Dang Martin

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.

Hi Mike, welcome to AZ. Thanks for contributing so far, I look forward to reading more from you 🙂

I also read about the benefits of meditation – however, I get stuck and impatient with the ’empty your mind’ direction.  @danielw are you saying there are apps and things that make this mind-emptying thing easier?  Or even obsolete?  I’d be very interested in what you’ve found.

Hahaha Robert, I think I’d be scared shitless of my much younger self!

For you, perhaps, but not for the meaning of the term ‘codependency’. That is not ambiguous.  It is a category under which I would file the WDYYB behaviour.

When one is in a codependent relationship, one exhibits some, not all of the codependent behaviors. In order to effect self change with a view to self improvement, I cannot be defensive…[Read more]

How funny, Daniel, I also subscribe to the Washington Post, New York Times and the local vtdigger.

Codependency is a type of dysfunctional helping relationship where one person supports or enables another person’s drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement.

I’m probably way too cynical, as I’ve sat on the boards of several different financial institutions and been immersed in what I’d casually call corporate skullduggery today.  Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft between them control a huge proportion of what our internet interactions have become. In some ways, the US government withdrawing Net Ne…[Read more]

Wow, David, where to start!?  I’m contemplating a list the length of my arm to see what wins my ‘stupid Olympics’ challenge.

How about ‘Trump will never win the presidency’

I’m not about to explain this one, but it’s probably on several of my immediate list items…

”Don’t worry, nobody’s looking”

@belen Belle, I see this as a tool for self improvement, which I am always looking for as I am a continuous work-in-progress. When @toms first mentioned it, I did not realize that it was a depiction of co-dependency.  That’s not to say that every time someone says, ‘Why don’t you’ and offers a solution that this is wrong, nor that every time s…[Read more]

It is unchecked capitalism.  It goes by the one golden rule – Don’t get caught.  Why would you think Google could be different?

David, you are depicting Google as successful capitalists. That’s what capitalists do.

How are atheists infringed on specifically as a result?  It sounds to me as if you’ve just had a negative run-in with YouTube and you’re lashing out. Have you?

Thanks, Teach!

Can you provide a link, David?

I’m a constant work-in-progress, Tom. You wouldn’t believe the hothead I was in my youth.  Any more of such useful concepts you’d care to share would be received with gratitude 🙂

If I’d have had enough money, I’d have been bribing Fox News to say whatever I wanted the president to believe.  I’d be astonished if nobody has made this effort.  We are all on a bus headed somewhere we don’t want to go, but we cannot get off until the next stop.  That’s November when the American people get to change the face of congress if…[Read more]