From my world, to yours, I walk!

As life goes on, some think we grow wiser. Myself, I think we just get a little less sane with each passing day.

[worldwalker128]

This was taken from Facebook, and I have no idea how to actually link a facebook post from facebook to another site because I’m old, lol.

These people are crazy! The only thing I can think is that this is a deliberate attempt to de-stabilize the still-peaceful parts of our country and utterly destroy our economy. Why will anyone try to get a job at all, thus genuinely stimulating our country's economy and encouraging self-sufficiency when they can just get free money for EXISTING? This will ENCOURAGE not DISCOURAGE illegal immigration, which will mean MORE people getting FREE MONEY if this goes through and creating an ever-growing money drain. The prices of EVERYTHING will SKYROCKET in just a few short years! Again, I can only think that this is a deliberate attempt to destroy this nation, as only a complete fool would think that this line of plans is a good idea otherwise, and you don't initially get into a position of political power by being a complete fool. Whoever has put this plan in place at the root KNOWS that destroying this nation through conquest would be VERY costly in both manpower and resource-wise. So instead they're trying the same tactic as that villain from that Batman Begins: Economics. And these same tactics (but form a different angle as the only one spending is us) won the Cold War and prove that they're viable. A nation that cannot sustain itself financially is doomed to collapse on itself without any other country needing to load a gun, fuel a tank or jet, or even just sharpen a knife. It takes more time to set up such a strategy, but it's no less viable, and there is far less risk to the founders and executors of such a plan. May God punish them for this, because I doubt that enough other people will see and realize this or be motivated enough to do anything to stop it.

[worldwalker128]

When I get over things, I Get Over them. Meanwhile, the rest of my family linger on bad events and recycle it in their heads over and over, and then are puzzled to the moon and back that I’ve already moved on...and think I’m in denial.

And they think I need therapy for it.....when THEY are the ones driving themselves nuts over something that I got over a few days ago. Yes, I was depressed pretty badly a week ago. But News Flash: That was a week ago. I’ve gotten past it, and I’ve got bigger issues to worry about now.

“Time-Sensitive Quest Received!”

I don’t have the TIME to hold onto the past when everyone and everything other than my mother, father, and (and to a degree) my aunt are demanding I break into a sprint towards my future and leave that emotional turmoil behind. That time period sucked, so I’m all too happy to do just that.

My mother, father, and aunt are demanding, on top of me moving out of my aunt’s house, that I go see a therapist. Um....I’m being kicked out of the house in two and a half months with no chosen destination yet, and in the meantime, I still have a 10-hours-a-day job that has been demanding lots of overtime days lately. I don’t have the Time, Energy, or Money, to do that or any real reason to go at all since I’ve slipped back into almost-no-emotion mode again. Over the years I’ve become less sensitive to things, and though events of extreme emotion still occasionally come, they vanish again just as quickly once they’re run their course. I guess I must be a mutant, because my mother in particular, just can’t seem to grasp that fact.

Unfortunately, my aunt has taken my father and mother’s side this time, and has ever-so-nonchalantly informed me that if I choose NOT to find a therapist to speak to, that she’ll kick me out not in two and a half months, but NEXT -F#CKING- WEEK instead.

Fine. You want me to go to a therapist and waste my more-precious-than-ever money and time on something I don’t need? I will. And I’ll sit on his/her client-couch, and read a book.

[worldwalker128]

Welp, going to be moving soon.

For the last several years (about 5, I think) I’ve been renting a room from my aunt. Now my aunt has found herself a guyfriend and she wants me to move out. He’s a good guy, and raised his daughter himself after his wife passed away, which is a pleasant thing to learn seeing as my aunt has had TERRIBLE luck with romance for most of her life and deserves someone wonderful. Still, I need to be out the door with my things by October 1.

