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Tuesday Night Pot Luck

Apr 11, 2014

Jordan Birnbaum
Stage· 440 messages
Apr 11, 2014

We're bringing what we've got and putting it out on the table. Some of it's going to be surprisingly delicious. Stay away from Aunt Nyna's hot dish.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:59 PM

good evening!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 11:59 PM

Hello and good evening!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:59 PM

how's everyone?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 11:59 PM

How is everyone???
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:00 AM

I have sure missed you lovely people!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:00 AM

ugh. im not seeing my comments again.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:00 AM

there we go
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:00 AM

Me, wither.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:00 AM

I'll switch browsers.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:00 AM

did my happy spring comment go through?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:00 AM

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hi rebecca

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:01 AM

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howdy jordan!

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:01 AM

So waht's on everyuone's mind tonight?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:01 AM

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doing great! its finally spring!

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:01 AM

"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:01 AM

Stephen Colbert replacing Letterman? The Ukraine?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:01 AM

Philadelphia and the stabby-stab.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:01 AM

Jane says.....I'm done with Sergio!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:02 AM

so what happened there, Becca?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:02 AM

in Philly
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:02 AM

Some kid stabbed a bunch of people with kitchen knives.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:02 AM

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Hey Rebecca and Jordan

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:02 AM

did the victims survive? I bet the NRA hated that...
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:03 AM

Oh, I don't think it was Philly. Just in Pennsylvania.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:03 AM

Excuse me.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:03 AM

I mean, I'm not supporting knife violence, but I'll sure take a knife over a gun any day
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:03 AM

Yes, everyone survived. And yes, the NRA is going to say something stupid.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:03 AM

should we try to predict the stupid things the NRA might say?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:03 AM

Because the kid had knives, the principal just tackled him and ended the incident.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:04 AM

Hahahaha!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:04 AM

"If the teachers were armed, NO ONE would haver gotten stabbed. Don't you see? We need more guns!"
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:04 AM

The NRA will just say that there should have been an armed security guard on site.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:05 AM

you know i feel like these school place violent episodes get us all thinking about gun control, the law, protecting our kids, etc.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:05 AM

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20 Miles from Pittsburgh, Very Nice Community, my neice is a teacher there, she jsut happened to be teaching in Slippery Rock that day

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:05 AM

But we don't talk about mental health nearly enoiugh
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:05 AM

Wow, Jane. I hope you know we are not making fun. I really feel for all those folks - this will be a tough one to deal with.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:05 AM

That's true, Jordan.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:05 AM

I mean, no one who is emotionally well wants to hurt other people
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:05 AM

My little town here in Georgia is in an uproar because a nice young man blew a hole in his head on Wednesday.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:06 AM

that sucks
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:06 AM

Yeah.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:06 AM

but I wish I could make people understand why other people's well being is actually in our self interest
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:06 AM

It's hard for people to understand. Because mental health is not talked about often enough, in part.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:06 AM

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,,,gets me thinking about EVIL and I use that word in the same context as any Anerican Horror movie with the word EVIL In it

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:07 AM

I think you've just drawn a very clear line, JB.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:07 AM

One of the hardest parts about discussing mental health is that people don't want to talk about it,because it might mean having to face some very repressed and painful memories
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:07 AM

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it is still stigmatized

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:07 AM

even when we discuss someone else's childhood, there's still a part of us that thinks about our own
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:08 AM

Yeah, I guess so.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:08 AM

And definitely, Robin, about the judgement.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:08 AM

yes - judgment - the illusion that the judger is somehow superior to the judged...
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:08 AM

But how can we get any better if we don't...you know...fix it. Talk about it. Find a solution.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:09 AM

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or to face judgement from others in revealing one's mental health issues

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:09 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

yep

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:10 AM

I used to judge people alot in my younger years. Much easier than holding myself accounatble for anything
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:10 AM

Man, people are weird. We all are. You have to be absolutely humble to be in touch with reality and connect with others genuinely, but you have to be narcissistic enough to manage to get out of bed in the morning.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:10 AM

why do you think it takes narcissism to get out of bed?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:11 AM

