From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   >> Ahhh... yes, brings back good memories! I must have written   
   >> a lot of emails to the mainstream journalists during Trumps   
   >> last reign, ridiculing them and telling them how happy I   
   >> was at their hand wringing.  Those were the days!   
   >   
   > I've come to believe there's no arguing with what others   
   > have come to believe.   
   >   
   > *But*, that doesn't mean the activity of writing itself   
   > isn't or can't be fun. It's when I start yearning for   
   > there to be more to it than that that an inner travail   
   > might ensue.   
      
   Detachment is a skill! Trolling can be great fun, until you get   
   emotionally involved. Then it stops being fun.   
      
   >> A Trump win would give me 4 years of excellent   
   >> schadenfreude! =D Due to his age, we'd better make those   
   >> 4 years count!   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   > It's a deal!   
      
   Let's do it!   
      
   >> Really?!?! Gasp!   
   >>   
   >>> Not that I'm acquiescing to the notion of there being an   
   >>> objective reality, mind you.... ;-)   
   >>   
   >> Ahh... You discovered your mistake! ;)   
   >   
   > I... um... well...    
      
   Don't you worry, it happens to the best of us!   
      
   >> Oh yes... and note that if I ignore it, I'm scolded. But   
   >> if I dare to come up with a tiny little comment when the   
   >> wife is studying, fury will be released and it is of course   
   >> all my fault! ;) Listen, alt.philosophy brothers! Such is   
   >> the married life!!   
   >   
   > Turns out our schadenfreude masters are never more than   
   > a cute eyelash away....   
      
   Amen!   
      
   >> Oh dear. We are here again! I'm afraid you lost me, but   
   >> maybe that is by design? Maybe your texts are like zen   
   >> koans? Yet, I'm afraid I have not yet reached enlightenment   
   >> reading them. ;)   
   >   
   > No surprise there, as words can, at best, barely indicate   
   > a general direction toward the absence of conceptuality   
   > that is a hallmark of that big word you just used.   
      
   I'm just waiting for the day when your koans "break through" and open up   
   an entirely new world to me! Surely it must just be a matter of time? =)   
      
   >>>> He also speaks of degrees of knowledge from the observable   
   >>>> to the inferred.   
   >>>   
   >>> That sounds rather Kamala Harris to me. :-)   
   >>   
   >> I'm sure Wittgenstein rotates in his grave right now!   
   >   
   > It's how we render soil more edible-food-growing ready when   
   > worms aren't doing the job to our over-consumptive liking.   
      
   Ahh... so that is why they do it! ;)   
      
   >> Those beatles guys sure had a song for every occasion!   
   >   
   > "Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream!"   
      
   Never heard that one...?   
      
   >> THC? Not for me. I have madness in the family and I don't   
   >> want to wake up any demons. But my brain and philosophy   
   >> usually gives me the highest highs without such aids. ;)   
   >   
   > For me it's small doses en route to guaranteed sleep.   
      
   Ahhh! Does it affect the content of your dreams?   
      
   >> I do have to say though, that I am enormously curious   
   >> about psylocybin induced experiences and the effects and   
   >> potential of them.   
   >   
   > They have (well, for me, *had*...) their place in loosening   
   > the grip of the notion of being an individual/self/person.   
      
   Why did you stop?   
      
   >>> "Ketel One", though. But I'm suspecting it's mostly a   
   >>> combination of age, and my wife riding me hard In All The   
   >>> Ways .   
   >>   
   >> Wow! Keep at it, and the child will come! ;)   
   >   
   > There's something to be said for "priority, male".   
   >   
   > (NOTE: not sure if that'll make sense to a non-American)   
      
   Hmm, not quite sure it does. What do you mean?   
      
   >>> I had some kind of an "episode" a few years ago that had   
   >>> my wife calling for an ambulance, and I had a telltale   
   >>> aspect of that in the middle of the night, namely awakening   
   >>> to a mouth full of sore teeth for grinding them. I'm also   
   >>> constantly smelling something "burning", even though others   
   >>> smell nothing of the sort.  I playfully told my wife it's   
   >>> because I'm going to hell, and possibly already have a   
   >>> couple toes descending slowing thereto.... :-)   
   >>>   
   >>>    
   >>   
   >> Brilliant! Applause! =) Which circle are you aiming for? ;)   
   >   
   > My wife's, of course, where the fires burn the hottest in   
   > every sense.... ;-)   
      
   Of course!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)