Dang Martin

I watched Game of Thrones because I’d read the books first. Why is it that this is defined as sheeple?  I have no idea what an ice bucket challenge is. What is it?

re sports, I support teams from the countries I’ve spent time in and come to care about, so that’d be the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Italy, Germany, Egypt and a few other…[Read more]

@ordy. Noel, a huge part of my tranquility was attained by learning how to not be affected when strangers do something that might be considered annoying.  Example being if someone drives particularly poorly in front of me, or ‘steals’ a car space I was waiting for.  The old me would have been annoyed.  This me learned how to imagine the driver ha…[Read more]

Seems you are categorizing ‘sheeple’ on the things they are using (iPhone, Facebook, reviews) rather than what they are using them for.  Basically, according to your argument, if you do something that many other people also do, you are in the ‘sheeple’ category.

Lets pick the iPhone. I have step children who cannot always afford to have their…[Read more]

@zweifel Hahaha brilliant chart!

It’s called Bikram yoga. Way too bloody hot. I have a friend who swears by it, but then again the side benefits of sweating out the alcohol from the night before might have something to do with it.

Hi Matt! 😀

You know, Noel, the Greeks have an old saying which, loosely translated, says that the first expression/face you see on any day will dictate your mood for the rest of that day.  The idea is that the first face you see in the morning is your own, in a mirror.  You set your own mood. It sounds like you’ve got that covered!

Hinduism is a religion.  I have some very close friends who are Hindi. You aren’t looking at the religious aspects of it though, are you?  You’re looking at the health aspects.  Ayurveda is basically a mind altering substance. Not dissimilar to Magic Mushrooms, or MDMA (E’s).

Yoga can be a state of mind, or a state of mind integrated with a state of body.  I don’t think it can qualify as a philosophy.

@robert I think I agree with you

The thought of Karma is pleasing as it ensures the baddies lose, even if it happens years hence.  Believing in Karma is harmless – it’s a way of putting rose tinted glasses on when you perceive annoying stuff.  (It’s also a way of expressing selfish satisfaction over another’s misfortune, without having to be perceived as ‘mean’!).  To all inte…[Read more]

The report that you considered liking or not liking what happens to your dead body after you are dead, is indicative of the vague assumption that you won’t actually die.  You will.

What happens to our earthly remains after we are dead, is really more about those who survive us and grieve when we are dead. If your family want a location set, so th…[Read more]

I’d say it was either lifted from a Deepak Chopra blurb or from a Chinese fortune cookie.

I once had a magnificent chat with Arch on this subject.  We both had near death experiences, in cars that were definitely going to crash, followed by the actual crash.  Obviously we both survived them.  The common denominator was a feeling of complete calm and total acceptance, coupled with a mild curiosity as to what would happen to each of us…[Read more]

Hi Marti, welcome to AZ!

@regthefronkeyfarmer Harold?

Update. So, @danielw I’ve downloaded Headspace and done Day 1 of the session. I didn’t know it was going to be an English accented voice directing me – living here in the states, I miss English accents and it made it so much easier for me to want to listen.  And I actually achieved following the directions and messing with my concentration – much…[Read more]

Genie:- ok, what’s your third wish?

Dude:- wait what happened to my three wishes?  Surely it’s three wishes, it’s always three wishes.

Genie:- you had your first wish, then you screamed, then your second wish was to completely forget everything that happened for your first wish.  So here we are.  Third wish?

Dude:- I want to know what goes on…[Read more]

I have to say I will buy a chocolate crucifix again this year. They startled the life out of me the first time I saw one – now I take great delight in sending one to anyone I know who loves chocolate – just one and just once a year. This year it will be going to Cologne, in Germany.