I'm killing myself

[Phillip Allen]

http://www.4029tv.com/news/health/St...?absolute=true

looks like this study may be about what's driving me down

[Bob Adams]

Well get off yur arse and get moving!

[LeeG]

it's hard to change

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Aww shucks I think I'll sit at the computer and post anouther thread rather than MOVE

[Bobby of Tulsa]

I think we talked about this before.

[Glen Longino]

http://www.4029tv.com/news/health/St...?absolute=true

looks like this study may be about what's driving me down

This is not news!
You've been talking about it for years!
You seem to lack any enthusiasm for your own good health, while you busy yourself telling other people what to do.
Shape up or ship out!

[Phillip Allen]

it's much, much easier to talk about it. I have tried a number of times to change my evil ways but it's done no good... think about my trip to Labrador, for instance.
All a high IQ ever did for me was to get me bored quickly and allow me to figure out the easiest way to do things... now age and chronic, mild depression has done the rest. If I were the suicide type, you guys would never have met me even here. I am a trudger. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other and will all the way to the grave.

For whatever reason(s), it doesn't worry me. I can certainly get frightened but it passes very quickly and so does not ‘drive’ me.

For what it’s worth, I rise every day thinking that I will find something to hold my attention… and it does happen sometimes.

I’m thinking about going back to school… I think it’s free for me now. I wonder what I should study?

[Curtism]

I wonder what I should study?

How about Phys Ed?

[Bobby of Tulsa]

A slow ten minute walk first thing in the morning before you eat anything, is a good fat burner. Keep your heart rate normal.

[Glen Longino]

"I wonder what I should study?"

Psychotherapy and Sociolology?

[Phillip Allen]

"I wonder what I should study?"

Psychotherapy and Sociolology?

already did that... at university

[Phillip Allen]

A slow ten minute walk first thing in the morning before you eat anything, is a good fat burner. Keep your heart rate normal.

I agree and have done so a number of times... just not frequently enough

[Phillip Allen]

How about Phys Ed?

a possibillity... I need to get hold of a college cataloge

[Glen Longino]

already did that... at university

Excuse #1!

[Glen Longino]

I agree and have done so a number of times... just not frequently enough

Excuse #2!

[Glen Longino]

a possibillity... I need to get hold of a college cataloge

Excuse #3!

[Phillip Allen]

well, excuuuse me!

[Curtism]

a possibillity... I need to get hold of a college cataloge

Cool, I was half kidding and half not as I've always thought it would be good to work with young folks in some capacity.

And +1 on the morning walks. I do 1 to 1 1/2 miles early each morning and if I miss for some reason, I feel it and the dog gets cranky. So, he's sort of my personal trainer and a constant source of inspiration.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

it's much, much easier to talk about it. I have tried a number of times to change my evil ways but it's done no good... think about my trip to Labrador, for instance.
All a high IQ ever did for me was to get me bored quickly and allow me to figure out the easiest way to do things... now age and chronic, mild depression has done the rest. If I were the suicide type, you guys would never have met me even here. I am a trudger. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other and will all the way to the grave.

For whatever reason(s), it doesn't worry me. I can certainly get frightened but it passes very quickly and so does not ‘drive’ me.

For what it’s worth, I rise every day thinking that I will find something to hold my attention… and it does happen sometimes.

I’m thinking about going back to school… I think it’s free for me now. I wonder what I should study?

I guarantee you I have a significantly higher IQ than you. Part of what I can see is that YOU THINK you are smart, you have yet to proove that to most on this forum in your near 50.000 posts so that says more than most IQ test. So since you don't like to do any followup or research any of your posts but only spout half truth statements, Whats your baseline for testing? What intelligent quotient testing are we using ? GENERAL FACTOR, Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory, J.P. Guilford's Structure of Intellect (1967) model? What are your numbers that you so cavalierly point to? I work out daily, keep my diet in check and have a fulfilling and complete life outside of this occasionally moribund forum.

If you are as you say and to be honest I care less about it than you think but may I simply say MOVE and you will feel better.

[switters]

volunteer a few hours of your week for something, anything. Afterschools programs, local PBS, American Legion, habitat for humanity

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Gee just think about the energy Aww Shucks could expend if he just took the time to google things before he posted them.

[B_B]

.... I rise every day thinking that I will find something to hold my attention… and it does happen sometimes...

Sweet Lord have mercy! The internet, or, rather, the WBF, holds your attention, that's fer sure!

a possibillity... I need to get hold of a college cataloge

You're sitting at a computer: google university of arkansas (you're welcome) they even have on-line courses since you've proven that the screen can hold your attention

[John Smith]

I read the thread title and thought he had joke to tell.

[Phillip Allen]

Sarah lost all her chickens last night... coons again... maybe I'll go hunting this evening... anyway, someone needs to feed the ticks

[Phillip Allen]

I read the thread title and thought he had joke to tell.

it was a title troll I suppose... also it IS a joke... a little black humor

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

AWWWW Shucks

[Phillip Allen]

Sweet Lord have mercy! The internet, or, rather, the WBF, holds your attention, that's fer sure!


You're sitting at a computer: google university of arkansas (you're welcome) they even have on-line courses since you've proven that the screen can hold your attention

it's people which hold my attention... physical presents in class is what will help

[LeeG]

volunteer a few hours of your week for something, anything. Afterschools programs, local PBS, American Legion, habitat for humanity

yep, my weight gain coincided with an internet addiction. Lost ten lbs by not bringing bread home.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Personal failures are too important to be trusted to others.

[B_B]

... physical presents in class is what will help

What, a right winger like you wants to be PAID to go to class?

[Glen Longino]

it's people which hold my attention... physical presents in class is what will help

Uh oh, looks like you want to go to class to show all those punk students and teachers how much you already know, like you try to do around here!
It does not work here...it won't work there. Forget it, and stick to simple walking, for the benefit of yourself and all the rest of us!

[PeterSibley]

Start walking Phil , go bird watching 3 miles away ... every day, I don't want to hear you've had a heart attack.

[Tom Montgomery]

Your inactivity places you in the American minority. Which explains why you are getting little sympathy.

[LeeG]

Start walking Phil , go bird watching 3 miles away ... every day, I don't want to hear you've had a heart attack.

that might cause a heart attack

[seanz]

I guarantee you I have a significantly higher IQ than you. Part of what I can see is that YOU THINK you are smart, you have yet to proove that to most on this forum in your near 50.000 posts so that says more than most IQ test. So since you don't like to do any followup or research any of your posts but only spout half truth statements, Whats your baseline for testing? What intelligent quotient testing are we using ? GENERAL FACTOR, Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory, J.P. Guilford's Structure of Intellect (1967) model? What are your numbers that you so cavalierly point to? I work out daily, keep my diet in check and have a fulfilling and complete life outside of this occasionally moribund forum.

Significantly? Define significant...........20 points perhaps? At least 10 points? Inquiring minds wish to know.

If you are as you say and to be honest I care less about it than you think but may I simply say MOVE and you will feel better.

It's Summertime, Phillip, you lucky, lucky ba$tard. I'm going for an "anti-fat" walk this morning and there's still frost on the ground.

[seanz]

that might cause a heart attack

Not if they're the feathered type of 'bird'.

[Hwyl]

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All a high IQ ever did for me was to get me bored quickly and allow me to figure out the easiest way to do things...

You've been hiding this for all these years!!! How about starting an online brick laying tutorial. The only rational posts you've had on here are when you were explaining what "shiners" were.

You could do it through one of the blogging sites.

[Glen Longino]

"Shiners"?
Oh, I've got to hear this!
How about it, Phillip?

[Hwyl]

"Shiners"?
Oh, I've got to hear this!
How about it, Phillip?

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthre...hlight=shiners

[JimD]

What, a right winger like you wants to be PAID to go to class?

Either that or he expects his classmates to bring him presents just for showing up. Here's an idea! He could use his free education to take a poli sci course on the evils of socialism.

[Glen Longino]

What a treat, Gareth....Thanks!

[seanz]

Onya, Fred Z !

