what is your favorite ritual?

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deustroop

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Red Squirrel said:
Making my coffee in the morning. That first sip of a freshly poured cup is always so bliss.

When I'm in bed having trouble coaxing myself to get out when I'm on a day off, I just need to think about the fact that I can make myself a coffee after my shower, and it gets me out of bed.

I'm trying to cut out any cafeinated or alcoholic beverages though so I limit myself to morning only. Trying to figure out how to make my night teeth clenching stop since it's completely destroying my jaw, and those types of drinks are known to aggravate it. I might need to actually stop coffee for a few weeks to try to "detox" from it to see if it helps. I'm down to only a few cups per day before noon though.

I'm not sure how much it will really help though. I more or less cut out alcohol completely, but the other day when I was at my parents after work my mom had a glass of wine already poured for me and I don't think the clenching was any worse that night... so I really don't know the cause of that and just grasping at straws by trying to cut down.
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It's not coffee or booze.
It could be all psychological, sensitive shit in your head.
 
dullard

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s0me0nesmind1 said:
My favorite ritual... Is having a daily ritual. I like order, and hate chaos. Which... With a wife and kids that concept is immediately gone all the time heh.
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I generally hate rituals. I too like ordered things, but rituals mean you have stopped optimizing and have given up. There is always a better way and I'm going to try to figure it out.

One ritual that I do have and I do enjoy is what I call my favorite one second per week: turning off the alarm clock on Friday evening.

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nakedfrog

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dullard said:
I generally hate rituals. I too like ordered things, but rituals mean you have stopped optimizing and have given up. There is always a better way and I'm going to try to figure it out.
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Yeah, I don't agree with this assessment at all.
 
dullard

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nakedfrog said:
Yeah, I don't agree with this assessment at all.
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There are variants:
  • If you do what you’ve always done you’ll get what you’ve always gotten -- Jessie Potter
  • If you do what you’ve always done, you are slowly going out of business -- I think Eric Chester
  • Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things -- Wayne Dyer
  • If you want your kids to have a better life than you, then they need to make different choices -- dullard
  • Growth and comfort seldom ride the same horse -- unknown.
 
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dullard said:
There are variants:
  • If you do what you’ve always done you’ll get what you’ve always gotten -- Jessie Potter
  • If you do what you’ve always done, you are slowly going out of business -- I think Eric Chester
  • Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things -- Wayne Dyer
  • If you want your kids to have a better life than you, then they need to make different choices -- dullard
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lol might be going a bit too deep.

When I say ritual or "order" - I mean things like... waking up at the same time....eating dinner/going to bed at the same time... Having something you enjoy doing and making sure to carve out some time for it..... Things like that.

Believe me, I'll still do things like move to different jobs and challenge myself to learn new skills, heh.
 
nakedfrog

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dullard said:
There are variants:
  • If you do what you’ve always done you’ll get what you’ve always gotten -- Jessie Potter
  • If you do what you’ve always done, you are slowly going out of business -- I think Eric Chester
  • Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things -- Wayne Dyer
  • If you want your kids to have a better life than you, then they need to make different choices -- dullard
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So how does all this pertain to me possibly failing to optimize my musical instrument setup prior to playing with others, or the way I like to make my coffee in the morning, which could potentially be "more optimized"? I think part of the point of a ritual is the process itself, which doesn't necessarily bear the burden of being something that ought to be optimized.
Believe me, if I'm doing a chore that I don't like doing, I'll find ways to optimize that :D
 
dullard

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s0me0nesmind1 said:
lol might be going a bit too deep.
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Its a personal quest of mine to keep innovating. It stemmed from eating the same Turkey and Green Bean Casserole three meals in a row at Thanksgiving (my family, wife's family, wife's extended family) then several meals of the same leftovers, then do it all again in a month for Christmas. After a dozen meals of Turkey and Green Bean Casserole year after year, I decided that there has to be a better way.

It seems like everything bad around me ends up being described as "because we have always done it that way".
 
dullard

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nakedfrog said:
So how does all this pertain to me possibly failing to optimize my musical instrument setup prior to playing with others, or the way I like to make my coffee in the morning, which could potentially be "more optimized"? I think part of the point of a ritual is the process itself, which doesn't necessarily bear the burden of being something that ought to be optimized.
Believe me, if I'm doing a chore that I don't like doing, I'll find ways to optimize that :D
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Gotta get that summer beer in before your jam, then rotate each season. ;)
 
nakedfrog

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dullard said:
Its a personal quest of mine to keep innovating. It stemmed from eating the same Turkey and Green Bean Casserole three meals in a row at Thanksgiving (my family, wife's family, wife's extended family) then several meals of the same leftovers, then do it all again in a month for Christmas. After a dozen meals of Turkey and Green Bean Casserole year after year, I decided that there has to be a better way.

It seems like everything bad around me ends up being described as "because we have always done it that way".
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Well, that's just you disliking being stuck with meal traditions and probably part of the War on Christmas, ya filthy liberal.
 
Red Squirrel

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lmao that is awesome.

Also I am glad to hear I am not the only one who presses two M&Ms together to see which one will "win". I still eat them all though.
 
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I'd never heard of this M&M smashing thing before. Guess i need to get out more.


BurnItDwn said:
Electric Wizard Black Magic Rituals and Perversions one of my favorites
Bloodbath Warhead Ritual is one of my favorites.
Hawkwinds Space Ritual is frickin amazing.
Superjoint Ritual is quite good
Dark Funeral Final Ritual is worth a listen
Gorgoroth Ritual is great
Ritual Carnage is an fun thrash band.
Ritual Killer was an interesting band from New Orleans
Decayed Ancient Rituals are very good.
Bolt Thrower Ritual is a good listen.
I like to relax to Goretrade Ritual of flesh sometimes.
Hatestorm Cursed Rituals is a nice album from Russia.
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats Ritual Knife is great



My #1 all time favorite Ritual though is the masterpiece by death: Zombie Ritual.
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If we're going that route, i'll add:
Djam Karet - The Ritual Continues


I guess i don't have any personal rituals :(
 
lxskllr

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Perknose said:
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A deadpan treatise on the craft of pencil-sharpening from a master artisan
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That guy's got some balls thinking he's qualified to teach pencil sharpening. #2 pencil?! C'mon, what is this; preschool?!?! 2H is the king of pencil lead. Soft enough to make a sufficiently dark line without being a smudge fest, but not hard enough to overly score the paper. Did you see his carved end?? Looks like a beaver chewed it off. I have sharper butterknives in the drawer.

I'd have thought his result was good adequate attempt by a first time sharpener, but from a professional?! Puh-lease...
 
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JM Aggie08

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Making coffee, be it espresso or pour-over.
The absurd bedtime routine we have with our son, inclusive of reading him the exact same copy of the book my late mother read to me as a kid.
Kicking off my lawn boots and putting my slides back on after doing lawn work.
Sitting on the couch after a cold shower after working out in the garage.
 
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