speed limit on the German autobahn for more stress-FREEDOM
A skateboarding extreme sportsman alarmed police by barreling down a stretch of the German autobahn at 100 kilometers per hour. The stunt made him a YouTube star and also the target of prosecutors. see full article:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,579013,00.html
My suggestions for making the German Autobahn safer and stress-FREE are:
1. Germany should adopt finally a speed limit – like every other single state. In order to preserve the spirit of adventure the limit should be fixed at
- 200 km/h (124 mph)for cars and
- 100 km/h (62 mph) for skateboarders.
2. The traffic should change from the right to the left side of the roads. This transitions should be made gradually:
- first the heavy trucks
- then the skateboarders
- at last the rest
stress-FREE eating can reduce your weight more than diet
German physician and nutritionist Gunter Frank demonstrated that your weight has more to do with stress than with what you eat and advises to stop getting stressed about food. The book entitled “Lizenz zum Essen: Warum Ihr Gewicht mehr mit Stress zu tun hat, als mit dem, was Sie essen” (meaning “License to Eat – Why Your Weight Is More Related To Stress Than To What You Eat” -not published so far in English) is called “revolutionary” by its German publishers (Piper) – but only because they have not studied and applied Epicurean practical stress-FREEDOM philosophy.
confusing life with eternal life
A Tuscan pharmacist – or his media consultants? – confused life with eternal life and thus his job with the job of professional promisers of afterlife:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,577426,00.html
DRINK CHIANTI AND LIVE FOREVER
Italian Elixir of Life Recreated
When a Tuscan pharmacist found a centuries-old recipe for a potion to live forever he decided to recreate it. Now the Chianti-based elixir will be produced on a commercial scale.
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The elixir’s recipe resonates with recent scientific studies that credit antioxidants in red wine with helping to stave off heart disease and other age-related illnesses.
The Bible – or at least Timothy 5-23 – is decidedly more Epicurean in this respect, recommending wine as a medicine for this life:
“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities….” http://bible.cc/1_timothy/5-23.htm
researching proverbs: familiarity
A series of research has been carried out with young people. The more they found out about each other, the less they liked each other. The author’s conclusion is that “familiarity does breed contempt”. This might even be plausible if the participants’ primary intention is pairing.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-familiarity-really-does-breed.php
In intentional communities (like e.g. the Epicurean friendship circles from 300 BCE till 500 CE, where the intention was ataraxia, i.e. stress-FREEDOM) knowledge of and respect for the other person is a precondition. For such communities the underlying principle is then “birds of a feather…”
congruent conversations
Robert Scoble’s “Naked Conversations” was last year one of my most valuable sources of inspiration to start this blog. Om Malik and Robert Sapolsky talk on his blog about the effects of stress on us:
http://scobleizer.com/2008/09/04/a-stress-free-morning-with-om-malik/
The tone quality was so poor that my un-American ears could grasp only 70-80% of the words spoken – but at least 100% of the body-language “words” 
While listening to these people talk about stress-freedom with their wrist-watches and cell-phones on and advertizing their books and sites I was automatically analyzing the incongruencies between their words and their body-language.
Until I realized that there was no incongruency at all: their body language was congruent with what they were really doing: advertizing their books, their websites, their insights, their persons – and NOT stress-FREEDOM.
besotting love
Lucretius and Esther Vilar have given the best descriptions and analyses of besotting love. We have all been forewarned. Still: it happens all the time:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,577900,00.html
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