this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Fire good.

Beer. Good also.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Haha, yes! Easy to be happy, if by happy you mean stave off existential dread for a few hours.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like dad found enlightenment

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I heard the crackling and popping when I read your comment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Namaste 🙏

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Some men just want to watch the fire burn.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's something about fire that moves humanity.

The crackle, the flicker, the scent of smoke and wood, the glowing warmth that caresses away chills. It's hypnotic, and on such a primal level that we don't always notice it.

Staring into a fire, just in the moment is meditative. Your mind can either roam free, or empty itself out to let you float in the now.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The wheel and lever people will never understand this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But the people putting the wheel, lever, and fire together are really going places.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Screw those guys. They can take a long walk off a short inclined plane.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's been a safe place for a million+ years. Fire has your back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It does?! PUT IT OUT YOU JERK!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Keeps the demons away

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The true question is why didn't Anon come and join his dad next to the fire.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago

Anon is also autistic. (Genetics are a bitch)

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago

Anons dad needs to practice fire in the winter. It is even better in the winter because it can warm you up but the weather still keeps your beer cold.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago

I don't see why autism would have anything to do with it. People have been sitting and staring at fires for thousands of years. It's hypnotic, and it's a good kind of meditative clear your mind kind of situation, or good time to just sit and think.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Solution: get Dad an orb for those winter months.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Fire pit is pre-orb. Orb wishes it was fire pit.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

He's destressing

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

You have the deepest conversations around a fire. Everything from philosophy to art to politics, this is how man bonds with his brethren.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I hope Anon finds the same peace in his life that his fire pit has given his dad.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

anon's Dad is dropping shrooms

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm leaving this thread with an urge to barbecue that I didn't have upon entering

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I need to poke a fire with a good stick.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It is pwetty 🥺

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

When I was a little kid, if I was good then my grandparents would fill a big pot with torn-up newspapers, set them on fire, and let me watch them burn. Apparently this isn't a normal child-rearing practice. I'm not sure why.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Seen plenty of vets do this.