<div dir="auto">From the chat GBT system which I have not mastered other than to tinker around when you guys first presented the first two things they were very funny and fun. I don't know how we got from chat BT to homelessness but I would like to say that I was sent to be homeless by my teacher. Technically it's called the mendocent. But for 20 years everything that I had was given to me. I'm driving a car that was given to me by two poets I got to California by a man also a poet who drove me from my toxic residence in Pennsylvania to California. I've lived up and down the coast sleeping in driveways of nice houses in my sleeping bag and one very gracious lady had me live with her and I lived in the garage and a Zen monk who now lives in Britain and the secretary to the police chief found a place for me to live and the munka gave me the three packets of money you know first last and today and that's how I became a house being.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I will say that the term I would use would be hopeless. All of the things that you've listed are interesting conversations but the truth is the people who are homeless have no options unless one person gives a damn they will never get out of it. We are a animal that likes to cuddle and be close we are group related. People who are homeless become single individuals that no one cares about they are hopeless.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've been looking for an assistant to help me with my 40 years of writing I'm putting together my story under a title picked by the Dalai lama's personal assistant who asked me to do this work He sent me to be A Mendicant.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Take a minute and think about your life and how you can stand on your own two feet full of hope and looking forward to life and then turn it around and look at these people who live on the street and they never had that. For me it was very interesting because one needs to be able to thrive and get along with every segment of society. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I lived in the Dwight Street womans shelter for 6 months . Every person every woman who lived there had 10 minutes to brush their teeth pee and take a shower It was run like a prison camp It was so sad here we are penniless with no options not allowed to take a relaxing shower. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> So that's why I was sent I have such stories to tell of meals that you call the $0.25 It's lunch and dinner provided for homeless people and long benches. Everybody who came was very hungry there was never any hassle at the meals. I sat next to a man who was actually so crazy from the post office you could just see fire in his eyes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I had the very good fortune to be very close to realize spiritual people. Yet somehow when I walk and talk in the real world everybody thinks I'm a clown or a cook I don't know I need to have someone repackage me so that no matter what I'm thinking it doesn't show on my face. Grin!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 6:30 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_2371621103998481181WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] fax machines and chatgpt<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…Coming off the very end of maintenance meds right now. Half tapered half big jumps down <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Best wishes to you Will. I have always found reality so dang mind-blowing cool, I wouldn’t want to be elsewhere even temporarily. May you find joy and fulfillment in sobriety for as long as you shall live sir. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 11:12 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 12:24 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div id="m_2371621103998481181m_2712876201914978462m_5699536088382705995gmail-:2pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Addiction is very complicated. It is a bit like OCD except the compulsion changes your brain and mind and body with thousandfold magnitude compared to washing your hands or arranging items. I have personal first-hand experience being an opiate addict. Feel free to ask whatever questions you want--free therapy for me<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2371621103998481181gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Assuming that you have stopped, did you taper off or go cold turkey? bill </span></span><span class="m_2371621103998481181gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">w</span></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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