The Bankrupt Inn (Part Three)

Lightattheend

I make sense to me so who cares if no one else understands me!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

dreamcatcher73

Merlinexcalibur wrote: »

Ah, but I do understand myself ... that's the trouble ... but I am not doing what I am supposed to be doing.

Me Neither I reckon I'll be BR again once I'm discharged :rotfl:

Merlinexcalibur

I make sense to me so who cares if no one else understands me!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Makes two of us, then.

PS I am my own worse 'awen'. Just a fairly useless person all round.

Lightattheend

Merlinexcalibur wrote: »

Makes two of us, then.

PS I am my own worse 'awen'. Just a fairly useless person all round.

Oi - less of the 'fairly useless person all round'!! I've seen the advice you give on here and you are not useless!

Merlinexcalibur

It's just today. The air feels different. Can't put my finger on it, but something has changed. Very subtlely. Can't make any more sense than that. Cos I can't zero in on it; yet. Because been trying to make sense of it all afternoon. Since I noticed it. It's like 'something is on the air'. An expectancy, latent but pervasive.

Lensman_2

Merlin. You have dug the fluff out of your bellybutton. Further digging will only bring irritation and inflammation. Not more fluff.

Pinch £20 off your creditors and go to Avebury. This week if you can, the weather will be great. I promise you will get (at least) the abundance of life that is spring in England. As a bonus, you might get a bit of the energy, peace and nature that our forefathers bequeathed us when they built it.

Take care.
LM

Merlinexcalibur

I will think on it. I know what I've done but that's not for here. Hope that made sense. Wrong forum.

But, yes, it's all since I saw what you showed me eg Avebury. If someone could hit me with a baseball bat for example, that image smacked me somewhere very personal. But in a nice way. :beer:

Richard_S

Merlinexcalibur wrote: »

It's just today. The air feels different. Can't put my finger on it, but something has changed. Very subtlely. Can't make any more sense than that. Cos I can't zero in on it; yet. Because been trying to make sense of it all afternoon. Since I noticed it. It's like 'something is on the air'. An expectancy, latent but pervasive.

Hi Merlin,

I do enjoy reading your posts for the entertainment value, but you'll have to do better than you've done so far to persuade me that there's any deep significance to what you say.

We're born; we live; we die; it really is quite as simple as that. In between birth and death is the life, or lack of it, that we each make for ourselves.

I'd like to qualify that with "in my opinion" but it doesn't seem appropriate.

Regards

Richard

rog2

Richard_S wrote: »

We're born; we live; we die; it really is quite as simple as that. In between birth and death is the life, or lack of it, that we each make for ourselves.

Quite 'deep' conversation in 'The Inn' tonight :rolleyes:.

As 'Grey Pilgrim' says in his signature:

"Life is like a sh*t sandwich - the thicker the bread, the less you taste the sh*t."

Goodnight all. :beer:

Merlinexcalibur

I do enjoy reading your posts for the entertainment value, but you'll have to do better than you've done so far to persuade me that there's any deep significance to what you say.

Well, thanks, then glad I 'entertained' you. Because that's all they are/ever were. Light relief to take my mind off things. Or, like everyone else with the same worries, it's not a good idea to be constantly thinking about it 24/7. Been there, done that. So, at times, just to have a break from it. I have many facets and I am the master of a few of them but others I have to try harder at. But no one is trying to convince anyone of anything. Nor would I even begin to try. Because, oh dear, that is when conflicts/wars begin. People have to find their own answers, whatever those may be or what form they take. Not be forced to believe in something.

As for what my beliefs are. If I have any, that is. Because I don't. I only have one and that is through science and what is undiscovered now is yet to be explained. Things that were a mystery once, are no longer. Mostly through ignorance because no one knew what those things were so they were labelled with names. Not through true ignorance but because no one really understood how they worked. But then thousands of years ago, why should they? Not because they were primitive but because they didn't have the know how like we do now to deduce what was truly occuring. Which is, after all, what scientific deduction/experimentation is about at it's base level. That is my certainty and, if that is a 'belief' then that belief is also my own. But I turned my back on the church a while ago in order to extend my worldview because it was very stifling and very forced in some respects; very narrow. Very restricted and certainly not educational.

