Turtle-City - "Slow down economic inactvity"
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"Join the joyful club today! There are no membership prerequisites, except you have to be joyful." - Lama Yeshe Rinpoche, in a interview about Dream Yoga
"Rinpoche, what do you do in your lucid dreams?" Rinpoche: "I don't do anything. I am free. I do nothing. In my everyday life i have nothing to do any more. I'm relaxed. I'm enjoying my life"
"Don't allow yourself to be stressed for no good reason. Some get stressed saying the world is going baldy. I am feeling hurt. I am so stressed. Then you are joining a stupid path. If the world is having a lot of pain and suffering, and you become one with pain and suffering, how can you solve the world's problems? If you're thinking "the world is suffering", then I have to be relaxed. I have to be calm, kind. I have to be ready to help them." - Lama Yeshe Rinpoche
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"Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd." - Robert Anton Wilson (1932 - 2007)
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During Brezhnev's time, the leadership of Communist Party became increasingly geriatric. By the time of his death in 1982, the median age of the Politburo was 70. Brezhnev's successor, Yuri Andropov, died in 1984. His successor, Konstantin Chernenko, died in 1985. Rabinovich said he did not have to buy tickets to the funerals, as he had a subscription to these events. As Andropov's bad health became common knowledge (he was eventually attached to a dialysis machine), several jokes made the rounds...
Related: America is now ruled by people older than the ‘gerontocracy’ of Soviet Union’s twilight days (RT)
