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[muckefuck]

Yesterday hantsbear wrote "I feel a bit like I'm sleepwalking through life at the moment," and I readily agreed with him. It's not an unpleasant sensation--rather something of a relief after some of the tumult of the last year or two--but at this stage of my life the feeling of being passively carried along by routine and conditioned responses that doesn't sit well with me. In fact, it brings to mind Thoreau's remark about "quiet desperation". For weeks now I've been trying to think of some way to counteract my essentially reactive tendencies and engage more vigorously with my environment, to broaden my painfully narrow conceptual horizons and commit to a fuller, more dynamic existence.

So last night I joined Facebook.

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[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

...but you're not going to tell us your ID?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Figure it out, Wittgenstein!

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

For similar reasons, I'm trying to QUIT my various time-wasting Facebook games. I can't believe it's hard at all, but it is.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

OH NOES

[areia.livejournal.com]

You joined last night and you already have twenty friends? Sounds like you're doing just fine engaging more vigorously with your environment.

okay... so you joined a cult.... I mean facebook.....

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to say except I can get one of my eyebrows out of an arched and locked position....are you okay?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

So far no harmful effects evident. I figure if I've survived seven years of LiveJournal, there's little left they can do to me anyway.