In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If I get that sick I plan to take easy way out. I don't want to be a burden on our daughter and leave her with such painful memories.
Don't get me started on that. I've already had that conversation with my Dad and my Aunt a few times in the last few weeks.
I told my Aunt this morning that even if it were legal here, there is zero chance my Grandma would go through with it no matter how much she suffers. Her faith is so strong that she's not scared one little bit of death and she knows where she's going. But she's also of the belief that if you commit suicide in any fashion that you're not getting into heaven too.
I'm just hoping that when it gets really bad that it doesn't linger on for her forever.
I don't know how the hell they did it, but my uncle and her were able to get my Grandma to the toilet and back this morning. Maybe she is getting some of her strength back.
I've got more than just the movies for us to watch when we go over. I got some 30's and 40's music and I'm going to pick up a bluetooth speaker and leave it there so she can have that playing 24/7.
I told my Aunt that under no circumstance is my Grandma to spend one single second of the rest of her life watching Cable News.
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Well, I have to respect her beliefs. Me? Not a believer. Your mileage may vary.
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Oh, music from the past! What a lovely idea!!!
I personally love dance music from back then. Jitterbug, swing, the Lindy hop, even the twist. It gets my toes tapping!
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My aunt is in bad shape. I can tell that she's really overwhelmed.
I think that even though my Dad doesn't want me over there taking a shift, I'm going to need to be there with them just for moral support as much as possible.
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*Hugs* SIX. I've been there and it is overwhelming and that was with help coming in.
Thanks Brenda.
Sorry I've been so self absorbed right now.
How's the book coming along?
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No worries. It is to be expected. Dealing with a possible end of life situation isn't easy.
The lady I emailed it to is still going through it and she will let me know when she is finished. And I am still trying to work out a proper start to my second book.
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Well, I have to respect her beliefs. Me? Not a believer. Your mileage may vary.
I give it 50/50 that we're in the Matrix. The more I learn the less I know.
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Oh, music from the past! What a lovely idea!!!
I've got to credit my friend for that one. I knew I could get the music, but I had no idea how I was going to play it without it being a major hassle. But then I remembered this bluetooth speaker he got for only 10 bucks and looked to see if it did more than bluetooth. It did. It's got a micro-SD slot in the back, and a 32GB micro-SD card just so happened to be one of the grab-bag worth of tech related equipment I bought for a song on Black Friday.
You're not going to knock down any walls with this thing, but the sound quality is great. There's no randomizer feature (I think they expect you to just randomize from your phone or use Spotify or something), but when you turn it off and turn it back on it starts exactly where you left off. Probably got enough music to never hear the same song twice for a month.
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I personally love dance music from back then. Jitterbug, swing, the Lindy hop, even the twist. It gets my toes tapping!
My only real exposure to songs from that era are from the Fallout video game franchise when they rebooted it in the mid-aughts. I loved the playlist they had for that game. I wonder if any of them are in this collection?
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I'm off to my very part-time job tomorrow. So, I'll see everyone later.
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Quote:Is the Simulation Argument an Improvement on the Dream Argument?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I give it 50/50 that we're in the Matrix. The more I learn the less I know.
Posted on Monday, Feb 20, 2023 by Tim Sommers
“Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn’t know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhuang Zhou.” — Zhuangzi (translation by Burton Watson)
“We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.” – Nick Bostrom (I recognize that Nick Bostrom is a problematic figure. But, as far as I can tell, he was the first to argue that the simulation argument is an improvement on the dream argument. I don’t want to discuss him, just that.)
Is the hypothesis that we live in a computer simulation an improvement, in some way, on the classic skeptical argument that life is but a dream? The dream argument seems to show that life could be a dream. Some claim that the simulation argument shows that not only is it possible that we live in a computer simulation, but that we almost certainly do live in a simulation.
More at https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/02/is-the-simulation-argume
nt-an-improvement-on-the-dream-argument.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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That's what I've heard too, but I give them no more credence than I would a Bible or Dianetics.
