For gays who will be seniors one day - A Steve5380 Topic!

[Guest Mindy]

What do you suppose happens after one donate their heart.does their soul go to the other person or reincarnates

[Steve5380]

43 minutes ago, Guest Mindy said:

What do you suppose happens after one donate their heart.does their soul go to the other person or reincarnates

 

When former vice-president Dick Cheney got a heart transplant,  this did not change his perverse Republican ideology.

 

Let's take a pragmatic example:  when you replace the CPU in your computer,  will this modify all your programs and files with the ones the new CPU comes from?  No,  it does not.   This is fortunate if you put in a NEW CPU 

[auscent]

For guys who will be seniors 1 day.

 

My friend and I are preparing for retirement a few years ahead. Goal is to pursue a new activity now which we intend to do a lot more during retirement. 

 

Like a soft launch, this should make transition to retirement easier. Activity must be novel, sustainable, economical, physically-mentally-socially beneficial. I have just completed 4 months picking up a new sport. Now starting my second activity. To keep us on our toes, we report progress every 6 months.

 

Extremely satisfying!

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by auscent

[Steve5380]

Here is another interesting, useful video:

 

 

Ha ha,  we don't "die less".  What the guy in the video wanted to say is that this move is associated with living longer.

 

It is well known that what increases lifespan and especially health span is the strength in our lower body.  With dedication and time any senior can develop hip and knee flexibility, plus muscle and tendon strength,  to be able to stand up from the floor without hands.  It is a matter of patience.

 

In another nauseating boasting,  Steve states that he is able to do most of these stand-ups without problems.  It took me a good while, but now I can, and I will see if I do it at 90 too.   If I can do it at 80, you should be able to do it at any age.

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Edited October 3, 2023 by Steve5380

[Guest Santi]

We tend to learn our biggest lessons from our failures. What is one failure in your life that you learned the most about?

[Steve5380]

1 hour ago, Guest Santi said:

We tend to learn our biggest lessons from our failures. What is one failure in your life that you learned the most about?

 

I have been blessed that I am not a failure,  and I don't recount many big failures in my life,  perhaps because I was able to keep my compass pointed in the right directions.

 

But it is a different story with my MISTAKES.  I made MANY MISTAKES and I still keep making some.  Perhaps you wanted to write that "we learn our biggest lessons from our mistakes"  (not necessarily our failures). 

 

Hopefully we have the means to prevent our BIG MISTAKES to become our BIG FAILURES,  either by correcting the mistakes on time or by compensating for their negative effects.

[Guest Terence]

On 10/7/2023 at 4:57 AM, Steve5380 said:

 

I have been blessed that I am not a failure,  and I don't recount many big failures in my life,  perhaps because I was able to keep my compass pointed in the right directions.

 

But it is a different story with my MISTAKES.  I made MANY MISTAKES and I still keep making some.  Perhaps you wanted to write that "we learn our biggest lessons from our mistakes"  (not necessarily our failures). 

 

Hopefully we have the means to prevent our BIG MISTAKES to become our BIG FAILURES,  either by correcting the mistakes on time or by compensating for their negative effects.

What was your biggest mistake in your life and what did you do to make it right?

[Steve5380]

1 hour ago, Guest Terence said:

What was your biggest mistake in your life and what did you do to make it right?

 

I made too many biggest mistakes, so that a description of them would hardly fit in a BW post.   Each of them was one too many.  But I survived  

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Edited October 11, 2023 by Steve5380

[Sweetie Pie]

8 hours ago, Steve5380 said:

 

I made too many biggest mistakes, so that a description of them would hardly fit in a BW post.   Each of them was one too many. 

I'm glad you see your shortcomings. Sadly, your noisy fuck buddy @singalion knows absolutely no repentance.

 

Now back to the topic of gays who will be senior one day. Nobody owes you an explanation, so stop complaining and coming up with reasons why things shouldn't change now that your time has passed. Senior gay should quit comparing, stop fueling the market, the society, and other people, and start living a solitary, calm life somewhere with minimal traffic, in a location with fewer harsh conditions, less wild volume, and more natural surroundings than human.

[Steve5380]

13 hours ago, Sweetie Pie said:

 

Now back to the topic of gays who will be senior one day.

