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Post by drystyx on Mar 23, 2021 21:23:28 GMT
When you're 20, death can be something to fea.r. When you're over 60, it's just the pain of death that is distasteful.
Not many people die painlessly. I sure don't want to go in a fire, or be tortured to death, or die stupid, like pick up a hitchhiker who kills me, or stop for a hijacker who kills me.
But the slow lingering deaths are terrible. Diabetes can be controlled, but it takes a lot of effort. My mother got type 2 when she was about 70, so I'm hoping to delay that. I stopped eating meat in 1992, and started a healthier life choice agenda. If I flail away, I don't want it to be my fault. I don't want some angel shaking his or her head when I meet Jesus, saying, "Hey, Jesus, this one was a horrible steward of his body. He did this, that, and the other thing".
So, I figure heart attack while sleeping is the ideal way to go, but who can choose?
Any way, in preparation, I notice just about all my relatives die from lingering illness in old age, so they know in advance that it's their last year. Sometimes they have a month, sometimes five years. Maybe longer.
So, when one thinks about a doctor giving you three months, you realize there will probably be a day when you will see the March or April Spring come, and you put on a long sleeve sweat shirt for what you are sure will be the last time you will ever wear a long sleeve sweat shirt. You know that after you are done with it, when you take it off at two in the morning or whenever, that you will never wear such a shirt again. So, you cherish it probably more than it deserves to be cherished. "Sorry, long sleeve shirt".
Same for a lot of things. You can see your last April Fool joke, your last Easter, your last Kentucky Derby, your last Triple Crown, and hope it's a good one. Be terrible if your last Derby was one in which your picks ran way out of the money. But then, worst would be getting a little slice. If you win, it's a great note to end on. If you lose bad, then you decide you won't' miss it, and you're glad to be rid of it. If you just get a slice, like a show payout, it's probably hardest that way.
But really, you just hope you remember that there was nothing in this world worth savoring. It was a pitiful excuse for a Universe, and if the good God made it, well, he's an unimaginative, uninspired, boring dullard. But we all know this is the enemy's playground, and it wasn't worth playing in, and we'll tell God that when we meet him. We'll say "Hey, don't even think of sending me back to that boring place. All they had worth missing was the Moon. I liked the Moon, but only because it was far away and looked nice from a distance. I wouldn't want to visit it."
We'll testify against the angels who made this world so boring, because they didn't do the work of Jesus or God or the Holy Ghost. They helped the enemy, and that's all they did. Of course, I used to pray for a guardian angel to help me, but I never had one. I know many people who had one, and I don't know what their stinking guardian angels did to mine. I guess they got together and pointed my guardian angel to some other planet or something, cause I never got mine. Screw those punk guardian angels. They're worse than the demons in Hell, and I won't rest till every one of them rot in Hell beneath the demons they served.
So, meanwhile, stuck here with you pack of nincompoops and crackheads, I figure one day I'll be told I'll have that three months, and I'll probably not feel well enough to do a lot, so I'll be thinking, and I hope I won't think I'll miss any of you boring swine.
No offense.
