I suffer from coronary artery disease, mostly genetic in origin, but likely aided by lifestyle decisions. Despite knowing that both my father and brother had this disease that ultimately resulted in multiple surgical procedures, I continued my poor lifestyle choices until confronted with the inevitable.
Now, I'm not my idea of a puritan but I do believe one should make decisions that effect their lives and those of others with care and consideration. Not a matter of morality (to me), just prudence. I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
At least a joint gets you high and a cigar can taste nice...
At the next difficult situation when all his instruments were breaking down, he started it again.
Now he is worse than before, he is a literal chain-smoker. He can't go to the toilet without it, igores smoking/non-smoking zones totally, that is unless I am in his presence to complain loudly. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
that is unless I am in his presence to complain loudly.
Why do you complain?? Just leave him alone.
For one, I can't 'leave him alone' -- he's my boss, I work under him, you know... Second, his smoke won't leave me alone, when he puffs full all the jointly used rooms where he would not be allowed to, unlike in his own room -- in particular the toilet, which has poor ventillation, and the alley, from where in seeps into every room (including mine) across non-airtight doors. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
Depending on how you relate to him, maybe you can give him positive ideas to not light up, like what makes you glad that you don´t smoke. Those ideas should come from him, but if you are stuck with an addict, don´t remind him how bad he really is because it won´t work. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. --Charu Saxena.
he's getting the attention he craves, and is asking for by exhaling in your presence...
appeals to better nature work better than banging the guilt drum... neither is guaranteed to gave an effect, as smoking, like any other autolesionismo, is more symptom than disease.
the disease is a black hole where love belongs. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
Barely a day went by that he did not remind me, somehow, CHF would kill him. At the same age as his father almost to the day. He was uncanny or incommensurate, Catholic or Jewish, that way. I mean in his attitude toward living as he willed rather than as others would will him. I wanted him to fight death with every centilla of his being. More important, I wanted him to enjoy it. I wanted to know that every day, every hour, every minute.
Silly.
rg's essay reminds me how many and how few pleasures society --infinite other-- permits a body. Dressing continence in reasons. So many reasons minced and served from cradle to grave to induce perversity from jouissance in just one other ...
This made me laugh a little.
Law does not ignore the bed. Take, for example, the fine common law on which the practice of concubinage, which means to sleep together, is based. What I am going to do is begin with what remains veiled in law, namely, what we do in that bed -- squeeze each other tight (s'étreindre).. I begin with the limit, a limit with which one must indeed begin if one is to be serious, in other words, to establish the series of that which approaches it. A word here to shed light on the relationship between law (droit) and jouissance. 'Usufruct' --that's a legal notion, isn't it?-- brings together in one word what I already mentioned in my seminar on ethics, namely, the difference between utility (l'utile) and jouissance. What purpose does utility serve? That has never been well defined owing to the prodigious respect speaking beings have, due to language, for means. 'Usufruct' means that you can enjoy (jouir de) your means, but must not waste them. When you have the usufruct of an inheritance, you can enjoy the inheritance (en jouir as long as you don't use up too much of it. That is clearly the essence of law -- to divide up, distribute, or reattribute everything that counts as jouissance. What is jouissance? Here it amounts to no more than a negative instance (instance). Jouissance is what serves no purpose (ne sert à rien).
A word here to shed light on the relationship between law (droit) and jouissance. 'Usufruct' --that's a legal notion, isn't it?-- brings together in one word what I already mentioned in my seminar on ethics, namely, the difference between utility (l'utile) and jouissance. What purpose does utility serve? That has never been well defined owing to the prodigious respect speaking beings have, due to language, for means. 'Usufruct' means that you can enjoy (jouir de) your means, but must not waste them. When you have the usufruct of an inheritance, you can enjoy the inheritance (en jouir as long as you don't use up too much of it. That is clearly the essence of law -- to divide up, distribute, or reattribute everything that counts as jouissance.
What is jouissance? Here it amounts to no more than a negative instance (instance). Jouissance is what serves no purpose (ne sert à rien).
In other words, you kind words, I do what I can, and we will see, until I cannot. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Belated condolences. My mother lost my father when he was 45, she was 35 and I was 12. She was racked with grief for almost a year. It is such a rare thing to find someone with whom you can have the kind of relationship you had. You seem to be doing well. Best wishes. If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