 

 

You are right.  Let's go back to what is of interest to us gays as we age.  This is when we can start benefitting from the company of each other.  There is no same-sex marriage in Singapore, and many of you think that this should change.  I am also totally in favor of making marriage sex independent of the gender of the couples.   Some decades ago I may have defended this with a personal interest that I could marry a nice cute Singaporean gay and bring him home, but today it is so that others can benefit from this.   

 

It can be interesting to watch this video where the gay activist John Corvino debates a religious conservative guy on same-sex marriage:  

 

 

 

Hopefully you agree with me that Mr. Miravalle was wrong in EVERYTHING he said.  This was mostly about why two men cannot be sexually attracted to each other.  BIG MISTAKE!  He presents itself as straight, and so it makes sense that he does not feel and understand such attraction, and his false arguments belong to an alternate universe.  In any case, that gay sex is real or not is NONE OF HIS BUSINESS,  and he should instead have concentrated in any valid argument against same-sex marriage, which he did not.  

 

Hopefully you become an advocate for same-sex marriage in your country.  The benefits are too big to ignore, and to let some "infidelities"  here and there break up a successful gay marriage or partnership.

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Edited October 12, 2023 by Steve5380

[Guest Mema]

Do you think it’s possible for someone to reincarnate from a human to an animal? 15 years ago, I had a (literal) vision of an old lady walking a dog close to where I lived at the time. The lady looked ‘exactly’ like my nanna, who had passed several years before. I lived in a mostly (95%) Asian community at the time, so to see a white skinned, yellow/white haired lady, wearing the exact same outfit I always remembered my nana wearing, with the same hunch in her back, was so surprising to me that I turned around to try to find her, but she’d gone. Fast forward 5 weeks later, I went to the local pet shop who (unbeknown to me) were having a doggy adoption day. We weren’t looking for a dog, but there was the exact dog who I’d seen 5 weeks ago with this lady. I took her out for a little walk (after my kids were begging me to do so) and on the way back, she bowed down and hugged my leg! I couldn’t leave her there and so we adopted her. So often, I would look into her eyes and feel like our souls connected. This may sound silly, but I found myself asking her if she was my nana. She had the same hair colouring as her, and the same chatty and somewhat demanding manners, and the biggest smile, just like my nana. So many resemblances. Sorry for the long post, but I’d love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for reading.

[singalion]

I really wonder (if not excited) what Baghwan Steve will have to reply to that post...

 

Let me get some incense sticks first to create a more stimulating spiritual atmosphere...

[Steve5380]

On 10/17/2023 at 11:31 PM, singalion said:

I really wonder (if not excited) what Baghwan Steve will have to reply to that post...

 

Let me get some incense sticks first to create a more stimulating spiritual atmosphere...

 

My first response is that in my opinion a Baghwan is no different from you or me.  He or she is a human with all the limitations of our species.  But this is an opinion, not a certainty.  You see, I am completely ignorant,  and if some humans have a contact with some supernatural I cannot be certain about it.

 

So in principle,  a Baghwan is probably as totally ignorant as we are, and therefore incapable of giving a meaningful answer to the question of Guest Mema.  But he Baghwan must have plenty of experience, especially if he/she is a senior,  and may venture to say something like:  " whatever is not obviously false and cannot be disproven,  has a probability to be true "

 

We all can speculate about what is the essence, the nature of our spirits. While we are alive, our spirit has an individuality. Is this spirit indestructible, eternal?  How much of it is our individuality, and is it also preserved?  If the spirit is preserved, then it may be reused. And if so, will today's individuality persist, or will it be new?  If the latter is the case,  then Guest's dog has no relation with his nana.  But what matters?  Guest can establish a new loving bond with his dog.

[Steve5380]

On 10/17/2023 at 11:31 PM, singalion said:

I really wonder (if not excited) what Baghwan Steve will have to reply to that post...

 

Let me get some incense sticks first to create a more stimulating spiritual atmosphere...

 

Have you lit the incense sticks?   Because here is another Baghwan case,  a dialogue between an Ang Moh Buddhist scholar and a theoretical physicist, about the "nature of reality".  I have posted this video also on the Buddhism Discussion thread because I think it will please the Buddhists.

 

 

First speaks the theoretical physicist,  a juvenile materialist who thinks that the only reality is what the physical world shows us,  and no supernatural or afterlife exists.  He may not have been around too much...

