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Showing posts with label sadness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sadness. Show all posts
Friday, August 28, 2026
Friday, August 21, 2026
I'm so ugly and sad...and pretty?
Edwin H. Land created the instant camera
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| If I feel pretty, am I pretty? - To someone. |
(pale blue wave) I stopped her in the park, and what she told me broke my heart. So I photographed her portrait.
If "ugly" is a feeling (an emotion), what is beauty?
Is self-confidence beautiful and self-doubt revolting?
Personality is incomprehensibly important so that even dwarves, Elephant Men, beasts, and hideous creatures are beautiful to some beauties out there.
Beauty is only skin deep. Deep inside the skin are very lovely things -- charm, comeliness, humor, riches! What is any one of us after other than being loved, feeling protected, comforted, understood, accommodated? Some even get off on loving others.
beauty, sadness, loneliness, photography, park, parable of touching a woman, dating, heartbreak, marriage, the four bases of popularity
Thursday, July 9, 2026
The Total Eclipse of (the Heart) Bonnie Tyler
(ITV News)
Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around)" (official video) That raspy voice!
Can metal ruin a masterpiece?
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Friday, June 19, 2026
Sad Blues for a Happy Juneteenth (6/19)
What would white rockers like Led Zeppelin without the appropriation of Black American music?
The Black history they try to hide from us - Knicks fan embarrasses NYPD slave patrol๐ญ
Top hard rock act Led Zeppelin was based on American blues
Why celebrate Juneteenth?
Jordan Klepper investigates America
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
What's worse, Satan or Heartbreak?
| 18 fascinating facts about Nina Persson |
Long, long ago, there was this cool Swedish band that used to do covers, as most new bands are wont to do. Like nearly everyone else, they covered Black Sabbath standards. They are so catchy, easy, and powerful, that it's a good way to get a rock 'n roll career going. But the band was The Cardigans with an ice princess for a singer, one with a saccharine voice and looks. Some member, possibly the drummer, said, "I know! Let's cover the most iconic and evil Black Sabbath song, a song so evil they named themselves after it!"
And so "Heartbreaker" was born. Now, no Cardigans fan knows it's "Black Sabbath," and no Sabbath fans know who the F The Cardigans are, but evil is evil, and a rock 'n roll classic is a classic for a reason (or it may have something to do with the Devil's note, the tritone).
Now, in Christianity, "Satan" is the source of all evil, all harm, all bad things. He's like the counterpart to a jerk allegedly all-powerful God who is all "good." But satan really means the "adversary," any adversary, as in divorce court.
"Heartbreaker"
LYRICS: "Heartbreaker"
| Lovefool Nina Persson, The Cardigans front |
[Verse 1] No, not again/ Oh, what a man/ Just who I thought that I wanted to have/ Oh, don't do that/ Don't use that bat/ That's all it takes to make me falling flat/ [Pre-Chorus 1] No, not again/ A loser I am// [CHORUS] I love you tonight/ You are my knight/ Cure and assure and make me feel alright/ Tomorrow you'll find/ I'm not around/ But don't be uptight 'cause I loved you last night// [Verse 2] Vacant and free/ Yeah, that is me/ Just tell me how and I'll please you for free/ Tell me I'm good/ I know I'm bad/ Lies make me feel fine although it is sad/ [Pre-Chorus 2] No, not again/ Not one more man// [CHORUS] I love you tonight/ You are my knight/ Cure and assure and make me feel alright/ Tomorrow you'll find/ I'm not around/ But don't be uptight 'cause I loved you last night/ Right?
LYRICS: "Black Sabbath"
| Madman Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath front |
(xuky 1982) The Cardigans "Heartbreaker" live
Who is this cat "Satan"?
The evil Devil began in Zoroastrianism
(The Epic History Vibe) Zarathustra's forgotten religion that secretly invented heaven, hell, and the Devil borrowed by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
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Friday, January 16, 2026
Saddest Day of Year: 'Blue Monday' (1/19)
"Those who fail to plan PLAN to fail"
Capitalist salesman Kevin Trudeau says he was initiated into uncle's "The Brotherhood"
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| Feel the feelings without clinging to them. |
There is a saying we should all know. For by knowing it, we can love it and live it. Kevin Trudeau [Hevin' True Dough?] the miracle way to happiness is to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens to us.
