plus, will remind ya here then of that famous jogging-dude (wrote books
about the benefits of it etc) who was found dead beside the road one day
of a heart attack? lol ya can't BET on THAT to save ya's! (might keeps ya
in the running but one wont necessarily win because of it hah!)
gambling in such a manner is actually... a leveler, one that brings ya
smack back down to earth time & again; and believe me that's a good
thing!
Nope, getting out of bed is the leveler. Facing the day, as they say.
### - heh people get outta bed every day and walk straight into the
nearest fucking lamppost lol, they wake up but they don't wake up kinda >thing? - and then they prolly go jogging lol! :)
are ya beginning to 'hear' me yet at all??
c'mon use that brain of yours! you're falling behind; am speaking to you
here between the lines, try to keep up sport :)
even providing one can be detached-enough about it; there are
literally
sooo many variables involved (dozens for each horse AND there's
several
horses!) and thus so many, many things that can go wrong! one horse
may
prefer firmer ground to another who historically runs better on softer >>>> ground, so the weather plays a big part too! then there's the
competition
to consider for their ages, weights, the distance they perform best
at,
and even the jockeys riding them! the stable the horse is coming from
may
or may not also be 'on-form' at the moment or not! the trainer too!
whether the course is a right-handed track or a left-handed one
because
'some' horses will keep tight to a left turn but run-wide on a right
turn
thus losing ground & vise-versa! it goes on and on! did the horse fall >>>> over last time or was it pulled up! was it the favourite last time
out!
there's also an old saying about "horses for courses" meaning some
nags
tend to always do better on their own favourite course! and/or maybe
it's
a female horse and it's having its bad time of the month lol... the
list
of things that 'can' go wrong are nigh endless!
What I said above...
### - it's life in a nutshell heh...
a 'smaller' (condensed/concentrated in on place) nutshell that can then
be
more readily examined :)
you yourself too may be either on-form or not on any particular day as >>>> well hah! (sooo many floating variables see?) and there's no magical
formula for it all either see? so to even stand a chance in that
business
you've got to be awake and on the ball and well aware too, else ya
wont
last very long at all!
now then + assuming all of the above... just to get ONE winner under
such
circumstances that ISN'T by just pure luck/fluke of being picked with
a
pin, is difficult enough! so now multiply that by 5 (or even 7 heh)
and
you'll begin to get a glimpse of where am coming from with all this?:
the
conscious facing of impossible odds & cunningly surviving by being
increasingly selective! ;)
thus, to pick 3 winners and string them together in one bet is
actually
pretty good! let alone string 4 or 5??
thus too very small amounts can very quickly add/multiply-up the more
winners you can string together (i hardly ever back singles for
example,
unless it's like that nicely/so-appropriately named one with WILD in
the
name hehehe, which won @ 9/1! i mean you get 4 x 9/1's together and
see
just how it all multiplies up = 10x10x10x10 = 10,000/1! = thus on that >>>> even a lowly 10c stake would actually fetch ya back $1000!)
accordingly heh, one can't possibly expect to win very often in such a >>>> manner, you could do everything absolutely perfectly (just like life)
and
still lose! so it's actually more a matter of everything all just
coming
together in just the right way on just the right day... and, provided
you
stick at it and don't go nuts in the process, you will eventually get
some
wins! again, prices are everything from day to day too, so one day
you'll
win only a little and another a whole heap!
iow: just like life itself, the whole thing's a huge challenge that
keeps
ya well on yer' toes so to speak! but ya have to play it...
intelligently... or not at all to even stand a chance ;)
So how have you done over the years Slider? I get the impression you
don't have much by way of means. That means your experiment in
gambling has failed. Which means, my point is illustrated in your
case.
### - in 'financial' terms the account is down, or course it is! that's
LIFE! but knowing how it all goes one perforce 'learns' not to gamble
willy-nilly; one 'conserves' one's assets instead of exhausting them too
quickly or frivolously! one doesn't pick options from life with a pin!