 

Next speaks the Buddhist scholar, an older fellow with more mature thinking.  He states that today's science is what a bunch of Western thinkers have discovered through careful experimentation and explanations of the physical world, but... but they have failed to investigate themselves,  the observer of any reality.  They have ignored 5000 years of Asian philosophy and scientific thought.  That a search for reality has to include a search of what we the observers are, our consciousness.   And he brings out Buddhism as the philosophy which has done precisely this. 

 

I like his way of thinking, and I will revise my mistaken idea that all humans are totally ignorant because... because I am totally ignorant.  Being so ignorant, I cannot know if someone on this earth knows about a supernatural.   All this stuff is making me even more agnostic, ha ha.  

 

[Guest Nel]

On 10/21/2023 at 10:03 AM, Steve5380 said:

 

My first response is that in my opinion a Baghwan is no different from you or me.  He or she is a human with all the limitations of our species.  But this is an opinion, not a certainty.  You see, I am completely ignorant,  and if some humans have a contact with some supernatural I cannot be certain about it.

 

So in principle,  a Baghwan is probably as totally ignorant as we are, and therefore incapable of giving a meaningful answer to the question of Guest Mema.  But he Baghwan must have plenty of experience, especially if he/she is a senior,  and may venture to say something like:  " whatever is not obviously false and cannot be disproven,  has a probability to be true "

 

We all can speculate about what is the essence, the nature of our spirits. While we are alive, our spirit has an individuality. Is this spirit indestructible, eternal?  How much of it is our individuality, and is it also preserved?  If the spirit is preserved, then it may be reused. And if so, will today's individuality persist, or will it be new?  If the latter is the case,  then Guest's dog has no relation with his nana.  But what matters?  Guest can establish a new loving bond with his dog.

Are there any evidence of verified cases with animals? I lost my little animal soul that was like a child to me recently. I would imagine it will be very hard as we cannot communicate with animals and can only go on accounts of similar characteristics and very seldom experience having a pet later on from the same animal bloodline or family as the one that passed on.

[Steve5380]

52 minutes ago, Guest Nel said:

Are there any evidence of verified cases with animals? I lost my little animal soul that was like a child to me recently. I would imagine it will be very hard as we cannot communicate with animals and can only go on accounts of similar characteristics and very seldom experience having a pet later on from the same animal bloodline or family as the one that passed on.

 

Until we find out what the nature of consciousness is,  if we ever find it out,  we will have to wait to know where it exists or not.  It makes sense that animals have their consciousness,  and even some speculate that plants may have it too.  There is some evidence that plants, like trees in a forest,  communicate with one another.

 

In your case, it is fortunate that one can always get another pet of one's choice.  Because there is an overabundance of animals that will welcome good care and love.

[Guest Wandered]

What are your thoughts about a connection between hobbies and/or the things you like to collect in this life and how it relates to past lives? I love old wooden boxes of all shapes, sizes and kinds. I don’t even put anything in most of them, I just like to have them around. I also love old mirrors that are framed and I’ve collected many throughout the years. Not to look at myself but to decorate with. The foyer in my house has them wall to wall. I think I like them because they reflect the light? Just recently I learned though that mirrors can also be portals. Does anyone know anything about the portal thing? Why, of all things, would I enjoy old wooden boxes? Lol! 

I would love to hear about the things any of you enjoy/collect and if/how you think it’s connected to past lives.

[Steve5380]

1 hour ago, Guest Wandered said:

What are your thoughts about a connection between hobbies and/or the things you like to collect in this life and how it relates to past lives? I love old wooden boxes of all shapes, sizes and kinds. I don’t even put anything in most of them, I just like to have them around. I also love old mirrors that are framed and I’ve collected many throughout the years. Not to look at myself but to decorate with. The foyer in my house has them wall to wall. I think I like them because they reflect the light? Just recently I learned though that mirrors can also be portals. Does anyone know anything about the portal thing? Why, of all things, would I enjoy old wooden boxes? Lol! 

I would love to hear about the things any of you enjoy/collect and if/how you think it’s connected to past lives.

 

I find it extremely difficult to speculate about how our hobbies today relate to past lives.  To begin with, what are "past lives"?  The science of biology has not defined any test, blood work or whatever, that allows to measure what past lives we have had.  It has discovered the genes,  and there are genetic tests that allow to form genealogic trees. But this is about our ancestors, not WE in previous lives. 

