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James Offenhartz

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Schedule

This is why you are experiencing anxiety: look at the schedule this doesn’t make any sense. They’re only 24 hours in a day and you need to sleep for eight of them no not 58 this is why you’re experiencing anxiety. You’re not getting enough sleep because your schedule is crazy and the only one is putting all this pressure I need to get these things done. Is you so do the square breathing the way that we taught yo, take down time the way that we’ve been telling you and take stuff off the list. You’ve told us about the Benjamin Frank...

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What everybody wants

I want what everybody wants: a family. Don’t worry about my age. That’s not important; even though that’s the first thing everybody asked about me. To me it’s not important to risk care about skin color then you probably shouldn’t adopt me. Yes I’m talking to you. Maybe haven’t thought about adoption. It’s expensive you think only your pets expensive. It’s nothing compared to adopting a kid. Maybe that’s why nobody’s adopted me. Maybe I’m too old. Everybody wants a cute baby. That’s healthy and big. I’m not a baby anymore so my foster ...

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Fucked

I’m fucked and not in a good way The odds are 10,000 to one roughly nothing optimistic. I read the book the book we’re supposed to read or read it, but I don’t think it says what to do when these of the yards and maybe I spaced out during that section. I’m not sure maybe I should make like a dog and play dead wouldn’t work but that’s my best shot ever ever heard of a foxhole prayer. This is it in a literal sense. I have said my last prayer and on my camera is gone, so it’s that time. Got to Church last Sunday, right? Should a, could a,...

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Hug hater

I hate hugs. Don’t understand them. The humans have halt so they need to squeeze me to death. It doesn’t make any sense. I get lonely sometimes when I get halt also but I don’t try to squeeze them to death so I don’t get it. Everybody thinks it’s easy being a dog. There are some things that are good and easy but a lot of it’s hard. You don’t know when your master will come home to walk. You know when you’ll get fed or if he’ll get fed, they talk to a lot of things that don’t make sense. I do get fed and they take care of me medical...

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Bubbly

I know it’s beautiful but unusual. It’s like a warm fuzzy but different. I hope it won’t go away again. There’s no way to contain it. It’s not like a squirrel. It’s difficult to describe. It only happens during meditation and I’ve only voted my hands before but now I’m feeling it in my chest. Don’t get the wrong idea. This is not sexual. it’s religious or spiritual or both there’s a difference between spiritual and religious. The best way I’ve heard anyone explained it as Alka-Seltzer like when you put the tablet in the water, everything sta...

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What do you want?

I know I know Listen. We’ve taken the course together. Everyone knows the three things couples argue the most about are: “ 1) money, 2) sex, and 3) in-laws so this is normal and lucky us we’re arguing about all three. So let’s start with number one money. We’re broke but I know what you’ve been doing so I need your assistance. Don’t act stupid. I know what you’ve been doing. You know what you’ve been doing so just tell the truth right now you accuse me of lying all the time and it’s the cold, calling the kettle black. What have y...

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Cleanliness

What’s important everything everything is important. Everything is in its place for a reason. My life is like a painting every speck of dust. Every particle has a meaning. It’s therefore a reason I’m not giving up and I’m not giving it up. Get out of my home or I’m calling the cops. I know you think you’re here to help me others have tried to “ help” me in the past I’m always the one that gets hurt. I don’t want help. The only thing I wanna let go of. Is you on my property get out no I don’t think my life would be similar if it was org...

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The Last Repair Man

Wow, you still have this thing? I haven’t seen one of these in about 50 years. I mean, yeah I can help you with it, but in the last person in the world that I’ve seen one of these other than you of course. Did you find this in your grandparents or great grandparents Addict or how in the world did you get a hold of this thing? It’s yours? You’ve owned this since you are a kid.? How old are you? And where did you buy this? Yeah, I can fix it, but I can give it a reasonable price on it too if you wanna sell it to me. Are y...

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Monochromatic hue unknown

We’re all fuck ups. Some just hide it better than others. Some of us have autism some of us have had strokes heart attacks Alzheimer’s dementia this place is the alphabet soup of disabilities. ADHD. TBI. SDH. AD etc.Some of us were multi disabled, which is a bitch. Imagine somebody with bipolar disorder also having Alzheimer’s, and you have a nightmare or rather a bigger nightmare, and they have a compartmentalized when possible. They don’t think I know, but I do those of us with blue tags have autism those with us with red tags have TBI’...

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Making money

This is what I want. I wanna make a lot of money. I pray to God for us for years I’ve taken courses of manifestation from New Age people and I feel it’s gonna happen. I’ve read all the self-help books. You know the ones but I feel it’s gonna happen now and I know I need to do my part. I’ve applied for jobs in fact every job in the classifieds and something should come through. I trust that I’m gonna make a lot of money thank you God for letting me make so much money. I’m making millions I can see it. I can feel it in my heart. I can fe...

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Getting Gas

Look. We weren’t trying to cause any problems. I’m moving here, but the apartment is moving into is across the street and we’re running low on gas and we saw a gas station. We’re just trying to get some gas. Yes I see that now but we didn’t realize that we’re happy to leave and gas up somewhere else. We didn’t know. What about the U-Haul truck? If you take us in for questioning, where do we put the U-Haul truck? Search it? Why? It’s just my clothes and furniture and stuff like that. There’s nothing of any interest Unc...

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Modern Monsters

“ Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I might as well eat some worms.” it’s a kid song but for me it’s true and nobody cares. This is in a prison, but it might as well. Oh there all these fun activities to do. Things like bingo, CLR Uno, and a bunch of other games I have no interest in. If you could go anywhere in the entire world, where would you go? I go back to sleep. The government thinks I’m a monster. They think all of us are monsters and this is where we belong because we’re monsters That’s what governments do. They compartmenta...

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Juxtaposition

And when I got up, I saw things that never seen before. Hard to explain. Think about a television, the three main colors in the television and in the human eye are. Red green and blue but their colors outside the spectrum think about a dog a dog can hear sounds at a higher pitch than a human being can but it’s still viable sound in the same way. Women can see more colors than men can but the colors that both men and women can’t see. And that’s what im seeing. Language is limited is limited to what people see when people see somethin...

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Suicide

My entire life is over. I know it’s a cliché line, but it’s true. I worked my entire life to get one credential or I should say multiple credentials and I made one mistake and everything I’ve worked. My whole life is over so the solution is obvious: Suicide. Now, I’ve called the Help Lines I’ve seen my shrink. I’ve changed my medications, but it isn’t that. I’m depressed or anxious or anything else. It’s just there’s no direction. I’m not married. I don’t have kids. I don’t think I’m going to get married or have kids at this point in my l...

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Juxtaposition

Are you sure? I understand the logic in the physics but it doesn’t seem realistic It seems logical, but it doesn’t seem realistic. If everything is occurring everywhere at the same time because there is no fourth dimension think about the implications of that like anything else the implications could be good or bad, but there are also unintentional consequences to good and perhaps positive consequences to bad so it isn’t all black-and-white. This could have serious problems and think about the political implications, depending on who got a...

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