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top of the heap to third world status in one generation
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Livers and gall bladders are unmentionables until they require addressing. Apologies are unnecessary. They understand. They were with you in all of those decades.
I hope they find nothing but good times from long ago, moose eater.
I hope they find nothing but good times from long ago, moose eater.
M
moose eater
Thanks.
The lengths a guy has to go to in order to have a young, attractive woman play with his chest and belly!! I'll tell ya'!!
I let her know that I knew it's against protocol for her to divulge anything she saw that was of concern, though radiologists often/sometimes do better interpretation of images than Docs do.
So I asked her if there was anything noteworthy or alarming, could she at least engage in some sort of non-verbal, para-verbal, or other form of body language-speak in communicating her alarm at what ever it is. "You know, like clasping your hands to your face, or letting out a loud gasp, or maybe running from the room screaming??"
Nope. She had the straightest poker face I've ever seen on any drug dealer, under cover cop, or poker player. Though she asked me questions that gave me at least a bit of a clue, and let me know she was forwarding my results post haste to my Doc.
So the sense of urgency in the reports may or may not be anything indicative of alarm. We'll see. And her questions about pain or discomfort when eating tells me that there's potentially something there.
I've got a fairly stout threshold for pain, and there's been discomfort there for a LONG-ASS time now.
Another life adventure, wherein I get to make the medical profession and peripheral adjuncts a bunch of money, so they can fly nicer private aircraft, or fish from bigger yachts.
Doing my part for the American economy as a minion, while waiting to be turned into Soylent Green. It's the least I can do... ;^>)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0vjZiu_rw
The lengths a guy has to go to in order to have a young, attractive woman play with his chest and belly!! I'll tell ya'!!
I let her know that I knew it's against protocol for her to divulge anything she saw that was of concern, though radiologists often/sometimes do better interpretation of images than Docs do.
So I asked her if there was anything noteworthy or alarming, could she at least engage in some sort of non-verbal, para-verbal, or other form of body language-speak in communicating her alarm at what ever it is. "You know, like clasping your hands to your face, or letting out a loud gasp, or maybe running from the room screaming??"
Nope. She had the straightest poker face I've ever seen on any drug dealer, under cover cop, or poker player. Though she asked me questions that gave me at least a bit of a clue, and let me know she was forwarding my results post haste to my Doc.
So the sense of urgency in the reports may or may not be anything indicative of alarm. We'll see. And her questions about pain or discomfort when eating tells me that there's potentially something there.
I've got a fairly stout threshold for pain, and there's been discomfort there for a LONG-ASS time now.
Another life adventure, wherein I get to make the medical profession and peripheral adjuncts a bunch of money, so they can fly nicer private aircraft, or fish from bigger yachts.
Doing my part for the American economy as a minion, while waiting to be turned into Soylent Green. It's the least I can do... ;^>)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0vjZiu_rw
The Shifting Experience of Self: A Bibliographic Essay
Exploring the flattening out of subjectivity.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-shifting-experience-of-self
Found this one disturbing, given what it was read it on.
Exploring the flattening out of subjectivity.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-shifting-experience-of-self
Found this one disturbing, given what it was read it on.
How We Judge Others is How We Judge Ourselves
Be mindful of how you measure yourself and those around you. There might be a better way.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...w-we-judge-ourselves?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Be mindful of how you measure yourself and those around you. There might be a better way.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...w-we-judge-ourselves?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Good Read Gry! - so I thought that I would cut and paste it here - for you lot to read.
I once knew a guy who made a lot of money. He saw the world as a series of value propositions. Everything from what holiday vacation to take, to which beer to choose at a restaurant, to why certain people liked him or not.
If someone was rude to him it was because they were jealous or felt threatened by his power or success. If someone was kind to him it was because they admired his power and success, and in some cases, may be trying to manipulate him to get more access to it.
He measured himself through his financial success. And naturally he measured the world and the people around him through financial success.
