One thing that mostly seems true to me is that you only see ads for bad things. For example, broccoli and carrots are good but you never see ads for them. Milk (except skim), meat regularly, eggs regularly, and cheese are all bad for you, yet they're advertised all the time. You also never see ads for going on a walk from home for exercise and general health, but you do see ads for cars and plane, train, and ship travel which are all killing the environment.
It's like ads have to convince you to be a worse person to yourself, others, and the environment.
The other thing I've noticed is that people seem to feel like they need to 'tackle' their boredom, but I see boredom as very close to serenity, if only one could drop the judgement that the emptiness is bad. In order to not feel bored, people use the aforementioned travel activities. Not seeing the serenity behind the judgement seems to be killing us as we try at all costs not to be bored.
So those are two major lessons I've learned from life; don't fall for what's being sold to me, no matter how delicious looking, and there are very easy and healthy ways to incorporate the serenity of boredom without creating a giant carbon/pollution footprint to my fellow man and the other denizens of the planet.
Life has taught me that I should never read any threads started by bradly1101
Life isn't fair, learn to deal with it
Make things happen for yourself, no one else is going to
There are infinitely more people who will tell you something isn't possible who are usually just too lazy to go out and make that thing happen themselves
Aim to be the 'dumbest' person in the room if you want to get better, faster
Everyone is broken or deficient in some way, people who try to convince you otherwise are lying to themselves and to you
Learn to laugh at yourself, don't take yourself too seriously
Do something that makes you uncomfortable often
:biggrin:I learnt so much from this post.
Mainly that you are an idiot.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Be excellent to each other.
Meat as in red meat: cholesterol, sat. fat., increased cancer risk (if eaten more than occasionally).
Meat is bad for you?
I learnt so much from this post.
Mainly that you are an idiot.
This idiot was hoping against hope that this thread wouldn't descend into an attack of others' discoveries. But hey, it's the internet, eh? This idiot also learnt how to spell learned.
Everyone can pretend to be rich on ATOT, but most people can't actually be rich because they spend money like drunken sailors.