What inspires you?

[Traditional_Ale]

When it all shakes down and if it turns I was wrong, I'll own it.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

Videos from people on the ground in Ottawa right now. Its Canadian Woodstock, and the most defining moment in Canadian history since Vimy Ridge. Its not a fringe minority, or nazis, or anything else the garbage media is spewing. Its an insane amount of every day people coming together and having a love-fest peaceful protest the likes of which are likely unprecedented as far as parliament hill goes. There will always be those that are evil and wrong in anything this huge. I am seriously considering cutting my Europe tour short to fly there and be with them.

holy flying #### this is ass crazy post

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

When it all shakes down and if it turns I was wrong, I'll own it.

But where does your support come from now? Genuine question...I have taken for granted most people think these guys are clowns. There are Nazi flags, Trump flags, ##### Trudeau flags in their midst. They are lying about their numbers. They seem confused as to what they're even about. Personally, I find the whole thing really embarrassing.

If you don't want to talk about it, fine, but you've heaped some pretty high praise on them ("the most defining moment in Canadian history since Vimy Ridge") and posted about them inspiring you. What about what they're doing and their message is inspiring and leads you to believe what they're doing has as much value as Vimy-fataing-ridge. You think these guys pissing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are heroes or something? I'm confounded by this, but maybe I'm too deep in a lame-stream media bubble. I really need your perspective here.

[Minnie]

Can the mods move that post to the COVID threads or the Canadian federal politics thread?

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Minnie

Can the mods move that post to the COVID threads or the Canadian federal politics thread?

Nah, let it ride. I'm curious for answers about it, still.

[Minnie]

You'll still be able to get answers if it's moved instead of cluttering this one up. This convoy stuff doesn't need to be in every freaking thread.

[Finger Cookin]

I can't remember the last time I felt inspired.

[djsFlames]

I will be inspired by every provincial and federal governments resolve not to budge an inch for this group of protestors. And I don't even like Trudeau.

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by Sliver

But where does your support come from now? Genuine question...I have taken for granted most people think these guys are clowns. There are Nazi flags, Trump flags, ##### Trudeau flags in their midst. They are lying about their numbers. They seem confused as to what they're even about. Personally, I find the whole thing really embarrassing.

If you don't want to talk about it, fine, but you've heaped some pretty high praise on them ("the most defining moment in Canadian history since Vimy Ridge") and posted about them inspiring you. What about what they're doing and their message is inspiring and leads you to believe what they're doing has as much value as Vimy-fataing-ridge. You think these guys pissing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are heroes or something? I'm confounded by this, but maybe I'm too deep in a lame-stream media bubble. I really need your perspective here.

I agree with you as to wondering what about the whole thing he honestly does find so inspiring that he'd leave Europe to join them.

Most of us get more of a Canadian January 6th vibe than a Woodstock vibe.

[Lanny_McDonald]

My wife. My wife inspires me. Very driven and very successful in everything she puts her mind to. I wish I had half of her drive.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Sliver

This question always makes me uncomfortable. I have a family member that asks me the same thing on our annual visit. Nothing inspires me. Lots of things motivate me, I guess, but I wouldn't say there is a single thing out there that gives me inspiration. It's not an emotion I really ever feel, I don't think.

Originally Posted by Finger Cookin

I can't remember the last time I felt inspired.

Sad to say it's the same for me. I haven't felt inspired by anything in a very long time, and even motivation of any kind is become more and more rare as the years go by.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

My wife. My wife inspires me. Very driven and very successful in everything she puts her mind to. I wish I had half of her drive.

Some women are incredible.

Just inhuman time management ability and discipline. All the daily cosmetic upkeep that guys don't really have to deal with. Getting up early to do their lengthy routines. Tending to little extra responsibilities that often evade us. And these days being as relentlessly driven and self motivated in careers as you'll find in men's culture/circles, even when the fluctuations in hormones are driving them up the wall.

When I think about it, it kind of really makes sense that every once in a while they'll just crack and end up bundled in five blankets with a tub of chocolate ice cream on the couch to keep their sanity intact.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

My wife. My wife inspires me. Very driven and very successful in everything she puts her mind to. I wish I had half of her drive.

I love this post.

I try to compare myself to my wife, but she is a better human and a tougher human than I ever was or will be.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I want to add travel as well.

Today if the first time in lime 3ish years I've been off Cape Breton Island.

Just in Halifax for the night as my wife has a doctor's appointment tomorrow. While she's doing an online class in the hotel, I went for a walk to see how downtown Halifax has changed since I was here last in the sumer of 2019 I think... and essentially comparing it to when I lived here.

Oh man, seeing a different city, different buildings, the changes, it's inspiring. It was like a weight wa shifted off my shoulders I didn't know I had.

It was cathartic walking around in -10°C (feels like -17°C) weather just seeing new places, new buildings, new things.

I'm having a pint in a pub I haven't been in since 2005/2006?

My wife and I literally high five crossing the Canso Causeway as we were feeling trapped due to COVID.

Split Crow man, I needed this. I had no idea how much.

See a new city, see an old city that's changed, new walls, it's amazing... I forgot how much.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

I want to add travel as well.

Today if the first time in lime 3ish years I've been off Cape Breton Island.

Just in Halifax for the night as my wife has a doctor's appointment tomorrow. While she's doing an online class in the hotel, I went for a walk to see how downtown Halifax has changed since I was here last in the sumer of 2019 I think... and essentially comparing it to when I lived here.

Oh man, seeing a different city, different buildings, the changes, it's inspiring. It was like a weight wa shifted off my shoulders I didn't know I had.

It was cathartic walking around in -10°C (feels like -17°C) weather just seeing new places, new buildings, new things.