I think I have to be deluded to get out of bed..
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:11 AM

Hahaha.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:11 AM

It's kind of the same.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:11 AM

lol
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:11 AM

Robin!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:11 AM

You have to delude yourself that you're going to survive the day, that nothing bad will happen. That there WILL be tomorrow.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:12 AM

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sorta like the distractions were fed so we don't think about what outrages are being perpetrated on us by the govt and big business

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:12 AM

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i just have to pee, to get out of bed.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:12 AM

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well its true. - D

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:12 AM

And you have to be narcissistic enough to be the center of your own universe and move through your day.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:12 AM

If you're not, you can't function.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:12 AM

yeah - I think there's a concept called "depressed realism" which states that there is no way to be in touch with reality and NOT suffer from terrible depression
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:12 AM

Yes.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:13 AM

lol
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:13 AM

that helps, Robin
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:13 AM

Indeed.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:13 AM

I don't have kids, but I bet that gives life a big shot of purpose
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:13 AM

Yes. And no.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:13 AM

what;'s the no?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:13 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

i mean... not in the bed. of course.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:13 AM

There are some revealing book titles on the subject:
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:13 AM

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there have been days i live for others

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:14 AM

"All Joy and No FUn"
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:14 AM

"The Longest Shortest Time"
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:14 AM

I'm intrigued. Go on.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:14 AM

Parenting a small child is exhausting.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:14 AM

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yes it does

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:14 AM

It's miraculous.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:14 AM

But incredibly draining.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:14 AM

well, does purpose have to be enjoyable?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:14 AM

No, I guess not. :)
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:14 AM

I mean, it'd be nice...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:15 AM

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like?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:15 AM

good planning
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:15 AM

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whether its fun or not, it is a purpose

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:15 AM

That's why I'm only having ONE!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:15 AM

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thats why i spaced mine out so far

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:15 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

yep. a life saver. = D

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:15 AM

Jokes aside, I love my child. He does give me purpose. And neuroses.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:16 AM

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good plan rebecca

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:16 AM

I feel a sense of purpose when I get worked up about people exploiting the world and creating suffering. But it sure ain't happy!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:16 AM

I have never been more fearful in my life!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:16 AM

Kelly Mac!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:16 AM

Hey, Kel!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:16 AM

fearful of what, Becca? You mean for your son? for the world?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:16 AM

And since we were talking about mental health,
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:16 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

hey wazzup.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:16 AM

parenting and mental health is also not talked about nearly enough.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:16 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

ok what we talking about right now

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:16 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

Dam traffic LOL rush hour sucks.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:17 AM

don't we all!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:17 AM

Yes. Fearful for my son and the world.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:17 AM

I wish I could try to tawk you out of it
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:17 AM

And also about everything that could possibly go wrong. I've learned it's pretty common for mothers to have nightmare visions ALL DAY.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:17 AM

Every day.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:17 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

so kids are the topic? future slave tax payers.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:17 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

what little angel/devils, children are.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:17 AM

You just kind of operate THROUGH them...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:17 AM

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LOL i need some mental health :)

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:18 AM

that sounds GREAT! and by "great" I mean TORTURE
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:18 AM

Yeah.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:18 AM

It's shocking to me.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:18 AM

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having kids makes fears of the future much more poignant.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:18 AM

I have never just, like, said goodbye to a person and then imagined a car wreck the way that I do now that I have a son.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:19 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

That's is why I do not want to have kids right now but I fight for the world so that i can and more then that, we can live.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:19 AM

I see visons of drownding, choking, kidnapping on a daily basis.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:19 AM

Oh boy - so you're not even tawking about evil or human fallibility. You're tawking about the horrifying degree of chance in our lives?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:19 AM

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it is unbelievable that we have gotten to this point.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:19 AM

I think it's an evolutionary thing...because I'm told it's absolutely normal.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:19 AM

