Silence is an exploration.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Muscle Loss
People should really think about muscle loss as early as age 30 when serious muscle loss begins. You prevent it then by doing resistance training with weights, and eating adequate amounts of both protein and collagen. But most people are unaware that aerobic exercise isn’t enough to prevent muscle loss, so they don’t start the resistance training, if at all, until they are older and have already sustained serious sarcopenia. Don’t be that person.
Applaud Fake News
If you have truly free press, which is so important to have, you are going to have serious fake news. Fakes news — that is, exaggerated claims that bear little resemblance to reality but play to the views of a particular audience — is what you can expect if the press is truly free, because through this mechanism, the reporter gains further support from the targeted audience that shares the bias the report is supporting.
So, ironically, although we may lament the fact that the press is peddling anything but truth with fake news, that there is substantial fake news is encouraging in that it proves the press is truly free.
You get the same kind of ironic twist with free speech. You see the unfortunate slogan that “Hate speech is not free speech.” Actually, the opposite is true. If you do permit hate speech, then that shows you truly have free speech. Any impingement of free speech means you don’t have it.
Paradise
We all live in paradise, despite what we do with it.
Coffee
I do a very different coffee these days. I’m very focused on polyphenols and their benefits. Turns out that organic coffee that is lightly roasted has the most polyphenols. Organic because it won’t have toxins that non organic coffee contains. The more the coffee is roasted, the less polyphenols it contains. Dark roasted coffee will have little. So I go with light roasted to maximize the polyphenols.
I add to the coffee a teaspoon of pure cacao. Pure cacao is extremely high in polyphenols as well, and this has the advantage of creating a mocha like taste to the coffee.
I also add a teaspoon of turmeric to reduce inflammation as well as a teaspoon of creatine, which improves the efficiency of your mitochondria. And finally I add some Ceylon cinnamon powder for taste.
To the best of my calculation, this mixture is less than 10 calories, a pittance (so little to no impact on intermittent fasting), but incredibly high in those magic polyphenols. Polyphenols are beneficial to your microbiome, but due to hormesis, they are a major boost to your longevity/health.
Madness
You have to realize that American society, with its complete freedom to do or say anything you want, leads to a kind of madness. The most conspicuous example of this is the woke press on the Left with all its virulence and exaggerated claims, turning young and impressionable men into madmen assassins.
But is that the true cost of total freedom? Perhaps it is.
Civil War in America
One is beginning to take seriously the thought that there could be conflict in the streets of American cities between arch conservatives and radical liberals similar to what took place in Germany in the early 1930s.
Could we experience civil in America that could bring down the republic? The thought is no longer that unrealistic after the Kirk assassination.
Old Age
The challenge in old age is pretty simple: stay strong.
Russian Majorities
The clear majority of the different nationalities in Crimea is Russian. Russians outnumber Ukranians in Crimea more than 2 to 1. It would be undemocratic if Crimea were not part of Russia.
Ditto the two disputed provinces in eastern Ukraine. Both provinces should be part of Russia, not Ukraine.
Expect Them
Expect mistakes.
No matter how careful a person you are, mistakes will inevitably happen. Humans are just mistake prone. There’s no way around it. So, if you believe this — and I do — it is best to expect making mistakes.
If nothing else, if you expect to make mistakes, it may make you a bit more careful, so that you end up minimizing mistakes.
But they will always keep happening. Trust me.
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