Embrace challenges. Don’t run away from them. Amor fati. Best way to live. But it requires CHARACTER.
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.
Refined Sugar
If what you are considering buying at the grocery store has refined sugar added in the ingredient list, don’t buy this processed food. It will spike your insulin and blood sugar levels.
You should treat this added ingredient, which has no nutrition at all, as if it were poison to be avoided entirely. Treat it like poison — because for your system, it is.
Discipline Muscle
Things you want to do get in the way of things you must do but don’t want to do. To strengthen your discipline muscle, you must be aware of this and resist it. The current express, “just do it,” comes to mind.
Laughter
Laughter is the spice of life.
NATO
The best move NATO could take right now is not admitting Ukraine as a new member, but instead Russia.
NATO should commit to never admitting Ukraine.
These moves would cement peace.
Unfortunately, the leadership in NATO sees Russia as an enemy. Pity.
Best Way
Best way to live: stay in the moment. Stay in the moment, even if trivial. Stay in the moment. Don’t be in the future. Don’t be in the future when it is done. But stay in the current moment. The tendency is to want it, whatever it is, to be finished and over with. That’s a mistake. Just stay in the moment always. Hard to do, but very worthwhile.
End of the World
The Iranian situation is clear. If the Iranians had nuclear weapons, they would use them against Israel. This would cause a massive nuclear strike on Iran by the Israelis that would decimate the entire country. Both countries would be decimated, and the nuclear gynie would be out of the bottle.
This scenario could well bring in the US and Russia as nuclear adversaries in the dispute. Escalation to that level would be the end of the world as we know it — back to the dark ages.
This is why Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapons. They are crazy enough about the Israelis to use them.
Anyone who doesn’t understand all of this is either a fool or delusional, that is, living in lala land.
They Forgot
After 9/11, a common refrain was “never forget”. But the Biden administration flung open the borders and let in millions of illegal aliens. How many of these have bad intentions toward the US? How many terrorist cells?
Never forget didn’t last very long.
Carcinogens
Fried foods and outdoor grilling of food both produce carcinogens.
Matcha
Put matcha powder into your smoothies.
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