Is this the end of the world?

Well..............a singer called "jucy j" can't take my curiosity further than a porno movie.
Anyway it's sign of times.
Superficiality and arrogance are cheap goods.
I don't care much..........till the sharp second they come to play outside my home.

as John Maynard Keynes said, "In the long run, we're all dead."

Of course.
We all are going down.
But now we should start a philosophical exchange about life and dead.
Simply i think that if people can't see the thin ice under their feet they can keep on dancing on it.
The matter is that i have no wish to follow.
But majority write laws.
I've nothing to do but resist and survive.

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Of course.
We all are going down.
But now we should start a philosophical exchange about life and dead.
Simply i think that if people can't see the thin ice under their feet they can keep on dancing on it.
The matter is that i have no wish to follow.
But majority write laws.
I've nothing to do but resist and survive.

Gianluigi,

We are like a race horse racing toward our death and with each second we get nearer the end. How silly to waste our life on meanigless activities like...er....writing this reply.

Yours (on meditation retreat)

Erik

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Originally posted by erik scothron:
How silly to waste our life on meanigless activities like...er....writing this reply.

hahahahaha
Erik!
Something tells me you've had an hard day, did you?

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:

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Originally posted by erik scothron:
How silly to waste our life on meanigless activities like...er....writing this reply.

hahahahaha
Erik!
Something tells me you've had an hard day, did you?

Ah no Gianluigi, I had a very good day. I got up late and then took a TAL - Tactical Advance to Lunch - along the seafront in glorious sunshine to my favourite nosherie where I listened to the Goldburg variations, had a good meal and the amusing house red and kept up some flirting banter with the delicious waitress. On leaving I gave her a most generous 50p tip and smacked her arse for her. Then I went and sat in my favourite Starbucks (in a book shop) where I read various magazines and flirted with a Turkish language student who is half my age. I got a free latte from the Spanish starbucks girl behind the counter and solved a difficult, counter-intuitive chess problem in less time than it would usually take me. After that I strolled home to a damn good dinner and had some good news arrive by e-mail.

Many people think the a Buddhist's pre-occupation with death is morbid and depressing but in reality they are wrong - it is liberating and an antidote to all kinds of unhappy states of mind.

Regards,

Erik the well fed

Gosh!
Very nice day!

I got up at 8.00, listened to mum's reccomendations and pa's "orders" (it's like a kind of muster here
Went to town for some cds, passed by a neighbour to ask about the new dogs' pups and got home soon.
A very large, stealth approaching to lunch with a couple of aperitifs and final assault to spaghetti, cheese and a bottle of red.
The rest of the day i've spent listening to music with cats on the sofa.

I'll be home till march the 12 and all the little works i had in mind to do are just disappearing from mind like snow in the sun!

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Gosh!
Very nice day!

I got up at 8.00, listened to mum's reccomendations and pa's "orders" (it's like a kind of muster here
Went to town for some cds, passed by a neighbour to ask about the new dogs' pups and got home soon.
A very large, stealth approaching to lunch with a couple of aperitifs and final assault to spaghetti, cheese and a bottle of red.
The rest of the day i've spent listening to music with cats on the sofa.

I'll be home till march the 12 and all the little works i had in mind to do are just disappearing from mind like snow in the sun!

Sounds like you had a jolly good day too. I had both my parents trained by the time I was 13 so I never had many problems from them with regards orders etc. I have quite a few Italian friends who still live thier parents - well why not, they get their washing done, they get fed and waited on hand and foot. Someone once asked me what Italians eat for breakfast, I replied 'what ever their mothers make for them'! I think we Brits have a lot to learn about family life from you guys.

All the best,

Erik the envious

What are you doing watching American TV in the first place?????

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Originally posted by erik scothron:
Sounds like you had a jolly good day too. I had both my parents trained by the time I was 13 so I never had many problems from them with regards orders etc. I have quite a few Italian friends who still live thier parents - well why not, they get their washing done, they get fed and waited on hand and foot. Someone once asked me what Italians eat for breakfast, I replied 'what ever their mothers make for them'! I think we Brits have a lot to learn about family life from you guys.

It's a very hard matter to face.
I'm close to my 40th birthday and still home.
Of course there's a exchange in duties and i do take a slice of the effort in house works.
The fact is that here in Italy wages are very low and houses prices to too high for a single like me.
They say that euro ruined our economy, but it's not true.
Italians are iptotized by TV and would think or do anything coming from the tube.
Very hard life for people like me who must face the fact that our future is in the wrong hands which are bringing us on the edge of the ravine.
They consider me a sort of anarchist only because i try to keep my eyes up the crowd level and make myself an idea of what's happening around.
Job is a shit.
I suffered for 7 years by daily mobbing attempts and now i'm home with a handful of psychotropic drugs that keep me settle down like a cow in a stable.
And there's nothing i can do than hoping in a new governement which, i'm sure, will not change the things.
All of them like money and they always find someone ready to give them some.
As i wrote before, one day, i'll leave this country for ever and i hope to leave here the rest as well.
Anyway.......................sitting on sofa with cats listening to music is the best gift i can make to myself.
They don't know my pleasure!

Sitting on the sofa with cats sounds fine to me!

And for my balance of mind as well!