 

I don't believe that mirrors can be portals.  This is because before hearing about portals,  I studied optics, electromagnetism, the wave and particle nature of light, and all the equations of light reflection and refraction.  And I am satisfied that the image in a mirror is nothing but a reflection.  I am sure that all the astronomers, scientists that designed the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes,  know everything possible we humans know today about light and... mirrors. And we never hear that a portal has found its way into a telescope mirror,  ha ha.

 

But I like your speculations about our hobbies and inclinations to collect.  I think that strong attractions to hobbies reflect strong vocations, something that is a blessing.  It means that our life has clear objectives,  instead of wandering around and spending its time in trivialities.  And these strong vocations may be one of our random attributes we receive at birth.

[Steve5380]

Gays who will be seniors one day should start early on with cybernetics skills,  so they will be able to use artificial intelligence to create the images and videos that appeal most to their senses.  Like these images, for example:

 

 

 

These latest pics look... a little artificial,  don't they?   Yet, they can serve as examples of a type of body to aim for. 

 

This example may not be the likeness for everyone.  AI surely allows for a setting of  "slim,  hunk,  body builder, etc." The world is getting better all the time, with possibilities of "self-generated porn" with infinite variables tailored to one's likeness!  

[Guest Mobi]

How does science helps us to get to a place that doesn't exist?

[Steve5380]

9 hours ago, Guest Mobi said:

How does science helps us to get to a place that doesn't exist?

 

What you need science for?   Don't you have religious belief?

[Guest Waldo]

Do you know when you will come home? But, to that house from which one no longer returns?

 

Don't wear yourself out working so hard, don't fight for land or material things, you won't take anything with you.

Don't leave home fighting, you don't know if you'll come back.
Don't waste time with pride and harmful silence, be more expressive, be more affectionate.

 

Our departure is unexpected and unpredictable.

Without any notice it will reach us.
Do not leave a good moment for tomorrow, a good talk, a declaration of love, it does not prevail if they say no, daring will make you unforgettable.

 

Visit your friends, play as a child and laugh like them.

Shout "I love you" outdoors and you will feel how your body shakes.
Stop saying I miss you and kiss the souls.

Walk and enjoy the scenery, buy yourself that whim, dress as you want but do it, don't wait for the occasion.

 

The ideal moment is the present.

Do you know how many left wanting to do more things?

How many regretted not having more time?

That last moment will come and we can't even imagine it.

 

They say that we are all afraid of dying, but not all of us learn to live. When you learn to live, the fear of death is transformed.

 

God, the Universe, gives you that opportunity and that opportunity is today.

 

Smile, be thankful and live, but live for real, because the last trip is unpredictable.

 

Do not wait for it with fear or with resignation.

Yes, that's right, we have to go, but first

Let's live!

[Steve5380]

On 11/4/2023 at 4:57 PM, Guest Waldo said:

Do you know when you will come home? But, to that house from which one no longer returns?

 

Don't wear yourself out working so hard, don't fight for land or material things, you won't take anything with you.

Don't leave home fighting, you don't know if you'll come back.
Don't waste time with pride and harmful silence, be more expressive, be more affectionate.

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Let's live!

 

You have some interesting and attractive proposals.  They surely resonate with some.

 

Others will say:  to work hard, to go after material things, to fight, to have pride, etc.  can be someone's life.  Therefore, they live!

 

I personally have always preferred to plan for a future instead of thinking that I can "come home" at any unexpected time.

[Steve5380]

This evening I skipped completely the nightly news full of "Israel" and US politics.  Instead I got on YouTube and selected a musical video that filled my spirit with some of the healthiest substances:  of course it is MOZART!   Half an hour of enjoyment and feeling of gratitude for being alive!   They say that plants grow stronger if they are in an ambient where Mozart is being played.  If so, imagine what it does to our spirits!

 

You don't need to be fan of classical music,  simply listen many times to Mozart's piano concertos,  like this #23 and #20 and #21,  and if you are fortunate you will get addicted for life, away from bipolar disorder and dementia.

 

 

It is not only the piano music but the whole orchestration that is so incredible.  The harmonic progressions by the wind instruments and their dialogue with the strings, in the most successful composition.   Could Mozart have had some connection with the supernatural?

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Edited November 8, 2023 by Steve5380

[Sweetie Pie]

11 hours ago, Steve5380 said:

This evening I skipped completely the nightly news full of "Israel" and US politics. 

