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I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by laichzeit0 »

usgroup wrote: post #286
telesilla wrote: post #266

"This valley is cut in the shape of my heart". I've known farmers like him, bachelors who are mild mannered and love their lives and the extended family that comes with living an entire life in one valley. He maybe goes to Sunday service for socialization and the local pub to watch the game, and as long as his sheep are healthy and the sky does what it promises (because he knows the day before always if it will rain)…

I appreciate the romance, but those of us who have children leave behind much more than stone walls we built in our 20s. He’s a 72 year old Batchelor who’s once stepped foot outside a Welsh valley. If happiness is a lobotomy then credit to us who don’t choose it.

Happiness is a negative. It’s the absence of pain and boredom. It’s achieved by negating those two forces. Or so sayeth Schopenhauer.

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Post by jim-jim-jim »

kebman wrote: post #399

Ah, the simple life... My grandfather would take me along and we'd go to the neighbour to fetch eggs. He had a plastic bucket that he put them in with some old newspapers scraps in the bottom. I heard that before the war they didn't even need money. He'd simply bring a bucket of milk, and he'd get a bucket of eggs in return. But it was of course a lot simpler to bring money. It was far cheaper than in the store too.…

Are you talking about European or Australian magpies?

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Post by Aaargh20318 »

usgroup wrote: post #286
telesilla wrote: post #266

"This valley is cut in the shape of my heart". I've known farmers like him, bachelors who are mild mannered and love their lives and the extended family that comes with living an entire life in one valley. He maybe goes to Sunday service for socialization and the local pub to watch the game, and as long as his sheep are healthy and the sky does what it promises (because he knows the day before always if it will rain)…

I appreciate the romance, but those of us who have children leave behind much more than stone walls we built in our 20s. He’s a 72 year old Batchelor who’s once stepped foot outside a Welsh valley. If happiness is a lobotomy then credit to us who don’t choose it.

> those of us who have children leave behind much more than stone walls we built in our 20s

Ah, yes. A planet completely ruined by overpopulation. That is your legacy.

Also, your existence is just as meaningless as this farmer's. You probably remember your grandparents, at least you know a little about their lives. What about your grandparents parents, or your grandparents grandparents. They were people with their own full lives, hopes and dreams. Do you even know their names ? Let alone what they were like, what they cared about, what their life was like ?

They are forgotten, just like you will be, regardless of how many children they had.

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Post by JackFr »

mrphoebs wrote: post #438
tacitusarc wrote: post #390

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if you're wrong?

I don't know what specifically you are referring to but, the sun is going to be a red giant in 4.5 billion years, earth cannot sustain life. Deep into the future, all the stars will eventually burn out and there will be no more new ones born. The night sky will be dark. The only radiation emitted will be black holes slowly evaporating on a time scale so huge we can't even meaningfully comprehend it. There is no energ…

> We are evolutionarily engineered thinking emotional machines where certain states make us feel good(love, friendship, self actualisation food...., accomplishment) and certain states make us feel bad (sickness, loss, pain...)

Certainly this could lead one to be a little more circumspect about grand pronouncements.

It seems like you’re saying some people are being tricked by our brains, but others (like yourself) are able to pull aside the veil and truly understand our place in the universe. Perhaps we’re all being tricked.

Regardless, in a universe where nothing matters, truth and knowledge have no more value than children or stone walls.

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Post by aappleby »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #263
slim wrote: post #255

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Your body was probably carving some nutrient not found in your dish

Yes, I agree, but I'd like to know what it was. Best guess so far is fat.

"If there are enough rabbits, the people eat till their stomachs are distended; but no matter how much they eat they feel unsatisfied."

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Post by pixxel »

dfboyd wrote: post #303
sateesh wrote: post #277

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -- T.S.Eliot

Die Ball ist rund. Der Spiel dauert 90 Minuten. So ist alles klar. Alles anderes ist Theorie. -- Sepp Herberger

DeepL translation: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. So everything is clear. Everything else is theory.

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#de/en/Die%20Ball%20ist%2....

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by pixxel »

74d-fe6-2c6 wrote: post #361
dfboyd wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Die Ball ist rund. Der Spiel dauert 90 Minuten. So ist alles klar. Alles anderes ist Theorie. -- Sepp Herberger

Those are the facts ... here comes the manual: Das Runde muss ins Eckige.

DeepL translation: The round must go into the square

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#de/en/Das%20Runde%20muss...

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Post by pkorzeniewski »

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #386
jiggawatts wrote: post #380

My partner was horrified to learn that I ate the same breakfast pretty much every morning for something like five or six years when I was a teenager. I always had cereal with milk. If I was extra hungry, I would have a second helping. Very rarely, I would try a different cereal brand, but I would always gravitate back to the same one. The funny thing is that at the time, I thought nothing of it! It was just a part of…

I'm a foodie, and still, I eat cereal with milk, for the straightforward reason that I just don't feel like cooking or doing any extra effort at 7 AM. Of course, if I'm at a hotel, I storm the buffet and try all kinds of things. Surely my breakfasts would be much more creative if I had a cook and a butler.

I've "rediscovered" cereal with milk after a long time and it became my favourite "default" breakfast - fast to prepare, nutritious, healthy (if you choose the right cereal) and easy to diversify.

I highly recommend a YouTube channel called Cereal Time TV [1] where you can find reviews of old and new cereals - I don't even know how I found this channel but after watching dozens of videos about old cereals I thought to myself "man, I want some!" so I bought a pack of cereals that I remembered from my childhood and that's how it started, I now eat cereal with milk almost everyday :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/MrGabeFonseca

Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by lukeck »

Tddddd wrote: post #395
tacitusarc wrote: post #390

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if you're wrong?

How much do you rally know and remember from your ancestors which is more than a handful and always the same stories? How did that really influence you? We can look back, we are not a magic generation unique to all the other generations before us. We know what's going to happen with us and our legacies.

One difference between the current and previous generations is just how much information is recorded by and about us. There will be a lot more evidence of the existence and experiences of people alive today than people of a century ago. Whether people will care to look is a different matter.
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