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  1. 🍷✨ Ah, another riveting tale of someone discovering the earth-shattering #benefits of not being perpetually sloshed. We're treated to a year-long saga of #abstinence, where quitting booze becomes a pseudo-academic quest rivaling Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Spoiler: Life is marginally better without hangovers—who would've thought? 🤔🎉
    dynomight.net/drinking/ #journey #sober #living #self-discovery #health #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🍷✨ Ah, another riveting tale of someone discovering the earth-shattering #benefits of not being perpetually sloshed. We're treated to a year-long saga of #abstinence, where quitting booze becomes a pseudo-academic quest rivaling Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Spoiler: Life is marginally better without hangovers—who would've thought? 🤔🎉
    dynomight.net/drinking/ #journey #sober #living #self-discovery #health #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 🍷✨ Ah, another riveting tale of someone discovering the earth-shattering #benefits of not being perpetually sloshed. We're treated to a year-long saga of #abstinence, where quitting booze becomes a pseudo-academic quest rivaling Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Spoiler: Life is marginally better without hangovers—who would've thought? 🤔🎉
    dynomight.net/drinking/ #journey #sober #living #self-discovery #health #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🍷✨ Ah, another riveting tale of someone discovering the earth-shattering #benefits of not being perpetually sloshed. We're treated to a year-long saga of #abstinence, where quitting booze becomes a pseudo-academic quest rivaling Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Spoiler: Life is marginally better without hangovers—who would've thought? 🤔🎉
    dynomight.net/drinking/ #journey #sober #living #self-discovery #health #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🍷✨ Ah, another riveting tale of someone discovering the earth-shattering #benefits of not being perpetually sloshed. We're treated to a year-long saga of #abstinence, where quitting booze becomes a pseudo-academic quest rivaling Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Spoiler: Life is marginally better without hangovers—who would've thought? 🤔🎉
    dynomight.net/drinking/ #journey #sober #living #self-discovery #health #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

  6. I was raised on #hedonism and old habits die hard. Sometimes I indulge, though I know it’s a fool’s game. I have “junkie-reasoning” for that indulgence, which is that #abstinence robs us of the opportunity to parse the folly of pursuing #happiness through #pleasure.

    It’s not water-tight, this “argument”, but it’s predicated on the #assumption that we can’t transform our #attachment to what we are not in #contact with.

    Happy to discuss ~ eager, even: I could be wrong… it’s happened before!

  7. I was raised on #hedonism and old habits die hard. Sometimes I indulge, though I know it’s a fool’s game. I have “junkie-reasoning” for that indulgence, which is that #abstinence robs us of the opportunity to parse the folly of pursuing #happiness through #pleasure.

    It’s not water-tight, this “argument”, but it’s predicated on the #assumption that we can’t transform our #attachment to what we are not in #contact with.

    Happy to discuss ~ eager, even: I could be wrong… it’s happened before!

  8. I was raised on #hedonism and old habits die hard. Sometimes I indulge, though I know it’s a fool’s game. I have “junkie-reasoning” for that indulgence, which is that #abstinence robs us of the opportunity to parse the folly of pursuing #happiness through #pleasure.

    It’s not water-tight, this “argument”, but it’s predicated on the #assumption that we can’t transform our #attachment to what we are not in #contact with.

    Happy to discuss ~ eager, even: I could be wrong… it’s happened before!

  9. I was raised on #hedonism and old habits die hard. Sometimes I indulge, though I know it’s a fool’s game. I have “junkie-reasoning” for that indulgence, which is that #abstinence robs us of the opportunity to parse the folly of pursuing #happiness through #pleasure.

    It’s not water-tight, this “argument”, but it’s predicated on the #assumption that we can’t transform our #attachment to what we are not in #contact with.

    Happy to discuss ~ eager, even: I could be wrong… it’s happened before!

