One last thing I must ask. Where are you ATSers in life? It's all meaningless and a waste of time. You'll never find the truth about aliens, ghost, time-zero, god or anything else. Just give into the slave system matrix and hope you get to be rich in the next life (if a next-life existences).

For the truth about the weird stuff that happens, you're probably right. We'll likely never have the answers. But when those things happen that make you go "wtf?" , it sure makes things interesting.

Where am I in life? Good question. I don't really know. I married a northern Alberta truck driver, live on an acreage, and don't need to work. Money is tight sometimes, but we also have more than we need. I'm content. Mostly happy.

Life takes people on strange journeys sometimes before you end up where it feels like you're supposed to be.

You can think I'm weird ...well I know that already but I am an extremely sensitive person. Whenever I read Alyssa's OP's I get an ill feeling almost like I feel a different intent behind the well thought out posts. I do admit I find her thought provoking and intelligent but knowing how the majority of people react and are on this site I sense someone who loved to ruffle feathers.... now this really is just what I sensed and my interpretation. Because EVERYONE sees things differently.

Well, another typical Alyssa thread.

Makes an totally trolling OP, then never reply again in the thread.

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The richest person I know is also one of the most paranoid, isolated, and seemingly unhappy. This is somebody I interact with from time to time in business who has a net worth in the low 9-figure range, making him legitmately "filthy rich." But this guy can't ever relax or trust anyone because he thinks everyone is trying to scam his money out from him - and he's probably right. The man is a miser too. He unscrews the lightbulbs from hotel rooms and takes them back home with him, collects ketchup packets at restatrants, and haggles with everyone and everything. He is unable to let go, which is probably the reason he's so wealthy, but what's the point? He's probably going to end up dead soon from a heart problem because of the constant stress.

There is something to be said for having enough financial security to control how you spend your time, and to allow you to do meaningful or at least pleasant things with your life. I consider myself a "temporalist" and not a "materialist," in the sense that I focus on how money can buy free time and less on the physical objects it purchases, beyond a certain level. Time is the one commodity that you can never get back once its gone. But you don't need to be super-rich to arrange your life to make good use of it.