its not that i do anything specifically intentionally to live longer, but there are a lot of things other people do, that i'm just not attracted to, that do shorten life. i wouldn't want it to be any shorter though myself. its not long enough as it is. forget all the emotional crap. it just isn't long enough to explore even a fraction of the many paths i would like experience all of if i could live long enough to do so. i know emotional disappointments are hard, i HAVE experienced my share of them, but dam, we CAN learn to avoid them (not entirely, but certainly reduce the sting of old ones) by making fewer assumptions and having fewer expectations, no matter what we might be used to people telling each other what to expect. and people need to stop expecting everything that has yet to touch their own life to work the way it says on the label. you don't need expectations to enjoy the beauty of walking along a mountain path, or riding through a beautiful countryside, or making something that gives you pleasure, even in the making of it.
to add to the confusion, if you're the guy who takes shit care of himself, is this what life is like from 75 to 80 instead of from 80 to 85?
Quality of life means more to me than longevity. I'm not going to cut out certain foods for example. I'd rather eat red meat and live to 75 than eat tofu and live to be 90.
Want to live longer? Stop reading the news, stop arguing about politics and religion and get out there and get some fresh air.
all you got to do is contract hepatitis c you still have time All the while knowing that it's killing you slowly
i don't think, and of course i could be wrong, anybody could, that its a matter of higher or lower, but of completely wierdly different, one 'life' from another, so that if someone hates everything they're not familiar with because they're not, then that is going to be 'hell' for them, and just as likewise if the love that strange and unfamiliar, then that's going to make it heaven. of course any place people hate logic and consideration, no matter how much of a heaven it starts out to be, that's going to make it a hell. but of course no one has to be that way, no matter how many myths people keep telling each other to make excuses for doing so. where people exercise logic to take into consideration all things, and avoid screwing them up, even adding beauty from their own imaginations, that's how heavens are made. its not about taking sides, or what's already there. its just how all of us treat everything that combines to create how each of us experience whatever kind of existence, whatever kind of experiencing, wherever we happen to be.
I walk between worlds the way other people walk around the block, because that's the reality of our situation, is that we are spirits in the material world, without both a collective unconscious that is the source of all the awareness and magic in the universe, and our own individual conscious minds that perceive causality. A magical universe that has no rules whatsoever is just chaos.
[ your not the only one. parallel univeses have different rules. that's what makes them different universes. but the 'rules' don't come from awarnesses telling each other what to pretend. they come from that very fabric and substance of everything in them. everything together, each with its own voice. but no one 'voice' alone makes the rules of a universe. maybe a god takes chunk of its own energy mass and give it the push that makes a big bang to start another one or something, but god-like beings have better things to do with their existence then to sit there had-crafting every sparrow on your head. but those are things we don't know, don't need to know, and wouldn't make jack if we did. if there's such a thing as a universal rule, its that you can't avoid causing harm by hating logic, causing tyranny by hating consideration, and that goodness and the desire to be feared, are absolute binary opposites.
they still owe nothing to what you or anyone else tries to tell each other about them. nor do they begin and end with hierarchy at all of any sort. rather not even a god is free from owing its kharma to all it creates, to all that may well exist without deliberate intent for it to do so. logic and consideration ARE meta-ethics. dictatorial hierarchy is NOT.
you're the one who's doing that, by telling people what to pretend they know about it. you know nothing about any god, and neither does anyone else. only that the unknown does nothing to stop from existing whatever does. be that gods, a god, or anything else.
according to what? your own 'authority'? or some book written by a bunch of other humans? where is your evidence that any universe requires any sort of 'ruler'? i mean this MAY be absolutely true, but so might infinity minus one other possibilities.
The self-evident truth speaks for itself, neither requiring my words nor anyone's consent, which is exactly why it is possible to talk about God in any meaningful way. Again, stop telling God what to do, you suck at it.
i can say a stray feral cat created everything, or grandfather coyote. my saying so proves neither more nor less then what is said by anyone else. and where does this "he" business come from? other then as a default pronoun, regardless of gender, for anything sapient, when gender is unknown or possibly non-existent. i prefer to call 'god' 'it', on the greater likelihood that a supreme being could not be complete if it was only one half of a pair.
you're right about whether we like or not having nothing to do with it. but everything people tell each other to pretend they know, was still written or spoken by just another person with no more authentication about it then themselves. whither we like it or not, has nothing to do with diversity being the inherent nature of existence.
the self evident truth, is that no one knows jack, and its pretending to, not me, that is trying to tell the unknown what to do or be. you want to stop telling god what to do, stop masterbating with that book, or any book, that pretends to know anything about it.