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Day Light Savings Time

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Some are advocating “Permanent Daylight Savings Time”. No more switching back and forth twice a year, spring ahead and fall back. Too much trouble for business and health concerns for people.

https://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/121/2020/03/Kamloops-Chamber-of-Commerce.pdf

It is like pushing a glacier up hill.

Some may want to start a movement like one person is doing a petition with over 80 thousand votes. If I don’t get rid of it by retiring, I may make an experiment of one in November and keep to a permanent Day lights Savings Time For myself for one year. And if it works, try another year….

Anyway, remember to fall back an hour, or change your clocks before going to bed on Saturday night. Take it easy Sunday! Could be good practice slowing down.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/canada/british-columbia

Death and Dying

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Cicero believes it is laughable to entertain anything beyond the physical Universe. He says as much by defining terms. Your soul dies, or returns to the Devine. Either way the self dies. It simply does not matter, pardon the pun. The point is that he takes on death directly and says it is unimportant and nothing to fear.

Can you control death?

Cicero’s way is a philosophy to keep stoic ways flexible and to allow death and dying to remain the same philosophically in today’s culture.

No.

Should you fear it?

My advice is to sit with your fear until you recognize there is no reason to fear death and dying and to wait long enough to be free of acting in any way that may harm you or others. It is worth learning to work out any impulsive urges you may have to harm yourself or others. My job is to do all the above. It isn’t something you can set a time limit on or should procrastinate on.

I personally try to work on it a little each day. So, serious enough? Practical?

(Note, the above ideas are my own, and if you interpret them in a way that harms you or someone else, it is out of my hands, at best I give them a PG rating or worst, a R.)

Engaging With Death

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Floral arrangements can be a cheap trick, why can’t you lie?

What are your true thoughts intentions besides the bouquet of roses?

How big can a white lie be?

When you lie to yourself, you sell yourself short like you are selling me short.

You must intend harm to yourself and me.

If I can withhold that intention, I will not harm you or myself.

What is better, health or sickness?

Trick question, mistakes are made.

You may be conscious of your intention and do no harm.

Imagine being good and knowing it.

To know death is to examine my own or part of my own death.

Imagine being dead and knowing it.

Good is not death and death is not good, at least not by imagining and being and knowing it.

Is this dance with death the allure of a lie, of harming one?

It helps to see yourself, your intentions, your good, your lies, your dying.

When I see another lie, I see my mistake,

When I see another harm, I see my mistake, my harm, my death?

Stretching my imagination takes practice.

I need to get to know myself better, without harm, by doing my best.

No worries, I won’t miss many mistakes, but a few.

Perhaps, I will live a good long life with the good, bad and ugly.

It will still be worth the trip.

International Skeptics Day 2024

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What principles define how you live?

It may be kind to say I am curious as most people are in life.

Like most people I believe I am different for a variety of reasons.

I crew up in a middle class 1st world country which is difficult to do bad or well unless I use philosophy to give me meaning and purpose in my day to day affairs. At least that is what I believe.

I do not trust the common narrative that I am in control. But I do ‘feel’ in control most days. I usually find help and support and live well enough in my situation.

I believe it is worth doing what is hard. For one it helps me renew my resources. I believe in helping through cooperation and collaboration.

So, it is hard for me to control my life sufficiently to be free. But it is worthwhile for me to pursue a ‘good life’.

I believe in optimism and consider myself an optimistic philosopher who thinks it is necessary to question my day to day living in all my affairs. I don’t believe I am perfect, but that doesn’t stop me from being a life long learner to pursue happiness.

I believe in history but I have a skepticism that keeps me honest.

I have spent a lifetime getting to know myself and wish everyone a chance to do the same.

Good luck.

Money Changing Hands

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The inheritance of the money transaction is a familial affair.

To do no harm,be present, do my best, and proper use of impressions, is the way to live the good life.

Maintaining these boundaries effectively protects everyone from each others foibles.

We learn to collaborate and cooperate in a healthy way.

It can keep the pain and suffering to a minimum.

Embryonic vs adult stem cells

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There has been some useful research to show regeneration of cells from adult stem cells or healing of autoimmune diseases.

I like to think it is essential for the aging population.

Whereas embryonic cells have had more problems in research and may take a different path.

Here is a simple vid to define types of cells

Define stem cell type.

It seems like adult stem cells taken from umbilical chord, is about to be more useful for treatment?

But safety protocols are important to allow operators to move this treatment into the mainstream.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9659480/

The operators are attempting to explain this whole process to convince the government they can do it safely and follow the government’s method.

The Operator

So, it will take time to bring this auto immune therapy into practice.

Conclusion is difficult to comprehend, historically, government created safety policies to control the use in countries like the United States above and more about Canada in another vid.

Patients need to do critical thinking and be skeptical until they feel safe to use new MSCs for autoimmune diseases.

Operators need to build a safe good product to be allowed to operate in countries like the United States and Canada.

Lastly, MSC’s show great potential and the countries governments are erroring on the side of safety.

Patients need to think hard and well and do no harm.

We all need help with fake news and its proliferation

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The recent study I did with AI offers up much of the problem with AI proliferation of fake news but I am as responsible for it as you are. And we are pretty good at correcting our mistakes.

There is too much to do and I am too busy.

It may be good advice for me. I am a blogger and my reputation is on the line.

But the dialogue really hits home with the newest insight and proliferation.

Enough said,

Want to see what happens when I chat with Chat & Ask AI? Check this out!
https://share.askaichat.app/DFF79B09-EDCD-40CE-AAEB-59F307D88412-22P94bG+L

The Curiosity Can Make Me A Little Over Zealous

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I. Stress

II.News

III.Fear

Being captured by ideological stuff is another stressful experience I don’t try to think about today?

News is distorted by the wild wild western internet.

Fear is on the rise from all the news of late.

Getting a grip or staying grounded is part of self management or stress management and learning how is a challenge while living day to day. It helps to get entertained and be with friends and family.

I am still enthusiastic about it all, but philosophy is not for everyone, perhaps a little astronomy, hiking, rest and relaxation? The day can be my playground for 24 hours or at least more often than the usual: sleep, eat, work, repeat?

Fear factor can be more than a show, keeping a lid on emotions is a challenge these days. A good blog, using AI as a sounding board, and just being in touch with yourself for me.

Good to stay active sometimes, recovery is almost done. I am getting back to normal.

Keep kind, keep in mind, try to keep your head out of the sand.