I don’t as of right now have any concrete plans, and over the last few weeks I’ve had a large patch of unpleasantness, including getting so depressed from several recent bad events that I almost shot myself (my folks talked me out of it, thankfully)but after asking my oldest friend (we’ve been buds since 2n’d grade and I’m 30 now. He’s 29 and married) for advice, he gave me peace-of-mind. He enthusiastically informed me that Lancaster, PA (close to his neighborhood. We live in separate states so we don’t see each other often, maybe a few times a year. This would change that.) is hiring all over the place right now, that he’s seen several places where apartments are offering pricing of 300-600 bucks a month depending on how picky you are and where you be (if I can transfer my current job to down there I’m more than capable of paying that!) and that if I’m struggling to find a place to stay I can crash in their guest room for one or two months.

Truly, even in the darkest fog and coldest night, God is waiting just ahead to offer you a warm lantern.

[worldwalker128]

People that tell their partner/romantic significant other “make me your toy” or something to that effect.

You’re devaluing yourself more than you realize. A toy may be amusing for awhile, perhaps even years, but eventually it will be discarded or given away to someone else for their amusement when it has ceased to be entertaining for the original owner.

Or perhaps you won’t be discarded or given away/let go. Perhaps you’ll be put up on a shelf for other people to see but never truly enjoy. Or perhaps you’ll be on that shelf as a “I have it but you don’t” prize. Not something that is loved, but rather simply a possession to be hoarded or a trophy.

Perhaps being seen as someTHING to be used and discarded is your fetish, but if so I will never understand why. Why would you want to be seen as disposable, cheap, or merely an object of amusement? You’re worth more than that, regardless of who you are.

[worldwalker128]

It’s depressing when you realize that you’re about as generic as it gets, employment-wise

I’ve been working for Amazon for nearly 5 years now, doing pretty much the same job the entire time, with a few rare exceptions. Anybody who has worked for Amazon for even a few weeks can tell you the job(s) is(are) repetitive and the tedium can drive you nuts sometimes. Eventually for the most part you get used to it, and working there can have its perks, such as getting into better shape and losing some weight. If you’re full-time you get benefits, and have the opportunity to get Overtime with time-and-a-half pay. If you work weekends you get (at least, I did) an extra dollar-per-hour than someone who works weekdays. There is more pros and cons I could add, as well a few non-jokes that sound like jokes that are really just sad and pathetic of this company, but I’m digressing from the title.

Recently several openings for tier-3 positions and pay opened up. Having been there almost 5 years, I’ve built up a decent reputation as being a reliable worker, and frankly, I’m bored with my job. It pays the bills, but a Picker is not something I want to do for the rest of my life, especially considering I don’t get raises anymore.

So I went onto the employee portion of the company website and looked the positions over. Most of them are just plain out of my reach because I didn’t get a degree in college. I did graduate from High School, but that’s not enough for most of them despite being able to do pretty much everything else they’re asking of prospective employees. Then I found one that did not require a degree AND I could do pretty much everything it listed a as must....but DID require that I be able to read blueprints...which I can’t.

As usual, I’m my own demise when it comes to any hopes or dreams of making a better future for myself....in hindsight. Maybe I’ll just join their career choice program and try my luck there. Hopefully I won’t need to take another pointless Algebra course along the way. *sigh*

[worldwalker128]

A 5-year old declared to me that she intended to marry me,lol.

Of my generation to both branches of the family from my mother and father, I’m the oldest at 30 as far as my 1′st cousins and my sibling go. The youngest, to my knowledge, is 2. I say “to my knowledge” because I’m usually the last person to know things and I might already have a newer/younger one. Currently, the number of first-cousins I have is....9, I think. 3 of whom I’ve not seen or spoken to in years. I hope they’re doing well.

Then I’ve got an assortment of 2n’d and 3′rd cousins, some of whom I’ve met, and most I know just exist. Of my second cousins, about half of them are my age or a little older. The rest range from 6 years younger than me down to age 5. The 5-year kid is the one in question that declared that she’d marry me one day.

