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Dr. Lane’s Thoughts LXXII
1) We are all, at some point, going to feel that we ‘owe’ someone some kind of loyalty or gratitude for something that they did for us in the past: your parents, a friend, a co-worker, and all the other myriad relationships we create in our lives.
Gratitude is good and we should all practice it as much as possible.
In the above-mentioned relationships we feel gratitude but the relationship that we are now dealing with in the mentioned scenarios have been darkened by a present-day relationship with this person: alcoholism, a desperate need for a ‘loan’ (that we know will not be paid back), a pending or present divorce that they want to capitalize on endlessly in every conversation, Basically, they are hurting and they expect you to be front and center ‘present’ for them as they fill all of your time with their draining need for attention and help.
What do you owe them? In one word, ‘nothing’. Cruel, perhaps, but effective. Most of all, it is not selfish.
The gratitude you are feeling is for this person when they were more capable of reciprocation (e.g. they were your equal in some way or they were a role such as parent or sibling where their interaction with you was socially required. With this in mind, your relationship is one-sided now and you have taken on a role with them which makes them dependent on you. This person is a drain on you and not capable of being useful or capable in their own recovery.
It is their goal to drag you down is not out of rude selfishness but because they are mindful only of their own needs and not aware of their destructive role on others – especially you.
Go ahead – check in once in a while with them, take them out for a meal perhaps, and try to listen sometimes but do not engage further because you only represent to them a bank, or a storage depot, or a therapist. You stopped being their friend once they decided that you ‘owe’ them something.
2) Being Republican used to be meaningful in terms of innovative approaches to government. Today, to be Republican, (i.e. to be conservative), means to reject innovation, indeed to turn back the clock to an imaginary idyllic past when gays, women and blacks didn’t exist, at least in any meaningful way. The party is mostly geared to old White men and it completely floors me when anyone who is not those attributes supports their obvious retro-agenda. It also seems to be pro-gun to a disasterous effect.
Do you want to be forced back to the kitchen (women) or to the back of the bus (Blacks) or back to the closet (Gays)? Do you understand that your party’s platform supports these measures far and wide across the country? Things are much better today for these three groups (and many more) and has been for many years and will progressively get better but for the enormous push back by a largely Republican response.
Why are they afraid of you? What did women, Blacks, and gays do to create this fear among these starch-White Republican men and women?
Or is this one of those Republican things where they personally and individually reap the fruit of a progressive and fair Democratic Party while mouthing their angry response to anyone else who wants to have the same rights when it comes to abortion, raising gay children, opportunities for women and Blacks, or affordable healthcare?
3) I am sorry if what I am about to write is offensive but here it is: you people eat too much pork, ham, bacon. Got it? The flesh of the pig is very unhealthy.
I am not just writing this because it is not a part of my life; I write it because it is true by it’s very nature of what a pig is – a very fat and fat-accumulating animal.
My reason for not being near pig meat as a food is that I was raised Jewish and kosher and even when I gave up on the kosher I never gave up on the restriction on pig meat.
Take a look around and you will see bacon being offered on all kinds of food, even if it is only as a garnish.
A garnish or as a part of every meal, bacon is as bad as a meat could be designed – nothing but fat, salt and a tiny bit of protein. Bacon is a food recipe for a heart attack but, worse, it has become a part of too much food. Do you really need bits of salted fat on food to make it ‘taste good’?
To understand this food you have to know what a pig is and how it differs from other animals. Specifically, other FARM ANIMALS.
All other animals are born and get bigger and then stop growing. To use examples let’s consider the horse, or the cow, or the goat.
They are born a horse, or the cow, or the goat. They grow up as a horse, or the cow, or the goat and even if they escape from the farm they remain a horse, or the cow, or the goat. Importantly, they get no bigger than a normal horse, or the cow, or the goat even if you feed them more food, perhaps a little chubby but that is it.
Let’s talk about the pig. True, they are born small and pink and grow to be this same animal but bigger but they can grow much fatter the more you feed them.
What happens when a pig gets away from the farm: When they are not recaptured the ‘pig’ become a ‘boar’ – a brown porcine creature with LONG fangs and tufted brown fur and skin. AND VERY MEAN – vicious and dangerous.
Now it eats non-stop and gains weight. Wild pig/boars can grow to 1,000 pounds!
Let’s return to your farm pig – it can add fat as long as you feed it which helps the farmer to sell the carcass for more money – unlike a goat which grows to an adult size and stays there, or a sheep that does the same.
Once the butcher has his meat he should just remove the UNHEALTHY fat (which cost him a lot of money due to price per pound he paid) but he doesn’t – he sells that as ‘bacon’! he makes money on a useless ‘non-meat’ product and you buy this as a favored meat product.
In the old days this was sold as ‘cheap’ meat which poor people ate because they could not afford the more expensive ham or pork chops. Soon people built foods around this cheap meat and it became part of their culture.
This is a bad meat to eat. Choose other, leaner cuts (even if they cost more) or avoid meat in your diet or, at least, eat less meat.
JUST AVOID BACON. You are worth it to eat better food.