"Well, that's impossible!" we may exclaim. "I can't be responsible for what others do to me!" Are we going to wait for them and react accordingly? Wouldn't it be better to act as if everything that happens to us were our fault?
"The buck stops here." If it stops here with me then it starts here with me, too. That is a good and useful way to approach "karma" -- the POWER OF OUR DEEDS TO PRODUCE RESULTS (eventual fruit and immediate mental resultants), now and in the interminable future.
Rather than wasting time wondering if everything is our fault, the advice given to successful Trudeau was to act as if everything were our fault. Love it. Live it. Because when we do, we will see a miracle.
There's no more waiting for the universe or others or anything to do things. It's just us.
- Blue Monday is on Jan. 19 this year: Blue Monday is the name given to the third Monday in January by former Cardiff University health psychologist [1] Cliff Arnall in 2005 [2, 3, 4]. Prof Arnall is a current member of The British Psychological Society (BPS) [5]. It is said by UK travel company Sky Travel to be the most depressing day of the year. It takes into account weather conditions and only applies to the Northern Hemisphere temperate zones. More
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| Brppke's Lagoon |
Get up, dig for fresh water, find a way to scramble up the palm tree, bring a broken rock to cut down a coconut, which provides purified drinking fluid full of electrolytes and protein rich healthy fats in a delicious gel. Keep the shells. They'll come in handy for lots of things. Take a dip in the sea and gather some seaweed. Lay it out in the sun, which will make it very taste. Then the herb, root, fruit, and vegetable hunt begins. There's gathering to be done. Fire and cooking will come soon, and this forsaken wilderness will be converted into a paradise, a Blue Lagoon (based on the novel The Blue Lagoon).
Oh, but doesn't it feel so much better to feel sorry for ourselves?
What is Blue Monday?
Each January, a certain Monday carries a reputation for being the year’s most emotionally difficult day.
Known as "Blue Monday," it’s often linked with low moods, depleted motivation, and a post-holiday slump.
While the idea started as a publicity stunt, it has since become an annual reminder of something real and important: Mental health matters – especially when days are short and emotions feel heavy. In 2026, Blue Monday falls on January 19th.
Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert) in India, meets guru
What is it? Blue Monday 2026 is observed on the third Monday in January and is often described as “the saddest day of the year.”
The label may be more symbolic than scientific, but the feelings it points to are common. After the holidays, many people experience a dip – financially, emotionally, and physically.
Cold weather, shorter daylight hours, and pressure to stick to resolutions can all contribute. More
- Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; AwarenessDays.com
Friday, February 21, 2025
Ouch, it's National Breakup Day ๐
National Breakup Day: reflect, grow, move on
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| May the Force be with you...but not today. |
Love hurts, and breaking up hurts worse. So hu-man up! Don't act like such a clingy ghost. That is to say, get out of Buddhist cosmology's Realm of Hungry Ghosts. If you can't help it, talk to addiction medicine specialist Dr. Gabor Matรฉ, who says we can become addicted to anything, even a partner (even though no person, sexual act, or substance is, in and of itself, addictive. If it were, everyone partaking would become an addict, and they don't. So why did we? It's because of our history of early childhood traumas. We are predisposed. That history combined with pleasant dopamine-pleasures = hardcore addiction. And today is the day we are disposed.
Now are ye undeceived.*
It gives singles -- and even those who are attached in a committed relationship, marriage, or handfasting -- a day to reflect on past relationships and realize our own personal growth gained from those experiences.
- Website: wydc-tv.com, Facebook: bigfoxtv, Twitter: bigfoxtv
Why do people break up? Top 5 reasons
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| The Linda Lindas play Bear Mtn for KROQ |
Nothing hurts worse than realizing the person you were in love with is an evil jerk
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| Let's stand by this star as the world burns. |
“Lo! there ye stand, my children,” said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad, with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic [now demonic] nature could yet mourn for our miserable [human] race.
“Depending upon one another’s hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream! Now are ye undeceived! — Evil is the nature of [hu]mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome, again, my children, to the communion of your race!”
“Welcome!” repeated the fiend-worshippers, in one cry of despair and triumph. And there they stood, the only pair, as it seemed, who were yet hesitating on the verge of wickedness, in this dark world.
