tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post7965780694482556431..comments2024-03-28T14:04:01.556-07:00Comments on Midlife Cycling: What I Thought About When I Didn't Have The Energy To Do Anything But RideJustine Valinottihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post-52663742072493790942016-06-13T20:42:01.848-07:002016-06-13T20:42:01.848-07:00Phillip--Your comparison between the religious and...Phillip--Your comparison between the religious and schoolyard games is apt. Nobody wins at either. <br /><br />Leo--"Auto correct is the invention of the devil!" So true!Justine Valinottihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post-76387071176477658852016-06-13T12:35:59.941-07:002016-06-13T12:35:59.941-07:00Justine,
What you say is not counterintuitive. Cy...Justine,<br /><br />What you say is not counterintuitive. Cycling is a very good aid to meditation, both in the Western sense of concentrating on some thought, and in a Buddhist sense of emptying the mind and non-grasping of thoughts. We have to deal with all this. But let us not dwell on it.<br /><br />Perhaps now more than usual we need something light, something to lead us out of this for a while, something stabilizing. Something to begin to put the world together again. We will not forget.<br /><br />In my previous comment, I typed "sympathetic" twice, but it kept snapping back to that weird spelling. I see it actually was sent off in that form. Auto-correct is the invention of the devil!<br /><br />Leo, ex-pat Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8908461644259659419.post-21592867731927581682016-06-13T12:17:49.278-07:002016-06-13T12:17:49.278-07:00This sort of thing beats you down in spirit. The o...This sort of thing beats you down in spirit. The older I get the more world weary I am becoming. I used to be quite religious at one time but as I get older organised religions of all stripes are beginning to disgust me. Someone says "my god is better than your god" and if you don't agree he'll kill you. Isn't this just the adult version of the old playground argument of 'my dad can beat up your dad", a favorite of school boys everywhere. I'm beginning to feel that humanity is little more than a virus to the planet and that soon we'll be eliminated, most likely by our own hand. I suppose this latest outrage will prompt a call for more gun control but in my heart of hearts I know this won't help. Criminals and nuts never seem to have much problem getting hold of weapons no matter the restrictions. If gun control worked New York, Chicago and DC would be the safest places on earth. They are not. What needs an adjustment here is the nut hanging off the end of the rifle. That's going to be a lot harder.Phillip Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553979458131339924noreply@blogger.com