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ruveyn
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31 Oct 2011, 8:52 am

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I often get pessimistic and depressed listening to the news - - but if I turn it off, or try to watch something else for very long, I become anxious and feel as if I'm cut off from the wider world.
Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Stop taking non serious things seriously.

In spite of all, the sun will rise tomorrow.

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31 Oct 2011, 8:58 am

ruveyn wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I often get pessimistic and depressed listening to the news - - but if I turn it off, or try to watch something else for very long, I become anxious and feel as if I'm cut off from the wider world.
Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Stop taking non serious things seriously.

In spite of all, the sun will rise tomorrow.

ruveyn

Not what he said.



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31 Oct 2011, 10:04 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
I often get pessimistic and depressed listening to the news - - but if I turn it off, or try to watch something else for very long, I become anxious and feel as if I'm cut off from the wider world.
Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Cut off from the wider world? Are you missing anything really important? Most of what goes on in the wider world is bloody nonsense.

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31 Oct 2011, 10:44 am

ruveyn wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
I often get pessimistic and depressed listening to the news - - but if I turn it off, or try to watch something else for very long, I become anxious and feel as if I'm cut off from the wider world.
Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Cut off from the wider world? Are you missing anything really important? Most of what goes on in the wider world is bloody nonsense.

ruveyn


I admit you're probably right on that count. But frantically keeping up with current events is one of my Aspie obsessions.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer