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Friday, June 21, 2024
Nearly 500 Hajj heatwave deaths so far
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official death toll from this year's Hajj pilgrimage has soared to
almost 500 and the true toll could be more than double that as reports
emerged that as many as 600 Egyptian worshipers perished on the route to Mecca amid extreme heat.3 hours ago
Thursday, June 20, 2024
How philosophy and psychology saved my life when I took these courses in college:
I had been raised by two people who had never been to college. My father was a journeyman electrician and later an Electrical Contractor but had never been to college even though he was valedictorian of his Senior High School Class. His father wouldn't let any of his boys go to college which upset them all a lot.
Instead he trained them to be electricians and electrical contractors like himself.
So, growing up like this I was trained to be a Scientific Creationist which is a real thing. People in my church didn't want me to go to college because I might become a "Pinko" which was their name for a liberal which to them was a fate worse than death because they were all very conservative Republicans in my church.
However, I found that the things happening in my life were killing me from leaving my church because I was too progressive for the people there. Also, I was no longer a creationist as such because I realized both Creationism and Darwinism were both theories and not laws so I didn't have to believe in either of them really at all.
So, when I went to Palomar College I was sort of at wits end trying to make some sense of my life. Everything had changed. So, I began taking a college course in Philosophy with Mr. Sager who had been to a Zen Monastery in Japan as a part of his training as a college professor. He took an interest in me and I got to know he and his wife and he knew I was in a self destructive mode at that point so helped me by letting me speak in class. By then I wasn't worried about speaking up in college classes like I had been in high school. I had suffered too much by then and wanted to share my suffering and what I had learned through being knowledgeable about philosophy. So, I got an A in both Philosophy Classes I took from Mr. Sager and my life started to make sense again.
Also, in the Palomar College Library I found Psychology Today magazines. I had never studied psychology before and didn't really know much about it at all. This changed my life a lot too. So, when I realized the scientific nature of Psychology (I hadn't studied enough about it to fully appreciate it beyond popular psychology sayings and the like.
What I realized is that I was carrying the weight of the expectations of not only my parents but of all my relatives back around 1000 years from Switzerland and Scotland and that I saw the combination of things was literally going to cause me to self destruct by 25 years of age.
What I realized in studying psychology was that I needed to dump everything of this nature except what was going to keep me alive. So, I dumped 90% of what I felt burdened by by relatives going back 1000 years or more and found a way to survive past 25 years of age by reinventing myself into someone I could stand to be the rest of my life that I liked.
Becoming someone you like or making friends with yourself and increasing your integrity with yourself and all other beings that you can survive doing this with literally saved my life.
By God's Grace
I just found out the Maui Princess Dinner Cruise ship didn't burn down and sink in Lahaina fire
The reason I know it didn't sink is that it ran aground on May 21st 2024 and they were trying to offload the fuel then to re-float her. So, this means she didn't burn up and sink like most ships and boats did in Lahaina harbor then because most of the rest of them not rescued by crew members or the public did burn up and sink then. There was diesel fuel all over the harbor's waters and people were dying trying not to burn up in the diesel fuel and getting out into the ocean far enough to survive without drowning then last summer.
You can automatically translate my blog to almost any language:
Right below "Search this Blog" on the right of the page you can also see "Translate Page" and under that "Select Language". If you click on "Select Language" a menu of all the languages you can click on should show up and then you click on the language you want to translate it into. You can likely can expect depending upon the language around 75 to 90% accuracy in translations too.
I just heard on the news that the draft might be reinstituted in the U.S. in drafting all young men and young women
I think that our government has tried to put this off as long as they could. But now since war with Russia or China could spill over into Europe and the U.S. and Hawaii it might be necessary (our military thinks) that a new draft drafting all young men and women between the ages of 18 and 26 once again.
Drafting women should really upset a lot of people because drafting men 18 to 25 for Viet Nam killed around 50,000 boys my age in Viet Nam with countless others (millions) maimed for life from PTSD and physical war wounds as well. I still see homeless Viet Nam Vets on the streets in their 70s now.
So, if you draft women along with men just expect women homeless 50 years from now still out on the streets too with PTSD as well as men if they are fighting and sometimes dying overseas in some war or proxy war like the Viet Nam war or the Korean War once again. However, since the late 1970s we have eliminated the draft but now they are thinking of reinstating it once again.
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Is Lake Tahoe warm enough to swim in? 40 degrees in Winter up to 70 degrees in July:
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Is Lake Tahoe warm enough to swim in?
The surface water ranges from 40 degrees in winter to about 70 in summer. With that being said, July on average has the warmest waters. This is followed by August and September where they fluctuate between 65-70 degrees.Dec 5, 2023
The hotter it gets inland the cooler it tends to get here(most of the time) in summer here on the Norcal coast
As of 11:43 AM pacific Time it is presently 56 degrees here going for a high of 58 degrees today. For the ultimate contrast it is presently 102 degrees in Death Valley going for a high of 111 degrees today. Death Valley in the summer is usually the hottest place on earth. Part of the reason for this is that it is not only in the desert but up to 300 feet below sea level which is interesting too.
In Redding California one hour away from Mt. Shasta it is presently 85 degrees heading to 100 degrees today and Mt. Shasta is 77 degrees right now going to 87 degrees today. So, Mt. Shasta likely would be lovely today for example because you are at 3500 feet so it would be nice.
And Lake Tahoe is presently 63 degrees going to 73 degrees today which sounds like another nice place to be today:
Lake Tahoe is at 6000 feet so be sure you can handle that altitude before you go there.
My wife didn't listen to me one time we drove there and I told her: "There's smoke from a fire nearby in the air please don't unload the car into our hotel room." But, she didn't listen to me and spent the night in a hospital on oxygen from smoke inhalation. I had been through this kind of thing before a lot living in Mt. Shasta but she hadn't lived at altitude when there is smoke so didn't want to understand this.
But, smoke and altitude together puts a person in the hospital if they are not used to breathing a lot of smoke and not used to the altitude either. Something to think about this fire season especially in California and the western STates where fires happen a lot especially in the summers.
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