F**K

[Armstead]

Sorry. Just a visceral response watching the news and digesting what has been happening -- politically and economically -- and what is likely to happen.

[Mojorabbit]

1. I know

I am on pins and needles waiting to see what is going to happen. We are bumping up against finite resources so can't come out of it like we did during the last depression and this is global in scope.

[Armstead]

2. Like the proverbial onion...Each layer leads you to another one and brings tears to the eye

[RKP5637]

12. Someone sent me this, I thought it was pretty interesting ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1658936&mesg_id=1665712

And here's the link to Thom Hartmann & Neil Howe: Are we in the Fourth Turning?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZp0-DOC7Ko

[Mojorabbit]

15. Thanks, I am finding it fascinating reading

I like this quote from WW1.
“We are unsettled to the very roots of our being. There isn’t a human relation, whether of parent or child, husband and wife, worker and employer, that doesn’t move in a strange situation. We are not used to a complicated civilization, we don’t know how to behave when personal contact and eternal authority have disappeared. There are no precedents to guide us, no wisdom that was not meant for a simpler age.”

[RKP5637]

17. It is, and that is pretty much a timeless quote, it could be said of today. n/t

[Armstead]

18. Thanks, I'll save the link and read it when I'm less depressed about all this

Hopefully soon

[grahamhgreen]

3. K&R

[Journeyman]

4. "If you can't say 'fuck,' you can't say 'Fuck the government.'" ~ Lenny Bruce . . .

. . . who died 45 years ago today.

[Armstead]

5. It's verging on F**k everything and everyone

[malaise]

6. It's all in the hands of the people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha3ktAL4SNo&feature=fvst

[Armstead]

8. If only that were true....And how one defines "the people"

[malaise]

13. Ordinary Folks Who Wake Up, Organize and Fght Back

like the Wisconsinites.

[Armstead]

16. You're right....

And I hope that happens and is successful

[RKP5637]

7. Yeah, I've been thinking the same, F**K. It pretty well sums it

all up. I'm getting so each morning when I wake up I just say F**K and turn on the news. And then I say WTF. Frankly, I have some pretty F'ed up days. Tomorrow will be no different.

[Armstead]

9. I'm thinking turning on the TV is the first mistake..

Best mental survival technique might just be to tune it all out, and just stay focused on daily, personal life, and hope the bigger realities don;t intrude.

[RKP5637]

10. I often feel like I'm being sweep along by a huge tidal wave swimming like hell

to stay afloat. Some days I think Timothy Leary was so right.

"My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out."

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/timothy_leary.html

[Armstead]

11. I think the real answer is apathy.....But giving a shit is an addiction.

As you can tell, I'm feeling rather cynical right now.

The best I can hope for is that the little business I work for can stay afloat. The rest is too cosmic to contemplate.

....But I'm sure I'll keep contemplating.

[johnfunk]

14. SH#T (on a Satan Sandwich)

Just sayin'.

[Blue-Jay]

19. C*N'T

CAN'T bring myself to spell "FUCK."

What will the children think?

[Hissyspit]

20. *UC*

[Armstead]

21. And you win the prize from The PuzzleMaster

[Blue-Jay]

22. Aaaaaaaaahhhh! I am undone!