I once knew a woman who was beautiful. She saw the world in terms of attraction and attention. Everything from job interviews to getting discounts at restaurants to dealing with a nagging mother.
If someone was rude to her it was because they were intimidated by her beauty or their own lack of beauty. If someone was kind to her it was because they admired her beauty and wanted access to it.
She measured herself through her beauty and attractiveness. And naturally she measured the world and people in it by their beauty and attractiveness.
I once knew a guy who was a loser. He was socially awkward and nobody liked him. He saw the world as a popularity contest, a contest that he was perpetually losing.
Everything from how much he earned at work, to the poor service he got at restaurants, to the people who didn’t laugh at his jokes.
If someone was rude to him it was because they realized how much cooler they were than him. If someone was kind to him it was because they saw how much of a loser he was and took pity on him. Or perhaps they were just bigger losers than he was.
He measured himself through his social status. And naturally he measured the world and the people in it through social status.
Why We Judge Others
Months ago, I wrote an article about the ways that we choose to measure the value of our own lives. Some of us measure our life through money and accolades. Others measure it through beauty and popularity. Others measure it through family and relationships. Others measure it through service and good deeds.
Chances are you measure it through some combination of all of these things, but one in particular matters most to you. One stands out and determines your happiness more than others.
In that article, I wrote that it’s important to measure ourselves by our own internal metrics as much as possible. The more external our metrics for our own value and self-worth, the more we screw everything up for ourselves.
But there’s more.
The way you measure yourself is how you measure others, and how you assume others measure you.
If you measure your life by your family relationships, then you will measure others by the same standard – how close their family is to them. If they’re distant from their family or don’t call home enough, you’ll judge them as deadbeats, ungrateful or irresponsible, regardless of their lives or their history.
If you measure your life by how much fun and partying you can have, then you will measure others by the same standard – how much fun and partying they have. If they prefer to stay home and watch Star Trek: Next Generation reruns every weekend, you’ll judge them as inhibited, scared of the world, lame and soulless, regardless of their personality or needs.
If you measure your life by how much you’ve travelled and experienced, then you will measure other people by the same standard – how worldly they’ve become. If they prefer to stay home and enjoy the comforts of routine, then you will judge them as incurious, ignorant, unambitious, regardless of what their aspirations really are.
The yardstick we use for ourselves is the yardstick we use for the world.
If we believe that we’re hard workers and we earned everything we have, then we will believe that everyone else earned what they have. And if they have nothing, it’s because they earned nothing.
If we believe that we’re victimized by society and deserve justice, then we will believe that others are victims of society and deserve justice as well. If we believe our value comes from faith in a higher power, then we will view others by their faith (or lack of faith) in a higher power. If we measure ourselves by our intellect and use of reason, then we will judge others through the same lens.
This is why people who are entrepreneurs tend to think that everyone else should be an entrepreneur as well.
This is why people who are born-again Christians tend to believe that everyone should find salvation through Jesus Christ. This is why hardcore atheists try to logically argue about something that has nothing to do with logic. It’s why racists often claim that everyone else is racist too. They just don’t know it. It’s why sexist men justify their sexism by saying women are worse and sexist women justify their sexism by saying men are worse.
Judging Others (And Ourselves) Mindfully
This isn’t to say that judging is wrong. There are plenty of values worth judgment. I judge people who are violent and malicious. But that is a reflection of who I am. I judge violence and malice within myself. Those are traits that I will not tolerate within myself, therefore I do not tolerate them in others.
But that is a choice I am making. That is a choice we are all making, whether we realize it or not. And we should make those choices consciously and not on auto-pilot.
It’s why people who think they’re ugly look for all of the ways people around them are ugly and why people who are lazy and slack off look for all of the ways others cut corners and slack off as well. It’s why corrupt officials choose to be corrupt: because they assume everyone else is as corrupt as they are. It’s why cheaters choose to cheat: because they assume everybody else is going to cheat if given the chance too.
