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What I've Learnbed In 69 Years Of Life


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2017 Oct 23, 5:10am   3,782 views  16 comments

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By the grace of God and the help of a long-list of kind and wonderful people starting with my wife Elena and my daughter Anna, I have made it to 69 years. I outlived my dear father by nine years. So what wisdom do I have to share with you?

1) You only become an old person when you close your mind to new ideas and possibilities.

2) Never underestimate an opponent/ Hillary Clinton is living proof of this!

3) Never trust any politician anywhere in the world.

4) Never get caught without money. Financial institutions fail. Keep your money in several different financial institutions. If one fails, you do not lose all.

5) If you are fortunate enough to have built up some assets in life, protect them from arbitrary seizures. Get a good lawyer and set up a trust. Do good estate planning.

6) What you remember most in life is the people who were kind to you and helped you when you were in bad trouble.

7) Exercise at least 45 minutes each day.

8) Be happy when you get up each morning. Don't be depressed and sad. Don't let your problems overwhelm you. When I was a young child, I knew the Gluckman family in Houston. They were a nice couple who ran a shoe-repair shop. Only a few knew that they had survived the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Every day they were happy to be alive and happy to be with each other.

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1   HEY YOU   2017 Oct 23, 10:42am  

You old codger! You got there two months before me. roflmao.

"So what wisdom do I have to share with you?"
Get off Patnet before one goes crazy?
Avoid the "horrors"!
2   missing   2017 Oct 23, 11:04am  

ohomen171 says
By the grace of God and the help of a long-list of kind and wonderful people ... I have made it to 69 years


Or maybe it's thanks to science?
3   anonymous   2017 Oct 23, 4:28pm  

HEY YOU said " you got there two months before me"

Wow a near 70 year old renter - your mom must be so proud!

Have you thought about doing anything to reduce your housing costs in your old age? Say, maybe buy a gun and inset it in your mouth? I think you should look into doing that.
4   WookieMan   2017 Oct 23, 5:13pm  

anonymous says
Say, maybe buy a gun and inset it in your mouth? I think you should look into doing that.

@Patrick. HEY YOU can annoy me much of the time. I don't particularly like or understand most of his commentary here. His online shtick runs its course very quickly for those new to it. But this type of comment from an anonymous user is garbage, hence why I dislike it being allowed (anon posting). Free speech and anonymity are beautiful things. But I'm not certain it's possible in an online forum. At least put a generic username, linked to the IP address (anonymous_25 or similar), so we know who the true scumbags are.

Kill yourself with a gun? Unless you did serious harm or killed a family member of mine, that's some seriously twisted shit to say.
5   Patrick   2017 Oct 23, 5:21pm  

@wookieman you are right. I will do that.
6   Ceffer   2017 Oct 23, 5:24pm  

I have learned never to let Harvey Weinstein near my pussy unless it results in a three picture deal or a large out of court settlement.
7   WookieMan   2017 Oct 23, 5:27pm  

Patrick says
@wookieman you are right. I will do that.

Thanks.

I'm sure the special snowflakes comments will come raining down. That's fine. I don't care. Online or in real life there's at least a minimum level of decorum that all should live by. Push the boundaries online, that's fine. Wishing death on someone, that you don't even know, is just crap.
8   anonymous   2017 Oct 23, 5:37pm  

Wookie - don't be a such a pussy.

OP - I can tell you with certainty that the other living generations mostly don't give a single fuck about your boomer "wisdom." Save it for yourself and your other selfish fucked up compadres. Your parents are the ones we listened to when they were alive, as we grew older. But you all - you're totally fucked up and have contributed absolutely nothing compared to what you were blessed with at birth.
9   The Original Bankster   2017 Oct 23, 5:37pm  

Boomers didnt earn anything. they stole from future generations.
10   WookieMan   2017 Oct 23, 6:01pm  

anonymous says
Wookie - don't be a such a pussy.

Haha! Nice keyboard muscles buddy! Gave me a good laugh.

If you weren't such an ass, we actually might be on the same page about your boomer comment. I actually kind of agree with you. But you lost any respect you remotely should receive the second you told someone to fucking blow their head off essentially.
11   Ceffer   2017 Oct 23, 6:04pm  

KILL THE BOOMFUCKS! KILL THEM ALL!
12   RWSGFY   2017 Oct 23, 6:10pm  

FP says
ohomen171 says
By the grace of God and the help of a long-list of kind and wonderful people ... I have made it to 69 years


Or maybe it's thanks to science?


Or pure luck?
13   anonymous   2017 Oct 23, 8:13pm  

Anons are lots of people. Probably Patrick sometimes too. This version of Anon did not joke about HEY YOU. And it was a joke (and due to the renter quip I'm guessing it's someone like Roberta), so basically I was telling you, Wookie, to relax about it.
14   WookieMan   2017 Oct 23, 8:27pm  

anonymous says
This version of Anon did not joke about HEY YOU. And it was a joke (and due to the renter quip I'm guessing it's someone like Roberta), so basically I was telling you, Wookie, to relax about it.

I'll listen to any reasoning, but....
anonymous says
HEY YOU said " you got there two months before me"

Wow a near 70 year old renter - your mom must be so proud!

Have you thought about doing anything to reduce your housing costs in your old age? Say, maybe buy a gun and inset it in your mouth? I think you should look into doing that.

There's not a whole lot to dispute here. I stated I'm not particularly fond of HEY YOU's bit here. This comment isn't necessary though. You could call him a plethora of names. That's annoying, but perfectly juvenile and harmless. Telling someone to stick a gun in their mouths is out of bounds in my book. Don't really care if it was a joke.

I'm way more laid back than it comes across in this comment. I just think the comment was completely gutless, low life and out of bounds. You're free to disagree and I'm not going to go much further with this. I don't get into opinion pissing matches. These type of comments will be made indefinitely into the future. I can't stop them. From time to time, I will display my dislike of them.

My main purpose was to let Patrick know that I don't think the anonymous (no linking of comments to a specific IP or anything) experiment is working all that well. Comments like this one prove it in my book. I know not everyone agrees, but that's fine.
15   MrMagic   2017 Oct 23, 9:27pm  

ohomen171 says
What I've Learnbed


What's a "learnbed"?
16   just_passing_through   2017 Oct 23, 10:08pm  

ohomen171 says
So what wisdom do I have to share with you?


Great advice!

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