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Feeling stressed because in the last six weeks I've had chronic back pain, food poisoning, a cold, the flu and now a chest infection which has meant I've fallen behind in my work for college. It's all going wrong and I'm at the beginnings of crazy. Sitting on a computer at 1.21am is clearly not helping my situation. Never mind eh

First off, thanks for taking the time to read my post and reply to it Second off, I'd like to reply to your position above. When you say "satisfied", I think you are still referring to a condition of feeling happy, or perhaps i should say feeling good. We can lump those conditions into the general terms , desirable or undesirable. What I'm basically saying is that descriptions such as "satisfied", "happy", "content", etc are all fairly similar, just differing perhaps in degrees of being positive. My point then is that the manner in which you are achieving those positive states, if based on an activity or a thing, will ultimately be limited and temporary. I think you understand this but you miss it when you describe something as a satisfaction, as though it escapes the problem but satisfaction ultimately reduces to the same thing - a positive that is perhaps of a differing degree to happiness. It may be that I'm missing what you mean by that however. With regards to something being bad, I would quite strongly disagree with you. When you have decided that the train is "bad" because it is not useful to you anymore, you are describing an idea, which is inescapably rooted in your own mind - it is your construction. Without your idea there would be nothing to think that the train was bad - imagine if no intelligent life existed, would there still be good and bad? In fact, before you, there is not even a train, there is just an organization of some ineffable stuff. But then you come along and you make up ideas about the thing. This is organised in such and such a way so we call it this. This performs this function well so we say it is good, it performs this function not so well so we call it bad. Or more specifically, I can conceive of an ideal condition for this train (you created that idea) and then relating it to the way the train is organised - it's condition (it doesn't work/does work), you will find a conflict or correlation and say bad or good, respectively. The point is, good or bad can't come to be until you have an idea that conflicts, with reality or the material world. And doesn't the fact you will find it bad or have the potential to find it bad, emphasis my point? You can imagine a way you would like it to be and call that good and therefore feel good but it will never always be that way. Every train will always break and then if you are willing to say it is bad, you will feel bad - thinking bad inevitably leads to feeling bad. If you realise it is neither good or bad, you can tap into another way of perceiving the world that I have personally found to be a lot more rewarding. This is an interesting point that you make. I'm glad to hear you know what it is you like (that's more than a lot of people) and I can totally relate because I am very much like that and I spend more time being that way that the other way that I am mentioning which has brought me a different more constant kind of contentment. The problem with looking to improve things is the misperception that things aren't correct as they are. In a very real sense, everything is how it should be - first and foremost, everything just 'is'. What happens is the mind comes along and imagines something in a different way and says "I can imagine this situation in such and such a way and it is right (desirable), therefore the situation now is wrong (undesirable as a contrast to an imagined desirable). This can lead to suffering because again you are thinking that things are wrong and therefore bad and need to be made right and therefore good. Can you imagine not thinking in terms of things being right and wrong? Some might imagine this as boring but my experience says otherwise. Again, in the process of identifying with job or your ability or any activity, that is something that will pass in your ability to be abled at it or to do it at all. You will reach a peak, you will be elevated but you will have to come down from that. That's the just the law of universe (it seems highly probable). This sounds like a very pessimistic position but it's not I promise Well to be honest, if you feel happy enough in what you are doing, keep doing it! I always have to accept that I may be talking shit - an easy thing to do. I also accept that the type of way of perceiving the world is not for very many people at this point in time, mainly because of the loophole situation that not many people are attempting it. The point is though, that if you aren't able to accept the your condition as one that depends on external stimulus and its continual switching between feeling good and feeling bad, there is a condition which gets past that. Not sure why I feel the need to write this sort of thing at 1am, so please ignore any repetition or incoherence

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I sent back an mp3 player and the money was returned into my account within a week. I've always found amazon to be a well organised business, I'm sure you won't be waiting for very long

