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Today’s Stoic: As the pandemic has dragged on, you’ve probably found yourself asking one question, over and over again, to anyone who will listen—even to yourself: What day is it? It’s a simple question, but also a very revealing one. With less travel, with no meetings, and, for many of us, not even a commute to work, time and place seem to have slowed down or merged. The week and weekend blur, the hours both drag and go by in an instant, all is one. We’re like that character in the new movie Palm Springs, trapped in some sort of space continuum, where every day is the same day on repeat. And while this may seem miserable, you may also find yourself coming almost to enjoy it, as the character in that movie did. Is it really so bad to spend all this time with your family? Is it really so bad to live a quieter, slower life? Yes, it’s costing you money, it’s cancelling plans, it’s disrupting so much…and yet like all things that go on long enough, with time even this distress has become muted, if not downright pleasant. Perhaps it was this very feeling that Marcus Aurelius was referring to in Meditations as he reflected on both the current moment, going through a plague, and the decades of his youth, waiting to become emperor: “Everything has always been the same,” he said, “and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period…that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.” It didn’t matter whether you lived to be 40 or 400, Marcus reminded us, every day was the same. It was all the same in the end. So yes, this whole thing is strange and surreal. It’s at times terrifying and not without its heartbreaks. But it also just is. Each day we wake up and face another day. Whether it will mark our 90th day in quarantine or the start of 90 more, who can say? And what does it matter? Today is what is in front us, whatever day of the week that happens to be. It can be wonderful and it can be enough. If we choose.
Today’s Stoic: As the pandemic has dragged on, you’ve probably found yourself asking one question, over and over again, to anyone who will listen—even to yourself: What day is it? It’s a simple question, but also a very revealing one. With less travel, with no meetings, and, for many of us, not even a commute to work, time and place seem to have slowed down or merged. The week and weekend blur, the hours both drag and go by in an instant, all is one. We’re like that character in the new movie Palm Springs, trapped in some sort of space continuum, where every day is the same day on repeat. And while this may seem miserable, you may also find yourself coming almost to enjoy it, as the character in that movie did. Is it really so bad to spend all this time with your family? Is it really so bad to live a quieter, slower life? Yes, it’s costing you money, it’s cancelling plans, it’s disrupting so much…and yet like all things that go on long enough, with time even this distress has become muted, if not downright pleasant. Perhaps it was this very feeling that Marcus Aurelius was referring to in Meditations as he reflected on both the current moment, going through a plague, and the decades of his youth, waiting to become emperor: “Everything has always been the same,” he said, “and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period…that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.” It didn’t matter whether you lived to be 40 or 400, Marcus reminded us, every day was the same. It was all the same in the end. So yes, this whole thing is strange and surreal. It’s at times terrifying and not without its heartbreaks. But it also just is. Each day we wake up and face another day. Whether it will mark our 90th day in quarantine or the start of 90 more, who can say? And what does it matter? Today is what is in front us, whatever day of the week that happens to be. It can be wonderful and it can be enough. If we choose.
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2020-09-03T13:29:44.000Z
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Great place for price & selection, went a couple of weeks ago, got several peacocks, jewels, & a few S Americans. BOGO, is the way to go!
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Strip them of their loot, pensions, and $$$ hidden with friends & family! TERM LIMIT them all! Run them out of town in a rail!
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Finally...Some Good News!
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Continues...#VOTEREPUBLICAN2020 or stay home!
IF JOE BIDEN IS ELECTED... There is no doubt in my mind that Joe Biden is an empty suit who will serve as the vessel for the radical communists struggling to get him elected. However, when Joe is “out of pocket,” the nation will be ruled by the Joe Biden Presidential Decision-Maker. The Magic Biden Ball... presidential-decision-makerWe are so screwed. -- steve “The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw
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Saturday, August 8, 2020
Daily Stoic... PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: "That’s what we Stoics do. We don’t just get a book and put it up on our shelf. We devour it. We take notes. We fold pages. We throw it in our backpacks and suitcases when we travel, it sits on the front seat of the car in case we have a few minutes. It moves with us from college to our first apartment to our first home and then, if it’s really good, perhaps, one day we’ll give it to our own children—or to a friend in need, as Rusticus did. Books are made to be broken in. They are quarries of gems to be mined, wells to be drawn from, sturdy posts to lean on, shoulders to cry on. Just as we never step in the same river twice, to paraphrase Marcus and Heraclitus, we never read a book the same way. That’s why we read and re-read, note and discuss, write and flag."