It’s why those who can’t trust are the ones who can’t be trusted.
Many of us adopt our own internal yardsticks not through conscious choice but through the shaming we’re subjected to. I love the quote, “Everyone is either trying to prove or disprove who they were in high school,” because for many of us, our yardsticks are defined by how people viewed us growing up.
We develop a fixation in one area of our lives because it’s the area which we felt people judged us the most. The high school cheerleader who is afraid to lose her looks as an adult. The poor kid obsessed with becoming rich. The loser who wants to throw the biggest parties. The slacker who wants to prove to everyone how smart he is.
A big part of our development is to recognize our own fixation, to recognize how we measure ourselves and consciously choose our metric for ourselves.
But another big part of development is to recognize that everyone has their own metric. And that metric is likely not going to be the same as ours. And that’s (usually) fine. Most metrics people choose are fine. Even if they’re not the same metrics you would choose for yourself.
You may view the world through family values, but most people do not. You may view the world through the metric of attractiveness, but most people do not. You may view the world through the metric of freedom and worldliness, but most people do not. You may view the world through the positivity and friendliness, but most people do not.
And that’s simply part of being human.
Accepting that others measure themselves and the world differently than you do is one of the most important steps to consciously choosing the right relationships for yourself. It’s necessary for developing strong boundaries and deciding who you want to be a part of your life and who you do not. You may not accept a person’s ideas or behaviours.
But you must accept that you cannot change a person’s values for them. Just as we must choose our own measurement by ourselves and for ourselves. They must do it by themselves and for themselves.
This article was originally published on January 9, 2014, by Mark Manson
I once knew a guy who made a lot of money. He saw the world as a series of value propositions. Everything from what holiday vacation to take, to which beer to choose at a restaurant, to why certain people liked him or not.
If someone was rude to him it was because they were jealous or felt threatened by his power or success. If someone was kind to him it was because they admired his power and success, and in some cases, may be trying to manipulate him to get more access to it.
He measured himself through his financial success. And naturally he measured the world and the people around him through financial success.
I once knew a woman who was beautiful. She saw the world in terms of attraction and attention. Everything from job interviews to getting discounts at restaurants to dealing with a nagging mother.
If someone was rude to her it was because they were intimidated by her beauty or their own lack of beauty. If someone was kind to her it was because they admired her beauty and wanted access to it.
She measured herself through her beauty and attractiveness. And naturally she measured the world and people in it by their beauty and attractiveness.
I once knew a guy who was a loser. He was socially awkward and nobody liked him. He saw the world as a popularity contest, a contest that he was perpetually losing.
Everything from how much he earned at work, to the poor service he got at restaurants, to the people who didn’t laugh at his jokes.
If someone was rude to him it was because they realized how much cooler they were than him. If someone was kind to him it was because they saw how much of a loser he was and took pity on him. Or perhaps they were just bigger losers than he was.
He measured himself through his social status. And naturally he measured the world and the people in it through social status.
Why We Judge Others
Months ago, I wrote an article about the ways that we choose to measure the value of our own lives. Some of us measure our life through money and accolades. Others measure it through beauty and popularity. Others measure it through family and relationships. Others measure it through service and good deeds.
Chances are you measure it through some combination of all of these things, but one in particular matters most to you. One stands out and determines your happiness more than others.
In that article, I wrote that it’s important to measure ourselves by our own internal metrics as much as possible. The more external our metrics for our own value and self-worth, the more we screw everything up for ourselves.
But there’s more.
The way you measure yourself is how you measure others, and how you assume others measure you.
If you measure your life by your family relationships, then you will measure others by the same standard – how close their family is to them. If they’re distant from their family or don’t call home enough, you’ll judge them as deadbeats, ungrateful or irresponsible, regardless of their lives or their history.
If you measure your life by how much fun and partying you can have, then you will measure others by the same standard – how much fun and partying they have. If they prefer to stay home and watch Star Trek: Next Generation reruns every weekend, you’ll judge them as inhibited, scared of the world, lame and soulless, regardless of their personality or needs.
