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Scepticalscribe said:
@Huntn: You were an airline pilot (and a Navy officer) - a career you had dreamed of, growing up in one of the richest societies in history at a time when social mobility, educational opportunities, political choice, and the chance to live interesting, fulfilling and rewarding lives - along with reasonable health - were possible, things that were not possible, or available or imaginable for enormous numbers of the world's population, even now.

Someone from your background got to marry and raise a family with someone of your choosing - again, something that is not the norm in vast parts of the planet, particularly for women but also for men.

Candidly, I think you doth protest too much.

And whatever about deteriorating response times, and creaking or aching joints, the acquisition of judgment, expense and some degree of wisdom (and emotional balance) does offer some compensation.
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I’m not whining or trying to sound like a complainer and although these things may sound negative, they are not meant to be as much, as being inquisitive.

I know I’ve had it good, and have no right to complain, and the intent was not to complain, so much as make an observation and evaluation about what the experience of a human life represents. And I’m completely aware that life to millions consists of hardship and suffering. And I’ve also wondered about how much my place in the world had to do with a roll of the dice and even how much choice I had in it.

That said, have you ever wondered what the point was? I sincerely hope that this experience serves as a learning opportunity that has a lasting impact in some way, shape, or form for the better.

I’ll add that acquired judgement is offset by deteriorating mental acuity. :p;)
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
And whatever about deteriorating response times, and creaking or aching joints, the acquisition of judgment, expense and some degree of wisdom (and emotional balance) does offer some compensation.
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When I was a kid and I had a headache, I took an aspirin. When I got a cold I took cough medicine.

As young as 5 or so I figured out that OTC drugs help with common ailments. I am by no means an abuser. I am simply mentioning this because that's my general solution.

Psoriatic arthritis or back hurting? Ibuprofen. Runny nose? Benadryl. Indigestion? Prilosec. And so on.

Not to minimize aches and pains as you grow older, but if there is a legal drug taken within the directions that is going to safely remove or lessen a symptom for me - I'm taking it.

It took my wife a long time to come around to this. She's the kind of person that always has to do things the hard way (otherwise, what's the point?) so she was used to powering through things. But as you get older, doing that is less and less possible.
 
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Huntn said:
I’m not whining or trying to sound like a complainer and although these things may sound negative, they are not meant to be as much, as being inquisitive.

I know I’ve had it good, and have no right to complain, and the intent was not to complain, so much as make an observation and evaluation about what the experience of a human life represents. And I’m completely aware that life to millions consists of hardship and suffering. And I’ve also wondered about how much my place in the world had to do with a roll of the dice and even how much choice I had in it.

That said, have you ever wondered what the point was? I sincerely hope that this experience serves as a learning opportunity that has a lasting impact in some way, shape, or form for the better.
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What is the point?

Yes, of course one wonders, and in my case, I have always wondered - ever since my early teens (if not earlier) just what "the point" was. I still do, and I think you must be fairly oblivious to your surroundings not to want to ask such questions of your world and environment.

Some say (the point is) to honour a divinity, others to live life to the full, still others to ensure that your genes are passed on and that those bearing them have been given the best opportunities and life chances possible.

There is a school of thought that suggests that it is all some (perhaps ghastly) cosmic joke.

However, I am not so angry at the sheer appalling injustices as I used to be, and am less exercised by this quest that I used to be.

The is not to say that I don't still ask it.

eyoungren said:
When I was a kid and I had a headache, I took an aspirin. When I got a cold I took cough medicine.

As young as 5 or so I figured out that OTC drugs help with common ailments. I am by no means an abuser. I am simply mentioning this because that's my general solution.

Psoriatic arthritis or back hurting? Ibuprofen. Runny nose? Benadryl. Indigestion? Prilosec. And so on.

Not to minimize aches and pains as you grow older, but if there is a legal drug taken within the directions that is going to safely remove or lessen a symptom for me - I'm taking it.

It took my wife a long time to come around to this. She's the kind of person that always has to do things the hard way (otherwise, what's the point?) so she was used to powering through things. But as you get older, doing that is less and less possible.
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Absolutely.

