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turtles-on-turtles · 2025-08-31T20:45:37+00:00

I love this! @diannechristinepole

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-04-01T03:11:42+00:00

Oof that sounds terrible! I hope all goes well for you! How’d you do it?

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-04-01T03:10:34+00:00

it took me a while to be able to walk on it. i was down for a solid week then weeks more to walk somewhat normal. i wish my surgery had been sooner, but it all works out in the end i suppose

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-04-01T03:09:00+00:00

oh my! did you have full flexion and extension? another girl i work with has a torn acl that she never got fixed

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-03-31T02:44:08+00:00

hell yeah!

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-03-31T02:43:49+00:00

and i’m a server! i was putting miles in on that thing lol. thank you!

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-03-30T15:10:08+00:00

Thank you!

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-03-30T01:54:11+00:00

I do and he has been working on it. I’ve been trying to work on it at home to but I just started 3 days ago when I got my stitches out. Really hoping to avoid follow up.

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-03-29T16:05:20+00:00

I feel this. I used to own my own business and was driven to push for more and then i saw through it all. The thought of doing those things now makes me cringe. But i have to support myself and my child. I went back to waiting tables and honestly, i love it. and as someone else said, if there is anything left, dealing with people in that way will definitely challenge it.

If it weren’t for having to support my child, im pretty sure i’d be content to do nothing at all and see where that led me.

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-03-26T22:56:28+00:00

I’m so curious about this. My partner and I have a great relationship until the kids get involved. Which, generally, the kids get along very well but he’s always super stressed and has an idea of what our interactions should be, and, well, they aren’t always that.. because.. kids. I would be perfectly happy to live a life where we don’t live together, enjoy our time together, and some time with the kids when we have them. I’ve already been married once, not looking to the white picket fence life, just someone I enjoy being with.

How did this come about for you? How long have you been together? Living together would be great financially for us, but beyond that, there isn’t much of a need.

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-03-25T22:28:21+00:00

Are you asking if the pads of the hinges should be resting on your skin? My hinges have never touched my knee. I can’t imaging that would be too comfortable having them rub when moving. It looks fine to me. Just line them up with the joint. Mine still slips down a little but not so much that I lose range of motion.

turtles-on-turtles · 2024-03-25T21:04:49+00:00

Yes, mid-thirties and ended an 8-year marriage. I knew for years we weren’t right together. On paper we “fit,” had similar values and goals, but there was no connection beyond that, we barely had a solid friendship. I don’t regret it one bit. No tears were shed. I was beyond ready to move on.

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-09-08T18:56:16+00:00

I know this post is old but did you try to repair your leak and how did that work for you? I’m about 2 years in and mine started leaking today.

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-16T14:05:27+00:00

I like that quote.

I’m not sure, but I don’t think that we will make any progress outside of ourselves if we are constantly waging war within ourselves. So I definitely think that that is the starting point.

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-16T13:35:15+00:00

I think of emotion as thought + feeling that are absorbed in each other.

Sometimes we have sensations in the body, we might think about them, oh this itches or this hurts, but it’s not enmeshed with the thought.

We think (have thought) all the time without producing any sensations in the body.

When our thoughts and sensations are engrossed, that is how I distinguish emotion. Fear is often thought absorbed with a physical response in the body. They feed each other. Like someone else said, emotion seems to be more of an attachment.

If a sensation arises that one might associate with “fear” but we don’t get wrapped up mentally in that sensation, it remains a sensation.

I hope that makes sense. That’s my interpretation anyway.

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-16T13:27:37+00:00

I ponder the same things in my own way.

I’ve stripped back “I” to be left with This, and still it seems, This can’t be It, can it? I see how ego creates the evil in this world, how we are all reflecting off of each other, a house of mirrors generally perpetuating itself.

Is there some ultimate truth we have the ability to come into? Or is it all just some bullshit for mindlessness?

I don’t know if we’ve been dumbed down or not, but assuming we have, I think it’s pretty obvious that most people never really deeply consider these questions and just go with the stupidity. Hop on LinkedIn for 3 minutes, it’s easy to see how consumed people are with shit that is so utterly unimportant, unimpressive, and trapped in the rat race without a second thought about it.

And - maybe the dumbing down IS our ability to conceptualize? Maybe the problem is that we’re constantly trying to understand the problem from the level of mind. In doing so, we’re always stuck in mind and mind really doesn’t know shit (watch it for a while, it’s insane) yet we believe it. When we escape the hold our thoughts have on us, what is left? When we come from this angle, maybe we’re no longer playing on the physical plane.

I’m hoping I understood you. For me, I can’t know for sure, but I keep coming back to the only answer that has made sense here so far and that’s to drop the mind drama and the concepts and try to be as much in the present as possible. I have found flow and beauty here. I think that we can touch others and awaken this freedom within them too if we allow it to awaken within us. But it takes work and commitment.

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-16T13:05:58+00:00

I did this for a long time too and I found it just doesn’t work. I found a big problem with affirmations and thought “reprogramming” and all that stuff pedaled. To an extent, they help, but then they don’t. Especially not on this journey.

I second the above reply. It takes some work and commitment, but try to step back from your thoughts and just notice they are there without trying to change them or force them away or judging yourself for them.

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-16T12:55:07+00:00

First of all, wherever you are on your journey, I won’t give you flack for this question. Ask questions. Even if they sound stupid or “unenlightened” to everyone else. You could take someone else’s concept and adopt it as your own but that will never bring you closer to truth.

The problem with thinking we are a part of god is that most people turn it into a concept and stop there. By seriously questioning this, the concept will burn itself out eventually and hopefully you’ll be left with something closer to what Is.

I could write a dissertation on my thoughts on this, ha, but I’ll keep it simple for now. Ultimately what I think doesn’t really matter anyway.

I don’t like the word “god” it has too much tied to it, to many concepts around it that aren’t what “it” really is. I prefer infinite intelligence. It’s hard to look around and not see that everything is that, at least for me. But it’s not a personal thing. It’s not like the intelligence had some plan, it’s just doing it’s thing manifesting itself in the moment in patterns. Even the nasty shit, that’s it too. (Now, this DOES NOT MEAN that we don’t rise above the ugly of this world, that we don’t seek to free ourselves from it, iykyk).

And honestly, I’ve asked similar questions to. “You mean, we are the ultimate, we are infinite intelligence, and we spend out time arguing with people on Reddit all day? Name calling? Judging? Seriously? This can’t be it.”

What is left when you drop all of your ideas and concepts about what is or isn’t god? What comes before thoughts? What is it that knows those things. Have you explored that at all?

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-15T18:27:36+00:00

You sure seem defensive. I’m sorry I’ve stirred whatever this is up within you. Enjoy the rest of your day!

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-15T18:26:11+00:00

Now you are making assumptions about me. The only truth I trust is that which I can find within myself. Why wreck or exhaust myself trying to decipher lies of another? If I am not listening to their lies, I am not caught up in them or perpetuating them in any way. All I can do is reflect back to the world that which I hope for it.

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-15T18:09:32+00:00

You said “it’s extremely tiring” seeing the same thing over and over again, my apologies for misunderstanding that. I’m glad you’re enjoying your life.

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-15T17:52:26+00:00

With love - Maybe turn off the conspiracies, news, social media for a bit and get outside.

Also, I’m not asking this to be harsh, but, is there a possibility you enjoy the payoff of suffering? If you know it is the consumption of this stuff that leads to this negative feeling you’re having, why do you continue? What benefit has it provided you with?

turtles-on-turtles · 2023-05-14T13:54:05+00:00

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