A basin was hollowed, naturally, in the rock. Did it contain water, reddened by the lurid light? or was it blood? or, perchance, a liquid flame? Herein did the Shape of Evil dip his hand, and prepare to lay the mark of baptism upon their foreheads, that they might be partakers of the mystery of sin, more conscious of the secret guilt of others, both in deed and thought, than they could now be of their own.
The husband cast one look at his pale wife, and Faith at him. What polluted wretches would the next glance show them to each other, shuddering alike at what they disclosed and what they saw!
“Faith! Faith!” cried the husband. “Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One!”
Whether Faith obeyed, he knew not. Hardly had he spoken, when he found himself amid calm night and solitude, listening to a roar of the wind, which died heavily away through the forest. He staggered against the rock, and felt it chill and damp, while a hanging twig, that had been all on fire, besprinkled his cheek with the coldest dew ("Young Goodman Brown" classic American literature, 1835 short story about 17th century Puritan New England).
If only the Buddha had had anything to say about suffering
On many occasions, being asked questions, the Buddha reminded people that he only really taught two things. Any guesses? Did he teach magic and koans? Yin and yang? Mojo and moxie? The Kama Sutra and The Art of Not Giving a F***?
No. Of course, it was suffering (dukkha) and the end of suffering (nirvana). Why would anyone "teach suffering"? The Buddha had to make clear what "suffering" means. He defined it very handily and broadly, a functional definition for the cure he is about to present. What is the use of being told there's a cure if we haven't realized what disease we have been suffering from? "Pain" is much broader than we've imagined, as it includes disappointment, frustration, loss, separation, and even the excruciating agony of heartbreak.
But that's so pessimistic!
No, it isn't. It's a setup for the presentation of the antidote, solution, cure -- the path of practice to bring ALL suffering to a final end. We never even imagined we could bring it to an end, hoping death would do that for us. Death does not do that at all! Why? There is rebirth, and the reason there is rebirth is because there is craving and karma as yet to bring about its many results of all our skillful and unskillful deeds.
ALL disappointment, unsatisfactoriness, and woe CAN be brought to an end, a final end for it to never arise again. That is the great optimism of Buddhism, the "good news" of the Buddha's message to a benighted world of humans and devas (light beings, shining ones).
Suffering (dukkha): Disappointment is one of the Three Universal Marks of Existence. Various sutras sum up how cognitive processes result in our aversion (resistance, hate, fear, revulsion) to unpleasant things and experiences as we are moved to crave, grasp at, and cling to pleasure (sukha), keeping us in saแนsฤra, the Cycle of Death and Rebirth. It is at the root of the Five Aggregates clung to as "self": (re)birth is suffering, aging, illness, death, sorrow, lamentation, mental pain, grief, and despair are s; suffering, asociation with the unloved, separation from the loved, NOT GETTING what one wants, getting what one does not want, all of this is "suffering." In brief, the Five Aggregates clung to as self (khandha, skandhas) are suffering.
The Four Noble Truths are Buddhism in a nutshell because they present the whole of the path of practice in four ennobling (enlightening) statements, like the assessment of a master physician:
- Diagnosis: There is a disease (suffering)
- Etiology: There is a cause of that disease (craving rooted in ignorance and associated with aversion)
- Prognosis: There is a solution
- Cure: There is way to the solution (magga, the path).
The fourth truth is the general Ennobling Eightfold Path, but there is a more detailed summary enumerated in the 37 Requisites of Awakening/Enlightenment (bodhipakkhiya-dhamma).
- Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Friday, March 15, 2024
Springtime is for love BUT... ('Strangers')
Kenya Grace, 9/1/23; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
For the love of attention/money, ready for porn?
- Nothing Higher to Live For: Romantic Love
- Women and their money: try.dowjanes.com
Love sucks, right Kenya Grace? "Strangers" (official lyric video)
Who is this young musical entrepreneur?
Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh
It’s something that I hate/ How everyone's disposable now/ Every time I date somebody new/ I feel vulnerable/ That it’ll never change/ And it will just stay like this/ Never ending dating breaking up/ And it goes like this/ We’ll get in your car/ And you’ll lean to kiss me/ We’ll talk for hours/ And lie on the back seat/ Uh huh uh huh
Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh
Singer Kenya Grace has real talent with modern equipment
It always ends the same/ When it was me and you/ But every time I meet somebody new/ It's like deja vu/ When we spoke for months/ Did you ever mean it? / How can they say that this is love/ When it goes like this?/ We’ll get in ur car/ And you’ll lean to kiss me/ We’ll talk for hours/ And lie on the back seat/ Uh huh uh huh
Then one random night when everything changes/ You won't reply/ And we’ll go back to strangers/ Uh huh uh huh
Listen to "Strangers": majorrecordings.lnk.to/strangers
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Credits:
Director Ben Hanning. Shot by Julius Gutierrez. Color by Julius Gutierrez. Edit by Ben Hanning. Production Company: SPACEHRTS.
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Friday, March 8, 2024
On being a girl, now a woman: MTV's Daria
The Take, 6/21/22; Kelly Ani, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
What Daria says about the 1990s (and today)
What if Daria were around today, might she be just like Drugstore June?
- 00:00 Daria IS the 90s
- 01:57 How Daria views the world
- 08:24 MUBI
- 09:03 Why Daria perfectly captures the 90s
- 16:20 Daria's influences both past and present
- 18:25 Why Daria is still beloved today
Years later, Daria still resonates with anyone who’s ever questioned whether the problem is you or the system you’re living in – and it can help us understand cultural changes that were happening back in the 1990s.
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Sunday, January 28, 2024
Sad song of the past: "Forgiven" with Alanis
Alanis Morrisette live, studio; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
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| You cut his dick and nearly drowned him?!! |
LYRICS: You know how us Catholic girls can be/ We make up for so much time, a little too late/ I never forgot it, confusing as it was/ No fun with no guilt feelings/ The sinners, the saviors, the loverless priests/ I'll see you next Sunday
[Chorus]
We all had our reasons to be there/ We all had a thing or two to learn/ We all needed something to cling to/ So we did
I sang Alleluia in the choir (Alleluia)/ I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man/ My brothers, they never went blind for what they did/ But I may as well have/ In the name of the Father, the Skeptic. and the Son/ I had one more stupid question
[Chorus]
What I learned I rejected, but I believe again/ I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition/ If I jump in this fountain, will I be forgiven?
[Chorus]
We all had delusions in our heads/ We all had our minds made up for us/ We had to believe in something/ So we did
We all had our reasons to be there/ We all had a thing to learn/ We all needed something to cling to/ So we did
So we did/ Ooh-ooh, I, I, I/ So we did
Monday, December 11, 2023
Happy International Break Up Day (12/11)
NZ Herald, 11/29/20: Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; flirtini.com
Why December 11 is the day you're most likely to be dumped
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| Get out of here, man |
According to statistics, the most popular day to break up is December 11th, reports news.com.au.
And the second most popular time of year to break up is in March, right after Valentine's Day, the original data reveals.
- Romantic sexual relationship: Nothing Higher to Live For: A Buddhist View of Romantic Love (accesstoinsight.org)
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| Ah, I feel down. They're not getting any bigger |
The data, first collected by Information Is Beautiful in 2008, was compiled by statisticians who studied relationship status updates on social media and found that the most common breakup date falls two weeks before Christmas.
December is already filled with high pressure events, from the end of year work Christmas party to boozy catch-ups with friends we haven't seen since lockdown, and of course the mandatory family gatherings.
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| Why did it have to happen now of all days? |
So some of us decide to hedge our bets and opt out of the relationship before the silly season hits.
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| This can't be happening. - But it is happening. - Wait! Let me tell you WHY it can't be. |
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Speaking to the Daily Mail, a dating expert revealed that the most important reason relationships end before Christmas is that people don't want to spend money on people they're not romantically interested in.Dating coach James Preece said nobody wants to end things too close to Christmas.
"And New Year is coming, which brings them the chance for a fresh start."
He believes Dec. 11 was the key day for couples to call it quits because they don't want to waste money on people they can't see a future with.
"Firstly, if someone is planning on a break up then they will want to get it over with before Christmas," he said.
"There's no point buying presents and spending time with someone you aren't interested in.
"Secondly, it's party season and [our partners] can be quickly forgotten if you go out without them.
"Cheating and inappropriate flirting are the biggest causes of break ups.
"Finance can cause huge problems too, especially if one is spending lots and the other is trying to save." More
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