(as
the majority do! and as 'you' have done is many ways you perhaps don't
yet
realise by picking only favourites; in the gambling world you can pick
favourites all day long and you wont survive!)
It's not life. It's the result of choices you made. The bankruptcy
courts are full of those who made the right choices but didn't have
the balls or the smarts to make the payoff and milk the benefits.
thus for moi, it's like doing metaphysical press-ups AND a sometimes
daily
reminder (because i don't bet every day) of just 'how' tenuous
everything
about life & living actually is hehehe... ;)
Do real pushups, hundreds of them. You'll lengthen the odds of an
early death.
### - changing the subject already huh?
Not really, I do shitloads of pushups etc, running and so on, it's all
part of the larger picture of independence. Fuck being fat. Fuck
being sick. Fuck being malnourished or undernourished. Fuck being
skinny, ineffectual, unable to "look after yourself" in alarming
situations. Fuck being the old bastard the predators look at culling
in the street just by the look of you (they don't pick on me mate,
just by the look of me). It's all relevant to lifestyle, which is
what we're talking about.
plus, will remind ya here then of that famous jogging-dude (wrote books
about the benefits of it etc) who was found dead beside the road one day
of a heart attack? lol ya can't BET on THAT to save ya's! (might keeps
ya
in the running but one wont necessarily win because of it hah!)
Yeah Jim Fixx, had extremely high cholesterol in the days before
cholesterol and triglycerides were considered risk factors for CHD. He
was fit but had an arterial blockage of around 95% or so. So, he
died.
My cholesterol/tri's is excellent, resting BP 115/70, can run 5km most
days even in the rain (yesterday) with my Gortex jacket on. Still
look great in T and jeans. No gamble involved for me, just hard
fucking work and sensible eating.
gambling in such a manner is actually... a leveler, one that brings ya >>>> smack back down to earth time & again; and believe me that's a good
thing!
Nope, getting out of bed is the leveler. Facing the day, as they say.
### - heh people get outta bed every day and walk straight into the
nearest fucking lamppost lol, they wake up but they don't wake up kinda
thing? - and then they prolly go jogging lol! :)
are ya beginning to 'hear' me yet at all??
c'mon use that brain of yours! you're falling behind; am speaking to you
here between the lines, try to keep up sport :)
lol
Horses break down entirely due to the factors which aren't stochastic
- food, age, time of day, form, the jockey, etc. Very little gambling >>>> involved in horses or dogs, rather it's knowing the variables and the
form.
### - exactly! and worse! jockeys 'have' been known to pull their horses >>> up a bit short for backhanders as well! so there's all THAT to consider
as
well! (iow: it's nearly impossible to win even if you DO everything
perfectly!)
When the gangsters nobble the horses or inject elephant juice into
them, you will lose and it doesn't matter what you know of form, you
will still lose.
### - that's right! so even IF ya DO everything 'perfectly' ya still can't >possibly account for everything! (including the fix going in hehehe) -
iow: one of the very 'first' things to realise is that it's all a rigged >game! (it's ALL fixed mate! the whole goddamn thing!)
conversely, if you only pick favourites all the time, even though they >>>>> win
more often you'll never win enough because they're always such low
odds?
so then, how to bet intelligently enough so as to get-by instead of
ending
up in the doghouse?
Why not work? Most wealthy people got there by work, not by gambling. >>>> True gamblers lose sooner or later.
### - everyone loses sooner or later anyway hah but don't change the
subject! 'coz i ain't talking not working, you can DO whatever ya's like >>> in the meantime that's up to you + i ain't talkin' about living by the
codes of gambling literally except perhaps philosophically! (i.e.
there's
a knowledge to be gained by living 'life' with the 'awareness' of the
gambler! but to 'gain' that knowledge ya have to do a little real
gambling
because it's the 'feedback' from such that illumines the whole situation >>> in a way one might not otherwise arrive at by any other means... and
THAT'S the point)
You think I haven't gambled? The only way I could have ended up the
way I did would be either by being born into wealth (I was born into
the exact opposite) or by making the right choices (education,
formative career, free enterprise business competitively selling
services learned during the formative career). All of that was a
gamble - would I have the cojones and smarts to compete successfully
in the cut throat world I put everything on? My gamble paid off.
