Stop and pick up a rock

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  1. or smell a flower
    Listen to the noise all around
    Start a conversation with someone new
    Say Hi
     
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  2. sit outside the corner store drink beer
    Have fun
     
  3. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    One in five Americans insist the sun revolves around the earth, over half debate the definition of stupid and who is the best example, while 80% of them are deeply divided as to whether Donald Duck should be impeached. Over the last half century we've gone from Martin Luther King and Billy Jean King loudly protesting, to people no longer discussing anything if they can help it. Of course, that's why Donald Duck's supporters insist, is that there's nothing wrong with nobody talking about such things.
     
  4. YouFreeMe

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    Frolic in the meadow
    Touch the green grass
    Pick up a rock
    Feel it in your hands
    throw it at your enemy
    sit in a jail cell for assault
    contemplate the point of your life
    sink into a deep depression
     
  5. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Violence is the last resort of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
     
  6. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    i conversed with a few random strangers today, and listened to a lot of noise.

    also, donald duck says it's illegal to vote for mickey mouse, and the kkk insists the sun revolves around the earth.
     
  7. tumbling.dice

    tumbling.dice Visitor

    In Maryland...it's illegal to vote for that damn rodent in Maryland. So stay away from Maryland if you want some wealthy specimen of Mus musculus to occupy the Oval Office.
     
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  8. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    other people's conversations are why i can't listen to flowers and rocks.
    their mouths are open too wide, telling each other what to pretend,
    to be able to see with their own eyes,
    or permit others to hear with their own ears.

    if you really want to see rocks and flowers,
    you need to hike a long way beyond the box of human society.

    then you will find, yes,
    rocks and trees and flowers and little furry creatures with big sharp teeth and the whole rest of the universe in all its limitlessly wonderful diversity and peaceful anarchy
    really does exist,

    and owes nothing to what humans tell each other to pretend.
     
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  9. Eric!

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    Take off your shoes and socks and walk:
    On some cool green grass
    On some warm or cool sand
    Through some cool water waves on the beach
     
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  10. Eric!

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    WTF, Woolee!? Can't you see we are trying to escape all that nonsense for a moment?

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  11. Tyrsonswood

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    Stop and pick up a rock
    Smell it
    realise it wasn't a rock at all
    Throw it at your neighbor, and tell him to pick up after his dog.


    Go wash your hands... twice.
     
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  14. Eric!

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    Take a moment to take in nature:

    -See all the different kinds of birds flying around, chirping, perched on tree branches and window sills, hopping on sidewalks where people gather

    -see all the different dogs out for a walk with their owners, hear them barking, and see cats in the windows napping or looking out into the neighborhood

    -watch the squirrels run, gather acorns, chase each other around the trees

    Turn off that damn cellphone and totally take in and embrace nature all around you......
     
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  17. Total Darkness

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    Pick up a rock. Smell what its cooking. Close your eyes. Then bite into it. Don't worry just take a bite. I SAID BITE!!! Taste the flavor. Open your eyes. It was only an apple.

    You know what. Yall are too weird for me. :p
     
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  18. Bicaptain My Captain

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    Road apple?
     
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  19. themnax

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    i like that idea, if i didn't live in a city where i'd get who knows what kind of infection from who knows what i might cut my feet up stepping on.
    if people didn't think they were doing the world a favor breaking bottles and throwing other crap where people would have to walk on it,
    hell yah, i'd be going bare pawed all the time. and if it were the actual earth my hind paws were walking on, alive with plants growing in it.

    but i can and do put something on my feet and go out and look for all the things around me that i do like seeing,
    picking them out with my eyes from among things that i don't or don't as much.

    naming things i love to see, begins with all forms of life, with vegitation and the with all sorts of little furry and feathery creatures.
    the're there, for anyone who takes the time to look, to stand still occasionally to not chaise them off.
    tree rats and feral cats, pigeons and crows, migrating seagulls and geese, the rare occasional creatures less common to my current surroundings.
    rabbits, skunks, still have yet to see a fox, porkupines and racoons, bobcats and bobcat domestic feral cat hybreds.

    the rocks by and in the river, and sometimes other things that are, the shapes of how they've been affected by erosion.
    the shapes of trees and of forgotten spaces.
     
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    Beware when you pick up a rock. Have taught mine to Sit and Stay but it's hard going [​IMG]

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