dimreepr

When you fear the gun, don't walk into a firing range...

Of course not, you've entirely missed @iNow and @Phi for All point.

It's a question I've pondered for a while now: I love my food, the taste, the texture and being completely satisfied, the enjotment is X 1000 when I'm very hungry; so I tend to starve myself throughout the day (not very healthy but YOLO), the problem is, I also enjoy a JD. Now here's the rub; I sometimes have one too many and then eat; the problem is, the next day I can't remember the meal, I know that while drunk my enjoyment of the meal is no different to when I'm sobber (don't ask me how, it's a long explanation and tangential to my point). I'm me in the moment, but I'm also me because of my memories, so given this spectrum there has to be a point where the meaning of me is meaningless.

Why would Lord Kato want an extension on his mansion? He was smart enough to know that a well fed worker, neither has the time or inclination to challenge his privilege; Bojo doesn't seem to understand that fundamental social(ist) fact.

Many follies, particularly during times of famine, such as the Great Famine in Ireland, were built as a form of poor relief, to provide employment for peasants ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly

policy: the art of persuading others to agree with what you want, whatever it costs them...

He's a bloviating buffoon, that we voted for; the tunnel is a mobius strip and the light we see is a train; maybe one day we'll stop kicking the can down the road and put it in the bin: that would be the end, until it's not... Politics is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog their both biting.

Exactly...

Perhaps you need to live in America to appreciate the subtleties...

Sorry, I don't get the joke... 🤔

And contemporary language is essential for that; you can teach people with out of date books/language but the meaning gets lost to easily; so we end up teaching intelligent people that it's OK to kill/hate/belittle those that you consider have wasted potential.

It's all relative...

OK, break out the math and show us; I won't undestand if you do, I don't speak the language... MEH I can't be bothered, you don't even know the right word for hypothesis...

Believe it or not, you're not the first person to rock up on this site knowing their opinion is more valuable than the knowledge of the ages; few of us stay long enough to actually learn something.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. - Socrates The thing about philosophy is, it's all been said before; if one say's something completely new, your probably wrong - me

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato

A wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he has to say something. - Plato

But what does your conscience say?

I'm not telling you to smile, I'm just smiling at you...

Our ancestors, at best, are equally advanced... But what has this got to do with the price of egg's???

I think it fundamentally answers the OP, any treatment for depression that doesn't involve medication has to be communicated and for that we need a common language and what better place to start; a smile may not be the answer (I seldom get angry with a smile on my face), but it is a step on the path...

The greater good of the majority depends on you, if you think about it... A single smile does not a summer make, but it can be the start of spring (ooooomg I am wise, go figure😇)...

Tomorrow he will go out and catch enough fish for today... 😉

I was aiming for ironic sarcasm... Define personal, successful, responsibility...