### - 'A' gamble paid off... a rather simplistic one that the majority of >people go-for and often lose even at that... (after all, anyone can build
a wall around themselves hah!)
and IF that's all anyone wants outta 'life' then i guess they'll be happy!
unfortunately (or actually fortunately heh) that's not ALL there IS to
life, the universe & everything?? perforce although most people spend
their lives hiding from it + settle for very little, a little that they >ultimately can't even keep...
even providing one can be detached-enough about it; there are
literally
sooo many variables involved (dozens for each horse AND there's
several
horses!) and thus so many, many things that can go wrong! one horse
may
prefer firmer ground to another who historically runs better on softer >>>>> ground, so the weather plays a big part too! then there's the
competition
to consider for their ages, weights, the distance they perform best
at,
and even the jockeys riding them! the stable the horse is coming from >>>>> may
or may not also be 'on-form' at the moment or not! the trainer too!
whether the course is a right-handed track or a left-handed one
because
'some' horses will keep tight to a left turn but run-wide on a right >>>>> turn
thus losing ground & vise-versa! it goes on and on! did the horse fall >>>>> over last time or was it pulled up! was it the favourite last time
out!
there's also an old saying about "horses for courses" meaning some
nags
tend to always do better on their own favourite course! and/or maybe >>>>> it's
a female horse and it's having its bad time of the month lol... the
list
of things that 'can' go wrong are nigh endless!
What I said above...
### - it's life in a nutshell heh...
a 'smaller' (condensed/concentrated in on place) nutshell that can then
be
more readily examined :)
you yourself too may be either on-form or not on any particular day as >>>>> well hah! (sooo many floating variables see?) and there's no magical >>>>> formula for it all either see? so to even stand a chance in that
business
you've got to be awake and on the ball and well aware too, else ya
wont
last very long at all!
now then + assuming all of the above... just to get ONE winner under >>>>> such
circumstances that ISN'T by just pure luck/fluke of being picked with >>>>> a
pin, is difficult enough! so now multiply that by 5 (or even 7 heh)
and
you'll begin to get a glimpse of where am coming from with all this?: >>>>> the
conscious facing of impossible odds & cunningly surviving by being
increasingly selective! ;)
thus, to pick 3 winners and string them together in one bet is
actually
pretty good! let alone string 4 or 5??
thus too very small amounts can very quickly add/multiply-up the more >>>>> winners you can string together (i hardly ever back singles for
example,
unless it's like that nicely/so-appropriately named one with WILD in >>>>> the
name hehehe, which won @ 9/1! i mean you get 4 x 9/1's together and
see
just how it all multiplies up = 10x10x10x10 = 10,000/1! = thus on that >>>>> even a lowly 10c stake would actually fetch ya back $1000!)
accordingly heh, one can't possibly expect to win very often in such a >>>>> manner, you could do everything absolutely perfectly (just like life) >>>>> and
still lose! so it's actually more a matter of everything all just
coming
together in just the right way on just the right day... and, provided >>>>> you
stick at it and don't go nuts in the process, you will eventually get >>>>> some
wins! again, prices are everything from day to day too, so one day
you'll
win only a little and another a whole heap!
iow: just like life itself, the whole thing's a huge challenge that
keeps
ya well on yer' toes so to speak! but ya have to play it...
intelligently... or not at all to even stand a chance ;)
So how have you done over the years Slider? I get the impression you
don't have much by way of means. That means your experiment in
gambling has failed. Which means, my point is illustrated in your
case.