Yeah, that.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:20 AM

I see
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:20 AM

I try to keep the ills of the world and my family in separate mental arenas.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:20 AM

that sounds hard
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:20 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

on a side note, we are treated like the governments children, I think, that is why we act out like children sometimes

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:20 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

oh me too. everry time i hear sirens. i have to call my son. = D

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:21 AM

do you think it's possible to be in touch with reality and still feel generally OK about life, the world, humanity, etc.?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:21 AM

Meh. You get used to it.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:21 AM

I don't know, Jordan.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:21 AM

I have troubles.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:21 AM

I am very prone to depression. Have to watch myself very carefully.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:21 AM

me too
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:21 AM

most deep thinkers are
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:22 AM

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i'm not good at it

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:22 AM

I think most of us here are like that - we get pretty beaten down by thinking about all the crappy things that are going on.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:22 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

hmmm, I can not say how I feel about that as I do not have children. I do however, not worry much about anything, except me smoking, dam hard addiction to kick.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:22 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

kill the whole mental areana all together and it all goes away :)

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:22 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

well, yes, jordan. after a while.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:22 AM

My interactions with you guys suggest strong empath personalities.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:22 AM

I think deeply, and I am a tool
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:22 AM

And empaths take on too much of others' suffering.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:22 AM

Becca - so true
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:22 AM

Robin - great example
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:22 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I think deeply but only as a tool.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:23 AM

yeah, like Robin said.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:23 AM

You just have to try and hit your stride.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:23 AM

kepp going.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:23 AM

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i was totally wrecked by info on fukushima for severaal months. but after while, i just couldn't keep feeling like that so... acceptance of a sort set in i guess.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:23 AM

For some reason, this thing about the kid with the knives got under my skin.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:23 AM

I'm trying that, Kelly, but I struggle like a mofo
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:23 AM

Spring does help. ;)
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:24 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I have worked hard at freeing myself from the egoitic thoughts that lead to worry and self judgement.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:24 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

spring helps

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:24 AM

you know what scares me - I didn't even flinch when I heard about the most recent Ft. Hood shootings
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:24 AM

I did, but i had no other reaction.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:24 AM

So it was, like, that is so horrible. Oh well.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:24 AM

I am so used to this stuff
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:24 AM

good point
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:25 AM

if we ever finish fixing ourselves, then what's the point of living? Contentment? How boring!!!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:25 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

It took me a year to reach this point and I am still not done yet for sure.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:25 AM

;)
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:25 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

it is good to never be 'done', i think

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:25 AM

Kelly - tell that to a creationist
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:25 AM

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we should always evolve.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:26 AM

So, I've been doing this thing for the past few weeks wherein I take Sundays off for ME.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:26 AM

how do you spend them?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:26 AM

And it never fails, just when I start to feel in touch with myself and let go of worry and all that...I see a homeless guy/gal.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:26 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

HEHEHEHE

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:26 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

thems fightin' words!

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:27 AM

it's very tricky
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:27 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I MIGHt be a creationist, just not christan lol.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:27 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

good rebecca

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:27 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

hmmmm you might have to explain that later, kelly ; ]

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:28 AM

because if we immerse ourselves in other people's suffering, what becomes of our own lives
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:28 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

ahhh, ya that will suck ya in rebecca

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:28 AM

But if we don't, where is our humanity?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:28 AM

True.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:28 AM

BUT
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:28 AM

if we're completely self-serving, we're nothing, either.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:28 AM

So it's all about balance.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:28 AM

like everything else in life.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:29 AM

Right - but it is so hard to become aware and then not immersed - it's the separation that proves so friggin hard
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:29 AM

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we don't have to be 'immersed' to make a difference

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:29 AM

you ever go to a pet shelter and NOT want to take home every single animal there?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:29 AM

Right??? I've really tried to make peace with the knowledge that I can't fix everyone, connect with everyone, make every perfect choice...
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:30 AM