Her father I don’t think she’s ever met (ran out when he found out her mom was pregnant, prick), and her mother......has a set of issues that I won’t go into because it would take longer to type it all out than I feel like taking and it would devolve into an angry rant. Suffice to say, other than her grandmother whom is currently taking care of her and occasionally my own folks or some friends of the family, she hasn’t had any particularly good adult role models to look up to, and of those she has had, few of them have the energy to keep up with her or else have kids of their own to also divide their attention between.

Well at least once every two weeks for the last several months I’ve been dropping by her grandma’s (Grand Aunt to me) place to help out around the yard or house (most recently I cleaned out her gutters. Best time to do that in the summer is when it’s lightly drizzling because then bugs don’t bother you) ranging from cleaning up broken branches from storms and torching them and other assorted yard work or looking after the young miss for a few hours while my GA either does some stuff in the house or runs errands outside of the house in town or even simply gets a few hours of peace, quiet, and/or sleep.

On one such day I’d just finished doing about a lap of the yard (it’s a bit over an acre in total area) at a jog with her riding on my shoulders. She’s not heavy, but I’m also not in as good a shape as I’d like to be. So I pause to rest and sit on the ground. She gets off my shoulders and sat on my lap to keep grass off her shorts while I rested. About three minutes into that she out-of-the-blue looks up into my eyes and declares she’s going to marry me one day. I blink twice in surprise, then object:

“Um, Young Miss, you’re just five and won’t be able to get legally married in this country until you’re 18.” To this, she replied:

“Yeah, but I’m young. I can wait.” She’s not incorrect, and since she’s a 2n’d cousin it wouldn't be illegal in this state, but still:

“True, but when you’ve aged to 18, I’ll be 43. Wouldn’t you prefer to be married to someone closer to you in age?” She shook her head.

“Nope. Not if they aren’t you.” I thought for a few seconds.

“I appreciate that you like me, Young Miss, but I’m pretty sure that by the time you’ve old enough to actually get married, you’ll have found somebody better.” I HOPE she does. I really do. If I’m still The Best in her eyes that the world has to offer in 13 years, then society has gone BEYOND F’d up. I’m no monster, but I’ve still done (or fapped to) a few things I don’t want my mother discovering. If I die, someone needs to go to my house and wipe every hard drive not in a console that I own.

“Nope!” Then she wrapped her arms around my neck and snuggled a side of her face into my chest and made a sound of contentment.

Adorable, but sometimes I wonder if I secretly live in an anime world and I’m one of the characters the show focuses on. Women 10 years and MUCH OLDER think I’m hot, and teens and children think I’m husband materiel (the Young Miss is only one example of minors Looking at me. I’ve probably made a post about that here at some point in the past). Meanwhile, women my own age are either already married, or aren’t interested at all. WTF. It’s like the script writer can’t decide to make my persona a Cougar Hunter or a Pedophile and is puzzled as to why I keep saying no to both so keeps throwing more and more at me. I keep waiting for an alien cat-girl to show up at some point!

[worldwalker128]

long-winded reply to a commentor on Youtube

“I’m not trying to be rude but how can you be a femminist and not an SJW?”

