dippedandfried wrote:Digit: I haven't spent time in here for several days (more on that below) but after catching up I can only say one thing:
jeeze that struck fear into me something chronic. lol. i thought the next thing u were gonna say after that was to be some seriously combustible bashings.
oh, looks like snowpine's comment has disapeared before i saw it. hope my failure to press n hard enough didnt offend. it happens with m and space alot on this keyboard too. (had to fix one of those missing spaces in the same post as well)
moving to usb sticks didnt really save me from unmarkeds. ...cos i went n bought a whole pile of small ones on the cheap from a local shop. numerous times i've found myself looking foolish infront of the windows users i try to convince about linux, by booting into the unintended os 3 times before finding the right stick. tip: dont buy a pile of usb sticks that all look the same. lol.
i've a handful of unlabeled cds n dvds still laying around in the pile... probably several i never even tried out. all this depraved behavior stems from a sense of lack, whether it go right back to something in early childhood, or just back to early operating systems experience. we can overcome.
keep at everyone. i know you've all got great strength in you. and should you ever find yourself about to download another distro out of curiousity, see if you can catch yourself that time. ask yourself some questions about what your doing, about how rational, or practical it is to be downloading anther iso. 
the comments and ideas expressed in my previous post in this thread got me thinking, and i want to see if i can expand on that...
i think this extension of the idea might be the equivalent of going off to live in tibet, with the monks for a while.
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how about a ..... LFS.
i think if you somehow managed to lock yourself away with just all the tools you need to successfully learn and compile all you need, from LFS up, with no chance of even being able to browse other distros, nor even hear of them, let alone download and install them, then when you come out of that, if you had truely gone the distance and found, by your own hand, your dream "distro", any relapses thereafter would surely be shortlived, as it would all be such foul tasting bloaty oily slimey grimey repugnance, by comparison to that which you crafted to be in perfect harmonic resonance with you and your needs/tastes/preferences.
i know... i know... how many of us are ever likely to actually up sticks and pilgrimage to Tibet. not many. despite many of us talking about how great it would be. thats just it though, it wouldnt be much of a pilgrimage if it were easy.
the hopping addiction we have been experiencing, is a recoil, from a discordance in our lives. the pilgrimage, though it would also get in the way of what we'd call living our lives, would be part of the healing, and i'm sure, after it, we'd perhaps see that what we were clinging to, what we were associating as being "our lives" was ust the tat we were filling our lives with, an extension of that same sense of lack.
true to the analogy, we can only find true peace when we delve down to the core.
we need not travel to Tibet, nor LFS to find it. we can do our daily practices, right here, right now.... traveling without moving.
ohmn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhHm-5lKkZ0
I just dowloaded Sidux 2009 Xfce (I feels dirty) 
<< is this a redeeming value?
