Author: armenhov

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Checking in…

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Keeping it short: no new issues; however, everything I complained about before is getting somewhat worse—some things just slightly, others a bit more noticeably.

In the “slightly” category are: vision, focus and memory (Idiometrics score now often exceeds my previous record), shortness of breath, and a few other things I mentioned before.

More noticeable are the joint pains, especially in my right shoulder, which I injured 15 or so years ago when I fell off a rock. My right knee and both ankles are giving me a hard time too. Should I replace them all or there will be advanced ways to repair them in future? Questions, doubts…

The shoulder pain made me change my sleeping position and enlist the help of a few additional pillows. I had slept in that position my entire life, so the change was difficult, and falling asleep is still a problem.

That’s all I wanted to share. Hopefully, there will be more exciting stuff to tell you in the future. I’ve heard the changes accelerate with age. I can’t say I’m looking forward to it, though…

Yearly Update

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This one is well overdue, since it’s already year 2026, but, honestly there was little to report on my aging or health. No major developments so far, the issues I mentioned in previous posts are either stable or, in some cases, there even are minor improvements (no explanation, must be temporary). So, I’ll just post my current photo, perhaps it will illustrate changes that I’ve missed. Here you go:

Дорога к Храму

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“Зачем нужна дорога, которая не ведёт к храму?” – спросила старая женщина из известного фильма: “Покаяание”, и эта фраза сразу завоевала популярность среди людей. Звучит красиво, как-бы противопоставляя духовное материальному. Но, на мой взгляд, от дорог, которые не ведут к храму, почти всегда больше пользы, или, по крайней мере, меньше вреда, чем от дорог, которые ведут к разного рода храмам. И дело тут совсем не в материальности, просто не надо отождествлять духовность и религию.

Keep Your Hopes Up

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For a rational mind, based on facts and science, there may be little doubt that we cease to exist after death. Of course, one can’t rule out the possibility that we live in some kind of simulated reality — but since this can be neither proved nor disproved, you’re free to believe it if it helps.

In fact, that might be the most rational choice, and here’s why: if death is the end, you won’t be around to regret being wrong, but while you live, that belief can make things feel less miserable. It will let you hold on to hope until the very last moment — and then, in case you were wrong? Well, nothing, as I already mentioned in one of my previous posts.

The One Habit of Highly Effective People

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I believe, the difference between ordinary and effective people is the way they decide on their actions. The ordinary people, more often than not, base their decision on how they would feel while doing or not doing something; the more successful ones decide what to do based on how they will feel after they do or don’t do it.
And, as you might guess, I haven’t followed this rule enough myself.

History Lessons

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I was about to write a smart-ass comment, something like: “We learn from history that we do not learn from history”, but then I thought the quote is so obvious that somebody should have said something similar in the past. I did some searching an and voila: Hegel in his “Lectures on the Philosophy of History” wrote:
“What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history.”

Bummer… Still, I think, my version sounds better 🙂

One More Time About Relativity…

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I just thought that my long explanation in these 7 posts, including the summary, might be a bit confusing; so I’m making another attempt to seal it with even terser summary. Here it is:

The illusion of time dilation is nothing more than Doppler effect: if two observers are moving away from each other, each of them will see the events from the other observer as happening slower, when they turn around and start moving to each other, the events/time of the other observer will seem to happen faster, and when they meet their theoretically precise clocks (not the atomic clocks also affected by the doppler effect – don’t start again on that “evidence” of time dilation) will show exactly the same time.

That’s all I wanted to say. It was good to get that out of my chest…

Getting Older

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You know, I used to write poetry many years ago. Perhaps one day I’ll publish some of that old crap here. But time to time I feel the urge to write again and some lines are coming to my head now and then, which I never write down. So few years ago, I had some lines in my head, and it has something like: “… There still will be another dance, another song, another thrill…” and more in that vein. I no longer remember that one, but, some new lines are starting to emerge by themselves, and they contain things like “… Never again…” and “… won’t feel the thrill…”. I guess, this is just another symptom of getting old.