How does the newspaper find this guy?
I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
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Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
#602Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 ow…
It saddens me to read such nihilistic comments here. Specially based on such clichés. Under which metric is the planet complete ruined? and why do you think it's overpopulated? what's then the maximum number of people that should live on this planet according to you, and based on what? Under lots of metrics, today's planet is a much healthier and prosperous place to live for humankind than it was 100 or even 50 years…
This is such an myopic human-centric world view. If every other species had a voice, or an opinion on what the success of man has meant for their own lives, their own families, their own future, what would they say ?
Consider how much man has cost every other living thing on this planet today.
Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
#603Ah, 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.…
It seems like the bird would want to position itself based on the current day's weather and not the average of the next 3 months.
Itself, yes. Its nest, no.
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#604Earlier quoted context omitted.
A successful businessman on vacation was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The businessman complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman proudly replied, “Every morning, I go out in my boat for 30 minutes to fish. I’m the best fisherman in the…
That's a cute story. However there are vast differences in reality. The fisherman is likely an uncultured bigot and xenophobe with life experiences that reinforce this condition, and who will suffer terribly from the ailments of aging that the businessman's wealth can afford respite from. For example.
It looks like elitism never changes, and rural people will never shake the scorn of city people, internet or no internet.
Unless that's sarcasm of course.
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#605Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you seen what China did to all their farmers in the last few decades?
I’m not too lazy to search but is there something specific?
They are basically building urban apartments and trying to entice them to move.
A Japanese director made a documentary about one of the poorest regions in China.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GgWZDvgW9OA
There are English subtitles.
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#606Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Children are not the penultimate achievement of humanity. In fact, they're one of the core things that take zero learned skill and can be created and raised entirely via instinctual means. I would argue that those who leave the most behind are those who are kind and thoughtful to those in their lives. They leave behind one of the most important and precious things that anyone ever could - pleasant memories in the min…
Just like one could live their life wholly not applying the same level of effort you describe here to their lives, living on “zero learned skill” and purely “instinctual means” alone.
I’d argue having children is the same. You can do it with zero effort, or you can do it with intention, to leave behind a better off generation, and devoting yourself selflessly as a parent to that cause.
I believe the lifelong quest of high-quality intention is what ultimately is the greatest achievement of life one can chase. Whether that is intentionally treating others with kindness and leaving pleasant memories, or intentionally raising healthy and inspired children who will continue to take up noble intention.
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#607Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a cute story. However there are vast differences in reality. The fisherman is likely an uncultured bigot and xenophobe with life experiences that reinforce this condition, and who will suffer terribly from the ailments of aging that the businessman's wealth can afford respite from. For example.
It looks like elitism never changes, and rural people will never shake the scorn of city people, internet or no internet. Unless that's sarcasm of course.
I think the scorn goes both ways.
Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
#608Ah, 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.…
I grew up rural. I buy into a lot of the “bird” wisdom. Science is discovering dogs can smell disease. Our modern world isn’t more complex, just more distracting with asinine theory chasing. It’s always been ridiculously complex in ways we can’t imagine, we’ve just started realizing it in detail. Turns out animals with their “lesser” cognitive powers are tuned into the hidden complexity in ways we barely understand.…
> Science is discovering dogs can smell disease.
Bees too. Yesterday news included the Dutch training bees to smell covid.
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/oddly-enough/bees-netherla...
Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
#609Earlier quoted context omitted.
It saddens me to read such nihilistic comments here. Specially based on such clichés. Under which metric is the planet complete ruined? and why do you think it's overpopulated? what's then the maximum number of people that should live on this planet according to you, and based on what? Under lots of metrics, today's planet is a much healthier and prosperous place to live for humankind than it was 100 or even 50 years…
I so much appreciate your point of view! I don't understand those nihilist statements as well. Looks like Satre's smoke has permeated most minds. We are having this convo because someone had a child. If someone really thought and believed life isn't a great thing (equating a stone wall to a human being) he'd be either a dishonest person or a weakling to be alive educating us. For if he truly believes children and hum…
Gut ist der Schlaf,
der Tod ist besser - freilich
Das beste wäre, nie geboren sein.
Sleep is good. Death is better, but the best is to have never been born.
Heinrich Heine 1797-1856 Morphine 1835-1836
Re: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
#610What struck me the most from this article was that he has had multiple strokes and was hospitalized for two weeks once.
His diet doesn’t sound the worst, he seems to be active, just genetics? The beans every morning? He didn’t mention what he does for dinner.