My only point is that I don't know anything about any possible afterlife, and nobody else does either.
Move a few decimal points and the simulation theory falls apart too.
Ain't nobody going to know what, if anything, happens to us until they get there. And if there is no "there", than nobody will ever know that answer.
As far as my grandma is concerned, I'm not going to spend what's left of her life trying to talk her out of her religion and ending her pain the easy way. She's in pain, but she's happy. She "knows" where she's going and she's happy to finally be going there.
What an absolute colossal prick I would be to try to take that away from her. Even if I could make an argument that it was for her own good.
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Going to Grams now. Super excited to give her the gift of music from her childhood and hoping she's got it in her to watch a few classic movies with me while I'm there.
My aunt seemed in good spirits this morning even though she had another rough night. I think the fact that she's not in this alone is really helping her mental state about it. My old man is there with her now and the nurse and aide should be arriving soon.
My aunt still thinks I won't last the night over there, but I think she's just projecting what she would do if she wasn't in a position with responsibility. I've no intention of fleeing.
They destroyed her beautiful dining room table by cutting off the legs to get it out of the house to fit the hospice bed and all the other do-dads. TBH, the 7 cats that lived there had really already done that to the legs of the table and all the chairs already, but their loss is my gain. I've emptied out my car and I'm going to be breaking down that wood and having a few fantastic pieces for projects back home. There's already a dresser out there I never got around to scrapping too, so I'll load up whatever I can in my car and get more the next time I go over.
My aunt says she doesn't want to move downstairs now and has no energy for it. I'll see if I can talk her into it when I get over there. It doesn't make any sense for her not to be downstairs when she's already got the mattress down there every night.
Be well, everybody. I'll give an update when I can.
Good luck with the publisher, Brenda.
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Thanks for the music, SIX. I especially liked Boogie Man bc it's the kind of music I like to dance to. But I sometimes feel that I get a lot of insight into past times by listening to the music that people listened to "back then".
AFA whether we're in a simulation or reality... those are two different schools of philosophical thought. One school.argues that we only know what we perceive. Given the right stimulus, it could be anything. (Subjectivism) Bc perception presupposes a perceiver (I think therefore I am, Kant)... ie dreaming presupposes a dreamer... the logical extension gets rid of the individual dreamer altogether. "What if this is all just a dream" becomes "This is all just God's dream" (Berkeley)
The other school of thought is that there is a reality, we exist in it and our senses perceive parts of it. (Objectivism)
Since neither approach can be proven either way, they are "a priori" (nothing before) assumptions at the base of any philosophy.
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Quote:Best of luck SIX. You, and your g'ma, your aunt and your dad are in my thoughts. Im relieved to read that your g'ma is at peace. *hugs* to you and your family.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Going to Grams now. Super excited to give her the gift of music from her childhood and hoping she's got it in her to watch a few classic movies with me while I'm there.
My aunt seemed in good spirits this morning even though she had another rough night. I think the fact that she's not in this alone is really helping her mental state about it. My old man is there with her now and the nurse and aide should be arriving soon.
My aunt still thinks I won't last the night over there, but I think she's just projecting what she would do if she wasn't in a position with responsibility. I've no intention of fleeing.
They destroyed her beautiful dining room table by cutting off the legs to get it out of the house to fit the hospice bed and all the other do-dads. TBH, the 7 cats that lived there had really already done that to the legs of the table and all the chairs already, but their loss is my gain. I've emptied out my car and I'm going to be breaking down that wood and having a few fantastic pieces for projects back home. There's already a dresser out there I never got around to scrapping too, so I'll load up whatever I can in my car and get more the next time I go over.
My aunt says she doesn't want to move downstairs now and has no energy for it. I'll see if I can talk her into it when I get over there. It doesn't make any sense for her not to be downstairs when she's already got the mattress down there every night.
Be well, everybody. I'll give an update when I can.
Good luck with the publisher, Brenda.
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