Meditations of Aurelius, New Translation by Marcus Aurelius is ranked 318th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – hundreds of books from this and other respectable lists are reviewed on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html they used to be on Goodreads, where I was a leading contributor, but then free expression is dead, still, I am trying to put them up there again, only to find ‘error’ is the result, I am tempted to say fuck them, but then here is another infringement of rules

 

Meditations of Aurelius, New Translation by Marcus Aurelius is ranked 318th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – hundreds of books from this and other respectable lists are reviewed on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html they used to be on Goodreads, where I was a leading contributor, but then free expression is dead, still, I am trying to put them up there again, only to find ‘error’ is the result, I am tempted to say fuck them, but then here is another infringement of rules

 

 

10 out of 10

 

We need the Stoics https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/meditations-by-marcus-aurelius-10-out.html - and here is another look at the magnificent Emperor Marcus Aurelius – at a time when we have had the war in Ukraine for years, and now another one is started in the Middle East, between Israel and Iran.

 

And all through that I am complaining about Goodreads, where they censor me for asking what someone looks like, since they call themselves Sleeping Something, and attach a picture which is Botticelli’s Venus, ergo I am curious (a character strength otherwise according to https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flourish-by-martin-seligman.html Martin Seligman) to know what Venus looks like in our age

 

-          It might be my view of the Confidence Man that took me down

 

Normally, I am attaching here a link to my review of the excellent book by Maggie Haberman, perhaps the ultimate expert on the Orange TACO, a journalist with the ‘failing’ New Youk Times – a stupendous newspaper, but insulted by the one they often criticize, how could they avoid that, given the disaster – but I am worried

The most popular class at Harvard – now under attack from The Confidence Man - https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-pursuit-of-perfect-by-tal-ben-shahar.html was taught by Tal Ben Shahar, who was asked about what he wishes for his students and he said something extraordinary:

 

-          ‘I wish they fail more – for learn to fail, or fail to learn’ was his mantra

 

Ergo, I need to do that, especially given that now WhatsApp has disconnected me, albeit they said sorry, it was a mistake, after some 12 hours or more, and then today, they said again that I have broken the rules

In this case, it could not be the opinion – admittedly, I feel he is the equivalent of Armageddon in human form – I have of the aforementioned Orange Woland aka TACO, since conversations are private on the network, aren’t they?

 

It is however a case where I need to use services advertised by private contractors, online, thus I use the easiest way and ask about details connected with the service they Promote – I need to highlight this – on that venue

True, many will just block me, when I ask questions, because they want clients who just take the offer, the price they give, high or low, and do not mind anything else, and they probably checked the rate and said we ban this guy

 

‘Happiness Activity No 7: Learning to Forgive –keeping a journal or writing a letter in which you work on letting go of anger and resentment toward one or more individuals who’ve hurt or wronged you’ maybe they would need to pardon, or I will have to, seeing as I maybe will not be able to enjoy the high profile on Goodreads, or the easy communication on WhatsApp this was from The How of Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html by Sonja Lyubomirsky and Buddha had something to say about this too – ‘holding on to anger is like keeping burning coals to throw at a foe, your palms will burn, before you get to him’…something along these lines, if I am not mistaken

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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