      That depends on whose definition of Feminism that they follow. If they follow the Original Definition, which is for ACTUAL gender equality, and not the man-hating bs that the modern generation of it CLAIMING to be feminists spew, then it's very possible. It's also the modern generation that make the most noise, because they want the most attention, and don't care if they look like assholes for doing it, because then they can play the role of Victim if they're called out on it, which makes Fools feel sorry for them, and eventually sways them over to their side. Sadly, there are many Fools in the world.      Politics and Public manipulation is like a chess game. Ever wonder why schools seem to be actually teaching less and less in-depth lessons and encouraging reading less and less? If you don't read a lot of books or only pre-selected, then you aren't exposed to ideas outside of what you're being taught to think, do, or choose. This makes you less creative. This makes you less independent. This makes you more willing to let other people think for you. Have you noticed  that time and again kids' shows are trumpeting  the line "Do what FEELS right”, or “Believe in Yourself (rather than have self-confidence? it sounds like a small difference, but different wording can be misunderstood. Misunderstand enough times, and it becomes the way you think it really is.)” Emotions can be fairly easily manipulated. We are a passionate species. This can play in our favor, or against us. If your emotions can be trained to react in a certain way to certain things, and you allow your emotions to rule you (as those same kid's cartoons encourage our children in their formative years), you'll be making less decisions based on logic- you aren't THINKING, you're FEELING. You're more likely to listen to someone wearing a smile or with tears flowing down their face than to someone who is calm, quiet, and speaking slowly and deliberately using Logic and Law as their backing to their words and decisions.      This may sound like more crackpot conspiracy theory, but if you look, and listen, and mentally put the pieces together, this is the puzzle's picture that is revealed. I'm almost certain this has been deliberate. Almost. I'm hoping I'm wrong.      Have you ever heard of "The Wave"? That was an event in the 1960's in which a teacher convinced his students (as a lesson on how people could be convinced by Hitler to become Nazis) that he was a recruiter for a movement called The Wave that was being organized across the country in small towns, cites, and communities. He inspired them into joining this group by speaking about their goals, what they stood for, and how their goals could be obtained (among a few other things. Go read the book or watch the movie based on the event for more details). He was intelligent (which they already knew) charismatic, and it didn't take too long before a large part of the student body would chant their pledge at "meetings" and began trying to recruit outsiders themselves. A few of them even became zealots for "their cause".      It really doesn't take much to convince someone of "We're right and no matter what we do they're wrong!". You only have to push the right buttons. *The less wise and more emotional someone is, the fewer buttons you have to press*.

     I sincerely believe that the entire modern feminism movement is a political construct meant to divide the nation on a variety of subjects, not simply just to demean and devalue what it means to be a self-sufficient man. Think about it, if equality was really their goal....they have it. There's nothing to fight for towards that goal in the US, now. They were given equal rights over 40 years ago (though admittedly some people need to be reminded of this). Are Actual (original definition) Feminists important to have around? Yes! Having them around means we won't slide backward into the way things were.  But Modern-Definition Feminists are a problem. They're harming instead of helping. Their involvement in media as of late is almost ENTIRELY political and has little, if anything, to do with Actual Feminism. The sad thing is, I think that some of them genuinely believe that their actions will lead to a better future.....they're blind.

[worldwalker128]

Crazy amazon vendors

You ever try Maple Cookies? The ones in particular I'm talking about have a leaf design to them, and have a maple icing between two cookies. Kinda like an oreo except...ya know, it's not one. In just about every store you find them in their price will range from $1 to maybe $2.50(minus tax), and depending on the brand or the store it'll have more or less cookies in the packaging, which generally affects price. Well I hadn't had them in awhile, so I looked them up on the company's website. The cheapest money amount was $6 for ONE BOX, and the highest was $38 and change for 12 boxes, which breaks down to about $3 a box, but I don't want that many boxes of cookies all at the same time. What are these people smoking to charge that much (or make such an off-the-wall combo deal)??

[worldwalker128]

Just finished watching an inspiration video on Youtube and it got me thinking...

It's amazing the effect that someone can have on another's life.....I've been a cynical and sometimes rude person many times in the last several months....could that attitude wreck someone's life down the line even though I might never meet them again? This videos home the childhood lessons of "Treat others the way you want to be treated" and "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all." Treat others the way YOU wish to be treated. Not the way they're treating you, but how you yourself wish to be treated. So many times I've heard that over the years, and how easy it is to forget it, to be rude right back to the person that's rude to me. How many lives have I made more unpleasant by not being polite regardless of the other's attitude?? If any of you are among those I've been deliberately rude to in the past, I apologize.