If something can alleviate or remove or address pain, or discomfort, or agony, trust me, I am all for it; masochism is most certainly not my middle name, nor my first nor last, either.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
What is the point?

Yes, of course one wonders, and in my case, I have always wondered - ever since my early teens (if not earlier) just what "the point" was. Some say to honour a divinity, others to live life to the full, still others to ensure that your genes are passed on and that those bearing them have been given the best opportunities and life chances possible.

There is a school of thought that suggest that it is all some cosmic joke.

However, I am not so angry at the sheer appalling injustices as I used to be, and am less exercised by this quest that I used to be.

The is nt to say that I don't still ask it.



Absolutely.

If something can alleviate or remove or address pain, or discomfort, or agony, trust me, I am all for it; masochism is most certainly not my middle name, nor my first nor last, either.
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Fingers crossed we discover the answer and can remember it. :)
 
Well... in my late 40s I'm bald. Don't care, doesn't hurt - and actually not looking too bad either. I call it "Bruce" (after Willis)

The only thing that really bugs me is: all the girls I meet and actually find attractive are waaaay to young for me. Real bummer
 
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09872738 said:
Well... in my late 40s I'm bald. Don't care, doesn't hurt - and actually not looking too bad either. I call it "Bruce" (after Willis)

The only thing that really bugs me is: all the girls I meet and actually find attractive are waaaay to young for me. Real bummer
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And when you do manage to talk to them, you realise that they have never heard of the band you raved about as a teenager, and nor have they read the books you adored nor watched the TV programmes of your childhood.

Whatever about attractiveness, cultural connectivity (which cuts both ways) may well need to be factored in, too.
 
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Yep, can't say I wouldn't agree. Also... young, unexperienced sometimes strikes me as.. hm, hesitate to call it dumb. It appears like it though.
Anyhow, I wonder if it actually is some sort of universal law that women around me my age group got no appeal to me.
 
09872738 said:
Yep, can't say I wouldn't agree. Also... young, unexperienced sometimes strikes me as.. hm, hesitate to call it dumb. It appears like it though.
Anyhow, I wonder if it actually is some sort of universal law that women around me lose their appeal once they pass the age of 30. This applies only in my vicinity, of course
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"Appeal" is all too general, as there are several categories under which this can be judged.

You mean that you no longer find women physically attractive once they pass the notional age of 30, yet, mentally, and conversationally, I'm willing to wager that you may have more in common with someone of your own (or lose to it) vintage than you would with the lithe lissom creatures you deem attractive.

Not only that: They will find you as tedious as you would probably find them.
 
I do not find "Appeal" too general per se; it is of course a personal matter. What I find appealing might be of minor interest for someone else and vice versa.

That is to say I did not mean to say anything about women (of whatever age) at all.
Its more about my relation with the other gender, in particular concerning age (gap). Maybe part is that ladies tend to believe I'm a lot younger than I am. E.g. I had a short romance with a girl in her late 20s recently. Told her from the outset how old I am; albeit she did not believe me really.

Only when she realised I was not kidding about my age she pulled back...
 
Scepticalscribe said:
My mum liked all of those 70s TV cops-as-characters (I was a kid at the time); Kojak, Colombo, and so on. I seem to recall that she may have liked the Six Million Dollar Man, as well.
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Funnily enough we were talking old TV shows yesterday.
I had a six million dollar man action figure as a child. You could roll back the skin to expose the upgrades! Probably worth a few quid if I still had it. But in reality I don’t recall much about the show.
 
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Funnily enough we were talking old TV shows yesterday.
I had a six million dollar man action figure as a child. You could roll back the skin to expose the upgrades! Probably worth a few quid if I still had it. But in reality I don’t recall much about the show.
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And my brother used to tease my mum that the part of these shows she loved most was what the US TV series' invariably referred to as "the epilogue".

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Yeh, it is. Pretty much all I remember was Kojak sucking on Lollipops all the time..
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Yes, I remember that, too.
 
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