Nice try SP, but we were reer Holland during my early years

I loved Scott Pilgrim, in part because all of my Toronto stomping grounds are in it

Aw sorry oba I thought you were going to start a photo thread like Reeyo suggested Here's my hood/campus maanta, beautiful day

Post it oba

Alpha Blondy;949034 wrote: i'm a little disappointed that my thread has been deleted. SOL is an internet extremist. why is the Admin and his MODs blocking freedom of speech, baal?. Nin-yaaban wasn't offended, i'm sure. this is UNACCEPTABLE and may result in a serious breakdown of our mutual cordial relations in the short to medium term. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Taking cheap jabs at someone who has a problem and came here for help is crossing a line Alpha, you should apologize and suck it up.

Alpha Blondy;948895 wrote: that is by far the ugliest baby i've ever seen. the little thing looks like a monster. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Don't even try it Alpha... I was just as cute then as I am right now: PS I'm glad your thread was deleted, it's only a matter of time before you're banished forever

Haatu;948881 wrote: You might just be the first person to post personal pics on SOL Safferz. Congratulations (Although ofc we've all seem Alpha's hideous feet and his big big jareer head ) haha well I figure I've posted enough identifying information to have already been recognized by now if someone here knows me, so baby pictures are not a big deal Back to work now!

I'm justifying this SOL visit because I'm taking a break for breakfast right now, and things are coming along much better this morning Horta why am I always mistaken for a nin on here? Anyway, happy mother's day to all the mothers of SOL, and the hooyos of SOLers... But *especially* my hooyo macaan! I was angry and deranged then too dee:

Heading to bed now so I can get an early start, I'm going to avoid SOL until I'm done so I should resurface sometime on Monday as a new woman. Later SP

SP that made me smile, thanks love This one is for you:

I don't know, a combo of a few things I guess... this paper is kicking my ***, I randomly miss my ex, I'm still mad I'm phoneless after I broke my galaxy s3, that Quran saar post in the alcoholism/addiction thread is pissing me off, and I've looked and felt like this all week during essay writing hell: Also I have no comfort food like tiramisu

I'm sad and stressed caawa SP I could use that tiramisu.

^ and that all comes down to a cultural problem of Somalis thinking mental illness is just a minor matter, "waa yara fudhuud"... and so marriage appears to be a solution because all the person needs is to be "calmed," through a little prayer and a spouse, not professional attention and meds. I agree with you Blessed that spiritual healing can be important, but it's not an alternative to medical attention as many Somalis seem to treat it as.

Naxar Nugaaleed;948736 wrote: lol maybe so, he seems to think that we have to either be miserable or otherwise iskawaal and tell yourself you choose to push through. Cadanka iskawaal wax kaga fiican ma arag. This guys needs to watch the show dirty jobs, full of people happy doing some crazy job or hang with some Africans, they tend to be happy yet have so little. FYI Safferz, don't go there with reinforcing some racial lol Naxar :mad: You do know many Somalis commit suicide, right? And suffer from depression and mental illness? It's not an cadaan issue.

Malika;948725 wrote: That was definetly a cry for help! ciid fahantee muu jiriin maskinka. There's a passage in his novel Infinite Jest that's quite chilling: "The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. the person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be or you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains constant. the variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s the terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling “Don’t!” and “Hang on!”, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."

lol Alpha :D

I think that's the message of the speech You are not the centre of the universe.

Showqi;948696 wrote: Don't be greedy, selfish, unappreciative person! Please u mahad celi ilaahaygii ku siiyey caafimaadka, ilaahaygii maskaxda iyo aqoonta ku siiyey, ilaahaygii kugu nabad galiyey wadan aanad ab iyo isir u lahayn It's a famous quote from Thomas Hobbes. But the point stands, the world is a bleak and terrifying place and the individual life is an insignificant blip in the endless expanse of time. I'm not sure what religion has to do with this except that some (many?) people use it as a way of finding meaning in that reality, and there's nothing wrong with that. The video is useful because it gives a rude awakening for those who believe "real life" is more than the banality of the everyday, and to help see the world in a different way through the recognition of and compassion for the other.

^^ good one, but I have to say her 2010 Body Talk albums were UHMAZING so that's what I have playing as I work

Life is nasty, brutish and short.

Chimera;948678 wrote: This is the realm of professional doctors, therapists and organisations like the A.A, not an internet forum. The "go back to the motherland" advice is crazy, as if a person - addicted or not - can change their environment with a click of a finger. All of that takes planning, and lots of money. This is what I was getting at when I said our community doesn't understand addiction (and mental illness more generally)... the logic of dhaqan celis and "pray away X condition" is unhelpful and destructive.

^^ go see the Great Gatsby and report back. I have to get back to writing at 4

Aaway oba? I'm listening to my favourite Swedish artist right now, and sitting on my Ikea couch that came in seven boxes :mad:

Alpha Blondy;948641 wrote: ^ seems like he didn't take his own advice, ma istidhi?

Alpha Blondy;948642 wrote: ^ but what about those of who are caught in the middle.......amidst all this qabyalad and hatred? Well, that's how I feel sometimes, and I refuse to accept that there are only two political positions and possibilities.