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[Grizzly]

It don't f*cking matter how much we are being lied to. It is what it is. Most of us have been poisoned in some fashion and no one even cares. Keep feeding people with reality TV and fast food. Keep em' fat and happy, their more complacent. We'll make the good ol' American dream the ability to own a 90" flatscreen for $299.

Doctors no longer heal...they only practice medicine. Or actually handing out medicine. People get butthurt over the silliest shit.

Every presidential candidate is spending obscene amounts of money that could easily help feed hungry kids, house homeless vets or fund critical cancer research.

It's a soup sandwich!

 

[Deleted member 43454]

Agreed Grizz! It's a damn shame.

 

[Grizzly]

Agreed Grizz! It's a damn shame.

It certainly is. The moral decay of society can't possibly sustain itself for another 10 years. I mean really. How much more screwed up can we act.

I'm really f*cking tired of the online life. I'm trying to find a healthy hobby other than drinking and conducting weapons maintenance every night while the rest of the world rests.

Shit, I'm beginning to think something like a "Walking Dead" outbreak wouldn't be a bad thing. Maybe taking a break from technology wouldn't be a bad thing.

 

[vikingr24]

I hear you, Grizz. And the term "weapons maintenance" is spot on. Covers a lot of territory.

IT pays the bills for me. I feel like the bird in a gilded cage. It is a kind of slavery with a gold fringe. I don't know which will kill you earlier. I am tired of living on the edge. In a way, I miss the adventure of combat. When we were strung out waiting for a call, and then it came, my heart went back into gear, and I remembered all my checklists. Now I could care less.

 

[Sludge]

It certainly is. The moral decay of society can't possibly sustain itself for another 10 years. I mean really. How much more screwed up can we act.

I'm really f*cking tired of the online life. I'm trying to find a healthy hobby other than drinking and conducting weapons maintenance every night while the rest of the world rests.

Shit, I'm beginning to think something like a "Walking Dead" outbreak wouldn't be a bad thing. Maybe taking a break from technology wouldn't be a bad thing.

Call me a sicko, but I actually kind of hope for something to make society crash hard. I could go back to living like we did when I was a kid. Indoor plumbing fed by a spring, outhouse, wood burning stove/heat. Bath tub is just that- a tub and a towel, sometimes heated by the stove... Fishing and hunting and exploring.

If the shit hits the fan, where do we all meet up? The coasts are out due to population density. Montana? Wyoming? Idaho? Alberta or Saskatchewan? I can keep us fed and scienced all to hell.

Also we can Baja the bug and instal an M60 turret...

(giggling because I spelled Saskatchewan without spell check...twice!)


As for a hobby I suggest FOSSILS. Trust me, is no better reason to go to remote places and find cool shit. Sometimes I actually find fossils too.

 

[Deleted member 43454]

Yea, I am with you all.
Just waiting on the collapse really...
Until then I usually pass the time making Arma 3 missions in the new 3d editor lol.
I've been feeling since I got out that another bigger war was only a matter of time away.
However it's a whole lot closer now.

I guess it really is true... "television rules the nation"
I try to wake up even family members who watch TV regularly and they just shut off man.. it's insane. Just blank, then oh, back to TV... Jeeezus.

 

[Grizzly]

I hear you, Grizz. And the term "weapons maintenance" is spot on. Covers a lot of territory.

IT pays the bills for me. I feel like the bird in a gilded cage. It is a kind of slavery with a gold fringe. I don't know which will kill you earlier. I am tired of living on the edge. In a way, I miss the adventure of combat. When we were strung out waiting for a call, and then it came, my heart went back into gear, and I remembered all my checklists. Now I could care less.

I completely understand. Although, weapons maintenance really is what it is. I've been getting back into firearms collecting in the past few months. The range I belong to has a tactical pistol section. I've been honing my pistol skills there as of late as well as LR silhouette. At least it's providing motivation to leave the house.

But I'm really beginning to hate IT. Not sure about you, but I'm around some real educated idiots. And as I get older, the people coming in are younger and haven't a clue about life. The saving grace for me is my boss is a vet. He was a signal / commo POG, but he understands. Funny during staff meetings someone will say something ridiculous and we'll both catch us looking at each other like WTF.

Call me a sicko, but I actually kind of hope for something to make society crash hard. I could go back to living like we did when I was a kid. Indoor plumbing fed by a spring, outhouse, wood burning stove/heat. Bath tub is just that- a tub and a towel, sometimes heated by the stove... Fishing and hunting and exploring.

If the shit hits the fan, where do we all meet up? The coasts are out due to population density. Montana? Wyoming? Idaho? Alberta or Saskatchewan? I can keep us fed and scienced all to hell.

Also we can Baja the bug and instal an M60 turret...

(giggling because I spelled Saskatchewan without spell check...twice!)


As for a hobby I suggest FOSSILS. Trust me, is no better reason to go to remote places and find cool shit. Sometimes I actually find fossils too.

Yes @Sludge I'd be up for a simplified life.

A zombie apocalypse is really sounding fun.

I guess it really is true... "television rules the nation"
I try to wake up even family members who watch TV regularly and they just shut off man.. it's insane. Just blank, then oh, back to TV... Jeeezus.

Yep...control the media and you can control the world.

 

[vikingr24]

What especially concerns me is how many times during the day I think of what I have done and what I have others do in war. I can go from the dull Powerpoint meeting to landing hard on a rock surface from 10,000 feet, slipping the parachute, and moving out to a staging point. The adrenaline gets up. And then I risk another flashback so I cool it. And I am back to slide number 6.

I probably have imagined giving a nice Ranger choke hold on various idiots, at least 3 times a day. They just have no idea....

But I do it for my wife and whatever is going to happen if and when I retire. I say IF because I am still struggling with that 20 year old kid I was. I refuse to give up.

 

[vikingr24]

And I second the motion on the media. I sat last night and channel surfed until I just turned the damn thing off. Silence was great until my tinnitus kicked in. It's then when I wonder if it all was worth it. I know the answer when I think of all the guys I saved and helped. I wish I had kept their names. Why I don't know....

Pretty depressed lately....

 

[Deleted member 43454]

I have been pretty depressed lately as well Viking.
Some days that stuff just hits and you gotta ride it out.
Tinnitus brings up thoughts tied into it etc I bet.

All about finding a hobby outside of your work place I believe.
Some sort of project, I finally got my Mom into a hobby well she got herself but I recommended she find one.
She started sanding down old furniture an painting them new with designs now etc. Pretty cool.
I bought her a power tool sander to speed up the process for her.

Me, like I said creating shit in Video games mostly :P Or picking up the guitar an recording a song when I am real low, some music will just flow right on out. Same thing with art those times where you can't sleep, or are low you can sometimes write, draw, paint, create your best work full of emotion. Some days just need sleep though.

I don't like to continue to rub it in , since some of you guys can't partake, but something for the pain will help you remain in the now to an extent.

 

[Deleted member 43454]

I now understand this song due to this video lol.

 

[Deleted member 43454]

This is how they condition the mass majority to believe in their agenda's by putting the idea in our heads way before hand.