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Everyday is free porn day.
Pamplemousse
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Thanks, Krem! I'm sure you'll do okay.
Don't you have a boyfriend? Why do you need porn?
Blood Diamonds
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sis are you...serious
Pamplemousse
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Do you only use porn after the exciting new guy phase wears off?
Dead Prince
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well its better than those chinese knockoffs where it's huge and probably will fall out your ear but we'll get to the size/shape of hearing aids. time to die a slow and quick death soon.
You Know Nothing
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Buy Röyksopp's Never Ever on iTunes.
please nobody respond to this
Hello there handsome! I'm glad you survived that ban again.
How's it going and how's Camille?
even if I had a boyfriend I'd still be watching porn. I doubt my bf wants to have sex as often as I do
i wanked like literally eight times yesterday
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Life is good, thanks! Just went with boyfriend to Las Vegas and saw The Chainsmokers and Britney Spears, then went to LA and went to Disneyland and Universal Studios.
Camille helped convince me to order a giant iPhone 7 Plus last night and she's fostering 4 squirrels for a wildlife refuge place.
How've you been?
Pamplemousse
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The Emperor
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That awks moment at an airport when you lock eyes with a cute guy, then do it again, smile a bit, he smiles too. Then the next time you look at him you see him kissing the guy next to him and realise they're a couple! You then proceed to turn the other way for the remainder of your time at baggage claim 😂😂
The Emperor
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Pamplemousse
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Wow, you must be in a major metropolitan area. I've never seen a gay couple kiss in real life.
I see it all the time in Manhattan. Sometimes I feel like I see more gay couples than straight in certain neighborhoods. Stonewall isn't that far from it so I guess that makes sense
The Emperor
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Yerr it was in London! But even then I was shocked too , not a sight I see loads either, especially not in an airport!! Hope it will be more common as the century stumbles on 😂
In London itself I've seen loads of gay couples kiss in certain areas (like soho)! But as I'm never usually in london anyway this is very rare!
I've lived in (edit - A suburb of) Dallas 20 years and have never seen a gay couple kiss in public outside of a gay bar or club.
I can co-sign this.
It's so awesome you and your bf go out and do many activities. Wishing you two the best.
Life's good for now.
No major changes but it's been chill, and I am actually looking forward to Halloween this year and the fall in general.
Also, hoping to save enough to be able to buy the PS4 Pro and an HDR TV. \o/
Hello! My most secret hope/dream is to have hopes/dreams.
Life's good, pretty quiet week though me and my friend are grabbing McDonalds on Sunday (gotta eat healthy y'know) and then heading back to his place.
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Pretty bummed about the PlayStation meeting though, I was hoping PS4 Pro would have definite improvements for 1080p TV users in all games (maybe this is the case but the messaging is an unmitigated PR disaster. The whole Fallout 4/Skyrim mods situation really doesn't positively impact my opinion on Sony right now as well.
umop_3pisdn
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It is, that's a common feature to any practice, it is essentially the foundational skill for all practice, but beyond that commonality, one's approach to meditation may be accented differently. Like in concentrative meditation, your objective is to develop 'one-pointedness'. For the sake of clarifying what one-pointedness is, you could think of an animal like a squirrel, specifically that they're really scatterbrained. It's a good survival strategy for them, by having their attention flit around from sense sphere to sense sphere, or from one object to another object, they can keep an eye out for threats. In concentrative meditation we're trying to train the very opposite of that tendency, since humans are kind of like squirrels in that regard. Should we develop that ability to not have our minds be drawn this way or that way without our consent, then our minds become very pliant, and they will do what we want them to do.
But you do have to observe your impulses to develop that skill, it's just that in this case you're observing them in order to release or relax them, so your mind progressively calms down more by letting go of more, and thus gradually becomes 'unified'. In fact a 'collected' mind is a better term to use than a 'concentrated' mind, since the latter implies a lot of effort, while the former implies a more gradual 'coming-together'. In fact a 'collected' mind is exactly what is suggested by the original Pali/Sanskrit word (samadhi).
Whereas in other kinds of meditation you may be more likely to be just observing phenomena exclusively. This can be fairly casual, say simple 'mindfulness'. Mindfulness is sort of a foundational step for any kind of meditation. Essentially what you're doing is retaining your awareness of things so you don't lose the plot (you maintain 'heedfulness'). This is why meditation is often so helpful for people, if you retain heedfulness or awareness of your experiences, then that gives you some freedom to choose your responses or make changes in your life. You can't really make changes or see what's really going on in your life if you're asleep at the wheel, basically. So if one-pointedness is the opposite of that 'squirrel-mind' thing, then mindfulness or heedfulness is just the opposite of 'falling into the world' or falling asleep at the wheel. That's why it's so foundational, you have to start from the mere awareness of your own autonomy, before you can meaningfully think about exercising it.
But mindfulness can go well beyond that into something called 'insight', where you put your emphasis on trying to catch every mental or sensory event that happens, and not just noting them- you try to see their whole duration, their beginning, middle, and end. As I suggested this also grows out of mindfulness, you have to be able to see what is happening in your mind, before you can inspect those phenomena more closely. But concentrative and insight meditation have different effects or results, in this latter case where you're merely observing phenomena as fully as possible, when your noticing ability becomes fast or robust enough, you can see enough of a phenomenon (or how a percept is presented or revealed to you in and of itself) in order to see impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self as part of the fundamental makeup of all phenomena.