 

Can you easily ignore those news?  You spent a lot of money on subscriptions to different news outlets, to keep you well informed about the horrible scenes in Gaza.   As we celebrate peacetime and delicious foods, as gay people who will someday be seniors, we should also be reflecting on the terrible ways in which your taxes have been used to murder innocent people and denounce the government for committing war crimes on other people backyard.  Can you age with clear conscience of such government you voted?

[Steve5380]

49 minutes ago, Sweetie Pie said:

Can you easily ignore those news?  You spent a lot of money on subscriptions to different news outlets, to keep you well informed about the horrible scenes in Gaza.   As we celebrate peacetime and delicious foods, as gay people who will someday be seniors, we should also be reflecting on the terrible ways in which your taxes have been used to murder innocent people and denounce the government for committing war crimes on other people backyard.  Can you age with clear conscience of such government you voted?

 

Ha ha ha !!! 

 

How true is it that @Sweetie Pie is sticking to me trying to make me feel guilty...  like an addiction to SWEETS can stick to any mortal, ha ha.

 

The reality is that this world is full of evil, in most countries, most societies, and America is not most evil than other countries, societies.  It is true that its basis, the America Constitution, is highly moral,  and we Americans are hanging onto it, with some ups and downs,  but not losing it.  And we Americans have good reasons to consider ourselves fortunate.

 

The evil actors in the world today are:  Russia invading Ukraine,  China threatening Taiwan, Hamas attacking Israel, Israel slaughtering thousands of Palestinians.   But not America.

 

Hopefully you one day acquire enough maturity and wisdom to realize how little we as individuals can do in the world scene.  Instead of torturing ourselves over our insignificance and helplessness to change the world,  we should take notice of all the evil and accept that evil is part of human existence.   While doing the little we can do to help the world, we should concentrate in helping ourselves with self-improvement and protection of our body, including mental health.

[Guest Guest]

On 11/8/2023 at 9:20 AM, Steve5380 said:

This evening I skipped completely the nightly news full of "Israel" and US politics.  Instead I got on YouTube and selected a musical video that filled my spirit with some of the healthiest substances:  of course it is MOZART!   Half an hour of enjoyment and feeling of gratitude for being alive!   They say that plants grow stronger if they are in an ambient where Mozart is being played.  If so, imagine what it does to our spirits!

 

You don't need to be fan of classical music,  simply listen many times to Mozart's piano concertos,  like this #23 and #20 and #21,  and if you are fortunate you will get addicted for life, away from bipolar disorder and dementia.

 

 

It is not only the piano music but the whole orchestration that is so incredible.  The harmonic progressions by the wind instruments and their dialogue with the strings, in the most successful composition.   Could Mozart have had some connection with the supernatural?

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Nightingale that old fart has long been gone.  Your time will be soon

[Steve5380]

1 hour ago, Guest Guest said:

Nightingale that old fart has long been gone.  Your time will be soon

 

We can recognize that you are the "Guest Guest" that was kicked so hard and often by Nightingale.   It's no wonder that you speak bad of him, ha ha.  

 

He has been gone from this forum?  We don't know where nor why.  We don't know where he is now, he should be accepted everywhere.   Just the opposite from you, who has to hang out here because "guests" like you are tolerated here.

[Steve5380]

Gays who will be seniors one day,  don't feel frustrated by posts by some "guest" here.  There are so many Asian guys who are so outstanding!  Take their physical bodies, just having one tenth of their abilities should be a blessing and to be a hundredth as good can be a goal, like the case of this Japanese gymnast Hashimoto:

 

 

Don't laugh, but even an 80 year old guy can aim at having such body... adjusted for age, of course.  

 

And since I am writing about Asians, I keep being impressed by some of them, not only by their athletics but by their spiritual excellence, like the musicality of this pianist:

 

 

Japanese pianist Tukuma Ishii would have seduced the half-a-century younger Steve in a microsecond.  Especially after playing for me this love composition,  originally a love song for Clara Schumann. 

 

Maybe I was a Japanese Samurai in a previous incarnation? 

[Steve5380]

Today it is not music that keeps me calm but an interesting interview with this journalistic legend, Bob Woodward, who gained much fame years ago reporting on the forced end of Nixon's presidency.  Here he talks about the criminal end of Trump's presidency and his very probable end as aspiring presidential candidate again.

 

 

Why do I post this video?  To give an opportunity to future senior gays to listen to good reasoning,  to a man who is 80 years old  ( he is only one month older than I am ) and yet he is in his GOLDEN years, still active, intelligent, happy,...  a good example of what old age can be.  

