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People Melting Down

Posted by $ Abaco 2 weeks, 1 day ago to Culture
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So, recently I took an inventory of the people in my life and realized that probably a majority of them are mentally self-destructing. The examples are endless. One of my best buddies just finally dumped a live-in girlfriend who's a drunk, angry narcissist. Got her out of the house and he moved out of state. Only a month later he just bought another house with her and is moving back in with her...after years of complaining about her. When I called him on it he said, "It's a trial." This guy is like a brother to me but I can only put distance between us anymore. A few years ago I told him, "You've been complaining about her for years yet won't do anything about it. I think you like it." He shouted, "I know! What the hell is wrong with me!?" My son is dealing with major anxiety as his high school graduation is approaching. He's doing fine, but seems to be experiencing OCD-like anxiety over little things. Come to find out that many of his classmates are going through the same thing: anxiety, vomiting, unable to go to school. My mom...She's never been a dummy. I had to tell her to stop bringing up politics, Trump or vaccines. She watches CNN and has lost her f'n mind. She'll call up and start screaming at me about Trump. I say, "I'm not voting for him" but it doesn't slow her down for a second. Insane behavior. Many, probably half, of my daughter's friends in school are trans. These are adolescents. I have one friend I've known for many years who is quite stable, doing well. I brought this up to him and he notices it. I said, "I'm finding that, more and more, I'm having to approach people I care about as though they've lost their marbles." I have to do that a lot lately. My wife's best friend was the first one, about four years ago. She completely flipped out - started screaming at me at the top of her lungs when I hadn't said a word. Then launched horrific accusations toward me in a texted rant to my wife. My attorney buddy said to toss her from our lives and we did. Now, I understand she'll tell people bad falsehoods about me but apparently most realize she's nuts. I don't understand what's going on - this apparent inability to relax and see reality. It's a massive pandemic of this going on. I mentioned to my wife..."Is it 5G? Is it something in the water?" She sees it too. Our circle of friends is drifting off in all kinds of illogical drama. Me? I'm working still...making great money. Quitting early today to get the boat out on a gorgeous nearby lake to fish for trout with a beer in my hand and a smile on my face. Now...I'm the weirdo.


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  • Posted by $ katrinam41 1 week, 3 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah. 75. Me too in just a few weeks. Calm and sure of my facts, knowing that only certain people in my ever shrinking circle can be trusted, life certainly isn't what I was expecting at this point, but the unexpected is having some interesting consequences. My mind is clearing as I learn more about the causes of our fall, my ability to respond is constantly improving, I could care less about those who are no longer in my orbit because they thought I was too "radical". Life is most definitely different than even a year ago, but it just doesn't matter. I take care of myself, I watch my group's backs just as they watch mine. The world may come to an end soon, but I can pop some corn, sit back and watch the show. Out there is only important if it tries to get past my guard. Boom. Boom, boom, boom. So there. :)
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  • Posted by bobsprinkle 1 week, 3 days ago in reply to this comment.
    First....I am not a Bible thumping holy roller. But, I do have beliefs. I tend to keep my beliefs to myself. Sort of a conversation with myself and ???. Several years ago, I read a book by Jonathan Cahn The Harbinger. He weaved a story that I found interesting with religous overtones. Now, years later I am reading another of his books...Return of the Gods. Have not finished it yet. Interesting to compare things going on today with history. I am not sure to trust "organized religion" that exists today. In light of conditions in Israel, it is interesting to read Cahn's stories.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week, 4 days ago
    Just say that Miss America is stepping down from the post due to "mental health". How often have we seen that happen? Just another sample?...
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  • Posted by $ 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep. Great movie.

    I know viruses fairly well. Covid didn't have me giving my thought to staying home. Bird flu, given the right sequence of it, does. These people are monkeying with real devastation and it's like they don't even know it. I recently helped design a new level-3 lab - they're being built all over as this is the new industry to be in...
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  • Posted by VetteGuy 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    I have also noticed increasingly dire headlines about bird flu. I think there will be a push to make this the 'next covid' only more so. They want it so terrifying that no one would dare refuse the 'vaccines' they roll out. Or refuse to stay home. Or vote in person?

