From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   Julio Di Egidio wrote:   
   > On 03/04/2025 13:45, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >> oldernow wrote:   
   >    
   >>> I don't doubt that you're amazing in your own eyes -   
   >>> which just so happens to be a significant side-effect of   
   >>> the scenario initially painted in this thread.   
   >>   
   >> Maybe you're as capable of appreciating the finer things   
   >> of "reality" as I am. Try this. Walk down a suburban street   
   >   
   > Especially if "you" are the finer thing that there is (where?).   
   > Which ultimately I don't dispute, but what about "community" or   
   > "responsibility" or "kinship" or whatever "together" or "organically"   
   > have you (I don't mean to load words, although there is that, too)?   
   >   
   > Meanwhile me thinks: a healthy way is the middle way, but ups and   
   > downs should not be inverted: here in(-sanity) what is universal   
   > and what is individual.   
   >   
   > -Julio   
   >   
      
   I have a mantra that runs through my head; Mens sana in corpore sano, a   
   healthy mind in a healthy body. I read it ages ago in the writings of   
   the Roman satirist, Juvenal.   
   Body goes with material reality.   
   I can't see how anyone can get out on a bike, pedal hard, breathe hard   
   and survey the passing scenery, without feeling the touch of  material   
   reality.   
   Exercise in itself is a body-strengthener; just as travel broadens the mind.   
      
   Community? Choose yours carefully. I've known some that are severely   
   detrimental to intelligent people; filled with gossip, petty concerns,   
   bitterness and bullying. Choose carefully, and beware of the ignorant   
   herd. Look at how the tabloid press treat celebrities; they raise them   
   up and then hurl them to the rocks.   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)