### - in 'financial' terms the account is down, or course it is! that's
LIFE! but knowing how it all goes one perforce 'learns' not to gamble
willy-nilly; one 'conserves' one's assets instead of exhausting them too >>> quickly or frivolously! one doesn't pick options from life with a pin!
(as
the majority do! and as 'you' have done is many ways you perhaps don't
yet
realise by picking only favourites; in the gambling world you can pick
favourites all day long and you wont survive!)
It's not life. It's the result of choices you made. The bankruptcy
courts are full of those who made the right choices but didn't have
the balls or the smarts to make the payoff and milk the benefits.
### - am now in my 60's; naturally the 'account' is running out/getting
low :)
i was speaking metaphorically, you aren't yet?
thus for moi, it's like doing metaphysical press-ups AND a sometimes >>>>> daily
reminder (because i don't bet every day) of just 'how' tenuous
everything
about life & living actually is hehehe... ;)
Do real pushups, hundreds of them. You'll lengthen the odds of an
early death.
### - changing the subject already huh?
Not really, I do shitloads of pushups etc, running and so on, it's all
part of the larger picture of independence. Fuck being fat. Fuck
being sick. Fuck being malnourished or undernourished. Fuck being
skinny, ineffectual, unable to "look after yourself" in alarming
situations. Fuck being the old bastard the predators look at culling
in the street just by the look of you (they don't pick on me mate,
just by the look of me). It's all relevant to lifestyle, which is
what we're talking about.
### - again, am speaking/talking metaphorically and you're talking
literally?
thus you're missing the actual points am making in the translation...
plus, will remind ya here then of that famous jogging-dude (wrote books
about the benefits of it etc) who was found dead beside the road one day >>> of a heart attack? lol ya can't BET on THAT to save ya's! (might keeps
ya
in the running but one wont necessarily win because of it hah!)
Yeah Jim Fixx, had extremely high cholesterol in the days before
cholesterol and triglycerides were considered risk factors for CHD. He
was fit but had an arterial blockage of around 95% or so. So, he
died.
### - fell-over dead WHILE doing all his exercises?
'was' my point! HE gambled on that and lost!
iow: ya can't then affirm that it's just ALL about that and nothing else??
My cholesterol/tri's is excellent, resting BP 115/70, can run 5km most
days even in the rain (yesterday) with my Gortex jacket on. Still
look great in T and jeans. No gamble involved for me, just hard
fucking work and sensible eating.
### - so ok 'health' ISN'T one of your problems! big deal! but that's all >still besides the wider point! (i.e., one could be a totally healthy + fit >moron, and it wouldn't change a damn thing! lol)
it's not just about that hehehe, there's obviously more to everything than >just health alone can account for :)))
gambling in such a manner is actually... a leveler, one that brings ya >>>>> smack back down to earth time & again; and believe me that's a good
thing!
Nope, getting out of bed is the leveler. Facing the day, as they say.
### - heh people get outta bed every day and walk straight into the
nearest fucking lamppost lol, they wake up but they don't wake up kinda
thing? - and then they prolly go jogging lol! :)
are ya beginning to 'hear' me yet at all??
c'mon use that brain of yours! you're falling behind; am speaking to you >>> here between the lines, try to keep up sport :)
lol
### - ya can't seriously put ALL your 'eggs' in the basket of health alone
my friend hehehe...
it's a consideration only? (i.e., if a horse isn't fit then there's just
no chance of it winning, except maybe by default in a 2-horse race where
the other one pulls out hahaha...)
more to the point: 'walking into lampposts' is what's to be avoided heh,
plus it's harder to do that if you're blind ...)
:)
I don't *feel* secure. I *am* secure. Financial independence =
security.
You appear to have gambled and lost.
### - just depends on whatcha trying to 'win' innit heh (which is 'not'
what other's might go for;)
You know what I mean. Unless of course, you've never tried at all to
achieve anything. That would be an utter waste.