For example, there is no such thing as magic. Never was. Except slight of hand variety. Another label given to the once unexplained. Except it was always all about trickery or use of certain things to give the appearance of magic. What the eye doesn't see for example. Well, don't have to explain that.

So, yes, I may 'entertain' but that is making light of what I know is a very awful situation I am in right now. But I can also be very serious, very plain speaking and very direct to get people to think about a situation they may not have considered before. I will always challenge, always question. I mean, belief can also be defined as what you are comfortable with knowing. I prefer to broaden horizons, and allow myself to think freely, make my own mind up not allow others to influence it. Nor allow anyone to tell me what to believe in. Nor ever will.

I know precisely why I have this passion - and it is a passion - but that is for me to know on a personal level. If I choose to share it, I will. I don't judge people. And I try to be fair but being a human being it is within my nature to fail at certain things yet excel at others. I see information as a tool, to be used for the benefit of others. Knowledge, after all, is totally useless if kept to oneself and not shared. I don't have much knowledge except that which I pick up wherever that source comes from, because most of my learning has been post education and certainly not through textbooks; those can only teach you so far, the rest you have to experience. The good/the bad. Life, really.

So, yes, I may entertain but whatever my beliefs are. They aren't based in the metaphysical. But in what is possible but not improbable. I tend to concentrate in the humanitarian side of that. Again, I do have a reason for what motivates me with all that but like I said it's off limits/private.

I spend my time on other people's troubles because that is how I am. I do tend to listen to the troubles of others. Nothing wrong with that, in fact that is how I learn the most. As I then use that experience to help the next person who needs help. That is just how things are, there is no reason. Except, for whatever reasons, I simply do care an awful lot about what happens to people. What I will not ever do is give someone false hope in a situation. I feel very humbled at times that people do confide in me in the outside world because I am no one special, never consider myself to be yet I choose to listen, to give them a listening ear. Because at the heart of it all that is what most people want: to have someone listen to their troubles. And I will only offer any guidance/advice if it is relevent/important to their needs at that point/moment, nothing abitrary as that is not useful when someone needs a strong sense of direction, but also the advice they want at that point. In fact, being abitrary (as I am sure I don't need to voice) can be counterproductive in that situation as it can frustrate the person wanting that advice. In other words, only offer it if I firstly know but also think it's relevant to their situation. Out with the rest of it. But firstly, is it always the humanitarian side. To let them know someone is out here online who is offering them a hand. The rest I may respond to once I learn about their situation or leave it to everyone else with the expertise and knowledge to. As it happens, most of what I see people post about on here I have experienced in life, so know whom to direct them to and what is there to help them. Being as my life has been somewhat diverse, eclectic shall we say it has also given me a diverse knowledge base from which to choose from and I employ that often. But stay away from the things I do not possess the knowledge for. I have learned now on MSE that I fail miserably at doing that particularly where the financial things are concerned and become hesitant in providing it but often it's giving the answer or reply that is vital, just so that person knows someone is there to make contact with.

But, hey, not everyone can be a quantum/partical/theoretical physicist (who push boundaries for money, of course, but also push into the realms of the unknown) for example. Well, apart from other members of my family that is who have made something from and out of that kind of thing. I am more an 'archaeologist'. Of a sort.

I only have a few values, never ask for much. Fairness, whatever that is, matters the most so when I see anyone in the outside world or online who is tormented because of an unfair situation - whether it is via the torment from a DCA/creditor because they have simply fallen on hard times and don't need kicking but helping - that is when I will start to fight back. Never ask for the moon shall we say.

Sorry that turned out longer than I expected but there you go. And everyone will have gone to sleep by the end of it. :rolleyes: