The Definition of Insanity
February 25th, 2024 | 
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I’ve been a little taken back that my piece on “Should You Exercise for Life,” has been getting a bit of traction on Linkedin. The story was essentially about two friends who found that exercising for life had benefits other than the physical.
However, I realise that these two gentlemen might be an exception. If I look closely at enough at the people around me, I realise that there’s one major problem with aging – namely the fact that you become rather resistant to change no matter how beneficial or necessary that change might be to your survival.
One of the reasons why “older” people are so resistant to change is because they tend to be better off. A guy who has worked ten years is more likely to have cash in the bank than a kid who started out. If you’ve been around somewhere for a decade or so, chances are you’ve found a formula of sorts to move on with life. When you think you have a formula, there’s no need to look for another one. By contrast a kid who just started out needs to experiment to find his or her formula to life.
However, if one looks at the pace of technological change, one will realise that established formulas are no longer reliable. What worked yesterday may not work today and quite often it takes “crisis” to force a change.
If you look at the two gentlemen in the previous posting, you’ll notice that both went through a personal crisis. This gave them the impetus to change the way they were doing things. Change in their lifestyle brought them back their health. Their improved health helped improve all other aspects of their lives.
However, I’ve realized that these gentlemen are a rare breed. Human beings can be so hard wired that even the threat of a decline in the quality of life and impending death can’t them to change. The most amusing example of this was found in a reality TV show called the “1000lbs Sisters,” which follows the story of two sisters whose combined weight is 1,000lbs (453kg). They can barely walk and the root cause of their health problems is painfully obvious their lifestyle is screwed up. The heavier sister (600 lbs or 272 kg) is particularly interesting. Despite being told that she’s likely to die unless she makes drastic changes, she persists in carrying on. Take a look at the following clip on how they don’t drink water – they drink “soda” to counteract sugar. The expression on dietician’s face is priceless:
The 1,000 Lbs sisters are merely the most public example of people who double down and refuse to change in the face of crisis. Recently met someone whose diabetes was so bad that he’s lost his hearing and had his toes amputated. Yet, he insists on drinking Coke and proudly declares that he does not take vegetables. Why do people let their health reach that stage and why can’t they see the problem even when its pounding upon them?
I’m not saying that I’m saintly. I’ve persisted in many sticking with many rough decisions when I should have cut earlier. I stayed married to the first wife longer than I should have. I should have started exercising in my 30s instead of waiting to be hospitalized in my late forties. I should have worked a blue-collar job alongside my freelance work earlier and thus had a better financial savings. I did make the adjustments but it took a while. Yes, not all the changes have been to my liking but it was better than the alternative, which was to be a poorer, sicker person.
Change in inevitable and if we’ve learnt anything from the last two-decades it should be that change is so constant that paradigms and formulas are constantly changing. What worked yesterday may not work today. I personally argue that the best form of crisis is called anticipation – the best way to manage a crisis is not to let it get to crisis stage in the first place. I’d also add that the worst form of crisis management is called – digging deeper – where you double down on the thing that brought you down in the first place. I recently met someone who wrote an email calling the judge an unflattering name. This fellow then proceeded to tell the police that he would do it again. I told him that he was begging to be slapped very hard and he’d lose what he wanted most (custody of his son). He insisted that his was a principled stance.
Many of us, myself included, tend to avoid problems instead of dealing with them head on. It’s a natural thing to not want to deal with the unpleasant. Then we hit “crisis” point. At that point we should be forced to deal with the crisis so that we survive and even bloom as a result of the crisis. Whilst we should anticipate crisis, we should, when they come around, use them to learn. Doing the same thing that brought the crisis in the first place is the very definition of insanity.
Tang Li
*Although I’ve been based mainly in Singapore for nearly two decades, I’ve had the privilege of being able meet people who have crossed borders and cultures. I’ve befriended ministers and ambassadors and worked on projects involving a former head of state. Yet, at the same time, I’ve had the privilege of befriending migrant labourers and former convicts. All of them have a story to tell. All of them add to the fabric of life. I hope to express the stories that inspire us to create life as it should be.