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Post by Isapop on Mar 23, 2021 23:11:27 GMT
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Post by PreachCaleb on Mar 24, 2021 14:44:04 GMT
Fascinating.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Mar 24, 2021 15:28:17 GMT
When you're 20, death can be something to fea.r. When you're over 60, it's just the pain of death that is distasteful. Not many people die painlessly. I sure don't want to go in a fire, or be tortured to death, or die stupid, like pick up a hitchhiker who kills me, or stop for a hijacker who kills me. But the slow lingering deaths are terrible. Diabetes can be controlled, but it takes a lot of effort. My mother got type 2 when she was about 70, so I'm hoping to delay that. I stopped eating meat in 1992, and started a healthier life choice agenda. If I flail away, I don't want it to be my fault. I don't want some angel shaking his or her head when I meet Jesus, saying, "Hey, Jesus, this one was a horrible steward of his body. He did this, that, and the other thing". So, I figure heart attack while sleeping is the ideal way to go, but who can choose? Any way, in preparation, I notice just about all my relatives die from lingering illness in old age, so they know in advance that it's their last year. Sometimes they have a month, sometimes five years. Maybe longer. So, when one thinks about a doctor giving you three months, you realize there will probably be a day when you will see the March or April Spring come, and you put on a long sleeve sweat shirt for what you are sure will be the last time you will ever wear a long sleeve sweat shirt. You know that after you are done with it, when you take it off at two in the morning or whenever, that you will never wear such a shirt again. So, you cherish it probably more than it deserves to be cherished. "Sorry, long sleeve shirt". Same for a lot of things. You can see your last April Fool joke, your last Easter, your last Kentucky Derby, your last Triple Crown, and hope it's a good one. Be terrible if your last Derby was one in which your picks ran way out of the money. But then, worst would be getting a little slice. If you win, it's a great note to end on. If you lose bad, then you decide you won't' miss it, and you're glad to be rid of it. If you just get a slice, like a show payout, it's probably hardest that way. But really, you just hope you remember that there was nothing in this world worth savoring. It was a pitiful excuse for a Universe, and if the good God made it, well, he's an unimaginative, uninspired, boring dullard. But we all know this is the enemy's playground, and it wasn't worth playing in, and we'll tell God that when we meet him. We'll say "Hey, don't even think of sending me back to that boring place. All they had worth missing was the Moon. I liked the Moon, but only because it was far away and looked nice from a distance. I wouldn't want to visit it." We'll testify against the angels who made this world so boring, because they didn't do the work of Jesus or God or the Holy Ghost. They helped the enemy, and that's all they did. Of course, I used to pray for a guardian angel to help me, but I never had one. I know many people who had one, and I don't know what their stinking guardian angels did to mine. I guess they got together and pointed my guardian angel to some other planet or something, cause I never got mine. Screw those punk guardian angels. They're worse than the demons in Hell, and I won't rest till every one of them rot in Hell beneath the demons they served. So, meanwhile, stuck here with you pack of nincompoops and crackheads, I figure one day I'll be told I'll have that three months, and I'll probably not feel well enough to do a lot, so I'll be thinking, and I hope I won't think I'll miss any of you boring swine. No offense. Yeah, there is nothing about this world that is worth savoring. Much better to focus on an imaginary battle between angels and demons in your head. Moron. 
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Post by drystyx on Mar 24, 2021 15:59:41 GMT
When you're 20, death can be something to fea.r. When you're over 60, it's just the pain of death that is distasteful. Not many people die painlessly. I sure don't want to go in a fire, or be tortured to death, or die stupid, like pick up a hitchhiker who kills me, or stop for a hijacker who kills me. But the slow lingering deaths are terrible. Diabetes can be controlled, but it takes a lot of effort. My mother got type 2 when she was about 70, so I'm hoping to delay that. I stopped eating meat in 1992, and started a healthier life choice agenda. If I flail away, I don't want it to be my fault. I don't want some angel shaking his or her head when I meet Jesus, saying, "Hey, Jesus, this one was a horrible steward of his body. He did this, that, and the other thing". So, I figure heart attack while sleeping is the ideal way to go, but who can choose? Any way, in preparation, I notice just about all my relatives die from lingering illness in old age, so they know in advance that it's their last year. Sometimes they have a month, sometimes five years. Maybe longer. So, when one thinks about a doctor giving you three months, you realize there will probably be a day when you will see the March or April Spring come, and you put on a long sleeve sweat shirt for what you are sure will be the last time you will ever wear a long sleeve sweat shirt. You