 

This journalist had extensive interviews with Trump over a six months period, where they exchanged numerous telephone calls.  So, he got to learn the nature of this... x@#$%&*... individual.  I trust his opinion that a creature like Trump should have never been there and should never step again into the White House.  BW gays who don't trust me completely can trust Woodward when it comes to the nature of our ex-president.  We think the same, ha ha.

 

Note:  to get the most out of this video,  open it on a separate YouTube window, then click on the "more" button in the text below the video, and see the tens of topics Woodward talks about, to select the ones that interest you the most.

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Edited November 13, 2023 by Steve5380

[Sweetie Pie]

5 hours ago, Steve5380 said:

Today it is not music that keeps me calm but an interesting interview with this journalistic legend, Bob Woodward,  Here he talks about the criminal end of Trump's presidency and his very probable end as aspiring presidential candidate again.  Why do I post this video?  To give an opportunity to future senior gays to listen to good reason,   So, he got to learn the nature of this... x@#$%&*... individual.  I trust his opinion that a creature like Trump should have never been there

 

 

If this is called CALM,  I would rather spend time counting the grains on a beach. 

[Steve5380]

45 minutes ago, Sweetie Pie said:

If this is called CALM,  I would rather spend time counting the grains on a beach. 

 

Yes, I think YOU SHOULD spend your time counting the grains of sand on a beach.  Then, please report how many you found.

[Sweetie Pie]

20 minutes ago, Steve5380 said:

 

Yes, I think YOU SHOULD spend your time counting the grains of sand on a beach.  Then, please report how many you found.

I told you I am going to spend my own sweet time, enjoying the process.  Did I promise you the outcome, or even just to report back to you?  If so, then it will defy my purpose of staying CALM.    

[Steve5380]

10 hours ago, Sweetie Pie said:

I told you I am going to spend my own sweet time, enjoying the process.  Did I promise you the outcome, or even just to report back to you?  If so, then it will defy my purpose of staying CALM.    

 

Who said you should report back TO ME?  Instead, you should report to the community of gays who will be seniors, so they will find better ways to stay CALM than to count grains of sand on a beach.  

[Sweetie Pie]

16 minutes ago, Steve5380 said:

 

Who said you should report back TO ME?  Instead, you should report to the community of gays who will be seniors, so they will find better ways to stay CALM than to count grains of sand on a beach.  

Counting sands will be a more pleasant diversion from politics than disparaging Donald Trump daily and stirring up unnecessary controversy.  I trust that seniors gay know what is good for them 

[Steve5380]

Have you heard of the "Horse Stand" ?

 

I haven't... until today.  I happened to see by chance the following video:

 

 

and I started to try it out.   I can go down all the way, but can only hold it for 30 seconds.  Yes, it is BRUTAL, ha ha!   But you young guys can surely do it for one minute.     I trust all the benefits of this posture, this isometric exercise.  And if you do it every day, you probably will do it perfectly when you are seniors.  I am sure that if I had started doing it at 30, I could do it much better at 80.  But I will start now and see how far I come.   

 

I searched YouTube, and there are many videos about "horse stance",  like the following:

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2023 by Steve5380

[Guest Harvey]

If you would put yourself in another man's shoes for a year, who would it be and why?

[Sweetie Pie]

 16 hours ago, Guest Harvey said:

If you would put yourself in another man's shoes for a year, who would it be and why?

It might be extremely risky and weird to try to be someone you are not for a whole year. You are ignorant of that person's history, trauma, way of life, mental state, and physical state (which may be ill). You were unable to leave his body when you realized your mistake and had to stick onto it for a year.   What if the person who lend you his body didn't want it back and you will be stuck in it for the rest of your life?

 

It's best to stay with your own body you are already familiar with and don't think so much.

 

[Steve5380]

6 hours ago, Sweetie Pie said:

 

It's best to stay with your own body you are already familiar with and don't think so much.

 

 

I agree,  if there has to be a time commitment I prefer to stay in my body.

 

23 hours ago, Guest Harvey said:

If you would put yourself in another man's shoes for a year, who would it be and why?

 

I like the case where I could go in an out of other men's shoes at will for a short time  (otherwise, what would happen to the rightful owners of the shoes?).  I would be curios of the shoes of Obama, of Musk, of the Pope, of a friend or neighbor to see how I am from the outside, and even... and even of Trump for a short time, ha ha.

