┌( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ Last words! — Purple Pond

I love it! Keyboard art? If it is it is fantastic but know now that guns can be a very hot topic around here. ;)

I am right and you are wrong! — bahman

I have a 50/50 chance at getting this right but are you a male? :P

Last word in Spanish. — Sir2u

Sir, I want my last words to be "What does this button do?"
Any idea what you want your last words to be? :D

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I think it is also the most logical view.

It would be totally arbitrary to say that there is an afterlife, and that you become an elephant or a tiger (I only say this as it is a commonly invoked example). — RepThatMerch22

While it is the most logical view and it keeps it simple for most to embrace, she also supported any idea of afterlife they might entertain, as she talked with the family and the patient during the 11th hour of their lives. If they believed in Christ, she followed their beliefs, if they believed in Allah she understood their traditions but when it came to asking her about what her feelings were, she was open about it and let them take what they wanted from it and they were able to leave the rest. Ceasing to live is between two people, two entities and that is the person and whatever they believe to be their maker and it is only when they are ready that life ceases to exist.

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That is exactly how my Mom who transitioned over many, many souls working at Hospice for 15 years. People would ask what it feels like after you die? Mom would answer that she thinks that after we cease living, we feel the same as we did before we were born. I think there is a degree of comfort in her answer but I also believe that coming from the scientific mind, she was also factoring in the science of the body as it ceases to live.

Surely you can come up with better "last words" then two of the words contained within the title of the thread. If I were your English teacher and that was your definition of the "last word", I would make you stay after school and try to think up at least two different last words than last words.
Got any last words? 8-)

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The problem is that no one has time to explore and observe all. It would take more than a lifetime to explore all the philosophical writings. — Purple Pond

There is a saying that we, the fortunate ones, have the luxury of time to ponder such philosophical questions.

@charletonWhat were the last words you are thinking of?

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This is the writing on the Wall. — charleton

What does it say charleton?

Me too! Merry Christmas Lone Wolf~

I'm actually on the adoption list as a candidate given my professional history with kids so I think in about a year or two I may have an adopted bub. — TimeLine

I wish you the best in your endeavors. (L)

Idon't know what the fuss is about. I lived through the 80s. — Benkei

And you Didn't Stop Belivin, that Jenny at 867-5309 would be your Angel is a Centerfold, if you could just Put Another Dime in the Juke Box Baby, you might just believe in the Grand Illusion. 8-)

Bubbles I have seen:
.com
Y2K
Housing
Crypto
Student Loan
Medical

Shit, I'm getting clucky. — TimeLine

Clucky is attractive on you. (L)

Cryptocurrency....buy low....sell high. 8-)

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Of course, because Mark Zuckerberg is getting a bit strapped for cash, I hear he's having trouble gold-plating his fifth yaught, so let's all haul over there and bump his advertising revenue a bit. — Inter Alia

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I heard from some doctors that Viagra is good for old people in terms of heart health. — Agustino

And it is a Medicare covered medication. Yippie! These poor men walking around the old folks home, with a boner they wished they had in high school and no one to share it with. Nurses have to LOVE that! (N)

I find myself wanting to hug people and tell them things will be ok. — T Clark

I as well am late to the thread but it is moving fast for a day old. When I find myself wanting to do what you are suggesting you want to do, I do it. It may be dismissed or taken for granted OR it might just be what that person needed and it was within me to give. (L)

However, there is an issue that I haven't mentioned about antidepressant medications, they tend to poop out with time. In my experience, after a while the antidepressant effects subside and your left with feeling apathetic or unmotivated.

And, motivation is an important thing, don't you think? I would say that motivation or the desire to get better is the best prognosis for remission from depression. What these drugs do is make you content with everything (mostly the SSRI's), and leave you or me, from personal experience, apathetic and unmotivated. That's a hole many people get stuck in. Doing some armchair psychology, I suppose that the best time to address depression is when you first get into it, then the cause of it is easier to discern, I think. — Posty McPostface

I happen to think that "armchair psychology" is an inexpensive way of keeping one hand on the pole while you try to deal with what life is throwing at you. So I for one, am glad that you continue to share your ideas with us because you are not alone in this ride of absurdity called life.

