Another 'Greatly Annoying' Philosophical Rant by 'ME'
I've been wondering if I'm the OLDEST content creator on Steemit at (almost) seventy years old...??? Not that it matters much...just wondering (I wonder about a lot of things that don't matter much) and I don't even smoke weed anymore...
(At least not often)
Anyway...I've destroyed enough brain cells over the years in a variety of ways without adding booze and other drugs to my daily routine after about the age of thirty-something. Stress, or rather, distress has probably been the most detrimental aspect of any personal brain cell putrification:
Decomposition or rotting, the breakdown of organic matter usually by bacterial action, resulting in the formation of other substances of less complex constitution ...
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Putrification
I really like that last part of the definition above, about "resulting in the formation of other substances of less complex constitution"... :>)
Notice how they don't give us a clue as to what these other substances are??? It really doesn't matter though...I know I have a lot of these less complex substances floating around within my cranium; I can feel them doing the backstroke or breaststroke at times...(At least they're happy little creatures)
Distress is simply extreme stress...and it can cause a myriad of problems in ones life, according to the experts who study this stuff in pursuit of a PhD so that they can rise up in salary rank and prestige within a Non-Profit organization.
Having a 'Dr' designation before your name, can open many doors for an individual, with great reward waiting on the other side; so, if you haven't already...get yourself a Doctoral degree as soon as possible. It doesn't matter whether it's from a real University or not...plenty of people these days do quite well by just paying for one online.
Almost everything seems fake these days; ever since the movie 'The Matrix' came out...People are slowly beginning to wake up to the truth of fake phenomena...They're becoming "Red Pilled"…
(Check this out, yo...)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=red pill
"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, The Matrix
Ever since the Matrix came out, people have been talking about the red pill...the blue pill...using them as reference to make a point in some discussion or some other bull-crap oration of no consequence...It was kind of getting stressful hearing those terms over, and over and over again...
Geeeezzzzzzz Christ!!!!
Oooooppppps….Sorry Jesus...I apologize for using your name in vain, but I can't help it sometimes...
So...as bad as it was hearing about the Red Pill the Blue Pill a hundred million times or more...now we have to put up with the "Black Pill", and WOKE...and a whole bunch of other head splitting terms on a daily basis.
Where the hell will it end!?!?!?!? It's driving me NUTS…I'm getting a whole lot more of them other, substances of less complex constitution forming in my grey matter... from the stress of it all...
Ya know...??? I once spent quite a bit of time exploring the philosophies of Buddhism; read a lot of books about it; watched videos online; listened to Dharma talks by Monks...and, actually went to a few Temples in search of Enlightenment...Nirvana and all that stuff...
One day upon venturing into a Temple in Flushing, Queens New York...I spotted a Zen Master Monk sitting cross-legged in the lotus position. His eyes opened as I approached and greeted me (N0...he didn't call me "Grasshopper)
Since I had his attention, I asked what 'enlightenment' actually is...and he replied, "It's being awake...just as I am in this moment...."
I said, I know you're awake now, cause I walked in on you sleeping a minute ago...
He looked surprised and said, "I was not sleeping...I was meditating."
"Yeah right" I shot back..."How come I heard you snoring and wheezing with your lips flapping, if you weren't cutting some Zzzzzzzzzz's DUDE"...!?!?!?
The Holy guy looked shocked with a hint of perplexity on his brow, sizing me up with a sudden stare...
Then invited me to LEAVE quite loudly, I might add...and, he banged a stick on the ground too...right by my friggin feet...
What all this has to do with anything, I don't know; it just popped back into my head (probably from those damn less complex substances floating around in there...???)
Listen my friends...all this stuff just tired me out big time, so it's old man nap time once again.
I'll see ya again sometime soon I hope...
Ciao
The black pill is a new one on me!
It's a relatively new concept of internet persuasion...so we all know there's great merit in it :>)
Angryman made a monk mad 😂 shocking!
I don't know an exact number but @por500bolos is as sharp as ever at whatever age he is.. My parents are both in their early 70s and thankfully quite with the program and not duped by the trends, msm, fake news, whatever pills are being dispensed..
Hell, I'm cranky and just a few years out of the dope n booze lifestyle. It's quite maddening out there and there's more people than ever before. It seems like all the wrong was are doing the majority of breeding. If reincarnation is the thing I'm trying my damnedest to not get sucked into the wheel of samsara lol.. Who knows maybe I'm already a rishi or Bodhisattva here on a voluntary relief effort, but maybe I'm fucking up by spending time on steem of all places.. Oh well, at least I'm not a grumpy tired monk that thinks they know some shit others don't 🤔
Making a monk 'mad' is not difficult to do, if his knees ache from sitting cross-legged too long :>)
Aimless wandering? Or just the cycle of birth and re-birth???
Maybe you are here on a voluntary mission that you've forgotten about, having been caught up too much in this chaotic, materialistic and lustful mess we're in...???
Thanks for your response @skramatters , I hope all is well with you.
Thanks I'm doing just fine, getting along with no major beefs.
The birth rebirth aspect I'd like to think this round is a fruitful one and won't require a forced trip back to middle earth.
It's all too easy to get swept up in the hysteria of stuff and instant gratification..
All the best to you @angryman.. Have a good night! Glad you got your act together and stuck around here with us.. Too many of the good ones burn bright and hot but the flame flickers out too soon..
Getting along with "no major beefs" is a good thing my friend, as long as you didn't have to eliminate anyone causing you major beef with a machete...!?!?!?!?!?
Thanks for thinking of me as one of the good ones :>) I plan to be around for awhile; but at my age, I can easily wake up dead in the morning...I might start sleeping dressed in a suit and tie, just in case!!!!!
I don’t smoke weed anymore either @angrayman, or less.
Looks like you’re still leading the pack, young man. 70, huh? I know where I’m going for pointers. Eh, how did you align your picture like that with the text on the side? I’ve always liked the look of it, never knew anyone with the code I guess.
Did you ever end up figuring how to get to nirvana?
Add brackets > after pull-right" and a < at beginning of /div> between image point, before inserting image between them...If I added it to code example here, it disappears :>(
I found a quick video for you below, from a non-coder Steemit user on YouTube who does a pretty good job of showing and explaining the steps.
I hope this helps you @dandays
You’re the best!
Oh...I'm blushing now...
Enjoy the old man nap😴 I hope the monk don't wake you up while snoring 🤣
Thanks, friend...I did enjoy the nap without that snoring monk around. He doesn't know where I live because I out-maneuvered him as he tried to follow me... :>)
Well you are older than me. Monks, pills, red, yellow, green, blue. Why is it Monks and pills and colors go together so well? One makes you smaller the other does nothing at all. I spent far to much time thinking about how belly button fuzz develops, and am glad I only think about it every now and then. I think it is rather nice that when someone does an Internet search for "Nirvana " that 90+ percent of the search listing is music. So now instead of seeking Nirvana, people are looking toward Transhumanism and foregoing the whole thought idea of a spiritual enlightenment for more of a humanistic enlightenment.
I'm glad that you only think about belly button fuzz once in awhile these days too; it can be quite disturbing pondering such things in search of enlightenment. The fuzz is not a problem though as long as it doesn't get too thick causing your chakra not to open up during meditation :>)
Hmmmnnnnnnnn….Transhumanism… the anxious quest of Technocrats (AI anyone?)
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