[ExI] addiction

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, on the advice of my doctor I began to use half decaf half caf.  It
tasted the same and it had no noticeable effect on me (I suspect bowel
movements would be more difficult - nope).  Then I went to 3/4 decaf with
the same result.  It does have an effect on blood pressure.   (coffee
without sugar -undrinkable)   bill w

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 4:30 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> *From:* spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 6 April, 2022 2:03 PM
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> *Subject:* RE: [ExI] addiction
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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] addiction
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> >…I do love my coffee, hot and black, nothing in it, just the pure rich
> substance which permeates the senses, awakens the enthusiasm for life, in a
> kind of a psychological bond of some sort.  Coffee just tastes like morning
> to me, it smells like victory.   spike
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> A play by Thornton Wilder, Our Town, was one which resonated with me many
> years ago when I read it as part of a school assignment.  The character
> Emily had perished, but some years later was given a vision or out-of-grave
> experience to visit her town.  She is astonished at how she now sees life,
> every day a gift, filled with ordinary things, all of them as miraculous as
> her post-life vision.  Eventually she is overcome with grief for having
> appreciated so little in her brief mortal existence.  In the last scene
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> “…I didn’t realize.  So all that was going on and we never noticed.  Take
> me back… up the hill… to my grave.  But first, WAIT!  One more look.
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> “Good-bye, good bye world.  Good-bye Grovers Corners… Mama and Papa.  Good
> bye to clocks ticking… and Mama’s sunflowers.  And food and coffee… And
> new-ironed dresses and hot baths… and sleeping and waking up.  Oh earth,
> you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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> Emily turns to the stage manager: “Do any human beings ever realize life
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> Stage manager: No.  The saints and poets maybe.  They do some…
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