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deleted_user 01/26/2009

Has mans loss of connection with nature (encompassing everything ... the outside world, trees, grass, self sufficiency from your environment, understanding of it.. everything!)..........

......accelerated man's self destruction - in both mental illness, warring and such. Not interacting with strangers... spending most of their time interacting behind a screen, on the end of a phone.

I feel so different when I am physically around my friends, when I'm outside, why the hell do I stay inside so much? because I know I won't meet anyone outside, victim of society. It is self imposed, but massively draining to fight. The problem is normally that you don't realise what's happening to you, the computer use becomes habitual.

I think I ranted a bit. So - disconnection with nature, a big factor in compounding our own misery? I know greater forces are at work..(ignorance) but thats part of it.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

i agree that it is part of it. and that is exactly why i am trying to walk more to reconnect some. when i used to go for walks and hikes all the time, my depression was considerably easier to manage so am gonna give it a try now too. good post hun!

deleted_user 01/26/2009

I aim to go outside tomorrow even though I plan on not sleeping... ergh. lol.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

could be good for us. i know that when i am out sometimes, i am struck by the beauty that is in the world and the peace that nature has found. and the fresh air is great for us all!

deleted_user 01/26/2009

YES.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

A question that has always bothered me -- you speak of man's loss of connection with nature -- but we ARE part of nature just as assuredly as the biggest tree or the smallest gnat. Maybe the problem comes because so many people want to distance themselves from that realization, they don't want we are biological animals, that somehow we are above nature?

deleted_user 01/26/2009

I agree we have become very disconnected with nature and its cycles and our interdependence with it. For me the one thing that stabilizes me is knowing that the earth is always below me and the sky above me. When I'm anxiety ridden I kneel on the ground with my forehead to the earth and just feel the ground, its very comforting. I'm also particularly fond of birdwatching, its what all the cool kids are doing. Enjoy your time outside.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

nodiram that is what I'm saying. I very much agree with you. When I came out of hospital after 6 months I went to lay on the grass or touch it with my forehead.. its strange, but it is relaxing :P

deleted_user 01/26/2009

Good observations, PowerOut.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

It's not strange at all PO...I can be in the deepest depths of drink and depression, wanting to go back to cutting after almost 40 years, but if I look out and see a bird or rabbit or whatever in the yard, then it calms me, makes me realize how beautiful the world can be.

HONESTYis 01/26/2009

Well i definitely think that one would be silly to argue against that. Because the technological developement has undoubtedly (in my opinion) wreaked havoc on humans mental state for years. Violence--wars, guns, movies, video games. Sex & TV--self-esteem, mental illness, pressure, warped and distorted views of the world and self. The internet, despite being a source of great knowledge is rarely used, especially by the coming generation, as such. Narcissism is on the rise, which of course makes the rest of us who aren't staring in a mirror and myspacing our lives away bloody miserable. So I don't think it's just the disconnect with nature. I don't think things could be solved with more walks and fresh air, necessarily. But it could help. Just my opinion, though.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

ah no, I don't believe that either honesty. The bigger picture is more what we are doing to ourselves and the environment. I read a quote: Consumption breeds sedation. We are sedated like lennon said in working class hero. We have time to change,but I think it will be as limited as a few decades, if we leave it any later it will just be a mass damage limitation operation.

I wish a walk outdoors would solve everything though ;)

deleted_user 01/26/2009

Damn deep question -- i figure the only way the planet in general is going to survive is wqhe3n we realize we are an integral part of it, and that if any species reproduces without check it will destroy its environment.

HONESTYis 01/26/2009

You dont believe what specifically?

deleted_user 01/26/2009

that things could be solved by walking in the fresh air :p hehe

deleted_user 01/26/2009

wow tht makes so much sense and even not talking on the phone......its like my bdroom is my place ofsolce, hides me from the world but in being in here all the time, the world/people/life is passing my by.

self destruction...something I have always tought I do but then I dont know anything else.

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