And that no one will take care of me but me.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:30 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

and if we place a after life in higher regards then this life now, does that make us trash this life, like it is just a crappy place to be before we get to the real good place?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:30 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

thats some good propaganda kelly

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:30 AM

Do you guys feel like people don't treat you as well as you treat people? I sure do.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:30 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

balance, finding that middle path to ride along.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:31 AM

Yeah.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:31 AM

lucky duck
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:31 AM

I mean, i don't want to get all soppy here, but, yeah.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:31 AM

I am a magnet for crap heads.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:31 AM

My family treats me amazing
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:31 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

yes, if I do not manage to fix things, I am ok with that, at the same time, I will keep trying for a better place.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:31 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

but, ya know. it does make a diff. just simple things can help... and they can snowball into others doing more, too.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:31 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I would help in any way I could rebecca.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:31 AM

so I shouldn't complain
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:31 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

yes, i do too, jordan

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:31 AM

but everyone else is such a dick
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:31 AM

That is awesome!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:32 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

Many people treat me well.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:32 AM

My family is a crap heap. makes it hard to trust other people.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:32 AM

I need therapy. ;P
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:32 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

thats cuz yer such a great person kelly =]

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:32 AM

I don't really think anyone is a dick. Just damaged to the point of behaving abysmally.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:32 AM

yeah.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:32 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

People even dream about me and wierd stuff like that.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:32 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

LOL rebecca

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:33 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

my family has been disapointing too

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:33 AM

And we have such a culture of misanthropes these days...
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:33 AM

I think people don't know HOW to behave, oftentimes.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:33 AM

People talk about the lottery of what family you're born into, usually thinking about money. They don't think about the lottery for emotional wellness.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:33 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

AHHA, yes that would be a very difficult environment to grow up in and still trust people.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:33 AM

Right?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:33 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

for sure

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:33 AM

Because part of that's genetic!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:33 AM

It's like, "Spin The Wheel Of Dysfunction!"
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:33 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

so true jordan, they just cannot see enough.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:34 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

right rebecca.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:34 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

too true

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:34 AM

Hahahaha!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:34 AM

That's funny, 'cause it's TRUE!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:34 AM

I dunno Kelly. I don't think so.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:34 AM

We ARE less violent than we have historically been.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:34 AM

So what would be the categories on The Wheel Of Dysfunction?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:34 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

but let me ask this. Are people getting better right now as of the past 2 years?

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:34 AM

But that's a hard body of evidence for me to accept.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:35 AM

LOL
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:35 AM

Alcoholism. Molestation.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:35 AM

Narcissism.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:35 AM

Repression.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:35 AM

Something about terrible communication skills...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:35 AM

Neglect
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:35 AM

Bigotry.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:35 AM

Emotional volatility
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:35 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

propensity for addiction

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:35 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

so true, I have dysfunctions, I sometimes think too deeply on something and draw WAY to much into a simple thing.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:36 AM

LOL
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:36 AM

Big Wheels!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:36 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

physical abuse

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:36 AM

That's funny, in a very dark way.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:36 AM

Have any of you ever seen the movie The Chumscrubber?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:36 AM

Black comedy is special.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:36 AM

I love black comedy the most.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:36 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

bashing, pushing force, being sad or worrieing all the time, it goes on and on.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:36 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

anti social....... borderline personality

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:36 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

that would be a HUGE wheel.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:37 AM

I don't think I have, Becca - what's it about?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:37 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

yes it would!

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:37 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

nope rebecca

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:37 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

LOL wtf is the chumscrubber?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:37 AM

I would spin until I got delusions of grandeur
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:37 AM

Chumscrubber is a wonderful black comedy about the SoCal gated community type of dysfunction.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:37 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

i'd be afraid to spin it

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:37 AM

AHh, you mean the "hidden" kind
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:37 AM

lol
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:38 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I would spin it untill i had narcisism :)

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:38 AM

it's triggery - it starts with a teen suicide. but it's so deeply raw and funny that I can't even explain it.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:38 AM

