Ash Wednesday
February 15th, 2018 at 2:49:02 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Sorry for the derail, Padre. I'm still thinking of a challenge for myself. Feel free to suggest anything. As for something on your end, are there any strings you could pull to get a Vatican license plate? I know I asked you before when you went to the Vatican, and I very much appreciate you looking into it, but perhaps there is some angle you could think of. Maybe write to whatever agency manages the license plate of the Vatican. I'm happy to make a $1,000 donation to a mutually agreeable charity if you're successful. Here is a challenge idea for me. It will have to wait until winter but I'll jump into a freezing cold body of water somewhere and post a video proving it. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
February 15th, 2018 at 2:50:20 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | A lot of truth there. Smokers go ahead and die like we are supposed to. It's the healthy people that live way beyond expectancy that drain the trust funds and at 90, move into a care facility, setting new records on longevity before getting hooked up to machines that grant them even longer "life". The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
February 15th, 2018 at 3:35:52 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I was a short-range (ten year) actuary. The long-range (75 years) actuaries were the ones to worry about life expectancy. I'm not sure if they looked at that specifically or not. If forced to guess, they probably listed declining smoking rates as one of many reasons Americans are living longer but didn't dive into the deep end with study on it. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
February 15th, 2018 at 3:37:32 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
You're absolutely right. At the risk of changing the topic, I strongly support increasing the Social Security retirement age. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
February 15th, 2018 at 3:37:50 PM permalink | |
Face Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 61 Posts: 3941 |
I appreciate the permission and compliments. The "higher power" stuff just doesn't work for me. Can't work. Same as I'm not inspired by horoscopes. It can't pass the logic check, and while I think you're not exactly supposed to logic check it (hence - Faith), my head just can't accept it. It doesn't work that way. WON'T work that way, at least not for me. That being said, I've been on the Jesus for quite awhile now, going back probably close to two years ago when you kept saying (mostly to EB) "try". I must say, if anything, my attempt to "try" and your comments here have only made me more sure that religion is everything I've thought it to be, which is little more than wishful thinking. BUT, yes, there are certainly things within Philosopher Jesus, which is what I view him as, that have been helpful. Just the idea of aspiring to rise to the level of His teachings... I don't need to break logic to see that particular good. It's very good and very real. And trying to live it has helped. Mix it with a bit of purposeful self-brainwashing (things like joining Reddit and subscribing to ONLY /justrolledintotheshop, /carporn, /getmotivated, /wholesomebpt), forcing yourself to do at least one good deed of the day, staying the hell out of political topics, it does help. But dude... I remember you saying once that purgatory wasn't as bad as hell. The pain of purgatory was simply the absence of God's love. And I told you then, and I'll tell you now... you have no idea how f#$%ed up that is. To view a colorful sight and see only grey, to feel a soft breeze and feel only cold. To KNOW you love someone, but to FEEL nothing... I laugh at your hell. People always worry about folks becoming suicidal, as if that's the worst thing that could ever happen. The proverbial "End of the line". Ha. There is no end. There is no bottom. There are many, MANY things worse than death, down where the broken people stay. To feel like even death is too good for someone such as yourself... it's a f$%^ing trip, man. ....uh.... that got dark quick. Sorry. I guess I said all that to say yeah, a change is definitely coming. Here's hoping it's a positive one, and not what I suspect is the beginning of my descent into dementia. Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it. |
February 15th, 2018 at 3:58:59 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Reading about viewpoints on that a few years ago, I read that there was an acceptable difference between pushing a desk and pulling a plow. I believe it's not the years that get you, it is the miles. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
February 15th, 2018 at 4:16:50 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
You got the nerd in me interested. I didn't even know there was a difference, I mean makes sense, but who thinks of it? What didh? short-term actuaries do and deal with? The President is a fink. |
February 15th, 2018 at 4:33:50 PM permalink | |
Aussie Member since: May 10, 2016 Threads: 2 Posts: 458 |
A “packet” is on average say 35-40 cigarettes. Bigger packets up to about 50 obviously cost mere. |
February 15th, 2018 at 4:48:07 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
We should make a separate thread about it. I could talk about it all day long. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
February 15th, 2018 at 4:51:23 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Please do, at your leisure of course. We need some new topics, and Face and myself can't build stuff in the cold weather....... :-) The President is a fink. |