<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 4:30 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_5356282074048093127WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 6 April, 2022 2:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'ExI chat list' <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ExI] addiction<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] addiction<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…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<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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 Emily opines:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">“…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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">“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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Emily turns to the stage manager: “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every every minute?”<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Stage manager: No. The saints and poets maybe. They do some…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-right:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in;margin:5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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