February 6th

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Re: Watsonville

By car, it's 22 min/17.7 miles away from Santa Cruz
By bus, it's an hour away.

I think ASS-P went to a Walmart in Watsonville.

Just as you cannot call people "useless" as you did.

This is why ASS-P hasn't managed to better himself much, if at all, over the years.

Someone (anyone, online or IRL) offers help of some sort, and this is how he responds, and that's why I say he's "unhelpable," as he seems determined to tell off anyone who may have something of value to help him out with, whether info/knowledge or material items. He was equally as miserable a few years ago when he was in the Seattle area a few hours drive from me & I posted saying I was within driving distance to bring some donated items but he wasn't someone who'd accept and utilize them so it'd be pointless for me to go through the expense.

As for knowledge of homelessness/survival camping.. let's see:

~a decade of boy scouts - I learned some camping things.

~6-7 years ago when my symptoms were at their worst & I was sick I wasn't able to work and lived in my friend's construction site for a year and a half. My income ranged from zero to $150/month (although food/essentials were provided to me) & I certainly learned to make the absolute most of the money I did have - which was far below the welfare rate of $610/mo

I've done some camping since. I also have an education that encompasses a lot of problem solving skills that enable me to be incredibly resourceful with minimal availability of resources. I do things like the Tough Mudder in Whistler (4x, 5th time this June!) because I have a "never give up!" attitude & will persist despite whatever struggle I'm going through. I've endured other not-so-fun things. And while I've only come close but haven't actually ended up sleeping on the streets, I care about those who do - especially young people - and that's why I've done fundraisers for Vancouver youth homeless shelter, have gotten homeless kids jobs, lend them cell phones, $ for food/shoes etc.

It's not as if I know absolutely nothing about survival or being homeless. My post was genuine whether you believe it or not. I do think it would be a valuable exercise to discuss essentials worth possessing & carrying when that's the position you're in in life, as one would assume the objective is to optimize the space & weight of one's carrying capacity with the things of greatest use. Like I said earlier, you might learn some things from us, and we might learn some things from you.

...RR: Thank you for the posts. Could you repost the old ones too?
I am so annoyed with having to deal with GF again - and time presses now - that I will cut this short and not say something major.
GF , however. seems to pat himself on the back once more for, as best I can read his first post above, thinking of sending me something but deciding not to without ever telling me that. Uh huh . How do you, Om, feel about him calling me a name?

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@ASS-P - You may as well also apply for the housing complex (El Centro Residential in downtown Santa Cruz) which says you have to be 60. The waitlist is so long that you might be 60 by the time your name gets called up anyway

BTW, Santa Cruz has a homeless population of 9,000 people. That means the waitlists are going to be very long.

It does if you are ASS P.

The protection of the haven doesn't include you being free to talk to people that way.[/quote][/quote]

RU called you psychotic because you fantasize about drugging and harming people just because they work in the mental health field. Like my wife, who has worked in the mental health field in the past.

Last edited by drwho222 on 17 Feb 2018, 3:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

drwho222

Why are you still married to your wife who fantasizes about drugging and harming people?

What I meant is that she has worked at mental health facilities in the past.

That's not factual. I told you flat out back then in a public thread that I COULD make the drive to deliver survival resources but wouldn't bother wasting my time & money crossing an international border and driving over 3 hours each way to deliver things you wouldn't be likely to put to good use or would discard rather than use or re-donate to someone else.

I recall having even a simple conversation about how pitching a tent would be better shelter from the rain & you made a post about how you couldn't be bothered to learn how to set up a tent. *shrug* No shelter from the rain for you, then. Seriously. It's that simple. You're so resistant to learning/trying/doing things to benefit yourself that it's next to impossible for anyone to help you. It's like the old saying goes: "God helps those who help themselves." If you showed even the slightest willingness to help yourself, others would offer you further assistance and you'd accelerate up the ladder from where you are to a much more comfortable existence. But you refuse, so, here you are.

You've also shared how some outreach workers attempted to help you manage your finances and you perceived it as them trying to control your life in a negative way, and thus refused their assistance, too. Over and over again you do this to yourself and continue to suffer the damaging results of it.

Another recent example was when you were given Christmas gifts by some charity.. gloves and such. You posted here about unwrapping them and throwing them directly into the garbage. What a waste of resources. Even if you couldn't have utilized them, they were of value. You could have given them away to someone else who could use them, sold them for cash, or traded them for something of value to you.. but instead, you took whatever value they were worth and threw them in the garbage as if your life is so abundant with resources that you don't have to make the most of what you do have. Bizarre!

Again, like I've said before.. I don't think you make conscious intentional decisions to be self sabotaging. I think your brain simply doesn't function in a way that allows you to make healthy positive choices that improve yourself or your situation. Ironically, that's why you should be grateful for and accept help that's offered to you, but unfortunately for you.. you can't.

Please lets not have reruns.

Ah, I see. I misunderstood.

...I just lost a draft of a reply to GF at least beginning to refute his charges but if I don't rebut, perhaps he'll be believed 100%. Later, I suppose .
Thank you for the repost, RR.