I didn't really gamble (except
for making a career change a long time ago by going into business for
myself, thereby risking everything I guess) but I'm secure and
independent. Also, I take physical care of myself so I have little
need for the State to wipe my arse (provide healthcare). I eat well
and exercise a lot. Do you? Are you gambling on your health and
weight? Your nutrition?
### - such considerations are never uppermost in my mind... are mere
incidentals to life & living generally, as there's just so much more to
consider... iow: my priorities are elsewhere
Where could they possibly be at your age? Mine now is to eke out a semi-retirement -> full retirement with enough financial means to be
able to travel when I want, not need to borrow ever again and be able
to help my children and importantly, their children, to some
reasonable extent. And of course to have a house which is green
title.
I consider having esoteric priorities (they are the ones you're
alluding to of course) a luxury which you should not consider until
the basic securities of life are settled - money, home and health.
Then, and only then, can you take the luxury of dabbling (as opposed
to pondering) in odd areas such as lucid dreams, metaphysics,
parapsychology and the like. Build your base first.
### - in 'financial' terms the account is down, or course it is!
that's
LIFE! but knowing how it all goes one perforce 'learns' not to gamble
willy-nilly; one 'conserves' one's assets instead of exhausting them
too
quickly or frivolously! one doesn't pick options from life with a pin! >>>> (as
the majority do! and as 'you' have done is many ways you perhaps don't >>>> yet
realise by picking only favourites; in the gambling world you can pick >>>> favourites all day long and you wont survive!)
It's not life. It's the result of choices you made. The bankruptcy
courts are full of those who made the right choices but didn't have
the balls or the smarts to make the payoff and milk the benefits.
### - am now in my 60's; naturally the 'account' is running out/getting
low :)
i was speaking metaphorically, you aren't yet?
Metaphors are a luxury. You don't see metaphors in critical
communications such as political contracts and the like because
metaphors are contrary to clarity. They are a luxury for poets,
writers and others who make their $ through language skills.
I try to be clear always. To me, using metaphors, even though I like
them and can enjoy them when employed by skilled writers, is a way of
hiding the fact that you don't know what the fuck you're talking
about. Or if you do, you don't have the ability to enunciate it.
thus for moi, it's like doing metaphysical press-ups AND a sometimes >>>>>> daily
reminder (because i don't bet every day) of just 'how' tenuous
everything
about life & living actually is hehehe... ;)
Do real pushups, hundreds of them. You'll lengthen the odds of an
early death.
### - changing the subject already huh?
Not really, I do shitloads of pushups etc, running and so on, it's all
part of the larger picture of independence. Fuck being fat. Fuck
being sick. Fuck being malnourished or undernourished. Fuck being
skinny, ineffectual, unable to "look after yourself" in alarming
situations. Fuck being the old bastard the predators look at culling
in the street just by the look of you (they don't pick on me mate,
just by the look of me). It's all relevant to lifestyle, which is
what we're talking about.
### - again, am speaking/talking metaphorically and you're talking
literally?
thus you're missing the actual points am making in the translation...
How can you make a point when you use a metaphor? A metaphor is
general in nature, a point is specific. If a metaphor were specific
or precise, then it wouldn't *be* a metaphor, would it?
Don't shit a shitter Slider :)
plus, will remind ya here then of that famous jogging-dude (wrote
books
about the benefits of it etc) who was found dead beside the road one
day
of a heart attack? lol ya can't BET on THAT to save ya's! (might keeps >>>> ya
in the running but one wont necessarily win because of it hah!)
Yeah Jim Fixx, had extremely high cholesterol in the days before
cholesterol and triglycerides were considered risk factors for CHD. He
was fit but had an arterial blockage of around 95% or so. So, he
died.
### - fell-over dead WHILE doing all his exercises?
'was' my point! HE gambled on that and lost!
iow: ya can't then affirm that it's just ALL about that and nothing
else??
He didn't gamble. Little was known about cholesterol and
triglycerides in those days. His blood was as thick as treacle. But
as far as he was concerned, he wasn't at risk therefore he wasn't
gambling. Gambling by defnition includes an element of risk.
My cholesterol/tri's is excellent, resting BP 115/70, can run 5km most
days even in the rain (yesterday) with my Gortex jacket on. Still
look great in T and jeans. No gamble involved for me, just hard
fucking work and sensible eating.
### - so ok 'health' ISN'T one of your problems! big deal! but that's
all
still besides the wider point! (i.e., one could be a totally healthy +
fit
moron, and it wouldn't change a damn thing! lol)
Well I'm clearly not a moron. Which is more than I can say about some
of the denizens of this place :)
it's not just about that hehehe, there's obviously more to everything
than
just health alone can account for :)))
Health is number 1. If you haven't your health, you haven't anything.
On a healthy body and mind can be built other things, material things
and good relationships. But if you don't have good health, you're
fucked in so many ways.
gambling in such a manner is actually... a leveler, one that brings >>>>>> ya
smack back down to earth time & again; and believe me that's a good >>>>>> thing!
Nope, getting out of bed is the leveler. Facing the day, as they
say.
### - heh people get outta bed every day and walk straight into the
nearest fucking lamppost lol, they wake up but they don't wake up
kinda
thing? - and then they prolly go jogging lol! :)
are ya beginning to 'hear' me yet at all??
c'mon use that brain of yours! you're falling behind; am speaking to
you
here between the lines, try to keep up sport :)
lol
### - ya can't seriously put ALL your 'eggs' in the basket of health
alone
my friend hehehe...
No but it's the edifice on which all else is built. It's a potential achilles heel. If you're stupid enough to have self harmed through
diabetes, high blood pressure and high blood lipids, then how can
anything in life be worthwhile? Eliminate sugar, reduce salt,
exercise a lot (running and weights) and keep the brain engaged and challenged, and then you can do anything at all within limits even as
you grow old. Fact.
evidence alone? You are very much set in your ways but you are much
less so than Dave, whose ways and thought processes are set in fucking >>>> granite.
### - you're living the way you do and have settled down to it all +
have
no further expectations of change, is all am saying...
Yep, that's a good definition of retirement :)
### - and also that of burying oneself in a deep hole too heh ;)
In his case, the saying about teaching an old dog new tricks is very
apt.
### - i actually owe ya an apology there thang heh, although he's not
actually unreasonable, he's merely deliberately + stubbornly
unreasonable... because he wants to be! (applied ignorance?)
the equivalent of someone stamping their foot and saying: wont! even to
the point of getting crafty about it heh :)
to become more aware of what we're all 'actually' facing (and
ultimately
dealing with) in 'life' requires more awareness not dull routine! and >>>>> yes,
everything you say above is correct too, but am not considering going >>>>> to
all those lengths such as card counting and the like, but of
intelligently
avoiding all that and picking one's way in and around all those
potential
traps (i.e., all the traps that exist in the daily world/life are
perforce
reflected in everything everyone does and gets involved with
everywhere,
it's unavoidable, and this perforce applies to the world of gambling >>>>> too
albeit somewhat more condensed/concentrated in such a way so as to be >>>>> able
to maybe get a-hold of the bigger picture, one that's far more
obscured
in
general daily life... iow: the world of gambling is actually a
microcosmic
reflection of the world (and the universe) at large! and if you read >>>>> it
that way you wont get into any trouble...)
But you have fallen into a huge trap, that of dependence on the State. >>>> I am completely independent of the State and invisible to it. I use a >>>> VPN almost always now and TOR and Opera browser VPN as a default in
communications. I don't vote because I don't wish to appear on the
electoral rolls. I have no legal fixed residence and all my assets
are owned by other persons, legally. Yet, I will never have my house
taken from me, nor will I ever have need to depend on the State for my >>>> income.
