So if they want to force people to be more creative, and more mistrusting of government, I say let them. They will waste money trying to accomplish it, no doubt funding their own porn-blocking companies, but they do that anyway.

Excellent pics, by the way. Generally I see anything in grayscale as a “tasteful nude”. Picture #5 destroyed that stereotype for me. Rest assured that they will block nudes as well.

I find that now, even after changing jobs and making a determined effort to reduce stress, that I have a pretty hard limit to what I can do for how long. I just don’t have the ability to ‘suck it up and keep moving’ so to speak any more, at least not like I used to. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. I just know I’ve changed, permanently. It’s sort of like breaking a chair or something, I guess – you can repair it but it’s never going to be as strong as it was. At least now I get to see my family more, and I have time and energy to do some of the things that mean so much to me.

I’m glad that you got help as well. The safety net has lots of holes in it, but it still catches a lot.

First of all, that you for your Public Service.

Second, a person who experiences a one-time or cumulative traumatic event(s) and can have a NATURAL physical and emotional reaction to this/these event(s). Onset can be immediate or delayed, (sometimes for years) the physical and emotional reactions are perfectly normal and you’re not crazy.

Third, Mainstream society and, more importantly the “*Administration” generally will turn a blind eye to these employees that are dealing with this stress. Sometimes they are acting out, (e.g. abusing sick days, have personal domestic issues, excessive use behaviors etc). Why doesn’t the Administration recognize that these people need help and provide it , you say. Because of the liability attached to treat the employee which means $$$ out of the budget.

Fortunately the U.S Military FINALLY recognized that this stress is treatable and have just ramped up counseling programs so that people learn that they’re not crazy and give them tools to deal with their reactions, (when they arise).

I’m happy you sought out help. Best of luck to you and stay strong.

If society did not have “Humpty Dumpty” repair specialist in the ERs And ICUs I couldn’t write this email today. Many thanks.

On a closing note, it’s not Post Traumatic Stress SYNDROME(PTSD).

It’s just POST TRAUMTIC STRESS, it’s a normal reaction, (not enjoyable), but it can be managed and you can get though it.

Godspeed

Nope, you don’t have to ignore the hand spun

It actually wasn’t like now at all. People worked, according to what I’ve read, an average of maybe 30 days worth a year – most of it in spring and in summer, almost none in winter – directly for the lord doing his production tasks. The rest of the time was their own. Work as we understand it didn’t even exist, except for mercenaries. Merchants owned their own businesses and belonged to a guild which protected them – no one could undercut you nor charge outrageously more than you – but of course dickering was a part of life. The guilds mainly protected from what we now have – companies who bring in items produced in poorer countries, of questionable quality, that undercut in price and put locals out of business. Royals understood full well that if merchants went out of business, the traveling merchants weren’t going to be making up the difference in the taxes and it would directly hurt the coffers in short order.

All in all, the main thing we have going for us now, is a knowledge of basic hygiene, principles of sanitation, and antibiotics, as well as vaccinations against childhood diseases that used to ravage families. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING has contributed more to the boom in population worldwide as those things. Everything after that just contributes to excess for rich people. We are at peak medicine as well as peak everything else – procedures get more fancy but don’t deliver better results, same with medicines.

If I were to go back in time I would prefer to go to somewhere like Ottoman Turkey in the 1500′s or to Islamic Spain in the 1100′s. Both were on the cutting edge of hygiene, sanitation, medicine, agriculture, and literature. Being a woman I would be limited in my options in any case; I would prefer to go someplace where I could have a better quality of life, and work in a place where women actually were allowed to contribute to development of medicine and the arts.

The “nobles” either stole the land or inherited it.

Without land, we are slaves to the money system of the day. By now it’s been assured that most of us can barely rent enough space to sleep in.

According to wikipedia, in 2005 there was an average of 2.1 hectares of biologically productive land per person.