It's an honour to be a 'Z', it truly is.

[Hwyl]

This is so many shades of bogus, I can't stand it! This is just another of your “feel sorry for me” threads, Phillip, and I won't let you have it.
I could have just chucked it all two and a half years ago when my wife died. Could have said, “Screw it. Everything sucks.” (I guess I did a few times), and given up. Instead, I took sailing lessons, even though I have a history of digestive problems, and figured I'd be hanging over the rail. I did feel queasy once, but I told myself no way in Hell, I'd let that happen now. I toughed it out, and got through it.
I took on a high risk job because I was getting complacent in my old one. It didn't pan out, and I was unemployed for 5-1/2 months, but now I'm starting a new career, and I have the possibility of a six figure income for the first time in my life.
In many ways, you remind me of my MIL. The only thing she wanted out of life was to be perceived as a victim. She had a B.S. In Sociology from the University of Illinois, but never worked a day at a job, never learned to drive, and constantly whined about her lot in life – trapped in a loveless marriage. All of her kids tried to help her out of it, but she was “too weak”. She couldn't even bear that her daughter was getting all the attention by dying of cancer, so she dropped off two days later so she could grab center stage.
It's not your “high IQ” that has you bored, it's your low expectations you set for yourself. Man up and do something worthwhile. I told myself that I didn't spend 56 years on this rock, just to go out with a whimper. I'm going to do a lot of good things with the rest of my life. I suggest you figure out how to do the same.


Last rant on this subject – Ever!

Preserved, pm me if you'd rather I delete it

[Paul Pless]

Bilge best quotes material. . .

She couldn't even bear that her daughter was getting all the attention by dying of cancer, so she dropped off two days later so she could grab center stage.

[Paul Pless]

You're sitting at a computer: google university of arkansas (you're welcome) they even have on-line courses since you've proven that the screen can hold your attention

F*** the University of Arkansas. Harvard and MIT have made their entire catalog of online courses and lectures available to anyone - for free. . .

[B_B]

F*** the University of Arkansas. Harvard and MIT have made their entire catalog of online courses and lectures available to anyone - for free. . .

All a high IQ ever did for me was to get me bored quickly and allow me to figure out the easiest way to do things...

Challenge accepted Mr. Pless!

[johnw]

it's much, much easier to talk about it. I have tried a number of times to change my evil ways but it's done no good... think about my trip to Labrador, for instance.
All a high IQ ever did for me was to get me bored quickly and allow me to figure out the easiest way to do things... now age and chronic, mild depression has done the rest. If I were the suicide type, you guys would never have met me even here. I am a trudger. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other and will all the way to the grave.

For whatever reason(s), it doesn't worry me. I can certainly get frightened but it passes very quickly and so does not ‘drive’ me.

For what it’s worth, I rise every day thinking that I will find something to hold my attention… and it does happen sometimes.

I’m thinking about going back to school… I think it’s free for me now. I wonder what I should study?

I'm guessing I'm at least as smart as you are, and I'm not bored at all. I find things to do with my brain -- find stuff out, figure stuff out, learn to do stuff I've never done before. You're not bored because you're smart, you're bored because you're not doing anything. Take a half-hour walk every day, learn what your neighborhood is like at 3 mph, find a topic that interests you and learn all you can about it.

Smart people aren't smart because they know things, they're smart because they learn things and figure things out. And that's not boring.

[LeeG]

Surprised no one has linked to "I'm not dead yet!"

[Joe Dupere]

You can't die until you've posted at least 5,035 more times. You're within reach of being a Bilge legend.

[Phillip Allen]

I'm guessing I'm at least as smart as you are, and I'm not bored at all. I find things to do with my brain -- find stuff out, figure stuff out, learn to do stuff I've never done before. You're not bored because you're smart, you're bored because you're not doing anything. Take a half-hour walk every day, learn what your neighborhood is like at 3 mph, find a topic that interests you and learn all you can about it.

Smart people aren't smart because they know things, they're smart because they learn things and figure things out. And that's not boring.

Hey, nice post... thank you very much