I can relate to being on SSRI's and Benzos for almost 30 years now and I can tell you that the reason I was put on the medications is not the same reason I am still on them today. I am on them today because as you might know, once you start on them there is really no way off. I mean sure you could stop taking them but those around you, many who have only known you on these meds, do have a bit of a say in how they are or are not affecting you. Same with the discontinuation of any med and how it affects you. When I share with the Doctor that I don't think (Insert SSRI name here for the list is long) is working anymore they either have started me on another SSRI or one even gave a secondary med to improve the impact of the SSRI. In doing so there is absolutely no way to know if you are stable without meds and when you go off the medication, how do we know if we are stable if it has taken a medication to achieve stability for over a decade? There really is no way to find the 'real you' which was a slice in time before the addition of meds because while on the meds, time has passed, anxieties have changed focus and we have grown.

I have been told that people who are manic or people who ruminate have learned to enjoy the unmedicated high and who wouldn't? I know that I still cycle on medication, I just am more apathetic so it takes a LOT to get me riled but when it does, oooo just be careful you are not in my line of fire.

Genetically and being from Chicago, I have a decent 'fight' factor in my makeup which rarely overrides my filters of logic and grace, I mean rarely, like once or twice a year but it's there. Last week it happened when the Dentist called regarding oral surgery I was scheduled to have yesterday (and did) just to give me a "little update from the surgeon" which was to say that the Doctor thinks it would be easier on me and faster for him, to sedate me via IV, as opposed to taking the time to work on me with only Nitrous. I will save you the pages of how that impacted me and cut to the chase in that I had the surgery done, on time and done right with another dentist.

There are some times when it is perfectly okay with being not okay and don't let any one person tell you different. But for me? By the time a third person says something to me about my emotions not being in line with what is 'normal', I actively work at calming to the same level as those around me.

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He doesn't care as VISA guarantees the settlement of the payment. — Benkei

Then why would VISA guarantee such a bubble prone currency?

Any payment done with bitcoin takes a while to be processed and it takes too long compared to the possibility for instant payments that we'll have soon. If I'm paying with my NFC debit card currently I can walk away because the vendor trusts my bank and his bank. If I'd pay with a bitcoin we'd have to wait for 10 to 60 minutes to ascertain he received the bitcoin. Next year, with regular payments both the vendor and I don't have to trust the bank for the payment as it will be immediately added to his account (he'll still need to trust his bank he can withdraw though). For international payments, of course, it would definitely be an improvement just not locally. — Benkei

That makes sense but I am left with the question of how the vendor would know you were using a bitcoin backed Visa card?

Naughty or nice?

But Bitcoin isn't instant; it's ridiculously slow and I understand Litecoin and Ehterium are faster, but it's still slow compared to instant payments (coming to you in 2018 if you live in Europe). — Benkei

What do you mean by BitCoin isn't instant? The acquisition of the coin, the use of the coin or the cash out of the coin?
I thought the use of the coin is instant and the value of the coin is time stamped locking in the value of the coin, the moment it was used.

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Remember when we never used our real birthdate, our real location, our real names? Same idea, we didn't post pictures of our children or used their names for security purposes. I realize we have come a LONG way but there was a time when the Net was not to be trusted with our personal info.

May I ask, who are these Indians? Is this part of a conversation I missed? I understand that you can mine Etherium with GPUs and that ASICs don't give an advantage, making GPUs the only practical choice for hobbyist miners. — fishfry

Agustino had it right, my Indians are my offspring. There was a time when people didn't advertise they had kids on the Internet (think WAY back in the day) and since they were both boys and our family is a LOT like a tribe, I just began to refer to them as my Indians. Both over the age of 18 now probably makes it unnecessary but now it sticks and so they are my Indians. (L)