This point can be a little hard to get, because it isn't conceptual at all. If you read about the three marks of existence you can sometimes get the impression that they're philosophical concepts, but it is actually 'seeing' in one of the most literal senses of the word. Say, for example, that you observe your visual sense faculty with so much clarity that you can actually see the subtle variations in visual awareness occurring through time, upon this you see that nothing that you see with your eyes is really completely solid, it's actually subtly 'vibrating' (or inconstant), reality becomes more like a hologram- a mode of presentation merely composed of sort of quasi-stable light and form, and that destroys the illusion of constancy. You can no longer maintain the view that these are eternal 'things' that we can rely on- they're just a mode of presentation. They're real, but they're real in the way that sea foam is real, they're seen as fundamentally 'insubstantial', because they're changing so fast that you can't even grasp them as they are for one second, let alone a lifetime.
There are a lot of different approaches to meditation, but most of the contemporary ones take their lineage from Buddhism or something related to it. Generally they fall into mindfulness (or 'heedfullness') where you keep a channel open to your experience in order to retain a degree of freedom or awareness, or concentrative meditation where you are trying to make the mind pliant and obedient. The last category, insight or 'seeing' meditation, is more of a distinctly Buddhist thing, but all of the things I'm describing grow out of 'mindfulness' or the ability to stay alert to the things happening to us. Concentration just tries to use this awareness to release stress, and insight uses this awareness to 'see more'. And the skills are complimentary to each other.
Probably been talked about, but Positive Life Choices with Joanne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuVL_Z1wf4c
What's your name?
Where are you from?
What's your color?
My father loved me once...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuVL_Z1wf4c
What's your name?
Where are you from?
What's your color?
My father loved me once...
😂
dryuriev7777
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Remember yesterday when I said I got a new office and everything was wonderful and all that jazz?
Yeah I'm pretty sure I'm going to be putting in my notice on Monday and just try to go for my Master's. Without going into specifics, I have never in my life dealt with a company that has been so unprofessional and has so casually approached life-threatening situations with little regard to their employees. So many times I've been put in scary, shitty situations and it's gotten to the point where it's something not worth dealing with considering I only barely make ends meet.
Also, totally unrelated, if any of you are single and fairly wealthy, I am more than willing to be your moderately attractive flabby trophy.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I'm going to be putting in my notice on Monday and just try to go for my Master's. Without going into specifics, I have never in my life dealt with a company that has been so unprofessional and has so casually approached life-threatening situations with little regard to their employees. So many times I've been put in scary, shitty situations and it's gotten to the point where it's something not worth dealing with considering I only barely make ends meet.
Also, totally unrelated, if any of you are single and fairly wealthy, I am more than willing to be your moderately attractive flabby trophy.
Judging from the selfie you are more than moderately attractive IMO
Elitist1945
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I just realized Until Dawn is already over a year old. The past year fucking flew by, holy cow.
I find the time going fast but not a lot of memorable stuff coming out. Until Dawn looks great so I may get it when I eventually get a cheap PS4.
Henchmen21
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When you can start saying that about decades, then you'll start to feel old
Ardainian Soldier
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Aww I'm sorry. What are you doing your masters in?
Elitist1945
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Throw a letters GAF stream and let us choose the choices for you.
dryuriev7777
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I'm thinking going with an MBA and eventually shoot for an HR job. I have my Bachelor's in Psychology/Human Services and I have more than enough experience with social work to get me through the human side of the equation. I think getting an MBA would give me the corporate legal shill education/experience I would need for HR.
Aarglefarg
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Making choices? I reject the false safe/dangerous route dichotomy.
shinra-bansho
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I don't think you need an MBA for an HR role...
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Ardainian Soldier
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dryuriev7777
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Looking at qualifications, no, but I have no experience in business beyond when I worked retail. HR is simply a point of entry I think I would excel in.
Oh awesome! I'm currently finishing up my last year of social work.
Congratulations! Bachelor's or Master's?
Ardainian Soldier
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Thanks! Bachelor's. I'm applying for my Masters though.
RatskyWatsky
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did she perform Stronger
I don't think you need an MBA for an HR role...
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All I want for Christmas~
dryuriev7777
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Good call. Any particular area of social work you're interested in? Most of my education and experience has been focused on kids with physical and learning disabilities and I really love the work that I do (despite the people I work with/for driving me away). One suggestion I do have is once you're out of school is to look for a DSS/DFS job over an agency job. There's no real difference in pay when comparing DFS jobs and agency jobs, but since working at DFS would be considered a government job it usually has some bangin' benefits.
shinra-bansho
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Ardainian Soldier
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I'd like to work in the mental health field or with LGBTQ populations. We'll see where my career takes me. Thanks for the advice!
So I decided to join the grinder for the first time, and wow it took me a while to realize that there's a messages icon and for some reason I didnt receive notifications so I didnt know I had messages, lol
I'm also disappointed at myself I joined and downloaded grinder.
Wow... I think I have to go clean my room...
I'm also disappointed at myself I joined and downloaded grinder.
Wow... I think I have to go clean my room...
Pamplemousse
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This is so exciting! I just joined last month. I bet you get lots of messages. Have fun!
RobotNinjaHornets
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Grindr just got me to lose my virginity
Just saying
Just saying
Congrats!!
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