know that after you are done with it, when you take it off at two in the morning or whenever, that you will never wear such a shirt again. So, you cherish it probably more than it deserves to be cherished. "Sorry, long sleeve shirt". Same for a lot of things. You can see your last April Fool joke, your last Easter, your last Kentucky Derby, your last Triple Crown, and hope it's a good one. Be terrible if your last Derby was one in which your picks ran way out of the money. But then, worst would be getting a little slice. If you win, it's a great note to end on. If you lose bad, then you decide you won't' miss it, and you're glad to be rid of it. If you just get a slice, like a show payout, it's probably hardest that way. But really, you just hope you remember that there was nothing in this world worth savoring. It was a pitiful excuse for a Universe, and if the good God made it, well, he's an unimaginative, uninspired, boring dullard. But we all know this is the enemy's playground, and it wasn't worth playing in, and we'll tell God that when we meet him. We'll say "Hey, don't even think of sending me back to that boring place. All they had worth missing was the Moon. I liked the Moon, but only because it was far away and looked nice from a distance. I wouldn't want to visit it." We'll testify against the angels who made this world so boring, because they didn't do the work of Jesus or God or the Holy Ghost. They helped the enemy, and that's all they did. Of course, I used to pray for a guardian angel to help me, but I never had one. I know many people who had one, and I don't know what their stinking guardian angels did to mine. I guess they got together and pointed my guardian angel to some other planet or something, cause I never got mine. Screw those punk guardian angels. They're worse than the demons in Hell, and I won't rest till every one of them rot in Hell beneath the demons they served. So, meanwhile, stuck here with you pack of nincompoops and crackheads, I figure one day I'll be told I'll have that three months, and I'll probably not feel well enough to do a lot, so I'll be thinking, and I hope I won't think I'll miss any of you boring swine. No offense. Yeah, there is nothing about this world that is worth savoring. Much better to focus on an imaginary battle between angels and demons in your head. Moron. Which proves my point. So many billions of souls, and most of them as full of unprovoked hate as Rachel. One wonders if everyone is like Rachel, looking for excuses to cause negativity. war, ill will, despair, conflict. Now what soul would want to be in a room with these haters?
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Post by PreachCaleb on Mar 24, 2021 16:41:06 GMT
Yeah, there is nothing about this world that is worth savoring. Much better to focus on an imaginary battle between angels and demons in your head. Moron. Which proves my point. So many billions of souls, and most of them as full of unprovoked hate as Rachel. One wonders if everyone is like Rachel, looking for excuses to cause negativity. war, ill will, despair, conflict. Now what soul would want to be in a room with these haters? Well, why did you start off so negatively? Why didn't you set a more positive tone for this discussion? It's disingenuous to claim she was unprovoked when the very nature of this thread was designed to provoke negative reactions. Adding "No offense" does not wipe away the malicious and hostile intent of referring to readers as "boring swine." Do not pretend to be apart from the hate you claim exists in most people (with no actual scientific proof to back that claim). Your point was proven by yourself, not Rachel.
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Post by drystyx on Mar 24, 2021 16:50:33 GMT
Which proves my point. So many billions of souls, and most of them as full of unprovoked hate as Rachel. One wonders if everyone is like Rachel, looking for excuses to cause negativity. war, ill will, despair, conflict. Now what soul would want to be in a room with these haters? Well, why did you start off so negatively? Why didn't you set a more positive tone for this discussion? It's disingenuous to claim she was unprovoked when the very nature of this thread was designed to provoke negative reactions. Adding "No offense" does not wipe away the malicious and hostile intent of referring to readers as "boring swine." Do not pretend to be apart from the hate you claim exists in most people (with no actual scientific proof to back that claim). Your point was proven by yourself, not Rachel. There's nothing negative about my thread, other than the joking "boring swine", that is obviously light hearted. You can lie about it all you want, but that only proves my point about your delusion. My thread was a positive thread dealing with a world of negativity. The "boring swine" refers to all those who love the hatefulness and divisiveness that you and Rachel love so much. I could get as out of control as the two of you. I'm no different. I just admit that the demonic forces are there, and deal with them. If you don't do that, you wind up as delusional as Rachel and yourself. But I guess I should thank you and Rachel for proving my point that so many of you are out of control with the desire to be divisive, and to hate for no reason. You and Rachel have way too much negativity in you.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Mar 24, 2021 16:56:34 GMT