    It reminds me of the phrase from Close Encounters: What I need is something so scary it'll clear three hundred square miles of every living Christian soul.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 1 week, 4 days ago
    Sounds like your buddy can't stop thinking with the wrong head.
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  • Posted by LarryHeart 1 week, 4 days ago
    Umm hang on. The most obvious cause of the current state of the USA is...lying Propaganda brought to us by the Soviets, The Chinese, the Iranians, the left, enviro-mentalists, the Democrat party, Socialist policies, gossip shows, education and media. Every socialist or communist country was laid low by propaganda.

    I refer you to one of the 10 realities (badly translated as commandments) - Do not bear false witness if you wish to live long and prosper.

    Lacking in the United States culture today, is a sense of duty, responsibility and accountability. Instead lazy narcissists insist on “Rights” and “Entitlement” with no responsibility or the need to “suffer” risk, work or even thought.

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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    I am quite positive there was a snide comment by some CIA jack wagon in the late 50's early 60's who's said (not an exact quote) "When the (US) people are so divided they can't agree on anything, we have succeeded."
    It took 'em a while, but here we are.

    Will the peoples desperation make them fall into the loving arms of a global governance? A Global currency?

    Sure has that smell to it.

    I grew up poor, there was no where to go but up. I was brought up with a close family and a close relationship to god. Even with all the craziness around me, given my past, It's easy for me to stay grounded.
    Things would have to get pretty bad for me to have to go back to living a housing project with no car, no tv, (no artificial entertainment,) and only a few days worth of meager food in the pantry.
    I know how bad, bad can get. Been there, done that.
    I think many folks in this country have had it a little too cushy (in my humble estimation). Now things are getting real, and some folks are having a hard time with it.
    I get it, It's hard when you fall. But when you start from the bottom, you damn sure appreciate whatever heights you make. I never take my rise for granted. I thank the Lord every day.
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  • Posted by $ splumb 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

    The Greatest Generation did their children no favors by sparing them any and all difficulties.
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  • Posted by $ splumb 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah, FDR, the Marxist millionaire. He allowed the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research to relocate here when Hitler kicked them out.
    Where did they settle? NYC. Columbia University, to be precise.
    As you can see by today's headlines of the shenanigans at Columbia, they did their work well.
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  • Posted by $ splumb 1 week, 4 days ago
    "One of my best buddies just finally dumped a live-in girlfriend who's a drunk, angry narcissist."

    Your best buddy needs a therapist.
    It's extremely hard to escape a narcissist's orbit. Lots of them that do, only fall back in at a later date. It's like orbiting a black hole, constantly being drained of your energy and stripped of your being as you circle around.
    Narcissists are masters of manipulation, using every trick in the book to keep you under their control.
    A therapist could help him see this, and give him the tools to fight back against it.
    I wish him good luck. He'll need it.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Getting calmer. I think that may be the result of being forced to face what you are seeing around yourself and having to decide what for you is right and what is wrong. Once you get THERE, the rest is not so hard. I find myself getting calmer as well, knowing that I don't care how crazy some of my "close" people get, I still am who I am and that's not going to change significantly. At soon to be 75, (ugh) one has to live one's life and let the crazy pass on by. But I will say this: This is NOT how I wanted the final part of my life to be.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 1 week, 4 days ago
    Yes, it's appalling what has been going on, especially in families. My 52-year-old daughter hasn't spoken to me in almost two years, because I expressed an unwillingness to deny the FACTS around male and female sexes. That was the last straw, but there were quite a few straws before that.

    I noticed in the 3-4 years before that happened, she would just go completely off the rails, screaming and yelling, whenever I did the slightest thing that she didn't want me to do (or wouldn't do something she DID want). Remember ....she is a middle-aged woman and I had zero control over her anyway ( and didn't want it either). She also alienated her aunt, her uncle, all her cousins plus their children, her brother, and her own SON. THEN, she divorced her (third) husband because he didn't want an "open" marriage, sold her house and moved 500 miles away, to work at Starbucks, when previously she had a six-figure directorship in a global company.