 

Ah... one more thought.  Listening to the music in the following video,  I would like to spend some time in the shoes of Beethoven while he composed it,  and in the shoes of Heifetz while he played it.  Just to feel the CAPACITY to do those tasks. ( the rest of the time I prefer to be myself instead of these two individuals ).  During my childhood I had two 78rpm disks (published) with Heifetz playing this music, and they were my treasures.

 

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by Steve5380

[Steve5380]

You may ask :  " what is one day in the life of a gay octogenarian? ".   One answer is:  it can be enjoyable, happy.

 

One of these days I had yesterday, on America's Thanksgiving.  At early afternoon after my breakfast/lunch I took out of the fridge the 5 Kg frozen turkey that I had been defrosting for several days, and prepared it for baking. My preparation technique:  NOTHING.  I removed the pieces they stuff inside and deposited it in the pan, and it went into the oven for 2.3 hours, somewhat undercook for better taste.  In the meantime I prepared other foods:  a microwaved sweet potato, cranberry sauce, and whipped cream for the strawberry dessert.  I also spent some time on the phone talking with my family members and some friends. 

 

At the time of the meal, 4PM, I sat in front of the big screen and watched an excellent classic movie, "The Third Man".  Dinner lasted nearly as long as the movie, and ended with black coffee.   Afterwards, I put away into the fridge the 95% of the remaining turkey, which had time to cool down somewhat.  Cleaned up some more, ate the remaining whipped cream (yummm).  Then I watched some miscellaneous YouTube videos,  and I happened to find the following, which I saw in its totality:

 

 

 

Alan Watts...  it had been a long time since I read him last.  But now I have the maturity to fully agree with his philosophy.  This video filled my spirit with positive thoughts.   Afterwards I continued the evening doing some exercising and music,  and finally I put my mind to rest with 8 hours of sleep.

 

Today I woke up early,  and started the day taking out of the fridge yesterday's turkey and doing advanced surgery cutting out all the good meat, putting it in plastic bags and then into the freezer. This turkey will feed me for many more days, ha ha.   The rest of the animal is now resting in peace in the trash.

 

Today is Black Friday,  day of heavy discounts and good bargains everywhere.  But here is my tragedy:  not only have I everything I need,  but also everything I WANT.  Deprived of all the good purchases I could make, except for a few trivial ones.  But I cannot complain   

 

 

[Steve5380]

YouTube has some interesting videos about the place of statins in modern medicine, related to the health of our hearts. This should be a relevant topic for gays who want to reach a long, healthy and happy life.

 

There are also two threads in the forum who deal with cholesterol worth reading, and I have been recently prescribed a statin for my minimal trace of...  atherosclerosis!   Wooo...wooo...woo...  I received confirmation from my son the surgeon that doctors in medical institutions, clinics, have to follow protocols, like specific treatments and prescriptions, and failure to do so can lead to reprisals.  So I fully accept my doctor's prescription of Lipitor, the first dose of which will forever rest untouched in my cabinet.

 

The following video is an interview of the somewhat controversial British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra. Today, "controversial" in medicine does not mean a quack but a person worth listening to.

 

Here, Aseem Malhotra not only makes a reasonable case against statins, but it reveals some deep influences in modern medicine.  Here there is no need to become a believer, but rather an agnostic.  Modern medicine is often rightfully life saving, but instead of being cynical we should be  skeptics who seek second opinions from other than the usual "doctors".

 

 

 

 

Then I found another video about the same topic, an interview by renowned doctor Mark Hyman of the same controversial cardiologist Aseem Malhotra, and, like you can imagine, the outcome is about the same.

 

This one is a happy exchange between the two more holistic experts in modern medicine, who seem to be in good agreement. (all these videos of interviews are usually with people of similar ideology.)   Here what I notice in Aseem is that besides being quite well informed, and sounding sincere,  he is also quite... cute!  Interesting looking, he could be good boyfriend material for me, ha ha.  

 

 

Edited November 29, 2023 by Steve5380

[Steve5380]

Watching YouTube videos after lunch, I found one that immediately brought tears to my eyes:

 

 

I seem to be unable to write enough about my childhood hero, Jascha Heifetz. 

 

I instantly became again that little boy studying the violin, mesmerized by the PERFECTION of Heifetz's playing.  And Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen  was one of the pieces I wished to be able to play.   Naive as I was, I dreamed with playing it one day as well as Heifetz.  

