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Originally Posted by Locke
I don't know the answer to that.
I do however work next to a Buddhist temple and those guys are pretty chill. Considering how old they all are despite the fact that I never see them without a cigarette makes me occasionally doubt the danger of cigarettes.
The one guy is like 93 and he's never without a dart. I can't explain it.
I saw him go on the roof a few weeks back and he lit a dart before climbing the ladder...in his robe and sandals no less!
Ladder. Robe. Sandals. Dart.
How many risks would you like to take all at once? Buddha is a pretty chill dude.
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It's actually funny, someone did a take down of the whole Blue Zones narrative, and they said the best correlation with being labelled a blue zone is bad record keeping about 80 years ago, for some very recordable reason, political problems, poverty, church fire... or incentives like post war tax credits for everyone over 18, suddenly a bunch of 5 years olds are registered at 25 years old. Basically speculating there isn't anything special about the places, but that they are wrong about the ages, then often as you approach 100 you don't have the cognitive capacity to correct the erroneous data. (Blue Zone = likely to have a higher percentage of 100+ year olds than normal).
Long story short, are you sure they aren't 75 year old chain smokers that look 95 because of lifestyle choices? Don't believe anything those Monks say.