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Travelling without moving

Or seeing.

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Nobody else is going to start a post, looks like I'll have to talk to myself.

One of my relatives died of an overdose. Another died of complications related to alcoholism. They're both dead, no difference.

I don't know of anyone dying from weed. If we must have intoxicants, I'd rather they were safer ones.

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Riddle me this: How do you stop caring what others think of you?

I guess I'm far more addicted to information than to validation. I have and use social media, but most of my internet time is spent looking up useless information. I've never looked at a friend or family member's pictures or words and felt jealous or inferior, and it's not because my people don't have and do beautiful and amazing things. I'm just happy for them and I have my own life with my own set of struggles and rewards.

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Ex-husband wants overnight visits with my daughter.

soco wrote:
She's 7? She needs a new stereo with a curved LG. Screen TV. When it somehow gets delivered to an unknown address in Florida tell her she's welcome to come visit anytime....

We've joked about her needing new curtains, cleaning products, toilet paper. I don't think it would work. When she has added expensive toys, they do not magically appear. Just the cheap toys and clothes and art supplies that all kids have too much of do.

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Ex-husband wants overnight visits with my daughter.

She has her own Amazon wish list, and whenever she adds any item to it, it magically appears two days later, and she likes that, but she's very, very (almost unhealthily) attached to me. She's not going to want to spend the night at his place.

But I haven't asked. I should.

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let us light a candle

NaCtHoMaN wrote:
more than enough.. but we have to capability to escape that extinction? if our minds were off the social ingenuity..far out!

An astrophysicist whose philosophical books I enjoy wrote about the difficulties surviving civilization. He theorizes that it might be quite rare for a species to survive its own technological advancement, due to ever-increasing energy demand.

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Ex-husband wants overnight visits with my daughter.

He has never been alone with her, in her life. He didn't live with us when we were married because he didn't want me and my two kids from my first marriage to move to where he lived (I tried, he said don't.) Since his sudden "change of heart" right after I demanded divorce, he has been paying child support, not court ordered. He has also visited once per few months, and recently since he's moved closer to here, about once per month. So far, I've always been present for these visits, which are not court ordered, but I try to disappear into the background so they can have time together without interruption. I bring a book or play with an electronic device. Unfortunately, my observation has been that every time I bring out my phone or a book, instead of visiting, he starts playing with his gadgets too.

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Ex-husband wants overnight visits with my daughter.

DocteurRalph wrote:
How old is she? I have a bad feeling about this.

She is seven years old. We were divorced when she was two years and even before then, he never lived in the same house as us.

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let us light a candle

NaCtHoMaN wrote:
point was no living thing ever hurt the planet except for us. intentionally or not..

Pedantic, but....

The great oxidation event, when bacteria first photosynthesised led to the extinction of many anaerobic species.

When plants first moved onto land, they voraciously consumed the carbon dioxide, nearly bringing their new lifestyle to an abrupt end. They managed to evolve leaves to more efficiently extract carbon dioxide, but species who didn't evolve died.

Humans might evolve or might go extinct, but Earth and life will go on.

Probably for the best.

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Ex-husband wants overnight visits with my daughter.

About the time I demanded divorce, he suddenly had a "change of heart" and tried to convince me to return. After that, he's been human, not awful. We've been divorced for almost five years. It is concievable that he has matured, but I'm afraid to take the risk.

When I confronted him about the threats one time before, he said "I was just kidding." That was always his excuse when called out on abusive words or actions.

This time when I explained why I will only allow supervised visits he accused me of making things up and being paranoid. The inability to take responsibility for his past actions indicates to me that he has not changed and is still a narcissistic deciever. If he had been apologetic, I might have considered allowing longer or less supervised visits.

I'm not trying to prevent my daughter from knowing her biological father. I only want her to be safe.

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