I'm having a pint in a pub I haven't been in since 2005/2006?

My wife and I literally high five crossing the Canso Causeway as we were feeling trapped due to COVID.

Split Crow man, I needed this. I had no idea how much.

See a new city, see an old city that's changed, new walls, it's amazing... I forgot how much.

Just a second here...isn't that just feeling good? Doesn't inspire mean to make you want to do something creative or productive related to the thing that inspired you? Like, it sounds like being in Halifax made you feel good and it helped you shed some stress to be somewhere you like. I mean, yeah, I have that all the time, too, when I do something rewarding.

I have an annual snowboard trip planned with my friends in three weeks. I can't wait for it as we skipped last year. I think I'll have all the feelings you just described when we're hanging out in the condos and then riding for a few days. But that's not inspiring.

A lot of the things I'm reading in here are very positive, but I think some of you guys are unclear on what inspiration is.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Just a second here...isn't that just feeling good? Doesn't inspire mean to make you want to do something creative or productive related to the thing that inspired you? Like, it sounds like being in Halifax made you feel good and it helped you shed some stress to be somewhere you like. I mean, yeah, I have that all the time, too, when I do something rewarding.

I have an annual snowboard trip planned with my friends in three weeks. I can't wait for it as we skipped last year. I think I'll have all the feelings you just described when we're hanging out in the condos and then riding for a few days. But that's not inspiring.

A lot of the things I'm reading in here are very positive, but I think some of you guys are unclear on what inspiration is.

Fair comment.

Yes, it does make me feel good.

But it does make me want to work harder, be a better person, help others, I'm meeting up with a work eager tomorrow (assuming schedules line up). I want to see my hometown succeed how Halifax is, and am inspired to make that happen.

It's tough to be inspired when you're exhausted, depressed or stuck in routine.

Of you're happy, energetic and excited then you're taking those steps to keep going, to venture onward and upward, to be better.... be inspired.

... that as well as Jessica Mackay and Cassie Lee (horrible revenge but wrestling fans will get it)

[Matata]

I did acid a long time ago and I realized that our existence plays out in an intersection between the physical, intellectual and spiritual. That we are ultimately on a journey of spiritual growth that is defined by our reaction to physical suffering, and that the most meaningful way to participate in this journey is to purse the hardships we're faced with, because that is where the most spiritual growth and enriching experiences are to be found.


It's basically a stoner trying to cobble together buddhist philosophy with the scottish enlightenment without ever being well versed in either, but it works for me.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Sliver

This question always makes me uncomfortable. I have a family member that asks me the same thing on our annual visit. Nothing inspires me. Lots of things motivate me, I guess, but I wouldn't say there is a single thing out there that gives me inspiration. It's not an emotion I really ever feel, I don't think.

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Jesus christ, what a load of bull####. You really are so tied up in your own delusions you can't see the reality of it. It's a tiny minority of Canadians stamping their feet like a bunch of toddlers because they can't have special privileges. That's it.

Thinking about this more, it really shows why going around being "inspired" isn't necessarily a good thing. Think of all the people like Traditional Ale inspired by the stupidity going on in Ottawa and Coutts. Think of all the people inspired by Donald Trump and this worldwide rise in right-wing authoritarianism. Think of all the people inspired by religion to the point of donating money and time to institutions that shelter child rapists.

How many terrible atrocities have been committed in the world by "the inspired"?

Honestly, inspiration can lead to blurring the guardrails that define your own values. I think that's why some people are drawn to inspiration. It gets them out of their box and onto a more exciting path. So, yeah, inspiration can be good, but it can also be fataing terrible.

I think I'm happier not going around being inspired. I'd hate to picture Sliver one day ####ting on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier eating soup I stole from a soup kitchen whilst waving a Nazi flag in my "##### trudeau" hoodie.

[flamesfever]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Thinking about this more, it really shows why going around being "inspired" isn't necessarily a good thing. Think of all the people like Traditional Ale inspired by the stupidity going on in Ottawa and Coutts. Think of all the people inspired by Donald Trump and this worldwide rise in right-wing authoritarianism. Think of all the people inspired by religion to the point of donating money and time to institutions that shelter child rapists.

How many terrible atrocities have been committed in the world by "the inspired"?

Honestly, inspiration can lead to blurring the guardrails that define your own values. I think that's why some people are drawn to inspiration. It gets them out of their box and onto a more exciting path. So, yeah, inspiration can be good, but it can also be fataing terrible.

I think I'm happier not going around being inspired. I'd hate to picture Sliver one day ####ting on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier eating soup I stole from a soup kitchen whilst waving a Nazi flag in my "##### trudeau" hoodie.

I see your point, and I think it is a good one i.e. keep your emotions within due bounds. However, IMO there is good and bad in everything if you want to go looking for it.

Do you not get inspired when you see a good movie, see exceptional acts of kindness towards others, witness the wonders of nature, listen to certain music etc.?

Even see a few hard working, underpaid truckers risk being censored castigated, and thrown under the bus by their PM and his press. for standing up for what they believe in.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

I see your point, and I think it is a good one i.e. keep your emotions within due bounds. However, IMO there is good and bad in everything if you want to go looking for it.

Do you not get inspired when you see a good movie, see exceptional acts of kindness towards others, witness the wonders of nature, listen to certain music etc.?

Even see a few hard working, underpaid truckers risk being censored castigated, and thrown under the bus by their PM and his press. for standing up for what they believe in.

That's not inspirational, it's ####ing depressing watching the selfishness of the few make lives difficult for the many. "What they believe in" is a lie they've been sold by misinformation. It's sad that people think this should be an inspiration to anyone. They are being taken advantage of.