Well, why did you start off so negatively? Why didn't you set a more positive tone for this discussion? It's disingenuous to claim she was unprovoked when the very nature of this thread was designed to provoke negative reactions. Adding "No offense" does not wipe away the malicious and hostile intent of referring to readers as "boring swine." Do not pretend to be apart from the hate you claim exists in most people (with no actual scientific proof to back that claim). Your point was proven by yourself, not Rachel. There's nothing negative about my thread, other than the joking "boring swine", that is obviously light hearted. You can lie about it all you want, but that only proves my point about your delusion. My thread was a positive thread dealing with a world of negativity. The "boring swine" refers to all those who love the hatefulness and divisiveness that you and Rachel love so much. I could get as out of control as the two of you. I'm no different. I just admit that the demonic forces are there, and deal with them. If you don't do that, you wind up as delusional as Rachel and yourself. But I guess I should thank you and Rachel for proving my point that so many of you are out of control with the desire to be divisive, and to hate for no reason. You and Rachel have way too much negativity in you. Please do not lie. The post was full of negativity. And don't pretend you were limited to just "boring swine." You also referred to people as nincompoops and crackheads. That was also negative. No one is buying your attempts to gaslight us into thinking you had any positive intent. Have the conviction to stand by what you say at least. Also, you had no point about my delusion because you hadn't said anything about it. Please don't make up things when we can easily go back and read what you posted. Thank yourself. You proved your own point about the hate and divisiveness in humanity. You could've been positive, but you chose not to be. Go in peace, my brother. I love you.
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Post by Catman on Mar 24, 2021 17:08:44 GMT
Catman doesn't usually prepare for death, but when he does, he chooses Death's Head Beer, as recommended by John Barleycorn Bahadur.
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Post by drystyx on Mar 24, 2021 17:51:51 GMT
There's nothing negative about my thread, other than the joking "boring swine", that is obviously light hearted. You can lie about it all you want, but that only proves my point about your delusion. My thread was a positive thread dealing with a world of negativity. The "boring swine" refers to all those who love the hatefulness and divisiveness that you and Rachel love so much. I could get as out of control as the two of you. I'm no different. I just admit that the demonic forces are there, and deal with them. If you don't do that, you wind up as delusional as Rachel and yourself. But I guess I should thank you and Rachel for proving my point that so many of you are out of control with the desire to be divisive, and to hate for no reason. You and Rachel have way too much negativity in you. Please do not lie. The post was full of negativity. And don't pretend you were limited to just "boring swine." You also referred to people as nincompoops and crackheads. That was also negative. No one is buying your attempts to gaslight us into thinking you had any positive intent. Have the conviction to stand by what you say at least. Also, you had no point about my delusion because you hadn't said anything about it. Please don't make up things when we can easily go back and read what you posted. Thank yourself. You proved your own point about the hate and divisiveness in humanity. You could've been positive, but you chose not to be. Go in peace, my brother. I love you. You continue to prove my point by joining a virtual lynch mob. You can't deny that you have the exact same personality as those who joined the Nazi youth and the Klan in days past. The posts above prove this. My quote: So, I didn't name a single crack head or swine. I said "pack". Since some of you want to admit being part of the pack of swine and crackheads, who am I to be a control freak and deny you that right? You said it by admitting it, not me. I didn't name either you or Rachel. You named yourselves. Sorry if your feeble minds think everyone else has minds as feeble as your mind. Just remember, it was you and Rachel who began the negativity. Denying that just makes you look like an idiot. I'm sorry, but that's your confession, not mine. I never named either one of you before you jumped in with your hate messages. You are totally out of touch with reality. A History with this board proves the ones who respond to my posts are mostly like you, haters who lie about my posts when the reality is right there. You even prove it with your lie: A quote that can only be applied to Rachel and to you members of her Klan. It cannot be applied logically to my positive post. It cannot be done, no matter how much spin you try to do. You fail miserably, because you are deluded. Guess you'll have to get more rope and more lynch mob members of your klan to join in, which will again only prove my point again. But I don't expect you to stop lying and admit it. God, I hate being right all the time.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Mar 24, 2021 18:25:05 GMT
I still love you, no matter how full of negativity you are. Bless your heart.
