Hello. 
it’s a dank and grey day.
So I came alooking for you. 

Obsessively watch porn.
Obsessively quit watching porn.
Obsessively think about porn while not watching.
Obsessively post on GYE.
Obsessively quit posting on GYE.
Obsessively stop obsessing.

Can someone answer the damn phone?!

Came across a quote I thought you’d like. 
It’s from Claude Frollo, the lusting Archdeacon in The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 

“But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God’s fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.​“

He also said : 
“I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.​“

chaimoigen wrote on 21 Dec 2023 05:23:

I don't know much of this character, but had he learned Derech Hashem, he'd know that God actually did make man and the devil of equal strength.
It is man who, by his choice and action, diminished his own power.

As for the second quote, I've come to appreciate the winter, ice, and darkness so I can have them without the despair.

connected wrote on 21 Dec 2023 17:07:

Thank you!!! 
That is perfectly said. Landed with a “click”.  
I needed that today. 

chaimoigen wrote on 21 Dec 2023 18:42:

Uh, usually, when things land, they thud. Clicking is reserved for a sliding motion.

In any case, how does the king in Jerusalem put it?
All is futile.

It is what it is.

Came back after a 7 day hiatus from Chaimoigen. Wanted to be sure that I still like him, the sometimes-insufferable, lecturing know-it-all. He’s compassionate and smart, but maybe too much. 

Anyways- this is what I came back to? Noch Ah Mohl the “is what it is”? 

I guess it’s what I deserve. 
Mistoma that what it is, after all. 

Anyways, thinking of you, albeit a little less stridently. 
How are you today? 

chaimoigen wrote on 02 Jan 2024 18:01:

Today, today
We only have today
Enjoy it all before it goes away
Today, today
We only have today
What we are, what we do, what we say

Thank you, Lenny, for the music.
Sorry, Stephen, for fudging the lyrics.
Thank you, Chaimoigen, for the much-needed hiatus.

Ouch. 

chaimoigen wrote on 02 Jan 2024 20:53:

Well I missed you .
Very much 

Me three

Thanks, you guys. I mean, I wasn't gone for that long, but I guess my presence has a strong impact.
I feel the love.

Hey, connected rebranded....just keep the connection up, will ya?

I’m not sure I’m maskim about the big deal about Today, friend. 
Im thinking that Tomorrow has Maalos that Today actually doesn’t have. 

For example, if I assign all the work I need to do today, for tomorrow instead, this clears up today and leaves it much less tiring. (There’s a Frog and Toad story about this.) Tomorrow has endless potential.

Also, you can’t say “it is what it is” about tomorrow . Because it isn’t yet. 

As Annie said: “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.”

Oh. That was Bill Shakespeare, actually. Annie sang it differently. Whatevah, babe. 

eerie wrote on 03 Jan 2024 23:13:

I feel this avatar fits my current aura better.

Of course, that's just from my perspective, and I might be totally off.