4) Years ago, OASIS (the band) made their big album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” and were pegged the ‘New Beatles”. Who said this should be lost to history because if they were reminded they may want to change either name and hide.
The new Beatles? I don’t think so – not by a longshot!
The album is technically good and there are songs. That is it. Just ‘songs’ of no great skill. Not one interesting song on it that would catch anyone’s attention; at least, not mine.
When I listen to an album I want there to be color and catchy tunes. This album is like listening to the color beige; beige is a real color but not an interesting one. You want a bright orange or a brilliant blue when listening to what a group considers their work worthy of being released to the public not a beige. Who thought that these songs would catch the imagination of anyone?
These days the band Oasis is best known for fighting between the two brothers who founded it and being famous for their one minor hit “Wonderwall”.
I imagine that they will hang on through a few more news flashes about the in-fighting and someone who worked with them will try to make it on their own but with all the better music out there this group will be buried.
5) The resveratrol found in the skin of red and purple grapes may lower LDL cholesterol and protect heart health. In addition, there is emerging evidence that the nutrients in grapes help keep the colon healthy, protect the retina from damage, and reduce inflammation that can damage the brain. A mouse study also found that grapes reprogram your gut’s microbiome to ease the stress on the liver caused by a high-fat diet and they improve glucose regulation (mouse models are ok predictors for possible human benefits).
How do grapes do all this? A cup of grapes contains 21% of your daily value for copper, 18% of the DV for vitamin K, 9% DV for thiamine, 8% DV for riboflavin and a good bit of potassium, vitamin C, manganese and fiber.
On the negative side: Grapes quickly raise your blood sugar, so enjoy them with high-fiber foods like salads and whole grains, as part of your plant-based diet. One serving equals three-quarters of a cup or 4.5 ounces.
6) Have you seen the 3-part special about Arnold Schwarzenegger? It is definitely a fluff piece about him and his three stages of career advancement (all of which are known to everyone); the evolution of a guy who succeeded at everything he put his mind to and rose to the top of everything he did.
I don’t care if you saw it or not or if you even like him just a little or a great deal.
There was something he said in the last 5 minutes of the last episode. If you choose not to watch the other 3 episode or even most of this one just listen to him in these last 5 minutes.
What did I enjoy about those last few minutes of him talking to the camera? In these minutes he states something nobody would think he would say about himself. Please excuse my summation because it doesn’t do justice to him saying this idea to the people watching:
“I am not a self-made man [my immediate thought was, ‘if not Arnold than who is self-made, from making his body to pushing himself in his careers’]. I had help along the way. There were many people who supported me in my ambitions and assisted me when I had questions or wanted to try something”
Yes, his roles in life came from him reaching out to people who were around him who were in a better position to guide him and they did and he was their student.
That is something you have to take into account: there are people everywhere who are doing what you think you would be good at. Ask them questions and find out who they are and how they got there. Ignore the rich and connected, the ‘nepo-babies’ who had things handed to them; find the people who were you years ago and got to somewhere they had to work for. They have insights and they have connections and phone numbers and letters of recommendation that you can work with.
Also, you are someone also. Be ready to be in this same role to others who are further down the ladder of life or job progression who can gain from your perspective and insights. They also need help; your help. Be that person who helps.
7) At this moment there is a war between Hamas and Israel due to a secret attack on Israel on October 7 where over 1000 people were taken hostage. Innocent people who were in no position to resist – many of them taken from an outside concert.
Kibbutzim were taken and many men, women, and children were killed CHILDREN.KILLED. The Hamas Government were so proud of their achievements in killing these farmers that their terrorist agents filmed themselves and sent these videos out on social media. SO PROUD!
Israel retaliated and has been steadily bombing the Gaza where the Hamas Government organized the attack and brought the prisoners. There is no question that they have laid waste to this country and killed countless Palestinians.
Now, the Palestinians are very upset. These people have forgotten how this started a few weeks ago. Their only issue is what is being done to them right now.
I am left with the question – what did they think was going to happen?
The position that oppressed people—Palestinians in this case, but oppressed people more generally—can do no wrong. Any act of “resistance” is justified, however cruel, however barbaric, however much these protesters would rage against it if it were committed by someone else.
Couldn’t the people of Palestine – who have in their charter the elimination of Israel and the death of all Jews (LINK )- have kept their Hamas brethren in check so that this level of retaliation would not have been necessary? Did they really need to kill Israelis and take prisoners back with them to Gaza?
A quote attributed to Albert Einstein (incorrectly it would seem with absolutely no connection to him at all) of “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” does sum up this political situation. Israel went on the defensive in exactly the way that they have done in the past against the Palestinian state for previous intrusions like this one. Was a different result expected?
It has been 20 years since the last major offensive like this and someone in Gaza thought that it would be a good idea to try this? Based on what premise?
Yes, I am sorry that people have died (and people will still die before this is over) but what this looks like, objectively, is Palestinian post-birth abortion or just a crude attempt to decrease their own population to make room for more people. Nothing good was going to come out of this excursion so that must be the only answer.
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