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| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322  United States07/13/2020 05:48 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not even Yeltsin knew. Quoting: Seer777 It wrecked his entire ideology. In 1989, wanting to see how the American’s lived, Boris Yeltsin made an unscheduled visit to Randall’s supermarket in Houston. Between trying free samples of cheese and produce and staring at the meat selections, Yeltsin roamed the aisles of Randall’s nod [link to imgur.com (secure)] Quietwalker He thought it was a set up, since it was better than what the highest politicians had; he was eventually convinced and shocked. May 26 2015 r2linad2 I had a similar response of shock when I came to America. There are pictures of me and my family posing with food. xxra My family emigrated from the USSR in 1989. There is a picture of my mother int he bred isle with a look of utter shock. llE74 Born and raised in LSSR (LATVIA) and the initial store visit in Vienna when we immigrated in '88 was a tear jerker for whole family. February 22 2016 MylarTack I lived in Russia for 2 years. When I came back, the grocery store paralyzed me with the quantity of choices. Dkigdoom Venezuelan living in The US now. We cried when we went to Costco for the first time. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/13/2020 05:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: WE ARE HAVING A PARTY AT THE BEACH!!! Quoting: Seer777 Nobody has to work tomorrow! It's all night parties everywhere, I get another 1000$ from unemployment next week!! I'm on the pier fishing and watching the hottest babes in the world!! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77455346 Thread: Miami/Dade Mayor just closed the Miami Beaches on July 3rd and 4th Florida posts a record COVID-19 spike for the SECOND day with almost 10,000 new infections and Texas towns begin imposing curfews as seven states see their highest daily rise in cases and the US death toll hits 125,000 [link to www.dailymail.co.uk (secure)] Thread: California orders bars closed in seven counties as coronavirus surges California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered seven counties, including Los Angeles, to shutter bars on Sunday as coronavirus cases surge in the state. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76735334 [link to www.nbcnews.com (secure)] Monday morning... Right on time. Did it to yourselves.. Only people with room temperature IQ, would have fallen into that re-opening trap. Sad for those that properly quarantined, because they know that pandemics happen, and still catch it though. We're in this for the long haul. By next year at this time..I wonder what it will look like then..   Thread: BREAKING: California shutdown again Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
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| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/13/2020 06:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That was about feeling the inability to open the door(fridge) because there was a series of blocks(tomatoes) set in such a way, that I would have felt bad..had they hit the floor, destroying someones work. Stupid place to put ornamental tomatoes but kept me from opening the door.  Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| aether User ID: 79142276 Spain07/13/2020 06:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh..the tomato dream. Quoting: Seer777 That was about feeling the inability to open the door(fridge) because there was a series of blocks(tomatoes) set in such a way, that I would have felt bad..had they hit the floor, destroying someones work. Stupid place to put ornamental tomatoes but kept me from opening the door. yes that |
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| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/13/2020 06:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Id say there were 8. No more than 9. Small tomatoes not cherry. Some were the yellow ones. Quoting: Seer777 My opinion is (grain of salt) Quoting: Coming Into Existence You’ve been talking obe and nde and the refrigerator seems to be your outlook on what a human body represents. More technical machine and the tomatoes as the chakras. I’ve said before how in obe it is like playing the skeleton organ in goonies to get the right combo of each one vibrating intensely or lightly to detach is usually an outside source that does it rather than the person. Hence, the tomatoes could all be smooshed if opening the door to obe. You ultimately are translator of your own dreaming. Great read. Thanks. The feeling was that I could not open the door while the tomatoes were balanced there. I could tell someone put a lot of work into crafting their ornamental cuts. I only moved one aside before I woke up. Vibrating like crazy. Not a bad way to wake up just very noticeable..and seems to be developing a pattern of consecutive days. Interesting Comparing the tomatoes to the chakras makes a lot of sense here. They all carry their own symbols as well. The one I moved aside had a cut-like groove that ran down diagonally. Like you would think of a groove being cut in a clay pot being thrown on a wheel.  I woke up vibrating the last 2 mornings. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
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| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/13/2020 07:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Back then..it meant I was scared..or spooked, and to leave me alone. Which I was often. It was like being born in a new world. One I was never told of, or prepared for. Only hints or whispers..until I got there. Then there was further challenge. But challenge offers tools, in a successful wake. [link to youtu.be (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