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Post by drystyx on Mar 24, 2021 18:29:29 GMT
I still love you, no matter how full of negativity you are. Bless your heart. I'm impressed. You're a much more imaginative troll than I gave you credit for. Most of the trolls in your mob need feeble minds to swallow their ranting, but you might actually be able to fool someone with an average IQ. Impressive.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Mar 24, 2021 18:34:46 GMT
Peace, good sir, peace. Learn to love and not hate.
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Post by rizdek on Mar 24, 2021 22:22:33 GMT
Everyone's different, but I got my type 2 under control without too much effort. I take metformin and have reduced my carb intake. No sweets, no pastries, no baked goods, virtually no bread (just 1/4 bagel/per day), no pasta, no cereals (except a little oatmeal) significantly reduced eating rice and potatoes and even beans. That has kept my blood sugar at the proper levels for the last 2.5 yrs. Of course everyone is different, so maybe other's can't get their blood sugar under control by diet like I did.
I'm not sure why stopping eating meat is important for diabetes...I eat meat with abandon...all kinds of meat, morning noon and night. My cholesterol levels are the best they've ever been. I used to have very high bad cholesterol and very low good cholesterol. What I learned was my high bad cholesterol was from eating carbs and my low good cholesterol was due to not eating enough meat.
I used to guffaw at folks who 'counted carbs' or worried about carbs. But I quickly became a believer that carbs are not good for me. And I don't tempt myself by just eating a little bit of baked goods like cake, pies or cookies or a just a little candy. I just went cold turkey. ZERO, nadda.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Mar 24, 2021 22:31:23 GMT
There's nothing negative about my thread, other than the joking "boring swine", that is obviously light hearted. You can lie about it all you want, but that only proves my point about your delusion. My thread was a positive thread dealing with a world of negativity. The "boring swine" refers to all those who love the hatefulness and divisiveness that you and Rachel love so much. I could get as out of control as the two of you. I'm no different. I just admit that the demonic forces are there, and deal with them. If you don't do that, you wind up as delusional as Rachel and yourself. But I guess I should thank you and Rachel for proving my point that so many of you are out of control with the desire to be divisive, and to hate for no reason. You and Rachel have way too much negativity in you. Please do not lie. The post was full of negativity. And don't pretend you were limited to just "boring swine." You also referred to people as nincompoops and crackheads. That was also negative. No one is buying your attempts to gaslight us into thinking you had any positive intent. Have the conviction to stand by what you say at least. Also, you had no point about my delusion because you hadn't said anything about it. Please don't make up things when we can easily go back and read what you posted. Thank yourself. You proved your own point about the hate and divisiveness in humanity. You could've been positive, but you chose not to be. Go in peace, my brother. I love you. In a world where you can be anything... Be Kind. 
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Post by OldSamVimes on Apr 2, 2021 17:01:15 GMT
Everyone should come to terms with death before they have to die.
You're going to lose lots of people along they way, how you frame that will affect how well you cope with the losses.
I want to die in a sword fight.
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Post by novastar6 on Apr 4, 2021 3:41:20 GMT
In one of the Delaney sisters' books, they said to realize the only person who's going to be with you your whole life, is you. I'd never really thought about that until I read that, it makes sense, but it's just something you don't really stop to think about.
Evelyn Couch: "I hate death, it scares me so."
Ninny Threadgood: "Oh death is nothing to be scared of, look at me, I'm at the jumping off point and I ain't afraid a bit. If I were you, I'd be more scared of driving in rush hour traffic."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 13:46:23 GMT
Poetic, respect there
Life is a struggle for everyone, it just may not be as visible with others.
All I can say is this, there is a lot of noise out there. Just do what you can and do what you enjoy or somewhat at least. Not everyday is going to be a blast. There will be phases. Anyway, point being-just do something that makes you happy. Sometimes that's quite a journey. It's a test
As long as you're going in the right direction, even if small steps.
Just always think, what would the best version of yourself do? Would they look after themselves? Yes. Would they acknowledge mistakes and try to move on? Yes. Would they have goals? Yes
etc
Hopefully this helped a little bit
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Post by Stammerhead on Apr 14, 2021 22:21:58 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Apr 25, 2021 15:08:55 GMT
And I'll sacrifice a hundred kittens in your honor.
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