Yes, the HIDDEN kind.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:38 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

but you'd have to take all the other ones you landed on too, kelly = D

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:38 AM

Are any of you artists? We shojld draw a cartoon of a soul in heaven with God telling us to spin the Wheel Of Dysfunction to choose where we'll be born.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:38 AM

The kids are all buying illicit prescription drugs, the adults are completely self-absorbed and disconnected...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:38 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

OHH nice one, ya I'll take some of that too :)

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:38 AM

it's brilliant.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:39 AM

very true
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:39 AM

you're only as strong as the hole you dig yourself out of, or something like that
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:39 AM

That's also very funny, Jordan, because Christians don't do reincarnation. That's rich!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:39 AM

I like that, Jordan.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:39 AM

Come on, Robin! You can do it!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:39 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

every dysfunction, is a chance to learn about it from yourself, all bads can be used for good and vice versa.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:40 AM

Or maybe a comedy sketch mimicing Wheel Of Fortune
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:40 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I think, we SHOULD send that to darkmatter jordan, it actually is a good idea.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:40 AM

LOL, Robin! I can do cartoons, but i can't get around the idea of personifying God.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:40 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

i'm an artist but my dyfunction disallows me to do cartoons.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:40 AM

hahahaha!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:40 AM

THAT would go viral, i know it!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:40 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

that show sounds messed up rebecca. LOL now i wanna see it hehehe.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:40 AM

Just make it smoke wearing a t-shirt that says "GOD"
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:40 AM

Word.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:41 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

hard to imagine 'god' if you don't believe in it

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:41 AM

Yeah - so what would Pat Sejak and Vannah White become on Wheel of Dysfunction?
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:41 AM

ROFL!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:41 AM

Hey Hey - it's the Fall!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:41 AM

Good morning!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:41 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

kelly they sound like two tree diseases

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:41 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

and as always here is pat sayitaintso and vaina blight :)

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:42 AM

Jonathan - we're imaginging a Wheel Of Dysfunction that our souls have to spin to figure out what family we'll get born into
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:42 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

hello johnathon

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:42 AM

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

Good morning y'all.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:42 AM

Like a wheel of dysfunction
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:43 AM

Maybe after you spin, you get sent down a chute. like a celestial slide. And the end is the birth canal.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:43 AM

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

I often wonder what it is like in America now?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:43 AM

I would love that so much, Kelly. Or at least I imagine I would. Maybe I'd hate it.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:43 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

well, johnathon, mostly, it sucks

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:43 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

If we could find the triggers to dysfunction, ( money politics and nationalism) maybe we can come together and get rid of the division in people?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:44 AM

Becca - I just had a terrible idea for a water slide...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:44 AM

Hello Harry
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:44 AM

I can't get rid of the idea that it's possible to do better, kelly.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:44 AM

I didn't realize I was leaking radiation...
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:44 AM

I think about that all the time...how can we just make it so that dysfunction isn't FED???
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:45 AM

Jonathan - umm, yes.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:45 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

The world is as you are.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:45 AM

(Hi, Harry!)
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:45 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

i like that, harry

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:45 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

be the change you want to see in the world :) right harry?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:45 AM

I mean - doesn't that really cover most of the world - not just the US?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:45 AM

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

Does it suck because it has become a country of toxic, misinformed cowards?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:46 AM

new feature request!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:46 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

Nice way of putting that third.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:46 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

i do believe you'v e got it! johnathon

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:46 AM

I can't think of any Robin
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:46 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

GRRR why can't i copy paste here LOL i wanna use what third just said.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:46 AM

when we talk about other countries, are we talking about the populace or leadership?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:46 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

i fell like other countries may be less cowardly

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:47 AM

because leadership everywhere is a crap heap of liars.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:47 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

You can't find the source of darkness, you can bring in the light then the darkness will disappear.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:47 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I try and think worldly no nationally.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:47 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

look at the turn out for protests

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:47 AM

I so want that to be true, Harry. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it fails.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:47 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

look at the protest in other countries as we speak.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:47 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

well that is certainly true, rebecca

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:47 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