 

70+ years later I am still the same little boy  (little boys don't feel like "little boys",  but like normal persons, in a sea of very tall and older persons), and thanks to decades of experience I don't want to play the violin like this anymore.  But this early stride for perfection still remains, only that I know that we never reach perfection, ha ha.

 

Imagine being an 8 year old boy, full of optimism about the future with limitless possibilities.  Can an 80 y.o. senior jump back to this state and feel the same?   YOU BET WE CAN.  Live a healthy life, look forwards to reach seniority (instead of fearing that it will become hell on earth) and... you will see!

[Guest Tiger Singh]

Isn't truth supposed to set you free? Well, why do I feel so weighed down by it? If I could show them everything I've seen. Open their eyes to all the lies then
Would they change their minds like I did?
But when I speak, they tell me, "Sit down"
But how can I when I've already started running?
 

This is where we've been But it's not where we belong and I may be young, but I know I'm not wrong.

[Steve5380]

3 hours ago, Guest Tiger Singh said:

Isn't truth supposed to set you free? Well, why do I feel so weighed down by it? If I could show them everything I've seen. Open their eyes to all the lies then
Would they change their minds like I did?
But when I speak, they tell me, "Sit down"
But how can I when I've already started running?
 

This is where we've been But it's not where we belong and I may be young, but I know I'm not wrong.

 

It could be that the saying "the truth will set you free"  applies to our spirits, not to a freedom from the external world.  When we realize and we learn the TRUTH,  this sets us free from our doubts. 

 

It is not easy to change other people's "truths".   Now that you are young, you are bothered by this.  When we are older, we accept this reality like we have to accept the law of gravitation,  that things fall down, not up.   Then if we are lucky, we don't worry about it, and we don't run away.

[kwongheng]

Here is a local food blogger talking about his health journey on keto/carnivore diet. I think it is more convincing to others that regular people talk about their health journey.
 

 

[Steve5380]

11 hours ago, kwongheng said:

Here is a local food blogger talking about his health journey on keto/carnivore diet. I think it is more convincing to others that regular people talk about their health journey.
 

 

 

Thank you @kwongheng for posting this inspiring video. Hopefully all people falling in ill health due to a poor diet make such a fortunate discovery of the principles of healthy diet that change their life for the better.  Although Greg claims that his experience is unique, it seems that it is quite general, since we all are more or less the same. 

 

A few observations:   

- He stays away from all vegetable oils,  but he can make the exception with extra virgin olive oil, MCT oil, some coconut oil.

- He consumes mostly animal protein (carnivore), but there is a good place for vegetable protein.  I consume much protein from lentils, quinoa,  pressure-cooked to eliminate lectins. I eat healthy grains like flaxseed, hemp seeds. 

 

- He stays away from coffee, that does not feel well for him.  But today in general,  more good is found in it than bad, provided that it is black and not too much of it.

 

- I thank this video for having discovered GHEE,  which I had never heard of.  I will order it now from Amazon.

 

Greg's fortunate experience can continue forever.  There is hardly any limit to the improvements we can make to our nutrition as we discover new items.  Like I discovered GHEE now and the fact that it reduces inflammation.  I will also add CHLORELLA to my diet, after discovering its health benefits.  So...  little-by-little our health returns to what it was when we, if we were lucky, were a child and young person.  This is what is happening to me,  back to zero issues, zero medications.  Although the playful, sometimes mischievous child is still inside...  

[Guest WHAT??????????????]

13 hours ago, Steve5380 said:

 I thank this video for having discovered GHEE,  which I had never heard of. 

You have carried your joke too far.  Everyone knows what Ghee is.

[kwongheng]

2 minutes ago, Guest WHAT?????????????? said:

You have carried your joke too far.  Everyone knows what Ghee is.

 

You will be surprised by how many people who still don't know what ghee actually is made of, as it was never really in their diet. 

[Steve5380]

8 hours ago, Guest WHAT?????????????? said:

You have carried your joke too far.  Everyone knows what Ghee is.

 

Yes, everyone... in South Asia.  Neither in Argentina, where I was born, nor in the US, where I live now, have I ever heard of or seen GHEE.  Instead, I have always used beautiful unsalted BUTTER.

[Guest Santorini]

Did the first Christian Roman emperor appropriate the pagan festival of Saturnalia to celebrate the birth of Christ?