  10. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. Professional moralists have made too much of self-denial, and in so doing have put the emphasis in the wrong place. Conscious self-denial leaves a man self-absorbed and vividly aware of what he has sacrificed; in consequence it fails often of its immediate object and almost always of its ultimate purpose. What is needed is not self-denial, but that kind of direction of interest outward which will lead spontaneously and naturally to the same acts that a person absorbed in the pursuit of his own virtue could only perform by means of conscious self-denial.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/818…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #asceticism #temperance #celibacy #abstinence #diet #focus #goodlife #happiness #interest #selfdenial #selfrestriction

  11. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. Professional moralists have made too much of self-denial, and in so doing have put the emphasis in the wrong place. Conscious self-denial leaves a man self-absorbed and vividly aware of what he has sacrificed; in consequence it fails often of its immediate object and almost always of its ultimate purpose. What is needed is not self-denial, but that kind of direction of interest outward which will lead spontaneously and naturally to the same acts that a person absorbed in the pursuit of his own virtue could only perform by means of conscious self-denial.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/818…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #asceticism #temperance #celibacy #abstinence #diet #focus #goodlife #happiness #interest #selfdenial #selfrestriction

  12. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. Professional moralists have made too much of self-denial, and in so doing have put the emphasis in the wrong place. Conscious self-denial leaves a man self-absorbed and vividly aware of what he has sacrificed; in consequence it fails often of its immediate object and almost always of its ultimate purpose. What is needed is not self-denial, but that kind of direction of interest outward which will lead spontaneously and naturally to the same acts that a person absorbed in the pursuit of his own virtue could only perform by means of conscious self-denial.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/818…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #asceticism #temperance #celibacy #abstinence #diet #focus #goodlife #happiness #interest #selfdenial #selfrestriction

  13. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. Professional moralists have made too much of self-denial, and in so doing have put the emphasis in the wrong place. Conscious self-denial leaves a man self-absorbed and vividly aware of what he has sacrificed; in consequence it fails often of its immediate object and almost always of its ultimate purpose. What is needed is not self-denial, but that kind of direction of interest outward which will lead spontaneously and naturally to the same acts that a person absorbed in the pursuit of his own virtue could only perform by means of conscious self-denial.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/818…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #asceticism #temperance #celibacy #abstinence #diet #focus #goodlife #happiness #interest #selfdenial #selfrestriction

  14. Daily coffee intake linked to fewer atrial fibrillation relapses

    A randomized trial suggests that avoiding coffee after cardioversion may not help, and that modest caffeine intake may…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #Abstinence #Adenosine #AtrialFibrillation #AU #Australia #Caffeine #clinicaltrial #Coffee #Heart
    newsbeep.com/au/447346/

  15. Brain immune cells drive persistent negative emotions after repeated binge drinking

    New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #Abstinence #Alcohol #Anxiety #AU #Australia #BingeDrinking #Brain #Chronic #Cortex #depression #Ethanol #Mentalhealth #Microglia #Pathology #protein #research
    newsbeep.com/au/409553/

  16. Brain immune cells drive persistent negative emotions after repeated binge drinking

    New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #Abstinence #Alcohol #anxiety #BingeDrinking #Brain #CA #Canada #Chronic #Cortex #depression #Ethanol #Mentalhealth #Microglia #Pathology #Protein #research
    newsbeep.com/ca/405897/

  17. No alcohol? No problem: how to make friends at university without booze (Guardian, 2025-09-14)

    theguardian.com/education/2025
    ———

    >> For as long as anyone can remember, drinking has been a key part of the student experience – but this is changing. An increasing number of young people are turning away from drinking, with a 2024 poll by Student Beans finding that half of first-year students did not plan to drink during their freshers’ week.

    >> If you’re considering a teetotal uni experience, or want to limit your drinking, here are four places to look for sober fun…

    #abstinence #sobriety

  18. No alcohol? No problem: how to make friends at university without booze (Guardian, 2025-09-14)

    theguardian.com/education/2025
    ———

    >> For as long as anyone can remember, drinking has been a key part of the student experience – but this is changing. An increasing number of young people are turning away from drinking, with a 2024 poll by Student Beans finding that half of first-year students did not plan to drink during their freshers’ week.

