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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ |
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On Friday, December 25, 2020 4:32 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 15:07:59 +0000, caveman رجل الكهف wrote: |
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> > hi. i just want to help a bit by sharing a |
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> > thought that i think is useful to the civilisation |
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> > of life forms in general: |
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> > |
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> > - new year celebrations are wasteful in |
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> > several ways (e.g. waste on needless |
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> > purchases [aka gifts], useless fireworks, |
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> > useless trees with socks on them, etc). |
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> > - the vacation is nice to allow potential good |
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> > use of it. but even this is usually abused |
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> > by most people as they end up just wasting |
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> > it alongside their money for purely doing |
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> > silly things such as purposeless tourism. |
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> > |
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> Dear Ebenezer, |
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> Some of us would welcome the opportunity to waste time with their |
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> families over Christmas and the New Year, instead of having to spend it |
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> isolating at home following a positive COVID-19 test. |
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> Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of doing nothing with the people |
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> that are important to you. |
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i'm not against that. in fact, this goes in the |
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list of the productive things. remember, i said |
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"not limited to"? i literally stated that my list |
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of productive things is not exhaustive. |
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spending time with family is productive, since |
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it's an opportunity to inspect the situation of |
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family members to help them become even better |
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people. this happens implicitly even though |
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dad/mom doesn't say "hey kids time for annual |
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performance inspection!". |
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it's part of us which we inherited from evolution |
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that actually helps maximise our survival. there |
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is a reason why we've evolved to like it. |
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but, worthy to note, not everything we like is |
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good. e.g. there are bugs in evolution. e.g. |
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some people enjoy drugs up to a point they become |
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addicts. this is not inline with survival |
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maximisation, so we can say this is a |
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vulnerability in evolution that drug dealers try |
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to exploit. |
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rgrds, |
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ebonzer. |
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