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A few years ago I was contracted to build a factory in China, in order to do that I had to live there for 2 years... not pleasant. But I did get a prespective of looking in at America from the outside and gained a view of how we are perceived from other countries. And the best way to put it is that America is that big strong retarded kid on your street, you want him to fight for you but you don't want to hang out with him. If we are not needed and not liked and our usefulness is not longer appreciated then by all means we should " bugger off" ..and pull our troops.

It's asinine, because the vaccine saves millions of lives and it's such a tiny shot. Protesting the vaccine is almost as dumb as people taking ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine instead. Such Idiots!

The simple answer is that the underdeveloped technology is not worth anything, and the climate makes Canada unsuitable for anything other than feeding resources into the tech giant to our south who have been kind enough to let us keep our land as long as we promise not to become a Chinese colony.

best comeback reply yet lol

Military general says Australia's armed forces would run out of fuel within a WEEK if attacked by an invading army

My rational clarity didn't really hit full force till I ended up disabled, divorced and alone. I've learned to avoid my common mistakes from gaining life wisdom.
No, I am certainly NOT an angel. Just an experienced person who tries to spread basic wisdom about life.
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The doctors once told me I had arthritis in my joints and to take it easy, so I said ‘I’ll fix that up, I’ll run it out.’ So I kept running and it disappeared,” Young told an interviewer about exercising as he aged. “It is like rust that gets into a vehicle. Well, I think it was like rust in me. I reckon you have to keep your joints moving. Absolutely. No matter what you do, you have to keep moving. If you don’t wear out, you rust out, and you rust out quicker than you wear out.

Thread is two years old. Dude is probably living in a van down by the river now.

Had these same thoughts.
I would never do myself harm, but I'll be glad when the end-of-shift whistle blows. "It is an irksome task men have been given to do under the sun".

However, I am very much looking forward to what is next -and eternity.

The tendency toward decay -which is basically death -is a product of the opposite -a force which caused that potential in the first place -just as the presence of a voltage is the product of production of that voltage (think charged capacitor). From there, it is "just" a matter of circuit design, refreshing, efficiency, etc. (or even leaving the capacitor out of a circuit if desired).

The fact that we decay within about 120 years -starting about the time we get the general idea about life (rather suspiciously) -does not mean it cannot be otherwise -that is a product of our design, not of overall reality. Life does not even have to require so much exhaustive effort -that is also a product of present design. It may be that we will always have to exert some sort of effort to maintain things, but it can be made a negligible amount compared to what it makes possible.

Even when things are at their best here on earth, we spend most of our time and effort just keeping ourselves alive one way or another -with little time to simply enjoy or appreciate ("by the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat" as opposed to access to the tree of life!) -but that is a temporary situation. Even now we have learned to create more leisure time by being more efficient -but we also greatly appreciate it if we think back to difficult times -where otherwise we would not.

Imagine if we were first immortal newbs unleashed on the entire universe! What a miserable mess we would have made! How long did it take us to invent something to destroy everything here? Thankfully, it is presently limited to this rock -and about a hundred years of personal experience.

Our body design may also be changed to allow for greater efficiency and power over environment. We have actually found the clocks which determine our rate of decay -but the present situation -bound to this planet for now -does not make being eternal feasible. If that which is needed to maintain a state is always provided efficiently, there is no problem -or weariness.

Even the tendency for the universe to collapse may theoretically be countered -like blowing up a balloon then tying it off rather than allowing it to simply go phthpthhthpthh until deflated again.

We go through this so we don't have to go through it ever again! Otherwise, the tendency for us to choose it and cause it -choose decay and death in ignorance -remains.

There is one very powerful natural force many fail to consider... and that is will.
It is the power able to counter and redirect otherwise-natural tendencies. Given position, interface and opportunity, it is the most powerful of forces.

