Category: Ageing
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Life After 70
Wisdom from Jordan Peterson. I'd say this man is a national treasure, except that he is Canadian. His advice comports well with a self-admonition I lately coined: Forgive, forget, let go, move on, live now!
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The Geezer’s Paradox
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Another Useful Idiot Crosses My Path
I'm the chess guy hereabouts. A year and a half ago I got a call from an 86-year-old retired chemist with an interest in the game. A meeting was arranged, a game was played, and then the talk turned to politics. The old man told us that he had voted for Biden out of revulsion…
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Consolations of Late Adulthood
Despite the fact that the Grim Reaper, the ultimate 'Repo man,' is hot on my trail, I wouldn't go back to being a child, an adolescent, or even a young adult for anything. What is that makes childhood and adolescence so rotten for some of us? In a word, powerlessness, and in a three-fold sense.…
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Biden Too Old?
Wrong question! despite its being asked repeatedly by lemming journos. Not too old, unfit for office. Physically decrepit. Non compos mentis. Morally corrupt to the core. A fraud and a phony. Rooted in no principles of his own. A mouthpiece for deleterious leftist doctrines. A disaster for the republic and for the world. Those who…
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Billionaire Donors Withholding Loot from Leftist Seminaries
Long-time donors are finally waking up to the wokeassery* of once-great universities that have for decades been transmogrifying into leftist seminaries. ('Seminary' is etymologically related to 'semen' and in the seminaries in question the origin of the jism is masturbatory: nothing productive comes from these seed beds.) I predicted the donor revolt on 13 October…
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Why I Want to Live Long
I want to live a long life so as to be able to experience and reflect upon this predicament of ours from every humanly possible temporal perspective. For each age of life has its characteristic insights and illusions. Youth has its truth as midlife its crisis, a crisis risible to the man ten years beyond…
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Another Advantage of Old Age
The abandoning of your vices becomes easier as they abandon you. The mechanism of flight of the vices of the flesh is powered by the mortal coil's decline, which is why the old man out for spiritual gain should rejoice, not rue, his libido on the wane. The old man, unlike the young, has a…
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Ancient Eyes and Old Souls
The eyes of the elderly are rarely the windows of old souls; in most they bespeak vacancy. Either aging has dirtied the panes or else there was little or no soul behind them to begin with.
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The Long and the Short of It
The young, their lives ahead of them, think life is long; the old, their lives ending, know that it is short. Why knowledge in the second case? Because the old, some of them anyway, are surveyors of life and not mere livers of it. This suggests that the old who lose themselves in the quotidian…
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Compensations of Old Age
You now have money enough and you now have time. The time left is shrinking, but it is your own. There is little left to prove. What needed proving has been proven by now or will forever remain unproved. And now it doesn't much matter one way or the other. You are free to be…
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No Fool Like an Old Fool
Ed is an 80-year-old neighbor of mine. We've been casual acquaintances for years, running into each other on the trails, exchanging greetings and snatches of conversation. The other day politics came up for the first time, and to my surprise I learned that Ed, originally a Republican, had become an Independent, and was now a…
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An Advantage of Youth
A joke tired and old to the old and tired can be fresh and young to the young and fresh.
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Compensation
With the advance of years, hearing declines. With the advance of wisdom, so does the desire to listen to people and their bushwa.
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Just a Number?
Some say that age is just a number. Well, is temperature just a number too? In Phoenix in July, say? Or is it a number that measures something? "It's 115!" "That's just a number; you are only as hot as you feel."