Welcome to the nexus
Sounds like you got your fair share of lifes troubles and tribulations, and i'm always astonished at people that make it through such hard times, and come out with their minds intact. Then are able to tear them apart and put them back together again by tripping
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Your a stronger person for having gone through it.
Hope you stick around, and share/learn whatever you can/we have to offer. I have a feeling you'll enjoy your stay
Stay healthy, happy, loved, and never be satisfied with your life's accomplishments, at least that's the gestalt of what i take away from life.
-Peace-
DT
"let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.โ - Wendell Berry