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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: KlarnEvil9] * 12
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All this talk of death is interesting. So many are too afraid to speak of it in a rational way. I hope to wander out into my forest, lie down beside a tree, and slowly melt back into the earth. Hopefully I’ll be plenty decomposed before anyone thinks to look for me.

I’m also not planning to wait around to become too infirm to make the trek, or too confused to find my way. When I’ve lived a good life, and can’t do all the things I want to do any longer, I think I’ll hasten the process along in a quick and painless fashion. No wallet draining nursing home for me. Preserving life for the sake of life, or the feelings of others’, and not considering the quality of that life is just wrong, IMHO. I see too many husks of humans rotting away in beds, cared for by those who don’t know them, kept alive so family can visit for five minutes a month. No thank you.

On another note, it got a bit warm here today. Will be for a few more days, too. Time to tap the maples. My dog is always trying to be the helper. He has truly changed my life in a way I didn’t think possible.







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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: KlarnEvil9] * 2
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KlarnEvil9 said:
P.S. - shoulder surgery scheduled for the 11th! 6-8 weeks in a sling, probably 6 months before I'm mostly recovered strength-wise. Now I just need to quit falling down... 2 pretty painful ones in the last month. Bruised my hip and twisted my back a couple of nights ago, I am fucking SORE. Socks + hardwood steps + sneezing = big owie.


Ask the preop nurse if they can give you a couple of extra no-slip socks.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: RealityGlitch] * 2
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RealityGlitch, haven’t seen you around much. Welcome back! I hope you’re doing well. Missed ya!

Klarn, be careful! Can’t have you smacking that noggin of yours. If you’re not careful you might end up cheerful! :lol:

Roscoe, that pooch of yours is awesome! Looks like you guys are having a blast.

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: AstroSporeFiend] * 5
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Well now that my clinicals are over I have determined that I like it. Which was not what I was expecting. I have dug shit out of a 500lb woman's ass. I have clipped a deranged murderers fingernails while trying to bite me and I have befriended a schizophrenic. I think with this job you have to take the bad to get to the good. I was able to hold an old woman's hand and make her smile. Help an old man get clean and be there for him to tell me about his visions of his wife. Very emotional stuff. I think I'll continue down this path.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Ovoidhunter] * 1
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What's your path?  RN? MD? PA?


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Nokumana] * 1
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Right now an RN but I've been looking into radiography. I like both of them as options.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Ovoidhunter]
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Ovoidhunter said:
Well now that my clinicals are over I have determined that I like it. Which was not what I was expecting. I have dug shit out of a 500lb woman's ass. I have clipped a deranged murderers fingernails while trying to bite me and I have befriended a schizophrenic. I think with this job you have to take the bad to get to the good. I was able to hold an old woman's hand and make her smile. Help an old man get clean and be there for him to tell me about his visions of his wife. Very emotional stuff. I think I'll continue down this path.


:ohnowaitokay:


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: AstroSporeFiend] * 3
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AstroSporeFiend said:
RealityGlitch, haven’t seen you around much. Welcome back! I hope you’re doing well. Missed ya!


Thanks, Astro! I kinda slipped into a dark space and couldn't get myself motivated to anything. Might be the weather, might not be. I just got back from Mexico so I'm feeling a little better though. It was nice to see this message from you!


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: RealityGlitch] * 7
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dont care what yall do with me.  just toss me in a dumpster or feed me to a pack of coyotes.  whatevers clever.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: BeefExtreme] * 3
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Have someone compost you and use you for substrate.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: RealityGlitch] * 2
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Man, I can feel so many of these comments here - deep, deep feels. I’ve had so many different perspectives about my own death in my life that I can really identify with the stuff above.

I was being flip about getting floated out on a raft and blown up…mostly. I was raised in the south, so the idea plucks a string for me, a little bit.

In any case, however it happens for me, when my earthsuit finally pops, I’ve made clear to my family that I want my ashes placed into my favorite wilderness campsite’s firepit. I know the ashes will occasionally get pissed on by somebody at the end of a long night here and there, but every single day they’ll be out with the trees and the loons, and the bears, and the eagles, the same as me, in one form or another. 

Until the guv-ment sells the fucking wilderness to a fuckin developer prick and they pave it all over. But until our sun burns out, that’s my favorite spot on earth.

Hell fuckin yeah! Hope y’all are all having a good night. Peace to you, friends!


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: flapping_bird] * 1
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@RealityGlitch - good to see ya back in here! Peace to you, friend!


