[ExI] fax machines and chatgpt

[ilsa]

>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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 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.

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!



On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 6:30 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> 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
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> On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 12:24 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
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> 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
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