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IndianaJoes · M
As i promised a few days ago... I'm going to reveal what my problem is. 1st, I thank everyone for your positive comments and help with my research on myself. Not one person said I was ugly. Iwshm64 said that "God doesn't make ugly people, people act ugly." You are so right! (I love this). Chernobylplaygrounds said, "Ugly isnt someones looks, It's more of an inside job" (I love this too)! It's what I suspected. I am not ugly. (YES!!!) But I don't think im ugly on the inside either. And I judge people by their hearts and not their body shape. However... some of my most favorite women were of the bigger size. Maybe a coincidence, don't have proof of it though.
Okay, here is what my problem is.... I am a weirdo. I've known it for a while. I don't follow the norms of society. I dont just follow the leader. I dont do the monkey see monkey do thing. I am a motherless child. I have been to hell and back and lived to talk about it. I was homeless once. I finished high school while living in a car. I have been used and abused. Rode hard and put away wet. I am not a perfect dude. That's just some about me.
Everything society says is that I should be a drug addict or a drunk. Yet I've only seen the inside of a jail cell from a TV screen. Dad said this "Anything bad can be turned into good if you use it as a learning experience." He taught me to love learning things. No one can take that from you."
My passion is to pay attention. I have never bought a lottery ticket in my life. I never used a credit card in my life. I am debt free now. I am able to solve problems easily now. If i need to tell someone to go get eft.. I will do it in a millisecond. I even learn from other peoples mistakes.
I am a grown man who knows how to cry and not ashamed to admit it. I think my heart is pretty.
I have been blessed to be able to hang with some successful people. Some were not nice but, Two things I noticed about all of them. They were smart and they did not usually follow the norms of society.
So I do things differently and people see me as a Weirdo. (Most weirdos aren't crazy, stupid or dangerous). Even though I don't like where I've come from, I love where I wound up. A big happy humble weirdo. Thanks to many who helped me get there. I can think of many things that I'm glad I'm not.
Perhaps maybe I've helped someone else here on sw with a little advice on thoughts of how to be in a better place. Love to you all.
Okay, here is what my problem is.... I am a weirdo. I've known it for a while. I don't follow the norms of society. I dont just follow the leader. I dont do the monkey see monkey do thing. I am a motherless child. I have been to hell and back and lived to talk about it. I was homeless once. I finished high school while living in a car. I have been used and abused. Rode hard and put away wet. I am not a perfect dude. That's just some about me.
Everything society says is that I should be a drug addict or a drunk. Yet I've only seen the inside of a jail cell from a TV screen. Dad said this "Anything bad can be turned into good if you use it as a learning experience." He taught me to love learning things. No one can take that from you."
My passion is to pay attention. I have never bought a lottery ticket in my life. I never used a credit card in my life. I am debt free now. I am able to solve problems easily now. If i need to tell someone to go get eft.. I will do it in a millisecond. I even learn from other peoples mistakes.
I am a grown man who knows how to cry and not ashamed to admit it. I think my heart is pretty.
I have been blessed to be able to hang with some successful people. Some were not nice but, Two things I noticed about all of them. They were smart and they did not usually follow the norms of society.
So I do things differently and people see me as a Weirdo. (Most weirdos aren't crazy, stupid or dangerous). Even though I don't like where I've come from, I love where I wound up. A big happy humble weirdo. Thanks to many who helped me get there. I can think of many things that I'm glad I'm not.
Perhaps maybe I've helped someone else here on sw with a little advice on thoughts of how to be in a better place. Love to you all.
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@IndianaJoes Be realistic about meeting other people but at the same time don't settle. No one is perfect. Everyone has their issues and quirks .You just have to decide if they are worth it or not .
You are a good guy who has their shit together and that now these days is very rare. I wish you all the best .
You are a good guy who has their shit together and that now these days is very rare. I wish you all the best .
IndianaJoes · M
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@IndianaJoes I'm sure you have .. good luck !
CestManan · 46-50, F
@IndianaJoes Following the norms of society is how people end up hopelessly in debt, miserable, and not getting to live an authentic life that is right for them.
Plus a "normal" life ends up a mess but then entities claim to have this magic solution, which usually ends you bringing it's own problems.
SCREW THAT!
Or how people have to have the latest and greatest of everything. Question - What does one get from a $1,500 cell phone that a $200 one could not do? 🤨 As soon as the crickets stop chirping, can someone explain? Hell mine was $50 and hasn't failed me yet.
Learning things - oh yeah, even if one's knowledge does not turn into a lucrative career, it can still save them tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars over a lifetime. If one thinks education is costly, they ought to see the cost of ignorance.
Lottery tickets - those things are for straight-up DUMB people. People go out and buy them but there is a home version one can play without leaving the house. Just take some money out of your wallet and throw it in the trash. 😄
Plus a "normal" life ends up a mess but then entities claim to have this magic solution, which usually ends you bringing it's own problems.
SCREW THAT!
Or how people have to have the latest and greatest of everything. Question - What does one get from a $1,500 cell phone that a $200 one could not do? 🤨 As soon as the crickets stop chirping, can someone explain? Hell mine was $50 and hasn't failed me yet.
Learning things - oh yeah, even if one's knowledge does not turn into a lucrative career, it can still save them tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars over a lifetime. If one thinks education is costly, they ought to see the cost of ignorance.