### - and i don't 'have' a house that 'can' be taken from me hehehe...
i don't really have... anything? (anything to defend...) so i didn't
even
'need' to go to all the lengths you had to just to be/feel secure?
I don't *feel* secure. I *am* secure. Financial independence =
security.
### - pure illusion! and on paper only! someone waves a bit of paper atcha >and suddenly you're a believer??
and just to cover his arse in case the world economy collapses heh, he >secretes-away valuables in a safety deposit box - IN A BANK??? - the very >FIRST place they close in such a scenario??? lol :D
You appear to have gambled and lost.
### - just depends on whatcha trying to 'win' innit heh (which is 'not'
what other's might go for;)
You know what I mean. Unless of course, you've never tried at all to
achieve anything. That would be an utter waste.
### - wrote a book didn't i, doesn't that count? (laffing...)
I didn't really gamble (except
for making a career change a long time ago by going into business for
myself, thereby risking everything I guess) but I'm secure and
independent. Also, I take physical care of myself so I have little
need for the State to wipe my arse (provide healthcare). I eat well
and exercise a lot. Do you? Are you gambling on your health and
weight? Your nutrition?
### - such considerations are never uppermost in my mind... are mere
incidentals to life & living generally, as there's just so much more to
consider... iow: my priorities are elsewhere
Where could they possibly be at your age? Mine now is to eke out a
semi-retirement -> full retirement with enough financial means to be
able to travel when I want, not need to borrow ever again and be able
to help my children and importantly, their children, to some
reasonable extent. And of course to have a house which is green
title.
I consider having esoteric priorities (they are the ones you're
alluding to of course) a luxury which you should not consider until
the basic securities of life are settled - money, home and health.
Then, and only then, can you take the luxury of dabbling (as opposed
to pondering) in odd areas such as lucid dreams, metaphysics,
parapsychology and the like. Build your base first.
### - according to 'that' recipe; there's then around 80% of the
population out there literally doomed to never get around to ever >doing/achieving 'anything' if they have to wait that long??
so van gogh just have just stfu and got a job right???
lol riiiiight... :)
### - in 'financial' terms the account is down, or course it is!
that's
LIFE! but knowing how it all goes one perforce 'learns' not to gamble >>>>> willy-nilly; one 'conserves' one's assets instead of exhausting them >>>>> too
quickly or frivolously! one doesn't pick options from life with a pin! >>>>> (as
the majority do! and as 'you' have done is many ways you perhaps don't >>>>> yet
realise by picking only favourites; in the gambling world you can pick >>>>> favourites all day long and you wont survive!)
It's not life. It's the result of choices you made. The bankruptcy
courts are full of those who made the right choices but didn't have
the balls or the smarts to make the payoff and milk the benefits.
### - am now in my 60's; naturally the 'account' is running out/getting
low :)
i was speaking metaphorically, you aren't yet?
Metaphors are a luxury. You don't see metaphors in critical
communications such as political contracts and the like because
metaphors are contrary to clarity. They are a luxury for poets,
writers and others who make their $ through language skills.
I try to be clear always. To me, using metaphors, even though I like
them and can enjoy them when employed by skilled writers, is a way of
hiding the fact that you don't know what the fuck you're talking
about. Or if you do, you don't have the ability to enunciate it.
### - (cracking up...)some things can't BE talked about directly and/or
can only 'alluded' to!
poetry can't, for example, BE rendered into concise rational terms! but
they are obviously still talking about something! :)
thus for moi, it's like doing metaphysical press-ups AND a sometimes >>>>>>> daily
reminder (because i don't bet every day) of just 'how' tenuous
everything
about life & living actually is hehehe... ;)
Do real pushups, hundreds of them. You'll lengthen the odds of an >>>>>> early death.
### - changing the subject already huh?
Not really, I do shitloads of pushups etc, running and so on, it's all >>>> part of the larger picture of independence. Fuck being fat. Fuck
being sick. Fuck being malnourished or undernourished. Fuck being
skinny, ineffectual, unable to "look after yourself" in alarming
situations. Fuck being the old bastard the predators look at culling
in the street just by the look of you (they don't pick on me mate,
just by the look of me). It's all relevant to lifestyle, which is
what we're talking about.
