You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it

Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by skeeter2020 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:19AM (#40157196)

>> I try to avoid doing dumb, damaging, or boring things twice.

As a parent I tell my kids: "Make lots of mistakes. Learn from them and don't repeat them; avoid the fatal ones". Then I try to remember my own words before I chastize them for their multitude of dumb decisions (teenage boys)...

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by riskable on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:47AM (#40157540)

To be fair, you have avoided the fatal ones. So at the very least you're not a hypocrite.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by Eisenstein on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:59AM (#40159157)

If someone is a current smoker and they eventually die of lung cancer, would you say that they avoided the fatal decision up until they died?

I mean, in the long we are all dead, but we have to say that there can be ultimately fatal decisions made in which the person does not immediately die.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by shswkna on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:49PM (#40160791)

We start aging, i.e. heading for death, the moment we are born. And with every breath henceforth. Some faster, some slower. So it is relative, in every sense.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by consf on Friday April 26, 2024 @03:19PM (#40172974)

The importance of embracing mistakes as opportunities for growth and learning

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