[worldwalker128]

My Thoughts (if anyone cares):

   If Cirein-Croin was a real critter it might have been a type of huge Angler-fish rather than a shape-shifter, and its size could have been exaggerated by fear and confusion because let's face it: fishing ships aren't very big, then or now. An Angler-fish uses a light on its body to lure in prey in the dark sunless depths of the ocean. If this CC were a creature that ranged in the middling to shallow depths of the ocean for its hunting grounds then it would have no need of a light to lure in prey (such as sharks that prey on fish that look like its lure), but could instead use a limb that had a similar shape (and color) to the aforementioned fish in the video which is then pulled back as the creature's main body and mouth comes into play. Let's face it, once you see the Tiger's TEETH coming at your face, you're not paying much attention to the rest of it until you get to safety.

   As to how it could conceal the size of its body from potential prey and unsuspecting fishermen until it was almost too late to escape (else why would there be stories of them in the first place)....they only thing I can think of comes back to the shape-shifting aspect of the legend. I have two theories:

1. That the creature had a camouflage ability like some lizards and until it found prey it moved slowly so as to blend in with the surrounding waters and other fish it might be hiding its lure in.

2. that it had another deep-sea fish ability that was only revealed when it went after prey like in the case of the Black Swallower, which can consume prey larger than itself. It is possible that the creature wasn't going after the fishermen at all, but rather the fish they were trying to capture, and so what seemed to be small at first could seem to become huge as it gulped down the other fish they were trying to haul up in the net. This would cause its stomach to swell and expand while still within the net, making it seem to be changing shape. Of course, never having seen something like that before, the fishermen would be quite startled, and quickly release the 'monster' back into the ocean along with the rest of their catch, and be convinced that this creature had just attacked them to protect the fish they were trying to catch.

But, that's just a few guesses.    

[worldwalker128]

Anybody else have these uncomfortable situations happen (more than 3 times), and then wonder if the Universe is trying to turn you into a Pedophile or Cougar-Hunter against your will?

   Most people at some point have others mistake their age for being older or younger than they are, or else have people who know EXACTLY how old you are, and despite your age difference, try to flirt (or hit on you harder than an asteroid into the planet that causes the extinction of the dinosaurs) with you anyway? I live in Delaware, which is a state infamous for Cougars of the human variety. This is probably due to the fact that this state is considered a retirement state (we have mild weather most of the time, there are few hills to hike up and down, and there’s no tax-calculation for us lazier types to have to deal with when buying ANYTHING), and naturally, draws a bunch of older people here.

   I’ve had women a few years older than me, ten years older than me, and one case that I’m pretty sure was thirty or more years older than me flirt (in the case of granny, it was borderline sexual harassment. Some women age like fine wine and have a pleasant personality to go along with it. She didn’t for either case. She was also blunter than a war hammer and I’m assuming she got fired for trying her luck on someone else because I didn’t see her again when I came in the following week.) There’s probably some people who might be jealous, but frankly, I’m not one of those that appreciate that kind of attention.

   Then of course we’ve got the flip-side of that as well: The minors who think full-blown adults ten years or more than them are attractive. *Sigh and facepalm*

   I’m not talking about the soon-to-be-graduated minors being drawn to college-goers. No. I’m talking about the 15-and-younger minors. I don’t know what goes through their heads- I don’t know if doing that makes them feel older than they are, if they’re showing off to their friends (”Oh look at me, I’m so pretty I can draw the eyes of EVERY male around me!”), if they’re just looking for attention of any kind because they don’t get enough from home, or if they’re just as bad at judging age as I am (back in high school I once tried to guess a disciplinary-dude’s age. I said 25-27. He said he was close to his 40s.) But if you’re not already of a corrupted mindset it’s not an enjoyable experience.

   For the love of all left that is holy, if you have kids, try to teach them right or at least smart. it might look cute on video, but the reality is that a minor hitting on a- major, I guess? is a risky business. I probably don’t need to tell you that if you already have kids.

And if YOU are a kid, please be cautious. There are more and more crazies and perverts and greedy people out there looking for a quick thrill or buck, and are probably willing to use YOU to get it. Don’t play around with that. Every time you do you’re tossing the dice. And you only have to get unlucky once to lose everything.