    What happened to her? I really don't know, but I am seeing it in so many places. Some of this did happen simultaneously with her discovery of the "wonders" of marijuana. I have similar oddities (though not estrangement) with other family members, but they deserve their privacy and (somehow) I once saw a discussion from HERE on Facebook. That would be devastating to me. I don't care who knows about my daughter...she should be ashamed of herself, but I am definitely maintaining the privacy of the rest of my family.
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  • Posted by $ splumb 1 week, 4 days ago
    “He walked, as if this were his form of last tribute and funeral procession for the young life that had ended in his arms. He felt an anger too intense to identify except as a pressure within him: it was a desire to kill.
    The desire was not directed at the unknown thug who had sent a bullet through the boy’s body, or at the looting bureaucrats who had hired the thug to do it, but at the boy’s teachers who had delivered him, disarmed, to the thug’s gun—at the soft, safe assassins of college classrooms who, incompetent to answer the queries of a quest for reason, took pleasure in crippling the young minds entrusted to their care.
    Somewhere, he thought, there was this boy’s mother, who had trembled with protective concern over his groping steps, while teaching him to walk, who had measured his baby formulas with a jeweler’s caution, who had obeyed with a zealot’s fervor the latest words of science on his diet and hygiene, protecting his unhardened body from germs—then had sent him to be turned into a tortured neurotic by the men who taught him that he had no mind and must never attempt to think. Had she fed him tainted refuse, he thought, had she mixed poison into his food, it would have been more kind and less fatal.”
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 week, 4 days ago
    I've spoken about my "insane" brother who ticks all of those boxes. I will not talk to him.

    I think there are so many variables. I agree that childhood vaccines, food additives (there is a ton of evidence that many of these dyes are horrible for children especially). Cleaners, Solvents, Outgassing Chemicals.

    There is a reported group that delivers children and avoids vaccinations. They keep their practice secret for OBVIOUS reasons. They are sitting on evidence that... ZERO cases of Autism in the unvaccinated population. ADHD is 100 times less frequent in that group. So they have 2 patient groups (obviously), and they also see a disturbing trend... That the MORE vaccines you get, the MORE problems develop. We are talking about many thousands of children of decades.

    Now. Imagine that they keep their mouths shut.

    Alex Jones should have said: It's turning the Frogs TRANS... We see the same thing. NEVER met someone before that was Trans. Then suddenly I personally know 3. And 2 of them are CLEARLY (my non-professional opinion) doing it so that they "have power" over those around them.

    The Anxiety thing is real. And I believe it is because the MEDIA has overused "Anxiety Producing Headlines".

    We have trimmed a lot of people out of our lives, because of their absolute denialism.

    Mark Twain: "It's easier to fool someone, than to show them they have been fooled"

    I believe THIS is what we are seeing. These people are being forced to SEE... They were LIKELY WRONG on forced vaxx, Lockdowns, etc. etc. etc. And they are TRYING TO HANG ON TO "We were trying to do the right thing, while you EVIL people were just trying to kill people"

    My own (adopted) Mom said (About the MI protestors during Covid): "Our state tracked those idiots cell phones... And now they are dying because they got together. Good!"

    Again. BLM Rioting was not worth stopping. But 4th amendment violations, and wishing death on people... That's the Modern Day Liberal viewpoint.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 week, 4 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino would not be surprised by another deliberate worldwide biological warfare attack to help rig the next presidential election.
    That's my pet conspiracy theory and I'm sticking with it.
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  • Posted by $ BobCat 1 week, 5 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Mad hatters disease was due to mercury poisoning from the mercury nitrate vapors used in the process of curing the felt.

    I am in awe and highly suspicious of the sheer number of vaccines mandated to infants and very young children. It's a crime in of itself.

    I do believe that leftism is a vaccination disease.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week, 5 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah. I think we're heading for some very dark times. Just yesterday I was listening to the facts around the US promoting bird flu virus research in Wuhan starting in 2021!!! If they manage to release a modified version of that and the sequence is one of the lethal ones (and can go human to human) it's all over. Covid will look like Romper Room in comparison.
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  • Posted by $ 1 week, 5 days ago in reply to this comment.
    The American diet, and our government's influence over it, has been a complete disaster. We are probably fed the most toxic diet in the world.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 1 week, 6 days ago in reply to this comment.
    Add chemtrails,pharmaceuticals, and Roundup/GM foods.
    Many man-made factors (that could be deliberate or accidental) broadly affecting the rational thought processes of homo sapiens.
    It's almost like a deliberate attempt to modify the earth (and its highest sentient species) for some other species.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 week, 6 days ago
    I share much of your observation, Abaco. Something just isn't right or, rather, a number of somethings aren't right adding up to the disorder we are witnessing. If you've seen the movie "The Replacements", we seem to be in quicksand, especially at the leadership levels, and we could use some "Heart".

    Edit add: From a US perspective those fraternity guys that raised the flag, in the face of the Palestinian protesters, recently have some heart. So it's not all lost.
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