OH MAN, harry, good stuff, i totally agree.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:48 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

i think thats what we're working on harry

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:48 AM

I echo your sentiment, JB. :/
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:48 AM

I've learned about this concept of "Servant Leaders."
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:48 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

Yes, we do not need leaders, we need oneness and leaders take that away when we put someone on a pedistal.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:48 AM

that leaders don't have power - they have only responsibilities to serve the community
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:48 AM

THEY DO EXIST!!!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:49 AM

And that's what we should be shooting for!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:49 AM

Kelly - that's deep and I totally agree. Beca and Robin - Ghandi was a Servant Leader
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:49 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

how are you gonna tell the leaders that, jordan?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:49 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I do not like being told I am great and I do not call other people great, i just say they have had some great ideas, witch come from the environment of everyone and everything one experiences.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:50 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

indeed!

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:50 AM

I've found that a lot of fire chiefs are servant leaders
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:50 AM

lolol
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:50 AM

Dude, Kelly, I wonder things like that all the time!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:50 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

All the ideas I talk about, are they MY ideas? where did I get them? they are from me experiences of everyone else.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:50 AM

That's a good example with the fire chiefs thing.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:51 AM

Kelly - Bob Dylan has a quote that goes something like this: If I didn't write those songs, somebody else would've.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:51 AM

Many great teachers are servant leaders.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:51 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

so, i'm sorry i said you were a great person. i'll keep it to myself now. = D

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:51 AM

basically Dylan was saying that he "found" those songs - he didn't write them
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:51 AM

And Bob was right - things happen when humans are ready for them to happen.
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:52 AM

I mean, of course, cultural advances.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:52 AM

I believe change begins with mental wellness - it's hard to change when in emotional chaos
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:52 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

Change begins within.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:52 AM

I think you're right, Jordan!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:53 AM

So, doesn't that kind of lend credence to the idea that "they're" trying to keep us unhappy, dissatisfied, separate?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:53 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

but not everyone wonders, or really takes in what others do//say.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:53 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

LOL, robin, and yes harry it comes from within SOOO, how can someone show someone else?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:53 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

do questions work to show self revelation to another person?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:53 AM

As a young man, I can remember wanting so badly to feel totally secure. Not to have emotional needs. To be self sufficient.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:53 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

can i say "great" question, kelly? because it is

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:53 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

Jordon what is it that works, what's it that fails?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:54 AM

because those were desires born of mental imbalance. I wasn't well, so I wanted the wrong things.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:55 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

a flower may be beautiful because of the sun and the rain and the quality of the seed it grew from, but it is STILL a beautiful flower, is it not?

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:55 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

true that robin.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:55 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

Are we born knowing all things? nah, that is why we learn from our mistakes.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:55 AM

But how can we get healthy as a culture?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:55 AM

Becca - who knows? I go back and forth believing in a huge conspiracy to believing no plan or control at all
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:55 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

rebecca, yes, i have read that is the evil plan.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:56 AM

I think we all wholeheartedly agree
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:56 AM

but struggle to get there despite our best intentions
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:56 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

We are all leaders in our own spheres when we feel whole and full. Our inner peace is the key to our wellness and the betterment of our world.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:56 AM

Why is it so hard?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:57 AM

Maybe it has to be hard to be worth anything
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:57 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

Dam harry, we need to talk more LOL.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:57 AM

lol
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:57 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

yes, i want more from harry, too! =D

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:57 AM

(Seth says hey. he would be here, but the kiddo is having lots of crying on this day.)
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:57 AM

love that guy
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:58 AM

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

A couple of very doable solutions: Thousands of Americans in S. Florida need to descend upon Cuba. Stimulate the Cuban economy and end the retarded embargo simultaneously!

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 12:58 AM

Well, it's not going to be worth much if we don't get a move on! if all we're left with is a ruined planet and some leftover humanoids that could withstand the radiation, I don't call that winning...
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:59 AM

So - I have to say - I cannot BELIEVE what an amazing Tawk we all had without a subject, a plan, nuthin!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:59 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

send him good wishes, pleaase.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:59 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

so true harry!