### - again, am speaking/talking metaphorically and you're talking
literally?
thus you're missing the actual points am making in the translation...
How can you make a point when you use a metaphor? A metaphor is
general in nature, a point is specific. If a metaphor were specific
or precise, then it wouldn't *be* a metaphor, would it?
Don't shit a shitter Slider :)
### - am merely attempting to paint you a picture, and all you can talk
about is the tools & colours am using, not even waiting for the image
itself to appear?
forget it then + why am i wasting my breath! you're not even listening!
plus, will remind ya here then of that famous jogging-dude (wrote
books
about the benefits of it etc) who was found dead beside the road one >>>>> day
of a heart attack? lol ya can't BET on THAT to save ya's! (might keeps >>>>> ya
in the running but one wont necessarily win because of it hah!)
Yeah Jim Fixx, had extremely high cholesterol in the days before
cholesterol and triglycerides were considered risk factors for CHD. He >>>> was fit but had an arterial blockage of around 95% or so. So, he
died.
### - fell-over dead WHILE doing all his exercises?
'was' my point! HE gambled on that and lost!
iow: ya can't then affirm that it's just ALL about that and nothing
else??
He didn't gamble. Little was known about cholesterol and
triglycerides in those days. His blood was as thick as treacle. But
as far as he was concerned, he wasn't at risk therefore he wasn't
gambling. Gambling by defnition includes an element of risk.
### - prevaricate/deflect all you want, i still know what am 'trying' to
say, even if you do everything you can to obfuscate the matter...
My cholesterol/tri's is excellent, resting BP 115/70, can run 5km most >>>> days even in the rain (yesterday) with my Gortex jacket on. Still
look great in T and jeans. No gamble involved for me, just hard
fucking work and sensible eating.
### - so ok 'health' ISN'T one of your problems! big deal! but that's
all
still besides the wider point! (i.e., one could be a totally healthy +
fit
moron, and it wouldn't change a damn thing! lol)
Well I'm clearly not a moron. Which is more than I can say about some
of the denizens of this place :)
it's not just about that hehehe, there's obviously more to everything
than
just health alone can account for :)))
Health is number 1. If you haven't your health, you haven't anything.
On a healthy body and mind can be built other things, material things
and good relationships. But if you don't have good health, you're
fucked in so many ways.
### - tell THAT to stephen hawking am SURE he'd agree?
riiiiight... :)
the world isn't such a simple utopia thang!
nothing's perfect nor set in stone!
one day you think nicotine is the devil and the next it's the cure for MS!
that's how it goes! and it 'should' take only a few experiences of same to >cause one to have a more open mind?
gambling in such a manner is actually... a leveler, one that brings >>>>>>> ya
smack back down to earth time & again; and believe me that's a good >>>>>>> thing!
Nope, getting out of bed is the leveler. Facing the day, as they
say.
### - heh people get outta bed every day and walk straight into the
nearest fucking lamppost lol, they wake up but they don't wake up
kinda
thing? - and then they prolly go jogging lol! :)
are ya beginning to 'hear' me yet at all??
c'mon use that brain of yours! you're falling behind; am speaking to >>>>> you
here between the lines, try to keep up sport :)
lol
### - ya can't seriously put ALL your 'eggs' in the basket of health
alone
my friend hehehe...
No but it's the edifice on which all else is built. It's a potential
achilles heel. If you're stupid enough to have self harmed through
diabetes, high blood pressure and high blood lipids, then how can
anything in life be worthwhile? Eliminate sugar, reduce salt,
exercise a lot (running and weights) and keep the brain engaged and
challenged, and then you can do anything at all within limits even as
you grow old. Fact.
### - stephen hawking again? lol :)
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