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New Year's resolution check-in:
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
Doing well enough. The back is better, and I'm back to being mostly better. I become increasingly glad that I'm a doctor, and a decent one: it's the strongest ammunition there is when it comes to making other doctors take you seriously and in convincing them to do the right thing. It's a miracle that non-medics engage with the healthcare system at all, but I suppose it beats dying. The human body continues reminding me that there are riders attached to the lifetime warranty. It's good that I read the manual.
No real exercise beyond carrying my fair share of a busy ward on my back. Getting a suitable amount of professional recognition for it.
Maybe it's different for people who can build a relationship with a specific doctor that follows them, but here where you get whoever you're lucky enough to see, the second a non-doctor suggests they have a suspicion as to what they actually have, the doctors will update heavily against the probability of it being that and will do everything they can to dismiss it being what was suggested, as if their now tainted diagnosis should be your punishment for daring to think about anything medical as a stupid plebian. I mean, I know a lot of people otherwise would waste ressources because of Cyberchondria, but not everyone outside of the medical profession is a drooling moron either. And not everyone inside of it hasn't devolved over time into one since medical school.
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Spending is $2,807.93 less than the same time last year. The home repairs got delayed a week due to weather. I assume that this will get worse in the next week or two.
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I can understand not liking Blood Meridian - it is awfully grim and gory, sometimes cartoonishly. But what is the proposed common theme it shares with The Dark Tower and Two Towers? To me, The Two Towers is very much fundamentally hopeful - the world has evil and dysfunction, but it can be and is meaningfully confronted with heroism. In Meridian, heroism is rare and stands no chance.
The two towers? Never said anything about that.
With the gunslinger in particular, i see a lot of parallels between the judge and the man in black. The man in black through the whole first book is forcing roland to commit terrible acts of violence: murdering a whole town of people, pushing jake into the abyss, etc
With Game of Thrones I think the parallel is even more clear. There are specific characters who basically come straight out of BM (Gregor Clegane) and even characters who have some more moral complexity don’t hesitate to brutalize the peasantry in a way that Glanton’s gang would find very familiar.
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I quit pornography as part of my new religious commitments around the same time.
I was not expecting how difficult it would be to go from cumming once or twice a day to once a week when the kid is finally in bed at a reasonable how and my wife isn't too tired. I was also not expecting to be wondering what fresh fetishes hentai artist might be coming up with, or where certain story lines ended up going. I was not expecting how hard it would be to delete my stash of 20+ years, despite the fact that ostensibly I'm never going to touch it again.
When I was reading Introduction to Devout Life, the chapters on attachment to sin hit like a ton of bricks.
Gosh, I thought I had a high sex drive, and yet I imagine I could count on the fingers of two hands the number of days last year where I masturbated twice.
Which religion are you, out of interest?
You know, if it's all the same, I'd rather not say. It's not a weird one, I just have conflicted feelings about turning my entire persona here into "WhiningCoil's newb experiences at church" or the like.
I get your position, but I do wish more people who were not raised with religion would talk about how they found their way to it. I posted a question about that as my first post here, but all the responses were from people raised in a religion who found their way back to it, which is a different matter.
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I completely understand, I was just curious.
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