Tom is an “enigma”,
“intentionally”!
Bombadil, to continue or even mere survival, requires a victory in the west, against the evil Sauron!
Goldberry, the river daughter, describes Tom as ‘He is’ implying that Tom is good?
https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2896&context=mythlore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letters_of_J._R._R._Tolkien
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil?wprov=sfti1
This is a historical and medical use of our need for Vitamin D.
Check it out here.
This is a good start.
I am very interested in both.
I am stage IV Melanoma and I love a healthy lifestyle but need aspirin and other emerging simple treatments to living that enhance my health.
It’s not much, but if it doesn’t harm me ….
So, after watching the vid below, I decided to add coffee to my diet.
Caution: if you have allergies or eczema you may not want to use this product.
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
I like the Harvest the most but there are others.
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-harvest/UAEejbUbf7fwSg?hl=en&avm=2
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.)
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.
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.
Being philosophical, skeptical, inspirational, and questioning in an open minded curious driven way, is all about freedom, growth, celebrating a day that will help do what is hard, discipline the self and make life better each day.
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I wonder what I know sometimes. I like to work hard at getting a evidence based answer from my questions.
I want to confirm that this is helpful to myself and others.
I want to confirm my sources.
I like to learn and be informed as much as is healthy on the day to day basis.
I have touched on first principles and Greek philosophy, the wester mind and finding answers within the world.
People seem genuine to me as they do the work to keep them free from harm, available in the present without being too stifled by their lack, lust or self indulgences.
People work hard for all they get out of life.
But it happens in degrees for individuals, groups and beliefs.
How do you believe about skepticism?
I see it as an idea I work hard to use each day. My successes and failures are mixed but stable enough to feel less impulsive and more present for engaging and doing no harm, living a good life. It is a challenge to get factual information with all the competing points of view. What is best? What is being present? What is doing no harm? What is being kind? What is being compassionate? What is the proper use of impressions? What is the ‘good life’?