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| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/14/2020 04:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What is Agoraphobia? Agoraphobia is a type of anxiety disorder that causes extreme fear of specific places, particularly crowded, public, or open spaces. Although mainstream media often portrays people with agoraphobia as never leaving home, this is not always the case. Some people with agoraphobia go into public but stick to familiar places. As with all other anxiety disorders, the fear in agoraphobia is an outsized reaction to any real threat. Therefore, when people stayed in their homes to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this was not a case of mass agoraphobia. Instead, this was a rational and planned response to a real threat. [link to www.cfpsych.org (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/14/2020 04:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How to Tell the Difference Between Agoraphobia and Coronavirus Anxiety “It’s an unusual situation,” Dr. Anand says. While there is certainly overlap between the fear of returning to public places due to the virus and agoraphobia, there are some key differences as well. “The virus can literally be in the air. The fear of getting contaminated, the need to wash hands, those are a part of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).” Agoraphobia, he says, is an anxiety disorder and has more to do with “being in open places or being in situations where you feel helpless, like among large crowds.” It can sometimes be associated with a panic disorder, which fuels periods of intense anxiety lasting half an hour or so. ... “The usual reason for agoraphobia is the anxiety about not being able to be in a safe situation physically in a crowd, that feeling of being out in an open space and thinking that something bad is going to happen to you,” Dr. Anand continues. New anxieties over contracting the coronavirus, though, are more inline with OCD, he says. “You don’t want to go outside because you want to avoid the infection. You don’t want to breathe in the air or touch something that may wind up giving you that virus. With agoraphobia, the fear is that something is going to happen to you immediately but with this, nothing will be immediate because it would be days, even weeks, before you showed symptoms.” But, again, Dr. Anand admits it’s a unique time. “I don’t think people in psychiatry who would make a diagnosis ever thought of this situation. These new virus-related anxieties have qualities of OCD but because they’re also about going out in the open, going outside, it has elements of agoraphobia. It’s difficult to put in a particular category of psychiatric diagnosis. [link to health.clevelandclinic.org (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/14/2020 04:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | obsessive handwashing will turn the ocd on in most! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77631946 neuroticism will be the new anxiety! lol Soap is one of those commodities that runs out. .. I feel really bad for teachers in particular if this hits schools. Which it will. There is no way to prevent it. Thread: Mad World (Page 1416) Thread: Mutated Flu-Resistant to New Antiviral Spreads In Japan Quoting: Seer777 Thing about germs is..150 years ago..no one knew they existed. Quoting: Seer777 Thank beer..that Pasteur..figured it out. It wasn't milk he was looking at. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Idiocy burns.. Quoting: Seer777 Germ theory of disease The germ theory was proposed by Girolamo Fracastoro in 1546, and expanded upon by Marcus von Plenciz in 1762. Such views were held in disdain, however, and Galen's miasma theory remained dominant among scientists and doctors. The nature of this doctrine prevented them from understanding how diseases actually progressed, with predictable consequences. By the early nineteenth century, smallpox vaccination was commonplace in Europe, though doctors were unaware of how it worked or how to extend the principle to other diseases. Similar treatments had been prevalent in India from just before AD 1000. A transitional period began in the late 1850s with the work of Louis Pasteur. This work was later extended by Robert Koch in the 1880s. By the end of the 1880s the miasma theory was struggling to compete with the germ theory of disease. Eventually, a "golden era" of bacteriology ensued, during which the theory quickly led to the identification of the actual organisms that cause many diseases. Viruses were discovered in the 1890s. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] Watched this again last night. Good movie. The Doctor Who Championed Hand-Washing And Briefly Saved Lives So Semmelweis hypothesized that there were cadaverous particles, little pieces of corpse, that students were getting on their hands from the cadavers they dissected. And when they delivered the babies, these particles would get inside the women who would develop the disease and die. If Semmelweis' hypothesis was correct, getting rid of those cadaverous particles should cut down on the death rate from childbed fever. So he ordered his medical staff to start cleaning their hands and instruments not just with soap but with a chlorine solution. Chlorine, as we know today, is about the best disinfectant there is. Semmelweis didn't know anything about germs. He chose the chlorine because he thought it would be the best way to get rid of any smell left behind by those little bits of corpse. And when he imposed this, the rate of childbed fever fell dramatically. [link to www.npr.org (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/14/2020 05:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: Mad World (Page 1447) Quoting: Seer777 I'm sure you've wondered in the past if I was a shut-in. Now you know for sure. I already made my life like this and this was the reason. I got real tired of asking people, if they were sick when they would cough in front of me. I tried to isolate myself from young children completely..being they are always sick. I spent years of my life in my 20s..absolutely miserably sick.. I've had pneumonia more than twice. Such that..I have now made my life to have separated myself physically from people as much as possible.]Maybe that explains some of my behavior for those here that have known me longest. This is where 'the fear' is going to grab everyone around the throat. Quoting: Seer777 What are customs? Kissing is one..kissing acquaintances, kissing relatives, kissing partners, kissing babies. Shaking hands..is another. It's insidious. They are even using the same phrase I bumped over and over. 