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Thoroughly enjoyed. I, too, get discombobulated in a cafe anymore as I make my own coffee and only buy a coffee as a treat. I end up spending an embarrassing amount of time trying to decipher the menu while the cafe regulars grow impatient with my cafe daftness. Simplicity really is best. I appreciate the freedoms I enjoy, which include an exasperatingly amount of choices/decisions, but I'm constantly finding I need to remind myself to not get caught up in the whirlwind of it all.

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In glad I'm not the only one!

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Yes.

I have the same 5 T-shirts, 5 long sleeved t-shirts, 5 strappy tops, 2 dresses, 2 blouses and 3 pairs of jeans. All in black.

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Sounds very sensible! I'm also very content with a smallish range of clothes and hate having to shop to replace something every now and again.

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We can start a clothing 'range', with the slogan:

"Sensible clothes, in sensible styles, for sensible people."

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Jun 18, 2022·edited Jun 18, 2022Liked by Terry Freedman

Did you ever read the paradox of choice? Same idea.

But choice is different than the tyranny of overstimulation based on the commoditization of life. Choice is essential to our sovereign divine lives. Absolutely essential. But getting to choose between 8 bad toothpastes create a false and harmful relationship with choice when we have excess options in the commercial domain but restricted options when it comes to what we do with our bodies - vaccine or abortion or whether we are informed about if CRISPR has modified our food...these choices matter.

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Hi Lily, yes, thanks for the reminder. I'd intended to mention that, although offhand I can't remember much about it!

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Lol - essentially that people are happiest with three choices. Less and we don't have enough choice. More and it's overwhelming. The Amish are happier. The Amish also reject government interference with their lives and healthcare and did just as well as those who embraced lockdowns when it comes to dinklybutt virus. I simply cannot call it COVID since the government knew about it before it was discovered.

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Thanks, Lily. Yes, I think that's right: three choices is about the limit, possibly five at the most. Otherwise it just gets ridiculous, and you end up either choosing nothing or anything.

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