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Post by billd1 on May 31, 2018 5:12:46 GMT -5
Hi everyone! Been a while since I've been here. Glad to see SU is still around. Astroruss, as Global Moderator, I am glad to see you back on the board. I also wish that Arizona, my co-founder of Social Inadequates Anonymous, would return to posting on the board, but his life is so complicated that he just doesn't have the time to post. Anyone who looks up his post list will find hat he has been a very peolific poster here on all kinds of subjects. Right now, he and I continue to be a two man mutual support group.
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Post by billd1 on May 31, 2018 5:06:33 GMT -5
Billd1, I hope you feel better soon. Astroruss, I am glad this forum is around as well. I wish i had found this place a bit sooner though - I was much more shy when I was a kid! Seems it’s been a bit slow in posting lately, though. Thanks for the well wishes ShyBorg. Despite my bieng so depressedm, I am very thankful that I can walk, and talk, and see, and hear, and work at a job because so mamy people are not able to do thsoe things. I suppose my Anthem is that of the Georgia Boogie Singer Wet Willy: "You Got To Keep On Smilin thru the Rain / Laughing through the pain /flowing with the changes / you got to keep on smilin . . . "
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Post by billd1 on May 31, 2018 5:01:45 GMT -5
Thanks for the post, matthew. I have a job that I work at, and it makes me very physically tired. ' Just before going online, I took 1/4 of a diazepam, not enough to put me to sleep, but maybe just enough to motivate me to go online and try to communicate with other people I share an affliction with.
On one message board I post to it is just about all of the members and the drugs they take.
I have heard all my life that Americans and probably human beings, all over the world, are too dependant on drugs, and think a drug will solve any and every problem.
I have taken that to heart, and when I went to a professional counsellor for the first time, he asked me, "have you ever taken any medicine?"
He thought I needed some drug to help me with my SA-SP as some now call our mutual affliction, but I did not want to take a drug then, but in the years since then, I have developed hypertension, the fatal disease that my mother died of.
I've tried to control it without drugs, but that does not work.
I know a man who had a heart attack and bypass surgery, and he said he began every day of his life by taking many pills.
I asked him how many drugs he was on, and he said in a very indignant voice, and obviously very insulted, "I am not on ANY drugs."
I replied, "you told me that you started every day of your life by taking a lot of pills."
He replied "those are Prescription drugs."
Turned out he told me he begins every day taking TEN pills.
And, he claims not to be on any drugs? That is Self Deception at its highest level.
Actually, I'm on 4 drugs, apart from the diazepam, which is occasional, and I take at very low doses.
The four drugs are for my blood pressure and cholesterol.
But, I am dependant on drugs for my very life. To keep my blood pressure down so I won't have a heart attack or stroke, or kidney damage.
Every morning I dread taking my 4 drugs. They give me side effects which I dont' like, although I am glad to say they don't impair me where I can't drive a car to work at my job.
I never drive after taking my low doses of diazepam.
The blood pressure drugs I take all have warnings that they can cause dizziness and it might be unsafe to drive a car after taking them, but I'm glad to say that in my case those drugs have given me no dizziness.
I get good blood pressure readings, so I have to accept the fact that I will have to be on the blood pressure drugs for the rest of my life.
And, I do enjoy life as much as I can.
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Post by billd1 on Apr 25, 2018 0:22:05 GMT -5
I am feeling very depressed about everything
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Post by billd1 on Mar 18, 2018 20:12:46 GMT -5
there have been more than one film made of mice and men. the one from 1939 with creighton Lon Jr. Chaney might have been the first one, and is considered quite good.
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Post by billd1 on Mar 10, 2018 16:30:31 GMT -5
OF MICE AND MEN, 1939 version.
Very sad story, and considered a great film.
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Post by billd1 on Mar 10, 2018 16:27:25 GMT -5
Welcome to the board, ShyBorg.
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Post by billd1 on Feb 7, 2018 0:52:08 GMT -5
Been watching feature film versions of the 1950s Rocky Jones, Space Ranger TV show.
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Post by billd1 on Feb 7, 2018 0:48:41 GMT -5
Jesus Came From Outer Space, by who?
Also, Science Fiction Double Feature as sung by Richard O'Brien in the opening of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Post by billd1 on Dec 12, 2017 1:30:03 GMT -5
Welcome back to the board, Jay. Glad you have returned.
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Post by billd1 on Dec 9, 2017 2:07:43 GMT -5
Matthew, it's good that you and I both have an appreciation of Stanley Kubrick. I saw Dr. Strangelove, Space Oddyssey, Clockwork Orange, and The Shining, which I thot was an OK film.
I missed Stanley's 1975 release, what was it, it was a costume drama titled after some man's first and last name.
Also, I missed Eyes Wide Shut, which I think was Mr. Kubrick's final film.
And, were there any more that I missed from 1963-when was Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley's final film.
As has been noted, Stanley kubrick was a film director of small output, with years going by between his films.
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Post by billd1 on Dec 7, 2017 23:34:06 GMT -5
I'm continuing to watch old 1960s Dark Shadows TV shows, and also the 2 Dark Shadows feature films, House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows.
I've also watched, recently, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, The Creeping Terror, Men In Black, Manos, Hands of Fate, and two of the last four films that Boris Karloff was in, Snake People, and another one forge the title, think Curse was in the title, about people gathered at a house for the reading of the will of a deceased toy maker.
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Post by billd1 on Dec 7, 2017 23:25:09 GMT -5
That sounds great to me, matthew. I'm glad things turned out so good for you.
Did you stay with the drama club and give any more performances?
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Post by billd1 on Nov 23, 2017 2:26:21 GMT -5
Still very little traffic at hermit's slate. I did find out whatever happened to hubcap Willie, the Desert Hermit who lived outside of Palm Springs Califiornia, and have told about it on one forum that I post to, but I can't remember if I posted his eventual demise here on Shy United, or not.
I don't remember right now if I posted Willie's story or not.
I did post a thread called hermits and grit, about Roy Ozmer a hermit of the florida everglades, who was somewhat of a celebrity.
I've found his memorial on Find a Grave, but have been unable to find any memorial for Hubcap Willie altho I do know the cemetery he was buried in.
I hope to eventually find out whatever happened to charlie Bowers.
Ray Phillips, the Hermit of Manana Island, Maine, who I use as my avatar, was cremated, and his remains buried on Manana Island.
But, I can't find any memorial for him on Find a Grave.
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Post by billd1 on Nov 23, 2017 2:18:41 GMT -5
I have not seen a movie in a movie house since 1984 when I went to see Basket Case.
The only thing that could get me into a movie house again is to see 2001: A Space Odyssey in the full screen cinerama format.
I don't know that Space Odyssey was "real" cinerama. It might have been anamorphically squeezed onto 70mm film, but still bee three times as wide as a regular movie.
But, what is, or was generally shown of this film was not the full picture.
I live in an area where there are all kinds of specialty movie houses, but I highly doubt that Space Odyssey will ever play full picture in one of those houses, and, even if it did, I probably wouldn't know about it.
I am totally out of touch with present day theatrical motion pictures, and that is fine with me.
I never liked feature films all that much any way and found sitting thru one of them boring.
I do occasionally watch one on DVD or u-tube.
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