At 50 years old the way I feel every morning as I reluctantly drag myself out of bed and my body aches too much to sleep more I sit here now at my desk and have to wonder about her as someone 40 years older than I.
I have to wonder how someone that old could face the day every day, knowing the pain I feel.
I have to wonder if she, because she can afford it, goes through the day every day stoned out of her mind on prescription pain-killer drugs.
My theory - my hope - used to be that if I exercised regularly throughout my life then my old and decrepit years would be a lot less painful than I imagined.
One can always start exercising more and one can always get into better physical condition but what I hoped to avoid was getting too old to start pumping more air into the old innertube. If I maintained a good baseline then less exertion would be needed to maintain a certain level of physical fitness and I would fee less pain in my body.
Well, that theories blown to hell now. I can't ever see myself getting back to the kind of life where I can exercise for recreation.
And I blame you dullards out there.
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http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
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But before my workers question my authority, you will prove that I am their one god
http://www.christianteaching.org.uk/isheavenreallyupthere.html
Christian Teaching Resources
Is Heaven Really Up There?
The Bible talks about Jesus ascending into the sky. The actual words are: “He was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going….” (Acts 1:10-11). But does that mean heaven is somewhere in a vertical direction? When the USSR first started sending up space shots they crowed that they hadn’t seen God up there. This is a popular belief.
The Bible uses metaphor and symbolism
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/metaphor
Dictionary.com
metaphor
a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/delusional
Dictionary.com
delusional
Psychiatry. maintaining fixed false beliefs even when confronted with facts, usually as a result of mental illness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
Delusion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A delusion is a belief that is held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.
Delusions typically occur in the context of neurological or psychiatric disease, although they are not tied to any particular disorder and have been found to occur in the context of many pathological states (both physical and mental). However, they are of particular diagnostic importance in psychotic disorders including schizophrenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preconditioning_(adaptation)
Preconditioning (adaptation)
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Preconditioning occurs when an animal is exposed to a stressor or stimulus in order to prepare it for a later encounter with a similar stressor or stimulus.
http://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/spurgeon/self-delusion.htm
Bible Hub
Self-Delusion
C. H. Spurgeon.
Luke 13:24
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
I. MANY PROFESSORS ARE DECEIVED. So the text teaches us. It does not say, "a few may be misled," but many shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able. That many professors are deceived is clear enough from the language of Christ Himself, both here and in other places.
II. IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT THERE ARE FALSE PROFESSORS. There is an imitation of the externals of godliness which it is not easy to detect. Art can carve a statue so that it almost breathes; and some of us in looking at very skilful paintings have mistaken them for realities. In a notable picture in the exhibition, you will have noticed an imitation of sunlight shining under a door, so well effected, that many go up to it to ascertain if it be not really a gleam from the sun. We know that men can counterfeit coins and notes so well that only the most experienced can detect them; and in all commercial transactions men are so well aware of the subtlety of their fellows that they look well lest they be deceived. The vital mysteries of godliness are mysterious: the inner life cannot be perceived by the carnal eye, and the outer life of the godly seemeth to most men to be but morality carried out with care; and hence it becomes but a very simple task for a man to make himself look just like a Christian, so as to deceive the very elect. To learn by heart that which others say from the heart — to get the outline of a believer's experience, and then to adapt it skilfully to one's self as our experience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Confirmation bias
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are weighing up the costs of being wrong
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:55 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 08 September 2016