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:59 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

There is greatness something big and huge in us all. We are destined for greatness. All we need is some room to unfold.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:59 AM

LOL - the potluck was metaphoric!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:00 AM

(And Seth is appreciative. talk about needing some goddamed inner peace - using your nice words consistently with a tiny, cherubic id who is screaming and taking his jammies off is a zen training exercise)
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

Jonathan - maybe we need a future Tawk on Cuba?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

LOL and here i thought it was going to be about food LOL.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

And Harry - thank you for your inspiring words and ideas
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

i knew it would be "great"

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

and too quik

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:00 AM

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

Hell yeah it would work. I have been there to Havana and they would love it. Raul would love it and it would cause Fidel to smile and shed some tears of joy.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:01 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

wow, johnathon. sounds so good

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:01 AM

Jonathan, right on! The embargo is EMBARRASSING, to say the least!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:01 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

for sure rebecca

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:01 AM

so back to Tuesday next week? I'll Tawk Cuba!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:01 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

LOL rebecca, ya tell seth he is doing right by doing what he feels is right :)

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:01 AM

Holy moly! i have been reading about Roosevelt in this book calle dThe Imperial Cruise...I trust nothing about our foreign policy, now or historically!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:01 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

yes, harry! don't be a stranger, now!

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:02 AM

Yep, Tuesday!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

Just think of the economic stimulation in Cuba and Florida and beyond...imagine that!

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

from the ethereal to the practical - this Tawk had it all
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

Kelly - one needs to live that bigness from within and then we are an exponent of that reality. One can not contrive a sense of Wholeness neither for one self and most definitely for anyone else. Must be an experience.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I have to get one metaphysics comment, Flower of life IS the simple logic plan for everything in existence.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:02 AM

Love you folks! Thanks for hanging out! I appreciate Harry's words, and Kelly, Robin and jane had great insight, as always.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

yes, pretty much the entirety of american "govt" is embarrasing

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:02 AM

Not to mention: WHEEL! OF! DYSFUNCTION!!!!!!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:02 AM

Hahaaaaaa!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:03 AM

This is going to happen!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:03 AM

We don't really have a choice, do we?
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:03 AM

NO WE DONT!!!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:03 AM

Because, there is no free will.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:03 AM

lmao Robin!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:03 AM

maybe there's ALREADY our viral Youtube video out there on Pirate bay. Leftover from another space/time.
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

I love you guys!!!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

We live by example.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

I'm off to cook some pasta - I'm hungry!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

haha ya! no free will

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:04 AM

XOXO, Y'all!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

Questions help but often answers come beyond the intellect.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

and time is linear... causality, ya know.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:04 AM

nite!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:04 AM

See you on Tuesday!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:05 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

Free will is there, if you can just get rid of the things holding you in place, fear.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:05 AM

Only when you all are here
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:05 AM

Hahaha! "Subhuman" chains!
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:05 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

the best tawks ever are with you two.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:05 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

we love you tooo!

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:05 AM

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

Another slightly easier action to take NOW is to form a strong human chain around Capital Hill with sub human chains around each dysfunctional entity, i.e., the supreme court, certain office buildings, the capital, etc.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:05 AM

nice optimistic message to end
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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:05 AM

:)
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

I'm in, Fall!
Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

= D

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

I know harry, I just ask myself a question, not answering it, and then someone or something in existence answeres it for me. That used to take years, now it is days sometimes minutes.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from Robin Maynard

how esoteric kelly! i love it.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from kelly mackin

ok awesome talk, I will go now, got things to do love you all, have a good life.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from Johnathonfall thethird

The time has come to rock the boat while having fun.

Jordan Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 1:07 AM

★ Spotlighted from Harry Martinian

Meditation, regularly practiced will yield the results we are aiming at. Only be sure the practice is simple, natural and effortless. Don't buy the hype that it needs to be a struggle.

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Rebecca Westbrook Toker · 1:08 AM

Teach me how, Harry! I'm trying to learn!