Whatcha thinking about now?

[Medusa]

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Gone a week from work. Come back and the tellermate cash counter is broken. No one got change, so we were handing out dimes to everyone in lieu of quarters. And we had an entire mid shift missing and no one..not one single person bothered to notice or actually do anything about it.

Welcome back!:=I:

[anunitu]

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This is what happens when "Mommy" takes some me time..kids go all nuts..

[ThePaganMafia]

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Beavers are building a dam in the creek behind my house! So fun to watch.

[Medusa]

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This is my Halloween event I'll be attending.

http://www.ladayofthedead.com/event-info/

And I'm hoping to doll my hair up a bit in the style and I won't even be made to feel guilty because I'm actually Mexican and not appropriating. (this is sarcasm. Every year I get to hear about this nonsense. Doll your face up for the dead! Everyone has dead people!)

Anyways. Yeah. Food and festivals and the dead. My kind of party. And at the cemetery!

[anubisa]

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This is my Halloween event I'll be attending.

http://www.ladayofthedead.com/event-info/

And I'm hoping to doll my hair up a bit in the style and I won't even be made to feel guilty because I'm actually Mexican and not appropriating. (this is sarcasm. Every year I get to hear about this nonsense. Doll your face up for the dead! Everyone has dead people!)

Anyways. Yeah. Food and festivals and the dead. My kind of party. And at the cemetery!

Looks cool Medusa! I'm getting to feeling better...thank goodness. Going out to Walmart today to get some stuff. Got some more books to study and need a backpack to carry them in when I go to the library.

[kalynraye]

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I just need to stay off facebook for a while. People are really beginning to amaze me, and not in a good way.

[toxicyarnglare]

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I started reading a book about prehistoric mythology, which seemed interesting, until I started reading it. Instead of focusing on mythology, the author tries to explain, through Freudian logic such as penis envy and Oedipus complexes, how people developed from the dawn of time. Add some casual racism and sexism for icing on the cake, and it was a cringeworthy read.

[anunitu]

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I am seriously trying to understand just how the book you describe prehistoric mythology,I mean Penis envy and Oedipus complexes,how do those pertain to Myth and prehistory?

Could you name the book,so I might google it to understand how it even got published.

[toxicyarnglare]

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I am seriously trying to understand just how the book you describe prehistoric mythology,I mean Penis envy and Oedipus complexes,how do those pertain to Myth and prehistory?

Could you name the book,so I might google it to understand how it even got published.

Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell. Apparently he did this whole series on mythology, which I was looking forward to reading.

[anunitu]

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I had heard of this author,but had never read anything by him. I did download a PDF of this book,and I "Think" he is trying to explain myth and belief in gods and goddess' by the idea "Man" created the gods and goddess' from sexual imagery(I guess) Kind of like why we needed to create mythical creatures based on our "secret" thoughts about human reproduction in the sense we did with crop failure,where the failure was because we did not honor the gods properly. I kind of understand how he derived his beliefs,but am clueless about the need to couch these things in a Freudian construct.

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I can not remember the term to describe the failed crop that is connected to the fact we pissed on a tree and angered the god(goddess) so our crop failed.

Cause and effect with only simple understanding. Like keeping a "Saints" preserved toe as a holy relic.

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You might like Bulfinch's Mythology and The golden bough concerning mythology

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You can I think download both from Gutenberg online.

here.

Gutenberg does out of copyright books,I think they may also do audio ones spoken by volunteers

[thalassa]

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Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell. Apparently he did this whole series on mythology, which I was looking forward to reading.

Yeah, you have to read him with historical context in mind. Also, knowing that he's not writing about actual myths, per se, but rather the ideas of mythology, specifically, the common origin of myth.

[MaskedOne]

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That

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/11/496567104/decades-old-mystery-put-to-rest-why-are-there-xs-in-the-desert?ft=nprml&f=1001

Is pretty cool.

[Jembru]

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Does anyone else think at length about things they want to post on PF when they finally have the time? In such vivid detail that you convince yourself you already posted, and the question never gets asked, or the anecdote is never shared? (Change in pronoun noticed, considered and staying as it is because it sounds more natural)

This isn't too unusual for me. I often think I've had a conversation that never actually happened because I'd imagined it so intensely. It's also why so many of my posts include lines like 'I don't know if I've said this before but...'. That usually means 'I remember writing about this but can't find the evidence'.

I suppose this means I'm too 'in my head'. In fact, last month I focused on my physical body and the lower chakras in an attempt to drop back into the physical. Looks like a month wasn't nearly enough for a dreamer like me.

You might say am I dreamer, am I the only one?

[monsno_leedra]

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Does anyone else think at length about things they want to post on PF when they finally have the time? In such vivid detail that you convince yourself you already posted, and the question never gets asked, or the anecdote is never shared? (Change in pronoun noticed, considered and staying as it is because it sounds more natural)

This isn't too unusual for me. I often think I've had a conversation that never actually happened because I'd imagined it so intensely. It's also why so many of my posts include lines like 'I don't know if I've said this before but...'. That usually means 'I remember writing about this but can't find the evidence'.

I suppose this means I'm too 'in my head'. In fact, last month I focused on my physical body and the lower chakras in an attempt to drop back into the physical. Looks like a month wasn't nearly enough for a dreamer like me.

You might say am I dreamer, am I the only one?

I've done it with PF, other forums and with email's. Written out a response in my head basically as I though about what I wanted to say and laid it out then was certain I had actually posted / written it. Was so certain many times I had gone looking for it and could swear it had to have been deleted as I was that certain I had in fact responded. Then of course there is the other extreme of that concept. The one where you actually do write it out, but then at the last minute it gets eaten and lost in the void. It's fresh in your head, you can see it almost word for word and know what was written and what each line responded to but it's all gone. Yet in your mind it's still there and lingers on even though it's gone and you know its gone.

[Medusa]

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CLR
Clorox toilet bowl cleaner
Scrubbing bubbles
Clorox cleaning spray
small brush
gloves
gel beads air freshener bowls

My bathroom and I are going to get really up close and personal tomorrow.

Procrastination is the Devil.