[worldwalker128]

During a check-up on Facebook, I saw this:

One of the comments on it in the said, direct quote: “Women? I don't know that pokemon.”

After stemming my laughter from the mathematical equation, my brain starting barfing up possible Pokemon description information if a woman was in fact a Pokemon:

Found almost anywhere, those found in civilized areas come standard with these attacks, though may have others: ATTRACT, LEER (or CUTE CHARM), and DOUBLESLAP. Strangely enough, the ones found in the slummier parts of cities usually come with ATTRACT, TAIL WHIP, and PAYDAY, and never learn any others on their own once captured, but CAN be taught more. In either case, their pre-evolved form: GIRL, normally comes with CUTE CHARM, LIFE DRAIN, and AGILITY. They evolve into WOMAN at level 18, though have been reported to evolve sooner depending on what Region they are found in.

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I haven’t played Pokemon in YEARS other than a few modded ones such as Pokesweets (Think Pokemon blended with Candyland) and Snakewood (Zombie Apocolypse). How’d I do?

[worldwalker128]

If a Hufflepuff gets chubby....

do they become a Jigglypuff?

[worldwalker128]

Why can’t I get a simple answer???

You know how most of the time, when a word is made up of all caps not in the context of shouting in text-form it means that the word isn’t so much a word itself, but an acronym? I tried to look up what SMART for SMART phones and SMART TVs stood for, but I find literally nothing other than what the tech allows those machines to accomplish, which is all well-and-good, but is not what I’m looking for. I find this rather strange, and the more I look, the more non-related answers to phones and TVs (other than places trying to sell me things) that I get. It may just be a bit of silly paranoia, but I’ve found over the years that the more someone really wants to hide information, the harder they try to distract from it in one fashion or another, or make it seem as if the information no longer exists. Even Wikipedia has literally [i]nothing[/i] on that particular subject other than this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

As well as several acronyms that have little to nothing to do with phones or TVs.This is related, yes, but like the rest of it all still not what I’m looking for.

WTF. Seriously.

[gogomrbrown]

Someone give this man a megaphone.

[bdell1]

Reblog the hell out of this - please. Even those of you who are not in the US. You have Us followers and this is obscene.

[pervertedcmc-deactivated2019012]

It’s Important to note that these changes came into place once TRUMP was sworn in NOT BEFORE.

[worldwalker128]

And people ask me why I want to move OUT of this sinking ship of a country. What do I need to know to move to Australia? I’d go to Antarctica or the moon, but you need special permissions for the first, and I don’t have the resources for the second.

[meme-theft]

[oddityball]

I LOVE THAT THEY KEEP PICKING UP MORE OMG

[the-thought-emporium-imperial]

Man, The Spiderverse movie looks rough as hell.

[xxtc-96xx]

what have I just reblogged…

too late 

[aymar-lounox]

Everyone get in the spider train

[worldwalker128]

This is why I need to go to a convention.

[worldwalker128]

I'm questioning whether my 'Wisdom Roll' failed.

I just bought two items on Amazon for a bit over $500, and it's not something one would often want those of decent disposition to know they have, and I own several other items already which already serve the bottom-line purpose of this expensive item which makes up most of that price. Now granted, had I bought it someplace else I might have paid an additional 200 or more dollars, but at the same time my lack of trust for most online stores has my instincts screaming at me that I've willingly walked into a minefield with less than half of my total HP. Now, this vendor has been selling things of both mundane-and-practical and Questionable-moral-compass for over a year, but of the variety of QMC items there's been less than 2 dozen reviews left for them each. Granted it could just be because those that purchased them didn't want their relatives or friends KNOWING that they bought such objects, and I've seen those same QMC items from that same vendor on other sites selling the same types of QMC objects...I guess I’m just not comfortable paying that much for something. Most of th etime when I buy things it’s less than $50. Truth be told I’d intended to waste about that much of my tax return on such an object anyway, but still...