Daily Stoic... PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: "That’s what we Stoics do. We don’t just get a book and put it up on our shelf. We devour it. We take notes. We fold pages. We throw it in our backpacks and suitcases when we travel, it sits on the front seat of the car in case we have a few minutes. It moves with us from college to our first apartment to our first home and then, if it’s really good, perhaps, one day we’ll give it to our own children—or to a friend in need, as Rusticus did. Books are made to be broken in. They are quarries of gems to be mined, wells to be drawn from, sturdy posts to lean on, shoulders to cry on. Just as we never step in the same river twice, to paraphrase Marcus and Heraclitus, we never read a book the same way. That’s why we read and re-read, note and discuss, write and flag."
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2020-08-08T14:57:25.000Z
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Friday, August 7, 2020
ToToday’s Stoic: You Should Know This by Now... The iron law of history is that people do dumb things. They behave this way for many reasons: Ignorance. Fear. Bad habits. Because they’ve been corrupted. Because they are ordinary people with flaws, just like that. Because they are in pain. There is nothing like a pandemic to put a spotlight on these people and these reasons. We see their pictures on the news. We read their nasty comments on social media. And it’s frustrating and it’s distressing. Because they aren’t just putting themselves at risk, but others. It’s easier to accept someone driving without a seatbelt (which affects them) and someone who speeds (which endangers others). But this is a reality of life. People will speed. They will speed, not wear a seatbelt, and be combative and mean. They will do this, cause an accident, and still blame everyone but themselves. That’s just how it is. What can we do? Well, one thing we shouldn’t do is say, “Screw it. If they’re gonna behave that way I will too.” The other is that we have to be calm and rational in response. The only thing that causes more distress than dumb people out there is being caught off-guard by dumb people. That’s why Marcus Aurelius prepared himself in the morning for the rude and the surly, the jealous and the arrogant and the dishonest. He knew there would be wrongdoers out there—some malicious, but most not—and he didn’t let himself get shaken when he experienced it. So all we can do is carry on. Not let it make us bitter. Not let it make us afraid. And do the best we can do to be good (and smart) despite all the stupidity.
ToToday’s Stoic: You Should Know This by Now... The iron law of history is that people do dumb things. They behave this way for many reasons: Ignorance. Fear. Bad habits. Because they’ve been corrupted. Because they are ordinary people with flaws, just like that. Because they are in pain. There is nothing like a pandemic to put a spotlight on these people and these reasons. We see their pictures on the news. We read their nasty comments on social media. And it’s frustrating and it’s distressing. Because they aren’t just putting themselves at risk, but others. It’s easier to accept someone driving without a seatbelt (which affects them) and someone who speeds (which endangers others). But this is a reality of life. People will speed. They will speed, not wear a seatbelt, and be combative and mean. They will do this, cause an accident, and still blame everyone but themselves. That’s just how it is. What can we do? Well, one thing we shouldn’t do is say, “Screw it. If they’re gonna behave that way I will too.” The other is that we have to be calm and rational in response. The only thing that causes more distress than dumb people out there is being caught off-guard by dumb people. That’s why Marcus Aurelius prepared himself in the morning for the rude and the surly, the jealous and the arrogant and the dishonest. He knew there would be wrongdoers out there—some malicious, but most not—and he didn’t let himself get shaken when he experienced it. So all we can do is carry on. Not let it make us bitter. Not let it make us afraid. And do the best we can do to be good (and smart) despite all the stupidity.
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2020-08-07T14:28:00.000Z
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Thursday, August 6, 2020
Still kicking & giving a licking!
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