Lottery tickets - those things are for straight-up DUMB people. People go out and buy them but there is a home version one can play without leaving the house. Just take some money out of your wallet and throw it in the trash. 😄
IndianaJoes · M
@CestManan thats so true. Everybody wants to do what the tv says to do. Go buy this car. Go buy this life insurance policy. Buy this air brush to paint your face with. Get this credit card or that vitamin.
I believe in patience. Save up money and buy the car with cash .now i can have thousands of extra dollars that i didnt give in interest. Or better yet... Build your own badass car.(see my public photos) . Ive save so much money by not doing what society says that i bought a shop to do it in.
I believe in patience. Save up money and buy the car with cash .now i can have thousands of extra dollars that i didnt give in interest. Or better yet... Build your own badass car.(see my public photos) . Ive save so much money by not doing what society says that i bought a shop to do it in.
CestManan · 46-50, F
@IndianaJoes In order to understand that most of the TV is BULLSH*T, one just has to watch the patterns of how things go. You have seen it...
The air brush to paint your face? Oh yeah, I seen those kits at thrift stores. Now HOW did such a good system end up there? 🤔 Guess I will keep using brushes and sponges to apply my makeup.
Vitamins? I knew those were BS when I was a kid back in the 80's and I will tell you how. Go ahead and laugh at this - I figured if vitamins really helped or did ANYthing, no one in the world would torture themselves by eating vegetables. 😄
Credit cards? Yeah I been down that road, never again. They do help for emergency situations like wanting to dine out or buy more luxuries that one does not need. 🙄
Life insurance? Oh so the $10,000 funeral and burial is covered? Wouldn't cremation and private services or memorial be more economical? That is what a few of my late relatives opted for during their living years. Besides with cremation, it gives us one final chance to have a smoking hot body like when we were 21.
Oh and about cars - remember when BMW was the prestigious car to own? I have known people who owned one and they complained about it a lot.
The air brush to paint your face? Oh yeah, I seen those kits at thrift stores. Now HOW did such a good system end up there? 🤔 Guess I will keep using brushes and sponges to apply my makeup.
Vitamins? I knew those were BS when I was a kid back in the 80's and I will tell you how. Go ahead and laugh at this - I figured if vitamins really helped or did ANYthing, no one in the world would torture themselves by eating vegetables. 😄
Credit cards? Yeah I been down that road, never again. They do help for emergency situations like wanting to dine out or buy more luxuries that one does not need. 🙄
Life insurance? Oh so the $10,000 funeral and burial is covered? Wouldn't cremation and private services or memorial be more economical? That is what a few of my late relatives opted for during their living years. Besides with cremation, it gives us one final chance to have a smoking hot body like when we were 21.
Oh and about cars - remember when BMW was the prestigious car to own? I have known people who owned one and they complained about it a lot.
IndianaJoes · M
@CestManan everythings a joke nowadays. You can see what the left is doing thru the commercials. They made a fortune thru the scamdemic. They are manipulting all the big pharma stocks because they own most of it. George soros controls all cable and air TV so all you see now is medical ads. A drug or an oxygen machine or special wheel chair or skin products and the $9.95 plan? How does that ad up? $10 a month is $120 a year or $1200 in 10 years.. lol. It would take 100 years to accumulate $12,000. And there gonna want their cut too. But people believe the lies and they're makin money so keep doin it. As far as new cars... they're all junk right from the factory. Just ask anyone who owns one. how many times is it in the shop? See if they give you an honest answer. It will suprise you how many would lie because of their image ego. And the recalls on all brands. Wow! That says it all.
CestManan · 46-50, F
@IndianaJoes Luckily the scamdemic went away once it started inconveniencing companies. I guess they didn;t want to deal with the cost, hassle, and attendance problems that would be brought on by having to test unvaxxed employees. They could not require vaccines because then they wouldn't have enough wage slave drones to do the job.
I remember when the scamdemic first hit, they were talking about so many dead bodies piling up that they had to store them in semi trailers. This was REAL early on. If there were even a shred of truth to that, people dying THAT often and quick, wouldn't we ALL be dead by now?
I mean when I was out and about I didn't see THAT many people dropping dead on the spot.
My own car is a 2008 honda with low miles but is in real good shape and well maintained. I dread the day I need a new one. 😬
OH and those cable and direcTV things, I was in a hotel a few weeks ago and they had direcTV. I looked through the channels and programming and it was mostly HOURS of infomercials for My Pillow or herbicide law suits or some kind of product that makes private areas stop stinking.
Why would anyone pay money to watch that?
How can some people go through life being naive? I mean when we are young it is one thing but SURELY someone would learn critical thinking after they have been duped a few times.
I remember when the scamdemic first hit, they were talking about so many dead bodies piling up that they had to store them in semi trailers. This was REAL early on. If there were even a shred of truth to that, people dying THAT often and quick, wouldn't we ALL be dead by now?
I mean when I was out and about I didn't see THAT many people dropping dead on the spot.
My own car is a 2008 honda with low miles but is in real good shape and well maintained. I dread the day I need a new one. 😬
OH and those cable and direcTV things, I was in a hotel a few weeks ago and they had direcTV. I looked through the channels and programming and it was mostly HOURS of infomercials for My Pillow or herbicide law suits or some kind of product that makes private areas stop stinking.
Why would anyone pay money to watch that?
How can some people go through life being naive? I mean when we are young it is one thing but SURELY someone would learn critical thinking after they have been duped a few times.