My parents are both smokers and Mom has had a few emergency surgeries. They are both over 80. I think living past 80 might not be as hard now provided you avoid opiates, reckless driving, and obesity.
I have Osteogenesis Imperfecta so I was more fragile at 10 than 20 and possibly more fragile at 20 then I am at 46. (Maybe at 80 I’ll be Superman!)
More serious the way that works is puberty can increase bone density so I fractured less after it. The accident that almost killed me at 20, my wheelchair running me over, would likely almost kill me now or just kill me. I would guess then the reason I have not fractured since 20 is I’m more careful and more of a homebody now.
I have a nephew who goes on about “Israeli genocide” who I put on “snooze” every now and again. (I don’t want to get into a debate on Israel as my opinion is mixed or odd, but I’ll admit people who get obsessed with praising or condemning Israel above all other nations are kind of tiresome for me.)
That song by an English lawyer? (Although the melody looks to be “Londonderry Air” which is Irish. Although something called “Irish Love Song” also has that melody, it seems, and was by an Irish woman.)
Yeah. I was resistant to join facebook, but my experience was mostly positive. But I basically limit to birthdays, congratulations, consolations, and occasionally odd news story. (From respectable sources.)
I would guess the cartoon is about the Stoic, possibly CBT, idea that we often to generally can not choose our circumstances but can choose how we respond to those circumstance. I think this is assuming there isn’t something neurochemical and the issue is situational.
In the situation you describe a Stoic would not be saying it makes you happy those things occurred. They would, I think, be more saying you choose not to let those effect the gratitude you feel in life. I was once in ICU with half my body broken and every day I woke up with my nose pouring blood. But I think there were moments of happiness even then. The gratitude of moments of relief from pain, my music, and also popsicles. Popsicles and music can do a lot even if you’re situation is so bad you have trouble chewing. (As you can let them melt in your mouth.) And also love. Even if you have no wife, home, etc you may still have love from siblings, friends, a dog, or perhaps God if you believe. If you have a happiness that no situation can take away the Franciscans, not Stoics but Christians, I think felt you have like true happiness.
(Again though this isn’t dealing with neurochemical situations. It’s also not dealing whether this is even a good idea. Perhaps unhappiness at injustice is necessary to mitigate them.)
I guess there is a so called “Pacific Bermuda Triangle” or “Formosa Triangle” that it was near though. (Well unlikely it’s that for many many reasons not least of which that “triangle” looks to be East of MH370’s path.)
If another country wants to ban Twitter/X or facebook I think I could be fine with that.
Although I do think the main problem with social media might be the problem with many things, excess. If you use social media in a moderate way, restricting how often and when or how you use it, the harm might be quite minimal.
Although addressed to Snoot, “Wouldn’t logic tell you that if they are all really following Jesus, there would be no need for all these different doctrines?”
I think isn’t as sensible as you think. Unless you believe Jesus, as God, should either be forcing us to think the same somehow or should be so clear and obvious different interpretations are impossible.
But humans are complicated so even if Jesus were clear (as he certainly seems to be on say remarriage after divorce) people might choose to misinterpret him. Particularly if it’s in their immediate self-interest to do so.
And really if we put religion aside does anything, other than maybe math, lead to the uniformity of ideas you speak of? How many schools of thought are there in cosmology or quantum mechanics let alone softer sciences like psychology or sociology? This isn’t evidence against the idea of scientific truth.
My parents are both smokers and Mom has had a few emergency surgeries. They are both over 80. I think living past 80 might not be as hard now provided you avoid opiates, reckless driving, and obesity.