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Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by vkou »

nippoo wrote: post #20
vkou wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironically, there's a large overlap between those people and people who support capital punishment.

Is there? I'm genuinely curious where this stat comes from.

The Venn diagram of states that criminalize abortion and states that carry out the death penalty is nearly a circle... As are the sets of politicians, and the platforms that evangelical organizations tend to endorse.

Catholics are an exception, but they are a relatively politically inactive minority in the US.

https://reproductiverights.org/maps/abortion-laws-by-state/ [1]

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-landing

[1] Florida's only yellow because it's still being fought in the courts.

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Post by em-bee »

tmountain wrote: post #4

I just moved to a new country for the first time, and I've been doing a micro journal every day. Basically, I write 3-5 sentences capturing the most meaningful moments of the day. I've been doing this for two months now, and I've already found some benefits--both in gaining equilibrium and dialing up key details in sequence when necessary (i.e., when exactly did I start that home renovation project?). I'm lucky to be…

when i got my first portable laptop (a sony picturebook) i started a travel diary in a similar manner. initially only when i was away from home, but when i moved countries being away from home became a permanent state, so i kept writing almost every day. until it became a habit. i don't review past entries, but like you i sometimes use the diary to research certain facts.

interestingly, when i write i always have some kind of audience in mind, my wife, other family members. some friends (the later being inspired by a friend who actually started a semi-public journal he shares with close friends, a circle that i feel privileged to have been invited to. however, i have not actually shared my own diary with anyone yet)

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by em-bee »

paganel wrote: post #13

I couldn't honestly do that, the nostalgia would be too much for me, even for only 10 years ago, even 5. And then how do you process past relationships and marriages? Or the death of loved ones? Or other such traumatic experiences?

i note them with a simple entry. or i describe the details of the wedding or funeral, and other relevant facts, but i don't write about my feelings.

for one, i consider the diary as something others may read some day, i don't necessarily want share my feelings. but also, at least from my experience so far, reading about the facts of a traumatic experience helps me remember the feelings i had at the time. so rereading entries and recalling events is how i process these.

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Post by zvmaz »

paganel wrote: post #13

I couldn't honestly do that, the nostalgia would be too much for me, even for only 10 years ago, even 5. And then how do you process past relationships and marriages? Or the death of loved ones? Or other such traumatic experiences?

"I don't want to remember nothing, nothing, you understand?!" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLv6ycYcpGI

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by mbustamanter »

The moments captured in my images are fresh, but my perspective on them changes.

I am doing an experiment in memory and trying to memorize the name of every U.S. county, with the aid of a map. Several months in I can say that the brain inexorably will tie names together (wether by geographical proximity or etymology, e.g. Imperial-Riverside-San Diego or Redwood-Greenwood), and the addition of new names affects the perception of the ones before, or the perception of words which happen to be county names. I could write an entire essay on the limits of memory, but it would hardly be better than Jorge Luis Borges's story Funes, the memorius.

For anyone curious I can name 80% of U.S. counties with the aid of a blank map, and my geographic intuition has improved greatly. Every county (and county name) has a history attached to it, and sometimes when someone tells me where they grew up, I can guess their ancestry more or less, especially if they come from rural areas. It surprises them, sometimes even more when they know I'm not american.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by RobRivera »

mbustamanter wrote: post #25

The moments captured in my images are fresh, but my perspective on them changes. I am doing an experiment in memory and trying to memorize the name of every U.S. county, with the aid of a map. Several months in I can say that the brain inexorably will tie names together (wether by geographical proximity or etymology, e.g. Imperial-Riverside-San Diego or Redwood-Greenwood), and the addition of new names affects the pe…

Memory seems to be cemented when theres some type of value assigned to it, like a useful memory peg I find.

A major battle, a geomarker, usually there is SOMETHING noteworthy historical. I may not have put the labor into the volume of counties as you, but I've lived in so many places, and I index local histories of everywhere I live, and it cements so much.

Love the effort you put into testing your cognitive faculties!

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Post by lobochrome »

It’s so hard to keep this going, but I’m keeping my paper calendars, which I use for important meetings, weekly to do lists and my training plans.

Whenever I think of trashing the old ones I open them up and am so immediately fascinated by that glimpse into my past life.

It’s not useful in a self-improvement sense but highly entertaining, for lack of a better word.

I guess in general it might make me more self reflective, but then that never had been a weak point for me.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by firtoz »

paganel wrote: post #13

I couldn't honestly do that, the nostalgia would be too much for me, even for only 10 years ago, even 5. And then how do you process past relationships and marriages? Or the death of loved ones? Or other such traumatic experiences?

There are certain philosophical approaches to this problem. Quite a few of them start with: Why do you think that revisiting such things would distress you?

How do you process them when you remember them occasionally without specific prompting?

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by wakawaka28 »

Aeolun wrote: post #15
anonzzzies wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making an exception for X is the same slippery slope. And easy talk for people who haven't had a family member die in agony or something like that in a place where they don't allow control over your own life. My life, my terms; if I want out, it needs to be an option. Which is exactly the problem with Alzheimer; cancer is much easier; you are usually lucid but not very happy the last few weeks/months, so let's end it…

> My life, my terms; if I want out, it needs to be an option. It’s always an option, it’s just kind of weird that it’s illegal for trained medical professionals to help you do it certainly and painlessly.

It's not that weird. Doctors and the state have perverse incentives. We also discourage suicide for good reasons.

Re: Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)

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Post by throwuwu »

notclive wrote: post #17
horsellama wrote: post #14

It’s not clear to me how such a thing can be achieved. They talk about a “memory calendar” and “tags”. Is it like, every day, stop for a minute and “commit” a single word to that day? Then revise the previous ones hoping that they stuck in memory?

I was curious too and found http://lembransation.blogspot.com/2016/02/starting-out.html , the tags appear to be a couple of short sentences.

He uses a few sentences to describe them but he says that he sees them as pictures on a calendar which he navigates as though he is standing on it, which is a key aspect because he is making use of the method of loci[0]. He then uses those images to start remembering the event pictured in them along with all the other sensations.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

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