Where is Gandalf?

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Gandalf hath genuflecteth in the thine Woods
Where dark lord Al hath foraged the Chicken of the Woods
And all the goods
And Robin Hood's
Shoulds and Coulds and Woulds

Miles hath walketh in thine Parketh in South Koreath, with hith long legs patht the youngeth Korean womeneth, Oh! How he strideth!

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Meeting this guy in February in Noksapyeung

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@Gandalf loves these things, the Koreans are big on them, will meet this guy in Feb 2023

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Miles has met this guy's son, and we are all planning a meal together

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Miles has accepted to be my fitness coach and I am in training in South Korea now. I have just arrived at Seoul Station. The day before I left, I made this workout video and now Miles will be taking over the difficult task of fitness coach. I promised him I would cut out whipped cream and blueberries.

Arrival in Seoul MeSeoulStation.jpg
the photo says 2017 but it is a computer glitsch. Everybody knows I was in New York City in 2017

Latest workout pre-Miles-as-fitness-guru

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How about a coach/trainee selfie?

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How about a coach/trainee selfie?

I been pushin for it but Miles, like some others (ahem), is not comfortable on camera. Let's you and me pose on Balneario Monserrate with El Yunque in the background. My fat stomach will not block out the view by then --- Miles is a tough trainer.

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a beautiful meal for @Gandalf

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Jordan Peterson topic: I do not want to judge other people in terms of whether or not they have a good excuse for their situations or if they have a bad excuse for their situations. I am not inside of their heads and so I cannot make that assumption and I cannot be the judge. It is a case by case basis. Some people have good excuses for their situations and their failures while other people have poor excuses for the situations and their failures. It is a case-by-case basis and I do not want to be the judge because I am not the judge of other people. I don't want to be the judge of other people.

Jordan Peterson means well and he has helped a lot of people but often he generalizes too much in order to make his points. Millions and millions of people have been traumatized during their childhoods and they suffer from psychiatric or emotional or cognitive disorders because of that and they cannot just simply snap out of it. Tens of millions of people have had their lives degraded and corroded by emotional problems that last a lifetime from cradle to grave. They should all try as hard as they can but if they fail, I am not going to be the judge to tell them that they need to take responsibility and do better. I am not going to be the judge to tell them that they have poor excuses and they are copping out.

I am not going to be the one who points fingers at certain people and says "you and you and you have excellent excuses for your failures because you could not do any better than that, however those other people over there have very poor excuses for their failures and blamed other people for their failures when in fact they could have overcome their terrible situations by changing their behavior."

It is veiled judgmentalism and it is very presumptuous. There is no way anybody can get inside of other people's heads to decide whether or not they have a valid reason for their poor decisions and their failures. We do not know that and we cannot know that.

The only thing you can know is what is inside of your own head and that is all you can make statements or judgments about, and even then you could be off Target.

@Gandalf

[Saddo]

Who

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Who

Saddo has definitely nailed it. Gandalf should have been back by now, and this makes signal that it was a sock account all along. All the poems that he has written may have been ghost written. Tic may be the actual writer, except for this gem that I know for a fact Miles penned sober:

"shoebox Lou Reed"

Take a Walk on the wild side
Even if walrus keeps posting
Poems from the grateful Dead

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[Beanz]

You are right man.

"Nothing like the ocean"

'Where for art thou, old grey wizard?
staff room, in bloom
flailing lizard,

Overland and out of sea,
nothing like a manatee,
slender bender,
self imposed post , post defender
rice cooking smash pot, fender bender


Grizzle that gizzard me old muck
out of pencils full of luck
Cor blimey guvnor, fuck a duck

Some missing pieces,
line caught red herring
where the fudge is
Reggy Perrin?

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You are right man.

"Nothing like the ocean"

'Where for art thou, old grey wizard?
staff room, in bloom
flailing lizard,

Overland and out of sea,
nothing like a manatee,
slender bender,
self imposed post , post defender
rice cooking smash pot, fender bender


Grizzle that gizzard me old muck
out of pencils full of luck
Cor blimey guvnor, fuck a duck

Some missing pieces,
line caught red herring
where the fudge is
Reggy Perrin?

This makes me realize that I should never have attempted any poetry myself. You can really spin and unfurl and scatter some real visual matter and leave the other poets in tatters.

Currently Lisbōa, preceded by Madera and the Azores.

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17th day so far in Portugal