'Invisible enemy'. Chicken or the Egg? Being a Germaphobe shut-in really isn't that much fun. I never recommended it as a lifestyle. People are going to crack. [link to youtu.be (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/14/2020 05:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | January 8th 2020 Thread: The VOID (Page 263) How the Ongoing Pandemic Could Cause Agoraphobia Quoting: Seer777 What is Agoraphobia? Agoraphobia is a type of anxiety disorder that causes extreme fear of specific places, particularly crowded, public, or open spaces. Although mainstream media often portrays people with agoraphobia as never leaving home, this is not always the case. Some people with agoraphobia go into public but stick to familiar places. As with all other anxiety disorders, the fear in agoraphobia is an outsized reaction to any real threat. Therefore, when people stayed in their homes to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this was not a case of mass agoraphobia. Instead, this was a rational and planned response to a real threat. [link to www.cfpsych.org (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/14/2020 05:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who is Dr. McNeel? Is that a real person? Quoting: Seer777 I have trouble in the shampoo aisle too. Recently went with Paul Mitchell shampoo with the leave-in conditioner. Never used a leave-in, so it took me a while to choose. Longer than it should have.. [link to youtu.be (secure)] Dr McNeel is the psychiatrist at the facility I spent 30 days in, Reasons. Quoting: Light of my Little Left Eye I just wanted to add.. that I stood there for so long..that I started having anxiety about how long I was standing there, choosing shampoo, based on the conditioner. There was the tea tree option, which I almost chose, but really wanted to try the original. It was on sale. After about 10 minutes or so of this back and forth with myself, I decided that I had stood there so long I might as well try the leave-in and see if I like it. I like it. [link to youtu.be (secure)] [link to m.imgur.com (secure)] [link to m.imgur.com (secure)]   I may have been exaggerating a bit when I said 10 minutes, but it was probably well over 5. It was the choice of the leave-in conditioner I found tough to make. I am a creature of habit such that going outside my comfort zone takes a lot of mental gymnastics. Heh. :P [link to youtu.be (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/15/2020 11:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thread: How does if feel to be starting the long term SHTF? 'I Should Be Good At This': Agoraphobic People Are Suffering Through Quarantine With Everyone Else Phoebe isn’t just worried for those coping with the disorder. “You can't keep an entire society inside for weeks on end and expect things to be fine,” she said. While her past confinement was agoraphobia-induced, it's given her insight into what others may be suddenly experiencing because of COVID-19 restrictions. “I've been there,” she said. “I know what that can do to a person.” Dr. Cassiday said she's already noticed what were previously "little twinges" of agoraphobia "firing up" in patients whose symptoms don't rise to the level of a diagnosis. She predicted a surge in cases; among the mental health professionals I spoke to, there wasn’t a consensus on whether quarantine would lead to a spike in the disorder. ... Under normal circumstances, going to the grocery store is terrifying and exhausting but doable. Now, because she’s immunocompromised, Hilfiger hasn’t gone in weeks. She considers New York’s stay-at-home order a much-needed break from the outside world. When I asked whether she was afraid of losing the progress she’s made, her answer surprised me. “I was hoping that I would just blend in with everybody,” she said, laughing. “[We’d] come out of our houses and [I’d] just kind of sneak in and blend in with them again.” After we got off the phone, she texted a photo of her business card from nearly a decade ago, adding “that was me.” Most people stuck inside right now are eager to leave home. But for many who’ve struggled to get through the front door or found visiting a coffee shop excruciatingly stressful, it’s not just a matter of when going outside regularly is allowed again, but if it’ll be possible. [link to www.elle.com (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/15/2020 11:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “Something that is very important to keep myself healthy and sane and from falling into a relapse is to have a schedule that keeps me going out of the house,” Phoebe said. “It’s like a muscle. I worked really hard to build that muscle back up again and I don’t want to let it atrophy.” [link to www.elle.com (secure)] [link to youtu.be (secure)] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/15/2020 11:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to youtu.be (secure)] Starts @ :20 Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Seer777 (OP) Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 79139322 United States07/15/2020 12:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I checked today and my county has had a total of 104 cases of CV-19 and 6 deaths. 1 new case and 3 currently hospitalized. I live in one of the highest educated areas per capita, in the country. Top 20. We're doing it right by looking at these numbers. Can't argue with success. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
