just a fact and, for most of us, a source of insecurity, occasionally a source of relief, sometimes a real liability. Loneliness, by contrast, is essentially a kind of felt deprivation (and we should note that one can feel lonely even in the presence of other peopl ...

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4 days ago by Dan Fincke

Nicholas Carr on “sour Wikipedians”: In their report on the results of the study, the scholars paint a picture of Wikipedians as social maladapts who “feel more comfortable expressing themselves on the net than they do off-line” and who score poorly on measures of “agreeableness and openness.” Notin ...

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4 days ago by Eve

Part of the nature of the introverted intuitive type, whether thinking or feeling, is to be private about things. We don’t want to show people what’s in our underwear drawer, and we’d rather ask personal questions than answer them. We have hiding places as children and dream of secret passageways an ...

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5 days ago by pochp

{ It’s always a pleasure to me reading intelligent rants from the youth. Here is a brilliant one from someone who uses the simple name Jo. And Jo told me ‘it’s just a rambling post’!- poch } I have a habit of living in the past. Memories that have long since lost any emotional connection still appea ...

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6 days ago by bookaneer

I have a habit of living in the past. Memories that have long since lost any emotional connection still appear in my daily life, taunting me. Although, I now think “well that happened four years ago, maybe it shouldn’t annoy me so much”. It’s not even big memories, its clangers of conversations, or ...

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6 days ago by Kat, most of the time anyway

Regarding my last post: Holy unsmurfing shit! A further reaction will occur once I've read all the responses and other posts, and possibly chat logs or something, and dear *gods*, I did not meant to start an entire inadvertent smurfstorm that ravaged the internet, or at least the parts of it I care ...

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7 days ago by mentalimaging

Read full story in the Guardian by Rachel Denton I moved here in January 2002 and started my life as a hermit, naming my house after St Cuthbert, the patron saint of hermitage. On a typical day, I pray between 6am and 8am. After breakfast, I work on my calligraphy business, perhaps on card designs o ...

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9 days ago by Urban Eremite

A few years I was making myself miserable trying to change myself to be more sociable. I was on the verge of going to see a professional about social anxiety. I found several web sites with lots of advice on how to do this by overcoming shyness. It wasn’t until later that I realized that all this ad ...

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