"...that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God"

1981 Cliff Young, 61 years old, wearing overalls and work boots, showed up at the start of this race. He picked up his race number and joined the other runners. The press and other athletes became curious and questioned Cliff to which he replied, "See, I grew up on a farm where we couldn't afford horses or tractors, and the whole time I was growing up, whenever the storms would roll in, I'd have to go out and round up the sheep. We had 2,000 sheep on 2,000 acres. Sometimes I would have to run those sheep for two or three days. "

When the race started, the pros quickly left Cliff behind but the television crew kept the audience entertained because Cliff didn't even run properly; he appeared to shuffle. Some commentators expressed their concern for the old farmer's safety. Used to take about 5 days to finish the race. What the pros did were to run about 18 hours a day and sleep the remaining 6 hours. The thing is, Cliff Young didn't know that!

When the morning of the second day came, everyone was in for another surprise. Not only was Cliff still in the race, he had continued jogging all night. To everyone's disbelief, Cliff kept running without sleeping Each night he increased his lead and by the final night, he had surpassed all of the young, world-class athletes; the firs, to cross the finish line and a new course record.

When Cliff was awarded the winning prize of $10,000, he said he didn't know there was a prize and insisted that he did not enter for the money.
He ended up giving all of his winnings to several other runners, an act that endeared him to all of Australia.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he thinks a deal to avoid full scale war in Ukraine is possible and that it is legitimate for Russia to raise its own security concerns.

Before talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, he called for a "new balance" to protect European states and appease Russia.

He restated that the sovereignty of Ukraine was not up for discussion.

Mr Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper that Russia's objective was "not Ukraine, but a clarification of the rules... with Nato and the EU".

He said he hoped his dialogue with the Russian president would be enough to prevent military conflict, and that he believed Mr Putin would be open to discussing wider issues.

Mr Macron, who also spoke with US President Joe Biden on Sunday, cautioned against expecting Moscow to take unilateral measures to de-escalate the situation and said Russia had the right to raise its own concerns.

But he said setting up dialogue with Russia could not "pass through the weakening of any European state".

"We must protect our European brothers by proposing a new balance capable of preserving their sovereignty and peace," he said.

"This must be done while respecting Russia and understanding the contemporary traumas of this great people and great nation."

The trip to Moscow and then to Ukraine's capital Kyiv the following day is being co-ordinated with German and American allies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60281863

We are openly warning Russia that the U.S. may soon bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, which would entail a U.S. war guarantee to fight on those nations’ behalf in a future military clash with Moscow.

We are openly warning Iran that time is running out, that if Tehran does not return to negotiations on the nuclear deal and compliance with its terms, a U.S. attack on Iran cannot be ruled out.

We are putting China on notice that we do not accept its broad claims to the islets of the East and South China Seas, and we may be there to fight alongside our allies to sustain their claims.

Now congressional leaders in both parties are crafting measures to give Biden authorization to take us to war with China to protect Taiwan, whose declaration of independence, warns Beijing, would cross its “red line” and mean war.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever and a founding editor of The American Conservative.

Trust everybody Lower Your Shields . . .

Pressured for time in a time laden world
Left swimming in our own warm, liquid promise
We escape out into Day

its in a time laden world’ we exist
If Time stopped .., we cease to exist?

We've chosen to give of our sense of graciousness
And share with that wealth of infinity
We do most assuredly possess

share with the wealth of infinity’
Where from, this divinity?


We cannot fathom why life's love is so cold
nor shall we touch upon the darker heart of man
So very harsh - and bold

Now suddenly you ‘flip to a darker reality’..

Man in his hunger becomes a predator & so somewhere it’s down to blood & gore?

But it remains only to reach out to the greater sense

greater sense of what when 'Our' footsteps are on the sand

I touch you and feel you - you touch me
I hold you and know you - and you hold me

So where are the promises we've promised?
The unquenchable yearnings?

Those daydreams out in the fields?

Well, I guess we, one and all, have again lowered our shields.

" Take to flight, my solemn friends for the garden ye seek is down there in the glen - and over here in our hearts." tommy boy moran / Ireland