Wednesday, July 30 Present-ing the past, future

Post 1245, Day 211 of 2014
- 1,307 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I am done with all this backward-looking. For now, anyway.

It doesn't help. It isn't a question of not learning from history, it is a matter of the history, as it is recalled, being grossly inaccurate.

Humans are a self-deluding species. I have to accept that I am, as well.
And, looking forward has approximately the same helpfulness as looking back (none, in case you started reading at this paragraph).

Making plans? Well, its fun, but it has the effect of distracting you from the present with fiction - fiction because nobody knows what is coming. Being distracted from the present is, of course, how I spend a lot of the present time.

Cause and effect makes no sense if time isn't the linear thing that we, as humans, see it in the sense-perceptual world. We don't know the effect of anything we do or say, or what percentage of our actions will cause a given future effect. 

When you start with the effect and look back at the cause, you usually find yourself with not one, but an incalculable number of them, many having a coincidental or unlikely  relationship that had to take place to create that effect. Then you fall down the rabbit hole of looking for the cause of those causes, and then you end up taking drugs and abandoning linear time altogether.

So, it's easier to look at effect and causes from the effect point of view (in fact, it's the only way), working back from the effect to its causes in the past. Easier, but not easy. 

And, like I said, looking at the past is something I'm going to try to avoid doing for a while.

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 Food and Diet Section

2014 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:          211.2 lbs

Previous Weight:         210.6 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:       + 0.6 lbs
       
Diet Comment

Late night eating, with carbs. Today, all restaurant food. SMH.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
At Ling-Ling's Chinese Buffet and Grill:

Brussels sprouts, kimchee, and, from the "Mongolian Grill", my go-to dish: pork and chicken with cabbage, onions, mushrooms, green peppers and broccoli.

Snack

Pepperoni and a small salad of baby kale, baby spinach, chard, cole slaw mix and creamy balsamic dressing.

Dinner

At Eskapes:

Grilled Ahi tuna steak with bacon on a mixed salad. and a glass of Pinot Noir Not shown: Black bean and lentil soup and a big cookie for dessert.

Snack

Celery with spicy homemade mayonnaise.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  40+ oz.   Water: 80+ oz. A glass of Pinot Noir

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