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Benjamin Bretz
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I’d planned on only posting zen and mindfulness stuff here but that sure as hell didn’t take off so.

Who are you
Well at least we all refrained from harmful rhetoric.
September 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Was Scary Bilbo the millennial mental scarring version of Gen-X’s Large Marge?
June 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I spend 80% of my waking hours wondering if someone misheard what I just said
April 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hey millennials how many once in a lifetime financial crises have you lived through now?

I mean yeah gen x has too but at least we got to enjoy the 90s as adults so we don’t get to complain a whole lot
April 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I think dogs and cats can both see into the shadow realm but have fiercely different opinions about whether they should tell us what’s happening

Yes I’m going to delete this but I just needed to get it off my chest
March 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Autocorrect: if you’re ever wondering about a three letter word that I typo that starts with ca, it’s cat. It’s always cat. It’s never car. Cat. Always assume cat.
January 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Normally my online ads target me accurately. Hair restoration or head shaving gear, Buddhist looking statues and jewelry. But. But.
January 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In the past 40 years we’ve perfected GPS technology, shrunk computers to the size of a deck of cards, mapped the human genome, developed non-invasive laser and robotic surgery, on and on, but you expect me to believe we still don’t know if they’re giants or not
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Am I correct in understanding that this is this the Currently Agreed Upon Last Bastion Of Decency™?

And have we all tried going back to MySpace at all? That been floated?

I currently am just thisisfinedogging pretty much everything. I mean I’m a liberal in Idaho, it’s just what we do
January 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It’s weird shuffling through 90s on Apple Music or Spotify because you hit those random “last song on the album + five minutes of silence and then a secret bonus song” tracks that were so popular back then and it totally dicks the vibe you had going on
December 15, 2024 at 9:15 PM
I believe I have lived a life that won’t lead to the entire internet cheering if I’m gunned down in the street, so. There’s that.
December 5, 2024 at 7:35 PM
It doesn’t even feel like whammageddon this year
December 1, 2024 at 9:45 PM
For all those who celebrate
November 28, 2024 at 4:41 PM
me waiting for my Black Friday impulse PSVR2 purchase to arrive today
November 23, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Doing my monthly check-in.

Uh.

Here’s an origami rabbit I made
November 21, 2024 at 10:31 PM
#SilentHill2 is causing massive early 2000s flashbacks because (a) the original was one of the greatest games I ever experienced and (b) this looks strikingly like my ex’s apartment in Reno
October 29, 2024 at 1:00 AM
LOL HI WHATRU GUYS DOIN

I’d been enjoying Threads but it’s turned entirely into engagement bait.

I don’t think I have the energy to get another social media thing going.

Anyhoo here’s a cool video of me riding my motorcycle into a cloud.
October 21, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Well this whole “post zen shit” approach was fun for a bit but I just can’t get into this app.

You know all Elon had to do was NOT SCREW UP TWITTER and I’d have been happy.

Oh well.
July 13, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Another #stoicism meets #zen philosophy:

“Don't let the force of an impression when it first hit you knock you off your feet; just say to it: Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test” -EPICTETUS
June 28, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Because I for one can’t constantly keep all this in my head. #buddhism
June 25, 2024 at 5:43 PM
I stopped telling myself to be happy and started telling myself to ‘feel free to be happy’ and. For whatever reason it’s made all the difference in the world.

Like be happy IF IT SUITS YOU, NO PRESSURE
June 20, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Peace.

Well I mean the Harley probably made it less peaceful for some in the vicinity, but.
June 14, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Reposted by Benjamin Bretz
June 7, 2024 at 11:50 PM
You’ll feel better if you write it down.

You just WILL.
June 5, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Also I got this bonsai tree today from a Japanese gentleman selling them on the street. ❤️ This is a rare treat when you live in a not-exactly-diverse place like Idaho Falls.
May 24, 2024 at 10:56 PM