If you measure your life by how much you’ve travelled and experienced, then you will measure other people by the same standard – how worldly they’ve become. If they prefer to stay home and enjoy the comforts of routine, then you will judge them as incurious, ignorant, unambitious, regardless of what their aspirations really are.
The yardstick we use for ourselves is the yardstick we use for the world.
If we believe that we’re hard workers and we earned everything we have, then we will believe that everyone else earned what they have. And if they have nothing, it’s because they earned nothing.
If we believe that we’re victimized by society and deserve justice, then we will believe that others are victims of society and deserve justice as well. If we believe our value comes from faith in a higher power, then we will view others by their faith (or lack of faith) in a higher power. If we measure ourselves by our intellect and use of reason, then we will judge others through the same lens.
This is why people who are entrepreneurs tend to think that everyone else should be an entrepreneur as well.
This is why people who are born-again Christians tend to believe that everyone should find salvation through Jesus Christ. This is why hardcore atheists try to logically argue about something that has nothing to do with logic. It’s why racists often claim that everyone else is racist too. They just don’t know it. It’s why sexist men justify their sexism by saying women are worse and sexist women justify their sexism by saying men are worse.
Judging Others (And Ourselves) Mindfully
This isn’t to say that judging is wrong. There are plenty of values worth judgment. I judge people who are violent and malicious. But that is a reflection of who I am. I judge violence and malice within myself. Those are traits that I will not tolerate within myself, therefore I do not tolerate them in others.
But that is a choice I am making. That is a choice we are all making, whether we realize it or not. And we should make those choices consciously and not on auto-pilot.
It’s why people who think they’re ugly look for all of the ways people around them are ugly and why people who are lazy and slack off look for all of the ways others cut corners and slack off as well. It’s why corrupt officials choose to be corrupt: because they assume everyone else is as corrupt as they are. It’s why cheaters choose to cheat: because they assume everybody else is going to cheat if given the chance too.
It’s why those who can’t trust are the ones who can’t be trusted.
Many of us adopt our own internal yardsticks not through conscious choice but through the shaming we’re subjected to. I love the quote, “Everyone is either trying to prove or disprove who they were in high school,” because for many of us, our yardsticks are defined by how people viewed us growing up.
We develop a fixation in one area of our lives because it’s the area which we felt people judged us the most. The high school cheerleader who is afraid to lose her looks as an adult. The poor kid obsessed with becoming rich. The loser who wants to throw the biggest parties. The slacker who wants to prove to everyone how smart he is.
A big part of our development is to recognize our own fixation, to recognize how we measure ourselves and consciously choose our metric for ourselves.
But another big part of development is to recognize that everyone has their own metric. And that metric is likely not going to be the same as ours. And that’s (usually) fine. Most metrics people choose are fine. Even if they’re not the same metrics you would choose for yourself.
You may view the world through family values, but most people do not. You may view the world through the metric of attractiveness, but most people do not. You may view the world through the metric of freedom and worldliness, but most people do not. You may view the world through the positivity and friendliness, but most people do not.
And that’s simply part of being human.
Accepting that others measure themselves and the world differently than you do is one of the most important steps to consciously choosing the right relationships for yourself. It’s necessary for developing strong boundaries and deciding who you want to be a part of your life and who you do not. You may not accept a person’s ideas or behaviours.
But you must accept that you cannot change a person’s values for them. Just as we must choose our own measurement by ourselves and for ourselves. They must do it by themselves and for themselves.
This article was originally published on January 9, 2014, by Mark Manson
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
Great read. Thanks for forwarding this Gypsy. Saw myself.
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
Sounds like a good way to settle a lot of arguments to me.
I suggest we give everyone in the world a huge dose of DMT.
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
When i visit the urinal at work I always repeat "I'm wearing $250 shoes and I'm standing in piss." and shake my head.
