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I've thought a lot about the principle behind that decision I made. About looking to the right end or the right purpose in what we do, rather than the short term. Choosing to act for the long run of things, doing the thing that will be best in an eternal sort of time frame.

Treat people with respect.

Treat your worst enemies with special kindness, considering their needs, and being of service to the good elements you can find even in them.

Treat your best friends, your loved ones, on a level of love that to your best ability nurtures an eternal sort of relationship, leaving no reason for wishing it to end.
 
Every day, the most fundamentally important task is to plant good things, and pull what weeds there are that if left to grow could choke out the good things. And love the day for the privilege it gives to do such things.
 
"Being Here" is just so much better than "Being There". Well, anything is better than accepting some kind of phony or illusory "reality". Yes, you can say all the right things, you can say things in ways that will mean whatever others want to hear, but why not just be real, just be the one who really lives.
 
And speaking of being someone who "really lived", my girls like the movie "Second-hand Lions". When the grandson of the Sheik asks if the old men really lived, it is the point of the movie that yes, they did. They raised the kid. Even if they didn't start out thinking that would be something they cared to do, it was the actual reality. No they never pretended anything.

And yes. I think that's my favorite movie.
 
I guess I can live the same way, pretty much. No I don't care to shoot the fish, or the clay pigeons, or buy a yacht. It's more about making a difference to someone, just being here for the day.
 
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babe said:
Not to be stretching to the far-fetched all the time, but I pass out rep for "Being Here".

I am a gardener, but I own my own. A good theme for a work of deep philosophical wares, or bewares. A sort of tour de force answer to "Being There".
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hmm, I seem to hear a lot of this, I have only been repped once.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Haha.. yeah I guess when there is something stopping you from asking her out you can't deny that same something could be an issue down the road.


I thank God everyday that we human have short memory... otherwise we would be so depressed everytime we are remind of all the remorseful things/feelings.
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Ain't that the truth, although I think a mix is good for us, like not only remember the good times but also keep the bad in the back of our head so we don't go down whatever road that lead us to that mistake, I feel like at times I do things I have done before that I know will lead to misery but I just go in expecting a different result.
 
babe said:
Every day, the most fundamentally important task is to plant good things, and pull what weeds there are that if left to grow could choke out the good things. And love the day for the privilege it gives to do such things.
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Can I just say this whole story you wrote in different posts gave me this happy smile, sounded like this beautiful friendship, but this qoute here is golden, I give this quote a 10/10.

I'll probably use it someday down the road, like when giving an inspirational speech or in an essay in college if I have a topic to write about where this could come in handy.
 
trailing said:
hmm, I seem to hear a lot of this, I have only been repped once.
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Well, not exactly. Your total rep points says you've been repped at least eight times. But hey, it could just feel that way.

this is the rep repair place, and the rep transfusion station. . . . too bad we have a rep cap now. I had hopes of sailing past PKM one day, or Dr. Jones, as the case may be. Blink.
 
trailing said:
Ain't that the truth, although I think a mix is good for us, like not only remember the good times but also keep the bad in the back of our head so we don't go down whatever road that lead us to that mistake, I feel like at times I do things I have done before that I know will lead to misery but I just go in expecting a different result.
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This was being discussed yesterday in a sports thread, the one about the coach that got dumped by management, or else the one about some players needed some good training. . . .

Sanity is being able to try different things and not get confused about what works and what doesn't. . . . .
 
trailing said:
Can I just say this whole story you wrote in different posts gave me this happy smile, sounded like this beautiful friendship, but this qoute here is golden, I give this quote a 10/10.

I'll probably use it someday down the road, like when giving an inspirational speech or in an essay in college if I have a topic to write about where this could come in handy.
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yeah, it could pass for a little sermonette from a teenager in a rural Podunk redoubt of culture. Folks who take a bath on Saturday night and wear a white shirt and tie on Sunday, with cleaned and polished boots, deserve some good cheer in the vernacular.

It could also outdo Nietzsche.
 
babe said:
Well, not exactly. Your total rep points says you've been repped at least eight times. But hey, it could just feel that way.

this is the rep repair place, and the rep transfusion station. . . . too bad we have a rep cap now. I had hopes of sailing past PKM one day, or Dr. Jones, as the case may be. Blink.
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Reminds me of a Dr. Who episode where it was dangerous to blink. If the statues are changing locations when you blink, Stare and walk backwards a couple of miles. Come to think of it, if that were the case, those statues would be flying around town after dark. And the ones in the undiscovered ancient cities of the space sojourners would be all over the world. . . .

Don't tell me TV is not real. Look at Chauncey Gardiner.
 
Caravan to Midnight

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Heard this line in the movie true grit the other day. Nothing is free on this earth except God's Grace.


Can't really argue with that to be honest.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Heard this line in the movie true grit the other day. Nothing is free on this earth except God's Grace.


Can't really argue with that to be honest.
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sun, wind, rain, snow, dirt, rocks, grass, trees, bees, wasps, life. . . . ..

I guess I've paid for dirt sometimes, but mostly it's free, except the soap to wash it off isn't.
 
A lot of folks think you earn a lot of life's good things, like respect, reputation, knowledge, skill, money, the drill. Most Americans in the past sixty years have been on a run away from all that, and we have largely become an "entitlement" community. A lot of people think all that is free, too. I just say no, your kids will pay for it.
 
babe said:
Well, not exactly. Your total rep points says you've been repped at least eight times. But hey, it could just feel that way.

this is the rep repair place, and the rep transfusion station. . . . too bad we have a rep cap now. I had hopes of sailing past PKM one day, or Dr. Jones, as the case may be. Blink.
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No one ever reps me either.



Sad.
 
babe said:
A lot of folks think you earn a lot of life's good things, like respect, reputation, knowledge, skill, money, the drill. Most Americans in the past sixty years have been on a run away from all that, and we have largely become an "entitlement" community. A lot of people think all that is free, too. I just say no, your kids will pay for it.
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You forgot hookers.
 
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