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The author is as good as Orwell. Tiny individual habits reflect the big social malaise. People stick to their ingrained choice, rigidly follow the scammers, and go into extinction. Bo pian. Must follow. Scammers know best.
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The thing is the INSANE thinks the “ordinary” /sane people are insane???
The world is upside down.
Men want to screw other men.
And,women want to screw other women.
And,they want the right to be parents.
Then,people decry war and killing but they also make loud noises for the RIGHT OF KILLING innocent unborn children?!
Some even say they don’t believe in God but they WORSHIP Satan?
Insane or not,this world is surely getting CRAZY!
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Regarding moral/physical self-improvement as “boot-strapping”: Why should we not be able to morally improve ourselves? Once we can imagine the better version of ourselves, it is up to our wills and self-discipline to attain it. Yep. Hope and Change. Hope and Change!! Just like a ‘baldie’ trying to salvage his own hair by NOT thinking TOO MUCH. ;-)
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Tang Li:
They can barely walk and the root cause of their health problems is painfully obvious their lifestyle is screwed up.
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The 1,000 Lbs sisters are merely the most public example of people who double down and refuse to change in the face of crisis. Recently met someone whose diabetes was so bad that he’s lost his hearing and had his toes amputated. Yet, he insists on drinking Coke and proudly declares that he does not take vegetables. Why do people let their health reach that stage and why can’t they see the problem even when its pounding upon them?
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Many opposition supporters are like that, they want freedom from responsibility.
Opposition buy into Western/Americunt:
1. Freedom without Responsibility
2. Demoncracy without Responsibility
3. Human Rights without Responsibility.
I have seen many of these people in my 8 years of voluntary work.
Always blame others except themselves.
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Don’t try to boast and claim credit.
Given your attitude shown here, it’s highly likely you did more harm than good.
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有人一直说堕胎是谋杀未生婴孩。
从科学角度来说，这的确是。
人的一生，从呱呱坠地开始，婴儿做的第一件事就是哭。几十年后，两脚一伸，盖棺定论，家人围绕，又免不了哭哭啼啼来收场。
一个以哭开始，又以哭作收场的过程，到底对自己，对傍人，对大众，对众生的意义是什么？
拿这个一千磅姐妹为例（不是在物化她们，只是贴文拿她们来解说贴文者要表达的，就借用这个例子。反正在网络上关于她们的个资很多）她们存在的意义是什么？
每一个人的一生，都必需进食。就算是全素食的人，吃的也是生命，也都在缩减其他生命的空间和资源。现在地球最迫切的问题就是可持续性。越多的人来到这个世界，这个世界的可持续性就会受到更大的冲击。如果说到人越多就会有更多磨擦，就会有更多冲突，甚至战争。所有的生命都是宇宙的一部分，都应该有他们所属的空间！
从宏观角度来看，堕胎并非一无可取。
愿地球永续长存，愿万物欣欣向荣。
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The beautiful earth is mine. Others can go to hell.
Some people think like that. They are also narcists.
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This is where oriental philosophical thought is radically different from occidental thinkers. The fundamentals of the theory of causation and the theory of determinism are not the same.
This entire argument is nothing but the process of evolution from ignorance into awareness. Read tantric theology, there is no concept of the occidental sin niether and concept of paap (bad deeds) or punya (good deeds). There is only actions arising out of ignorance or actions arising out of awareness. When one becomes fully conscious, he transforms into a pure witness. A pure witness does not react to an act. He acts free from reactions. He acts from the position of a witness. Not from the position of a doer. The question would remain: how can determinism, objective randomness, help in any way whatever to make you responsible for your actions? The answer to this question is easy. It can’t. None of us are ever truly free from this programming. Everyone of us have to interact with social components on an ongoing basis through our lives.
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EXTREME IN$anity among THE POWERFUL N RIC will cause even greater “destruction” ,not just disruption.