A great Dustin Hoffman line.
I am already on top of that. Could use some assistance getting to everyone....... And refilling the stash..... Another few hundred blasts offs and I will need more.
Traditional healers have been entrusted with the well-being of indigenous Australian communities for as long as their culture has been alive – yet surprisingly little is known of them.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/201...-cure-for-depression?utm_source=pocket-newtab
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/201...-cure-for-depression?utm_source=pocket-newtab
The story of Jamal Khashoggi's murder and how the world looked the other way
https://www.insider.com/the-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi-2019-10?utm_source=pocket-newtab
https://www.insider.com/the-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi-2019-10?utm_source=pocket-newtab
M
moose eater
Our 'friends,' the Saudis. Welcome to the New United States of Mercenary/Corporatist Amerika. Tell us what to believe, and who to like or dislike, wrap it in the flag or dollar bills, and if the payment is enough, we'll do what ever you tell us to do.
"Land of the free, home of the brave," not withstanding nationalist propaganda or large cash variables..
Fuck 'em ALL.
M
moose eater
I have that flag. I think I took it with me to Manhattan, to OWS, in November, 2011.
Sold my antennae today (all of them); from tiny to a giant 12' boom that was 9' wide at the base; classic V-shaped uhf/vhf old-school, to digital, including a telescoping 30' galvanized mast, a 4-section, 20' mast, and more. Let it all go for less than a quarter of the new value. Fall cleaning.
But as I was preparing to offer the clamps to the fellow who bought it all (clamps that'd held the 20' sectional mast to the styles and reinforcing framing on my upper back deck), it occurred to me that I MIGHT want that set of clamps to fly a flag from a taller pole back there, on the back side of the house, way up high. Though maybe not low-flying-aircraft high.
Initially I thought of the Gadsden flag (coiled snake with 'Don't Tread on Me', which I also have at least one of here), then the Anarchist 'A' done in red quasi-pentagram style. But it may well be that the 'United Corporatist States of Amerika' flag that you've pictured (which, as I stated, I also have here) might be the winning ticket.
Or, maybe alternate them, letting each flag spend a couple days up the pole before pulling it and switching to the next flag.
Flags make it all official, don't they?
Reminded of what I used to go through to pull in WGTB back in the day.
Custom cut on a mast a few inches shy of the requirement for the red blinking light.
When I consider what is used today, I am not sure I could call it progress.
Using the world's most expensive counter insurgency device to pull signal,
has squat to do with cost effectiveness.
Still feeling a soft spot in my heart for an analog world.
Custom cut on a mast a few inches shy of the requirement for the red blinking light.
When I consider what is used today, I am not sure I could call it progress.
Using the world's most expensive counter insurgency device to pull signal,
has squat to do with cost effectiveness.
Still feeling a soft spot in my heart for an analog world.
M
moose eater
I run analog FM radios in my shop and in the kitchen; one to cover the noise of fans in the boxes and the main exhaust and carbon filter fan, and one in the kitchen to cover the absence of people when we're not home.
When there's a power surge, flicker, or outage (and our electric utility company is practically famous for such things), the digital stuff would lose any signal and go to static. The old analog goes right back to where it was before the interruption. Problem solved.
Now I have state-of-the-art fiber-optic, and my 56k dial-up days, as well as the variance from 3 channels on the tube in the summer, to 9 in the winter, are all behind me, though traded for a whole new set of somewhat less frequent troubles, but faster, with WAY more choice when it's working properly.
When there's a power surge, flicker, or outage (and our electric utility company is practically famous for such things), the digital stuff would lose any signal and go to static. The old analog goes right back to where it was before the interruption. Problem solved.
Now I have state-of-the-art fiber-optic, and my 56k dial-up days, as well as the variance from 3 channels on the tube in the summer, to 9 in the winter, are all behind me, though traded for a whole new set of somewhat less frequent troubles, but faster, with WAY more choice when it's working properly.
