After 87 views, finally another primitive speaks up.
One wonders why the primitives are avoiding the Sage of Skins's Island.
HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-14-10 07:56 AM
THE PILGRIM PRIMITIVE
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1. I hate to overhear bigots, but that goes for everything that triggers me
Like being called 'Mr. or Sir.' And those are things that are only occasionally used in an intentionally hurtful way.
I get all my healthcare at a VA hospital...The teevees are usually turned to Fox, its pretty common to see ball caps and t-shirts loaded with the right-wing memes that come out of mouths served by otherwise thoughtless minds.
Consequently, I find the mental health waiting area a great place and an appropriate time to practice radical acceptance and thought diffusion. I've found that conversations about the weather or food are pretty easy to strike up and one conversation can drown out a whole raft of troubling shit going on in the same room.
My emotions still have a life of their own, but I'm accepting that I own my behavior. I'm trying to make them serve me. Sometimes I can actually stay out of trouble.
The pilgrim primitive's pretty old.
And he's just now "accepting" that he's responsible for his own behavior?
My, my, what a barren, futile 60 years it's been, for the pilgrim primitive.