You'll never find a consistent form of happiness when it rests on objects in the world. None of them are constant and what you like about them one moment, you'll only dislike on another. Additionally, whenever we describe an object as being bad or good, we are only describing our thoughts or reaction to it and not the thing in itself. The world, before we start dealing with it in our heads, is neither good nor bad, it just is. You are the one that makes yourself feel bad or good by the way you think about it and then react to that thinking. Change the thoughts or stop paying attention to them and you begin to live the world in a more desirable way. I think, based on experience, that if you want to be the happiest you can, you need to tap into the experience of existing, as it's the most constant thing in your life and I suspect for everyone regardless of if they know it or not, it's the most rewarding realisation. "I exist? what the f**k is that all about?". It seems amazing to me that anything actually is. Easier said that done to realise it though. I forget it most of the time despite involving myself in specific type of activities to realise it. I'm usually trying to find happiness by identifying myself with the labels i can use to describe the type of activities i involve myself in or the type of objects I own. Very short lived and limited way of establishing happiness but unfortunately, the norm.

Sean Penn? Nice pics, as usual, Adam

That's the one! Thankyousir

Wasn't so keen on this movie. I don't think too much of Will Smith as an actor and the storyline wasn't so interesting or exciting. Any theme of a deralict world with "night crawlers"? has a lot of potential, that potential just wasn't reached in my mind. I think I would have prefered the movie if it had been more orientated towards an adult aduience; basically a lot darker with a different actor. Additionally I thought the cgi was quite poor in compairson to the standard we now see in other movies. But regardless of all that, I'd still recommend watching it. Some good dribble time, when not much else is going down.

It's not mutually exclusive to anything. We can have a nakedmass anything (cats, cars, easter, etc.). I was just havnig a nakedmass bowl of porridge. I don't know what I'm saying. I'm so tired from the flu

I'll be a hair.

Bah humbug.

That was mightely impressive. I really dig his style - effortless and powerful.

Put me down for one attendance thank you sir.

Is it xmas already? What's going on?

That's like putting a censored sign on the Christian cross. Blasphemy!

You can have that warm fuzzy feeling all year round if you celebrate nakedmas - I've decided that it's a lifetime celebration.

This is naked typing, that's all I'm gonna say, apart from what day shall we celebrate our first skins? Anyone else up for it? We could make it a day thing, like a trials ride. We could even make it a trials nakedmas in Bristol? With all the weight saving and removal of constricting material we might all become better riders. Something to think about.

Randomly constructed idea as far as I am concerned. I wouldn't celebrate it at all if it weren't the fact the other people might get upset. Same with birthdays, new year, etc. I'd prefer a nakedmas, that would be a lot more interesting, at least for me. Can you imagine getting together with your family, sitting around the nakedmas tree with the naked angel at the top, giving each other unwrapped (naked) presents, whilst, of course, you are all naked? And you could have a Father Nakedmas - that would scare the kiddies in our peadofear culture. Oh, and how about nakedmas carols about being naked. "oh, come all ye naked, joyful and triumphant, oh come all ye naked from nakedleham..."

Did Trials-forum build the aliens?

MY advice is think fluidity. Try and hold yourself in the most relaxed way possible because it allows for smoother movement that are less likely to disrupt the delicate balance. Additionally, keep all of your joints at angles so that they can be utilized for correctional purposes - smooth suspension. Additionally, pay lots of attention to the balance point sensation, even if you only get it for a second, I suspect you should be able to identify it. The more you know it and remember it regardless of it doesn't help at first, the easier it will be for your unconscious to do the manual for you in the future. It's a type of programming and it definitely works - learn the sensation and all of a sudden all of your body parts will just know what to do...

I might come along and film as my back is too f**ked to ride

What's the score? I can make it out for a few hours in the afternoon on either day. I just need to know people are going to be there...

I'm going through the reluctant but mandatory bday experience on saturday but I might be able to make a hungover sunday, if it happens then. I shall come find you

My 24 had some DMR motos. After previously using knobbly tyres, I found the slicker tyres to be much nicer. Perhaps not so good in the wet, but for faster moving and more spinny moves, I think they definitely out perform. I'm hoping to get some on my 26 as soon as I have the money. 360s, 180s, etc are a lot more difficult without them I find.

Thankyousir.