The RICH N POWERFOOL$ will destroy more jobs with so-called “AI”.
Humans fail to understand that “Too much of a seemingly ‘GOOD THING’ is good for NOTHING”!
With more jobs destroyed,we must ultimately face lowering of Aggregate Consumption,it will just be a matter of time.
Maximi$ation at all costs is not the same as OPTIMIsATION.
Their outcomes are different.
When will humans ever learn?
Where have all the wise humans gone?
Long time passing…
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Time will show that AI will make the Rich and Powerful,richer and more powerful leaving the poor and weak,poorer and weaker.
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Tell you what is INAANITY.
Go ponder.
Taylor Swift?
Even G leaders are over the moon???
$pin-offs?
HOW MUCH?
In JAPAN,$305 M I L L I O N.
WHOA!
BIG $UM.
Really?
What about Halimak-Hengkia DUET?
$100 BILLION O N L Y.
Her “LYRICS” very inspiring?
Better than even Buddha’s or Jesus???
Even all educated young think their parents’ advices are nonsense???
Taylor Swift’s?
Inspiring ?
Well,maybe I am too dull in mind.
You see,I rather read Buddha’s words or the Bible for INSPIRATIONS FREE OF CHARGE.
LKY WAS RIGHT,THERE ARE MORE DAFT SGS THAN QE THOUGHT.
SAD.
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I did not boast nor claim credit.
I am sharing the hard truth experience of a foot volunteer.
At one of Bedok kopitiam, there is this group of old uncle/auntie every time criticized and condemned our great PAP.
One of my volunteer partner decided to engage them while eating and ask them what should government do so that they are happy.
Their answer?
“Government MUST provide EVERY THING FREE”
Hahaha…even Americunt and its allies also don’t give FREE AIDS to Ukraine.
Chinacunt also don’t give FREE AIDS.
Yet we have moron old uncle/auntie demanding FREE AIDS. Everything FREE.
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Is health Care Free in the UK?
The United Kingdom has a national health service (NHS) with access based on clinical need, and not ability to pay. All individuals, irrespective of their nationality or immigration status, are eligible to access primary, emergency and compulsory psychiatric care, free of charge.
Free Riders see only what his master wants him to see. Then he blames others for seeing more than him.
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Hahaha..UK gives FREE medical care?
You are idiot, good canon fodder trusting every words of Anglo Saxon lies.
Please answer this question. Don’t run away.
Why Yee-King Ho did not get Free Medical care from your Anglo Saxon master?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dedicated-woman-27-took-life-29043376
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Calling Free Healthcare, where are you?
Come tell us where is your Anglo $axon FREE Medical Care ?
Cannot answer my question and ran away with tails between your legs?
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You are such a congenital liar you cannot see the truth right in your face.
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The truth right in my face is migrant Hong Kee Yee-King Ho did not get any FREE HEALTH CARE as claim by you in your post.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dedicated-woman-27-took-life-29043376
Free Healthcare, please answer my question: Where is the UK FREE HEALTH CARE for migrant Hong Kee Yee-King Ho?
Your Anglo $axon PM Sunak said : If you can’t contribute to the UK, you’re not coming to the UK/
https://shorturl.asia/KVt58
Any Opposition here want to help answer this question?
Maybe you Opposition can try to snake your way out by saying health care is NOT medical care…hahahaha
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You behave like a primary school kid: Take a picture and tell a creative story. You take a news link and tell your own “creative” story. Zero fact. All imagination.
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You are an idiots.
You only read the headlines. Why you dare not scroll down to read more details?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dedicated-woman-27-took-life-29043376
You can also google it for details you know.
But first, tell us where is the UK FREE HEALTH CARE for migrant as you claim?
I am ready to get TRE to sue you for spreading fake news if you cannot substantiate your claim.
Any Opposition here want to help this opposition idiot Free Healthcare?
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If you don’t like to read, you can watch YT video.