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: flapping_bird] * 5
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know something super fucked? For the last couple of years, I’ve received in-clinic IM ketamine shots twice a month for depression, and the cost has been covered 100% by my current private insurance health plan, after I pay my policy deductible each year.  It’s been **really** great - an absolute 100% lifesaver for me, instantly crushing suicidal ideation for me and providing a brief respite from the crushing weight of despair that can develop when things get bad.

Get this: If my health insurance were, at some point in the future, to switch over to Medicare, [in the USA, this is the gov’t funded program for health care for seniors and the disabled]…if that were to happen, my ketamine treatments would cost me a minimum of $5,000 per month out of pocket, 12 months out of the year, possibly for the rest of my life. Fuck that.  Is this not insane and totally immoral?

Is it a surprise that so many seniors and disabled are killing themselves or actively wanting to die? Not saying those rates due to lack of access to ketamine, but still…fuck! What are we doing to ourselves as a culture by allowing this madness? It oughta be covered, 100% for depression, for everyone.

Sorry/not sorry for the rant, but fuck-it-all, this really cooks me.

Peace to all, friends.


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: flapping_bird]
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RealityGlitch said:
AstroSporeFiend said:
RealityGlitch, haven’t seen you around much. Welcome back! I hope you’re doing well. Missed ya!


Thanks, Astro! I kinda slipped into a dark space and couldn't get myself motivated to anything. Might be the weather, might not be. I just got back from Mexico so I'm feeling a little better though. It was nice to see this message from you!


How was Mexico? Do tell

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: flapping_bird]
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I hear ya, Birdie. Well said.

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: AstroSporeFiend] * 1
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Good morning fellow hyphae.



Just doing test holes on a throwaway before I start and it's taking me 10 minutes a hole plus, my tism' won't let me just knock them out, I'll spaz if the holes are different sizes. Good thing there's only... 48 holes.

The next 5 hours of my life...



*EDIT: Actually I've done line work, I'll get into a rhythm eventually 👍


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Edited by conz0r (02/14/26 02:43 AM)

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: RoscoeReturns] * 3
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RoscoeReturns said:
All this talk of death is interesting. So many are too afraid to speak of it in a rational way. I hope to wander out into my forest, lie down beside a tree, and slowly melt back into the earth. Hopefully I’ll be plenty decomposed before anyone thinks to look for me.

I’m also not planning to wait around to become too infirm to make the trek, or too confused to find my way. When I’ve lived a good life, and can’t do all the things I want to do any longer, I think I’ll hasten the process along in a quick and painless fashion. No wallet draining nursing home for me. Preserving life for the sake of life, or the feelings of others’, and not considering the quality of that life is just wrong, IMHO. I see too many husks of humans rotting away in beds, cared for by those who don’t know them, kept alive so family can visit for five minutes a month. No thank you.

On another note, it got a bit warm here today. Will be for a few more days, too. Time to tap the maples. My dog is always trying to be the helper. He has truly changed my life in a way I didn’t think possible.








Well-spoken Roscoe! Life is short. It's a fact. Trying to extend it is ultimately watering down the experience. And it's such a good experience! Why water down a good whisky so you can have a taller glass?

Your way of going out really looks like what I envision for myself. I would however leave something really recognizable, something to 'make it more real' for the people I leave behind. If I can't have a physical goodbye (ie cask closed) I always have real issues accepting the fact someone's dead. I wouldn't want to leave the kids with lingering shit, if there's anything I can do about it.

Confession: we're in a cabin in the woods for a week. With sauna and fireplace, lots of good food etc. First five days with the kids, after that just the two of us. Packed subtrops and pan cyans and some good bud. I'm about to go down on a selection of vegan specialty cheeses. Camembert, roquefort etc. Aaaaah


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Edited by Churpee Choozle (02/14/26 03:27 AM)

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: Churpee Choozle]
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What the fuck is vegan cheese?

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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: AstroSporeFiend]
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AstroSporeFiend said:
What the fuck is vegan cheese?


:allrightythen::splooge:


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Re: The Cultivation Confessional Booth - The Unofficial Cultivation Off Topic Discussion. [Re: conz0r] * 2
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Cheese made from, for example, cashew nuts. It's fermented with Lactobacillus and then nocced with Penicillium roqueforti. The result is something really close to the original. Texture is different, but the taste is awesome, way better than the last generation of fake cheese (that depended upon olive extracts).

I am a pretty strict vegan but I fucking love cheese. This is as close as it gets.


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