I don't understand how all these people have time to watch all these shows.
I barely have time to watch one show with my wife a couple times a week. But that I do work a couple of evening shifts a week and we don't sit at home and just stare at the TV and have Netflix playing continuously. I prefer to have beautiful pictures or pictures of the family or whatever instead of Netflix murders rapes gay sex and all that other stuff.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Protect your mind
I read a story recently about a man that watched certain types of videos on YouTube to the point that he became paranoid that people were after him. Then he started killing people.
The Internet is a cornucopia of knowledge and wisdom, but with all that bounty comes the other stuff like garbage, debauchery, filth, and other judgemental words to describe the bilge washing around us in the sea of knowledge.
A teenager I know recently told me about how he used videos to purposefully make himself sad to the point of crying. He has it so good in life that he has to try and induce depression. Wow!
Protect your mind. It'll help you a lot in the long run...
The Internet is a cornucopia of knowledge and wisdom, but with all that bounty comes the other stuff like garbage, debauchery, filth, and other judgemental words to describe the bilge washing around us in the sea of knowledge.
A teenager I know recently told me about how he used videos to purposefully make himself sad to the point of crying. He has it so good in life that he has to try and induce depression. Wow!
Protect your mind. It'll help you a lot in the long run...
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Little is new now
It's one of the things that I've noticed as I get older: things are no longer new. When I was young I would buy something and it would be new and I would attempt to figure it out. Find just the right place for it. Plug it into whatever my daily routine was or needed to be. And I would be so excited about having something different. Or I'd be annoyed. Or whatever.
But now that I'm in my 50s I don't buy very many new things. I buy replacement things. And that's a different kind of thing.
The flagpole for the front porch, for instance. We have several flags that we like fly for different seasons. They're very decorative, and each one helps make the house more festive from the outside. Christmas, spring, summer, birthday, all sorts of flags. But the flagpole wears out. The wood gets old and breaks. So I get a new flagpole. It's not new except to me. The same thing that I was doing before. It's just newer.
Cars are another example. You can get all the extras and get all the creature comforts but in the end it's four wheels and an engine with a box around it to carry you from place to place. Fast. Great stereo, cool windows, colors, comfortable seats, shape and size, it's all just a car. Or truck, or motorcycle, or whatever.
Food is another. I get to where I like certain kinds of food. Then my wife will introduce something new and tell her I don't really like it. But I like it enough to try it again. Then when I get to where I'm eating it on a regular basis. But it's just food. Fuel for the body. Something I have to cut back on so that I don't get more overweight.
I guess it's one of the wonders of life. As I get older and more experienced there's less new so I have to instead of being happy and thrilled to find joy in the adapting and the continuing.
Cool!
But now that I'm in my 50s I don't buy very many new things. I buy replacement things. And that's a different kind of thing.
The flagpole for the front porch, for instance. We have several flags that we like fly for different seasons. They're very decorative, and each one helps make the house more festive from the outside. Christmas, spring, summer, birthday, all sorts of flags. But the flagpole wears out. The wood gets old and breaks. So I get a new flagpole. It's not new except to me. The same thing that I was doing before. It's just newer.
Cars are another example. You can get all the extras and get all the creature comforts but in the end it's four wheels and an engine with a box around it to carry you from place to place. Fast. Great stereo, cool windows, colors, comfortable seats, shape and size, it's all just a car. Or truck, or motorcycle, or whatever.
Food is another. I get to where I like certain kinds of food. Then my wife will introduce something new and tell her I don't really like it. But I like it enough to try it again. Then when I get to where I'm eating it on a regular basis. But it's just food. Fuel for the body. Something I have to cut back on so that I don't get more overweight.
I guess it's one of the wonders of life. As I get older and more experienced there's less new so I have to instead of being happy and thrilled to find joy in the adapting and the continuing.
Cool!
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