    >> If you’re considering a teetotal uni experience, or want to limit your drinking, here are four places to look for sober fun…

    #abstinence #sobriety

  19. No alcohol? No problem: how to make friends at university without booze (Guardian, 2025-09-14)

    theguardian.com/education/2025
    ———

    >> For as long as anyone can remember, drinking has been a key part of the student experience – but this is changing. An increasing number of young people are turning away from drinking, with a 2024 poll by Student Beans finding that half of first-year students did not plan to drink during their freshers’ week.

    >> If you’re considering a teetotal uni experience, or want to limit your drinking, here are four places to look for sober fun…

    #abstinence #sobriety

  20. No alcohol? No problem: how to make friends at university without booze (Guardian, 2025-09-14)

    theguardian.com/education/2025
    ———

    >> For as long as anyone can remember, drinking has been a key part of the student experience – but this is changing. An increasing number of young people are turning away from drinking, with a 2024 poll by Student Beans finding that half of first-year students did not plan to drink during their freshers’ week.

    >> If you’re considering a teetotal uni experience, or want to limit your drinking, here are four places to look for sober fun…

    #abstinence #sobriety

  21. No alcohol? No problem: how to make friends at university without booze (Guardian, 2025-09-14)

    theguardian.com/education/2025
    ———

    >> For as long as anyone can remember, drinking has been a key part of the student experience – but this is changing. An increasing number of young people are turning away from drinking, with a 2024 poll by Student Beans finding that half of first-year students did not plan to drink during their freshers’ week.

    >> If you’re considering a teetotal uni experience, or want to limit your drinking, here are four places to look for sober fun…

    #abstinence #sobriety

  22. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Temperance and abstinence, faith and devotion, are in themselves perhaps as laudable as any other virtues; but those which make a man popular and beloved are justice, charity, munificence, and, in short, all the good qualities which render us beneficial to each other.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243

    More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/78835…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #abstinence #behavior #beneficence #character #charity #devotion #faith #giving #goldenrule #goodperson #justice #loveyourneighbor #qualities #temperance #traits #usefulness #popularity

  23. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Temperance and abstinence, faith and devotion, are in themselves perhaps as laudable as any other virtues; but those which make a man popular and beloved are justice, charity, munificence, and, in short, all the good qualities which render us beneficial to each other.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243

    More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/78835…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #abstinence #behavior #beneficence #character #charity #devotion #faith #giving #goldenrule #goodperson #justice #loveyourneighbor #qualities #temperance #traits #usefulness #popularity

  24. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Temperance and abstinence, faith and devotion, are in themselves perhaps as laudable as any other virtues; but those which make a man popular and beloved are justice, charity, munificence, and, in short, all the good qualities which render us beneficial to each other.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243

    More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/78835…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #abstinence #behavior #beneficence #character #charity #devotion #faith #giving #goldenrule #goodperson #justice #loveyourneighbor #qualities #temperance #traits #usefulness #popularity

  25. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Temperance and abstinence, faith and devotion, are in themselves perhaps as laudable as any other virtues; but those which make a man popular and beloved are justice, charity, munificence, and, in short, all the good qualities which render us beneficial to each other.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243

    More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/78835…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #abstinence #behavior #beneficence #character #charity #devotion #faith #giving #goldenrule #goodperson #justice #loveyourneighbor #qualities #temperance #traits #usefulness #popularity

  26. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Temperance and abstinence, faith and devotion, are in themselves perhaps as laudable as any other virtues; but those which make a man popular and beloved are justice, charity, munificence, and, in short, all the good qualities which render us beneficial to each other.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243

    More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/78835…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #abstinence #behavior #beneficence #character #charity #devotion #faith #giving #goldenrule #goodperson #justice #loveyourneighbor #qualities #temperance #traits #usefulness #popularity

  27. Abstinence shows no health benefits or harms

    It may not be about boosting testosterone or self-control; new research suggests the decision to participate in the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #Abstinence #AU #Australia #medicine #research #sexualhealth #Testosterone
    newsbeep.com/au/31700/