Actual Thoughts I've Had, Verbatim...

[user428]

The yoga cult people are so strange. The do these elaborate rituals and ceremonies, that make no sense.

[user428]

It just seems dumb. I'm sorry. And yoga is not even a work out, it is just stretching.

[Mister Obvious]

Yeah, it seems that way... but there are specific reasons for the poses, eastern medicine knows all about the body's meridians and all the different formations/positioning of the body allow free flow through these regions. Some people practicing yoga may not understand the concepts behind it 100% but at least they're moving their asses.

[user428]

I think that they are all full of shit. LOL.

[Mister Obvious]

Hmmm... a lot of the fruities these days who are into yoga may be kinda full of shit, but the origins of yoga are legit.

[Mister Obvious]

I think yoga is great especially for older people with limited movement ability, but I have never really been able to get into it myself. I have studied it though, along with a lot of other eastern medicine practices.

[user428]

Okay. I have seen Thai Chi and yeah it is legit. I still don't think yoga is even a work out though. I mean I can stretch out in about five minutes. lol.

[user428]

I think that it is. The yoga stuff seems like more of a ceremony, and not an actual work out. It's like they are all patting themselves on the back for being so cool and showing up to a yoga class.

[user428]

A lot of people in my family surfed or did real workouts outdoors. We know what a true connection to the earth is, and what fake people are.

[somethingelseishere]

"I think the internet's spirit animal is Wokeback Mountain."

[somethingelseishere]

Had to bag up a dead buzzard [turkey vulture] that was near my driveway earlier.
Man, that was a fucking dream come true. Used a Walmart bag lined with two pieces
of paper as a glove and barely got it into a trash bag - then managed to get that bag
into another one. Tied it up and tossed it into my outside bin.

REALLY didn't want it in there, especially since trash pick-up ain't until Friday morning but I
couldn't have it laying out there in the open in case the kittie cats were to get to it.

A fuckin' buzzard.

[Mister Obvious]

The Celts saw the Common Buzzard as a representation of the cycle of life and death. They believed that these birds could see into the future and foretell events that would happen.

https://spiritanimalsandsymbolism.com/co...-and-totem

I think it took one for the team or absorbed death around it.

[somethingelseishere]

I put the bin out today - late afternoon, had to drop a bag of litter box offerings
in and when I raised the lid, flies buzzed around and flew out. There'll be
no amount of cleaning that will right that wrong. : (

[Guest]

You can spend a year in jail for each letter you take from the mailbox , why are there no stiff penalties for when I read other people’s electronic mail ? I just am a curious person with no nefarious intent

[user428]

I guess MO started a new yoga routine and is too busy to post now.

[Mister Obvious]

*slowly comes out of Tiger Pose*

I'm sure most people would agree I've said enough anyways.

[user428]

*Thinks about MO in yoga pants*

Okay, just making sure that you are still analyzing the world.

[Mister Obvious]

"Even I've done that before, so it happens to perfect people too."

[Mister Obvious]

"He actually looks really good old!"

[somethingelseishere]

I'm gonna bitch a little. But first, the backstory --

So I'm a member of a weekly online writer's group. Been going a little over a month.
I really like it, and it's pushed me to "perform under pressure" a little better. The host
gives us a prompt and then we have either 20 or 30 minutes to write in any style to
that prompt. It's fun. Tonight, while great - had a downer moment. Of wokeness...

It was only the host and three of us members tonight. One member read her story
and it had a couple lines that spoke of sexual abuse - if I recall, it was a minor and 
was a family relation. OK, pretty heavy subject matter but nothing to get upset over.

I didn't think anything of it, but after the person was done reading, the host immediately
addressed it - not in a shitty way, they were nice about it - but still, I think it's piss-weak
to be in an environment where "content warnings" are expected. Especially for something
as harmless as the story segment in question. Anyway, it just kind of deflated my umph
about the group and makes me not want to continue going.

I just think in a gathering of adults - people need to be able to BE ADULTS. And I'm not
saying "I piss on your safe space" but... I kinda piss on your safe space. ALL safe spaces.

Fucking suck it up, grow a pair and harden the fuck up already. 
Life ain't fair - the world is harsh - and nobody really gives a fuck about your feelings.

I'll only concede as far as to say this - had the person taken it upon themselves to announce
"Hey, content warning" before reading, I wouldn't have thought "Omg, what's this bullshit?"
but it happening the way it did - and like I said, the host was nice about it - it still rubbed me
the wrong way. ESPECIALLY when the host asked "Is everybody OK?" THAT made me wanna
act a fool, lol. 

The whole thing is done over voice chat and we mute our mics while writing/typing. 

So there, I bitched. A little wokism pissed on my unsafe space. And I didn't care for it.