How safe is sitting still?

Depends how long you’re sitting still for. If you’re relatively inactive for a couple of days, doing nothing more than moving between bed and chair and the surrounding area you could quite easily develop a DVT. A piece of the clot breaks off and ends up in your lung or your brain and your life is in imminent danger. This sort of thing still manages to kill patients in hospital.

Depends where the danger is coming at you. That guy in India (I think) that was killed by a cow falling through his roof and crushing him while he was sleeping in his bed wishes he was in a car instead.

Depends on if you are in a black hole or not.

Not safe at all. I read something recently that said ‘sitting’ is the new ‘smoking’. It’s that bad for you. Someone should create a program that gives you a bit of a shock and forces you out of your chair every 30 minutes.

I comment with full understanding that I am not totally engaging your context. But I think my comments are still relevant.

Much of what I know about life in general are lessons learned from military principles. Sitting still and hunkering increases your chances of getting killed. Initiative and maneuver increase your chances of survival. War is a human instinct, and the principles are also distinctly human and universal and thus apply to other areas of human life.

It is better to be moving in the wrong direction and change direction, than it is to be standing still and then have to start moving when you have lost the initiative. It is based on the Law of Inertia. It is harder to start movement than it is to merely change direction.

Sitting still merely makes you a stationary target. Doing nothing is the riskiest choice of action.

Brad Pitt said staying still was the most dangerous thing to do in World War Z @Josie. Must be true.

A body at rest, stays at rest. A body in motion stays in motion.

@Lightlyseared I’m trying to work up the logic to convince my wife that skydiving is a great idea and necessary to maintain my health. Good fodder for my argument you’ve provided there.

@Adirondackwannabe See what you get when you start considering cows holy? You get cows falling from the sky and crushing you in your sleep. I say eat ‘em before they get the chance to skydive.

@janbb Well you know me. If there’s an attractive black hole around, I’m going to do my best to get in it. And given their gravitational well, aren’t all black holes enormously attractive?

@Bellatrix So should I smoke when I stand, or when I run? I’ve checked, and even though it feels like I should be doing so, I don’t even smoke after sex.

@josie I really like that twist on the question. Excellent way of approaching skydiving into black holes. I make an exceedingly difficult target to hit. I remember my Navy years all too well. LST = Large Slow Target.

@racegirl2000 Hey, welcome to Fluther. Sounds like a Celebrex™ commercial. I was with them right up till they disappointed me at the end by telling me its not a narcotic.

Well…. this clearly challenges the notion of staying put when lost , hugging a tree, instead of wandering out further into the wilderness. Fuck it….we just can’t win. lol

@Coloma You have learned rule number 1 well. Move on to rule number 2.

Don’t you just love @Coloma? If I wasn’t pretty sure that she would reject me as jail bait, I would risk hubris and make a play.

Oooh @josie lol ;-)

@josie Yes I do, but owing to how my wife would view it, I won’t stand in your way. :-)

Radon accumulation in houses is quite dangerous.

@mattbrowne Yeah, for some reason unfathomable by me my wife loves to watch all the cable TV programs about hoarding, the complex where people become so attached to stuff that they literally cannot throw anything away. They accumulate dirty food containers, spoiled pet food and excrement, packaging, wrappers and a ton of stuff they feel compelled to buy till either the litter becomes so overwhelming there is no room left for them in the house, or their municipality’s inspectors become aware of the filth, rodents, roaches and such and condemn the property.

@ETpro – I used to be a hoarder myself until I read the book ‘Simplify your Life’ !