Canadian : UK use Yee-King Ho as canon fodder then dumped her.
https://shorturl.asia/pukrc
Where is your proof that UK provide FREE HEALTH CARE to Hong Kong migrant Yee-King Ho ?
If you cannot proof that migrant Yee-King Ho receive FREE HEALTH CARE from UK, TRE must ban you for spreading fake news and follow up with a law suite for making use of TRE to spread fake news.
Freedom come with Responsibility….keep that in mind.
Please share my post to as many as possible.
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The proof of free healthcare in UK is all over the web. You are really an idiot to keep on asking for proof.
There is no need to prove that that woman received free healthcare. On the contrary, it is up to you to prove that she was denied access to UK’s free healthcare. Your link says nothing about healthcare.
You need to follow Simon’s order: Think. Don’t try to sue people to submit to your lies.
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This info is for anyone who’s interested. It is also to stfu of Free Rider..
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-entitlements-migrant-health-guide#free-for-all
Free services
GP and nurse consultations in primary care, treatment provided by a GP and other primary care services are free of charge to all whether registering with a GP as an NHS patient, or accessing NHS services as a temporary patient. A temporary patient is someone who is in the area for more than 24 hours and less than 3 months.
For secondary care services, the UK’s healthcare system is residence-based. This means that you must be living lawfully in the UK on a properly settled basis to be entitled to free healthcare.
People who are not ordinarily resident in the UK may be required to pay for their care when they are in England. However, some services and some individuals are exempt from payment.
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So,healthcare is not free.
But healthcare COSTS here in $in City is EXPENSIVE,anyone can honestly disagree?
Doctors and hospitals are OVER-CHARGING.
Even pharmacies are over-charging.
Who can say not?
I dare hazard MEDICAL COSTS have accelerated much faster than even private housing.
Of course HDB AT $1.5 M is total in$unity and irresponsibility!
COL IS INSANE and if our G does not correct it,it will turn into a National Nightmare eventually.
Talking about insanity?
EXTREME GREED IS SIMPLY INSANE!
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Oh,BTW,I am not against other people’s preferences for Swiftian Mu$ic.
But to me,I tried listening to her songs repeatedly but don’t find any inspiration as professed by some Govt leaders.
All I could find is AMERICANI$M in SwifTOLOGY?
As for $wiftnomics,even the crazy Americans lifted the $tock Market during a pandemic?!
Guess I am too dull-minded to assimilate current American Logic???
After all,Americans say killing innocent war victims is wrong but murdering UNBORN BABIES IS ALL DEMOCRATIC AMERICANS’ RIGHT?
I simply can’t get it.
Maybe because I am “old fashion”?
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Opposition idiot Free Healthcare contradict himself and slap himself.
First he post this claiming UK Healthcare is FREE.
Upon challenge from me, the proud PAP supporter, Opposition idiot post this with more details:
Opposition idiot Free Healthcare, it is proven that non UK citizens have to pay. Even your Opposition rice aka xoxo also agree that it is not Free for migrants.
Opposition idiot aka West canon fodder Free Healthcare has been proven beyond dount that he lies to spread fake news against our great PAP government.
Conclusion: Opposition lies with the help of foreign propaganda news media.
FICA must be used on Opposition.
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Your stupidly is at rock bottom. So clearly posted for you to see, and you cannot read the simple English.
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The old uncles are experienced, and they likely lived through the 50s and 60s where healthcare was very cheap. And they probably know that the UK ex colonial master had free healthcare for any decades.
Free healthcare is a sustainable policy. They know. Unlike some young frogs in the well. They claim there is no free healthcare in the world. These frogs shut their eyes and ears, and scream, “No such thing. No such thing. We sue you for fake news.” FROGS.
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Facts:
Opposition caught lying and try to twist and turn to wriggle their way out of the lies they spew.
Remember Opposition Raeesah Khan’s lie?
Today we remember another lies by Free Healthcare and PSP Leong Mun Wai.
Period.
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