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Suggestions, please
I could use some advice. I need to stop thinking about politics. Distractions, so far, aren't working.
I've done double workouts the last two days, and I hurt like hell. I'm reading those crappy Left Behind books every minute that I can. I tried playing Diablo. None of it helps.
To be honest, I can't imagine anything that would help, apart from getting the hell out, but that's probably not possible. Or not any time soon.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'll listen. Frankly, I need a vacation or something, with no goddamned media at all...for about ten years. Not possible.
That pretty much sums up the picture. Not possible, not possible, not possible.
I've done double workouts the last two days, and I hurt like hell. I'm reading those crappy Left Behind books every minute that I can. I tried playing Diablo. None of it helps.
To be honest, I can't imagine anything that would help, apart from getting the hell out, but that's probably not possible. Or not any time soon.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'll listen. Frankly, I need a vacation or something, with no goddamned media at all...for about ten years. Not possible.
That pretty much sums up the picture. Not possible, not possible, not possible.
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What's that? You need players? Count me in. :-)
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Catharsis
Run a Post-Apocalyptic campaign. (I will assume since Tim suggested that, that you do that sort of thing.) Make it where things went to shit cause of Bush. Like total civil war police state, John Titor type shit.
You know who John Titor is? The supposed Time traveler from 2036?
Even if you assume it was all an elaborate hoax, the world he created would make excellent source for a PA game.
And it all starts conveniently enough with civil unrest in 2004.
(Scary!)
Here are some Titor links:
http://www.anomalies.net/time_traveler/john.html
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=It+is+beginning+John+Titor&hl=en&lr=&selm=87221cacdb181cd6ca53e70747414dc8%40news.teranews.com&rnum=6
http://www.johntitor.com/
http://www.johntitor.us/
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But right now roleplaying won't do it. I need to do something more meaningful. What that is, I don't yet know.
And incidentally, "catharsis" is not the right word for what I'm looking for. I don't need to get over a bad event. I need to figure out how to live in a country that is rapidly heading towards chaos and collapse. Which means I need to not let it drive me completely insane, but I do need to stay aware of current events - so that I can get my family out, if it comes to that.
I'm not willing to go down with this ship.
I'll keep thinking about what to do.
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If you end up not needing to go (and hopefully you won't) great. If you do need to go, you're already prepared.
It's kind of a sidewise method for avoiding thinking about politics, but if it doesn't work, well, maybe you could try something else.
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We don't go out to eat. We don't rent movies. We certainly don't BUY movies or CDs. We don't go on vacation, unless my family pays for it. They help us out a lot, although their own resources are being stretched to the limit.
My brother had a birthday last week. Want to know how I managed to get him a present? I used a gift certificate that someone gave me for Christmas last year. I knew I'd have to use it for something like this.
I can't buy a fucking cup of coffee in the morning. The money all goes for bills, and we're always behind. My paycheck is GONE the day it comes in. I hope you don't know what that feels like, because it's utterly crushing.
And it's not like we're living the good life. I drive a piece of crap car, and can't afford to get the oil changed. I live in a different STATE from where I work, because I couldn't afford a house of ANY sort in Massachusetts. I spend 3-4 hours a day commuting. Our house is on the edge of a ghetto, in a shitty school district, because that's the best we could do. Our sole luxuries (if you want to call them that) are cable TV and broadband internet. And there's a very good chance that both of those will have to be eliminated soon.
I'm forty years old, and living on the ragged edge of desperation. I'm tired. And all I can see coming is more of the same, only worse.
So I can only hope that when America falls apart (and right now, I'd place the odds of a collapse at 97% within fifteen years), Canada and Europe will offer refugee status for people like me. Because otherwise, we will probably die in this shithole.