the barrel war was a silent witness between Chinese immigrants and local residents at that time, which made this city a ghost town very scary to hear your story about the city of the dead. who had been abandoned by Chinese immigrants. I really like ghost stories. in my village also has a house that was left by its inhabitants. now this house has become a scary and scary house, everyone who passes by the house will get goosebumps,, heeeee it's scary.....my village Indonesia (Aceh). your story is very good i like it. thank you

I am going to guess that video was the one with the new monkey getting the crap beat out of him because he was hungry. A few people understand the phrase *You have nothing to fear but fear itself* I may not have the words exactly right, but it seems there are fewer and fewer of those people.

It is always one thing or another, the mad cow scare and anthrax scare, the makers of Duct Tape sure scored big with that one. The mass stupidity has only grown in society.

I am still an optimist, but like you I am finding a lot of stuff to be negative about, but I keep trying to float above it all. Holding my tongue though is getting harder and harder, but friendships and relationships need to be bent, but the reality is some are at the breaking point. Hopefully we do not hit the breaking point, and recovery can occur and people laugh at their folly, like all the stocking up the the Y2K meltdown of society.

 > Seems pretty quiet tonight - I wonder what everyone is up to?

It did seem to be a bit quiet this morning and afternoon, for myself I learned a little more about Linux Mint. I've put my Raspberry Pi back into safe keeping and am working on learning how to use another new system.

Sounds like smallsteps is doing good, I wish her a speedy recovery so next week everything can really start for the New Year.

Interesting video.   No I am not one who bows to peer pressure and I cannot be socially shamed.  I too take the beatings and tend to go it alone. I do not need approval in what I do or believe and yes... It is so easy to see past the lies and conditioning agenda.  

> My new job starts on Monday

Congrats! 

Regarding pandemic: people are panicking too much IMHO. I believe right now in europe most people already been in contact with the virus, vaccinated or not. it is time to start living again, not hiding from new variants. 
I dont remember anyone hiding from new flu🤔

It amazes me how intolerant the "tolerant" are.  I am also dismayed at how hell-bent certain people are, and in leadership positions no less, to polarize us against each other. People are so easily cowed and brainwashed it is down right scary. Opinions can no longer be freely expressed because of cancel culture and new "truths" that people would have you accept as gospel.  I live in the thick of it right now, and it is dumbfounding watching it in real life. Limiting time on FB and other social media helps.  It is hard to bite my tongue when I see friends expressing certain feelings and outrages. I am hoping this will be winding down with newer variants that are more mild. 

Can you still respect them though, when all's said and done? That's where I struggle. I'll still like the people who've bought into it all, but I don't see myself respecting them any more. 

Several interesting points here i'd like to reply to but I'm about to head out for a bit so here's one:

>I think I used to be the optimistic dreamer in life, but I don't feel that is my thing now,

I think this is fine. TBH, being an optimistic dreamer can be pretty toxic to your own evolution, but more importantly, I can't stand those faux-optimistic people who have no concept or need for empathy, drawing lines at sympathy only. 

Being negative and accepting the darkness in your world is extremely healthy. Sure, it's not *great* at parties, but if I could purchase a get-out-of-parties-free card with lifelong subscription, i'd happily dedicate 75% of my income to ownership of it!

>My new job starts on Monday

Best of luck with it!

Coincidentally, today was my wife’s last day at her old job. Ten days off, then a new all-remote job for an employer 900 miles (1450 kilometers) away, with a decent pay raise.

She’s been *very* sporadically going into the office since the coronapocalypse hit, but now will be fully remote.

Damn, I’m I’m proud of her.

@tipu curate

I think we think that "the world is against me" because it's much more comforting to the ego to think that you're *that* important and special and talented that literally everyone and everything is out to make you specifically fail, than to realise that "the world doesn't give a toss" because in the end the only people who care about you personally are the people who care about you personally XD

> but I am confident that most will be salvageable once the fear subsides

And probably reframe all their memories so that they were always approaching things from a cautious and moderate perspective and never with the full on religious zeal that they were actually exhibiting?

> Even if they don't understand why they are punishing them.

Have you ever been met with a pure rage tantrum when you've prodded someone to actually think about this? It's quite headache inducing.

> someone in authority tells us to do something, we are likely to do it unquestionably

Some of us are more likely to *not* do it specifically because we got told to, with increased resistance if it was someone in authority x_x

<sub>apparently it is an actual brain glitch compulsion but occasionally we have legitimate reasons too XD</sub>

Small getting better or did the annoying thing happen where she recovered/was recovering from something and something else happened?

You can basically write about anything and I will still relate in my own way. This piece made me feel worthy of being the outcast I am. And for that, I am thankful. 

I have noticed that I am at a place where branching my way is easier than fighting to stay in harmful spaces. Harmful in a way that my inner man feels oppressed by the remarks flying around or by the exchange of words forcing him to hold his breath. 

Age definitely does irreversible things to a soul!

Hi Taraz,

First of all, I hope the new job is off to a great start!

I wanted to ask you for your support and vote on the @pizza.witness Witness run by @hivetrending and I. Our team (and our community) are working tremendously hard to create more awareness for the HIVE blockchain through various things such as but not limited to:

- Our community onboarding initiative which has already grown to almost 3,000 members
- HIVE-based video game store that is bringing gamers to the chain
- New-user delegation program to assist new users in exploring the chain and learning to post
- Tools we've built to make the HIVE experience much easier (such as our HIVE web browser extension) for new users
- Other initiatives we are involved in and building (stream team, etc)
- We also spoke at HiveFest 2021 and are building more great tools to bring users to HIVE this year.

Please let me know if you have any questions and thank you for reading and for the consideration!

I always know the value of being happy from even smaller things, events. However, I can say that I am not as happy as I was in past although I have much more better conditions today.

I believe that we are not being very social as the time passes. Everybody draws their own way in life, therefore those ways seperate from each other.

If talk about religion, I have put a line between me and some of my friends who have a religious zeal. Unlike, we were very good friends in our chilhoods.

Time determines everything in life, I believe so.